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Led Street Light Research Project, Donald K. Carter, Stephen Quick

Stephen Quick

The City of Pittsburgh planned to replace its existing 40,000 street lighting fixtures with LED fixtures and engaged the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) to investigate the full range of potential benefits of a replacement program in business districts. The study team investigated the technological potentials offered by LED lighting, best management practices (BMP) in LED lighting and lessons learned from cities where LED lighting has been installed, as well as the place-making and aesthetic impact of LED lighting and associated technologies. The team also investigated issues raised by the use of LEDs as the light source and issues of replacing …

From "The Projects" To Houses : Physical Redevelopment, Poverty Deconcentration, And Resident Self-Sufficiency Impacts On Public Housing Residents At Hope Iv Developments In Camden, New Jersey, Michael C. Brown

Dissertations

Since 1992, public housing authorities (PHAs) throughout the United States have been building public housing rental and owner-occupied housing in place of demolished or rehabilitated distressed public housing and simultaneously attempting to deconcentrate poverty and improve self-sufficiency among the affected residents. The distressed housing is usually dilapidated, poorly designed, poorly constructed, poorly maintained, and poorly managed; the residents are very poor, are in constant fear of crime and violence, and have little hope. Previous attempts to address these problems have been piecemeal and often inadequate.

Based on recommendations by the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing in 1992, the …

Los Estudios Urbanos: Un Espejo Donde Mirarse, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Presentación desarrollada en el marco del I Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Urbanos, organizado por la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmniento, el ISS, la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, el PUEC-UNAM y el Lincoln Institute of Kand Policy, Buenos Aires 24-26 de agosto de 2011

Los Mitos De La Inseguridad, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

A diferencia de lo que ocurría en décadas pasadas, como nunca y con fuerza inusual han aparecido en estas semanas un conjunto de mitos respecto a la inseguridad ciudadana en el país y, lo más grave de ello, que las políticas oficiales y las de la oposición se asientan sobre ellas. Sin duda, el primero y más Importante es aquel que tiene que ver con el peso que se asigna a las demandas de seguridad venidas de la población, por encima de los hechos de violencia objetivamente producidos; en otras palabras, entre la violencia subjetiva y la violencia objetiva, la …

Mckenzie, William - Collector (Sc 2470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2470. Receipts, survey plats, conservation plan, and architectural drawings for renovations done at Walnut Lawn, a historic Bowling Green, Kentucky home on Highway 231 (Morgantown Road).

Staynings, Laura Jo (Burnett), B. 1976 (Fa 568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 568. Paper: "Collection Care at Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate" written by Laura Jo (Burnett) Staynings for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. She discusses a visit to Ashland, where she observed how the staff interpreted and cared for the property.

Zero-Net Energy Building Science Research: Nebraska Housing Case Study, Timothy Hemsath

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

What makes a new home sustainable? There is no simple answer and no silver bullet to reducing energy consumption, choosing the right building material or perfectly designed floor plan. Every case is different and every home-owner has their own perspective. To answer the question I was motivated to assemble this mini-portfolio of homes to begin identifying current best practices.

This booklet contains five newly constructed Nebraska homes. Each example identifies what high performance green building design elements, technologies and systems builders, architects and home-owners are using. The following five homes are not all Nebraska has to offer as examples, but …

Assessment Of Organic And Inorganic Phosphorus In Soils Derived From Cretaceous Sediments And Basement Complex Soils Of Guinea Savannah Of Kogi State, North Central Nigeria, Sunday I. Amhakhian, H H. Isitekhale, Charles I. Oyewole

Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria

A pot experiment was carried out using 20 surface soils (0-15cm depth) in 2008 to assess soil organic phosphorus and some fraction of inorganic phosphorus in other to know their availability in the soils of the studied area and also work have not been done in this areas in respect to organic and in-organic phosphorus. The experiment was conducted using 20 soils 10 from each geological formation (Cretaceous sediments and Basement complex soils), respectively. The mean organic phosphorus of 63.51 mgkg 1 soil was obtained for Cretaceous sediment soils and 158.54 mgkg 1 soil for the basement complex soils respectively. …

Casas Inventariadas: ¿Patrimonio Líquido?, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El día viernes 12 de Agosto a las 17 horas, pensando que en el inicio del feriado nadie se daría cuenta, una retroexcavadora comenzó la tarea de demolición de la casa ubicada en la Av. 12 de octubre y Ulloa. Esa acción fue hecha el momento en que las oficinas encargadas de velar por el patrimonio edificado no estaban en funciones, lo cual delataba el inicio de una política de hechos consumados. Algo parecido ocurrió en la misma Av. 12 de Octubre, en la casa de José Gabriel Navarro, cuando al inicio del carnaval de 1996 se inició la demolición …

Palos De Ciego, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El martes 9 de agosto pasado en la Isla Trinitaria, popular barrio de Guayaquil, se llevó a cabo un operativo antidelincuecial sin precedentes en la historia del país, que contó con una impresionante logística: dos helicópteros, tres lanchas, cuatro tanques militares y 800 militares de las tres Fuerzas Armadas. La acción denominada relámpago, se realizó desde las 6 de la mañana hasta las 12 del día, momento en que se retiraron luego de peinar todos los rincones del barrio, dejar una estela de temor en niños, mujeres y vecinos, y criminalizar nacionalmente al barrio.

Se trató de una acción militar …

Development Of Functional Indices Of Facility Occurrence Towards The Distribution Of Social Services In Lagos Island Nigeria., Augustus O. Atubi

Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria

Proper coordination of transport and public facilities provision is vital to any balanced regional development strategy. The central aim of this study, therefore, is to find out what the relationship is between access to the transport network and the provision of functional indices of facility occurrence towards the distribution of social services in Lagos Island, Nigeria. In particular it seeks to find out areas that have below or above average level of facility occurrences relative to the level of accessibility. However, a pair wise correlation matrix of the eleven (11) variables employed in the index construction was carried out. The …

Special Issue On The 6th International Phytotechnologies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009: Conference Review, Joel G. (Gerard) Burken, Jason C. White

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Bicentralismo Y Bicefalía Urbana, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

A principios de este mes empezaron a difundirse los resultados del Censo Económico realizado en el año 2010. Con los pocos datos que se cuenta se pueden avizorar algunas de las tendencias de la economía nacional. La primera y quizás más significativa tenga que ver con su concentración territorial.

En términos provinciales la tendencia es clara: solo dos de las 24 provincias del Ecuador congregan el 73.1 por ciento de los ingresos del país. El Ecuador en su totalidad arroja ingresos por 145.865 millones de dólares, donde Pichincha aporta con 66.949 millones de dólares y Guayas con 39.645 millones de …

Alternative Learning Formats In A Land Use Seminar, Michael E. Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

A symposium piece on my use of field trips and guest speakers in my seminar on sprawl and the law.

Santa Maria Bus Stop Improvement Plan, Jessica Wafer, Erin Gorman

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

The Challenges Of Urban Development Case Study – Prizren, Besa Jagxhiu

Theses and Dissertations

Prizren, what was, what it is now and what is going to be? The city with rich values of cultural and historical heritage, civilization and various religions and ethnicities used to be an important center of culture, trade and diplomacy, during the history, since the antiquity, which was known also as a “City Museum”. Nowadays, unfortunately there are no efforts for preserving and promoting these rich values, and with this trend in which is going, it cannot be seen the bright future for it. Prizren historic center is the best example of urban heritage in Kosovo, which has valuable traces …

Do-It‐Yourself Urban Design: Making Local Improvements Through Unauthorized Alterations Of Urban Space, Gordon Douglas

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

This study examines “spatial interventions”: street art, guerrilla gardening, public space invasions, and other unauthorized practices of place-based, site-specific art or activism that challenge the normative uses or meanings of particular urban spaces. In recent years, a growing number of individuals have taken up these forms of site-specific direct action. Some argue that they represent new strategies of political expression, even “resistance”; others, that it is little more than vandalism or pointless juvenile acting out. Yet my research suggests that many of these actions are rather connected by something more subtle, a simple willingness to reimagine the built environment on …

Landmark Report (Vol. 29, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

North Park: A Regional Approach To Parks, Recreation, And Trails Planning, Alan John Luce

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

The North Park study area is mainly focused on the parks, recreation, and trails of two municipalities: North Logan and Hyde Park. These two municipalities have formed several partnerships to provide the police, fire, and other civic needs of the citizens of both communities. Coincidentally, these services have been given a name that combines the names of the two municipalities, North Park. However, this particular study area also includes small portions of land that are currently located in Logan City, Cache County, and the U.S. Forest Service.

North Park is a beautiful area nestled on the east bench of Cache …

Monumental-It: A 'Robotic-Wiki' Monument For Embodied Interaction In The Information World, Tarek Mokhtar

All Dissertations

ABSTRACT
Conventional monuments are concrete manifestations of memories without the capacity to reflect individual interpretations of history. In an increasingly digital society, however, there is a need for configurable monuments reflecting our contemporary, open and complex community. “Monumental-IT” reflects the dynamic and inclusive character of our time. Rather than static, Monumental-IT is a dynamic, robotic, intelligent environment reconfigured or “retuned” by citizens and by historical information accumulating on the World Wide Web. This information is periodically “coded,” altering the multi-sensorial physical-digital “Robotic-Wiki” components of Monumental-IT. Monumental-IT is designed to embody a new form of human-robotic interaction evolving from the monument …