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San Juan Bautista General Plan Update: Background Report, Fall 2014, Crp 552/ 554 Community And Regional Planning Studio

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

This Background Report is an integral part of the San Juan Bautista 2035 General Plan. Its purpose is to provide the public, the City’s decision-makers, and other agencies with detailed information about San Juan Bautista using current conditions and community input. In this way, the Background Report provides the informational basis on which the goals, policies, and programs of the San Juan Bautista General Plan are in part based. While the General Plan itself represents the official adopted goals and policies of the City, this Background Report provides only information, including the plans and programs of other agencies.

Connecting Cayucos: Visions And Actions For Public Space, Spring 2014, Crp 553 Project Planning Lab

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

This document expands upon the principles set forth in the County of San Luis Obispo’s Estero Plan (2009) in the context of public space and develops site-specific recommendations to support future implementation of public space plans for Cayucos, California. This plan includes an existing conditions analysis, general goals and principles, site-specific visions and actions, as well as supporting conceptual diagrams. The main purpose of this plan is to reflect the community’s desire to preserve, protect, and enhance the public spaces of Cayucos.

City Of Guadelupe: General Plan Update Background Report, Winter 2012, Crp 552/ 554 Community And Regional Planning Studio

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

No abstract provided.

Broadway Corridor Study Public Outreach Report, Winter 2013, Crp 410/ 411 Community Planning Lab

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

The Broadway Corridor Study Public Outreach Report summarizes the public outreach efforts conducted as part of the process to develop alternative concepts for future development and circulation along the Broadway Corridor in Redwood City, California. These efforts were conducted as a class project by fourth year students in the City and Regional Planning Department at California Polytechnic State University from September of 2013 to March of 2014.

Urban Design Visions For Milpitas, Fall 2013, Crp 341 Urban Design Studio

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

An undergraduate class from the City and Regional Planning Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was charged by the City of Milpitas Planning and Neighborhood Services Department to develop pre-planning insights, vision and urban design concepts for two strategically ocated sites in Milpitas, California Circle, and, the area around Main Street at the Serra Way intersection. This report represents a compilation of the work completed by the students in CRP 341 Urban Design Studio III during the 10-week period of Fall Quarter September-December, 2013. Instructors Vicente del Rio and Hemalata Dandekar, supported by Teaching Assistant Evan Evangelopoulos, guided the …

Quantifying The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Of Hazards: Incorporating Disaster Mitigation Strategies In Climate Action Plans, Michael Germeraad

Master's Theses

Reconstruction after natural disasters can represent large peaks in a community’s greenhouse gas emission inventory. Components of the built environment destroyed by natural hazards have their useful life shortened, requiring replacement before functionally necessary. Though the hazard itself does not release greenhouse gasses, the demolition and rebuilding process does, and these are the emissions we can quantify to better understand the climate impacts of disasters.

The proposed methodology draws data from existing emission and hazard resource literature and combines the information in a community scale life cycle assessment. Case studies of past disasters are used to refine the methodology and …

Performance Of No Vibration/No Admixture Masonry Grout Containing High Replacement Of Portland Cement With Fly Ash And Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag, Eric Bateman

Master's Theses

When hollow concrete masonry is used for construction in high seismic regions, structural designs typically require fully grouted walls. The grouting process is labor-intensive, time-consuming and has a high energy demand due to requirements of consolidation in each and subsequent grout lifts. Self-consolidating grout with admixtures has been successfully used without segregation in walls of up to 12.67 ft. in height. Investigation of self-consolidating grout mixes without admixtures has potential for sustainability improvement.

This thesis reports on the compression strength and consolidation observations of self-consolidating characteristics of no vibration/no admixture grout made by substituting various proportions of Portland cement with …

Cal Poly Architecture And Architectural Engineering Studio: A Collaboratory, Thomas Fowler, Iv, Kevin Dong, James Doerfler, Mark Cabrinha

Architecture

At California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), Architectural Engineering (Arch-E) professor Kevin Dong spearheaded an interdisciplinary collaboration, which started as an off-campus collaboration" in its first year, and in subsequent iterations over eight years, involved a partnership with Cal Poly's Department of Architecture and faculty members Jim Doerfler, Thomas Fowler and for a time, Mark Cabrinha. Since the faculty were teaching the interdisciplinary courses for architecture and architectural engineering students as an overload, it was helpful to have multiple colleagues involved to share the time commitment. Additionally, the faculty forged strategic academic and industry partnerships with ARUP …

City Of Temecula Bike Plan Update Intersection Redesign Proposal, Peter Minegar

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Inspiration By Nature: Biomimetic Research Informs Adaptable Building Skin System For Natural Ventilation And Daylight In Hot Dry Climate (Yazd, Iran), Parisa Navidi

Master's Theses

Many plant species, including Barrel Cacti, have developed long-term evolutionary adaptable traits to survive in extreme climates. The most important trait of cacti in extreme hot dry climates is to reduce water evaporation and increase water storage. The exterior skin of a cactus plays an important role in preventing water evaporation through heat transmission.

On the other hand, there have been many passive design strategies applied to the space planning and building design of architecture in hot dry climates. The goal of these passive design strategies is to regulate the penetration of heat into building spaces while creating a strong …

Broadway Housing, Nicholas Joseph Wong

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Broadway Corridor: Tod Guidline, Nuri Cho

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

The City Of San Luis Obispo Housing Element Review, Januar Saptono

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Bicylcle Planning, Gender & Marketing: Creation Of Publications For Women, Kelly Cheung

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Transit Signage System Design: Theory And Practice, Shanna Hurley

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Midway Village Mixed Use Development, San Diego, Julia Hill, Andrew Levins

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Citrus Village, Fernando Herrera

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Broad Street Corridor Streetscape Design Plan, Heather Smith

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Implementing Bicycle Improvements In Redwood City, Ca, David E. Leong

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Implementing Mixed-Use Zoning In Downtown Lemoore, Lisa Elgin

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Gateway District: Urban Design Concept, Jonathan Chiu

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Digital Surveying Methodologies: A Study On And Off Campus In San Luis Obispo, Jared Sammet

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Gateway Design Concept Proposal: Redwood City, California, Elizabeth Day

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

A Teacher's View, Thomas Fowler, Iv

Architecture

Essay for Becoming an Architect (Guide to Careers in Design), by Lee W. Waldrep for 1st, 2nd and 3rd (2014) Editions. Professor Thomas Fowler's narrative on describing the teaching process in an architecture program.

Summary Of Large-Scale Nonplanar Reinforced Concrete Wall Tests, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Andrew Mock, Laura Lowes, Dawn Lehman, Daniel Kuchma

Architectural Engineering

Nonplanar wall configurations are prevalent in engineering practice, yet relatively little research has addressed nonplanar walls and the earthquake response of these components remains poorly understood. A recent experimental test program conducted by the authors investigated the earthquake response of modern, ACI Code compliant C‐shaped walls subjected to unidirectional and bidirectional lateral loading. To compare the results of this study with previous experimental investigations conducted by others, this document examines laboratory tests of slender nonplanar walls available in the literature. Response histories, damage patterns, drift capacity and failure mechanisms are used to characterize the behavior of each nonplanar wall test …

Broadway Central: A Concept Development Plan For Redwood City, Greg Vine

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Complete Streets Unveiled: City Of Guadalupe Complete Streets Plan, Sara J. Muse

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Discoverslo, Kimber Gutierrez, Shelby Messner

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Empirically Derived Effective Stiffness Expressions For Concrete Walls, Andrew Mock, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Laura Lowes, Dawn Lehman, Daniel Kuchma

Architectural Engineering

In most cases, analysis to determine component demands for seismic design of concrete buildings employs linear elastic models in which reduced, effective component stiffnesses are used. This document i) reviews the recommendations for defining the effective flexural, shear and axial stiffness of concrete walls that are included in current design codes, standards and guidelines and ii) compares these recommendations with stiffness expressions derived directly from experimental data by the authors and others. Section 2 reviews existing empirically derived and code‐, standard‐, and guideline‐based expressions for the effective stiffness of concrete walls. Section 3 presents the process used by the authors …

Summary Of Large-Scale C-Shaped Reinforced Concrete Wall Tests, Anahid A. Behrouzi, Andrew Mock, Laura Lowes, Dawn Lehman, Daniel Kuchma

Architectural Engineering

Flexural concrete walls (i.e., walls the yield in flexural prior to failure) are used commonly as the lateral load resisting system for mid‐ and high‐rise buildings on the West Coast. They are relatively stiff under service‐level loading, can take on various configurations to accommodate architectural constraints, and are generally assumed to exhibit ductile response under severe earthquake loading. Despite heavy reliance on concrete walls, relatively little research has been done to investigate the earthquake performance of walls with modern design details. Few data exist characterizing the performance of modern walls under variable levels of earthquake loading or the impact of …