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The complexity and turbulence of the twentieth century is reflected in the increasing size and number of government agencies, leading to overlapping responsibilities, competition, and conflict in the field of planning. Multiple jurisdictions with conflicting goals have stimulated the need for productive rather than symbolic interorganizational structures. Local land-use planning is one field where uncoordinated land-use decisions are particularly harmful to the public interest. In Canada, this planning is thought to be controlled by the local government's planning staff under the direction of elected officials. However, this belief ignores the reality of the jurisdictional independence of provincial and federal government agencies. Within a local planning area, these independent agencies are free to use their land to meet their own perceived responsibilities, regardless of local land-use policies. The varied responsibilities and objectives of land-use decision-making organizations have led to interorganizational conflict, incompatible adjacent land uses, ineffective regional plans, and missed opportunities for efficient cooperative planning. It is hypothesized that an interorganizational structure (ios) specifically designed according to theoretically-derived criteria would provide an effective mechanism for reduction of planning conflicts and promotion of cooperative local land-use planning, and would be superior to the existing reliance on ad hoc arrangements. The thesis first examines the contextual relationship between the local planner and one representative independent agency, the Department of National Defence. This is followed by case studies which illustrate both land-use conflicts and cooperative actions currently arising between two DND bases and their neighbouring communities in British Columbia. The thesis next explores the nature of interorganizational relations in terms of group dynamics, social psychology of negotiations, and interorganizational power struggles. This relationships theory is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of an ios. This theoretical understanding of interorganizational relations,, plus the practical, considerations revealed by the case studies, provide the framework for development of ios criteria. The criteria are compared against existing models of interorganizational planning and decision-making to test their validity. These criteria are used to design an ios model for local land-use planning in British Columbia. Finally, the ios model is applied to the case studies using realistic scenarios to determine its effect on interorganizational cooperation. It is shown that the ios would be much more effective at providing both opportunities and reduced risk for cooperation than does the existing situation. Organizations will make use of these opportunities whenever they will benefit from doing so. This will occur more frequently in the ios designed according to theoretically-derived criteria than otherwise. While the ios is designed for a specific situation, the criteria are soundly developed from both theory and the case studies and provide the basis for design of similar mechanisms for land-use planning anywhere in Canada. Furthermore, the understanding gained here contributes to our limited knowledge in the crucial field of interorganizational relations. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

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<p> This thesis project created a landscape design framework for the Student Garden at the College of Charleston that took into account stakeholder needs and landscape constraints, thereby allowing the Garden to better fulfill its mission. Steps for this project were to perform a stakeholder analysis to determine perceptions of mission, vision, and needs for the Garden. This was then paired with a landscape suitability assessment. The assessment was performed in GIS using available soil data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) to analyze for agricultural suitability.</p><p> Based on interview data, stakeholders considered the main mission of the Garden to lie in three areas: education, student research projects, and vegetable production. Landscape suitability analysis determined that the Garden was situated in the least favorable location within its available land area from an ecosystem standpoint. The landscape design incorporated the stakeholder needs of education, research, and production while proposing an expansion in a new, more centralized location that has soil better suited for agriculture along with new infrastructure. It incorporated a centralized building with office, rest area, and shaded work area that has facilities approved for vegetable processing for the CSA. Adjoining the building are beds showcasing sustainable agricultural techniques, greenhouses for seed starting and production, area for a food forest, and open fields for row crops.</p>

Land use optimization is a multifaceted process that entails complex decision-making which involves the selection of activities, the percentages to allocate, and where to allocate. It will also add a whole extra class of variables to the problem when combined with the inevitable consideration of spatial optimization. The related applications by linear programming (LP), "Pareto Front Optimal" based methods, heuristics methods and integration of GIS etc. for spatial multi-objective land use optimization are reviewed and analyzed on their advantages and disadvantages in this thesis. Accordingly, due to the nonlinearity and the complexity caused by the multiple objectives and increasing variables during the optimization process, the efficiency and effect would be the issues to be considered. The need for effective and efficient models for land use optimization is evident from the above discussion as the core content. In order to comprehensively fulfill all the requirements, the understanding of the sustainability of land use is translated into eight objectives to form the Multi-objective Optimization of Land Use (MOLU) model. Furthermore, an efficient model named Boundary based Fast Genetic Algorithm (BFGA) using goal programming is employed in the multi-objective optimization in Tongzhou Newtown. This algorithm is especially efficient for land use optimization problems derived from its special boundary based operators. Furthermore, considering the characteristics of planning support process and these two models mentioned above, the interactive spatial land use optimization prototype with a friendly interface and a simplified 3D visualization module could be established, thus yielding good effects and potential to support the planning process in the study area. Finally, in light of the study results and limitations, some directions are also provided for future research. / Land use optimization, a kind of resource allocation, can be defined as the process of allocating different land use categories (e.g., residential, commercial, and industrial, etc.) to specific units of area within a region. As one of the most popular words nowadays, sustainable development can be viewed as a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investment, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all harmonized. Sustainability is, hence, an important and imminent societal goal for land use planning. Land use optimization involves the active planning of land for future use by people to provide for their needs. In this thesis, the central goal is to develop a sustainable land use optimization prototype to enrich the field of planning support with regard to sustainability. / Cao, Kai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-139). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

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