no / City Park opened in early 2012 and despite some on-going criticism, during the summer the site drew thousands of people to the heart of Bradford and was the scene of much relaxed and good natured conviviality amongst socially diverse groups. As a new and unique public space in Bradford and a focal point for the city, a number of staff from the Centre for Applied Social Research believed researching City Park to be a fruitful endeavour to help promote a dialogue with the public and other sectors about living together in Bradford.

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viii, 77 p. : ill. / The focus of this study was a free site-specific dance and music performance for the general public in Alton Baker Park (Eugene, Oregon), designed to enhance public engagement with the park and with dance. Collaborative processes with participating dancers, composers, and musicians fostered community building between the artists. Informing literature covers the impact of site-specific dance performances on communities, choreographic methodology, the history of site-specific artwork, the impact on, and consideration of, the audience in site-specific projects, and collaboration in the arts. Consideration of the surrounding community and the inherent political nature of site-specific work directly influenced every decision throughout the process. Themes emerged from the focus on building community, engaging the patrons with the site, and investigating process. Themes include the Culminating Performance, Common Values, Collaboration, Audience, Process, Journaling and Research, and a Final Summary. Reflection on the process reveals insights and suggestions for future endeavors. / Committee in charge: Dr. Jenifer P. Craig, Chairperson; Christian Cherry, Member; Walter Kennedy, Member

The aim of this thesis, which is based on one-year participant observation in Petřín (a public park in the centre of Prague), is to approach key processes for creating and maintenance of this space in symmetrical-anthropological way. The park is not consider to be mere static background for human interaction, but, reversely, hybrid dynamical process created through a wide actor-web of both material and immaterial matter. The park is not just a public, thus human, space but a space shared by a great variety of actors. Among this hybrid actors human is the one who holds the power over park management, who can include, or reversely, exclude chosen actors from participation and maintenance of this space. The author of this thesis tries to answer the question: What is the basis for this kind of decisions? Who shall be given the "right to Petřín"? From which power position? The author argues that these decisions are politicised in all cases because there is no possibility to describe the complicated reality of Petřín in exhaustive scientific way and make ever-lasting claims about it. For this reason, all those decisions originate in historically particular context. As a consequence of some actors exclusion there is a threat of dissolution of both cultural and biological diversity of this space. Key words:...

As human activity continues to cause significant global issues, such as the decline of biodiversity, there is an increasing demand to engage with desirable visions of the future. Sustainability research emphasizes the significance of participatory approaches prioritizing nature and incorporating diverse human-nature relationships to promote more inclusive and sustainable paths to a positive future. However, the involvement of youth in current future studies is limited. Urban national parks provide valuable opportunities to investigate people-nature relations and their future. This study conducted a participatory futures workshop that combined the Natures Futures Framework and the Three Horizons Framework with fifteen young individuals living in Stockholm to capture their diverse nature relationships and positive future visions of the Royal National City Park in Stockholm. The workshop identified several aspects of nature in the park appreciated by the group, such as biodiversity, calmness, and the opportunity for recreation and connection to nature. If those values are projected onto a desirable future, this group of youth envisions the park to include reduced pollution, increased biodiversity, stronger protection and regulation, and prioritization of nature, with societal involvement and better accessibility. To support value-inclusive decision-making for the sustainable future of the Royal National City Park, collected values and visions were shared with park stakeholders. By collecting diverse nature value perspectives on a local scale using the Nature Futures Framework, this work contributes to the generation of a global perspective of desirable nature futures. While the Natures Futures Framework proved effective in generating rich value perspectives, a reflection survey revealed that not all participants found the framework easy to understand, particularly the difference between the different value perspectives presented in the framework. In conclusion, this study provides insights into possible futures and inspires actions toward a sustainable future where humans and nature coexist in harmony.

Municipalities throughout the country are increasingly seeking out innovative partnerships with the private sector to acquire, operate, and/or maintain public parks. An example of this is found in Lafayette, Louisiana, where Lafayette Consolidated Government recently purchased a 100-acre farm from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and collaborated with community leaders to form a public-private partnership with a new non-profit, Lafayette Central Park, Inc. This entity is currently undertaking the necessary steps to lease, plan, design, fund, build, operate, and maintain a new community park on the property. This report explores the history of public-private partnerships found within park administration, as well as the myriad legal, organizational, and financial structures in place within those partnerships. The research also highlights potential benefits and drawbacks to these partnerships, found within four case studies in the Southeast, as well as through precedents found in previous research. The four case studies are Audubon Park and City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memorial Park and Discovery Green in Houston, Texas. The insights, challenges, and best practices found through the examination in this report are used to create a series of recommendations for the fledgling non-profit organization, Lafayette Central Park, for both short-term and long-term success. / text

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAOFERNANDACOPPIETERS.pdf: 2846731 bytes, checksum: 927a31c5284c38879d1543663f6c78ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-09 / A constatação da degradação ambiental, notadamente pela ação humana, provoca reflexões em relação à finitude dos recursos disponíveis no planeta e sua conservação, e aponta para a necessidade de um entendimento entre os povos que supere o discurso da escassez e traga o debate para a própria relação sociedade-natureza; afinal, compreender a questão ambiental significa pensar num mundo diferenciado por práticas sociais distintas e por diversos valores históricos e culturais dados ao ambiente, gerando usos muitas vezes conflitivos. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar o recente projeto municipal de requalificação do Parque da Cidade de Salvador, no tocante ao atendimento da legislação ambiental e propor uma forma de minimização dos possíveis danos ambientais. O método utilizado foi o da pesquisa jurídico-sociológica exploratória, tendo por objeto a análise da norma jurídica no contexto da realidade social em que se manifesta e utilizando-se do raciocínio dedutivo, abrangendo a coleta e análise de documentos, legislações e jurisprudência. O trabalho abrangeu a história e a definição de espaço público, com a formação do Parque Joventino Silva, além das questões legais envolvidas, através da análise da legislação ambiental brasileira, da teoria jurídica, dos princípios norteadores da Constituição Federal e do histórico da evolução da temática de preservação e conservação no cenário mundial, bem como de exemplos de danos ambientais. Partindo-se de comprovação hipotética do não atendimento do projeto municipal de requalificação do Parque às prerrogativas da legislação ambiental, a qual seria obtida mediante inquérito civil, o trabalho apresenta indicativo para uma futura Ação Civil Pública, com efeito de Termo de Ajuste de Conduta, que poderá ser proposta pelo Ministério Público em desfavor da Prefeitura Municipal de Salvador, com vistas a suprir os danos ambientais. Tal proposta de indicativo de ação se adequa ao perfil do Mestrado Profissional Ambiental. Nesse sentido, buscou-se oferecer ao cidadão os procedimentos jurídicos disponíveis, relativamente à minimização de danos ambientais, especialmente quando causados por agentes ou órgãos públicos, que tem o dever de zelar pelo meio ambiente natural e artificial, garantindo um ambiente saudável às futuras gerações. / The observation of environmental degradation, especially by human action, provokes reflections regarding the finitude of resources available on the planet and their conservation, and points to the need for an understanding among peoples that surpasses the discourse of scarcity and brings the debate to itself Society-nature relationship; After all, understanding the environmental issue means thinking about a world differentiated by distinct social practices and diverse historical and cultural values given to the environment, generating often conflicting uses. In this context, the objective of this study is to evaluate the recent municipal redevelopment project of the City Park of Salvador, in terms of compliance with environmental legislation and propose a way of minimizing possible environmental damages. The method used was exploratory juridical-sociological research, whose object is the analysis of the legal norm in the context of the social reality in which it is manifested and using the deductive reasoning, covering the collection and analysis of documents, laws and jurisprudence. The work covered the history and definition of public space, with the formation of Joventino Silva Park, as well as the legal issues involved, through the analysis of Brazilian environmental legislation, legal theory, guiding principles of the Federal Constitution and the history of the evolution of Preservation and conservation on the world stage, as well as examples of environmental damage. Based on hypothetical proof of non-attendance of the municipal project to requalify the Park to the prerogatives of environmental legislation, which would be obtained through a civil inquiry, the work presents an indicative for a future Public Civil Action, with the effect of Term of Adjustment of Conduct, Which may be proposed by the Public Prosecutor's Office in detriment of the Municipal Government of Salvador, in order to compensate for environmental damages. This proposal for an action letter is adequate to the profile of the Environmental Professional Master. In this sense, we sought to offer the citizen legal procedures available, regarding the minimization of environmental damage, especially when caused by agents or public agencies, which has the duty to watch over the natural and artificial environment, ensuring a healthy environment for future generations.

The project focuses on the design of a residential city block, elementary school and a park in the street Plaines-du-Loup in the Switzerland city of Lausanne. The goal of the work is both to create a complex urbanistic concept and architectonical solution of a part of city block - elementary school connected to an apartment building. The urbanistic concept builds upon an already completed urbanistic study by the Tribu architects1. It aims to create a polyfunctional and diverse city environment with a richness of space. The project continues with a partial architectonic solution of an elementary school building interconnected with residential buildings. It seeks a solution to the relationship between school and living / school and public space.

The purpose of this study is to catalogue the chairs and sofas of Old City Park that reflects the American Victorian style and to provide a brief historical account of the style's development. Old City Park in Dallas, Texas is the first major restoration of its kind in the Dallas area. Its aim is to provide an educational as well as historical center for the city. The restoration project began when Millermore, a Southern Colonial house built in 1862, was moved to Old City Park and an agreement was made between the Dallas Park Department and the Dallas County Heritage Society for its erection and restoration. the Society and the Park Department agreed ti create a heritage center in the Old City Park that will illustrate the growth and development of Dallas from 1841 to 1910. This catalogue was done to help justify the historical significance of the furnishing collections destined for use in the restoration of Old City Park. Organized according to substyles, the catalogue contains data collected on each entry and is illustrated by color slides. A brief account of the American Victorian Period precedes these entries.

The diploma thesis deals with design of the polyfunctional center and the whole complex for the Brno University of Technology, which would serve for its representation. The land is in Brno on Kraví hora and its location has huge potential. However, the area is not used by the university, so the existing buildings are in poor condition. Therefore, the aim of the proposal is to find a suitable use of the land that would meet the university's requirements together with the city's intentions.