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Towards Net-Zero Energy Communities: Evaluating Capacity Of Local Comprehensive Plans For Energy Efficiency In Oregon, Nan Zhao

Community and Regional Planning Program: Student Projects and Theses

While energy-related issue is conventionally recognized as a large-scale issue to human and natural environment, few researches directly focus on local-level policies and strategies on energy efficiency. This thesis mainly aims to explain how to establish Net-Zero Energy Communities (NZECs) in the respective of local planning and policy. Based on the innovation adoption theory and key factors of NZECs, this study firstly establishes a practical protocol to assist local jurisdictions to develop high-quality local comprehensive plans (LCPs) to promote the development of NZECs. Then, through assessing the capacities of LCPs for local energy efficiency in Oregon, the strengths and weaknesses ...

Team Las Vegas Solar Decathlon 2013 Support, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solar Decathlon Reports

Team Las Vegas’ selection to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 is a triumph for UNLV, Las Vegas, and the Mountain West Region. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase our knowledge and represent our region in this international competition. Our success thus far is a testament to our innovative curriculum, dedicated faculty and students, and strong community partnerships, but we need your help to continue moving forward.

Team Las Vegas Solar Decathlon 2013 Sponsorship Packet, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solar Decathlon Reports

Your sponsorship is an investment in current students and future generations, and helps defray costs for construction materials, graphics and communications, and travel and transportation. In addition, your support will continue to impact and benefit Las Vegas in the following ways:

• Diversifying our economy

• Creating an educated and much-needed workforce with renewable energy expertise

• Extending research opportunities for renewable energy

• Educating the community about the benefits of energy efficient living

• Positioning UNLV and Las Vegas on an international stage with other renowned universities

We are excited about the countless opportunities and visibility the competition offers, not only for UNLV but ...

Team Las Vegas Solar Decathlon 2013 Quickfacts, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solar Decathlon Reports

Team Las Vegas’ selection to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 is a triumph for UNLV, Las Vegas, and the Mountain West Region. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase our knowledge and represent our region in this international competition. Our success thus far is a testament to our innovative curriculum, dedicated faculty and students, and strong community partnerships, but we need your help to continue moving forward.

Shelter And Development, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

The importance of a house in enabling individuals and families to attain physical shelter from inclement weather, provide security, a ‘grounded’ attachment to place, and enhance the quality of life of residents is an idea that has universal acceptance. Particularly since the Second World War, it has become an integral part of the popular imagination. The almost iconic status of what a house represents to upwardly mobile, nuclear, families is reflected in the great expansion of industries involved in real estate and housing development. This expansion includes the production for, and growth of, a formalized building and construction industry, and ...

The Lasting Relationship Between Antonio Gaudí And Barcelona, Spain, Erica Cline

Senior Honors Theses

Barcelona's architecture changed with the influence of Gaudí and his willingness to stray from the expected and normal characteristics of this time period. Since Gaudí began the construction of his various works, there have been many controversial thoughts on the time period that his works represented. Other architectures and artists were reluctant to stray from the traditional characteristics from the art movements at this time. However, Gaudí was eager to use aspects from various art movements to create designs that he thought would be beneficial to the city and to himself.

His buildings are frequently referred to as being ...

Telling The Springfield Story: Project Report, Elizabeth Brabec

Elizabeth Brabec

This project applies locative media technology (video on website and mobile devices) to spur community engagement and economic development in downtown Springfield. Video performances (narrative stories, songs, dances, etc.) by local Springfield residents relate their experiences and perceptions of the city. The video performances are accessed through locative media, which enables smart phones and other Internet devices to download content in a downtown Springfield "performance walk."

Building Healthy Communities: Integrating Walkability Concepts Into Local Land Use Planning, Jenna Danelle Muhlbach

Community and Regional Planning Program: Student Projects and Theses

In recent years, American communities have been diagnosed with several chronic health diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Several researchers attribute sedentary lifestyles as one of the contributing factors to chronic diseases. The lack of physical exercise can be blamed by the auto-dependent suburbia lifestyle that many generations have become accustomed to. Poor land use developments have roads and freeways dominating the use of space, with the intent of having an automobile get from one place to another as efficiently as possible. This has allowed places to be much further apart therefore it has had a negative impact ...

Plattenbau: Between Condemnation And Fascination, Understanding The Turbulent History Of Industrial Domestic Architecture In Germany Since 1900, Lianna O'Brien

Senior Projects Spring 2012

The word Plattenbau in Germany today has strong associations to the former East German regime. Throughout the 1970s until the state’s collapse in 1990, hundreds of thousands of prefabricated panel apartments were erected annually throughout the GDR as part of state policy to “solve the housing question by the year 1990”. However, prefabricated panel construction has existed since the early 1900s. In order to appropriately assess the role that these buildings could potentially play in society today, it is essential to understanding the turbulent reception of prefabricated domestic architecture throughout history. Plattenbau construction methods have always been linked to ...

Landscape Of Conflict: The Political Ecology Of Settlements Surrounding Deonar Garbage Dump In Mumbai, Elias Moose

Senior Projects Spring 2012

Mumbai, India has witnessed a period of unbridled growth over the past two decades along with a dramatic increase in the number and percentage of those living in areas deemed to be slums. Now, over 60% of the city's population is living on less than a tenth of all available land within the greater metropolitan region. This paper argues, firstly, that the nominal category of slums, as generally understood is insufficient in its breadth and context to sense of urban poverty in Mumbai. A demolition narrative is presented to elucidate the concerns, fears, and hopes of the millions of ...

Resurrection And Reconstruction: Visions Of Vézelay During The 13th, 19th, 21st Centuries, Lindsay Paige Pike

Senior Projects Spring 2012

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Workplace Futures: A Case Study Of An Adaptive Scenarios Approach To Establish Strategies For Tomorrow’S Workplace, Ruth Saurin

Doctoral

Workplace change and innovation will become critical to the organisation’s future in a dynamic, knowledge-based economy and society. As such, anticipating and managing future change is fast becoming a vital dimension underpinning the successful transition – to new work styles, patterns and locations; yet traditional workplace planning methods are rather limited in their ability to fulfil this task. This research, therefore, examines how the potential application of Futures Studies, and more specifically the Prospective
Through Scenarios process, can address this issue in order for the workplace to be actively sustained to stay effective for the organisation in the long-term.Using ...

Utah State University Botanical Center Stream Master Plan, Daniel Willard Schults

All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects

The Utah State University Botanical Center Stream Master Plan is a design to assist Utah State University Botanical Center (USUBC) administration in fulfilling their goals of community outreach and education, implementing sustainable practices and creating aesthetically beautiful areas for public enjoyment. These goals are met through updating the USUBC master plan to account for the newly built man-made stream as well as other future buildings. Trails, overlooks and information nodes are part of the new master plan. The planting plan includes representations of six natural plant communities found in Northern Utah. Additionally, the stream design improves the water quality of ...

Gis Descriptive Modeling Of General Land Office Surveyor Tree Data And Spatial Relationships With River Valleys And Their Potential Fire Shadow Effects In Polk And Dallas Counties, Iowa, Jonathan David Nelsen

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Fire was a controlling force in the Iowa landscape long before Euro-Americans took up residence among its forests and prairies (Anderson 1998). Rivers and river valleys are features that influenced the spread of these fires (Leitner and others 1991, Anderson 1998). Based on previous studies in the midwest, the primary wind direction during fire season was from the south and west (Leitner and others 1991, Anderson 1998). As fire spread, river valleys acted as fire breaks and decreased fire frequency and intensity in protected areas to the north and east (Leitner and others 1991). In this study several spatial and ...

Local Food Access In Inner Cities: Integrated Research Through: Comparison Study, Literature Review, Case Studies And Design Implementation, Courtney Allison Long

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research suggests a strategy to address a difficult challenge: self-sustainability and the promotion of increasing the availability and accessibility of local food. This strategy has the opportunity to bring nutritious meals into our homes, place money into our local economies and promote self-sustaining communities. This study examines literature and case studies involving both primary and secondary sources. Cities and their local food programs were examined by travel within Havana, Cuba, and Kansas City, Missouri, and a field research study in Des Moines, Iowa. The study presents models that address urban agriculture, food accessibility, and design implementations to improve local ...

Building Capability For Disaster Resilience, Lynn Crawford, Craig Langston, Bhishna Bajracharya

Mirvac School of Sustainable Development

All levels of government recognise the widespread devastation of communities by natural or other disasters. They have responded with emergency management arrangements and policies to enhance government and community capacity to anticipate, withstand and recover from disastrous events. Although the construction industry has a significant role to play, particularly in recovery and reconstruction, it has not generally been considered as a key stakeholder in building capability for disaster resilience. One barrier to more active involvement of the construction industry in disaster response and management is that traditional methods of construction project management have been criticised as too time consuming and ...

Transforming The Tourist City Into A Knowledge And Healthy City: Reinventing Australia's Gold Coast, Daniel O'Hare, Bhishna Bajracharya, Isara Khanjanasthiti

Mirvac School of Sustainable Development

Purpose – With rapid growth of Australia’s Gold Coast into a tourist consumption city (Mullins 2008) of half a million people, Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) seeks to diversify the city’s economy, lifestyle and culture. This paper investigates this transformation by reviewing policies, projects and programs arising from GCCC visions of a healthy city benefiting from knowledge based urban development (KBUD) (Yigitcanlar et al., 2008). Secondly, the paper aims to identify opportunities and challenges in developing the emerging cosmopolitan city as a knowledge and healthy city. The paper focuses not only on larger knowledge and health nodes along major ...

Risk And Uncertainty In Project Management Decision-Making, Karolina Koleczko

Public Infrastructure Bulletin

Today, managing for risk and uncertainty are cornerstones of the project manager’s role. It is common practice for practitioners to use the terms risk and uncertainty interchangeably which can be unhelpful when managing long-term and complex projects, minimising adverse impacts and taking advantage of upside opportunities that may develop. However, the literature points to important differences in practices to measure, cost, mitigate and manage project risk and deal with future uncertainty which suggests that the distinction may warrant greater understanding at the project level.

Contemporary project management requires practitioners to understand a great deal about the risk profile of ...

Ppp: The Best Option For Queensland Social Infrastructure?, Norm Jagger

Public Infrastructure Bulletin

The trend by governments to procure infrastructure using Private Sector Financing Initiatives (PFIs) has produced a number of variants such as Alliance Contracting and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) which are now in common use in Australia. The partnership trend has developed due to unprecedented and extraordinary demands on public funding to upgrade existing infrastructure and to provide new infrastructure. Initially social infrastructure did not appear to be a good PFI prospect primarily because Governments found it unpalatable to shift costs to users.

Recently however, social infrastructure has become more attractive due to cost reductions brought about by risk transfer and ...