"September, 1984". / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Centre for Environmental and Urban Studies, 1985. / Includes bibliography : leaves 405-418, and index. / Introduction -- The peaceful path to real reform -- The garden city movement -- An international phenomenon -- Australia: setting the scene -- Importing the garden city -- Overview of theory and practice -- An environmental ideal -- Garden city principles -- Garden towns -- Garden villages -- Garden suburbs -- The metropolitan scale -- Conclusion. / The garden city tradition in estate and metropolitan design derived its name from the garden cities advocated by Ebenezer Howard in To-Morrow (1898). A major force in the history of British planning, its influence was felt around the world. This thesis is the first overview of Australian theory and practice, focusing on the period between 1910 and 1930. Five basic tasks are attempted: an outline of the original garden city idea; an examination of the general ideology and organization of the garden city movement; clarification of the international context; specification of the general character and distinctiveness of garden city advocacy in Australia; and a systematic record of actual projects. -- The discussion indicates that the nature of the Australian response reflected the interaction of imported ideas with local circumstances. As in other countries, Howard's 'peaceful path' to 'a better a brighter civilization' was not fully followed. Instead, the garden city assumed three main guises. First, it functioned as an inspirational environmental ideal. Second, it brought together concrete principles for improved lay out that were advocated for and implemented in three different settings: special purpose 'garden towns'; 'tied' housing estates for industrial employees; and residential suburbs and subdivisions. These 'garden suburbs' dominated the local scene but, as with the other developments, translation of the ideal into reality was imperfect, being deleteriously affected by financial, political, and administrative factors in particular. Third, and at a larger scale, the garden city helped to introduce certain tentative ideas regarding the desirable size, shape and structure of the metropolis. -- The approach adopted is basically empirical, with the most important source material being the contemporary Australian planning literature. The structure is best described as 'stratified chronology'. The analytical framework combines three main approaches to planning historiography: the societal (setting planning events and developments in their broadest economic, political, cultural, and institutional context), the biographical (emphasizing the important role of individuals in the importation, diffusion and implementation of garden city thought), and the morphological (a spatial emphasis involving an inventory of landscape impacts). The major theme permeating the thesis is that of the 'diluted legacy': the drift in the garden city tradition away from Howard's holistic, radical manifesto through liberal environmental reforms to actual schemes which compromised or even totally contradicted the original idea in physical, economic and social terms. The extension and conceptualization of this idea provides one of several important areas for future research highlighted by the thesis. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / xi, 424 leaves ill

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Env.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Geographical and Environmental Studies, 2003. / "June 2003" Bibliography: leaves 81-88.

Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Includes special report study entitled :Artificial habitat for plants. Also available in printed format.

Detta arbete undersöker vad som kan sägas utgöra kärnan i Garden cities-idealet utifrån Ebenezer Howards definition och Johan Rådbergs tolkning av Howard. Vidare undersöker arbetet hur idealet kan tolkas, förstås och appliceras i en nutida svensk kontext. De gestaltningsprinciper som kan sägas vara bärande för idealet används som utgångspunkt för utformandet av en illustrationsplan över Varvsstaden i Malmö. Därmed exemplifieras hur idealet kan förstås konkret i planeringssammanhang och vilka effekter som följer på ett genomförande av idealet i en central stadsdel i en storstad. För den teoretiska delen av arbetet används en innehållsanalys och de gestaltningsprinciper som utläses som bärande för Garden cities-idealet skisseras sedan fram i syfte att skapa "visuella verktyg" för den illustrationsplan som arbetas fram. Arbetet visar att det är fullt möjligt att utforma en central stadsdel i enlighet med Garden cities-idealet och uppnå ett relativt högt exploateringstal som resultat.

Tsang Chi Wai Eddie. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report." / Chapter 1. --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Vision. / Chapter 1.2 --- Background / Chapter 2. --- Project Analysis / Chapter 2.2 --- Client Analysis / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Client's Mission / Chapter 2.3 --- Site / Context Analysis / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Site Location (Urban Level) / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Site Location (Building Level) / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Topography / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Adjacent Buildings / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Population / Chapter 2.3.6 --- Infrastructure / Chapter 2.4 --- Access and Transportation / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Roads / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Mass Transit Railway / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Kowloon-Canton Railway / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Passengers' Flow of Rail Service / Chapter 2.5 --- Land Use Zoning / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Commercial / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Residential / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Government / Institution / Community / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Open Space / Chapter 2.5.5 --- Other Specified Uses / Chapter 2.5.6 --- Green Belt / Chapter 2.6 --- Codes / Chapter 2.7 --- Project Opportunities / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Design Issues / Chapter 3. --- Process / Chapter 3.1 --- Site Documentation / Chapter 3.2 --- Exploration Period / Chapter 3.3 --- Design Process / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Vision 1 - Urban Level / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Vision 2 - Urban + Architectural Level / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Vision 3 - Architectural Level / Chapter 4. --- Final Project / Chapter 4.1 --- Vision 1 - Pedestrian Artery / Chapter 4.2 --- Vision 2 - Places Making / Chapter 4.3 --- "Vision 3.-Integration of Public Transportation, Places and Human Activities" / Chapter Appendix A --- Program Report (Urban Design) / Chapter Appendix B --- Program Report (Building Design) / Chapter Appendix C --- Site Documentation

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Urban green spaces are one of the layers of urban pattern. The urban environment is created through the complex relationships between natural, social, economic, and politic dynamics. Similar to the urban environment, as a produced landscape, characteristics of urban green spaces vary according to the social, economic, cultural and ecological context of urban society. In the last few decades, the &ldquo / quality of urban life target&rdquo / included in the sustainability approach, has became an important touchstone to increase the quality of urban environment in today&rsquo / s world / with its tendencies of covering of perpetual subjective values and in addition to objective conditions to identify &ldquo / individual&rsquo / s satisfaction&rdquo / as a target the by, of keeping its evaluation scope broad and holistic, and of deriving supporting the daily life practices which derive from participatory processes. Among the quality of life perspective, urban green spaces are interpretated in a holistic and broad framework in boundaries of their contributions to the inhabitants&rsquo / well-being through their physical, social, economic and ecological links with life in a broad scale spectrum ranging from individual level to city scale. In today&rsquo / s urban environment, Ankara&rsquo / s urban green spaces are planned by the responsible agents within a narrow framework / separated from urban and urban life, lacked of this multi-scale and multi-dimensional perspective, stucked in the sectoral targets of institutions. At this point, the study identifies the priorities and conditions to re-establish a well-functioned planning process for the green spaces of Ankara with a particular attention to quality of life.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2005.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-358). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.