Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1956. / "L.S. 392"--Cover.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 189-202. / As cities grew larger and more complex at the end of the eighteenth century, they suffered new and more pressing public health problems. The responses to these problems had, in time, an effect on the environment that produced them. This thesis is an examination of the relationship between public health reforms and the urban environment. Public health reforms were stimulated by the perceived deterioration of health in the city. The nature of public health responses designed to cope with this problem was determined, in part, by medical theory, social reform movements, and the physical environment. This thesis examines the nature of these relationships, and their effect on the form of cities in America from the colonial period to the first decades of this century. Chapter one is an explanation of general problems created by the growth of cities and the consequent attempts to formulate a theory of city form. It is a general discussion of where public health ideas belong in this complex process. The subsequent chapters examine the influence of public health theory and practice on the urban environment in three different time periods. The last chapter shows how another change in public health theory resulted in the uncoupling of broad-based health concerns from urban designs, a characteristic of the twentieth century until recent years. / by Victoria Vespe Ozonoff. / M.S.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Bibliography: leaves 629-639. / by Charles J. Perry. / Ph.D.

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This thesis was a study of the effectiveness of a growth management system in a growth corridor community. The problem addressed was whether or not a growth management system was effective in aiding the community. of Schaumburg, Illinois, to shape its growth and development to meet its particular purposes and needs. Growth management was defined as the utilization by government of a variety of traditional and evolving plans, tools, techniques, and activities to purposefully guide local patterns of growth, including the manner, location, rate and nature of development. The basic research methods used in the thesis were the case study and the comparative study. A case study of Schaumburg, a community which grew from a small village to a well-planned regional center, was designed to establish the use of growth management system by a growth corridor community, and then to measure its effectiveness in reaching the community's goals. A comparative study of other growth corridor communities was designed to determine if Shaumburg's growth management system was influential in shaping the community's development, or if similar development outcomes would have occurred without this governmental intervention. Both the case study and the comparative study were primarily concerned with describing the system, its effectiveness (or ineffectiveness), and the underlying reasons, rather than with establishing statistical proof. The conclusions reached were that Schaumburg's growth was unique among the communities in the growth corridor, as was its growth management system, and that this growth management system was effective in shaping the total development of the community. The thesis provides local government decision makers with information on specific actions which might be effective in managing development in growth corridor communities. In addition, it provides generalizations on the usefulness of planning -if implemented -- for any community trying to influence its own development. / Department of Urban Planning

The consumerism of Western culture has allowed the prevailing suburban development pattern of the latter half of the twentieth century to evolve from a pedestrian-friendly canvas for the American Dream into an iconographic realization of commuting motorists decentralized from social interaction. Symbolizing solitude and privatization. this sprawling environment has become an epidemic deteriorating the social network in the United States: a condition that requires a remedy.With the popularization of traditional neighborhood development. a large majority of newly constructed communities find themselves located away from the realities of the modern bait environment. Like a bomb shelter. occupants have been allowed the opportunity to escape to a time before sprawl. consequently ignoring the problem. In order to address this condition. these issues can no longer go unaddressed they must be healed. This study depicts suburbia as an evolving network requiring a reinsertion of a mixed-functionality into its failed developments in order to reengage the occupant and revive suburbia's communal identity: in turn allowing the resolution to evolve from a bomb shelter to a Band-Aid.With research methods including qualitative assessments of numerous case studies. writings and diagrammatic theories regarding the social realm. interviews. and the consideration of numerous texts regarding interdisciplinary concerns as well as popular culture and sociological understandings. the study defines suburbia as a poachable territory — a construct that harvests opportunities for the occupant to reengage their context. By reversing the evolution from pedestrian to motorist. these interventions allow communities to embezzle the environment in an effort to establish a collective identity and reintroduce a social ream. Furthermore. these theories are then inserted in a generalizable residential development in Carmel. Indiana named Village Park Estates. By analyzing the potential found in these developments this epidemic can begin to be diagnosed allowing the author to establish a solution grounded in the routine of the everyday. / Department of Architecture

In the past, curricula and courses of study have been mainly subject-oriented and based on the presentation of a body of knowledge in a particular discipline in a formal, logical sequence. Curricula of this nature did not necessarily take into account the personal differences and interests of the students. Presently, curriculum developers are considering both subject-oriented programs and those which are student-oriented. Students in student-oriented programs are allowed to choose freely from the given learning activities available to them. A student-oriented program may be organized in a variety of ways and methods. Examples of such programs include Project PLAN,' learning centers, independent study, criterion referenced testing, and student-developed goals and objectives.The primary purpose of the curriculum presented here is to provide guidelines for teaching American urban history at the secondary level; the program may also be used as a supplement to a United States history course. In both cases this curriculum is made up of several units with the content following a chronological progression. The units included treat urban life in relation to the colonial period, the American Revolution, the frontier period, Western expansion, the great waves of immigration, the rise of bossism, and the suburban thrust. In addition, there is a unit on the medieval city to be used as background material at the instructor's discretion. Cognitive and affective objectives are included in each unit. For each cognitive objective there are several learning activities designed to aid students in its achievement. The writer has suggested how many activities should be completed by each student in order to achieve the particular objectives. However, the final decision on how many activities are needed for each student should rest with the teacher and the student. Each unit also includes a pre-test and a post-test. The purpose for the pre-test is to determine individual learning needs, experiences, and current mastery of the subject in order for the instructor to formulate teaching strategies. In the writer's opinion the post-test should be used to determine whether students have acquired various concepts and generalizations from the activities. Should a student fail the post-test, the teacher is responsible for re-directing the student to another means for meeting the objective. Both the instructor and the learner must work together to aid the learner in understanding the goals and objectives.The philosophy behind this curriculum is based on the work of John Dewey who emphasized the importance of experience, experimentation, and learning by doing. Dewey's pedagogy, sometimes called experimentalism, relies on experiential learning. Experimentalism assumes ideals are tested and emerge from the stresses and strains of daily problem-solving. These ideals guide human decision-making processes and values. Urban history offers students a chance to examine their values and the ones which motivate the people around them. By providing knowledge, skills, and values in their proper perspective, this urban history course should establish a firm link between the individual and his perception of and behavior toward, social and civic affairs outside of the school.Although this curriculum has not been field-tested, curricula which have basic assumptions similar to this one, have been field-tested by a number of commercial firms. Project PLAN of the Westinghouse Learning Corporation has demonstrated that the objectives of this curriculum can be achieved if properly taught. This curriculum is unique in its emphasis of American urban history at the secondary level.'American Institutes For Research and The Westinghouse Learning Corporation, Pro ect PLAN (New York: Westinghouse Learning Corporation, 1973).

Our own American past has an invaluable lesson to teach us: a coherent, workable landscape evolves where there is a coherent definition not of man but of man's relation to the world and his fellow man. sk{81} rm John Brinckerhof Jackson / This thesis endeavors to give evidence of the Arcadian vision, of a synthetic view of nature and humanity, as it has been understood in the evolving settlement patterns of American civilization over the last 350 years. This thesis suggests that the Arcadian vision is still very much a part of the American psyche and awaits reinterpretation. Evidence is given of how this reinterpretation is already taking place in the urban landscape of America. It also suggests how the Arcadian vision may provide significant clues to realizing meaningful urban and suburban growth into the 21st century expressed in a sustainable urban landscape.