published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

As large-scale, modernist urban renewal projects advanced following World War II, residents of Boston’s historic neighborhoods pushed back, asserting the value of the existing built environment and enlisting new strategies, like local historic districts, to mediate change. Over time, these defenders of traditional urbanism changed from relatively conventional 1950s home- and business-owners to more countercultural, back-to-the-city technocrats, the advance guard of a new middle class. Employing previously unexplored government archives and public documents, extensive contemporaneous newspaper reports, and interviews with current and former neighborhood activists, “Home Rule” analyzes historic districting as a social movement, tracing how adherents of this cause mobilized resources to effect the policy changes they sought. While the growth of the historic preservation movement in the interwar South has been well documented, the adoption of preservation planning techniques in the post-war North is less well studied. The first chapter investigates the effort to create the first historic district in the urban North on Beacon Hill, a campaign that took place against the backdrop of a destructive urban-renewal project in the nearby West End. A neighborhood association spearheaded the effort, carefully building support, consistent with the consensus culture of the 1950s. The chapter also examines the expansion of the district and challenges to its authority. The highly contested movement to designate the Back Bay occupies the second chapter, pitting a powerful mayor and his deep-pocketed allies determined to insert high-rise towers in a historically low-rise area against a large and well-heeled neighborhood association. The third chapter examines the drive to create a statutory Landmarks Commission to regulate historic resources citywide. The chapter also explores two attempts to designate historic districts after the creation of the new agency, one effort on Ashmont Hill that failed and another in West Back Bay that succeeded. The movement to designate three contiguous historic districts – the St. Botolph Street area, Bay Village, and the South End – constitutes the fourth and last chapter. These efforts exemplify the rediscovery of urban life by an educated, progressive middle class who negotiated with various ethnic and racial minorities, transformed the city, and reinvented urban renewal. / 2018-08-11T00:00:00Z

Thesis (M. P. A.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007. / "Fall 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106).

Thesis (M.S.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2008. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 48-51. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54). Also available on microfilm.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 132 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126).

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special report study entitled: Development of Central Police station Prison & Central Magistracy Complex. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special report study entitled : Development of Central Police station Prison & Central Magistracy Complex. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Chan Chi Ho Wilson. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / abstract --- p.03-04 / background --- p.05-06 / introduction of timeless architecture --- p.07-12 / Critiques --- p.13 / introduction of time architecture --- p.14-21 / methodology --- p.22-23 / collage in art --- p.24-25 / collage in architecture --- p.26-34 / site selection --- p.35-39 / site study --- p.40-45 / program --- p.48-48 / design strategy --- p.49 / first scheme --- p.50-56 / final scheme --- p.57-78 / bibliography --- p.79

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

Form-based codes are “A method of regulating development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes create a predictable public realm primarily by controlling physical from, with a lesser focus on land use, through city or county regulations.”1 Based on their ability to regulate the form and design of the built environment while looking to historic patterns of development and existing architecture, it seems that formbased codes should go hand-in-hand with historic preservation. This thesis explores that possibility by analyzing three case studies in Nashville, Tennessee, and concludes that form-based codes do indeed have the potential for success in preserving the character of historic areas. / Introduction -- Evolution of land development regulations -- Form-based planning in Nashville -- Three Nashville case studies -- Form-based codes and historic preservation. / Department of Architecture