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A Study On The Relationship Of Spatial Planning Aspects In Occurrence Of Street Crimes In Dhaka City, Urmee Chowdhury, Ishrat Islam

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

Street crime, like mugging and vehicle theft, are the significant crime problems in every developing city of the world. The study area for this research is Dhaka city, which is experiencing an situation ofincreasing street crime. This research focuses on the relationship between spatial planning and street crimes and tries to recommend different strategies for prevention of crime and violence in the streets of Dhaka city by proposing urban design and infrastructure planning. The study tries to assess the relationship from macro tomicro level through different spatial and physical planning components. For the detail level study, four Thana (police station) …

Applying The Analytical Hierarchy Process (Ahp) Approach To Assess An Area-Based Innovation System In Thailand, Suwadee T. Hansasooksin, Nij Tontisirin

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

This paper examines the criteria that is significant in building an area-based innovation system inThailand. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) questionnaire was distributed to experts in thearea of urban planning, development, and policy studies. They assessed and prioritized indicators that could shape the innovation system on a regional scale. The study found that enhancing human capital, innovation collaboration, innovation capability, cultural/knowledge resources, and innovation capacity is more important, rather than focusing on physical infrastructure development. This implies that major elements for an area-based innovation system in Thailand highly depend on citizen, institutions, and linkages across sectors.

Perception Of Teachers And Parents On Appropriate Physical Environment For Learning Through Play In Malaysian Preschools, Pearly Pei Li Lim, Azizi Bahauddin, Nor Fadzila Aziz

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

As physical environments play a role in supporting learning though play (LTP) in preschools, usersand interest group's perceptions of appropriate physical environment features for LTP become significant. This article examines perceptions of teachers and parents concerning an appropriate indoor physical environment for LTP in Malaysian preschools. A five-point Likert s cale and preference ranking were employed to understand teachers' and parents' perception of six features including sizing of spaces; material availability; spaces for creation and respite; indoor-outdoor connection; and provision of challenges. The findings included; variety of materials, spaces for personalization, spaces for challenges and good indoor-outdoor connection.

Economicfactors Affecting The Changes In Temple Architecture In The Reign Of King Rama Ix, Pymporn Chaiyaporn

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

Economic factors reflecting the prosperity of foreign trades from the Ayutthaya to the Rattanakosinperiods, brought about growth and changes in dwellings. These factors also supported and maintained Buddhism by restoring, reconstructing, and building temples. Traditions changed in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX, due to a capitalist economic system. This system, which has expanded its influence over land use planning, tourism development, and economic revitalization, led to different directions in the development of temple architecture. This article studies the roles of an economic system which affected the design of temple architecture during the Buddhawat area. The research was …

A Low Income Housing Needs And Affordability For Thailand's Strategic National Plan During 2017-2037, Chaweewan Denpaiboon, Kitti Limskul, Sarich Chotipanich

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

This paper has developed a model to forecast the housing needs and affordability of the low-incomehouseholds in Thailand 2018-2037. The model has applied the baseline data from the Socioeconomicsurvey (SES 2015). Considering official population projections by the changing age structure and household formations based on income, forecasts can be made about housing needed by 'Renters', who are the target group of the low-income households. Given, heuristic scenarios on households' income growth over time, an initial planning model for affordable units of housing by types for renters has been proposed. Effective government policy to mobilize social resource for this low-income household …

The Diversity Of Modern Urbanism: An International Comparative Study Of Urban Space, Fanhao Kong

Architecture Masters of Science Program: Theses

While industrialization and globalization are continuing to bridge cultural and geographical gaps on the earth, differences still exist. Today, Developing countries are undergoing massive urban transition; and the transition appears to pursue the path of developed countries. However, the belief that global paths of urbanism will converge into one road is not convincing. Many studies on urbanism have been discussed in the past. However, these studies are mainly focused on urban areas in developed countries, mostly located in North America and Europe. In the last ten years, researchers have done more studies in developing areas, especially in East Asia. Though …

Best Practices For Urban Coliving Communities, Rachel Osborne

Interior Design Program: Student Creative Activity

Coliving, a new typology of housing design, has recently been gaining in popularity. Coliving is a form of rental housing that seeks to create community among its residents by providing features such as extensive shared spaces and community managers paired with typically small, furnished private spaces. Little architectural or interior design research is available to describe this emerging typology, and no best-practices or guiding principles exist to aid designers in ­making informed decisions when designing or evaluating coliving spaces.

This thesis uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the composition of existing coliving facilities as well as the motivations and preferences …

Social Media Communication By Local Governments And Its Implications For Urban Planning, Leiming Zhao

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses

Social media has altered traditional communication and enriched traditional social networks. In addition to its use for personal communication and business marketing, social media has also been proved to be a valuable tool for urban planners and managers. However, there are relatively few studies about how social media communication may inform the design of urban master plans. The objectives of the thesis are to understand how the city governments have used social media to engage with the general public on urban planning issues, and assess if social media contents can be used to inform urban planning. The 10 top digital …

An Evaluation Of Public Open Space In Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, Karl Dietrich

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses

Public open space provides many benefits to a downtown area. Among the benefits are economic growth, social connectivity, health, and helping to create an identity for a city. As many cities continue to sprawl outwards, it is important that their downtown areas create a sense of place so that businesses and people stay and visit. Public open spaces can help provide that much needed sense of place. This study examines whether the “public space index” designed by Vikas Mehta (2014) is effective at evaluating public open spaces. This was done by using four public open spaces (Foundation Garden, Tower Square, …

Interpreting And Presenting Intangible Heritage: Concepts And Designs For The Buffalo Italian-American Heritage Museum, Michaela Worosz

Museum Studies Projects

The purpose of this Master’s Thesis Project is to provide insight to important practices in the museum profession in relation to interpreting and exhibiting intangible heritage, and provide detailed steps on incorporating community involvement and participation in a museum setting, specifically for this paper, Centro Culturale Italiano di Buffalo (CCI). Through the practices learned in the Museum Studies MA program, exhibits and programs were designed to suit CCI’s goals. This research resulted in the development of a new mission statement, collections policy and oral history interviews were conducted to assist in their collection and provide CCI with a presence in …

Site Selection Of Housing Development Projects In Thailand And Malaysia Border Trade Areas By Modified Sieve Analysis, Treechart Loakaewnoo

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

This study sought to select the appropriate sites for the housing projects in Thailand and MalaysiaBorder Trade areas. The Modified Sieve Analysis was adopted as the instrument for searching and selecting sites. The Modified Sieve Analysis is the technique used to assess the urban expansion, which has been modified from the traditional sieve analysis by overlaying the map with its scores and calculate the total scores for selecting the suitable sites for the urban and housing development. The findings from this study help identify the suitable sites to build housing projects in the four cities - three sites for each.

A City In Crisis: Communication Network, Ethics, And Power In The City Of Dallas, Sana Salma Syed

Planning Dissertations - Archive

The conceptual framework for this research builds on Manuel Castells's work to find the specific network configuration of actors, interests, and values that engage in their power-making strategies to operationalize a communication network and understand the roles and powers of programmers and switchers at a local level. The study explores the role and purpose of communication networks within cities from the perspective of administrators and elected officials and their responsibility to provide communication as a public good. The research design is an organizational autoethnography of the city of Dallas that incorporates various perspectives from those who were a part of …

Architecture Student Design Competition 2018 Final Report, Hannah Dewhirst, Andreas Luescher

Architecture and Environmental Design Faculty Publications

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An Examination Of What Motivates Utah Residents To Adopt The Practice Of Rainwater Harvesting, D. Wayne Honaker

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Although most of the earth is covered in water, a very limited amount of that water is fresh water, which is essential to our survival. Therefore, it is imperative that we do all that is possible to conserve and protect our extremely limited water resources, especially in arid regions such as the American West. While there are many ways and means to protecting and preserving our water resources, this thesis focuses on the strategy of rainwater harvesting (RWH) as it is done throughout the state of Utah. RWH is defined as taking the precipitation that falls on our built structures …

A Study Of Phayao's Historical Trading Communities To Encourage Recognizing Local History And To Promote Cultural Tourism, Phakthima Wangyao

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

Phayao is considered to be a city with a history of more than 700 years after Chao Luang Wong had evacuated people from Lampang and relocated them the city of Phayao. In order to gain useful information to promote cultural tourism, a study of Phayao's commercial community included its history, architectural styles, and the perceptions of people in the community. The methods used for research were collecting historical and physical data as well as conducting surveys. The area studied was divided into four groups which were determined by the characteristics of the area. Based on the study of data, there …

Analysis Of The Difference Between Two Approaches To Assessing Housing And Community Standards, Kundoldibya Panitchpakdi, Tirawat Pimwern, Thammanoon Laohpiyavisut

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

This comparative study on housing and community comfortable living performance standards is a partof a participatory research conducted to meet the needs addressed by the Thai National HousingAuthority to improve existing housing and community standards. The research team conducted a case study of the Rim Khwae Awm Community in Samut Songkhram Province. This community had been identified as a model of comfortable living. This article presents the results of an analysis of comfortable living standards derived from a review of related literature and standards derived from the participatory process with the community case study. This research found that the standards …

Land-Use, Street Configuration And Pedestrian Volume:The Case Of A Historic Town, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, Naimul Aziz

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

This study explores the relative connections among pedestrian movement patterns, land use and street configurations by analyzing the pedestrian volume, existing land use patterns as well as the street configuration of Mymensingh. Mymensingh is a historic town in Bangladesh which was established by the British Colonists more than 200 years ago along the river Brahmaputra. The street patterns of Mymensingh was developed by the fusion of the wide streets made by British Colonists and the narrow streets made by the local inhabitants. The juxtaposition of these street patterns created a unique type of street configuration in Mymensingh. According to Space …

Unexpected Setbacks When Excavating – Using Gpr For Mitigating Risk: A Case Study, Samuel L. Marcum

Construction Management

Whether constructing on undeveloped land or on an existing developed site, there is a risk of encountering unexpected objects when excavating. With today’s technology in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), this risk can generally be mitigated. Using Whiting-Turner’s construction of Stanford University’s new ChEM-H & SNI Building as an example, this case study discusses the use of GPR for underground mapping, as well as various ways to implement GPR technology. The ChEM-H & SNI site had many underground utilities that required precise pot-holing to verify locations. Although pot-holing is widely used, it is a destructive method, it is time and labor …

Assessment Of Small-Scale Anisotropy In Stably Stratified Turbulent Flows Using Direct Numerical Simulations, Amrapalli Garanaik, Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this study, the validity of the widely used Kolmogorov hypothesis of local isotropy of dissipative scales in stably stratified turbulent flows is investigated using high-resolution direct numerical simulations. Departure from isotropy is investigated for the first time in terms of the turbulent Froude number defined as Fr = ϵ/(NEk), where N is the buoyancy frequency, Ek is the turbulent kinetic energy, and ϵ is the rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy. It is shown that for both ϵ and the rate of scalar (density) dissipation, ϵρ, the small-scale statistics are nearly isotropic in the weakly stratified turbulent regime …

Form Based Codes And Economic Impacts: A Multivariate Regression Analysis And Case Study, Jacob M. Howard

Master's Theses

After a 100-year history, traditional zoning practices are being challenged as a contributing factor in a number of social, heath and economic problems facing cities in the United States. In this context, form based codes have emerged as a possible alternative way for cities to guide development. Growing out of the New Urbanist movement, form based codes frequently mix uses, allow for a greater variety of housing types and encourage development that is both denser and more compact. Despite an established literature which links land-use regulations, and zoning in particular, to fiscal outcomes, the impacts that form based codes have …