Since the end of World War II, the shopping center has been diffused as a building type through the western world and has acquired a central role in suburban territories. It is perceived as a "standardized" building and as the product of the process of economic globalization. Most of the time, the shopping center is conceived on the basis of regional considerations, and so it presents difficult connections with the surrounding urban tissues. Even if it contributes in an important manner to the life of suburbia, it is an introverted building that has limited relationships with exterior spaces. / The thesis, through an analysis of the shopping centre in the United States, Canada and France, wants to shed light on the progressive emergence of its form and spatial characteristics in those countries. This comparative study underlines the mechanisms of diffusion of the shopping center paradigm developed up in the United States and the consequences of its transfer in the other contexts. The morphological and longitudinal analysis of shopping centers located in the Los Angeles, Montreal and Paris metropolitan areas aims to evaluate the influence of the local context on the emergence of specificities related to this building type, to the urban tissues containing it, and to their respective evolution over time.

Characteristic westerly sea breeze carries air over the Los Angeles Basin in Southern California to the Inland Empire approximately 50 miles inland, directly impacting air quality in both of these two highly polluted regions. As particles play a critical role in air quality and human health, this study compares the bulk aerosol profiles of the Los Angeles pollution "source" and Inland Empire "receptor" regions during the 2013 and 2014 NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) campaigns onboard the NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory. The source and receptor regions were characterized by a series of missed approaches at the Los Angeles International Airport, Long Beach Airport, and Los Alamitos Army Airfield (coastal sources) as well as the Ontario International Airport, San Bernardino International Airport, and March Air Reserve Base (inland receptors). The aerosol populations in each region were compared, and the changes evolved were analyzed alongside volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations from Whole Air Samples. Particle size distributions were collected using a Droplet Measurement Technologies Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (DMT-UHSAS). Aerosol concentration, mass, and mode diameter increased significantly between coastal pollution source and inland pollution receptor regions in all cases, along with an increase in mode diameter. The observed changes cannot be accounted for by aerosol aging over the Los Angeles basin alone, suggesting new particle emission/formation over this region could be a dominating factor in the changes. Positive correlations between particle increases at receptor sites and anthropogenic VOC tracers will be discussed.

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-78).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--RAND Graduate School, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (Ph.D) -- University of Western Sydney, 2007. / A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Humanities and Languages, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (EdD) -- Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, 1997. / Bibliography : leaves 102-105.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2007 u.d.T.: Lebuhn, Henrik: Sozialräumliche Konflikte in der unternehmerischen Stadt

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 380-405). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 380-405). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 476-484). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.