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Corridor Study-Route 32 West Street And Palmer Road, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The purpose of this report was to help analyze the current and future uses along Route 32, which is located in Ware, Massachusetts, and the impact of those uses in terms of fiscal and infrastructure impacts to the town.

Corridor Study Alvord Street Corridor, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This report aims to update the Master Plan for the town of South Hadley, Massachusetts. The report goes on to examine Alvord Street, which is located in the south west area of town next to the Connecticut River, and has historically been used as agricultural land for the past eight years.

Economic Development Policies Industrial Development Commissions State Of Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This report explores the potential economic policies the state of Massachusetts can put into place to grow its industrial development. The report examines the geography and economy of the region, the labor market, demographic shifts, the size of the community, and the structure of the local government.

Data Collection And Analysis Master Planning Process, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The focus of the report was to help develop a Master Plan for the town of Orange, Massachusetts. The Plan details a land inventory, a housing condition survey, real-estate data collection, demographic data, and an infrastructure capacity assessment.

Design And Feasibility Study Affordable Housing, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The study examines three neighborhoods: Highland Street, Old Belchertown Road, and Cummings Road in the town of Ware, Massachusetts. It explores the physical characteristics and determines the sustainability, and then goes on to provide a buildout scenario of each of the three sites.

Industrial Feasibility Studies Three Scattered Sites Springfield, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of developing industrial sites at three locations in the City if Springfield. Due to a shortage of industrial land the City is extremely interested in identifying parcels of land upon which industry can be sited.

The study was undertaken by the Springfield Economic Development Corporation in conjunction with the Center For Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The objective of the effort was to encourage the development of new or existing industry at sites whose development would be in keeping with the planning goals and objectives of …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, William B. Fetterman, Annette Lockwood

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Meetinghouse Connection: Plain Living in the Gilded Age
• Paul Wieand's Contributions to Pennsylvania German Folk Theater
• Amish Cottage Industries
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Strategies For Effective Risk Communication Under Sara Title Iii: Perspectives From Research And Practice, Richard C. Rich, W. David Conn, William L. Owens

City and Regional Planning

Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 requires that planning and emergency response agencies be able to communicate with the public in nonemergency situations in order to help citizens understand the risks they face from hazardous materials and to secure citizen participation in designing responses to chemical emergencies. Both research and reports from the field indicate that, with notable exceptions, most Local Emergency Planning Committees created for this purpose are making little or no effort at proactive communication. As a result, citizens are not being educated effectively about the hazards they face and are not acting …

Integrating Communication Skills And Planning Techniques, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Gerald R. Clark

City and Regional Planning

Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marriage of convenience," between an academic and a planner, casting city/county planning staff as clients for students This has proven useful for pedagogy and has had some positive impact on the community.

Design Through Drawing: Eero Saarinen's Design In The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Drawing has the power to generate design. It is not only the depiction of an image in the architect's mind, but also, more importanlly, drawing, either the act or the product, can contribute to design as a physical counterpart to architectural imagination. Many architects might agree with this proposition, based on their daily practice. This research is an attempt to cast light on this phenomenon, offering a rigorous analysis and concrete yroofs. The study begins with an attempt to define architectural drawing, which ieads to an extensive investigation of the characteristics of repri::!sentation in architectural drawings. Eero Saarinen's winning entry …

Edra 23: Bibliography Of Books On Display, Kathleen Demsky

Bibliographies

edra 23 | Equitable and Sustainable Habitats | Boulder, CO

Preceramic Architectural And Subsistence Traditions, Robert A. Feldman

Andean Past

No abstract provided.

Evidence For Preceramic Houses And Household Organization In Western South America, Michael A. Malpass, Karen Stothert

Andean Past

No abstract provided.

Borges And Piranesi, Reinhold Martin

Oz

This study is lodged, somewhat awkwardly perhaps, between description and prescription. "Description" is used, in that it aims to represent a particular conceptual relation between Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel" short story, and the final edition, from about 1760, of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Carceri d'Invenzione series of engravings.

Heuristicism

Oz

Projects featuring the work of students Jeffrey Prose, Tanin Pongsilamanee, Ramulus Gatapia, Don Keenan, Tony Duncan, Todd Powers, Michael Linenbroker, Bennet Stindt

Arguments For Paralogical Geometries, Neil Denari

Oz

1.0 NO GROUND The systematic dismantling of palpable form by the electronic emissions of the wired doman known as THE (FIRST) WORLD has placed Architecture in a new referential field of geometrical relations where observation is not controlled or delineated by direct experience.

Architecture In A Simulated City, Toyo Ito

Oz

Images of Tokyo photographed aerially like a map are projected onto the floor. One is a flat and homogeneous scene taken from three hundred meters above and graphically processed by a computer.

Architectural Design Principles For Communal Dwellings, Imre Halasz, Noel Brady

Articles

Principles of communal housing design based on a reading of Alvar Aalto's Baker House Student Dormitory at MIT.

1992 Stanley A. Bauman Photograph Collection Index, Stonehill College Archives

Bauman Indexes

Chronological Listing of all negatives taken by Stanley A. Bauman during 1992. The numbers to the left of each entry indicates the envelope those of negatives are found in. Please use this number when requesting contact sheets for images.

Centro Histórico De Quito: Notas Para El Desarrollo De Una Política Urbana Alternativa, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

De un tiempo a esta parte, la problemática de los centros históricos se ha convertido en tema de debate y discusión dentro de las políticas urbanas en América Latina.'Hoy, por lo menos, en el caso de Quito es uno de los puntales de la polémica sobre la ciudad. Esta conversión tiene que ver con algunos delos siguientes aspectos que merecen ser destacados:

a.- El creciente deterioro que vienen sufriendo los centros históricos como consecuencia de hechos sociales, económicos y naturales, así como de los procesos de modernización que se han desarrollado, en su momento, en cada uno de los países …

La Gestión Urbana: Estrategias, Dilemas Y Retos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

A pesar de la importancia creciente que ha ido adquiriendo el tema ambiental, su avance teórico en relación con la ciudad es absolutamente insuficiente; al extremo de que aún no se ha logrado construir un marco conceptual que establezca las respectivas mediaciones y relaciones con lo urbano, la planificación y la gestión. Pero la situación es aún más preocupante en vista de que se anatomizado a la ciudad frente al medio ambiente. No hay una visión integrada o cuando menos integradora. Sin embargo, justo es reconocer que por lo pronto se ha conquistado la suma: la incorporación de la variable …

¡De Tu Vida Entera Soy El Único Dueño!, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Entrevista a Fernando Carrión Mena (1988-1992) y a su equipo de trabajo

Red Latinoamericana: “Ciudades, Gobiernos Locales Y Políticas Urbanas”, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La principal preocupación que se puso de manifiesto desde un inicio fue la relacionada con la construcción de una ciudad latinoamericana democrática que modifique su actual fisonomía de espacios marcados por la segregación y la exclusión de las grandes mayorías. Revertir esta situación exige revisar el modo de actuar de un conjunto muy amplio de instancias nacionales, con las especificidades que cada una de ellas presenta.

En la transición es necesario reflexionar sobre la naturaleza y composición de los Estados nacionales latinoamericanos, y uno de los temas ineludibles es el de la existencia de los grupos que asumieran tareas de …

La Planificación De Quito. Del Plan Director A La Ciudad Democrática, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En los últimos cincuenta años la dudad de guito ha sido estudiada y ha crecido al ritmo de cuatro principales propuestas de planificación urbana. todas ellas con la perspectiva de racionalizar su crecimiento y auspiciar el desarrollo urbano. Hoy se piensa en una nueva propuesta, lo cual en su conjunto. nos permite hablar de la Ciudad -más planificada. del Ecuador. sin que esto disimule la anarquía en su crecimiento.

En efecto, la propuesta del Plan Regulador de 1945. La normativa del Plan de 1967, la definición regional de 1973, la desconcentración y expansión microregional del Plan guito. identifican una intencionalidad …

Ciudades Y Políticas Urbanas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Ante la perestroika, la caída del muro de Berlín y la muerte del socialismo real el mundo entero replantea todas sus certezas, dogmas y creencias. Ante la apariencia de que todo es posible, se avizora que nada es verdad. La Incertidumbre lejos de sembrar la depresión o el pánico, abre una reflexión más profunda sobre lo real, lo posible y los sueños.

Más aún, cuando a finales de este milenio se atisba un futuro que se torna inmediato, tanto en cualquier país del mundo como en las micro-realidades de una ciudad. En medio de la tormenta se presenta como Imagen …

When The Mall Comes To A Small Town: How To Shape Development With Carrots And Sticks, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval

John R. Mullin

Across the United States there is a continuous expansion of population away from our traditional urban center cities. As people have occupied housing in these former open spaces, industrial parks and commercial centers have soon followed. While local planning boards have been able, in most cases, to handle residential and industrial growth, they are rarely able to handle extensive retail growth. Indeed, when a mall developer - complete with a multitalented staff and reams of plans - comes before a small town planning board, there is inevitable shock and a great deal of fear. In our experience, few small towns …

Linking The Past To The Future: A Landscape Conservation Strategy For Waterford, Virginia, Elizabeth Brabec, Mary Ann Nabor, Harry L. Dodson

Elizabeth Brabec

The report presents a planning strategy for protecting Waterford, an historic community located in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Waterford Historic District, including the village and surrounding farmland, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. In 1986, the National Park Service determined that Waterford was threatened by proposed new construction on an historic farm almost directly in the center of the Landmark. The report identifies alternative development strategies that would protect the historic integrity of the village landscape. These strategies were intended to be used in negotiations with local landowners, as negotiated but voluntary land conservation strategies.

Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook To Selected Gardens By Charles F. Gillette, Charles F. Gillette Forum, W. John Hayden, Sheila M. Hayden

Bookshelf

Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook to Selected Gardens by Charles F. Gillette was created as part of the 1992 Charles F. Gillette Forum at The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. W. John Hayden, Professor of Biology at the University of Richmond, and Sheila Hayden, Biology Research Associate at the University of Richmond, served as editors of the handbook.

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Charles F. Gillette
(1886-1969)

Arriving in Richmond on November 9, 1911 —a dull, damp, dreary day—Charles F. Gillette began his career in the Southeast as "clerk of the record" for landscape architect Warren Manning, who, working with architects …

Architecture News; The Newsletter Of The Syracuse University School Of Architecture, Bruce J. Abbey

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Architecture News: The Newsletter of the Syracuse University School of Architecture Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1992

Asce Lrfd Method For Stainless Steel Structures, Shin Hua Lin, Wei-Wen Yu, Theodore V. Galambos

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In recent years, probability-based load-and-resistance-factor-design (LRFD) method has been successfully applied to the design of hot-rolled steel sections and cold-formed steel members in the United States and foreign countries. In order to develop the LRFD criteria for the design of cold-formed stainless steel structural members and connections, a research project was conducted at the University of Missouri-Rolla since 1986 under the sponsorship of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This newly developed LRFD Specification with Commentary has been adopted by ASCE as a new standard in 1990. It supersedes the 1974 edition of the Specification for the Design of …