Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning / Jason Brody / The Mid America Regional Council, (MARC) is the official metropolitan planning organization for the Greater Kansas City region. MARC received a 4.25 million dollar grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2010 to advance the region’s vision of sustainability through vibrant, green, and connected centers and corridors. From which the CSP (Creating Sustainable Places) initiative was established. Responding to this initiative, eight grant funded Kansas State University students worked in a Rock Island Corridor group. This group showed and described ways of achieving MARC’s and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s goals through the development of Master’s Reports. Reports include design ideas and proposals which MARC and city planning departments might not have developed otherwise. Student collaboration between public and city planning departments informed the development of student ideas. Green trail systems and tourism specifically addresses how the quality of life in the Kansas City Metro Area could be enhanced with the implementation of a cultural trail network. This network would provide access to the Rock Island Corridor, create greenspaces, and establish mixed-use housing districts for potential home and business owners. The Greater Kansas City region population is increasing. Trails, parks, and mixed-use buildings for residents in KC could improve the quality of life for future residents. Adding greenspaces, pedestrian mobility, and entertainment districts in which to find region specific activities could help attract people to redeveloping areas. Green trail systems and tourism’s project area is located between the Sprint Center and the Truman Sports Complex. To resolve problems and dilemmas within this region of Kansas City, a routing plan of a cultural trail network is outlined. This cultural trail features new trail heads, cultural centers, and proposed zoning overlays for park developments and mixed-use housing districts. The trail network created connects the Sprint Center and Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Missouri as a tourism link. Tourism destinations and historic sites add to the economic success of KC. Sites are connected to in the routing plan for the cultural trail. This proposal shows one approach for creating sustainable centers in KC.

Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page / Neighborhood parks can provide a place for children and teens to satisfy their curiosity and learn about nature. Without an open-space policy or regulation from the city, no park was proposed during the development of the neighborhood adjacent to Susan B. Anthony Middle School in Manhattan, Kansas. People have to cross Highway 113 (Sethchild Road) or Kimball Avenue to the closest parks: Marlatt and Cico. However, neither of them is within walking distance for children and teens in this neighborhood. As a result, families have to build private playgrounds in their own backyards. In addition, technological development makes children and teens prefer staying inside playing video games. Neither private playgrounds nor video games provide interaction with nature or social interaction around nature. This project considers how the middle school site, which sits on approximately 40 acres, can be designed as a neighborhood park to allow children and teens to have close nature access and experiential learning opportunities. To better understand what users really need, interviews with teachers and questionnaires for students determined their current and preferred future use of the school site. In addition, neighborhood children, who are not in the middle school, were interviewed about their play preferences. Observations of the school site usage during school time and after were recorded for design purposes. Six precedents were examined to compare and understand what works to connect children and young teens to nature. After analyzing user needs and physical conditions of the site, a neighborhood park design for the site of Susan B. Anthony Middle School was proposed. The proposed design meets both students’ experiential learning needs and the need of neighborhood children and young teens to connect to nature. Because the 40-acre schoolyard is a nationally recommended size for middle schools, this joint-use schoolyard and park concept can be applied cross the country where needed.

Created in 1965, Head Start is the longest running national school readiness program in the United States. Head Start was developed to improve children's social and academic readiness for kindergarten and to reduce the academic achievement gap between impoverished and more affluent children. However, questions about the effectiveness of Head Start have trouble the program since its inception. Head Start children often experience considerably more sociocontextual risk, specifically in the form of more economic disadvantage, maternal psychological distress, and dangerous neighborhoods. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which attending Head Start buffers children from some of the harmful effects of sociocontextual risk on their acquisition of academic and social school readiness skills. Socio-contextual risk factors were largely unrelated to the school readiness skills. Only mothers' reports of anxiety were significantly associated with slower rates of increase in children's PPVT scores, suggesting that mothers who are more anxious have children who are not developing receptive vocabulary scores as quickly as children whose mothers have fewer anxiety symptoms. Head Start did not buffer the impact of socio-contextual risk on children's attainment of school readiness skills. A secondary goal of the present study was to validate mothers' reports of neighborhood danger with interviewer impressions of neighborhood safety and objective crime reports. Interviewer impressions correlated significantly with mothers' reports of neighborhood danger and official crime statistics. Interestingly, official crime statistics were not correlated with mothers' reports of neighborhood danger, but were correlated with interviewer impressions. Interviewers may provide a valuable objective perspective of characteristics of the neighborhood. This sample was not intended to explore the effects of natural disasters on household structures, maternal psychopathology, or children's academic development. However, results clearly highlighted the need to empirically consider the specific challenges associated with lowincome families after a natural disaster. Study implications and promising directions for future research are discussed.

To understand the complexities involved with neighboring in public/private mixed-income communities, I conducted an ethnographic study of a HOPE VI site in a gentrifying neighborhood in New Orleans. Data was collected through 48 interviews, observation, mental maps, and casual encounters with residents living in the predominantly African American redeveloped St. Thomas Housing Development – renamed River Garden. I analyzed residents’ neighboring processes and how they socially constructed space, leading to the identification of several phenomena that shaped neighbor interaction in River Garden. As with previous HOPE VI neighborhood studies, within-group interaction was prevalent while cross-class interaction remained limited. Mechanisms that were intended to facilitate cross-class interaction were neutralized by the exertion of social control. Both limited mobility and neighborhood choice were factors that shaped residents’ perceptions of the neighborhood and motivated residents to either participate in the neighborhood as engaged residents or live as guarded residents dominated by constraints. I delineate the attributes of engaged residents to position neighborhood attachment as an important variable for neighbor interaction. Overall, the evidence illuminates class divisiveness among African American neighbors and demonstrates how the struggle for contested space creates a neighborhood filled with tension.

The purpose with this report is to speculate how our neighborhoods could look like in the future, looking at modern collective living due to the housing crisis is Sweden today. This paper will look att different forms of collective housing, to challenge the conventional way of living. Connecting sustainability to the act of sharing space and resources, in creating a collaborative lifestyle. The research methods used in this speculative project looks at three case studies of collective housing to analyse and define different levels of sharing. During the design process one intervention was executed to challenging the norm of ownership, questioning what the act of sharing demands. The goal of this project is to change assumptions of collective living by rethinking space. To create an interlaced community, with hopes of becoming more resilient. The research and its findings worked along- side the report and developed into a zine. The zine was made with key insights from the study, as a tool to communicate the design proposal and can easily be distributed to the Swedish population.

The problem of this study was a content analysis of art and art-related vocabulary utilized in selected children's leisure time television viewing. Three programs (Misterogers Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and The Electric Company) were selected for the analysis. Audio tapes were made, transcribed, and analyzed for the art and artrelated words based on contextual usage. The analysis of the resulting 223-page tapescript revealed 467 art and art-related words which occurred a total of 3,668 times. The identified art and art-related words were subsequently sorted into five categories by systematically applying specific criteria. The conclusion was that television is limiting in art and art-related vocabulary as a viable language source.

Cette recherche se concentre sur des films brésiliens contemporains dont l’élaboration formelle est fortement impliquée dans les territoires filmés. Le cinéma devient l’une des multiples facettes du geste d’habiter, de même que l'image se fait l’une d’entre autres pratiques d’habitation. Sous ce prisme, différentes composantes de l’acte d’habiter peuvent avoir affaire au cinéma, que ce soit dans des œuvres qui soulignent un rapport étroit entre l’image et le geste d’habiter dans le présent, ou bien dans la recherche de formes de partage avec les habitants filmés, ou encore dans la tentative d'élaborer des stratégies imaginatives capables de rendre à la vie quotidienne une puissance esthétique et politique particulière. Maison et voisinage donnent lieu, dans chacun des films, à des manières particulières d’engagement dans le présent et dans le territoire. Par le biais d’une opération d’écoute, la démarche de la recherche consiste à rendre compte de la manière dont les films plient ces mots, qui désignent initialement, des espaces, des lieux, vers une perspective qui engendre des formes : formes de faire du cinéma et de fabriquer le geste d’habiter, les unes indissociablement liées aux autres. Les œuvres qui nous mobilisent sont les suivantes : Casa da Vovó (2008), de Victor de Melo ; Ficar me trouxe até aqui (2016), de Renata Cavalcante ; Ela volta na quinta (2014) et Quintal (2015), d'André Novais Oliveira ; Europa (2011), Mauro em Caiena (2012) et A Festa e os Cães (2015), de Leonardo Mouramateus ; Na missão, com Kadu (2016), de Pedro Maia de Brito, Aiano Bemfica, Kadu Freitas ; A vizinhança do tigre (2014), d'Affonso Uchoa ; A cidade é uma só? (2011) et Branco sai preto fica (2014), d'Adirley Queirós. / This research is made accompanied by contemporary brazilian films that elaborate in their forms an expressive implication with the territories they film. Cinema becomes an act co-engineered with countless other tasks involved in the elaboration of dwelling: image is a dweller practice that articulates itself to other dweller practices. To dwell is, this way, a gesture that may concern to cinema following distinct procedures, whether in works that bring out a more direct relation between image and the dweller action in the present, or in the research of forms of sharing between dwelling and filmed subjectivities, or even in the effort to outline imaginative strategies that speculate about dwelling and are capable of returning to daily life a potent energy, of an aesthetic and political matrix. Home and Neighborhood generate, as such, in each film, distinct ways of engaging with present and territory. By means of an operation of listening, the research task situates itself into perceiving how the films flexibilize those words, that imply at first, spaces, places, in direction to perspectives that contrive modes: of making cinema and of making dwelling, together and indissociable. The works are the following: Casa da Vovó (2008), by Victor de Melo; Ficar me trouxe até aqui (2016), by Renata Cavalcante; Ela volta na quinta (2014) and Quintal (2015), by André Novais Oliveira; Europa (2011), Mauro em Caiena (2012) and A Festa e os Cães (2015), by Leonardo Mouramateus; A vizinhança do tigre (2014), by Affonso Uchoa; Na missão, com Kadu (2016), by Pedro Maia de Brito, Aiano Bemfica, Kadu Freitas; A cidade é uma só? (2011) and Branco sai preto fica (2014), by Adirley Queirós. / Esta pesquisa se faz na companhia de filmes brasileiros contemporâneos que elaboram suas formas a partir de uma implicação expressiva com os territórios filmados. O cinema se torna ato coengendrado a inúmeras outras tarefas envolvidas na elaboração do morar: a imagem é prática moradora que se articula a outras práticas moradoras. O morar é um gesto que pode concernir ao cinema, segundo distintos procedimentos, seja em trabalhos que salientam uma relação mais direta entre a imagem e a ação moradora no presente, seja na pesquisa de formas de compartilhamento com os sujeitos moradores e filmados, seja ainda no empenho em traçar estratégias imaginativas que especulam sobre o morar e são capazes de devolver à vida cotidiana uma potente energia, de matriz estética e política. Casa e vizinhança geram, a cada filme, distintas maneiras de se engajar no presente e no território. Por meio de uma operação de escuta, a empreitada da pesquisa se situa em perceber como os filmes flexionam essas palavras, que designam, inicialmente, espaços, lugares, em direção a perspectivas que engendram modos: de fazer cinema e de fazer morada, juntos e indissociáveis. As obras que nos fazem companhia são as seguintes: Casa da Vovó (2008), de Victor de Melo; Ficar me trouxe até aqui (2016), de Renata Cavalcante; Ela volta na quinta (2014) e Quintal (2015), de André Novais Oliveira; Europa (2011), Mauro em Caiena (2012) e A Festa e os Cães (2015), de Leonardo Mouramateus; A vizinhança do tigre (2014), de Affonso Uchoa; Na missão, com Kadu (2016), de Pedro Maia de Brito, Aiano Bemfica, Kadu Freitas; A cidade é uma só? (2011) e Branco sai preto fica (2014), de Adirley Queirós.

Studien syftar till att undersöka hur socioekonomisk segregation behandlas och kommuniceras inom olika instanser. Studien undersöker om kommuner och nationella organ arbetar utifrån samma mål och strategier rörande socioekonomisk segregation. Studien har en lokal avgränsning till det nyexploaterade området Gävle strand i Gävle. Segregationen mellan olika socioekonomiska samhällsgrupper har ökat under de senaste årtiondena. Höga bostadspriser och uppsatta hyreskrav gör det svårt för samhällsklasser med lägre inkomst att etablera sig på bostadsmarknaden. Detta leder till att socioekonomiskt starka grupper har större möjlighet att följa utvecklingen på bostadsmarknaden. Studien har genomfört en kvalitativ innehållsanalys samt en kvalitativt jämförande analys, där en jämförelse har gjorts mellan den kommunala stadsplaneringen och nationellt uppsatta mål och strategier som berör ämnet socioekonomisk segregation. Ämnet tystnad i text har också behandlats. Studiens resultat visar att det finns tydliga likheter och skillnader i hur ämnet socioekonomisk segregation behandlas i de olika dokumenten. För att säkra mångfalden i bostadsområden anses i majoriteten av dokumenten att blandade upplåtelseformer är viktigt. Samtidigt beskrivs det i dokumenten om problematiken med att nyproduktion är för dyrt och leder till homogenitet. En stor skillnad i denna studies resultat är hur i de nationella dokumenten lyfts fram vikten av att ställa mer krav i den kommunala planeringen. Samtidigt som det i de kommunala dokumenten redogörs att kommunen inte vill begränsa byggherrarnas byggkoncept. Det finns även skillnader internt hur kommunala och lokala plandokument behandlar socioekonomisk segregation. Studien har skapat en ökad förståelse för hur arbetet kring socioekonomisk segregation behandlas och genomförs genom att påvisa vilka skillnader och likheter som finns mellan olika styr- och plandokument. Studiens resultat kan användas för att bättre förstå dessa likheter och skillnader i syfte att kunna säkerställa att arbetet på kommunal och nationell nivå i större utsträckning behandlar socioekonomisk segregation likvärdigt i framtiden. / This study aims to investigate how socio-economic segregation is treated and communicated within different instances. The study examines whether municipalities and national agencies work on the same goals and strategies regarding socio-economic segregation. The study has a local delimitation to the newly developed area of Gävle Strand in Gävle. Segregation between different socioeconomic social groups has increased in recent decades. High housing prices and rental requirements make it difficult for social classes with lower incomes to establish themselves in the housing market. This leads to socio-economically strong groups having a greater opportunity to follow developments in the housing market. The studies have conducted a qualitative content analysis as well as a qualitative comparative analysis, where a comparison has been made between the municipal urban planning and national targets and strategies related to socio-economic segregation. Silence has also been addressed in the text. The results of the study show that there are similarities and differences in how the subject socio-economic segregation is addressed in the documents. In order to ensure the diversity of residential areas, most of the documents considered mixed forms of tenure to be important. At the same time, the documents describe the problems of new production being too expensive and leading to homogeneity. A big difference in this study's results is how the national documents emphasize the importance of placing more demands on municipal planning, while the municipal documents explain that they do not want to limit the building concepts of the building developers. There are also differences internally between municipal and local plan documents that deal with socio-economic segregation. The study has created an increased understanding of how the work on socio-economic segregation is treated and implemented, by demonstrating what differences and similarities exist between different control and planning documents. The study's results can be used to better understand these similarities and differences in order to ensure that work at the different levels to a greater extent deals with socio-economic segregation in the same way in the future.

O presente trabalho de Geografia Urbana trata dos principais problemas socioambientais ocorridos no Bairro do Biribiri, na cidade de Manacapuru, no estado do Amazonas. Objetiva analisar como ocorreu a produção do espaço geradora dos impactos socioambientais existentes no Bairro do Biribiri; analisar os tipos de impactos que há; discutir a produção do espaço urbano pelos agentes produtores do espaço de Manacapuru e verificar quem são e como esses agentes constroem o espaço, com destaque para o Bairro do Biribiri. Para tanto, foi selecionada a área mais crítica do referido Bairro, o trecho do Igarapé do Areal, no rio Miriti, por possuir ocupação residencial tipo palafita adensada na área de várzea. O referencial teórico pautou-se na utilização de autores que tratam da questão urbana em geral, como Carlos (1994, 2003, 2008), Corrêa (1994, 2004) e Santos (1989, 1993, 1994, 1999), assim como autores que tratam especificamente da realidade das cidades da Amazônia, por exemplo, Becker (1990), Trindade Jr. (1997) e Oliveira (2000, 2003). Espera-se que este trabalho possa contribuir para o estabelecimento de políticas públicas urbanas para a área de estudo e para outras áreas semelhantes do município de Manacapuru. / This dissertation in Urban Geography deals with the major socio-environmental problems occurred in Biribiri neighborhood, in city of Manacapuru, in Amazonas state. It aims to analyze how the production of space generate socio-environmental impacts in Biribiri neighborhood; analyze the types of impacts; discuss the production of urban space by the spaces agents of Manacapuru, and verify who are and how these agents build the space, highlighting the district of Biribiri. To this end, it was selected the most critical area of that district, the part of affluent Areal of Miriti River, as it has dense occupation of stilt houses in the floodplain area. The theoretical framework was based on the use of authors dealing with urban issues in general, as Carlos (1994, 2003, 2008), Correa (1994, 2004), and Santos (1989, 1993, 1994, 1999), as well as authors who attend specifically with the reality of the Amazon cities, for example, Becker (1990), Trinidad Jr. (1997) and Oliveira (2000, 2003). It is hoped that this work can contribute to the establishment of urban public policies to the studied area and other similar areas of the city of Manacapuru

A partir do sistema agrícola, buscou-se compreender como os agricultores de pequenas unidades organizam sua produção e como ela é subordinada aos mercados. O estudo foi realizado no bairro rural de Santo Ângelo onde residem 284 famílias de posseiros produtores de hortaliças. Isso permitiu a compreensão da organização atual do mercado (CEAGESP, CEAAP, CDR, supermercados e outros) com relação à atuação dos agentes econômicos e aos mecanismos de monopólio do capital sobre a produção deste tipo de propriedade. Partindo do pressuposto de que as pequenas unidades são frutos da contradição do modo de produção capitalista, sendo responsáveis por uma parte significativa da produção de alimentos frescos destinados aos grandes centros urbanos, chega-se à conclusão de que à subordinação aos mercados é a principal causa da ocorrência do processo de desintegração que este tipo de propriedade enfrenta. Apesar disso, os agricultores encontraram na organização política a maneira de permanecerem produzindo na localidade onde se encontram / The agriculture development has relegated the cultivate of vegetables, in Brazil, to small familiar production units. The Mogi das Cruzes municipality is the highest producer in Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. Almost all the production is destinated to São Paulo market, where it is comercialized in locals like CEAGESP or CEAAP. From these locals, the vegetables are distributed to other regions of São Paulo state or the country. This study intend to discuss the organization of vegetables production and its comercialization in Metropolitan Region of São Paulo