Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-173).

abstract: Tempe political and business leaders implemented a series of strategies, composed of interconnected economic, political, and cultural factors that contributed to the city's growth over time. Influenced by a new economic opportunities and challenges, changing ideas about redevelopment and the role of suburbs, and Tempe's own growth issues after 1960, Tempe leaders and citizens formed a distinct vision for downtown redevelopment. Modified over time, the redevelopment strategy depended on effective planning and financing, public-private collaboration, citizen participation, and a revised perception of growth. After 1980, the strategy gained momentum enabling leaders to expand their ambitions for downtown. Redevelopment manifested through riverfront redevelopment, art and culture, and historic preservation redirecting the city's growth, creating economic development, and revitalizing downtown as Tempe began flourishing as a mature supersuburb. The strategy showed considerable economic success by 2012 and the completion of the Rio Salado Project, the Tempe Center for the Arts, and the preservation of the Hayden Flour Mill made downtown an attractive and diverse urban destination. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. History 2014

Dentre os processos urbanos passíveis de serem analisados pelos novos sensores de alta resolução espacial está a refuncionalização de antigas áreas industriais, atualmente desativadas. Os edifícios e terrenos industriais que tiveram um uso ativo, mas que foram fechados, abandonados, e estão ociosos, são chamados de brownfields. Nos últimos anos, alguns destes locais tem sido refuncionalizados, alterando suas formas, estruturas e funções, incorporando, portanto, novos usos. Neste trabalho são analisadas primeiramente as questões teóricas acerca dos brownfields sua conceituação, formação, refuncionalização, e impactos gerados. Posteriormente, são apresentadas as metodologias de aplicação das geotecnologias nos estudos sobre brownfields e a discussão de suas potencialidades. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi estudar a utilização do sensoriamento remoto e dos sistemas de informação geográfica (SIG) para identificar áreas de potenciais brownfields e analisar o processo de refuncionalização de antigos espaços fabris dos bairros do Brás, Mooca e Belém, em São Paulo. Neste contexto, as aerofotos e as imagens Quickbird integradas em ambiente SIG mostraram serem de grande auxílio para a identificação de brownfields, bem como para a análise do processo de refuncionalização, que foi atualizado e corroborado com os trabalhos de campo nos bairros citados. A acurácia da classificação supervisionada do uso do solo da imagem Quickbird no software TNTmips, apresentou Kappa de 86.29% para o bairro do Brás, 89.41% para a Mooca e 89.25% para o Belém; e a acurácia global apresentou 88.53% para o Brás, 91.85% para a Mooca e 90.25% para o Belém resultados considerados excelentes. Este trabalho, portanto, contribui em apresentar novas possibilidades de estudos sobre brownfields, valendo-se da potencialidade das geotecnologias e das imagens de alta resolução espacial para análise intra-urbana. Além disso, as questões analisadas nesta pesquisa apontam caminhos teóricos e metodológicos para a melhor compreensão destas áreas e para a busca por intervenções mais adequadas visando solucionar problemas urbanos. / Among the urban processes susceptible to be analyzed through the new high resolution spatial sensors, is the redevelopment of old industrial areas, presently deactivated. The building and industrial terrains that had and active use, but that were shutdown, abandoned, and are idle, are called brownfields. In the last years, some of these places have been redeveloped, changing its shapes, structures and functions, incorporating, this way, new uses. On this paper are analyzed, primarily, the theoretical issues about the brownfields - its conception, formation, redevelopment, and generated impacts. Subsequently, are presented the geotechnologies methodologies application on the brownfields studies and the discussion of its potentialities. The objective of this research was to study the use of remote sensing and the Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify potential brownfields areas and analyse the redevelopment process of old industrial spaces in the districts of Brás, Mooca and Belém, in the city of São Paulo. In this context, the aerial photos and Quickbird images, integrated in a GIS environment, showed to be of great aid in the brownfields identification, as well as to the redevelopment analysis process, that was updated and supported with field work in the quoted districts. The supervised classification accuracy of the land use in the Quickbird image over the Software TNTmips, shows Kappa of 86.29% to the Brás district, 89.41% to Mooca and 89.25% to Belém; and the overall accuracy presented 88.53% to Brás, 91.85% to Mooca and 90.25% to Belém - results considered excellent. So, this paper contributes with the presentation of new study possibilities over brownfields, taking advantage of the geotechnologies and high resolution spatial imagery potentialities to the intra-urban analysis. Beside this, the analyzes issues on this research indicate theoretical and methodological ways to a better comprehension of these areas and to the quest for more adequate interventions, seeking to solve urban problems.

LL.D. / Due to a democratic policy of transparency, responsibility and accountability, government organisations in the 'new' South Africa will have to properly and thoroughly plan and manage all facets of the national economy. Planning of land rights, - development and environmental conservation is necessary to manage the housing shortage, industrial and agricultural development and the principles of the Development Facilitation Act and the reconstruction and development programme. Town-, regional- and environmental conservation planning (especially managing of natural resources) is of vital importance. The role of the community, public participation, opinions and input is vital and desirable. New legislation in terms of town- and regional planning matters is however not completely in place. Administrative law, particularly the administrative justice stipulation in the constitution, plays an important and integral role in terms of the duties of town planning tribunals, developmental facilitation tribunals, town councils, ministers, provincial premiers and members of executive committees' powers and functions. The relevant legislation in Gauteng Province is the Development Facilitation Act, Town planning and Townships Ordinance (Tvl), the Local Government Transition Act,' the Gauteng Removal of Restrictions Act, 2 town planning schemes and the Environmental Conservation Act. This list is not a numerus clausus and will be discussed further below. The basis and practical area of application of all this legislation is administrative law. The administrative justice stipulation in the Constitution plays a vital and essential role in the implementation and execution of such legislation.

Berlin est une ville qui suscite un nombre impressionnant d'images liées à l'histoire du 20eme siècle. Rares sont les villes qui condensent autant d'empreintes dans lesquelles on peut lire les grands événements qui marquèrent l'Europe et le monde. Sur les ruines du siècle passé, Berlin tente aujourd'hui de s'ériger en capitale allemande, un centre du pouvoir politique et économique, la ville reflet d'une démocratie allemande qui se veut modeste et exemplaire. La chute du Mur est un événement qui, pour ses contemporains, a sans conteste débouché sur une rupture d'intelligibilité. Si elle ouvre de facto de nouvelles perspectives à venir, cette rupture d'intelligibilité n'en préfigure pas moins un rapport radicalement nouveau au passé. En Allemagne réunifiée, et plus particulièrement à Berlin, un vaste travail de réévaluation des passés s'est amorcé, ayant pour objectif de combler de sens la nouvelle donne née de l'événement 1989. Le traitement des hauts-lieux du communisme, qui s'effectue de concert avec un vaste travail sur le passé de la RDA, répond à de multiples exigences qui se déclinent en termes politiques, identitaires et économiques. Il importe à la fois de comprendre comment la construction de récits officiels du passé communiste s'inscrit dans une dynamique globale de constitution et 'inscription de récits nationaux de la nouvelle Allemagne dans l'espace urbain de la capitale, et de porter une attention particulière à la réception de ces reconstructions du passé au sein des "publics" berlinois. Comment des références communes à la RDA se construisent-elles? Et comment, en retour, des récits alternatifs de la ville et de ses passés viennent-ils s'opposer aux interprétations, parfois homogénéisantes, que propose le« Nouveau Berlin»? / Berlin is a city that spawns an irnpressive imagery related to the history of the 20th century. Few other cities contain so many !andmarks of the great events that shaped Europe and the world. From the ruins of the past century, Berlin is now trying to set itself up as German capital, center of political and economic power, which embodies the German democracy that sees itself as modest and exemplary. The collapse of the Wall is an event that has undoubtedly led to a break of intelligibility for those who lived within it. However much it opens de facto new prospects for the future, this break of intelligibility also foreshadows a radically new relationship with history. ln reunified Germany and especially in Berlin a large scale job of reevaluation of the past has begun, airning at bringing sense to the new historica~ political, economie and social order born from 1989. The treatrnent of the high places of communism, which takes place in conjunction with an extensive work on the past of the GDR, addresses multiple requirements formulated in political and economie terms as weil as in terms of identity. It is important to understand both how the construction of official narratives of the communist pastis part of an overall dyoamic of incorporation and of registration of narratives of the new Germany in the urban space of the capita~ and to pa y special attention to the reception of these reconstructions of the past within the 11public arena" in Berlin How does a common history of the GDR take shape? And how, in turn, do alternative narratives of the city and its past contradict the interpretations sometimes homogenizing proposed by the "New Berlin"?

The changes to the British Columbia Municipal Act repealing land use contracts in 1978 by Bill 42, and the subsequent amendments leading up to Bill 62 in 1985 and Bill 30 in 1987 have been both dramatic and comprehensive in their effect on land development and the approval process. Since the repealing of land use contracts and in spite of the new amendments, B.C. planning legislation has been increasingly criticized among developers, planners, and local governments for the lack of development agreement provisions and adequate flexibility in the municipal approval process. This thesis investigates the possibility of reintroducing land use contracts as a development agreement control in the context of current planning practices. A literature review of the evolution of municipal planning control in B.C. is conducted to provide background information for a theoretical and practical evaluation of the current system of controls in comparison to the former system of land use contracts. The theoretical evaluation is based on measuring both systems against normative criteria, whereas the practical evaluation is comprised of a local government/development industry survey and several case studies. The following conclusions are made in this research: - Land use contracts were introduced in response to a growing need among local governments for some legitimate legislative means of entering into development agreements with developers to require developers to assist in providing the municipal services associated with their development. - Local government support for the land use contract was based on the ability to regulate design, ensure regulation performance, and to enter into off-site servicing and amenity agreements. - The development industry was initially supportive of land use contracts because they offered unlimited flexibility during negotiations and the certainty of a legal contract immune to future zoning changes. Developers eventually withdrew their support for land use contracts complaining of large scale downzoning, lengthy approval delays and excessive impost fees. Many of these allegations are dispelled in this research, but the real weakness of the land use contract was that it was difficult to amend and could be used extensively to replace zoning, effectively "fettering" future council's planning powers. - In the absence of the land use contract, many municipal governments are continuing with a land use contract practice, but without a legislative or in some instances legal basis. - The theoretical analysis, survey and case studies determine that the current planning legislation is adequate for the most part. There is a need however, for a land use contract mechanism to accommodate mixed use, comprehensive or complicated developments. This type of control was determined to be superior in accommodating these types of projects to the current approach of using a variety of planning mechanisms. Generally there is support among local governments and the development industry in B.C. for new land use contract legislation as long as it is more clearly defined to avoid the mistakes of its use in the 1970's. On the basis of this analysis, the study recommends that land use contract reintroduced but in a much more controlled and limited way. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

Established communities pursue revitalization to transform struggling downtowns into vibrant hubs and walkable neighborhoods. Vacant and underused parcels can help communities grow sustainably by using excess capacity in existing infrastructure. However, many communities experience limited urban infill activity due to persistent bias favoring low-density development at the community’s edges. In small communities perceptions and processes can favor low-density growth. Infill development can be complicated due to site conditions and neighborhood context, yet planners work with ad hoc techniques and limited staff time. There is a need for efficient ways to identify suitable sites and generate information to use for community decision-making around redevelopment. The primary aim of this research is to develop an Urban Infill Assessment Framework (UIAF). It is organized around three questions: Can the framework assess infill’s potential in a small post-industrial downtown? Is it replicable? Does the framework change how local stakeholders perceive infill potential? To answer these questions this study will develop and test a UIAF in Turners Falls, MA, then test resulting information through stakeholder interviews. The framework uses mixed-methods to integrate social values, fiscal efficiency, and spatial awareness through procedures organized in three Phases. Phase I examines quantitative and qualitative information (e.g., local planning documents, tax data, site visits, and consultations with local experts) to produce mapped context data, and local building typologies with corresponding tax yield per acre. In Phase II these components are used in scenario building, to calculate composite capacity of infill acreage and annual tax yield for defined areas. Finally, interviews with ten stakeholders test how the information influences perceptions of infill in Turners Falls. As a result of this research, planners should be able to replicate the framework. Based on preliminary results, the relevance of an infill assessment tool to planning practice is threefold: It promotes strategic land-use planning by generating information to compare development projects across diverse locations, scales, and spatial configurations. It supports structured application of concepts uniquely suited to managing urban environments. Improved redevelopment tools and expertise can offset procedural and perceptual factors that favor low-density growth and sprawl.

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Through a methodological approach this project examines possibilites for a more flexible and direct citizien participation within the framework of an urban design project. Allthroughout the process opportunities to influence the progressing workflow is exemplified by recurring phases of participation. The case study of examining the transformation of a motorized highway into an urban street network also serves as an interesting plattform which from an analytical perspective presents a variety of different presets that exposes valuable assets for the development.

Magister Artium - MA / As the title indicates, this research is concerned about the displacement and resettlement situation in Arada sub-city, Addis Ababa. The City Administration is implementing an urban redevelopment program to improve the poor infrastructural facilities, service provision,sewerage, sanitation, housing quality and supply. The implementation of these projects displaces households from their residential area exposing them to various impoverishment risks. The Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction Model (Cernea, 2000), which is a tool used for managing risk identification, prevention and mitigation, stipulates displaced people could encounter one or more of the eight potential risks of landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, social disarticulation, marginalization, increased morbidity and mortality, food insecurity and loss of access to common property resources. Thus many development practitioners advocate the importance of democratization of the displacement and resettlement processes to reduce potential risks.The purpose of the research is to investigate how the displacement and resettlement process has been undertaken and to describe the impoverishment risks displaced households faced.This will contribute to the improvement of the program and other similar programs in the future as it is implemented with short, medium and long term plans. Thus it will indicate more constructive ways of implementing the displacement process that reduces risks by informing concerned agencies of more sustainable ways to configure and implement their work.Academically, the research will test the feasibility of the risk variables described by the IRR model to an inner area of urban context.Therefore, the research will answer the following questions: What impoverishment risks do the households face due to displacement and resettlement to the temporary and condominium houses? What coping mechanisms do households employ to adapt to the new circumstances? Was there access to information? Was the displacement and resettlement process participatory? The research noted that the displaced residents are exposed to impoverishment risks of homelessness, marginalization, lack of services, health hazard and economic impacts.The construction of the Condo house is of a much better standard than the temporary shelters.As a result the transfer of households to the Condo house has relieved them from the risks they had faced at the temporary shelter. However, the design of the Condo building, omission of basic facilities like a customary kitchen and the adopted communal neighborhood regulations imposes new type of risks such as the discontinuation of informal business and unsuitability to daily and cultural practices. The discontinuation of informal business both at the temporary shelter and later at the Condo house severely affected household income generation potential of poor households. These households are afraid that they may end up homeless as they are unable to pay the much more expensive house rental fee.The research concludes the impoverishment risks that displaced households faced could be mitigated by making the displacement and resettlement process participatory, transparent and by coordinating the activities of the implementing agencies. Moreover, this can be achieved by curbing the “demolish and relocate” approach used in the displacement and resettlement process to “relocate and demolish”. This will help to avoid housing the displaced in temporary shelters and associated governance shortcomings from the process which occurred due to the “demolish and relocate” approach.