Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / John W. Keller / Form-based codes are gaining in popularity and provide a much needed and adequate alternative to more commonly used zoning regulations. Analysis shows the inadequacies and negative consequences that zoning regulations have created over the past 100 years of use within the United States. The focus being that traditional zoning regulations create undesired and unsustainable communities. A progression of form-based codes from their origins to the use of form-based codes today shows how they can be used to influence and shape the built environment. Further examination of the evolution of form-based codes reveals the guiding principles and elements of more modern codes. When compared to traditional zoning regulations, form-based codes can assist in designing a better quality built environment by creating more conscious, significant and sustainable places and spaces within our communities. By looking at current ways in which form-based codes are implemented we can begin to define best management practices and speculate on the future of form-based codes.

São Paulo, Brazil is currently pursuing a project of creative urbanism. Though city rhetoric insists this project is rooted in tolerance of sexual diversity, I suggest that city policy effectively perpetuates normative conceptions of family and respectability. Using data gathered through a series of qualitative interviews with transgender and travesti individuals living in São Paulo, I argue that the straight time of São Paulo’s creative urbanism generates exclusionary temporalities and spatialities in the city that render travestis out of time and out of place. Furthermore, I argue that travestis use their capacity to enact shame through scandals to generate temporalities and spatialities of their own, ones not aligned with the reproductive, progressive futurity of straight time. In doing so, travestis participate in their own kind of creative urbanism and provide an affective challenge to the hetero- and homonormativity of São Paulo’s creative urban project. Building on recent scholarship in queer urbanism and affect, this thesis adds to critical efforts to understand how creative urbanism sexualizes space and time in contexts outside of EuroAmerica and how a queer theoretical approach contributes to critiques of progressive modernity.

This report studies the specific case of Highland Redevelopment as if would pursue a LEED ND certification. It highlights the major issues observed to fulfill compliance of LEED ND minimum requirements as it is proposed, as well as the importance of achieving this certification as a means to define a performance level of the development. / text

The 711-acre Mueller development is located just three miles northeast of downtown on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Planned as one of Austin’s major transit-oriented New Urbanist developments, Mueller contains a pattern of pedestrian and bike friendly streets to encourage a range of transportation options for residents and visitors. Mueller is 30% complete and provides housing and jobs to over 3000 residents and 3000 employees. This professional report seeks to understand how current residents, employees, and visitors use the bike lanes, sidewalks, and roads in the Mueller community. To evaluate the transportation infrastructure, the author designed and coded a custom Google Maps survey that asked residents to draw common routes, points of interest, and points of concern related to their transportation choices. Field observations were conducted to verify and triangulate the information reported in the online survey. This study investigates whether the transportation principles for the development are or are not achieved by comparing the expressed principles of the development with the actual behavior reported and exhibited by frequent users. / text

This report is a summary of my work and research during my three years at The University of Texas at Austin. I engage the city's impressive urban parks and new urbanist developments through my own practice of descriptive and interpretive landscape painting. Through continuous exploration of the city, research into the history of landscape painting and into the strategies of modern landscape architecture, I have learned to see more clearly the role that the visual history of depicted landscape plays in contemporary practices of landscape design and construction. This has reinforced my interest in understanding how painting as a medium plays a role in our cultural understandings of how landscapes should look and act. By experimenting with new formats and materials I continue to adapt my work to articulate a new, dynamic understanding of landscape in flux and inextricable from its human inhabitants. / text

Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti urbanistinių struktūrų, kaip veiksnio, darančio įtaką kriminogeninei aplinkai, sąsajas ir pasiūlyti miestų struktūrų formavimo būdus, leidžiančius mažinti neigiamą riziką miestiškoje aplinkoje. Darbe aptarti pagrindiniai kriminogeninės aplinkos teoriniai modeliai ir užsienio šalių patirtis saugios miestiškos aplinkos formavimo srityje. Pateikta užsienio šalių patirtis formuojant skirtingas miestų teritorijas. Skirtinguose erdvinio detalumo lygmenyse geostatistinės erdvinės analizės priemonės atlikti 5 tyrimai. Tyrimams atlikti naudota ArcGIS programinė įranga. Remiantis išanalizuota medžiaga ir gautais rezultatais, nustatytas ryšys tarp urbanistinių sistemų nei posistemių ir kriminogeninio aktyvumo lygio charakteristikų skirtingais vertinimo aspektais. Darbo pabaigoje pateiktos išvados bei rekomendacijos, kuriose, atsižvelgus į tyrimų rezultatus, apibrėžtos prevencinės miestų ir teritorijų planavimo priemonės bei jų taikymo galimybės. Darbą sudaro įvadas, 3 skyriai su išvadomis nei rekomendacijomis, literatūros sąrašas. Darbo apimtis – 78 p. teksto be priedų, 48 paveikslai, 8 lentelės, 50 bibliografiniai šaltiniai. Atskirai pridedami darbo priedai. / The aim of Master thesis is to analyze the influence of urban structures to criminogenic influence and suggest ways how to create a safety environemt and reduce negative risk in the context of Vilnius city as a example for a common case. The thesis explains main criminogenic theoretical models and foreign experience creating of safety environment in a city. The thesis reveals good and bad foreign practices in creation of different functionality areas. There are accomplished 5 researches by tools of geostatistic spatial analyze in different Vilnius city scale levels. The researches accomplished by using ArcGIS software. Based on analyzed materials and achieved results, there are defined a relationship between urban system, subsystems and characteristics of criminogenic activity in respect of different aspects of assessment. At the end of the thesis there are presented conclusions and recomendations, where taking into account the results of researches, defined preventive urban planning measures and its range of application. The thesis consists of introduction, 3 sections with conclusions and recomendations and the list of literature. The scope of the work is 78 pages without appendixes, 48 pictures, 8 tables and 50 references. The appendixes (drawings) are added separately.

Strong sustainability requires enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex social-ecological interactions, but it also implies a ‘novel’ conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature, one in which individuals perceive themselves as embedded members of the Biosphere. The aim of this Licentiate thesis is to investigate the validity of a strategy that is centered on designing the urban green infrastructure to nurture such human-nature relationship in children’s attitudes. The research is framed by spatial cognition, conservation psychology, and social-ecological sustainability and it focuses on the validity of this strategy. Hence, the Licentiate analyzes how reoccurring experiences of nature that are situated in the everyday habitat (i.e. nature routines) affect personal human-nature attitudes and how these can be implemented as leverage points to change social-ecological systems using sustainable urbanism. Paper 1 tests the assumed link between the nature routines in Stockholm and preschool children’s development of cognitive and emotional affinity to nature. The results show that nature-rich routines over a period of four years are significantly correlated with the strength of preschooler’s affinity with nature. Paper 2 uses a mixed methods approach to evaluate changes in Connection To Nature (CTN) in 10 years olds who partake in a project of nature conservation. The results of Paper 2 show that there is an evaluative gap between theory and practice in connecting children with nature that impedes the evaluation of how children’s CTN changes over short periods of time and that impedes the creation of an evaluative framework for nature experiences. Paper 3 considers these empirical results in theorizing an approach to sustainable urban design based on social-ecological sustainability that includes CTN. In order to overcome existing limitations Paper 3 presents the concept of cognitive affordances as a theoretical tool to embed cognitive and emotional attitudes towards nature into the design of urban spaces. All combined these papers provide valid evidence that nature routines in cities, especially for children, can be a significant leverage point to enable future sustainable civilizations.

This diploma work is about economic and urban development of Kolín in years 1850 - 1914 and its ambition is to contribute to research of regional history and to research of Czech cities. I endeavoured to write the diploma work according to research practised in Institute of economic and social history in Faculty of arts, Charles University in Prague. I wrote the diploma work according to appropriate archival sources in State district archives (branch of State regional archives Prague). I also studied available literature. In the introduction of my work is brief described general history of Kolín. In the part dedicated to economic history are described activities in this sphere. This development is introduced into a general framework. There I named the most important companies in Kolín. I also wanted to advert to the development of banking and trade. The next part is dedicated to urban development and technical infrastructure. In the chapter I also describe the development of build-up area and attempt its regulation. There I also mentioned the traffic presumptions of Kolín. I pointed out the issues of economic elite, important buildings, education and federal action. I compared Kolín to other cities and I wanted to show its development in the broader framework. In conclusion I recapitulated basic...

Les images dans toute leur diversité, installées dans l'espace urbain composent notre objet d'étude. Ainsi, à partir de l'analyse d'un vaste corpus composé de photographies et de cartes, collectés durant un long période dans le centre-ville de Santiago, l'enjeu est de saisir l'objet image-contexte qui d'après une description cas-à-cas, nous permettra l'analyse de l'image en situation. Dont le but est l'observation du rôle des images dans la construction de l'espace urbain et en tant que composant fondamental de notre environnement quotidien. De ce fait, divers aspects apparaissent peu à peu le long du travail telles que ; la distribution des images en relation au rapport des forces des pouvoirs quelles représentent et dans l'ensemble révèlent les pratiques spatiales du groupe social, de voir comment l'image transforme l'espace et l'espace redéfinit l'image, la relation entre image et architecture, entre la dynamique des images et les dynamiques urbaines et l'irruption des nouvelles technologies dans l'espace urbain. En somme, tout au long de notre travail de recherche nous poursuivons la constitution progressive de l'image en situation en tant qu'objet de terrain et élément essentiel qui façonnera le paysage visuel des villes dans le XXIe siècle / Images, in all their diversity, present in the urban environment, form the subject of our study. Thus, with the starting point a vast cache of photographs and cards, collected over a long period in Santiago city-center, the issue involves comprehending the image/context as a whole, a task that, after a case-by-case examination, will allow us to analyze the image as an integral part of its location. The goal, therefore, is the observation of the role of images in the construction of the urban environment and as fundamental components of our everyday surroundings. In this way, various aspects come to the fore throughout the process: the distribution of images relative to the power of the forces they represent reveals, in the whole, the spatial activities of the social group; the way in which the image transforms the space and the space in turn redefines the image; the relationship between image and architecture; between the dynamics of the image and the urban dynamics; and, lastly, the impact of new technologies on the urban landscape. In summation, throughout our research we have followed the progressive existence of location-specific imagery as an object in its own right and an essential element that will shape the visual landscape of cities in the 21st century

The content of this thesis is to evaluate the extensive artifact of the current file, obtained within the rescue archaeological research in the Prague suburb in České Budějovice in 1995. The thesis also summarizes the history of the settlement, the historical context of the establishment of the royal town České Budějovice, urbanism, information relating to the local suburb and the local pottery production, the circumstances of the archaeological research and the description of finding situations. Keywords: České Budějovice, 14th -15th century, suburb, archeology, urbanism