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Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2008, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• The Cultural Site Stewardship Program reports the first decrease in reported cultural site impacts since program inception.

• Total cultural site stewards trained is 382 for 2008 calendar-year-end.

• Two new Regional Coordinators assigned to Sloan and Eldorado Valley.

Policentralidad: Esencia De La Ciudad Plural, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Este segundo número de la Revista Centro-h está dirigido al tratamiento y debate de una pregunta crucial dentro del campo teórico y técnico de los centros históricos latinoamericanos: ¿La ciudad es unicentral o policentral?

Generalmente las corrientes conservacionistas plantean que las ciudades tienen un solo centro histórico y que éste nace en el momento y lugar fundacional de la ciudad; con lo cual, por un lado, la historia de la ciudad comienza y termina en la época colonial, congelándose en su origen, y por otro, concibiendo que los cambios urbanos se producen por “fuera” de la zona considerada histórica.

Esta …

Quito: Volver A Tener Ciudad Luego Que Le Dio La Espalda Al Origen Histórico Y Que Perdió Su Ubicación Geográfica, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Discurso de orden en la sesión Solemne del Concejo Metropolitano de Quito, realizada el 6 de diciembre de 2008, con motivo de la conmemoración de los 474 años de la fundación española de la ciudad de Quito.

The Feasibility Of Incorporating Sustainable Materials In The Design Of Habitat For Humanity Homes, Meaghan Collins, '09

Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers

The concept of sustainable design has been one of increasing interest with regards to both personal choices and desire to reduce human impacts on the environment. This paper looks at the concept of sustainable housing design and why it is important. Particularly, it focuses on sustainable housing designs and materials that the McLean County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity can incorporate into the construction of its homes. This paper investigates three types of sustainable construction materials, flooring, cabinetry, and paints that Habitat for Humanity could incorporate into its homes.

Considering The Reach Of Phelps, Thomas G. Field Jr.

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “As the Supreme Court recently confirmed in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., patent and copyright owners have limited rights following voluntary transfers of protected goods. Moreover, as discussed at length by the Second Circuit in Platt & Munk Co. v. Republic Graphics, Inc., patent owners‟ rights have long been similarly affected by involuntary transfers. Platt & Munk finds the lack of equivalent copyright rulings remarkable, but does not allow lack of direct precedent to stand in the way of finding that involuntary transferees of copyright-protected goods have the same rights as voluntary transferees.

Initially, the Fourth Circuit, …

A Simplified Unbalanced Bidding Model, David William Cattell, Paul Anthony Bowen, Ammar P. Kaka

David Cattell

Much research effort to date has focused on the development and use of bidding models in optimizing contractors' bid prices in competitive tendering environments. Unbalanced bidding models, in particular, have the objective of maximizing a project's prospective profits by using techniques of applying differentiated mark-ups to all of a project's items of work. It is shown here that these unbalanced bidding models have been unnecessarily complicated by incorporating consideration of a project's item costs. Bidding models can be significantly simplified by having the objective of maximizing a project's top-line revenue rather than maximizing bottom-line profit. A new model, incorporating all …

Liga: Tiempo Y Espacio, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Nunca más cierto que ahora esas estrofas nacidas en la Universidad Central del Ecuador: “en el tiempo y en el espacio, tu nombre sonará…

El Ecuador ha esperado una centuria para que un equipo ecuatoriano de fútbol llegue a una final de un mundial de clubes. Para ello se necesitó romper con el determinismo geográfico que nos enclaustró en América del Sur: los torneos de clubes como las copas Sudamericana y Libertadores, y de selecciones con la Copa América y las eliminatorias a los mundiales fueron el ámbito de competencia. Este enclaustramiento se fracturó con las dos presencias de la …

Centro Histórico: La Polisemia Del Espacio Público, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El centro histórico es concebido como un espacio que abarca fenómenos diversos y que, en la actualidad, constituye una forma de comunicación e intercambio de información. Opera como un espacio simbiótico en donde confluyen percepciones distintas a partir de símbolos construidos en varias etapas de la historia. En el presente artículo se analiza el centro histórico a partir del espacio público, del color, de la nomenclatura y del arte público urbano.

Violencia Urbana: Un Asunto De Ciudad, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La ciudad es el espacio donde se desenvuelven múltiples acciones sociales y bajo la cual también se desarrollan variadas y nuevas formas de violencia. Este ha sido un tema importante en las dos últimas décadas, que se ha sumado a factores que afectan especialmente a Latinoamérica. Pese a eso no ha sido considerado como temática incorporada a las nuevas formas de vida urbana, por lo que requiere de políticas urbanas innovadoras que se relacionen directamente con la realidad. Se analiza la violencia enfocada en la causalidad tipos de violencia, la urbe como escenario de la violencia, los efectos producidos por …

Violencia Urbana: Un Asunto De Ciudad, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Durante los últimos 20 años la violencia se ha convertido en uno de los temas más importantes de la ciudad latinoamericana, debido al cambio en sus formas (un grado mayor de violencia), a los impactos (sociales, econó- micos), al incremento de su magnitud (se duplica) y al aparecimiento de nuevos tipos (secuestro express, violencia en los estadios).

Las violencias se han extendido por todos los países y ciudades de la región con peculiaridades y ritmos propios provocando cambios: en la lógica del urbanismo (amurallamiento de la ciudad, nuevas formas de segregación residencial), en los comportamientos de la población (angustia, desamparo), …

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Design Guidelines For The Historic Downtown Of The City Of St. George, Utah, Bronson Ron Tatton

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This document proposes historic preservation guidelines for the downtown area of the City of St. George, Utah. It grew from a summer internship with the city where I took inventory of the streetscape in the Historic Downtown and prepared recommendations in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation that was given to the city council. This paper summarizes the summer internship and introduces a more appropriate approach based on reflection of the internship. The new approach involves a thorough inventory of the historic character, in-depth research of the historic elements that contribute to the historic character, development of design guidelines and …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Liquefaction Behavior Of Mississippi River Silts, Ali M. Izadi, Ronaldo Luna, Richard Wesley Stephenson

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Civil Infrastructure Built on Alluviums and Recent Deposits, Such as Dams, Contain Significant Amount of Silts. the Static and Dynamic Behavior of These Fine-Grained Soils Has Been Investigated Less Than the Clay-Like or Sand-Like Soils. Low Plasticity Silts (PI = 6) Obtained East of St. Louis in Illinois Are Known as Loess that Has Been Re-Deposited by Water in the Floodplains of the Mississippi River. These Silts Were Reconstituted in the Laboratory by Slurry at Water Content above the Liquid Limit and Then Consolidated to an Initial Effective Stress. the Initial Laboratory Characterization under Monotonic Loading Included a Series of …

Expanding Planning’S Public Sphere: Street Magazine, Activist Planning And Community Development In Brooklyn, Ny 1971-75, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a paradigm of activist planning or critical city planning became a new “tributary” feeding the stream of the planning profession. STREET Magazine, published from 1971 to 1975 by the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development in Brooklyn, NY, offers a lens through which to examine the expansion of the profession to encompass a range of ideas associated with this paradigm. This article, drawing on an extensive review of STREET magazine’s content within the historical context in which it was produced, as well as interviews with people involved with the publication, argues …

An Overview On Sustainability In Higher Education In The World For Starting In Malaysia, Omidreza Saadatian

No abstract provided.

Centros Culturales Como Motor De Desarrollo Local, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Presentation on cultural centers: how was the concept born and how it has evolved. Challenges for designing clearly and implementing "cultural centers" following cultural rights, sustainability and participation concerns.

Cambio De Época, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Estos últimos años hemos sido testigos de singulares y vertiginosos cambios que se producen a nivel mundial. El signo de los tiempos es la volatilidad y la transformación. Nada dura el tiempo que duraba antes; la vida se hace líquida, en términos de Bahuman. Las películas de cine duran tan solo el tiempo para que aparezca otra; las computadoras tienen una vida efímera de no mas de tres años, las marcas deportivas caen una tras otra; el alumno que se gradúa se encuentra obsoleto frente al que ingresa; la familia como símbolo de la tradición y estabilidad se hace añicos; …

Improving Concept Learning In Green Building By Addressing Students' Learning Styles And Prior Knowledge, Sreelatha Chunduri

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In green building there is a requirement for the collaboration of students from different disciplines in order to solve challenging problems. Successful collaboration depends on the establishment of a common understanding of the subject matter among those involved. To gain common understanding concept learning is critical. A concept learning process may be improved when factors affecting it are addressed. Prior knowledge and learning styles of the students may influence the way they learn concepts. This thesis is focused on studying the relationship between a concept learning process and prior knowledge and learning styles of students. An experiment was conducted by …

Graduate Sessions 7: Anthony Vidler, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Lauren M. Baez

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Anthony Vidler is Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. His books include Histories of the Immediate Present, The Architectural Uncanny, Warped Space, and The Writing of the Walls.

Impunidad, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Según el diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua, la impunidad es definida como la falta o ausencia de castigo frente a un hecho delictivo. Una concepción de este tipo ubica la problemática dentro de la lógica punitiva y, por tanto, dentro del funcionamiento del proceso penal (administración de la justicia). En términos empíricos la impunidad se mide mediante la diferencia que existe entre el número de delitos denunciados respecto de los casos que terminan con una sanción en firme.

Si la impunidad es alta quiere decir que la administración de la justicia y el sistema penal en su …

The Sustainability Implications Of Building Adaptive Reuse, Craig A. Langston

Craig Langston

Building adaptive reuse is an important global topic. In the context of sustainable development and the effects of climate change caused by previous disregard for our environment, adaptive reuse has significant implications. This paper aims to examine how the construction industry can reposition itself to increase focus on the revitalization of existing buildings as an alternative to demolition and replacement. The paper reports on current research undertaken in Australia as part of a nationally-funded program in collaboration with industry, proposes a new model for early identification of adaptive reuse potential, tests this model with case study data, and looks at …

Los Bienes Robados, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El delito de mayor ocurrencia en el país es el del robo de bienes; sin embargo, está invisibilizado por el peso que tiene la cooperación internacional en un doble sentido: por un lado, por que los recursos y las estrategias están dirigidas a la persecución del narcotráfico, el terrorismo y el coyoterismo y, por otro lado, por el peso que ha adquirido –también por razones internacionales- la persecución focalizada de los homicidios. Este énfasis en estos delitos lleva a políticas altamente represivas, cuando la realidad podría ser enfrentada desde otras perspectivas y con resultados mucho más positivos para la reducción …

Thesis For A Thesis, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

My lecture today will question the nature of a thesis project for an undergraduate architectural education. The topic of my lecture – the nature of a thesis – is probably of concern to many of you, either presently engaged in thesis preparations or those of you who will be thinking about your topics in the next few years. I will first question the nature of what a thesis may be and then propose one approach to making a thesis. The third part of the lecture will offer two examples.

Supply Curves For Rooftop Solar Pv-Generated Electricity For The United States, Paul Denholm, Robert Margolis

Publications (E)

In this report, we examine several possible methods for generating PV supply curves based exclusively on rooftop deployment. We begin by introducing a framework methodology for a basic supply curve based on estimated distribution of population and buildings, rooftop availability and orientation, and geographical variation in resource. We then discuss limitations to this basic methodology and introduce alternative supply curves that consider additional factors – changes in PV efficiency and configuration, rooftop availability, and grid limitations – while emphasizing the data and methodological limitations to each approach. The resulting curves potentially could be used as inputs to other models or …

Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Tony Allen, Karen Sharp, Mamie Peers, Cate Weeks

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, And The States, Sara C. Bronin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Thirty-seven years ago, a book called The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control argued that states would soon take over localities' long-held power over land use regulation. In the authors' view, this quiet revolution would occur when policymakers and the public recognized that certain problems - like environmental destruction - were too big for localities to handle on their own. Although the quiet revolution has not yet occurred, this Article suggests that it will, and should, occur alongside the ever-growing green building movement. This movement presents practical and ideological challenges to our current system of regulating land use. This Article …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

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The Road Not Taken, Michael E. Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

Defends Jacksonville's annexation of its Duval County suburbs, and compares Jacksonville's post-annexation fate with that of less elastic southern cities.

Entrevista Exclusiva Con Claridad Sobre El 52º Congreso Mundial De La Ifhp, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Bajo la expectativa de que la actual crisis financiera hipotecaria se convierta en una salida de acceso de la población a la vivienda y a la ciudad, en lugar de que sea sólo una salida financiera, finalizó el 52do. Congreso Mundial de la Federación Internacional de Planificación y Vivienda, cuyo tema fue: “Vivienda, más allá de sus paredes: Planificando para un Hábitat Asequible y Sostenible”, celebrado hace unos días en San Juan, Puerto Rico. El Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico formó parte del Comité Organizador del evento.

El arquitecto ecuatoriano Fernando Carrión Mena, quien sirvió de relator final …