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The Park Forest Home Maintenance Handbook, Dudley Onderdonk Jul 1980

The Park Forest Home Maintenance Handbook, Dudley Onderdonk

Park Forest

This Home Maintenance Handbook is designed for Park Forest homeowners who are concerned about home maintenance and improvement. Renters and members of the Village's cooperatives also will find the chapters on housing code, energy conservation, and home safety and security, useful.

It is hoped the handbook will help residents address some basic questions surrounding home ownership. This is not a "how to" or a repair manual, but rather a guide to help homeowners evaluate their homes. Before homeowners can make constructive changes they must have some understanding of how a house "works". This handbook is concerned with home maintenance, especially …


A Parks And Recreation Plan For Wheatland Wyoming, Wade Weston Ward Sr. May 1980

A Parks And Recreation Plan For Wheatland Wyoming, Wade Weston Ward Sr.

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

For Wheatland, Wyoming the necessity of a parks and recreation study is more important now than ever before because of the rapid population growth. This increase in both the population of Wheatland and Platte County is due primarily to the construction of the 1500 megawatt coal-fired Missouri Basin Power Project located 4-1/2 miles northeast of Wheatland.


Determining Priorities And Potential Locations For Recreation Facilities In Cache County, Utah, Parry C. Thomas May 1980

Determining Priorities And Potential Locations For Recreation Facilities In Cache County, Utah, Parry C. Thomas

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis establishes priorities for recreation expenditures in Cache County, Utah. This is achieved by comparing the supply and demand of facilities for the most popular activities in order to determine where there are deficiencies. Once these priorities have been determined, the problem of where the facilities to meet these priorities should be located is discussed. Recommendations are made as to what needs to be done to specifically locate these facilities.


Landscape Architecture History: A Critical Review Of Its Curriculum And Teaching Methodology, Robert L. Marshall May 1980

Landscape Architecture History: A Critical Review Of Its Curriculum And Teaching Methodology, Robert L. Marshall

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this thesis is to develop criteria for establishing an effective course in teaching history of landscape architecture. Believing that professors, students and practicing landscape architects all have justifiable concerns and comments as to the way history of landscape architecture should be taught, questionnaires were sent to each of these groups across the country. Based on the responses to the questionnaires, coupled with information gleaned from a review of literature and the author's personal teaching experiences, the course criteria is established.

The research showed that it is important that the instructor be able to select historic periods and …