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The project deals with the development of a gap site which forms the front line of a street in a city block. The building consists of two parts: in the southern corner a five-storey administrative building with a café and a patio is situated; the second, larger part is a block of flats with a commercial parterre connected with a pedestrain zone. The block of flats is – in accordance with the surrounding built-up area – designed as a house with access galleries, the majority of flats contain two storeys. Parking spaces are provided in the form of two underground storeys accessible from the inner block.

A house is situated into a newly designed urban structure, witch we devised in our previous lessons in studio. The project aslo includes a new Mendel’s squar design nearby the house location. The house is a corner vacant in the Křížová Street. The house is thought to contain flats for young people and families due to its location. Most of the apartments are maisonettes. The house has become a tenement house with courtyard galleries because this is typical for this place. The concept of the house is based on the rotation of one wing of the house away from the noisy street with a lot of traffic and trams. There is created a place with many opposite courtyard galleries and apertures. The concept also devides a part of the house facing the street into two main distinct sections. There is a yard with a garden between the two wings of the house and the inhabitants will be able to relax there. The building is higher than an opposite gabled house and it also responds to a corner gabeld house in the Mendel’s squar. The house will be a new dominant in the crossroad among Vaclavcká street, Křížová street and Křídloviská street. There are coffe to go, fitness center and other commercial premises in the ground floor and the first floor. There are 30 flats (including 22 maisonettes) with an avarage area of 67 square meters and 70 parking places in underground garage.

Development of vacant lot Křížová. Relation to yard. Functional contents of street line and yard.

Urban landscapes are complex social-ecological systems comprising human and natural elements and their interactions. A key priority for research in these landscapes is understanding how humans affect the presence and abundance of wild organisms and how those organisms, in turn, provide ecosystem services that affect humans. In this dissertation, I use two field studies to understand the ecosystem services provided by urban animals in green spaces across Philadelphia and in a third study I investigate geographic bias in where urban animals have been studied in the United States. For the first study, I use a functional trait approach to examine how urban bird communities respond to landscape- and local-scale habitat and how community composition corresponds to potential ecosystem services. I show that the landscape-scale context of a green space has a stronger influence on species’ abundances than local-scale habitat. As a result, the effect traits associated with cultural and regulating ecosystem services varied strongly along the landscape-scale gradient of urbanization. Local-scale variation in habitat had little effect. The importance of landscape-scale habitat in driving the supply of bird-mediated ecosystem services underscores the importance of regional urban planning for green spaces.In the second study, I use a field experiment to determine the drivers of an understudied ecosystem service – the removal of littered food waste by birds and squirrels. I recorded food removal activity by animals in green spaces across Philadelphia and found that Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) are the main driver of this service. With increased squirrel abundance, removal level is higher and is both initiated and completed more quickly. This service is also context dependent, such that more food is removed in urban parks and picnic areas, where animals are presumably accustomed to consuming anthropogenic foods. These results highlight the importance of animal behavior, and factors that affect it, for the supply of ecosystem services. In my third study, I take a geographic approach to identifying bias in the study of animals in urban landscapes. Our knowledge of urban ecosystems in the United States is based on hundreds of field studies and thousands of individual field sites, but the distribution of these sites has never been examined. I reviewed the literature and mapped field sites to assess geographic bias in the location of urban ecology field sites. At a national scale, I find that urban ecologists tend to work in larger cities, especially those that are less socioeconomically vulnerable (more affluent). I also find that the social-ecological attributes of the neighborhoods in which ecologists work depends on the framing of their study as well as the focal taxa and functional groups studied. Overall, the neighborhoods where marginalized people live are an underexplored segment of the urban landscape. This is the first study to identify geographic biases in urban ecology field sites and provides a basis for future urban ecology research that produces knowledge applicable to all cities and neighborhoods. / Biology

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Les terrains vacants sont, à Montréal, des éléments indéniables dans la composition de la trame urbaine. Leur présence soutenue intéresse déjà depuis longtemps de nombreux auteurs et décideurs municipaux. Toutefois, il s’avère que l’on connaît peu les caractéristiques paysagères de ces espaces. Cette recherche en aménagement vise à compléter nos connaissances sur cette typologie d’espace urbain. Elle porte sur la caractérisation paysagère des terrains vacants du centre-ville de Montréal et sur l’étude de leur potentiel visuel à mettre en valeur les attributs significatifs du paysage urbain. Ces deux études doivent permettre de comprendre le rôle joué par ces vides dans la perception du paysage urbain. Cette démarche s’interroge sur la possibilité que certains vides puissent être justifiés et légitimés en regard de la notion de lisibilité du paysage urbain (Lynch, 1976, 1982). Les terrains joueraient un rôle important au niveau de la perception des paysages urbains. Il s’agit de démontrer le potentiel des espaces vacants dans la mise en valeur du paysage urbain, dans l’optique, pour certains d’entre eux, de légitimer le vide ou une partie du vide qui les définit, de les rendre structurants dans la composition urbaine. Grâce à un travail d’observation des caractéristiques urbaines, contextuelles, visuelles et physiques, l’étude a pu à la fois dresser le portrait de ces espaces en attente de développement urbain et démontrer leur implication dans la lisibilité urbaine. Ce travail présente l’intérêt d’offrir un énoncé sur la planification du développement des terrains vacants du centre-ville de Montréal en regard de la notion de lisibilité urbaine partie prenante dans la qualité urbaine. / In Montreal, vacant lots are undeniable elements in the composition of the urban pattern. For a long time, their sustained presence has interested various authors (Lévesque, Prost, etc.) and municipal authorities. However, it turns out that we know little about the landscape character assessment of these spaces. This research seeks to complete our knowledge of this typology of urban spaces in Downtown Montreal trough a landscape character assessment and a study of their visual potential. Those two studies will underline the role of these voids in the urban landscape perception. Some vacant lots are maybe part of a good urban imageability. This study assumes that vacant lots have an important role with regards to the urban landscape perception. By collecting information which refers to urban, contextual, visual and physical characteristics, observations were able to prove that there is a relationship between the urban imageability and the voids generated by the vacant lot. It demonstrated the potential of those spaces to enhance the urban landscape by their structuring abilities. This study proposes a first glimpse of a coherent planning for the development of downtown vacant lots, in particular, through the notion of imageability as an integral part of the urban quality.

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Orientador: Eloisa de Mattos Hofling / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T10:24:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_DaviddaSilva_M.pdf: 2105430 bytes, checksum: ad7e664d006697b1b83e71a414be9177 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este é um trabalho e ao mesmo tempo um percurso pela Escola Pública Paulista. Em oito anos de magistério, o quotidiano de várias unidades escolares foi, ao mesmo tempo, um aprendizado, uma prática e um objeto de pesquisa. Questões que de uma forma ou de outra se fizeram presentes na vida do autor como aluno da rede pública, e que se apresentaram no dia-a-dia da prática docente tais como o deslocamento, a proximidade/distância da escola, o esforço para vencer os obstáculos em relação ao acesso e à permanência se fizeram presentes neste estudo. O uso do território é proposto como ponto de partida para repensar a rede e a sua organização, bem como as questões que se relacionam à distribuição de vagas nas escolas públicas, mais precisamente no que diz respeito à chamada ¿ciranda das vagas¿ e seus efeitos numa escola pública de Campinas ¿ a E.E. João Lourenço Rodrigues ¿ no Cambuí. Da organização da rede pública de ensino aos impactos dessa ¿ciranda¿ no quotidiano da unidade escolar, é discutida a possibilidade do planejamento das ações e das políticas públicas de educação ser reorientado pelas demandas dos cidadãos e a partir dos usos efetivos do território. Em tempos de transição demográfica, faz-se necessário pensar a rede de escolas públicas a partir das possibilidades contemporâneas de uso e deslocamento no território, como forma de alcançar cada vez mais os cidadãos / Abstract: This is, at the same time, a paper about and a trajectory through the ¿Escola Pública Paulista¿ (Public School of São Paulo). In eight years of teaching, the daily activities of several school units were, simultaneously, an apprenticeship, practice and an object for research. Matters, which were present, one way or another, in the author¿s life as a student of a public school system, and that were part of the every day docent practice, such as, dislocation, proximity/distance of the school, effort to overcome difficulties in the access to and in continuing in the school are discussed in this research. Use of territory is proposed as a starting point to rethink the public school system and its organization, as well as matters related to the distribution of vacancies in public schools, particularly concerning the ¿vacancy circle¿ (¿ciranda das vagas¿) and its effects in a public school ¿ E.E. João Lourenço Rodrigues ¿ in the city of Campinas at Cambuí street. The possibility of redirecting the public educational actions and policies according to the demands of the citizens, and the effective use of territory is discussed in this paper, taking into consideration the organization of the public school system and the impacts of the ¿circle¿ in the daily activities of the school unit. In times of demographic transition, it is necessary to think about the public school system in terms of contemporary possibilities for use of and dislocation in territory as a means to reach more citizens / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade, Politica e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

The aim of this thesis is to create a multifunctional four-storey building without an attic. This is a free vacant buildings in Brno. The house is designed for residential and Administration. On the ground floor are located shops and offices are located in the 2nd floor only offices and facilities for staff, top two floors are intended only for housing. Vertical support structure is brick Heluz system in combination with monolithic reinforced concrete. The horizontal structure is predominantly made up of reinforced concrete slabs Spiroll. The house is covered with a flat roof.