This thesis compares the landscape planning goals and procedures of Pima County and Landkreis Hannover as they enter regional planworks. The literature provides three significant approaches to landscape planning, from which are extracted significant valuation criteria including biophysical and sociocultural landscape characteristics as well as data handling and implementation considerations. Landkreis Hannover employs a landscape and a comprehensive planwork, the latter coordinating the missions of all spatial disciplines and the first representing a conservation component. Pima County develops a comprehensive plan based on pro-growth policy which attempts primary issue integration. Both counties demonstrate strengths and weaknesses uncovered by assessment of the valuation criteria. Learning from each other, Hannover can improve in data handling whereas Pima County can improve in organizational cooperation and promotion of the concept of sustainable development.

The international border region of the Sonoran Desert is unique in that it is the site of three Man and the Biosphere Reserves in two countries. Unlike national parks and other means of conservation, biosphere reserves provide a unique approach to resource protection by encouraging the sustainable development of outlying communities. The concept of sustainable development is examined as are its implications for regional planning. The international border region adjacent to the biosphere reserves is profiled and planning issues outlined. The efforts of others to incorporate sustainable development are reviewed as are the experiences of those who have applied their efforts to the region in question. A methodology for the protection of the natural attributes of the region is proposed.

This study is intended to explore the intentions to migrate of a group of migrants from urban Java and Kalimantan, Indonesia, using a framework based on Place-Utility/Migration Intentions Model. Because this study explores the intentions of urban residents, several new variables were specified including: urban employment sector (formal and informal) as an individual background factor, difference in city settings as a structural background factor, and job satisfaction as a place-utility variable. Migration intentions to be explained consist of intentions "to stay", "to leave", and "be undecided". / Using multinomial logit technique, this study found that the inclusion of these variables in this model was very useful. Differences in urban settings and type of urban employment sector were found to be the most influential variables. Job satisfaction is an important predictor and functions as an intervening variable between urban employment sector, income and migration intentions. Other variables examined in the model such as education, employment status in the place of origin, duration of stay in the city, and income level were found as important individual background factors. Values expected from the city as a place utility variable in the model was an important intervening variable between marital status and migration intentions, and between the type of sector engaged in by migrants and migration intentions. / In Java, migrants are inclined to leave the city due to their participation in the urban informal sector, having a rural job waiting, being married, and low levels of education. On the contrary, migrants in Kalimantan are inclined to stay in the city or being undecided because of preference for urban life-style, participation in the formal sector jobs, having older age, and lower education levels. / This study demonstrates the utility of this model and suggests that prediction of migration intentions should take into account differences in employment sector, job satisfaction, and setting. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2763. / Major Professor: Peter L. Doan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.

The purpose of this study is to provide an effective direction for the development and management of the enterprise zone program. This study stems from a basic question: Is the enterprise zone program an effective tool for local economic development? To examine the effectiveness of the enterprise zone program, enterprise zones and other distressed areas were compared in terms of the level of neighborhood revitalization between 1980 and 1990. The comparative analysis showed that the current enterprise zone program does not appear to have a substantial impact on neighborhood revitalization. / After examining the effectiveness of the enterprise zone program, quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted to clarify the important factors which lead to a successful enterprise zone program. In these analyses, it is hypothesized that local economic development efforts play a determinant role in the revitalization of distressed communities. The statistical results of the quantitative analysis demonstrated that local governments' commitments are vital to the success of the enterprise zone program. / Case studies, as a qualitative research method, provided a more profound understanding as to the importance of local economic development efforts. The results of case studies showed that the active role of local government becomes worthwhile when the enterprise zone program is closely interconnected with a community redevelopment plan, with secured local financial resources, and is managed by an active local non-profit organization or public agency with extensive experiences in redevelopment activities. This implies that the combination of these local economic development efforts should be a premise for achieving neighborhood revitalization as a major goal of the enterprise zone program. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: A, page: 4281. / Major Professor: Charles E. Connerly. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.

The history of the ethnic enclave as urban phenomena exhibits innovative use of existing space and infrastructure. Adaptability becomes second nature for survival. In the suburban neighborhood of Alief, a large ethnic population has rendered the neighborhood into a fascinating and dynamic international microcosm. Coined the new Chinatown, this multi-cultural neighborhood is a dynamic place, as one moves through the urban scape they are confronted with street signs in Chinese, Middle Eastern Cafes, Spanish Newspapers, and Buddhist Temples. Signs and graphics label, however they insufficiently capture the energy of the community, and instead create caricature negating the uniqueness and dynamism of the neighborhood. Culture here, is a layered experience of the senses.

A new prototype of subway station with overlaid passenger flow and information flow is suggested to be applied to the newly developed Line 8 in the City of Beijing, both to deal with the crowded passenger flow space and to provide a dynamically continuous city image to the passengers as a feedback of the collection of their route information.

This thesis takes a formal approach to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by studying mechanisms of control within the West Bank. It is only through the overlapping of two separate political geographies that they are able to inhabit the same landscape. The Oslo Accords have been integral to this process of division. By defining various control regimes, the Accords have created a fragmented landscape of isolated Palestinian enclaves and Israeli settlements. One feature of the Oslo Accords is the bypass road which links Israeli settlements to Israel, bypassing Palestinian areas in the process. These are essential to the freedom of movement for the Israeli settlers within the Occupied Territories. Extrapolating on the bypass, this thesis explores the ramifications of a continuous infrastructural network linking the fragmented landscape of Palestinian enclaves. In the process, a continuous form of urbanization has been developed to allow for the growth and expansion of the Palestinian state. Ultimately, this thesis questions the absurdity of partition strategies within the West Bank and Gaza Strip by attempting to realize them.

The last decades, have seen Mexico's City's urban conditions change, from what many people believe to be a place of untapped possibilities to what now many refer to as a failed state. It's hyperdense conditions coupled with a government unable to control socioeconomic issues have created urban and social disruptions that manifest themselves as severing devices of its infrastructural networks, resulting in a segregated city, "decaying and its core", as crime, social gatherings, and vehicular traffic paralyzes the cities transportation infrastructure, disconnecting one of the largest most vibrant cities of the world. This project explores and manipulates the correlation between the crowd, infrastructure and technology to mitigate these challenges by impacting the city in three scales [local, metropolitan, and virtual] through notions of interstitiality, fluidity and crowd surveillance.

Detroit lays stunned as the product of abusive parenting. The loyal workhorse of the American Dream wallows in the dedicated obsolescence of an economic monoculture and fiends for the opiate of capitalism. Yet despite the neglect, a new vitality is brewing amongst the shadows of post-fordist residue. Within the labeled obsolescence breeds a new existence which emerges out of the deviance from the skeletal remains of modern urbanism. A city branded as devastated is actually the epitome of owning the margin. This thesis amalgamates disenfranchised city islands by accelerating Detroit's underlying and inherent urbanism of transgressive circulation and communication pathways through such techniques as urban scarring, blanketing, disruption, and smoothing. The development does not erase the contemporary attempts at reconciling the norm of the city image but in turn fortifies the inventions spurred by its shortcomings. By reframing a city's legibility, [D]Urbanism engenders a new urban ideology attentive to the local collective.

The current interest in developing mobility alternatives such as high-speed rail and commuter rail systems in our auto dominated American regions poses new possibilities to reimagine our sprawling, disconnected, suburban landscapes. Since the patterns of development that automobile infrastructures have produced over the last century radically differ from the urbanisms that traditional rail systems once served, the integration of new transit systems into this contemporary context has potential for radical innovation. This thesis examines the impact of new modalities within our suburban environments and problematizes the monofunctionality of a ground plane fully dominated by the automobile. Through a multilayered fabric of mobility infrastructures, garden dwellings, retail strips, working units, and public outdoor spaces, this proposal condenses and reorganizes the suburban landscape into a field condition transit development with emerging nodes of connectivity to the ground, rail, and city landscape.