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Quito. Renta Del Suelo Y Segregación Urbana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El presente trabajo, que se publica dentro de la colección editorial PREMIO del Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador, es el resultado de un proceso de discusión e investigación realizado durante un período de aproximadamente tres años.

Con esta obra, los Autores -miembros del Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD- buscamos iniciar la discusión crítica respecto de los temas que aquí se tratan. Por tratarse de un primer estudio de acercamiento a la problemática urbana desde la perspectiva de la renta del suelo, reconocemos sus limitaciones. Por tanto, esperamos recibir las críticas, comentarios y sugerencias pertinentes, tan necesarios para el desarrollo de la …

Various Alternatives To High-Interest Crunch On New Home Building, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The recent announcement by two major savings and loan mortgage lenders in California of higher home mortgage rates portends a problem already evident in the country--the inability of an increasing number of Americans to buy their own homes."

An Agentive Model Of Person-Environment Relations, Nicholas Patricios

Nicholas Patricios

Three fundamentally different positions regarding the conceptualization of person‐environment relations are briefly discussed. An argument is made for the transactional‐constructivist position which regards the nature of what we take to be the environment as that which is only apprehended through the minds and actions of persons. The transformational process of this view of person‐environment relations, that of environmental knowing‐action, is elaborated upon in some detail. The transactional‐constructivist position, however, is transformed into an agentive one by adopting from the three basic images of persons that have been identified that of a person as agent. Consequently in the agentive process of …

Factors Affecting Product Lifetime: A Study In Support Of Policy Development For Waste Reduction, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

An exploratory study has been examined factors affecting the lifetimes of selected small electrical appliances, to assist in the development of policies to extend these lifetimes (for the purposes of conserving resources, protecting the environment, and reducing the costs of solid waste management). The study included (i) a consumer survey, (ii) in-depth interviews with manufacturers, and (iii) a limited investigation of second-hand markets. Tentative findings are that physical durability appears to be a key factor affecting the lifetime of a few of the products examined (particularly those that malfunction after less than three years' use) while the lifetimes of other …

Computers In Planning: A Knoxville Example, Lynn E. Miller

Masters Theses

The availability of computers at the local level of government has been steadily increasing. With this increase, planners are in a unique position to utilize computer capabilities to assist in the full range of planning activities. The problem to date seems to be one of a lack of understanding as to what computer applications are being used and how these applications can be useful to planners. This research is, therefore, oriented towards presenting an overview of computer applications used in planning agencies. Attempts are made to show how these applications are used and how they relate to planning needs.

An …

Consolidated Government, Urban Services Policy And Urban Development: A Case Study Of Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County, Edward Howard Cole

Masters Theses

Urban planners continue to explore various ways of influencing the type, rate, location, quality and timing of urban development. The need for such influence is evidenced by the compounding of urban environmentmental and energy concerns with local government fiscal difficulties. This study examines two of the tools frequently identified as being useful in efforts to effectively manage urban development: consolidated urban government and the controlled extension of certan urban services, especially water service, sewage service, fire protection and police protection.

These two tools are explored through a case study of the urban and general services district concept as it has …

Better Year Ahead For Ri Builders, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Building permit figures recently released by the Rhode Island Builders Association indicate that housing construction in the first quarter of 1978 is well ahead of the comparable period for 1977. The signs are encouraging that this year will be better than the last and that the recovery continues from 1975, the poorest year for the housing industry in the 1970s."

Housing, George Moscone

Mayor Moscone

Moscone's letter to Mike Roos about AB2979

The Neglect Of Socioeconomic Research By Us Energy And Environmental Agencies, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

The published research plans of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) have each been criticized by the Office of Technology Assessment for focusing largely on the development of technological “hardware” and giving little attention to socioeconomic research (broadly defined). This paper first examines socioeconomic research areas that EPA might be expected to cover and shows that its plans for doing so are inadequate. The paper then identifies gaps in ERDA's coverage of socioeconomic research that remain unfilled even in the agency's updated plan. Several reasons for this neglect of socioeconomic research …

Planning For Resource Recovery: Lessons From The California Experience, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, which emphasizes resource recovery as a goal, provides for states or regional authorities to prepare comprehensive solid waste management plans. A review of the experience in California, where solid waste planning has been required since 1972, shows that communities have generally hesitated to include resource recover in their plans; this seems to be due largely to technological uncertainties, to the existence of economic and institutional biases against recovery, and to the lack of financial assistance for planning and implementation. Some of these obstacles may be overcome, at least in part, by provisions …

New Spirit In Old Savannah - A City With Plans, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"A large downtown is normally characterized by tall buildings because demand in this most accessible location is strong, with intensive use of the land being the result. Approaching a city, as one looks off in the distance at the cityscape, one is able to quickly locate the central business district as, for example, one drives south on Route 146 toward Providence. Such is not the case in this serene and lovely, port city of Georgia."

Soul City Deserves To Succeed, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream--a dream of equal opportunity and justice for all. An assassin's bullet prevented him from realizing his dream. His friend and well-known leader in the civil rights movement also had a dream--a dream to build a new town in which the injustices of society would be lessened. Today, in the rolling farmland country of North Carolina, Floyd McKissick is working to fulfill his long sought dream."

Parallel For Providence To Consider, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"They have done it here. The Grand Opera House has nearly been restored and it is now the Deleware State Performing Arts Center. A lively activity center located on the recently opened, pedestrianized Market Street Mall, the Grand is serving as a major focal point in bringing life back to downtown Wilmington."

New Office Building Is Good News, But Questions Of Planning Raised, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The latest piece of news concerning a possible new office building for Providence is just another example of the renewed interested in the downtown of Rhode Island's capital city. Revitalization, resurgence, renewwal--call it what you will--there is no question that the prognosis for the ailing city center is excellent and the "patient" is now on the road to recovery.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) Advertisment, [Circa 1978], Bay Area Rapid Transit

Mayor Moscone

Clippings about BART Advertisment

Ua1b3/6 Wku Department Of Public Safety, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Archives Records

Document describing the responsibilities of the WKU Department of Public Safety now known as WKU Police. Includes information on vehicle registration, parking decals and parking lots.

Ua1b3/6 1978 Reports & Recommendations, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Archives Records

Reports and recommendations made by the WKU Parking & Traffic Committee for 1978.

Jackson Ward Historic District, Robert P. Winthrop

Jackson Ward Historic District Book

A digitization of the 1978 book published by the Richmond Dept. of Planning and Community Development, with text by Robert P. Winthrop and photographs by John Zehmer, presenting the results of several studies of the architecture and history of the Jackson Ward district of Richmond, Virginia.

Planning For Regional Environmental Quality : The Case Of Japan's National Capital Region, Duane E. Roberts

Dissertations and Theses

This study is concerned with Japan’s National Capital Region Development Plan. How to modify the capital plan and some of the correlative land policies of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to more fully protect regional air and water quality is the problem dealt with in the study.