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Planning For Energy Conservation, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

City planning can provide multiple benefits by considering energy conservation, solar orientation and local resource harvesting. Narrower streets reduce construction costs, reduce urban heat island impacts and are safer. Above ground drainage reduces costs and returns rainwater to groundwater.

Time To Appoint A City Artist, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"During the past several weeks, while Providence's new mayor has been sorting out priorities and charting new directions for the first new administration in a decade, a plethora of suggestions has been advanced for ways to make Providence a better place in which to live."

Proposed Redevelopment: Solvay Process Wastebeds, Michael Joseph Starego

Architecture Master Theses

The planned development of the Solvay Process Wastebeds will be a classic case of environmental planning. The need for more planned open spaces becomes more evident and necessary as the population of Syracuse spreads and increases. The creation of the Solvay "Open Space" can draw on the network of existing open spaces within the region and the gradual reclamation of Onondaga Lake.

The knowledge we now have, compared with the early years of the wastebeds, is considerable and should enable a better plan to be made incorporating them into the life of the community. There are of course, no general …

The Conceptual Determinants Of Two Archetypal City Forms, Nicholas Patricios

Nicholas Patricios

The two urban spatial forms analyzed from a cosmological point of view are the circular and the orthogonal. The circular symbolism of the Near Eastern cities is considered first followed by the Plato's theoretical city of Atlantis and then the ideal cities of the Renaissance architects. Circular cities of the 19th century, those of the Utopian Socialists, had in contrast an ideological basis. In addition to the practical basis for the orthogonal layout conceptual influences are evident in the grid cities of the ancient Greeks, in the Spanish Laws of the Indies, and those cities designed later to express the …

A Review Of Commercial Renewal Districts With Possible Applications To Logan, Utah, Maw-Shyong Jean

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis identifies and reviews problems of and the methodology for solving these same problems that confront many of the central business districts in most cities in the United States. Population. street systems, traffic control, parking, and land use as well as street appearance are considered. Problems of congested traffic, shabby, out-of-date and even dilapidated store fronts, as well as pollution, street construction, parking availability are all very real problems in city centers. Contemporary concepts, approaches, ideas of landscape architects and city planners are examined and applied to solving these problems. The commercial district of Logan, Utah is considered, the …

An Evaluation Of Land Use Planning Workshops Held In Utah During 1973, Andrew C. Germanow

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

During 1973 a series of land use planning workshops for local officials and interested citizens was held in the multi-county planning districts of the state of Utah. The workshops were based on a planning process which had been used in Wasatch County, Utah, to develop the Heber Valley Plan. The emphasis of this process and of the workshops was the involvement of the citizens of the community in the planning process and the use of natural resource information as an additional basis for making planning decisions.

The evaluation includes a description of significant results of the Heber Valley Plan, events …

Environmental Criteria To Aid Developers In Site Evaluation For Small Scale Residential Developments In Cache County, Utah, Roger P. Fickes

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this paper is the preparation of environmental criteria to be used to aid future developers, county planning board, and county commissioners in the evaluation of sites for proposed small scale residential developments, and whether that development will have an irreparable environmental impact. The criteria are intended to fill the gap between standards for housing developments and finished design and that of environmental impact of small scale housing developments in Cache County, Utah.

Master Site Development Plan : University Of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Reynolds Smith Hills

Campus Buildings and Sites Textual

A book on building and developing University of North Florida. PALMM

Trees And Shrubs For Noise Abatement, David I. Cook, David F. Haverbeke

Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station

The study, Trees and Shrubs for Noise Abatement, was a joint effort by the University of Nebraska and the U.S. Forest Service. The principal objective was to determine effective means for reducing traffic noise levels by the use of trees and shrubs, wherever intrusive noise is a problem.

The Dichotomy Between Technology And Architecture, Charles E. Croom

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Croom presents an article dealing with technology and its affect and implications in the field of architectural design.

Urbanism - Toward A More Humanized Environment, Norman Pressman

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Pressman discusses the nature of urban environments and the implications for Human interaction and occupation within them.

Change And The Environment, Mark L. Moseman

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Moseman deals with consciously imposed environmental change relative to particular areas of social science theory and methodology. He also deals with the role of that person who investigates and instigates change relative to the social and physical environment.

Aspects Of Order And Chaos For The Cityscape, Nickolaos A. Rombos

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Rombos explores the qualities of experience, specifically within urban contexts, aiming to define those factors which affect through visual perception and human behavior. within his inquiry of the type of experience.

Mutual Aid Housing For San Juan, Philip Lawrence Manson Goldberg

Architecture Master Theses

A policy program for mutual aid construction is presented. In this approach, rural families organize teams to build their dwellings and buy construction materials through new savings organizations. The chief prerequisite for mutual aid in a specific situation is that the ratio of material to labor costs be high.

Pride in home ownership, training in construction skills, and natural evolved neighborhoods prove the thesis that mutual aid is the most promising solution for housing the poor in developing societies. Financial burden on the public is minimized, and the government can control municipal expansion by retaining land ownership.

In high density …

Housing Pigs, P Mcnamara

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THERE are many designs for pig houses and much will depend on individual circumstances which is best in any particular case.

Ua3/3/1 Sketch Land Use Plan - Scheme 2, Wku President's Office, Scruggs & Hammond

WKU Archives Records

Sketch Land Use Plan - Scheme 2, Scruggs & Hammond, Planning Consultants, Lexington, KY, nd, 1 sheet, paper, 38 1/4 x 12 1/4, land use plan, including proposed by-pass in x-formation and proposed "Minor St." Map is oriented to the south. The boundaries are L&N Railroad to the North, Old Russellville Road to the south, and east and west boundaries are within Jonesville project.

Ua3/3/1 Sketch Land Use Plan - Scheme 1, Wku President's Office, Scruggs & Hammond

WKU Archives Records

Sketch Land Use Plan - Scheme 1, Scruggs & Hammond, Planning Consultants, Lexington, KY, nd, 1 sheet, paper, 38 x 12, land use plan, including proposed by-pass. Map is oriented to the southeast. The boundaries are L&N Railroad to the North, Old Russellville Road to the south, and east and west boundaries are within Jonesville project.

Interior Decoration. 1. Scope And Affinity With Architecture, T Watkins

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

AN instinctive urge for decoration has been felt by human beings since earliest times, when man first scratched crude designs on the walls of his cave, or daubed his primitive dwelling with muds, pigments and anything else at his disposal.

Ua3/1/5/3 Airplane View College Heights / An Interpretation, Western Kentucky University, J. R. Alexander

WKU Archives Records

Broadside printed as fund raiser for construction of the Kentucky Building.

Ua30/1/1 Italianate Garden, Wku Planning, Design & Construction

WKU Archives Records

Plan of the Italianate Garden sponsored by Ogden College graduate Perry Snell in 1929. The drawing is in poor condition and the name of the landscape architect has been torn away. This garden was situated between Snell & Ogden Halls on the old Ogden College campus. The four season statues are now housed in Van Meter Hall.

The Water Supply Of The Rhode Island College, Edgar Francis Tabor

Student and Lippitt Prize essays

Development history and current status (as of 1896) of the water supply system at the Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island).