This case study was designed to test the hypothosis that members of a residential community, when faced with a large scale development project, hold a broad range of opinions and ideas, rather than a single perspective. These opinions, drawn from a wide range of local experiences, represent a wealth of potential design ideas which may be lost if the development process assumes that public opinion is uniform and homogenous.Accordingly, research proceeded in meetings with the Collier Hills North neighborhood association with the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the the priorities of the community reflected in public meetings during development debate provided an accurate view of the preferences of neighborhood residents, due to the self-selecting nature of the population in attendance. After initial investigations into the perceived agenda of the residents of Collier Hills North regarding potential redevelopment issues surrounding the adjacent Colonial Homes apartment complex, the investigator prepared a survey instru-ment and delivered it in two stages; first, at a neighborhood association meeting, and sec-ondly via a door-to-door survey. Results of the suvey suggest that different priorities are placed on certain key issues by the self-selecting population that attended the meeting than the random sample of residents contacted by the interviewer during the second stage of the investigation. These differences exist in areas which could shape the framework of possible future discussions among residents, the developer and city hall regarding this potential redevelopment program. Results from the survey were then used to create a set of design priorities and strategies with the intention of balancing the needs of the interested parties.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-122). Also available in print.

Thesis (B. Arch.)--Roger Williams University, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Feb. 3, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B. Arch.)--Roger Williams University, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Feb. 17, 2010) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Dauguma mūsų vienaip ar kitaip stengiamės padaryti, kad mus supanti aplinka taptų patogesnė ir jaukesnė. Tokia aplinka neįsivaizduojama be želdinių. Šio bakalauro darbo tyrimo objektas yra gyvatvorės, jų asortimentas, urbanizuotose Šiaulių miesto mikrorajonuose. Tai vienas iš želdinių tipų, kuriuos kuriame pagal savo poreikius, norint sukurti vieningą sklypų, teritorijų, aikščių sistemą, besijungiančią į vieną visumą. Bakalauro darbo tikslas – nustatyti gyvatvorių įvairovę, Šiaulių miesto daugiabučių namų kiemuose. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Pateikti literatūros analizę apie gyvatvorių tipus, funkcijas, bei jose auginamus augalus; 2. Nustatyti gyvatvorių augalų rūšis, auginamas Šiaulių miesto daugiabučių namų kiemuose; 3. Nustatyti gyvatvorių tipus, aukščius, bei formas; 4. Įvertinti augalų, auginamų gyvatvorėse, būklę. Pasirinktos tyrimo vietos – Šiaulių miesto daugiabučių namų mikrorajonai: Dainų mikrorajonas, Lieporių mikrorajonas, Centro mikrorajonas. Tyrimui atlikti vadovautasi duomenų rinkimo metodu, faktine analize, faktų konstatavimais, duomenų nagrinėjimu. Tyrimas buvo atliktas 2009 m. Liepos mėn. – spalio mėn. laikotarpiu. Iš 3 pasirinktų tyrimo vietų (Dainų mikrorajono, Lieporių mikrorajono, Centro mikrorajono) iš viso buvo tiriami 94 daugiabučiai gyvenamieji namai. 35 - Dainų mikrorajono, 35 – Lieporių mikrorajono, 24 – Centro mikrorajono. Iš 94 daugiabučių, gyvatvorės auginamos 65 daugiabučių namų kiemuose. Dainų mikrorajone iš 35, augančios gyvatvorės rastos 16 - oje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Most of us are somehow trying to make our surroundings more comfortable and cozier. Such an environment can not be imagined without the green. The aim of this thesis is the subject of hedges, their range of urban neighborhoods of the city of Siauliai. This is one of the types of plantations, which, according to their needs, in order to create a single parcel, land, squares system, merging into a single whole. The objective of this thesis - to establish variety of hedges in apartment house courtyards Siauliai. Job tasks: 1. To submit literary analysis of hedge types, functions, and their crops, 2. To set hedge plant species grown in Siauliai city of apartment house courtyards, 3. To identify the types of hedge, height, and form, 4. To evaluate plants grown hedges the state. Selected test sites - in Siauliai city apartment house block: Dainai region, Lieporiai region, the Center region area. The study was guided by a data collection method, the actual analysis of the facts, findings, examining the data. The study was conducted in 2009 July. - October. period. In three selected test sites (region of Dainai, region of Lieporiai, region of Center) in total were examined in 94 apartment houses. 35 – region of Dainai, 35 – region of Lieporiai, 24 – region of Center. Of the 94 blocks, 65 grown hedges of apartment house courtyards. Dainai microdistricts of 35, were found growing hedges 16 - Part of apartment house courtyards, Lieporiai - 35/33 from the Center - 16 from the 24th. An... [to full text]

This thesis argues that the significance of apartments in Sydney's urban history has not been recognised due to a cultural resistance to apartment living. This lack of acknowledgement has masked the urban, social and architectural impact of the apartment building type in Sydney's history. As an interdisciplinary reading of the development of the purpose-built apartment building in Sydney since its inception in 1900, the thesis is premised on a desire to use the apartment building as a vehicle to tell an alternative housing history to the more commonly told one of house and garden. In the process, it provides a different story of the city's development through the lens of the apartment building and challenges cultural prejudices against apartment living. The research documents the growth and changes of apartments, tracking their location, diversity of type and scale across the Sydney metropolitan region. The research analyses prototypical and generic apartment buildings in the context of the city's history. Drawing on the intersection of eras and themes as a method of critical inquiry, the thesis covers aspects of domestic debates, market, regulation, scale, demography, geography distribution, design and typology, traversing a time period of 1900 to 2008. The thesis explores the debates for and against apartment living in Sydney, emphasising the roles played by apartments in the broader discourses of Australian cultural and design history. The thesis concludes that after more than a century, the debates between apartment and cottage living continue to rage. In systematically providing a trajectory for the history of apartments from ideology to typology, this thesis establishes a place for apartments in Sydney's urban and cultural history; and simultaneously provides a deeper historical context to assist the process of better understanding and responding to the contemporary debate about high-density living and its consequences for the life of the city. Despite the size of its largely undocumented subject, this thesis demonstrates the effectiveness of its rationale: to use analysis of a specific, controversial building type to provide new insights into Sydney's urban history, ideologies and built forms.

This thesis aims to investigate the relationship between the provision of spatial order and perceived sense of community in high-rise housing developments in Korea from a socio-spatial and architectural perspective. It also considers relationships between the perception of neighbourhood, provision of facilities, design aspects, and socio-economic characteristics and sense of community. The study uses a questionnaire survey as the main research instrument conducted across four case studies in Bundang new town, in metropolitan Seoul, Korea. Two of the cases were selected as having a high provision of spatial order and the other two low provision according to the concepts of Altman (1975) and Newman (1972, 1975). Quantitative analysis is carried out using the Kruskal-Wallis/Mann-Whitney test and Spearman???s rank correlation to identify differences and correlations between cases. The results indicate that there is no clear evidence that a sense of community has a direct relationship with the provision of spatial order in the selected cases. However, in the high provision cases outdoor common spaces appear to have a role in contributing to social interaction. Among Buckner???s (1988) three sub-variables of his concept of neighbourhood cohesion, ???neighbouring??? appears to be more associated with the provision of spatial order rather than ???attraction-to-neighbourhood??? or ???psychological sense of community.??? A greater number of opportunities for social interactions occur in an intermediate space located between private dwelling units and public open space in cases with a high provision of spatial order. However, this is likely to be due to the location of shared facilities and their frequency of use. In terms of the relationship between design and a sense of community, ???landscaping??? was found to be the most important variable, followed by the ???design of streets/footpath??? and ???facilities for children???, ???parking???, and ???recreational activities???. Despite the lack of a clear relationship between design and a sense of community, a strong demand was found for improved outdoor amenity and greater provision of facilities. Socio-economic status appears not to be a significant factor directly influencing the sense of community however, age and the existence of children are associated with the perception of neighbourhood.