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Vital Publics: Diy Urbanism And The Right To The City, Nicole Foster

Planning Dissertations - Archive

Lefebvre's concept of Right to the City has been predominantly employed by critical theorists to analyze resistant spatial practices such as Occupy Wall Street (e.g. Marcuse 2009). However, influenced by Nietzsche, Lefebvre's theory of the production of space as simultaneously perceived, conceived and lived suggests that the political may emerge out of novel spatial and bodily experiences. Focusing on Lefebvre's interest in the body, affect and space, I construct a vital reading of the right to the city to explore how such spatial practices may not be explicitly resistant to capitalism yet engender postcapitalist possibilities. Using this theoretical framework, I …

Landscapes Of Environmental Justice: A Post-Structural Analysis Of Ecological Structures And Environmental Discourses, Sima Namin

Planning Dissertations - Archive

Although application of ecological concepts and looking at the city as an 'ecological space' or ecosystem is not new in planning (e.g. Chicago school), in the context of environmental justice research there is a need for a more integrated approach towards the complex interrelations between human aspects of urban landscapes and urban ecology. Consequently, the first starting point of my research is that studying environmental justice also requires an understanding of environmental health. The second defining point of this research is influenced by the notion of questioning science and research as a 'social construct.' Drawing on Foucault's legacy of discourse …

Community Development Block Grant (Cdbg) Funding And Other Area Community Development Targeting Approaches As Public Policy To Reduce Poverty And Improve Social Mobility, Social Integration And Cultural Assimilation Of Minority Population:, John V. Dawson

Planning Dissertations - Archive

This research is an expansion of previous research to study and provide empirical evidence on the influence that Community Block Grant (CDBG) funding has on the improvement of social mobility for low-income minority population in primarily concentrated and segregated low income minority neighborhoods. The study examines and evaluates changes in select elements based on Census 2000 and Census 2010 data for specific Block Groups within a Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA). The study evaluates targeted areas within the Fort Worth-Dallas areas and examines the change of four (4) important key social economic elements to social mobility for low-income minorities for …

Building Xunantunich: Public Building In An Ancient Maya Community, Leah M. Mccurdy

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Publications - Archive

The purpose of this study is to consider the nature and implications of large-scale public building conducted by ancient groups. “Public building studies” is offered as a unifying moniker for investigations of ancient construction processes with public significance. This work concentrates on labor as an understudied component of public building in the ancient past and narrows focus directly to laborers as contributors to and the actual actors in public building activities. As such, this study considers alternatives to elite-centric interpretations of monumental buildings and their processes of creation.

This study focuses on an ancient Maya case study to apply a …

Objekt Afaristo Banesorë, Granit Abdullahi

Theses and Dissertations

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Objekt Afaristo Banesorë, Vigan Abdullahi

Theses and Dissertations

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Mechanical And Thermal Evaluation Of Different Types Of Pcm-Concrete Composite Panels, Dervilla Niall, Oliver Kinnane, Roger West, Sarah Mccormack

Conference papers

ABSTRACT: Thermal mass indicates the ability of a material to store and release heat and is a function of the heat storage capacity of a material. The thermal mass of construction materials can be used to reduce the energy required for heating and cooling buildings. The heat storage capacity of concrete can be increased by incorporating phase change materials (PCMs) into the concrete and hence providing additional latent heat storage capacity. Research was carried out to compare the thermal behaviour of two different types of PCM/concrete composite panels. The first type of panel was formed by adding microencapsulated paraffin to …

Beware Profit-Driven Lobbyists When It Comes To Housing Policy, Lorcan Sirr

Media

Lobbying involves trying to influence political decisions using various forms of advocacy that is targeted at policymakers, usually on behalf of amembers’ interest group, organisation or professional body. At its most benign, lobbying merely provides policymakers with information and legislative support; at its worst, it is selfserving and is self-promotion of often lucrative vested interests

Through These Gates: Buffalo's First African American Architect, John Edmonston Brent - 1889-1962, Christine A. Parker

Museum Studies Projects

ABSTRACT

THROUGH THESE GATES: Buffalo’s First African American Architect

John Edmonston Brent

The purpose of this research is to reintroduce the architectural and historic cultural contributions that John Edmonston Brent (1889-1962) made to the city of Buffalo, Western New York and beyond. A significant number of renderings, artifacts and photos from Mr. Brent’s forty-seven year architectural career were unearthed. This cache of rediscovered forgotten contributions made by John Brent would align him with other African American architectural pioneers during the mid-20^th century.

John Brent was educated by the first class of professionally educated and trained African American architects of …

Baha’I Sacred Architecture And The Devolution Of Astronomical Significance: Case Studies From Israel And The Us, Michael Steven Meizler

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sacred architecture is a complex conglomerate of different ideals of a faith. Within modern terms, the Baha’i faith is an excellent example of modern sacred architecture. Within ancient times the architecture of temples and shrines oftentimes had celestial alignments meant to connect the adherent to the gods. With this in mind, the Baha’i faith is evaluated with the use of cartography, celestial measurements, orthophotography, and archival research to evaluate the significance of the Baha’i sacred architecture and the symbolism embedded within it. The Baha’i faith came out of Persia during the 19th century and relocated to Israel late in that …

Leadership In Design And Construction Education And Practice, Michael Asada, Al Bradley, Guy Thigpen, John Pourdehnad, Phd, Tom Guggino, Dominick Volini, Phd, Kimberlee Douglas, Barbara Klinkhammer, Larry Starr, Phd

School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty Papers

It has been conveyed that inspiration and creativity are the greatest strengths of architects. Those who possess them often demonstrate innovation and ability to transform diverse, often contradictory, information into a cohesive design. Yet, having architectural and design talent may suggest to some that they also have a broader skill set. Among the competencies that do not necessarily co-exist with inspiration and creativity are those associated with managing or leading a complex project or organization.

Leadership and many of the administrative and project management competencies needed to operate in the modern complex environment of the Architecture profession are largely absent …

An Extendable Visualization And User Interface Design For Time-Varying Multivariate Geoscience Data, Yanfu Zhou

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Geoscience data has unique and complex data structures, and its visualization has been challenging due to a lack of effective data models and visual representations to tackle the heterogeneity of geoscience data. In today’s big data era, the needs of visualizing geoscience data become urgent, especially driven by its potential value to human societies, such as environmental disaster prediction, urban growth simulation, and so on. In this thesis, I created a novel geoscience data visualization framework and applied interface automata theory to geoscience data visualization tasks. The framework can support heterogeneous geoscience data and facilitate data operations. The interface automata …

The Environmental Analysis Group (Teag) Collection, Andrews University

Archives

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Methamphetamine Absorption By Skin Lipids: Accumulated Mass, Partition Coefficients, And The Influence Of Fatty Acids, K. Parker, G. Morrison

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Occupants of former methamphetamine laboratories, often residences, may experience increased exposure through the accumulation of the methamphetamine in the organic films that coat skin and indoor surfaces. The objectives of this study were to determine equilibrium partition coefficients of vapor-phase methamphetamine with artificial sebum (AS-1), artificial sebum without fatty acids (AS-2), and real skin surface films, herein called skin oils. Sebum and skin oil-coated filters were exposed to vapor-phase methamphetamine at concentrations ranging from 8 to 159 ppb, and samples were analyzed for exposure time periods from 2 h to 60 days. For a low vapor-phase methamphetamine concentration range of …

We Must Count On Policy Change To Halt Obsolete Housing Rate, Lorcan Sirr

Media

The recent preliminary findings of this year’s census have thrown up some curious housing results. A little numbercrunching shows that we’ve not been adding as many houses each year as headline figures would suggest. Official completion numbers tell us that between 2011 and 2016, just 18,981 additional houses—or 0.94%—were added to the state’s overall housing stock, or an average of 3,796 a year. For comparison, at the 2006 census we had added 21%, and in 2011 it was 13%. We have effectively not increased our national housing stock in the past six years.

To Tackle The Housing Crisis, We Need To Talk About Ownership, Lorcan Sirr

Media

The rights and obligations that go with property ownership are important issues in any country trying to control its housing stock, resolve a housing crisis or create a functioning system. The concept of ownership is not clear cut: there is common ownership, as seen on the pampas and prairies, and in the outback; shared ownership, in India and China; temporal ownership, in medieval France and now Catalonia; and subservient ownership, where the Earth belongs only to its creator.

The Role Of The Contract Administrator Under The Principal Irish Standard Forms Of Building Contract, Tony Cunningham

Other Resources

Construction contract administration concerns the effective execution of construction contracts. The primary objectives of the individual appointed to administer a building contract typically include delivering the project safely, to the specified quality standards, on time, and within the employer’s budgetary constraints. The administrator’s task is to orchestrate and motivate the various designers and constructors to deliver the best possible performance both individually and as members of the team. This study has investigates the contribution made by the contract administrator in administering construction projects and outlines the decision-making, advisory and information roles undertaken by the contract administrator in the context of …

Local Approaches To Regional Problems: Suburban Government Responses To Portland's Regional Housing Crisis, Emma Deppa

Dissertations and Theses

The Portland metropolitan region has seen unprecedented growth in the last three decades, resulting in both economic expansion and considerable gentrification. While lauded for its commitment to sustainability and a "smart development" ethos, many questions remain for the city with respect to the needs of displaced residents and a burgeoning population of young professionals. This study examines how various levels of government implement growth management policies to accommodate these demographic changes, and aims to assess whether and how the consequences of growth, especially gentrification and displacement, are meaningfully addressed. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff members and elected officials from …

Lifelong Housing Design: User Feedback Evaluation Of Smart Objects And Accessible Houses For Healthy Ageing, Matteo Zallio, Niccolò Casiddu

Conference Papers

According to the latest research by the European Community and ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) surveys, Europe has the highest average age for its population. According to those data, in the near future, it could be necessary to move from a welfare model based on the centralization of care systems, to a system based on the distribution of certain healthcare facilities [1]. This means that the ageing population is ever increasing, thanks to better lifestyles, innovative medical care and wider access to different services. This work seeks to observe and analyse key implications of architectural and interior design features …

Exterior Of Dinand Gets A New Look, Evangelia Stefanakos

Civitas Branching Documentation

This article describes new art installations and landscaping which enhance the exterior spaces of Dinand Library at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The murals, "Civitas Branching" and "Lungs of the Planet," are collaborative art projects created by students of the College and members of the Worcester community. They were installed in April 2016. A dedication ceremony was held April 20, 2016.

Generation Rent Needs Grown-Up Housing Guidelines Now, Lorcan Sirr

Media

The private rented sector in Ireland accommodates 705,000 people in 324,000 tenancies—in properties owned by 172,000 registered landlords. In the past 18 months alone there has been an increase of 12,000 registered landlords.

Ua66 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter, Cheryl Stevens, Dean

Ogden College of Science & Engineering Publications

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Design + Build: College Of Dupage Architecture Design + Build Studio, Summer 2016, Mark A. Pearson

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

A project that explores the modulation of light, shadow, and pattern. A mosaic tapestry of shadow. A light modulator. A space that captures the ephemeral, fleeting, poetic characteristics of daylight.

Student Design + Build Team:

• Andrew Dunlop III
• Arlinda Haxhiu
• Michael Keslinke
• Jose A. Maldonado
• Drew Peterson
• Malak Saadeh
• Scott Sallmann

Faculty and Staff:

• Professor: Mark A. Pearson, AIA
• Construction Shop Supervisor: Mark Rose

For more information about the project, visit our Design Build 2016 website.

Crossing Boundaries: Blurring The Lines Between Engineers And Architects, Thomas Fowler, Iv, Kevin Dong

Architecture

For the past three years an interdisciplinary studio has teamed students, academics, and practitioners to develop a master plan, college buildings and housing designs for a Poly- technic College in Tanzania, Africa. Since 2012, groups of architectural majors and architecture - all engineering majors developed a master plan for the college and most recently developed plans for housing and classroom facilities. The project requires students to think differently – recognizing and developing building solutions which account for cultural differences, material differences, technology differences, and resource differences; when compared to those typically designed for in westernized areas. The driving objective was …

Projektimi I Objekteve Te Banimit (Vilë Luksoze), Denis Qerimi

Theses and Dissertations

Qëllimi i këtij punimi të diplomës është projektimi i Objektit i objektit të banimit në qytetin e Ferizajt. Si fillim janë analizuar objektet banimit në këtë qytet , dhe gjatë analizave është vërejtur mungesa e objekteve ta banimit tipi vile luksoze. Aplikimi i këtyre objekteve (vilë luksoze) ka filluar kohët e fundit të përdoret edhe në Kosovë , perderisa në vendet evropiane ka qenë i zhvilluar shumë kohë më parë. Tendeca e këtij projekti është që në një objekt të jenë të perfshira të gjitha hapësirat e nevojshme për një jetesë sa më të mirë. Lokacioni që kam zgjedhur nuk …

Objekt Shumëbanesor Për Student - Konvikt, Besart Isufi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ndërtesat E Banimit-Banimi Individual “Vilë, Dardan Kastrati

Theses and Dissertations

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Vilë Për Pushim Dhe Administrim Prone, Artan Jashari

Theses and Dissertations

Qëllimi kryesor i përzgjedhjes se kësaj tematike ka qenë ideja e krijimit të Vilës e cila shfrytëzon konceptin origjinal të zhvillimit të Vilës e cila mban në vete edhe funksionet komplementare përpos banimit. Duke u munduar që të gjithë banorëve, apo anëtarëve të familjes të cilët e shfrytëzojnë objektin të kenë mundësinë t’i përmbushin të gjitha nevojat e tyre jetësore, duke përfshirë punën, pushimin, aktivitetin e lirë, arratisjen nga jeta dinamike e qytetit dhe relaksimin. Prandaj si problematikë është trajtuar çështja e biznesit familjar, të cilët në kuadër të Vilës kanë mundësinë të kultivojnë produktet që zhvillohen në vend. Si …

Projektimi I Ndërtesës Shoqërore-Shkollë Fillore, Abetare Rexhepi

Theses and Dissertations

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Letter On "Urban Mining", Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

“Urban mining” (in “Source material”) may be a new term, but we have a long history of repurposing layers of a building that has become obsolete. Ise Shrine in Japan is rebuilt every 20 years; each time, dismantled columns, beams, and other components are bestowed upon other shrines, which reuse them in high veneration. The Coliseum had been a mine for stone and metal since the fourth century, and in 1452, Pope Nicholas V, intending to rebuild Rome, reportedly removed 2,522 cartloads damaged by an earlier earthquake. The ancient arena’s travertine can be found in buildings throughout the city.

In …