The Savannah River originates in the area of Rabun Gap in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in northern Georgia, and flows eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Where the river opens out to the sea, the Tybee Island Lighthouse stands. A few miles inland, the city of Savannah, Georgia rests on the shore of this river. Part One of this book, Beginning of the New, analyzes the original settlement of this city. Part. Two, Composition with the Old, is a proposal for a square in that urban scheme. From Rabun Cap to Tybee Light is a colloquialism, once used in this part of Georgia, meaning 'all-inclusive'. This phrase is used here not only to indicate the physical location of this city, but the usage represents my search for a complete architecture- gathering a breadth and depth of understanding in order to build a house or a city. That search is not presented in this volume. What is presented are two vehicles for this search; the analysis and the proposal. In this search. I am somewhere between complete nescience and categorical mastery. I do not know where I stand but this book stands there with me. / Master of Architecture

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Poon Pong Fai Wesley. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 53). / a story point of Departure --- p.1 / side A --- p.2 / side B --- p.3 / phenomenon / glass architecture --- p.4 / discovering / passive contact --- p.5 / man-fish relationship --- p.6 / psychological aspect --- p.7 / social aspect --- p.8-9 / inward & outward quality --- p.10-11 / about the people... --- p.12 / self-reinforcing & self-congestion --- p.13 / public vs. private --- p.14 / history of open space --- p.15-16 / from the definition... --- p.17 / observation / shopping mall --- p.18 / "mongkok football ""park""" --- p.19 / from the observation / identifying characters --- p.20 / precedent / De meerpall Hall --- p.21 / Park and Sports Complex --- p.22 / D+S --- p.23 / target --- p.24 / site investigation / happy valley --- p.25-27 / pedestrian flyover in Shau Kei Wan --- p.28-29 / "Macpherson Stadium, Mongkok" --- p.30-33 / design concept --- p.34-36 / program --- p.37-38 / design development / sketches --- p.39 / preliminary schemes --- p.40-41 / study models --- p.42-43 / final design / design strategy --- p.44 / final scheme --- p.45-49 / interior views --- p.50 / final model --- p.51-52 / bibliography --- p.53

Due to the degree of complexity related to measuring the advantage of establishing Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems, literature generally stops short of modeling an all-inclusive set of benefits of the system. In this research, a model that incorporates the impact on both the users and the society as a whole and evaluates the financial benefits over the lifespan of the ETC investment is developed. Most of the values for the parameters used for calculating the benefits are taken from Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and from similar studies conducted by transportation agencies, which is the setting that has motivated the current research. These parameters are national averages and not region specific. The model will serve as a decision making tool to determine the number of ETC lanes over the manual and automatic lanes. The model has been used for toll plazas with different number of lanes to study the financial value of the benefits due to the ETC deployment. It is also used to study the effect of the traffic flow on the total benefits and recommendation has been made with respect to the time for the ETC deployment.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 Jun 15

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 71 pages. / Thesis (M.S.I.E.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: Due to the degree of complexity related to measuring the advantage of establishing Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems, literature generally stops short of modeling an all-inclusive set of benefits of the system. In this research, a model that incorporates the impact on both the users and the society as a whole and evaluates the financial benefits over the lifespan of the ETC investment is developed. Most of the values for the parameters used for calculating the benefits are taken from Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and from similar studies conducted by transportation agencies, which is the setting that has motivated the current research. These parameters are national averages and not region specific. The model will serve as a decision making tool to determine the number of ETC lanes over the manual and automatic lanes. / ABSTRACT: The model has been used for toll plazas with different number of lanes to study the financial value of the benefits due to the ETC deployment. It is also used to study the effect of the traffic flow on the total benefits and recommendation has been made with respect to the time for the ETC deployment. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Faced with population increases but stagnant capital improvements and impacts from global warming, cities around the world are experimenting with smaller-scale and cheaper strategies in order to accommodate the new influx of residents. New York City has led the way in converting low-efficiency intersection space into public plazas with a limited range of permanently installed elements and San Francisco has pioneered the concept of the parklet, which converts two to four street parking spaces into a modular and flexible pedestrian space. I seek to answer two questions about these spaces: What are common factors influencing the viability and successful implementation of parklets and public plaza? And what are the social and environmental outcomes of constructing parklets and public plazas at a site-specific level and across larger urban scales? Previous research has examined the dynamics and components of public spaces in cities. This research builds upon previous research efforts. By answering these questions, cities and communities seeking to create more pedestrian-friendly and human-oriented space have insights into the components that make parklets and public plazas work and what impacts these developments can have throughout their built environment. I conducted theoretical research of scholarly works concerning urban ecology, resilience, and the social components of cities, and conducted structured observations of plazas and parklets and appropriate control sites in New York City and San Francisco. At a site-specific scale, these developments promote a diverse range of uses and can serve as localized nodes. Across larger scales, these developments can use design considerations to change the perception of an area or neighborhood and have the potential to create a linked system that provides widespread circulatory and ecological improvements. Creating programs that facilitate parklet installations and plaza conversions give cities and communities the most bang for their buck because they provide flexible spaces that do not involve major and expensive capital improvements. Parklets and public plazas are viable projects for providing green space and promoting pedestrian circulation within neighborhoods and communities.

Over the past two decades, an increasing amount of research has been directed toward climatic influences on behavior and the built environment. The evidence from this research has lead to the development of recommended site interventions to improve energy performance in individual buildings and to mitigate extreme climate conditions in exterior public spaces in order to make these environments more comfortable."Comfort", as a measure of performance, is usually based upon one of the many indices of thermal comfort. These indices, however, have been developed specifically for use in indoor environments and were later readapted for exterior environments. Previous research has begun to show that standards designed for and developed in interior settings, are not necessarily applicable for use in exterior environments where climate is only partially controllable and behavior is less defined. Early preliminary studies have shown that considerable activity will occur outside of the boundaries formally established as “comfortable” by any particular thermal index. In contradiction to the traditional thermal performance measures that determine specific climatological conditions to support a particular behavior, this research uses two bio-comfort charts and a thermal indexing equation to establish what specific behaviors will occur under particular climate profiles. This study takes an annual record of regional and site specific climate data and applies it to existing comfort prediction models to ascertain if such applications are legitimate and if these applications are capable of predicting the frequency and duration of observed social behavior in an outdoor urban setting. / Master of Landscape Architecture

This project can be described in terms of the three main elements it explores: the relationship between the building and its context, the use of the structural system as an integral part of the architectural language and finally, the degree to which a building can be both specific and flexible programmatically. The boundaries between the urban design and architecture are blurred. The design of the larger urban environment preceded the design of the building. The building itself functions as a progression of public spaces decreasing in scale, as we move inwardly from the atrium. The structure plays a critical role in the project, not just because it helps organize the building; but also because it becomes a major thematic element. This is particularly evident in the atrium, where the architecture adopts a sculptural tone. Flexibility to accommodate change has become a fundamental programmatic requirement of contemporary institutions. The design of the buildings that houses them struggles to accommodate this need while at the same time developing an identity. The project attempts to reconcile this apparent contradiction. / Master of Architecture