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Coordination In Disaster Recovery: Implications For Policy And Practice, Sarah Jo Bundy
Coordination In Disaster Recovery: Implications For Policy And Practice, Sarah Jo Bundy
Emergency Management
Disaster scholarship and recent disaster policy in the United States have suggested that coordination of efforts in the disaster recovery process will allow impacted jurisdictions to maximize positive recovery outcomes. Yet it remains unclear exactly who should be, or is, coordinating disaster recovery at the local level. This study explored the role of county elected officials in disaster recovery in an attempt to understand what role these elected officials currently play in the recovery process—particularly as related to the coordination of recovery efforts. During the initial data collection process, the researcher discovered that the role of county elected officials in …
Organizational Dynamics Leading To The Implementation Of Sustainable Design In Building Construction, Sooraj Mohandas Mattappadan
Organizational Dynamics Leading To The Implementation Of Sustainable Design In Building Construction, Sooraj Mohandas Mattappadan
Construction Management and Engineering
This study focused on construction project organizational dynamics, leading to implementation of sustainable construction. Data were derived from a questionnaire responded by construction industry practitioners. Results identified the need for promoting sustainable construction by cost and value benefits to the industry rather than environmental and social benefits. This approach promotes the interest of people who will not be conceived behind the environmental reasoning behind sustainable building. Also the factors that ranked the relatively low were those that do not provide considerable benefits to the organization during the construction phase. Higher initial investment, and the uncertainties of the time to recover …
Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed, Ryan Hyllested
Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed, Ryan Hyllested
Landscape Architecture Theses
This thesis studies how designers and planners can create a desirable community in the deteriorating urban communities affected by urban sprawl. By its nature this project is a community planning effort. The results of this research are guided by the idea that society would benefit from transforming deteriorating urban neighborhood districts into desirable communities for a variety of people. Creating desirable urban communities will solve problems such as disparity between groups in the city and suburbs, pollution from fossil fuel, and reduction in the consumption of Greenfield sites. This project takes the principles and ideas of creating a desirable community …
The Third: Space Of Place In Transit-Orientated Development, Alex Johnson
The Third: Space Of Place In Transit-Orientated Development, Alex Johnson
Landscape Architecture Theses
This thesis project introduces an urban design concept into the residential suburb of New Hope, Minnesota, connecting social interaction and movement to the hub of the city center. It will illustrate the notion that suburban sprawl is an unsustainable reaction to population growth, and cities need to adapt to these changes by creating smaller habitable spaces that recentralize the urban fabric with mass transit connections. This project is intended to change a suburban neighborhood that has medium to low density into a less suburban setting with mass public transportation integrating accessible ways for the community to connect while remaining in …
Life Skills Center, Jeremiah Simones
Life Skills Center, Jeremiah Simones
Architecture Theses
This thesis revolves around the concept of inspiring and reviving the youth and communities of Phillips and Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, through a Life Skills Center that will promote growth and development. There is a problem with the educational system in place today. There is not enough emphasis on learning life skills and too much emphasis on evaluation through formal testing and marking. This thesis intends to explore the options and benefits not yet developed in today’s education. Society should not forget to be educating America’s young with the skills and knowledge that they will need in everyday life. …
Healing An Environment And Feeding A Population, Mohan Pai
Healing An Environment And Feeding A Population, Mohan Pai
Landscape Architecture Theses
The intent of this design thesis is to examine a sustainable solution for an urban plan in southwest Fargo that includes using urban agriculture as a tool to encourage recycling gray water and promoting a solution to the growing food and water shortage problem. Examining a city’s need for implementing an urban agriculture policy into their city plan will help to create a sustainable and renewable food resource. The design solution for this thesis will include an urban farm as well as a plan for stormwater management in the area surrounding the farm. The design for this urban farm will …
Spaces For Developing Sociocultural Capital: A Case Study Of Community Gardens In An Agrarian Community, Jessica Rae Brown
Spaces For Developing Sociocultural Capital: A Case Study Of Community Gardens In An Agrarian Community, Jessica Rae Brown
Sociology and Anthropology
Common themes growing out of current research on community gardens center on issues in large urban areas including community-based responses to more healthful food options, local sustainability efforts, and combating urban crime. One area of research that is lacking is how sociocultural capital is generated in smaller metropolitan communities though community gardening. This thesis addresses this void as a means to begin understanding of how the sociocultural networks between community organizations and community gardeners form a symbiotic relationship of interconnected capital production within cities found in historically agrarian regions. This research includes a specific set of methods for investigating Fargo-Moorhead …
Gi Joe: Green Infrastructure For The Average Joe, Zachary Swanson
Gi Joe: Green Infrastructure For The Average Joe, Zachary Swanson
Landscape Architecture Theses
The landscape that supports our cities is often invisible to its inhabitants. This thesis examines how landscape infrastructure can communicate in our lives. The fabric of our cities stitches together the intricate systems we need to sustain our communities. Transportation of goods and services is made possible by a collection of roads, sewers, pipes, power plants, and wires that make up this fabric. How can we integrate green infrastructure into the existing ecological functions of the city? How can these functions intertwine and work cohesively? Suburban environments have the potential to reflect the new urban systems of high-performance landscapes. These …
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bryan Leininger
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bryan Leininger
Landscape Architecture Theses
This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left with an abandoned, misused, and scarred landscape. Much of the southwestern side of Milwaukee is scattered with sites in this exact situation. The site that will be studied lies along the Menomonee River, adjacent to the booming Third Ward. Many of the decrepit industrial structures from the site have either been torn down or are in the process of being repurposed and …
Diverse Community Center - Fargo, Nd, Kevin Pham
Diverse Community Center - Fargo, Nd, Kevin Pham
Landscape Architecture Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to create and design a place for extraordinary activities for people of diverse cultures and backgrounds within the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. Fargo is a continually developing city where many cultures exist. However, there are rarely opportunities for the initiation of cross cultural interaction. This thesis will explore how the Fargo community should incorporate and learn about other cultures. Breaking the borders between each culture, attending different cultural gatherings and developing more sustainable cross cultural relationships are critical in creating a diverse place to live.
Recycling The Oil Boom, Benjamin Frick
Recycling The Oil Boom, Benjamin Frick
Architecture Theses
This thesis provides some answers to the question, how can a small community sustainably adapt to a localized oil boom? The typology for this examination to the problem is a recycling center. The theoretical premise/unifying idea that guides the research is, “the small community must adapt to the demand of an oil boom but with a sustainable approach.” The project justifi cation is, “If the small community doesn’t adapt to the demand of an oil boom it is likely to suffer socioeconomic collapse and environmental ruin. A sustainable approach is needed to ensure that the town’s infrastructure can adapt.”
Social Corridors, Erik Twistol
Social Corridors, Erik Twistol
Landscape Architecture Theses
Social Corridors will demonstrate that recreational corridors in communities will increase the social and economic values to residents of a community. The project explores all the fundamental aspects of a passive recreational corridor and how they function in our Society. Stainability and conservation are key factors in our society. This project will investigate sustainable aspects of social corridors to a community.
Place: Community Development And The Effects Of Nature And Culture, Laura Zimmerman
Place: Community Development And The Effects Of Nature And Culture, Laura Zimmerman
Landscape Architecture Theses
What conjures a sense of place? Is it the landscape, the built environment, the people, or more likely a combination of them all? This document explores the factors that contribute to a unique sense of place. With this understanding, how can these factors be utilized to show the effects of nature and culture in site specific design?
Designing For A New Way Of Living, Megan Rausch
Designing For A New Way Of Living, Megan Rausch
Architecture Theses
This graduate thesis explores the ideas and exploration of creating architecture as an educational instrument that will inform its occupants about a new, more environmentally-friendly way of living. The design itself becomes an energy efficient, sustainable, and green design that ultimately strives to become a prototype for self sustaining designs that strive to leave the area better off then it was before. By designing holistic and humble designs in a self-sustaining campus community, situated on the University of Minnesota campus in Itasca State Park, will educate and inspire both students and the public about a new more environmentally-friendly way of …
Eos 1: Evolution Of Sustainability, Jonathan Thomas
Eos 1: Evolution Of Sustainability, Jonathan Thomas
Architecture Theses
Human interaction is a real need fulfilled by simple communication, verbal or non verbal. Individualism and congregation are part of everyday settings. The built environment has a large influence on how and when these interactions take place. This thesis is focused on the redevelopment of downtown Houston. This community utilizes two undeveloped blocks in the "inner loop" on the border of the high-rise district, and the underdeveloped old industrial district, which was rezoned long ago. The project embraces both individuality and communal need through its integration of spaces though sound Architectural principles. E.O.S. stands for "The Evolution of Sustainability". The …
Immigrant Entrepreneurial Development Center, David Rock
Immigrant Entrepreneurial Development Center, David Rock
Architecture Theses
Can architecture redefine the American Dream by assisting immigrants to establish themselves in a community? This question stemmed from various ideas pertaining to architectural movements and their impacts on the built environment and way of life. I focused my attention to my hometown of St. Cloud, Minnesota, where immigrants seek the American Dream. The typology is a mixed-use facility including thirty- four residential units, classrooms, commercial/retail areas, a food court, various community/public areas, vertical gardens, a market, and small business/entrepreneurial development spaces. My site is parking lot approximately 300 feet by 350 feet located in the heart of downtown St. …
Factors Influencing The Implementation Of Community-Wide Recycling Programs, Brian James Fier
Factors Influencing The Implementation Of Community-Wide Recycling Programs, Brian James Fier
Natural Resources Management
The purpose of this study was to determine how the social, economic, political, and administrative factors within a community influence the implementation of community-wide recycling programs. More specifically, this study examined how factors such as urban or rural character, population size, and public/private partnerships influence recycling decisions. The study explored the steps that could be taken to implement a community-wide recycling program and examined how factors such as the size ofthe community's population and its urban or rural nature influence decisions to implement community-wide recycling programs. A mixed methods approach, with a focus on interviews with recycling officials, was used …
Ecological Living, Melissa Trueblood
Ecological Living, Melissa Trueblood
Architecture Theses
The natural world has set the precedent for life and the cycles in which living beings come and go. Many of our challenges in daily life are the struggles between time, money, and our personal health. With that, a look into ways in which our environment can teach us to live healthier longer lives may benefit us all. This project will explore the most basic necessity of our being, as well as how we supplement our bodies daily with nutrition. The present need for non-processed pesticide free food can become a reality for those in Ely, Minnesota through research and …
Communication Strategies For Dprca And Other Non-Profit Arts Organizations, Sarah Jane Smith Warren
Communication Strategies For Dprca And Other Non-Profit Arts Organizations, Sarah Jane Smith Warren
Communication
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the sojourn, or overseas travel, and the development of traveler intercultural communication self-efficacy. Self-efficacy, an individual's perception of his or her own ability to accomplish tasks (Bandura, 1997), originates from the psychology discipline and has rarely been applied to communication. The study examines and extends the work of Milstein (2005), a communication scholar who investigated the relationship between the sojourn and intercultural communication self-efficacy and found a positive relationship between the two. This study investigated how the experience of the sojourn affects traveler perceptions of their own intercultural communication …
Buffalo, Mn: A Transect-Based Land Use Strategy, Luke A. Grandlund
Buffalo, Mn: A Transect-Based Land Use Strategy, Luke A. Grandlund
Landscape Architecture Theses
The objectives of this thesis are to explore the social, economic, and environmental dynamics of land use regulations and examine design strategies to increase the community identity and the preservation of natural resources within the city of Buffalo, Minnesota. Transect Mapping (Criterion 2005) is used to create alternative land use proposals for the city and adjacent areas. The use of SmartCode v8.0 (Placemakers 2006) principles assists in the implementation of new land use proposals. Cities were originally an invention to maximize the exchange of goods, services, cultures, friendships, ideas, and knowledge while minimizing travel. (Engwicht 1993) Until the decades following …
Active Adult Community: Senior Housing To Promote Active Intellects, Tiffaney A. Miller
Active Adult Community: Senior Housing To Promote Active Intellects, Tiffaney A. Miller
Architecture Theses
Through this thesis project I addressed Fargo, North Dakota’s growing population that demands housing for individuals of all income levels. I proposed an active adult community located in downtown that will provide seniors with housing that promotes a healthy active intellect and community unity within itself and the city. I feel that developing in the downtown area will encourage a more diverse population and will create a strength among residents to support each other promoting an active, high quality of life.
Native Architecture: Sustainable Design Theory Applied To Affordable Housing In A Rural Setting, David Witham
Native Architecture: Sustainable Design Theory Applied To Affordable Housing In A Rural Setting, David Witham
Architecture Theses
This project will seek a holistic and sustainable solution to rural housing and community design. The community of Cannonball will be the subject of this design study. Implementation of principles of sustainability will be essential to the final design solution. Quality, meaningful design must be more than functional and beautiful, it must also be a solution native to its context. To achieve this end an in depth analysis of the cultural, economic, and environmental systems is essential. This project will seek to define a notion of progress specific for the community of Cannonball and achieve that notion through effective design.
Building Community: A Mixed Use Urban Redevelopment Project With An Emphasis On Community Sustainability, St. Paul, Minnesota, Rebecca L. Collis
Building Community: A Mixed Use Urban Redevelopment Project With An Emphasis On Community Sustainability, St. Paul, Minnesota, Rebecca L. Collis
Architecture Theses
This thesis will be a study of mixed use facilities in an urban area in an effort to find a design that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but encourages community growth and development. Research will look into reasons why Europeans are moving back to urban environments and the United States is still moving towards the suburbs. This thesis document will provide a solution as to what functions and building types encourage community growth and stability in the urban environment.
Bully Pulpit Club House & Retreat, Karla Jean Aldinger
Bully Pulpit Club House & Retreat, Karla Jean Aldinger
Architecture Theses
Historic Medora is a unique mix of spectacular scenery, wildlife, outdoor adventure, entertainment, dining and shopping nestled in the beautiful North Dakota badlands. Located just 3 miles south of Historic Medora lies Bully Pulpit Golf Course. Bully Pulpit was designed by renowned golf course architect, Dr. Michael Hurdzan. The course is surrounded by the dramatic landscape and is golf the way nature intended. Some holes play meadows, some in woodlands, and others follow the meandering Little Missouri River. I propose a clubhouse facility that will support recreational and lodging on this site. Recreational opportunities will stretch beyond what is currently …