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Land Planning And Development Mitigation For Protecting Water Quality In The Great Lakes System: An Evaluation Of U.S. Approaches, Elizabeth Brabec, Peter Kumble

Elizabeth Brabec

A review of the land use/water quality interface of the Great Lakes system, and the monitoring programs in place. The paper reviews the weakness in the system and suggests opportunities for improvement.

Land Planning And Development Mitigation For Protecting Water Quality In The Great Lakes System: An Evaluation Of U.S. Approaches, Elizabeth Brabec, Peter Kumble

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Faculty Publication Series

A review of the land use/water quality interface of the Great Lakes system, and the monitoring programs in place. The paper reviews the weakness in the system and suggests opportunities for improvement.

Templeton 2030 Community Plan, Crp 410/ 411 Community Planning Lab

CRP 410/411 Community Planning Laboratory I & II

No abstract provided.

What Communities Should Do Pre-Event To Support Public Health Post-Event Assessments, Surveillance And Monitoring, Thomas Lyons Carr Iii

Thomas Lyons (Thom) Carr III Appl.Sc., CEM

[Abstract written March 2008, TLC] Under worst-case planning assumptions used by some major metropolitan areas, a Neighbor-to-Neighbor self-help program model is the primary link between citizens and the professional response personnel of the responsible government agencies.

In the Neighbor-to-Neighbor self-help program model or a Community Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) calls on the citizens in neighborhoods to identify and establish cluster emergency preparedness committees, Cluster Emergency Coordination Centers (CECC) and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT). Missing from these plans or what is not articulated is how constant Public Health Post-Event Surveillance, Monitoring and Assessments will be done. Given the worst-case planning …

Ua1b1/7 Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences Dedication, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences dedication, includes image of the building and floor plans.

Barriers To Expanding Partnerships For Affordable Rental Housing Investments, Connie Susilawati, Lynne Armitage, Martin Skitmore

Lynne Armitage

The recent housing boom, experienced across Australian metropolitan markets, has attracted many new investors and resulted in increasing prices across the full range of residential sub-markets for both owner-occupation and investment categories. Of particular concern from a social perspective is the consequential pressure generated in the affordable housing rental market. Moreover, high vacancy rates and modest rental growth in rental housing has caused a deterioration in the investor’s rental yield given these increasing house prices (Powall and Withers, 2004, p.7).

In this difficult situation, traditional delivery methods for rental housing are unlikely to continue to attract more investment in this …

Gill, Massachusetts: The Mariamante Parcel, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

In December of 2004, the small Massachusetts town of Gill took a tremendous step to influence its own future. A fifteen acre parcel of land in the south of town, near the intersection of two important town roads, had been put up for sale by its previous owners. The land had been under an agricultural preservation restriction, a program enabled by Massachusetts General Law Chapter 61 A. As part of this restriction, if the land were ever sold, the town would have right of first refusal.

The town's recent Community Development Plan has identified the parcel as a prime site …

Economic Development Plan Town Of Warren, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

This section of the Comprehensive Plan identifies economic development strategies within the framework of various development opportunities available to Warren given its current economic and geographical standing within the region. These economic development strategies strive to meet the needs and desires of the residents of Warren, Massachusetts based on their input and an analysis of local and regional economic trends and conditions. These potential economic strategies, intended to promote future economic growth, are in alignment with the Town’s core values and community goals.

Warren currently has two village centers, an active mill complex, significant open space, rivers and wetlands, and …

Haverhill Street Corridor Study: Methuen, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The City of Methuen’s Department of Planning and Community Development hired a team of students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Master’s in Regional Planning studio class to examine the growth impacts of a potential highway interchange reconfiguration. Exit 46 of Interstate 93 in Methuen is a failed interchange, and will likely be reconfigured in the next ten years. Methuen, a middle class city of 44,000 midway between Boston, MA and Manchester, NH, is currently experiencing significant growth pressures. The reconfigured interchange will only add to these pressures.

In consultation with the client, the studio team focused its analysis on …

From Lane To Lee A Quarry's Potential, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

In collaboration with a student team from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Community Development Corporation of Lee explored the potential reuse of an industrial parcel owned by Lane Construction Corporation in Lee, Massachusetts. The 243-acre property is currently in operation as a gravel and sand operation and asphalt processing plant in Lenox Dale, north of Lee center.

Identified as one of the largest industrial zoned parcels in New England, the Lane site has great economic potential in the future development of the town and the surrounding region. However, the site …

Park Marina Area Concept Plan, Crp 553 Project Planning Lab

CRP 553 Project Planning Laboratory

No abstract provided.

Deep Discount Group Pass Programs: Innovative Transit Finance, Cornelius Nuworsoo

City and Regional Planning

For public transit operators in the U.S., neither fare increases nor fare reductions have been successful in boosting revenues. A different kind of strategy is needed, one that can produce more revenue for transit operators than it costs. This article argues that deep discount group pass (DDGP) programs can accomplish this goal. DDGP programs provide groups of people with unlimited-ride transit passes in exchange for a contractual payment by a group’s employer or other organizing body. While previous research on DDGP programs has ignored their impact on operator revenues, this article addresses that gap by focusing on their revenue-increasing potential. …

Habitat Trails . . . A Manual For Affordable Green Neighborhood Development, Community Design Center

Project Reports

Habitat Trails is a green affordable neighborhood development consisting of 17 Habitat for Humanity homes. The site is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns. Stormwater runoff is retained and treated through a contiguous network of bioswales, infiltration trenches, stormwater gardens, sediment filter strips, and a constructed wet meadow. The integration of a treatment landscape with open space substitutes an ecologically-based stormwater management system for the expensive curb-gutter-pipe solution in civil infrastructure.

The Role Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Urban Regeneration, Julie Gannon, Gillian O'Brien

Articles

No abstract provided.

Update New England, Pingkang Yu

Pingkang Yu

Quarterly publication from 2003 to 2005 for the comprehensive coverage of economic conditions

Did The Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms?, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Renovación Urbana Y Proyecto Nacional, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El Proyecto de Estudios Urbanos Comparativos del Woodrow Wilson Internacional Center For Scholars (WWIC) y el Programa de Estudios de la Ciudad de FLACSOEcuador organizaron los días 16 y 17 de diciembre de 2004 el seminario internacional bajo el nombre: “Hacia un Estado Estable: Regeneración y Revitalización Urbana en las Américas”.

Para el efecto se presentaron 14 ponencias expuestas por académicos, autoridades y funcionarios; provenientes de profesiones diversas (arquitectos, sociólogos, economistas, antropólogos), enfocando sus presentaciones desde ámbitos locales, nacionales y latinoamericanos. A la reunión asistieron más de 80 personas, con una composición similar a la de los ponentes; esto es: …

El Centro Histórico Como Objeto De Deseo, Fernando Carrión Mena, Lisa Hanley

Fernando Carrión Mena

Con este trabajo se busca presentar algunas hipótesis e ideas respecto de la relación entre centro histórico, espacio publico y grandes proyectos urbanos, en el entendido de que el centro histórico es un espacio público por excelencia y, por tanto, es un elemento articulador de la ciudad; lo cual le convierte -por si y ante si- en un gran proyecto urbano (GPU). Esta propuesta se desarrollará en el contexto optimista de la ciudad como solución y en la consideración del centro histórico como objeto del deseo. Para desarrollar esta idea se parte de los siguientes tres principios orientadores.

Primero, es …

Los Centros Históricos En La Era Digital En América Latina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Este trabajo nace de un proceso de estudio y reflexión realizado sobre la base de lo que se ha venido haciendo y estudiando en algunos de los centros históricos más importantes de América Latina. Para su desarrollo se plantea una lógica expositiva a través de tres preguntas clave y una conclusión general.

La primera se refiere a lo que está sucediendo en los centros históricos o por qué esta temática ha cobrado tanto peso en el continente: ¿qué ocurre hoy en día con el proceso de globalización en los centros históricos en la región? Su pertinencia proviene del hecho de …

Regeneración Y Revitalización Urbana En Las Américas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Desde mediados del siglo XX, se inicia una ardua tarea por pensar los centros históricos más allá de conceptos venidos únicamente desde la arquitectura y de sus vertientes de la preservación y conservación de los monumentos históricos y concebir al centro histórico como una relación social. Actualmente un nuevo enfoque entiende al proceso urbano como parte importante en la construcción de un estado estable y de una economía sustentable cuyo punto de partida sea un proyecto colectivo de ciudad que pueda aportar hacia la estabilidad de los estados, su desarrollo económico y su fortalecimiento cultural, Los temas importantes a tomarse …

La Seguridad En América Latina Y Europa, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La violencia es una de las principales problemáticas sociales y urbanas en el mundo. Si bien no se trata de una problemática enteramente nueva, en las últimas décadas muestra un proceso de incremento, generalización y diversificación que conllevan impactos sociales, culturales, políticos y económicos de relevancia. Es un fenómeno mundial en el que se hace necesario resaltar que en Estados Unidos y Europa la situación se evidencia a inicios de la década de los ochenta, mientras que en América Latina se presenta con mayor magnitud en los años noventa.

En la actualidad, una de las preocupaciones más importantes que existen …

La Inseguridad Ciudadana En América Latina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El trabajo hace un análisis de la violencia en América Latina, mostrando que ha habido un crecimiento importante, que se ha producido una transformación significativa y que ha adoptado nuevas formas. Se ha convertido en un problema social con más de 140.000 homicidios anuales, hay una pérdida económica no menor al 14 por 100 del PIB anuales (168.000 millones de dólares), las instituciones democráticas se erosionan y las ciudades se amurallan. Hay diferencias regionales: el área andina es la más compleja con Colombia a la cabeza, luego le sigue Centro América y finalmente el Cono Sur.

Princípios Do Direito À Cidade, Rafael De Oliveira Alves

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

No abstract provided.

Homegirls In The Public Sphere By Miranda, Marie (Keta) Review By: Yost, Bambi, Bambi L. Yost

Bambi L Yost

Abstrat is not available. Citation: Homegirls in the Public Sphere by Miranda, Marie (Keta) Review by: Yost, Bambi Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 15, No. 1, Environmental Health, and Other Papers (2005) , pp. 406-413 Published by: The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate, for the benefit of the Children, Youth and Environments Center at the University of Colorado Boulder Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.15.1.0406

Land Planning And Development Mitigation For Protecting Water Quality In The Great Lakes System: An Evaluation Of Us Approaches, Elizabeth Brabec, Peter Kumble

Elizabeth Brabec

Since 1978, studies by the International Joint Commission (the bi-national commission mandated to protect the Great Lakes) have shown increasing water quality stress due to urban non-point source pollution. The key question for the IJC today, as an international commission with no direct enforcement power, is how the IJC can be effective in getting the parties and their jurisdictions to improve management of non-point source pollution issues when the land use trigger is primarily a local government issue. To begin to answer this question, the primary objective of this current study is to assemble the latest data and analysis on …

Regional Land Pattern Assessment: Development Of A Resource Efficiency Measurement Method, Elizabeth Brabec, Geoffrey Mcd Lewis

Elizabeth Brabec

Debate on the sustainability of human settlements has recently been focused primarily on the urban portion of the land use pattern. However, urban areas rely on suburban, rural, and other less densely settled lands for their existence. In order to quantify the impacts of various land patterns on their supporting resources, these exurban lands must be included in any sustainability assessment. This need for a regional view has resulted in a measurement method that enables comparisons of relative sustainability between various regional land use patterns. Existing methods employed to assess urban sustainability are reviewed and compared with the regional characteristic …

Imagine Lincoln 2020, The Futures Academy

Reports

No abstract provided.

Capitalising On Culture: An Evaluation Of Culture-Led Urban Regeneration Policy, Luke Binns

Articles

Municipal authorities throughout Western Europe are attempting to drive regeneration of their urban centres through policies designed to attract inward investment and tourism. In an attempt to woo these outside economic agents in, a variety of cultural consumption oriented policies have been developed and marketed. These include investment in hard cultural-infrastructure such as museums or art galleries, and in less physical aspects such as holding events like the European Capital of Culture. A polemical debate surrounds this use of cultural policy with a clearly economic agenda. This paper gives a brief synopsis of some culture-led regeneration models, addresses the validity …

Imagine Ahead, Plan Backwards: Prospective Methodology In Urban And Regional Planning, Elzbieta Krawczyk, John Ratcliffe

Articles

No abstract provided.

A Cathedral Of Utility, Arthur Chukhman

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Amenity infrastructure is an effective form of sustainability that can be applied to multiple scales of architecture. Designing infrastructure to be multifunctional while programming it into an amenity produces not only an efficient space but also brings people and social activity within close proximity to infrastructure. This new relationship between society and infrastructure should be realized through a didactic form of architecture in order to reveal what is normally the hidden framework of the built environment to generate a consciousness for energy consumption and other sustainable principles. In effect this thesis is attempting to address the problems associated with …