This study demonstrates how a community can effectively use brownfield redevelopment strategies as an integral component of its comprehensive plan strategy. The research presents a primer on the major advantages and disadvantages of conducting brownfield site remediation. Overall, it was found that a significant portion of the goals and objectives outlined in the comprehensive plan for Anderson, Indiana can be directly impacted through a carefully planned and coordinated brownfield redevelopment strategy. Ultimately, a sample site design was conducted for a site within Anderson to provide the city with an example of the design process required for successful brownfield site redevelopment. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2000.

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2001.

Even before he became a playwright, Maxwell Anderson developed a belief in the right of the individual to determine his own fate, and a hatred for anything that hampered that right. He never faltered in that belief. Thus, most of his plays have themes concerned with the evils of the abuse of governmental power and the social injustice that is the result of such abuse. It is the purpose of this thesis to study those beliefs as they were developed throughout severl preceding plays and as they were finally expressed in both Anderson's musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Lost in the Stars (1949).

This Thesis investigates the interplay of a central degree of freedom with an environment. Thereby, the environment is prepared in a localized phase of matter. The long-term aim of this setup is to store quantum information on the central degree of freedom while exploiting the advantages of localized systems. These many-body localized systems fail to equilibrate under the description of thermodynamics, mostly due to disorder. Doing so, they form the most prominent phase of matter that violates the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Thus, many-body localized systems preserve information about an initial state until infinite times without the necessity to isolate the system. This unique feature clearly suggests to store quantum information within localized environments, whenever isolation is impracticable. After an introduction to the relevant concepts, this Thesis examines to which extent a localized phase of matter may exist at all if a central degree of freedom dismantles the notion of locality in the first place. To this end, a central spin is coupled to the disordered Heisenberg spin chain, which shows many-body localization. Furthermore, a noninteracting analog describing free fermions is discussed. Therein, an impurity is coupled to an Anderson localized environment. It is found that in both cases, the presence of the central degree of freedom manifests in many properties of the localized environment. However, for a sufficiently weak coupling, quantum chaos, and thus, thermalization is absent. In fact, it is shown that the critical disorder, at which the metal-insulator transition of its environment occurs in the absence of the central degree of freedom, is modified by the coupling strength of the central degree of freedom. To demonstrate this, a phase diagram is derived. Within the localized phase, logarithmic growth of entanglement entropy, a typical signature of many-body localized systems, is increased by the coupling to the central spin. This property is traced back to resonantly coupling spins within the localized Heisenberg chain and analytically derived in the absence of interactions. Thus, the studied model of free fermions is the first model without interactions that mimics the logarithmic spreading of entanglement entropy known from many-body localized systems. Eventually, it is demonstrated that observables regarding the central spin significantly break the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis within the localized phase. Therefore, it is demonstrated how a central spin can be employed as a detector of many-body localization. / Im Fokus dieser Dissertation steht die gegenseitige Wechselwirkung eines zentralen Freiheitsgrades und seiner Umgebung, die sich in einer lokalisierten Phase befindet. Das langfristige Ziel einer solchen Konfiguration ist die Speicherung von Quanteninformation auf einem solchen zentralen Freiheitsgrad, während gleichzeitig die Vorteile der lokalisierten Phase ausgenutzt werden. Insbesondere nähern sich Systeme mit Vielteilchenlokalisierung keinem thermodynamischen Gleichgewichtszustand und verletzen die Eigenzustandsthermalisierungshypothese. Als Konsequenz bleibt Information über jeden beliebigen Anfangszustand während einer Zeitentwicklungauch bis zu unendlichen Zeiten erhalten, ohne dass das System räumlich isoliert werden muss. Diese einzigartige Eigenschaft drängt lokalisierte Umgebungen als Speichermedium für Quanteninformation geradezu auf. Nach einer Einführung zu den relevanten Begriffen und Theorien verfolgt diese Dissertation daher die Frage, ob eine lokalisierte Phase in der Gegenwart eines zentralen Freiheitsgrades überhaupt existieren kann, obgleich der zentrale Freiheitsgrad einen wohldefinierten Begriff von Lokalitäat verbietet. Mit diesem Ziel vor Augen wird ein zentraler Spin an die ungeordnete Heisenberg-Spinkette, die Vielteilchenlokalisierung zeigt, gekoppelt. Außerdem wird ein nichtwechselwirkendes Analogon, bestehend aus freien Fermionen, untersucht, wobei eine zentrale Störstelle an eine Anderson-lokalisierte Umgebung gekoppelt wird. In beiden Fällen zeigt sich, dass sich die Gegenwart des zentralen Freiheitsgrades in vielen Eigenschaften der lokalisierten Umgebung widerspiegelt. Trotzdem ist Quantenchaos und demzufolge jegliche Thermalisierung für hinreichend kleine Kopplungsstärken an den zentralen Freiheitsgrad abwesend. Vielmehr hängt die kritische Unordnung, bei welcher der Übergang der Umgebung zwischen einer metallischen und lokalisierten Phase stattfindet, von dieser Kopplungsstärke ab. Hierzu wird ein Phasendiagramm abgeleitet. Innerhalb der lokalisierten Phase zeigt sich, dass das für vielteilchenlokalisierte typische logarithmische Wachstum der Verschrönkungsentropie durch den zentralen Spin verstärkt wird. Dieses Phänomen lässt sich aus der resonanten Kopplung von Spins der Umgebung durch den zentralen Spin erklären und wird im nichtwechselwirkenden Modell analytisch demonstriert. Ferner wird gezeigt, dass quantenmechanische Observablen des zentralen Spins ebenfalls die Eigenzustandsthermalisierungshypothese in der vielteilchenlokalisierten Phase brechen. Demzufolge kann der zentrale Spin als Indikator für Vielteilchenlokalisierung zunutze gemacht werden.

This creative project presents a review of the literature of urban forestry issues and a case study which demonstrates application of this literature review to the urban forest of the City of Anderson.The planning process of the case study includes a street tree inventory, and developsexisting Land Use and Transportation land classification system related to the Plans for the City of Anderson. The classification system ties the urban forest guidelines to prototypical situations which are documented through photographs and drawings. The methodology of the classification system can provide a model for development of methodology appropriate for evaluation of other communities. The recommended plant lists are included to be used in conjunction with the guidelines.In order to provide the Madison County Council of Governments and citizens of Anderson with recommendations based on results of the study, Section E of Chapter III, Design and Urban Forestry Guidelines, is organized so that it can be removed from the text and reprinted as a separate document for general distribution. / Department of Landscape Architecture

For decades there has been an urgency facing America's cities to address the declining condition of inner city communities. Initiatives implemented to address the problem have had mixed success and the drive to find solutions continues to be at the forefront of discussions surrounding urban community development. This document offers a look at an initiative designed to createa greater sense of community among neighborhood youth and to increase levels of youth involvement in community development activities. The initiative is one of many projects taking place in the Martin Luther King Jr. development Area, in Anderson, IN. The intent of the project is to enhance the quality of life for community residents through community beautification.This document will capture the essence of Project Green including both the design and implementation process. It will provide the details of the project management and activities from the origin of the idea until the completion of the summer initiative.As the document unfolds the reader is introduced to the partners and the participants, how the idea was conceived, what made the idea financially feasible, the impact on the community, and the impact left on the youth. It is intended that the reader can use this document to develop and start a similar initiative, to aid in the development of projects intended to spur revitalization of communities and the renewal of resident community spirit. / Department of Urban Planning

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:07:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WEENDEL_TRINDADE_PEREIRA.pdf: 828783 bytes, checksum: 994f37fcb693c6f17f9c55c21c004214 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this dissertation there was calculated the photoemission current of an impurity with fluctuation of valence in a host metal using both the Anderson model of resonant level (U = 0) with screening G and the numerical renormalization group method. The Anderson model is composed by the conduction band, representing the host metal, by the bound energy εf of the orbital of the valence fluctuation impurity, by the Coulomb interaction G (the screening) between the electrons of this orbital and the conduction electrons and by the hybridization of that orbital with the conduction band, in our calculation the Coulomb interaction of the electrons was disregarded inside the orbital. For Γ = 0 and G = 0 the orbital can have the next configurations: orbital empty nf = 0 with energy 0, orbital singly occupied nf = 1 with energy εf (spin up or down) or orbital doubly occupied nf = 2 with energy 2εf . It were considered also what |εf| À Γ in such a way that it is possible to use the approximation nf ≈ < nf >, where < nf > it is a mean occupation number of the orbital of the impurity. For G = 0 the photoemission current σ (ε) presents a peak around ε0 ≈ |εf || and width of the order of Γ, when G 6= 0 increases that there takes place a reduction of the width of the peak and an increase of the height of the same. The increase of G also does so that the position of the peak takes place in ε0 > |εf |, until the value limits G ≈ D/π < nf >, where D the width of the conduction band from the host metal, for which ε0 = εmax ≈ |εf − Γ/2|. In such a way that for G ≈ D/π < nf > the peak in σ (ε) it starts to take place in ε0 < |εf − Γ/2|. In the limit G → ∞ the current σ (ε) is a Dirac s delta (line) centered in ε = |εf |. Since σ (ε) it must obey to Friedel sum rule. one has then a very well-located orbital. The reduction of the width of the peak with the increase of G is a competitive effect between G and Γ, so that for G À Γ the orbital is completely uncoupled the conduction band. So, in the ground state, the orbital is doubly occupied if εf < 0 and empty εf > 0. Taking into account the potential G 6= 0 between the f-electrons and conduction electrons, the current of photoemission σ (ε) is mapped onto the photoemission current of the model with G = 0, and the renormalized parameters εfG and ΓG. / Nesta dissertação calculou-se analíticamente a corrente de fotoemissão de uma impureza com flutuação de valência num metal hospedeiro utilizando o modelo de Anderson do nível ressonante com blindagem e a técnica do grupo de renormalização numérico. O modelo é composto pela banda de condução, representando o metal hospedeiro, pela energia de ligação εf do orbital da impureza de valência flutuante, pela interação de Coulomb G entre os elétrons deste orbital e os elétrons de condução e pela hibridização Γ daquele orbital com a banda de condução, no nosso cálculo não foi considerada a interação de Coulomb entre os elétrons dentro do orbital. Para Γ = 0 e G = 0 o orbital pode ter as seguintes configurações: orbital vazio nf = 0 com energia εf = 0, orbital unitariamente ocupado nf = 1 com energia εf (spin para cima ou para baixo) ou orbital duplamente ocupado nf = 2 com energia 2εf . Considerou-se também que |εf| À Γ de forma que pode-se utilizar aproximação nf ≈ hnf i, onde hnf i é a ocupação média do orbital da impureza Para G = 0 a corrente de fotoemissão σ (ε) apresenta um pico em torno de ε0 ≈ |εf | e largura da ordemde Γ, a medida G 6= 0 aumenta ocorre uma redução da largura do pico e um aumento da altura do mesmo. O aumento de G também faz com que a posição do pico ocorra em ε0 > |εf |, até que o valor limite G ≈ D/π hnf i, onde D a meia largura da banda de condução do metal hospedeiro, para qual ε0 = εmax ≈ |εf − Γ/2|. De forma que para G > D/π hnf i o pico em σ (ε)passa a ocorrer em ε0 < |εf − Γ/2|. No limite G → ∞ a corrente σ (ε) é uma delta de Dirac (linha) centrada em ε = |εf |. Visto que σ (ε) deve obedecer a regra de soma de Friedel., tem-se um orbital muito bem localizado. Aredução da largura do pico como aumento de G indica a presença de um efeito competitivo entre G e Γ, de modo que para G À Γ o orbital está completamente desacoplado da banda de condução. Assim , no estado fundamental, o orbital está duplamente ocupado se εf < 0 e vazio se εf > 0. Considerando-se o potencial G 6= 0, corrente de fotoemissão σ (ε) é mapeada na corrente σ (ε) do modelo com G = 0, com os parâmetros renormalizados εfG e ΓG.

Wave transport in strongly scattering, disordered media is investigated experimentally using ultrasonic techniques. Several cases of anomalous wave transport (deviations from conventional diffusion) are studied through experiments on aluminum mesoglass samples, which were designed and created for this purpose. The anomalous wave behaviour is contrasted with conventional diffusion, observed at some frequencies via both transmission and backscattering measurements on wide, thick, slab-shaped samples. The coherent backscattering (CBS) effect is measured experimentally for strongly scattered acoustic waves in three dimensions (3D), and is compared for the first time with theory for diffusive elastic waves in 3D to give an estimate of the diffusion coefficient. At other frequencies, an Anderson localization regime is observed, and is studied in detail. The first experimental study of CBS for localized elastic waves in 3D is presented. By comparing both backscattering and transmission measurements with predictions from a ‘local’ self-consistent theory of localization, the first experimental observation of a complete Anderson mobility gap for elastic waves in 3D is reported. In this mobility gap, large contributions to backscattered intensity from recurrent scattering were observed, enabling the first experimental study of recurrent scattering on its own. The time-dependence of the recurrent scattering, R(t), is shown to agree with theoretical predictions in the diffuse and localized regimes. At the mobility edge, R(t) shows a surprisingly slow decay, prompting further theoretical work. Localization and criticality are also investigated via statistical measurements of ultrasound from cubic mesoglasses of different sizes. Finite-size scaling of multifractal quantities is observed in these cubic samples, and a preliminary fit with theory to determine critical parameters of the Anderson transition is demonstrated. Finally, a sample is which is a candidate to exhibit superdiffusion of ultrasound is studied via a range of experimental techniques, showing subtle deviations from diffusion and opening doors for the next steps in this study. / May 2016

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. / From 1933 to 1976, Professor Lawrence B. Anderson taught in the MIT Department of Architecture, and from 1947 to 1971, he served as its chairman and dean. Concurrently, from 1937 to 1972 , he was principal partner in the architecture firm that designed the first important modern building on an American university campus in 1939. During a lifetime of teaching and professional practice, LBA gained knowledge and wisdom. As an eminent professional adviser, he influenced architectural projects throughout the world. Because he was a remarkably clear thinker and accomplished and prolific writer, we are fortunate that his papers remain accessible to us. Professor Anderson taught generations of students much more than architectural design: he taught professional good manners , how to practice architecture responsibly, with grace, style, and decorum. Through his papers , he will continue to teach for generations into the future. In 1994, Lawrence Anderson died at age 87. This thesis documents the whole of his prodigious output of personal and professional papers, published and unpublished, at their present eleven locations. It is the completion of the first stage of creating a coherent archive. / by Victoria Laguette. / M.S.