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Crp 463: University Area Multi-Modal Access Plan June 2016, William Riggs, Sam Anderson, Spencer Johnson, Garrett Wank, Alex Hunt, Lauren Leedeman, Roberto Contreras, Mark Manha, Emma Petersen, Rebecca Wysong, Shannon Boston, Augustus Grochau, Matthew Wiswell, Jerome Wu, Crp 463 Senior Project Professional Practice

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

This study outlines work completed as a part of the CRP 463 senior capstone class outlining a new, comprehensive approach to active transportation on the Cal Poly campus. Led by Dr. William Riggs the project assessed the current conditions, identified opportunities and constraints and then developed conceptual options for a campus active transportation plan. In addition to this process the plan involved completion of a draft Bicycle Friendly University application for the Cal Poly campus (included as a supplemental file) and envisioned conceptual design options for various locations on the campus. Key locations evaluated included the Perimeter Road / University …

Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Commercially Available Activated Carbon Filters For Indoor Ozone Removal In Single-Family Homes, J. R. Aldred, E. Darling, G. Morrison, J. Siegel, R. L. Corsi

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study involved the development of a model for evaluating the potential costs and benefits of ozone control by activated carbon filtration in single-family homes. The modeling effort included the prediction of indoor ozone with and without activated carbon filtration in the HVAC system. As one application, the model was used to predict benefit-to-cost ratios for single-family homes in 12 American cities in five different climate zones. Health benefits were evaluated using disability-adjusted life-years and included city-specific age demographics for each simulation. Costs of commercially available activated carbon filters included capital cost differences when compared to conventional HVAC filters of …

Romberg Tiburon Center (Rtc) Head House 2016, Thomas Fowler, Iv

Architecture

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Hearst Lecture: Planning For Bhutan, Christopher Benninger

Focus

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The Invisibility Of Code Enforcement In Planning Praxis: The Case Of Informal Housing In Southern California, Jake Wegmann, Jonathan P. Bell

Focus

In this article, Jake Wegmann and Jonathan Pacheco Bell argue that more and better engagement with working class neighborhoods and communities of color are urgent imperatives for the planning profession. Drawing on a survey, interviews, and their professional experiences with the informal housing market in Southern California, they show that, although much of this work is managed by code enforcement officers, the planning profession largely holds code enforcement at arms’ length. Wegmann and Bell show that ending the estrangement between code enforcement and planning would offer numerous benefits including inculcating cultural competence in planners, addressing vexing issues such as housing …

Streetplan: Hacking Streetmix For Community-Based Outreach On The Future Of Streets, William W. Riggs, Michael R. Boswell, Ryder Ross

Focus

Riggs, Boswell and Ross describe their pilot street design project deploying Streetplan, a version of the opensource tool Streetmix. As part of the City of San Luis Obispo downtown revisioning project, their efforts inform the process, currently underway, of revising the Downtown Vision Concept Plan. The project was presented at the 2016 Code for America Summit.

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Earning A Livelihood From One's Home: The Castillo Ladies Of San Miguel De Allende, Hemalata C. Dandekar

Focus

The CRP Field Trip to San Miguel Allende in August 2016 revealed several facets of Mexican urbanism, including social histories that helped to reveal the city’s development. In this article, Professor Hemalata Dandekar describes one such enriching experiences, noting its implications for planning.

The Connection Between Neighborhood Walkability And Life Longevity In A Midsized City, William W. Riggs, John Gilderbloom

Focus

Riggs and Gilderbloom discuss a study for Louisville, KY that confirms the relationship between walkability and health, offering lessons for similar urban areas. Investigating years of projected life lost as it relates to neighborhood walkability, they found that more walkable areas are predictors of longevity. The study suggests that the trend toward longer lifespan may be connected to gentrification-related displacement and racial homogenization in walkable neighborhoods. The findings can help shape urban design policies and interventions that support physical activity.

Learning From California: Highlights Of Crp Studios 2015/2016 Ay, Hemalata C. Dandekar

Focus

Dr. Hemalata Dandekar highlights the studio projects from both BSCRP and MCRP programs during the 2015-16 academic year. The studios are fundamental in the learn-by-doing pedagogy embraced by the department, and they help shape students into professionals that are fully engaged with their communities.

New Nature: A Photographic Essay, Gary C. Dwyer

Focus

Gary Dwyer is an internationally accomplished educator, landscape architect and artist in a variety of landscape, sculpture and photographic genres. His photographic assignments have sent him worldwide, including climbing expeditions in the Himalayas and a UNESCO assignment to photograph World Heritage Sites in Vietnam. He was a Resident Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2005. In this contribution to FOCUS, Gary’s images provoke us to think about the collisions between environmental and cultural values.

"Toward An Urban Design Manifesto" Revisited, Ivor Samuels

Focus

“Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”, co-authored by Donald Appleyard and Allan Jacobs in the early 1980s, was highly influential in how we understand urbanism in the XXI century. Like other seminal documents, it represented the paradigm shift from modernism to contemporary planning and urban design. Professor Ivor Samuels, an international expert on urban morphology and urban design who often contributes to FOCUS, discusses the Manifesto’s continuing revelance to European and wider contexts.

Conversations With Alumni: Spotlight On Jimmy Ochoa And Orchid Monroy-Ochoa

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Urbanismo In Mexico, Ana Padilla

Focus

In the summer of 2016, BSCRP junior Ana Padilla joined a group of Cal Poly architecture colleagues for a two-month study program in Mexico. Led by instructor Humberto Norton, the program was based at Los Arcos, an educational facility run by local architect Rafael Franco in San Miguel de Allende. Ana writes about her many learning experiences which made her realize how important travelling is for a planner’s education.

Cement Hydration-Based Micromechanics Modeling Of The Time-Dependent Small-Strain Stiffness Of Fly Ash-Stabilized Soils, Xin Kang, Louis Ge, Wen Cheng Liao

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A contact mechanics model, based on the Hertzian elastic contact theory and cementation coating development at particulate scale, was established to predict the time-dependent small-strain stiffness of Class C fly ash-stabilized soils during curing. The cementation coating development model was developed at particulate level based on the Arrhenius law to predict the contact radius growth. A hyperbolic time-temperature relationship was proposed to capture the temperature change of fly ash-stabilized soils and links the pozzolanic reaction rate with curing time. Model-predicted small-strain stiffness was evaluated through both published and experimental test results with good success. The micromechanics modeling indicated that the …

Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper: Transfiguration Through Glass, Or Vertical And Horizontal Transparencies: Mies Van Der Rohe, Ufuk Ersoy

Publications

Mies van der Rohe’s entry for the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Competition of 1921, a project he named the “Wabe” (Honeycomb) construction, not only epitomized the polemics then current about the renovation of Berlin as a modern metropolis, but also represented a radical shift in the architect’s own viewpoint – his views of modern life, modern construction, and modern materials, particularly glass.

Modification Of Upper-Ocean Temperature Structure By Subsurface Mixing In The Presence Of Strong Salinity Stratification, Emily L. Shroyer, Daniel L. Rudnick, J. Thomas Farrar, Byungho Lim, S. Karan Venayagamoorthy, Louis C.St Laurent, Amrapalli Garanaik, James N. Moum

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Bay of Bengal has a complex upper-ocean temperature and salinity structure that is, in places, characterized by strong salinity stratification and multiple inversions in temperature. Here, two short time series from continuously profiling floats, equipped with microstructure sensors to measure subsurface mixing, are used to highlight implications of complex hydrography on upper-ocean heat content and the evolution of sea surface temperature. Weak mixing coupled with the existence of subsurface warm layers suggest the potential for storage of heat below the surface mixed layer over relatively long-time scales. On the diurnal time scale, these data demonstrate the competing effects of …

Architectural Response To Humanitarian Crises, Gul Nabi Afridi

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters Publications

Humanitarian design has become a popularized phenomenon in recent years, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. Humanitarian architecture basically means architecture designed for those in need. It is “seeking architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and bringing professional design services to communities in need.” Mostly, Humanitarian crises comes into account due to disasters either natural or human induced disaster. Any community which has been disturbed due to any disaster, having basic unstabilities like physical and social. These issues are further sub-categorized as, lives, properties, psychological, economic and education issues. Darra Adam Khel is a region which has been affected …

Mobile Food Vendor Ordinance Prepared For The City Of Clovis, Ca, Thomas Koybayashi

City and Regional Planning

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Urban Design Vision For The Vista Del Sol Development, Gustavo Castro

City and Regional Planning

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Cooperative Housing Design:Exploring Alternative Forms Of Habitation And Pedagogy, Jim Roche

Conference papers

Provision of suitable affordable habitation for all seems to allude society, not least in Ireland which experiences yet another crippling housing crisis. Housing bubbles, which often ruin economies, lead to housing crises which ruin so many lives. Options for habitation delivery are mostly based on the free market, whether they be in the private or the now almost non-existent social and affordable sector. The prevailing procurement methods fail to meet such a basic human need yet alternative options are limited and are not encouraged by government or the private sector.

Bibliotekë E Qytetit, Doruntina Xhemaili

Theses and Dissertations

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Insitucion Për Autizëm, Bardha Brestovci

Theses and Dissertations

Teza e diplomës të cilën unë paraprakisht e kam shtjelluar gjatë kapitujve fillestarë dhe e kam finalizuar atë në projektin ideor, ka të bëjë me Fëmijët Autik. Duke qenë se ky punim është voluminoz, kam pasur hapësirën e duhur që në Hyrje të paraqes informata të përgjithshme për lexuesit lidhur me Autizmin në përgjithësi, duke filluar nga ajo se Çka është Autizmi, më pas me llojet e tij, simptomat dhe në fund trajtimi. Kapitujt tjerë vijojnë me Shqyrtimin e literaturës i cili përfshinë artikujt, librat dhe botime të ndryshme të cilat kanë qenë bazë për punën e mëtutjeshme në krijimin …

Projektimi I “Muzeut Të Artit Bashkëkohor”, Barbana Berisha

Theses and Dissertations

Ambientet krijohen si mundësi për të mbushur boshllëkun shpirtëror dhe për të plotësuar kërkesat e shoqërisë, si edhe në aspektin kulturor-artistik. Megjithatë ndjehet mungesa në masë e këtyre hapësirave në shoqërinë tonë. Ndër e hapësirat më në mungesë te ne, janë hapësirat publike siç janë hapësirat për ruajtjen, zhvillimin dhe ekspozimin trashëgimisë, kulturës dhe artit. Hapësirat publike, ku pjesë e tyre janë edhe muzetë, ato të artit bashkëkohor janë pasqyrë e jetës kulturore dhe shoqërore të një komuniteti apo vendi. Duke e pasë parasysh se njeriu si pjesë e komunitetit apo dhe si vizitor kalon një pjesë të bukur të …

Hotel Tranzitor, Mergim Shabani

Theses and Dissertations

Objektet Hoteliere shërbejnë për banim / akomodim të shkurtër dhe të përkohshëm të njerëzve / mysafirëve, të cilët mund të kenë qëllime të ndryshme, duke filluar nga ato turistike, biznesore, udhëtimeve të ndryshme logjistike e zyrtare, konferencave e gjerë te qëllimet e pushimit, argëtimit/ lojërave, rekreimit dhe rehabilitimit fizik e shpirtëror.

“Ne të gjithë jemi vizitor në këtë moment dhe në këtë vend. Ne të gjithë jemi këtu vetëmkalimthi. Ne kemi ardhur që të observojmë, të mësojmë, të rritemi e pastaj të kthehemi në shtëpi”. Kjo është një thënie Australiane që e definon vet jetën, një moto që mund të …

Objekte Hoteliere- Hotel Malor, Leonora Lyta

Theses and Dissertations

Ne kete punim kemi shqyrtuar temen e hoteleve ne te cilen jemi marre me disa pika kryesore .Ne radhe te pare kemi treguar lokacionin dhe kemi cekur pershkrimin e qytetit te Prizrenit si baze per te vazhduar me tej punimin .Kemi treguar per turizmin ne Prizren dhe jemi munduar ti marrim parasysh sa me shume interesat dhe preferencat e turisteve.

Perpjekja ime eshte qe si njeri dhe si arkitekte e ardhshme te jap gjithcka nga vetja dhe se ky punim te jete ne nivel te larte dhe te jete i pelqyeshem nga te gjithe

Banimi Individual – Villë & Shtëpi E Verës, Adrian Sharku

Theses and Dissertations

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Chiquita Ridge Specific Plan City Of Rancho Santa Margarita, Rachel Du Mont

City and Regional Planning

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Women's Shelters: Strategies To Empowerment, Rachel Raynor

City and Regional Planning

Working at a women’s social work site in Nicaragua, sparked my initial interest in researching and developing a typology of women’s shelters as an useful guide for determining and providing appropriate services. The goal is to create a typology that can be useful in determining what type of facility or shelter is the most effective for different women and the varying backgrounds and situations they are in. The desire to empower women was initiated by my first-hand experience in Nicaragua. There I saw many instances of intimate partner violence (IPV), as well as other, non-physical, forms of abuse. I never …

Policy & Privilege In Photovoltaics: A Community Level Analysis In San Diego County, Rose M. Kelly

Master's Theses

This research investigates the demographic and local government permit characteristics of communities with high levels of solar adoption in the San Diego Region. Utilizing a statistical model, this research illustrates which communities have been able to benefit from the current solar incentive programs in a robust market with an abundant solar resource. In San Diego, zip codes with large proportions of people over 65 have the highest correlation with high levels of residential solar adoption. This potentially illustrates that the life changes associated with retiring, including accumulated wealth, stable homeownership, and a fixed income, make residential solar systems accessible and …