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Light Rail And Changing Development Patterns In Dallas, San Diego And Jersey City, Joseph S. Buga

Dissertations

Between 1985 and 2014, 19 metropolitan areas in the United States built new light rail systems at a cost of over $30 billion. The US Department of Transportation funded a major share of the costs, with support from state and local public funding sources. This dissertation begins by providing an introduction to this era of light rail projects by placing them in the historical context of surface transit improvements in the United States. A compendium of the 1985 to 2014 light rail systems is then presented. Also included is a review of the various federal laws that have spurred light …

South El Camino Real Urban Design Vision Plan, Crp 553 Project Planning Lab

CRP 553 Project Planning Laboratory

No abstract provided.

Dump It Out! An Enquiry Into Consumers’ Everyday Fashion Discourses Through Handbag, Magnum Man Lok Lam, Elita Yee Nee Lam, Wing-Sun Liu

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Handbag is an iconic fashion accessory in our material culture. Following the tradition of representational thinking, this article introduces the handbag as an epistemic consumption object through which to investigate consumer experiences, practices and identity construction in relation to everyday lived discourses. The handbag research involves an examination of participants’ personal belongings inside their bags together with phenomenological interviews concerning the associated subjective experiences along with these material objects. We demonstrate how these material possessions become the subject of the research that facilitates multiple conversations between researchers and participants as to introspect, evaluate and interpret the significance of symbolic consumption …

Rikonstruim I Shtëpisë Në Rend, Arta Abdyli

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim diplome përmban hulumtim dhe projektim për një lagje të Ohrit me shtëpi vargore ( apo në rend). Ne kemi përzgjedhur një shtëpi të vjetër të ashtuquajtur “shtëpi peshkatarësh” sepse ndodhet në breg të liqenit të Ohrit . Kjo temë është e rëndësishme për shkak se analizon kohën kur ajo lagje është ndërtuar , ndikimet në arkitekturën e asaj kohe, dhe tenton që të krijoj dicka të re pa e harruar traditën dhe shpirtin e qytetit. Sic thotë Le Corbusier “Qytetet e gëzuara kanë arkitekturë! Shtëpitë tona bëjnë rrugët dhe rrugët bëjnë qytetet , dhe qytetet janë si një …

Projektimi I Nje Lagjje Ne Një Zone Rurale – Shtëpi Inividuale, Ibrahim Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Projektimi I Ndërtesave Të Banimit: Kolektiv Familjar, Alban Azemi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Vila, Ard Gashi

Theses and Dissertations

Punimi im i Diplomës ka pasur si qëllim studimin e periudhave të arkitekturës klasike deri tek ato moderne dhe bashkëkohore në projektimin e vilave. Ka qenë ndërthurja e elementeve teorike dhe praktike që nga periudhat e hershme kur kan filluar të marrin formë si objekte arkitektonike e deri tek periudhat e vonshme në ndërtimin e tyre. Së pari kam analizuar format e hershme arkitektonike dhe funksionin e pastaj zhvillimin e këtyre formave dhe diferencat ndërmjet vilave të kohës së hershme dhe atyre të kohës bashkëkohore. Dallimet e tyre si nga ana arkitektonike, poashtu dhe nga ana funksionale. Çfarë i ka …

Conceptual Thinking: How To Quantify Meaning In Projects And Processes Through Structured Non-Linear Thinking, Marijn Van Der Poll

Interior Design Program: Student Creative Activity

Things have meaning. Your job, your smartphone, even your insurance has another layer of meaning than its intended reason for existence. Products have become complex combinations of applications and features so small, that their shape no longer characterizes them. As people we have evolved into empowered consumers looking for purpose in our lives and in the things we buy. Advertising discovered the power of meaning more than a century ago. Since then, what has proven difficult is to quantify meaning. The skills we are taught in our educational system and the processes we apply in business fall short of identifying …

Old Leelanau County Jail Initial Conditions Assessment, Megan Blaha

Historic Preservation Final Projects

In the winter 2015 term, Eastern Michigan University’s Historic Preservation Program partnered with the Leelanau Historical Society to initiate the development of a Conditions Assessment for the historic former Leelanau County Jail, located on land where the county seat had stood prior to its move to Suttons Bay Township in 2008. The purpose of this joint effort was to continue the efforts already begun by the Historical Society to save the jail. Since interest in development of the property the jail currently resides on persists, it has become imperative to create an assessment so that if the jail needs to …

Quantification And Subjective Perception Of Varying Reflection Densities In Measured Room Impulsed Responses, Hyun Hong, Lily M. Wang

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

This project focuses on quantifying and testing the subjective perception of reflection densities, or the number of reflections per second, from different room impulse responses. The widely used room acoustic metric, reverberation time, is linked to the perceived reverberation in a room. Two different rooms having the same reverberation time, though, can have different reflection densities in their room impulse responses, and this difference in reflection density may affect how listeners perceive spatial impression in rooms. To investigate how sensitive humans are to a change of reflection density, this paper first reviews assorted parameters for quantifying reflection density from measured …

Room Acoustic Effects On Speech Comprehension Of English-As-Second-Language Talkers And Listeners Versus Native-English-Speaking Talkers And Listeners, Lily M. Wang

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

Approximately 21% of the children in the United States school system speak a language other than English at home, but are being taught in English at school. English is additionally being used more and more often as a common language in international settings, even though participants at these international events again are not native English speakers. How do adverse room acoustic environments, including higher background noise levels and longer reverberation times, impact English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) talkers and listeners versus native English-speaking talkers and listeners? This presentation focuses on two recent studies at the University of Nebraska that investigate how assorted room …

Ecotone Conditions Along Pinon-Juniper And Ponderosa Pine Elevational Ranges, Jemez Mountains, Nm, Christopher Lawrence Sanderson

Architecture and Planning ETDs

While climate variability is endemic to Southwest North America (SWNA), mounting evidence indicates the region is undergoing significant warming and becoming increasingly arid. Species are at or near their physiological limits at ecotone boundaries and are therefore particularly sensitive to climate change. Drought and warming associated tree mortality has been particularly acute in the semiarid forests and woodlands of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA, where ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum) and piñon--juniper woodlands (Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma) have been subject to cambium-feeding pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp., Ips spp) attacks and increased wildfire activity and severity. Grazing …

Connecting Schools And Communities: A Spatial Approach To Social Capital And Student Performance In The Albuquerque Public School District, Steven T. Bishop

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Locating services and accesses to opportunities is a growing trend in community schools. Having on-site health services, employment programs, after-school programs, and other social services for students, parents, and members in a community surrounding a school, strengthens the relationships between schools and the communities they serve. These relationships foster increased stocks of social capital in a community and with parents, and the link between parental and community social capital and student performance is strong. In order to make the most of limited resources, schools and school districts implementing community school models must identify which services and accesses to opportunities help …

Mutalismo: A Community Based Approach Preservation Of The Pueblo De Abiquiu, James M. Aranda, Moises Gonzales, Jose Rivera

Resource Center for Raza Planning (RCRP)

The Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiu is one of New Mexico’s historic genizaro land grant settlements. “Genizaro was the designation given to North American Indians of mixed tribal derivation living among the Hispanic population” (Gonzales 2014). The “historical connection to the Hopi Genizaro Pueblo Indians of Tewa descent” (Gonzales 2014) is what gives Abiquiu its Pueblo designation. The original settlers were Tewa peoples who settled the area during the early 1600s, followed by the Hopi who left Arizona and settled in the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiu. “From the 1740s to the 1790s, towns such as Abiquiu were established as …

Bs News July/August

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Chemically Stabilized Soft Clays For Road-Base Construction, Xin Kang, Gi Chun Kang, Kuang Tsung Chang, Louis Ge

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Soft clays are widely distributed in Missouri, United States. Due to their relatively low strength and high compressibility, subgrade construction in soft clays has encountered many difficulties. In recent practice, the use of fly ash (FA) along with lime to tackle soft subgrade problems has shown promising results. The effectiveness of Class C FA and lime kiln dust (LKD) in clay subgrade stabilization is examined in this research. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) analysis, proctor compaction tests, unconfined compression tests, and resilient modulus tests were carried out on the FA and LKD modified soil mixtures. Test specimens were prepared at optimum …

Citizens National Bank - Russellville, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 2921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2921. Letter, 19 June 1962, of H. O Price, President, Citizens National Bank, Russellville, Kentucky, to N. A. Loegering, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He approves an architectural drawing by Loegering but explains the need to alter the location of the bank vault and tellers’ cages.

Housing In Zurich, Switzerland, Edward Asfour

Architecture Senior Theses

Housing in Zurich, Switzerland

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Thesis Board By D. Kocieniewski, D. Kocieniewski

Architecture Senior Theses

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Whitney Museum Addition, Tobias Gabranski

Architecture Senior Theses

Whitney Museum Addition in New York City.

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Student/Artist Housing, Jeanne Stoney

Architecture Senior Theses

Student/Artist Housing in Washington, DC.

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Theater-Hotel Complex In Albany, Ny, Joseph Galea

Architecture Senior Theses

A theater-hotel complex in Albany, NY.

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis Board, Britton Award Winner

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis Board; Britton Award Winner.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis board; Britton Award winner.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis Board, Britton Award Winner.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Photographs of site model.

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.

Thesis Board By Unknown, Unknown

Architecture Senior Theses

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board.