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The landscape design preferences of older peopleGignoux, Leslie Conger January 1987 (has links)
What are the landscape style preferences of older people? What are the preferred outdoor activities of older people? In this study I want to raise the issue of how the external environment is aesthetically perceived, and how we as designers might facilitate the user’s needs in design. In order to incorporate user needs into a design program we must first develop methods to identify user needs. There is not a body of literature that identifies the landscape design preferences of older people. So it has been the major aim of this study to develop a process by which these preferences can be identified and utilized in a landscape plan.
It has also been a primary goal of this study to work with a particular group of older people; to become familiar with them; to build a rapport; to observe behavioral patterns; and to allow the residents to contribute their ideas to the development of a landscape plan. The research methods employed were geared to encourage resident participation in the design process and to determine aesthetic preferences. The Wheatland Hills retirement center was selected for the study because it was a newly constructed facility with supportive residents and management. The residents were primarily educated, ambulatory, white, middle class females from rural and urban backgrounds living in an age-segregated congregate care facility.
The first method of inquiry utilized environmental modelling techniques adapted for the sample. Since the residents were familiar with their site, a landscape design workshop was developed that would allow for a maximum amount of idea generating. On pre-constructed cardboard models, the residents were asked to create their ideal landscape. They worked in four teams ranging in size from 3-6people. Sixteen of the forty residents participated in the landscape design workshop.
The results from the landscape design workshop were indicated on the four models. Therefore a system of landscape styles and design categories (LSDC) was developed for the study. From each model, the LSDC system was used to interpret significant design patterns. The checklist (Figure 63) indicated major programming preferences and ideas. Strong circulation and activity areas were denoted in one model. Strong planting design schemes were denoted in a second model. The third model addressed programming on all areas of the site, and the fourth model showed a strong native planting scheme.
The second method was employed to determine landscape style preferences — the aesthetic concerns. A visual preference testing technique was adapted for the sample using the LSDC system. Forty-two images representing six landscape styles and seven design categories were shown in slide form first to the twenty participating residents. The residents then manually selected their favorite use of a landscape style from each design category, isolating the favorite print.
The visual preference survey indicated that the most popular landscape style was the French-Italian formal landscape (Figure 74). Within the design categories of "water", "private space", "public space" and "plants for color", the favorite selection was the formal landscape. In two design categories; "plants in the built environment" and "pathways", the residents preferred the English cottage Landscape. And in the design category of "overall design", they preferred the conventional institutional landscape.
The information generated from these two research methods points to a more complete visual and functional picture of what the residents prefer in their landscape. As designers, we must not only interpret user needs on a programming level, but we must also consider the landscape aesthetic, the preferred style.
The resulting conceptual landscape plan (Figure 76) has incorporated the preferred elements from both methods. It was found that the residents preferred to view a series of controlled outdoor planting habitats sandwiched between programmed activity rooms. This illustrates their need to extend the building into the landscape — to create a series of rooms that are easily accessible, yet have their purpose. These rooms are to hold a badminton court, or a chain swing. They want wide paths to accommodate two people or a wheelchair. They want to see native plant materials such as the dogwood and rhododendron. They want to see pretty pastel colors from their window, rather than bright red, yellow or blue. They want scented gardens, spring gardens, rock gardens and aquatic gardens, and most importantly they want the programmed space to get them there safely. Then they want to be able to sit and admire the pretty landscape and their friends using the next door space.
This study has employed two innovative research methods for the purpose of creating a more whole design. The conceptual landscape plan that has evolved from this study is dynamic and designed for a specific user group. There is no doubt that the methods used could be applied to other user groups, and there is no doubt that the results might change significantly based on the differences of the group. Yet the process of this inquiry has yielded information that can be applied to design. / Master of Landscape Architecture
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Contesting Risk, Expertise, and Environmental Justice on the Fenceline: The Cases of the Navajo Nation, Radford Arsenal, and Camp MindenNelson, Gregory Douglas 14 September 2016 (has links)
This dissertation examines the contestations over the politics of knowledge, risk, and environmental justice in three fenceline sites. Mobilizing the fenceline standpoint to study risk strengthens our objective understanding of the social situatedness of risk. To illustrate how a fenceline standpoint contributes to stronger objectivity of risk contestations, I survey public discourse of coal slurry extraction in Black Mesa, Arizona using an environmental justice framework. Discursive justifications for the construction of the slurry pipeline reveal how environmental injustice in the fenceline community emerged through urban controversies over water and power generation that excluded a fenceline standpoint. Insights from Black Mesa frame the next two cases: open burning hazardous waste at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, and M6 Disposal at Camp Minden, Louisiana.
At Radford, scholar-activist research examines the contestations of risk at one of the most hazardous waste facilities in the nation. I analyze the construction of risk from open burning of hazardous waste from a fenceline standpoint. I discursively situate the controversy over fenceline community risk from open burning, by showing the inadequacies of official risk assessments. Critical discourse analysis of risk shows the extant contestations over the practice of open burning.
In juxtaposition to Radford, the Camp Minden open burn controversy demonstrates how a fenceline movement successfully constructed alternatives to open burning. Fenceline success in Minden is forcing scrutiny over the risks produced by the practice of open burning explosives across the United States. The activation of fenceline knowledge and expertise, through grassroots organizing, is propelling inquiry from scientific and technical experts of the American Chemical Society who are questioning why the Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency have approved the use of open burning at other sites despite safer alternative technology.
Synthetically, each case illustrates the importance of fenceline knowledge as a crucial site of expertise. I present an argument for how a fenceline standpoint can challenge regulatory and producer constructions of fenceline risk. The creation of a program of research: Critical Risk Analysis, offers a model for scholar-activist intervention on the fenceline. The Camp Minden Dialogue demonstrates a successful example of how fenceline expert-activists can influence the construction of risk. Normatively, I build the argument that environmental justice research within Science and Technology Studies ought to situate the fenceline standpoint as equal to the competing epistemological claims of production and regulatory experts in order to strengthen the objectivity of our research in contested fenceline sites. / Ph. D.
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The law in the theologies of Wingren and Reuther : a comparative studyHess, Nancy Anne Olson 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis is a comparative study of the concept and role of the law in the
theologies of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Gustaf Wingren. The analysis of
their theologies shows that Wingren uses the law as a formal theological
category and Ruether does not. The absence of the law in Ruether's theology
has implication for theological ethics.
For Wingren the law has two uses. The first use, the so called political use, is
that which compels and coerces ethical behavior in the human. The first use of
the law is used to insure that all humans receive the fullness of life that God
intends for all of creation. The second use of the law, the so called spiritual
use, accuses the human when he/she does not meet the demands of the law.
When the conscience is accused the human is prepared to hear the gospel. For
Wingren, the gospel is what gives the human a new will to live by freeing the
human from the burden and condemnation of the law. The law and the gospel
serve each other but have distinct functions. The law demands ethical behavior
and the gospel gives salvation. According to Wingren, the source of ethical
behavior is located in the doctrine of creation not in the doctrine of the
revelation of God through Jesus Christ; thus preserving the notion that the gift
of grace is not earned by good works but is given freely.
For Ruether, appropriate ethical behavior is revealed to humans through
paradigmatic individuals who denounce systems of oppression and announce
God's intent for creation, namely, liberation. Jesus is one such paradigmatic
individual who both denounces oppression and announces the kingdom of God.
Jesus both demands justice in relationships and offers liberation. The gospel
message of Jesus, in effect, collapses the law and the gospel into one entity.
The follower of Jesus hears that salvation is dependent upon appropriate
ethical behavior thereby nullifying the notion that grace is an unearned gift.
The thesis concludes with a constructive statement which develops a feminist
theology based on Wingren's concept of the law / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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The law in the theologies of Wingren and Reuther : a comparative studyHess, Nancy Anne Olson 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis is a comparative study of the concept and role of the law in the
theologies of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Gustaf Wingren. The analysis of
their theologies shows that Wingren uses the law as a formal theological
category and Ruether does not. The absence of the law in Ruether's theology
has implication for theological ethics.
For Wingren the law has two uses. The first use, the so called political use, is
that which compels and coerces ethical behavior in the human. The first use of
the law is used to insure that all humans receive the fullness of life that God
intends for all of creation. The second use of the law, the so called spiritual
use, accuses the human when he/she does not meet the demands of the law.
When the conscience is accused the human is prepared to hear the gospel. For
Wingren, the gospel is what gives the human a new will to live by freeing the
human from the burden and condemnation of the law. The law and the gospel
serve each other but have distinct functions. The law demands ethical behavior
and the gospel gives salvation. According to Wingren, the source of ethical
behavior is located in the doctrine of creation not in the doctrine of the
revelation of God through Jesus Christ; thus preserving the notion that the gift
of grace is not earned by good works but is given freely.
For Ruether, appropriate ethical behavior is revealed to humans through
paradigmatic individuals who denounce systems of oppression and announce
God's intent for creation, namely, liberation. Jesus is one such paradigmatic
individual who both denounces oppression and announces the kingdom of God.
Jesus both demands justice in relationships and offers liberation. The gospel
message of Jesus, in effect, collapses the law and the gospel into one entity.
The follower of Jesus hears that salvation is dependent upon appropriate
ethical behavior thereby nullifying the notion that grace is an unearned gift.
The thesis concludes with a constructive statement which develops a feminist
theology based on Wingren's concept of the law / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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“The Nonmusical Message Will Endure With It:” The Changing Reputation and Legacy of John Powell (1882-1963)Adam, Karen 24 April 2012 (has links)
This thesis explores the changing reputation and legacy of John Powell (1882-1963). Powell was a Virginian-born pianist, composer, and ardent Anglo-Saxon supremacist who created musical propaganda to support racial purity and to define the United States as an exclusively Anglo-Saxon nation. Although he once enjoyed international fame, he has largely disappeared from the public consciousness today. In contrast, the legacies of many of Powell’s musical contemporaries, such as Charles Ives and George Gershwin, have remained vigorous. By examining the ways in which the public has perceived and portrayed Powell both during and after his lifetime, this thesis links Powell’s obscurity to a deliberate, public rejection of his Anglo-Saxon supremacist definition of the United States.
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Perspective vol. 17 no. 2 (Apr 1983)VanderVennen, Robert E., Van Ginkel, Aileen, Shahinian, Gary, Terpstra, Nicholas, Vanderkloet, Kathy, McIntire, C. T., Bower, Susan 30 April 1983 (has links)
No description available.
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Perspective vol. 17 no. 2 (Apr 1983) / Perspective: Newsletter of the Association for the Advancement of Christian ScholarshipVanderVennen, Robert E., Van Ginkel, Aileen, Shahinian, Gary, Terpstra, Nicholas, Vanderkloet, Kathy, McIntire, C. T., Bower, Susan 26 March 2013 (has links)
No description available.
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The Association of Libarians in colleges of advanced education and the committee of Australian university librarians: The evolution of two higher education library groups, 1958-1997Oakshott, Stephen Craig, School of Information, Library & Archives Studies, UNSW January 1998 (has links)
This thesis examines the history of Commonwealth Government higher education policy in Australia between 1958 and 1997 and its impact on the development of two groups of academic librarians: the Association of Librarians in Colleges in Advanced Education (ALCAE) and the Committee of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). Although university librarians had met occasionally since the late 1920s, it was only in 1965 that a more formal organisation, known as CAUL, was established to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. ALCAE was set up in 1969 and played an important role helping develop a special concept of library service peculiar to the newly formed College of Advanced Education (CAE) sector. As well as examining the impact of Commonwealth Government higher education policy on ALCAE and CAUL, the thesis also explores the influence of other factors on these two groups, including the range of personalities that comprised them, and their relationship with their parent institutions and with other professional groups and organisations. The study focuses on how higher education policy and these other external and internal factors shaped the functions, aspirations, and internal dynamics of these two groups and how this resulted in each group evolving differently. The author argues that, because of the greater attention given to the special educational role of libraries in the CAE curriculum, the group of college librarians had the opportunity to participate in, and have some influence on, Commonwealth Government statutory bodies responsible for the coordination of policy and the distribution of funding for the CAE sector. The link between ALCAE and formal policy-making processes resulted in a more dynamic group than CAUL, with the university librarians being discouraged by their Vice-Chancellors from having contact with university funding bodies because of the desire of the universities to maintain a greater level of control over their affairs and resist interference from government. The circumstances of each group underwent a reversal over time as ALCAE's effectiveness began to diminish as a result of changes to the CAE sector and as member interest was transferred to other groups and organisations. Conversely, CAUL gradually became a more active group during the 1980s and early 1990s as a result of changes to higher education, the efforts of some university librarians, and changes in membership. This study is based principally on primary source material, with the story of ALCAE and CAUL being told through the use of a combination of original documentation (including minutes of meetings and correspondence) and interviews with members of each group and other key figures.
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