Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes special report study entitled: Landscape design for elderly.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Barney Warf, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 14, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains x, 120 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111)

Thesis (MEngSc)--University of Melbourne, School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-123)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / Problem: The problem of this dissertation is to relate ethical issues in modern city planning in the United States and the emerging context of choice in urban society to a systematic ethical framework which can serve as a normative foundation for responsible planning. Method: The dissertation is developed in three stages: first, an historical study of the development of ethical issues in city planning in the United States; secondly, an analysis of the context of choice in contemporary urban society; finally, the development of a systematic ethical framework for urban planning which explores the emerging coherence between Talcott Parsons' theory of action, Edgar S. Brightman's formulation of the moral laws, the idea of the responsible society, and contemporary discussions of planning theory [TRUNCATED]

There is a fundamental shift in the way people are living on the planet. Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet many of these cities continue to struggle to provide basic services, infrastructure and food security for the billions of people who live in cities. Despite decades of intervention by international and national development agencies, cities in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly framed in apocalyptic and dystopian terms, serving as a warning of the dangers of overurbanization while being criticized for their lack of urban development. This contradictory framing poses the question of how a city and the people who live there actually survive. Building on emerging work in critical urban studies, this research examines how narrow definitions of what counts as urban hinder the understanding of cities in different regional contexts and limit our imaginations of how people survive and thrive in the face of the challenges that cities provide. To examine the idea of what is urban in the context of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I use the lens of urban open space farms, large lots of land in the built-up environment of the city used for farming, to explore what makes farming urban, how the practice of farming contributes to and is embedded within urban systems, and how farms and farmers can illuminate the material practices and ephemeral experiences that constitute the reality of people's daily life in cities. I employ a methodology based on interviews, photo voice, mental mapping, and observation over time to explore the dynamics of farms as spaces and farmers as agents in constructing these spaces over time. The purpose is to contribute to a definition of the urban that moves past associations with capitalism and industrialization as the defining processes of the city towards one more inclusive of the way people experience these spaces, how they remake them to fit the city, and what this means for interventions that focus on the marginalization of people and the ways that cities fail, rather than how they actually work.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-10-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:32:07Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sousa_jl_me_rcla.pdf: 6318676 bytes, checksum: 934ab4d91f709dbfd28e37924b0b6217 (MD5) / Nos últimos cinqüenta anos as cidades cresceram muito rapidamente. No mundo inteiro tivemos praticamente uma inversão entre o número de habitantes rurais e urbanos. De acordo com o último censo demográfico brasileiro (2000) 81.25% da população vive em centros urbanos. O processo de urbanização nas cidades traz diversas alterações à camada limite urbana o que direta ou indiretamente pode conduzir à formação de microclimas diferenciados em diferentes regiões da cidade, levando a condições adversas de conforto. Os estudos urbanos do clima têm se baseado há muito tempo nas diferenças de temperatura observada entre as cidades e suas regiões rurais, descrevendo coletivamente o efeito urbano da ilha de calor. O desenvolvimento das análises bioclimáticas a respeito do clima urbano deve ter como um objetivo final o estabelecimento de propostas concretas para um planejamento urbano orientado ao clima e a mitigação do efeito das ilhas urbanas de calor. O Pólo Têxtil de Americana é uma região formada por cidades médias do estado de São Paulo. Estas cidades cresceram muito rapidamente nas últimas décadas; tendo como conseqüência a necessidade de uma compreensão dos efeitos antropogênicos na cidade. Esta pesquisa apresenta, assim, uma analise sobre os climas de Americana, Nova Odessa, Santa Bárbara D'Oeste e Sumaré baseada no planejamento urbano e na análise de séries históricas de meteorologia e no sensoriamento remoto. As diferenças térmicas das vizinhanças, da atividade urbana e de componentes urbanos são comparadas. A conclusão mais importante obtida nessa pesquisa é que parte das mudanças microclimáticas atribuídas às atividades humanas em áreas urbanas, é reversível a curto prazo (talvez semanas ou meses), se ações eficazes forem realizadas para controlar as fontes de calor e poluição melhorando a qualidade ambiental urbana. / In the last fifty years cities have grown very fast. In the whole world there was practically an inversion between the number of agricultural and urban inhabitants. According to the last Brazilian demographic census (2000) 81,25% of population lived in urban centers. The urbanization process in cities brings several alterations to the urban boundary layer that directly or indirectly may lead to the formation of different microclimates in different regions of the city, causing diverse comfort conditions. Urban climate studies have long been concerned about the magnitude of the difference in observed ambient air temperature between cities and their surrounding rural regions, which collectively describe the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The development of bioclimatic analysis regarding urban climate must have as a final goal the establishment of concrete proposals for a climate oriented urban planning and for mitigated the UHI effect. The Americana Textil Polo is a region formated by medium sizes cities in São Paulo state. This cities has grown very fast in the last decades; consequently it's necessary to understand the anthropogenic effects into the city. This research presents, a analyzes about Americana, Nova Odessa, Santa Bárbara D'Oeste e Sumaré climates based in urban planning and historical temporary series of meteorology and remote sensing. Data from a fixed metereological station were used to make de measurements. The thermal differences of neighborhoods, urban activity and urban components were compared. The conclusion shows that some evidences of the influence of weekly human activities rhythm on the climate system under anthropic influence. The most important conclusion that could be brought in the future is that part of the micro-climate changes attributed to human activity in urban areas, is reversible in short time (maybe weeks or months).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-06-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:47:58Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ajonas_acs_me_prud.pdf: 6412772 bytes, checksum: 52e4b20b57c669edee7acf10db0b6c8c (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Secretaria de Estado da Educação / Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo realizar uma análise do processo de reestruturação urbana, enfatizando as mudaças geradas na centralidade urbana. Para isso, tomamos como recorte territorial o município de Itu – SP. Desse modo, buscamos compreender as transformações que se processam na área central do município de Itu e que podem ser observadas na relação entre as formas herdadas e as novas dinâmicas que lhe são impostas pelo desenvolvimento econômico, pela expansão de seu tecido urbano e pelo crescimento populacional. Essas novas dinâmicas modificam o centro, atribuindo-lhe novos conteúdos, identificáveis, entre outros, pela intensificação de seus fluxos, implicando em novas centralidades. Com isso, gera-se o descompasso entre formas e funções no centro histórico. Procuramos apreender essas transformações indentificando suas conseqüências no plano da morfologia urbana, por meio da criação de novas centralidades. Para o desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa, priorizamos o enfoque econômico, por meio de análise das empresas existentes em nossa área de estudo. Os dados evidenciaram aspectos do centro que permitiram um maior entendimento de sua dinâmica e estrutura, bem como o conteúdo informacional existente nas novas centralidades que se configuram. / This research had the objective to achieve an analyze of the restructuring urban process, emphasizing the changes generated in the centrality urban. For this, we assumed as territories bound the Itu municipality – SP. This way, we tried to understand the changes that occurs in the central area of the Itu municipality and it can be observed in the relation between the inherited forms and the new dynamics which are attributed for the economic development, for the urban tissue’s expansion and for the population increase. These new dynamics change the center, attributing to it new contents, identified, among others, for the intensification of its flows, resulting in news centralities. So, generate itself the incompatibility between forms and functions in the historical center. We tried to apprehend these changes identifying its consequences in the urban morphology’s plane, through the creation of news centralities. For this research’s development, we priorited the economic point, through the analyze of the companies existent in our study area. The datuns evidenced centre’s aspects that allowed a greater understanding of its dynamic and structure, as well as the informational content existent in the new centralities that configures itself.

abstract: Planners are often involved in the development of 'visions' for specific projects or larger plans. These visions often serve as guideposts for more specific plans or projects and the visioning process is important for involving community members into the planning process. This paper provides a review of the recent literature published about visioning and is intended to provide guidance for visioning activities in planning projects. I use the general term "vision" in reference to a desirable state in the future. The body of academic literature on visioning in planning has been growing over the last decade. However, the planning literature on visioning is diverse and dispersed, posing various challenges to researchers and planners seeking guidance for their own planning (research) activities. For one, relevant articles on visioning are scattered over different strands of literature ranging from traditional planning literature (Journal of the American Planning Association, Planning Practice and Research, etc.) to less traditional and intuitive sources (Futures, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology). Further, some of them not easily identifiable and may not be openly accessible via the Internet. Thus, our review intends to help collect and synthesize this literature and begin to provide guidance for the future of visioning in the field of planning. I do this by compiling visioning literature from different strands of the planning literature, synthesizing key insights into visioning in (urban) planning, undertaking exemplary appraisals of visioning approaches in planning against quality criteria, and deriving conclusions for visioning research and practice. From this review, I highlight areas of opportunity and ways forward in order to make visioning more effective and more influential for the future of communities throughout the world. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.U.E.P. Urban and Environmental Planning 2013