Thesis (M.L.A) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70).

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70) Also available in print.

The plans for a shopping mall under construction on a 192-acre site in Lansing Township, Ingham County, Michigan, United States were used as the basis of a design exploration into ways for improving the environmental and social sustainability of conventional malls. The exploration focused on four themes, specifically: Native plant materials; stormwater management^experiential qualities; and biodiversity. Literature on the use of these four themes to achieve sustainability goals was reviewed, and design precedents and projects that employed native plant materials, stormwater management, place experiential qualities, and biodiversity to improve environmental and social sustainability were examined. The literature on plant species native to the Ingham County area was researched to determine which species are suitable as landscape plant materials for shopping mall environments. A variety of interventions were proposed for managing stormwater runoff on the site, with an emphasis on soil infiltration as a management technique. Interventions were proposed to provide a pleasurable and comfortable experience for mall visitors, most notably summer shade for people and parked cars, ease of navigation and movement through the site for pedestrians and vehicles, and aesthetically pleasing plantings and architecture. Planted areas were designed to provide food and cover for wildlife common in the Ingham County area. The layout of the buildings and parking lots was designed to facilitate the future transformation of the shopping mall into a residential neighborhood, as a means of recycling developed land and limiting urban sprawl. Many of the interventions proposed were designed with the intention of revealing natural processes operating in the landscape, in the manner of the Eco-Revelatory design movement. This exploration demonstrated that it is possible to redesign a conventional shopping mall to make it a greater social asset to the community and less of an environmental liability. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

Chang Hoi Wood Howard. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1999-2000, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter §0 --- foreword / Chapter §1 --- As all I know- / Chapter §2 --- Architecture and my heart / Chapter §3 --- "About research method," / Chapter §4 --- "In the films of Pasolini," / Chapter §5 --- "In the thesis," / Chapter §6 --- Confinement / Chapter §7 --- "House," / Chapter §8 --- What is the meaning of a tone? / Chapter §9 --- "Reading the books of Foucault," / Chapter §10 --- "...passport," / Chapter §11 --- "Architecture, planned quantitative environment," / Chapter §12 --- "...we have the potential, to commit the same crime..." / Chapter §13 --- I may start with an analogy. / Chapter §14 --- "From the analogy of medical system," / Chapter §15 --- The cities / Chapter §16 --- "Lives are segregated," / Chapter §17 --- Philosophy is the creation / Chapter §18 --- "Architecture, the patron saint" / Chapter §19 --- The presence of a secret police / Chapter §20 --- "Truth: So, here must raise a question: how is the morality" / Chapter §21 --- So the story would develop like this: / Chapter §22 --- "Architecture as a thing," / Chapter §23 --- 8/9/99 / Chapter §24 --- the first raising of the four notions / Chapter §25 --- the implication of the ox picture / Chapter §26 --- general structure / Chapter §27 --- encystment / Chapter §27-1 --- general exposition of the concept / Chapter §27-2 --- "specific exposition of the notion: on occasion, on event, on form, on mood- state of mind, on action´ؤstate of body " / Chapter §28 --- boredom / Chapter §28-1 --- general exposition of the notion / Chapter §28-2 --- "specific exposition of the notion: on occasion, on event, on form, on mood- state of mind, on action´ؤstate of body " / Chapter §29 --- forgetfulness & fancy / Chapter §29-1 --- general exposition of the notions / Chapter §29-2 --- "specific exposition of the notion: on occasion, on event, on form, on mood´ؤstate of mind, on action´ؤstate of body " / Chapter §30 --- Mirror Ball / Chapter §31 --- Confession / Chapter §32 --- the four notions diagram / Chapter §33 --- Limbo / Chapter §34 --- duration / Chapter §35 --- """Every understanding has its mood. Every state-of-mind is one in which one understands." / Chapter §36 --- "position, location & site" / Chapter §37 --- The locations may not have direct relation with the notions. / Chapter §38 --- combined exposition on the locations and the notions / Chapter §39 --- "boredom temporalizing the world and encystment spatializing the world, and let Being become world- related." / Chapter §40 --- "I watched ""Fight Club""." / Chapter §41 --- mission statement at 1/11/99 / Chapter §42 --- client / Chapter §43 --- "the statement The piece exposed, through the rewriting of the mall, the situation of boredom and encystment as the contemporary attunements. It helped recognize, in confession, that they are formed by our indulging of the secular affairs´ؤwe are bored/ encysted in our life lines." / Chapter §44 --- life lines / Chapter §45 --- """The standard architectural program consists of habits, routines and work." / Chapter §46 --- "In an apparently free place, with so much choices, the mall," / Chapter §47 --- I may ask what does these diagrams and timetables means? / Chapter §48 --- """We are designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping." / Chapter §49 --- (The following pictures are the reference to form the program) / Chapter §50 --- "It is not an improvement of the conventional shopping mall," / Chapter §51 --- "Wasting time, wasting energy" / Chapter §52 --- "Beside taking the heros as the subject for the construction of the architecture," / Chapter §53 --- Program / Chapter §54 --- "In play, the everyman participates into the operation of power, / Chapter §55 --- Maze / Chapter §56 --- drawing / Chapter §57 --- models / Chapter §58 --- precedent studies / Chapter §59 --- bibliography / Chapter §60 --- thank you

Chan Lok Ling Gloria. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references.

In recent years, a renewed interest has blossomed in rail travel and rail investment. However, federal funding constraints for new transit projects threaten the feasibility of urban rail network construction and expansion. In response, the public sector has begun to consider alternative financial mechanisms including value capture. As new construction expands transit’s reach into the suburbs, another phenomenon is facing these communities – the death of the suburban shopping mall. This report examines these two issues: constraints in transit funding and the proliferation of greyfield shopping malls. Addressing both issues, the argument is made that greyfield shopping malls serve as excellent locations to implement transit value capture strategies by converting the malls into suburban transit-oriented developments (TODs). / text

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 1-3).

In recent decades, the built environment has become a political device in new ways. To attend to these particularities, a broadly defined post-humanism has reshaped the way that geographers and other researchers think about what matters in everyday life and what those materials have to do with the question of subjectivity. The critical insights of the "cultural turn" have been updated with reference to the many ways that landscapes and built environments are always embodied experiences that emerge in relation to broader non-human and technological environments. The geographies of consumption, in particular, have been strongly impacted by new technologies that govern the flow of commodities into new spaces, including our everyday lives. This dissertation draws on recent theories of embodiment-including affect and emotion-to explore the politics of the new technological consumer landscapes that have proliferated world wide in the second half of the twentieth century. In Latin America, this expansion was made possible through militarized interventions during periods of dictatorship strongly linked to the geopolitics of the Cold War. Taking Chile as an exemplary case of a rapidly emerging mass consumer society, this dissertation charts the expansion of a dominant sector of society (retail) into new territory, the Chiloé archipelago in southern Chile. The embattled "Mall Paseo Chiloé" offers up an opportunity to explore how embodied feelings are implicated in the production of new consumer landscapes through affective, emotive and non-human interventions.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Housing Management