Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).

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The purpose of this project has been to develop a neighborhood plan for the Longfellow Neighborhood in Iowa City, Iowa using the "bottoms up" approach. Once adopted and incorporated in the City's Comprehensive Plan, it will be the first neighborhood plan in Iowa City. My official role was to serve as one of the members of the City staff. This creative project is a documentation of the process involved in preparing the plan, and a reflection as to lessons learned from it both for Iowa City and for neighborhood planning generally. The preliminary plan draft was developed based upon goals, objectives, and an implementation strategy created and endorsed by the residents. A second draft was written in accordance with the residents' responses to the original content. Pending neighborhood approval and adoption of the draft, the final document will be developed and voted upon by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council. The project, to date, has proven to be a successful endeavor that will serve as a precedent for other neighborhoods in Iowa City wishing to pursue the creation of their own neighborhood plans. / Department of Urban Planning

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Puerto Rico, the smallest island of the Great Antilles , has an area of 3,400 square miles. Its major language is Spanish and it is a Commonwealth of the United States of America. The population is approximately 3.6 millions and historically had an agricultural-based economy. However, today, because of its geographic location and tropical environment , the major economic industry is tourism. Thousands of people visit the island annually to enjoy the natural scenery and experience the rich cultural heritage that it offers.Studies have shown that the majority of tourists stay in the northern part of the island where the main attractions are Old San Juan, El Yunque National Rain Forest, and the Luquillo Beach. There has been limited tourism in the southern region, where a different climatic environment prevails. As a result, a different variety of natural scenery and ecological systems exists. The most popular tourist attractions in the south are: Ponce, the second largest city; San German, the second oldest town; and, the Phosphorescent Bay in Guanica. These towns are located in close proximity to each other and, thus, a need exists to spread tourism to the rest of the southern coast.One strategy to attract tourists to this area is to rehabilitate sugar plantations that are within the region. It is on the southern coast where most of the sugar industry was established, including the two largest ones. Although this industry is presently suffering a recession, at one time it was the country's leading export. This rehabilitation will allow tourists, as well as islanders, the opportunity to experience how the sugar industry used to be. As a paradox, I am proposing a new economic boom via tourism that focuses -on a "once major income producer."Central Aguirre, in the town of Salinas, will be used as a case study for this rehabilitation plan. It is located five miles southwest of the town of Guayama, a district under consideration for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This center of sugar production used to be the second largest in the country. The complex itself is a miniature town,built in approximately ninety-five acres. It serves as one of the best examples of the physical and social hierarchy established between the owners and the laborers. The factory closed abruptly operations in January 1991. The proposed rehabilitation intend to offers the visitor an interpretation of the way this community used to be. It will provide lodging facilities by the rehabilitation of existing cottages and laborers housing, and hotels. The historic railroad system, which the government is committed to restore, will serve as the major transportation system to the interior of Central Aguirre.The author believes that a country's heritage must be used to promote tourism. But there must be a comprehensive plan that establishes tourist trade as a vehicle for enhancing restoration and protection of historic sites and monuments. This project proposes such a plan. / Department of Architecture

The Cedar Street Historic District, located in Manistee, Michigan, is a neighborhood that has retained many of its historic residences which serve as reminders of the city's heyday. Manistee, Michigan, located on Lake Michigan in the northwestern region of the lower peninsula, had a prosperous past as a major lumber manufacturing city. At the turn of the century, it was the third largest shipping port on the lake next to Milwaukee and Chicago. Manistee residents who made their fortunes in lumber built some of the finest houses in the region. A large majority of thoseresidences are located in the Cedar Street Historic District. Two of the mansions in the neighborhood were designed by the renowned Chicago School architect William LeBaron Jenney; unfortunately, they were razed in the 1920s.The boundaries of the district were determined in a preliminary survey of the architecture of the neighborhood. The survey, combined with the historical account of the area and its residents, shows that the Cedar Street Historic District is an excellent candidate for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, guidelines are included to show how the character of the district can be maintained.The possibility of the placement of the Cedar Street Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places may create more awareness of the city's additional historical resources. If the other historic businesses, residences, and public buildings in Manistee are surveyed and documented, there may be enough resources to merit the designation of a Multiple Resource Area. This may allow for greater protection of the city's historic properties. / Department of Architecture

The North Meridian Street Historic District, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an area which still reflects the tastes and lifestyles of earlier decades in a contemporary urban setting. Listed in 1986 on the National Register of Historic Places, the district has been regulated by the Meridian Street Preservation Commission since 1971. The Commission, created through state legislation, was conducting design review in the district through nationally established guidelines, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. In order to more effectively protect and preserve the district, the Commission wished to establish a set of design guidelines specifically tailored to the North Meridian Street Historic District and its particular built and natural- characteristics. This project involved developing a set of design guidelines that would fulfill the needs and desires of the North Meridian Street Historic District, its preservation commission, and its property owners. Each district has its distinct resources and needs. A district's unique built and natural features are guidelines in themselves, but unless the principles and relationships that they represent are translated into words and pictures, many people will not recognize them as such. After researching and analyzing the architectural and environmental qualities of the district a draft set of design guidelines was developed and presented to the Meridian Street Preservation Commission for review. In response to comments and expressed concerns made at a series of public hearings held from March 1992 to August 1993, several rounds of revisions followed the initial presentation of the guidelines. The August 1993 version of the guidelines was adopted by the Commission in September 1993 and is currently in effect. / Department of Architecture

Orientador: Arlete Moysés Rodrigues / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T20:00:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liguori_FernandaPereira_M.pdf: 7091663 bytes, checksum: 4415355e713e28299545054b05ad5a8d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A intenção deste trabalho foi compreender como o projeto ideológico e prático da revalorização urbana do Centro de São Paulo vem sendo elaborado e materializado no espaço, graças às ações do poder público em parceria com a iniciativa privada. E como um cenário idealizado e desejado pelas elites locais permeia e perpassa o planejamento urbanístico do Estado, a serviço do interesse de proprietários de terra e incorporadores. Em contrapartida, os movimentos sociais lutam em defesa dos interesses e necessidades da coletividade, para manter e permanecer em suas territorialidades, onde o espaço configura-se como campo de sonhos e lutas pelo direito à cidade. A contradição do uso desejado do Centro de São Paulo está no conflito de interesses entre os agentes capitalistas produtores do espaço e do outro a população de baixa renda. De um lado, estão os agentes capitalistas e suas estratégias de transformação do espaço em mercadoria, onde a especulação ativa o valor de troca, fazendo a terra gerar renda e lucro. Do outro lado, está a população de baixa renda, cujas demandas reivindicam o valor de uso, o direito à dignidade da moradia, da infraestrutura urbana, dos serviços públicos de qualidade, do lazer e da cultura. A revalorização urbana do Centro de São Paulo é um processo movido pelos agentes produtores do espaço tipicamente capitalistas e pelo Estado, inspirado em modelos importados, que visa promover a readequação do patrimônio urbano edificado por meio de intervenções urbanas pontuais de embelezamento e readequação das velhas estruturas urbanas à nova ordem econômica, com vistas a atender certas demandas de clientes com maior poder aquisitivo, na busca de soluções pontuais e locais. Os novos usos - o turismo e a cultura - representam no discurso dominante as soluções para o patrimônio degradado e obsoleto de muitos centros históricos, trazendo um novo dinamismo econômico e social para estas regiões na tentativa de reinseri-las no circuito produtivo do capital / Abstract: The purpose of this study was to understand how the ideological and practical design of the revaluation of the urban center of Sao Paulo has been developed and materialized in space, thanks to the actions of the government in partnership with the private sector. And as an idealized scenario and desired by local elites permeates and pervades the urban planning of the state, serving the interests of landowners and developers. In contrast, social movements are fighting to defend the interests and needs of the community to maintain and stay in their territoriality, where space is configured as a field of dreams and struggles for the right to the city. The contradiction of the intended use of the Center of São Paulo is the conflict of interests between the capitalist agents producers of space and other low-income population. On one side are the agents and their strategies for capitalist transformation of the commodity space, speculating where the exchange value, causing the earth to generate income and profit. On the other side is the low income population, whose needs demand the use value, the right to dignity of housing, urban infrastructure, quality of public services, leisure and culture. The revaluation of the urban center of Sao Paulo is a process driven by agents of the space typically capitalist producers and the state, inspired by imported models, which aims to promote the upgrading of urban heritage built through urban interventions specific beautification and upgrading of old structures urban to the new economic order, in order to meet certain demands of customers with higher purchasing power in pursuit of specific and local solutions. New uses - tourism and culture - represent the dominant discourse on solutions for degraded and obsolete assets of many historical centers, bringing a new economic dynamism and social support for these regions in an attempt to reinsert them into the productive circuit of capital / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences. / Centre for Macau Studies

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)