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Ua77/1 Augenstein Alumni Center, Wku Alumni Relations Jan 2013

Ua77/1 Augenstein Alumni Center, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Brochure regarding the construction of Augenstein Alumni Center at Western Kentucky University. Includes site plan, floor plans and elevation.

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Plants As Bio-Indicators Of Subsurface Conditions: Impact Of Groundwater Level On Btex Concentrations In Trees, Jordan Wilson, Rachel Bartz, Matt Limmer, Joel Gerard Burken Jan 2013

Plants As Bio-Indicators Of Subsurface Conditions: Impact Of Groundwater Level On Btex Concentrations In Trees, Jordan Wilson, Rachel Bartz, Matt Limmer, Joel Gerard Burken

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Numerous Studies Have Demonstrated Trees' Ability to Extract and Translocate Moderately Hydrophobic Contaminants, and Sampling Trees for Compounds Such as BTEX Can Help Delineate Plumes in the Field. However, When BTEX is Detected in the Groundwater, Detection in Nearby Trees is Not as Reliable an Indicator of Subsurface Contamination as Other Compounds Such as Chlorinated Solvents. Aerobic Rhizospheric and Bulk Soil Degradation is a Potential Explanation for the Observed Variability of BTEX in Trees as Compared to Groundwater Concentrations. the Goal of This Study Was to Determine the Effect of Groundwater Level on BTEX Concentrations in Tree Tissue. the Central …

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(In)Formal Distinction In Urban Istanbul: Evaluating Spatial Performance, Hannah A. Breshears Jan 2013

(In)Formal Distinction In Urban Istanbul: Evaluating Spatial Performance, Hannah A. Breshears

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

As globalization continues to draw the world into closer economic and intellectual dependence, massive tracts of informally designed communities in Istanbul are being cleared to accommodate the growing infrastructure of the modern, tourism-driven city This attempt to purge the city of its ‘squatter’ heritage is startling and raises questions of cultural integrity in urban development. Istanbul’s desire for expanded global investment is particularly apparent in the object of this study, the blended district of Kartal. This study measures, compares, and evaluates spatial performance of formal and informal neighborhood spaces, but makes no formal attempt to draw normative prescriptive conclusions. The …

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Riverside Ranch Landscape Performance Benefits Assessment, Bo Yang Jan 2013

Riverside Ranch Landscape Performance Benefits Assessment, Bo Yang

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Faculty Publications

Riverside Ranch was one of the first homesteads built in Colorado's Roaring Fork River Valley in the 1880s. The project site was a stop for the railroad and stage coaches travelling to nearby Aspen and a successful agricultural and ranching operation for decades. In the mid-twentieth century, the site transitioned into use as an asphalt mixing plant for the Colorado Department of Transportation. When the landscape architect began work, the site was essentially a brownfield in need of rehabilitation as it was host to multiple rundown historic buildings and remnants of the asphalt plant. The design team reconstructed the landscape …

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Some Insights For The Prediction Of Near-Wall Turbulence, Farid Karimpour, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy Jan 2013

Some Insights For The Prediction Of Near-Wall Turbulence, Farid Karimpour, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we revisit the eddy viscosity formulation to highlight a number of important issues that have direct implications for the prediction of near-wall turbulence. For steady wall-bounded turbulent flows, we make the equilibrium assumption between rates of production (P) and dissipation (ε) of turbulent kinetic energy (κ) in the near-wall region to propose that the eddy viscosity should be given by vt ε/S2, where S is the mean shear rate. We then argue that the appropriate velocity scale is given by (STL)-1/2 k1/2 where TL = k ε is the turbulence (decay) time scale. The …

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Challenges Of Mixed-Use Developments : An Analysis Of Current Mixed-Use Developments In U.S.A., Gizachew Teferra Tesso Jan 2013

Challenges Of Mixed-Use Developments : An Analysis Of Current Mixed-Use Developments In U.S.A., Gizachew Teferra Tesso

Planning Dissertations - Archive

There are numerous urban problems that could not be addressed in single use development. Mixed use development as a new theory claims to have the solutions to the urban issues associated with single use development. However, mixed used developments have been criticized for also failing to address their purported claims. This research focuses on analyzing and evaluating the tenets of mixed-use development to determine whether claims of accommodating mixed-income residents, increased density, improved racial diversity, provision of affordable housing, and improved employment trends are achieved. In doing so, 632 single use Block Groups and 84 mixed-use development Block Groups that …

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Modeling The Impact Of Transportation On Public Health Using Fuzzy Logic, Binay Adhikari Jan 2013

Modeling The Impact Of Transportation On Public Health Using Fuzzy Logic, Binay Adhikari

Planning Theses - Archive

Research has proved that built environment affect public health in various ways ranging from direct impacts like physical activity to indirect impacts such as housing affordability, employment accessibility, social capital etc. Built environment is shaped by plans and policies related to transportation. Such plans and policies make significant impacts on public health. There is increasing interest on the effects of transportation decisions in public health. Recently, transportation planners and public health practitioners have begun to find ways to work collaboratively in varieties of capacities (APHA, 2011). However, two significant aspects related to impacts of transportation on public health need to …

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Aggregate Relation Between Residence And Workplace Travel Time In Large Urban Areas, Azadeh Rahmani Jan 2013

Aggregate Relation Between Residence And Workplace Travel Time In Large Urban Areas, Azadeh Rahmani

Planning Theses - Archive

The formation of urban areas is a function of locations of residence and workplaces. Urban areas grow because more residents move in the area due to economic, life style, or other opportunities. This research presents a relationship between average commuting travel time and population and land area of metropolitan areas with more than 750,000 population in the United States. The hypothesis is that in spite of significant variation among large and small urban areas, the relative residence- employment locations follows a general and predictable pattern. Forty Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) are selected for the analysis. The commuting travel time is …

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Narrowing The Sustainability Paradigm - How Meaningful Participation Builds Socially Equitable Communities, Megan L. O'Neal Jan 2013

Narrowing The Sustainability Paradigm - How Meaningful Participation Builds Socially Equitable Communities, Megan L. O'Neal

Planning Theses - Archive

This work contributes to the third leg of the sustainability paradigm by addressing socially equitable communities in the field of Planning. It uses a case study of neighborhood planning in Seattle, Washington as its basis for linking meaningful public participation with social capital. It uses a thoughtful qualitative framework to measure social capital in primary and secondary sources and bases these parameters with expert knowledge from scholars within the social science fields.

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Community Garden Suitability Analysis For A South Dallas Community, Tiffany Mcleod Jan 2013

Community Garden Suitability Analysis For A South Dallas Community, Tiffany Mcleod

Planning Theses - Archive

Community gardens have been proposed as a solution to combat the ongoing and escalating food desert problem in low-income communities. As planners, community leaders and residents look to implement this solution and convert vacant property into gardens they need to be aware of the potential conflicts that can arise when the area starts to develop. This paper offers an analysis tool and uses it to determine vacant sites that are appropriate for community gardens in a particular South Dallas neighborhood that do not conflict with the future development of the area. It also identifies the grocery store gap in the …

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Edra 44: Bibliography Of Books On Display, Kathleen Demsky Jan 2013

Edra 44: Bibliography Of Books On Display, Kathleen Demsky

Bibliographies

edra 44 | HEALTHY + HEALING PLACES | Providence, RI

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Information Technology's Impact On The Space And Automobile Relationship: A Study Of The Link Between Internet Tech, Automobiles, And Residential Preferences, Steven Duong Jan 2013

Information Technology's Impact On The Space And Automobile Relationship: A Study Of The Link Between Internet Tech, Automobiles, And Residential Preferences, Steven Duong

Planning Theses - Archive

Many city planners, developers, real estate agents, and planning academics have been strong proponents of compact, mixed-use, New Urbanist developments. They point to the research that shows that younger generations will favor the revitalized mixed use, dense, urban downtown centers advocated by urbanists like Jane Jacobs and Richard Florida over newly developed, spacious, quiet suburbs In fact, recent research on ICT and driving suggests that the advent of the smart phone and ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) may be indeed influencing the lifestyle and preference of young adults, who rather than driving are substituting shopping, social, entertainment, and other trips with virtual …

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City Of Arlington, Texas, Blackland Prairie Preserve Master Plan, David Hopman, Dfl Group Llc Jan 2013

City Of Arlington, Texas, Blackland Prairie Preserve Master Plan, David Hopman, Dfl Group Llc

Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications - Archive

The City of Arlington acquired the Blackland Prairie site in 1998 after a group of concerned citizens identified its value as possibly the last blackland prairie remnant site in the city. Encouraged by the Arlington Conservation Council, the land was purchased by the city to be held as permanent open space. In its current condition, the site remains in transition. Efforts by volunteers have helped maintain native prairie grasses on approximately half of the site. The eastern half however, has remained untouched since acquisition. Invasive grasses, woody and herbaceous plants continue to proliferate in this area, leaving relatively few native …

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The New Woman's Home, Excerpt From Building Culture: Ernst May And The New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926-1931, Susan R. Henderson Jan 2013

The New Woman's Home, Excerpt From Building Culture: Ernst May And The New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926-1931, Susan R. Henderson

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Chapter three of Building Culture, “The New Woman’s Home. Kitchens, Laundry, Furnishings,” discusses household culture and modernization. It begins with the Frankfurt Kitchen and its designer, Grete Lihotzky, and continues with a discussion of electricity and the architect Adolf Meyer, and its expansion with the example of the electric laundries in the Frankfurt settlements. The next segment is a discussion of new furniture design, small, inexpensive furniture that was an essential partner to contemporary small house design and was avidly researched in the Frankfurt offices. Designers here include Kramer, Cetto and Schuster.

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Place In Transit: Intuitive Methodologies Abroad, Doug Niemann Jan 2013

Place In Transit: Intuitive Methodologies Abroad, Doug Niemann

Gaines Fellow Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

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Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2013-2014, Office Of The Registrar Jan 2013

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2013-2014, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

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Eastern Michigan University Graduate Catalog, 2013-2014, Office Of The Registrar Jan 2013

Eastern Michigan University Graduate Catalog, 2013-2014, Office Of The Registrar

Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

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Geddes Town Hall School House, Sarah Marsom Jan 2013

Geddes Town Hall School House, Sarah Marsom

Historic Preservation Final Projects

The Geddes Town Hall School House located on Eastern Michigan University's campus is representative of the rural education, locally and nationally. Since the Geddes Town Hall School House was moved to Eastern Michigan University, it has been used intermittently by professor's to host classes and to teach children about the history of schools. By creating brochures and an activity booklet about the Geddes Town Hall School House, interested individuals can learn about both the history of the structure and one-room school houses in general. Currently, the only passive interpretation of the Geddes Town Hall School House are the following: the …

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Cfmd Research Journal 2013 Volume 2, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil Jan 2013

Cfmd Research Journal 2013 Volume 2, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil

Center for Metropolitan Density Publications - Archive

The Center's mission is to demonstrate that greater density, including suburban scale density, will produce the most economically productive, operationally effective, fiscally efficient, environmentally responsible, and culturally supportive environments. CfMD will fulfill its mission by conducting sponsored research, convening symposia, and consulting with industry partners.

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Performance-Based Seismic Design Of Unbonded Precast Post-Tensioned Concrete Filled Gfrp Tube Piers, Haitham M. Dawood, Mohamed Elgawady Jan 2013

Performance-Based Seismic Design Of Unbonded Precast Post-Tensioned Concrete Filled Gfrp Tube Piers, Haitham M. Dawood, Mohamed Elgawady

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a seismic design procedure for self-centering precast post-tensioned bridge piers. The piers presented in this manuscript consisted of concrete filled fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes. A large set of 84 piers with different design parameters were analyzed using finite element models. The backbone curve of each pier was developed and bilinearized. The idealized backbone curves were used to develop a set of empirical equations that were able to reproduce the bilinearized backbone curve of a given pier. Different performance criteria have been proposed for the system according to the intensity and the frequency of occurrence of a …

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Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3d Gis To Engage The Public With Ancient Maya Archaeology, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Jim Robertsson, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Giorgio Agugario, Fabio Remondino, Gabrio Girardi Jan 2013

Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3d Gis To Engage The Public With Ancient Maya Archaeology, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Jim Robertsson, Jennifer Von Schwerin, Giorgio Agugario, Fabio Remondino, Gabrio Girardi

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This paper presents our research to develop a gesture-based 3D GIS system to engage the public in cultural heritage. It compares two types of interaction—device-based vs. natural interaction— and summarizes the beta-testing results of a 3D GIS tool for archaeology, called QueryArch3D, in which participants used device-based interaction (i.e. mouse and keyboard). It follows with a description of the gesture-based system—that we developed in response to these beta-tests. The system uses QueryArch3D and Microsoft’s Kinect to enable people use body movements (in lieu of keyboard or mouse) to navigate a virtual reality landscape, query 3D objects, and call up photos, …

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Drought Planning Research In The United States: An Overview And Outlook, Xinyu Fu, Zhenghong Tang, Jianjun Wu, Kevin Mcmillan Jan 2013

Drought Planning Research In The United States: An Overview And Outlook, Xinyu Fu, Zhenghong Tang, Jianjun Wu, Kevin Mcmillan

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Drought is widely known as an insidious hazard due to its complex and unique characteristics. Drought disasters have brought tremendous economic losses and significant social and environmental impacts to communities across the globe. To further understand the hazard drought poses and provide insights into planning for drought preparedness, this article conducts a thorough literature review of drought hazard and drought planning frameworks within the United States. Two main approaches and three major forms of drought planning are discussed and summarized. Based on this review, a preliminary overview of drought planning status in the United States is presented. This study provides …

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Plan Big: Unl Campus And Landscape Master Plans, Gina Ford Jan 2013

Plan Big: Unl Campus And Landscape Master Plans, Gina Ford

Community and Regional Planning Program: Professional Projects

An architect's drawing of early concepts for the UNL City Campus includes ideas to further activate the campus core, with new buildings, uses and landscape ideas. Includes maps, drawings, renderings and diagrams that describe the university's historic growth patterns, current drivers of growth, and key recommendations to make City and East campuses emblematic of the university's identity and status in the Big Ten Conference.

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Larc 331: Site Systems Iii (Landscape Implementation)—A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Bret Betnar Jan 2013

Larc 331: Site Systems Iii (Landscape Implementation)—A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Bret Betnar

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This portfolio investigates LARC 331 Site Systems III: Landscape Implementation, a 3rd year undergraduate course that focuses on the implementation of landscape architectural designs, in which students take a previous Site Design studio project and develop this project into a landscape architectural construction package.

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Community-Based Disaster Coalitions Training: Participants' Manual, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice Jan 2013

Community-Based Disaster Coalitions Training: Participants' Manual, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice

Community-Based Disaster Coalitions

This training will help program participants to develop the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities to organize a Community Disaster Preparedness Coalition or strengthen an existing Coalition that integrates public health, human services, and emergency management systems into their county's disaster preparedness, response, and recovery structure.

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Neoplatonism And English Gothic Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix Jan 2013

Neoplatonism And English Gothic Architecture, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

A letter written by Robert Grosseteste, the first chancellor of Oxford University and later Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, illustrates the role that Neoplatonism played in the creative process of the architect in the Middle Ages. The letter was written from Oxford in around 1200, to Master Adam Rufus, a former student. According to Grosseteste, “It is said that the design is the model to which the craftsman looks to make his handiwork, in imitation of it and in its likeness.” Grosseteste’s letter exhibits a familiarity with the Enneads of Plotinus, which Grosseteste probably was not able to …

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A New Architecture For Man: The Modular, Prefabricated Buildings Of Ernest J. Kump, Jr., Selections From The Ernest Kump Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University Of California, Berkeley, Elaine B. Stiles Jan 2013

A New Architecture For Man: The Modular, Prefabricated Buildings Of Ernest J. Kump, Jr., Selections From The Ernest Kump Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University Of California, Berkeley, Elaine B. Stiles

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Innovation Through Reuse Thoughtful Strategies For Adaptive Buildings, Sarah Gravois Jan 2013

Innovation Through Reuse Thoughtful Strategies For Adaptive Buildings, Sarah Gravois

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding special ceremonies, dedications, groundbreakings not already housed in a particular office.

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The Lighting Upgrade: Reducing Light Damage In Historic Houses, Elaine Barone Jan 2013

The Lighting Upgrade: Reducing Light Damage In Historic Houses, Elaine Barone

Historic Preservation Final Projects

No abstract provided.

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