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Urban Plazas for Human Comfort
(2019-07-17)
What new technologies and methods can be matched with older “forgotten” techniques to
make a plaza more comfortable and enticing for humans? This study will examine human
comfort needs in a public space through: ...
On space program planning: quantifying the effects of spacefaring goals and strategies on the solution space of feasible programs
An organization's space program represents the coalescence of top-level goals and strategies with the specific, lower-level combinations of mission architectures, hardware, and technology. High costs and long lead times ...
CLASSIFYING DESIRE PATHS UTILIZING A CAMPUS MASTER PLAN STUDY: A METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING URBAN DESIGN FLAWS
(2021-05-07)
Desire paths are the informal pathways created from the erosional effect of repeated foot traffic. These footpaths come in many shapes and sizes and can occur in spaces where there are no formal pathways for pedestrians. ...
Learning Abstractions for Planning
(2020-06-03)
Planners for hard problems must exploit domain-specific structure to find solutions efficiently. Yet, hand-engineered solutions and optimizations are often expensive and difficult or impossible to adapt to other problems. ...
Planning Practices for the Public Mental Health
(2019-12-05)
The rapid urbanization taking place in the 21st century poses its own unique set of public health concerns. In addition to changing lifestyles around the world, mental illness rates are higher in our cities.
While the ...
THE CHARISMATIC DOG AND PUBLIC SPACE: ARE DOG PARKS A THIRD PLACE?
(2020-09-04)
Exiting research supports dog parks as a third place based on the ability of dog-supportive public space to bring people together informally outside home and work (Graham and Glover, 2014), yet offers little clarity in ...
AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY: ANALYZING PLANNING APPROACHES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
(2020-11-30)
This exploratory case study examines planning and economic development through the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework in the New Institutional Economic Theory. Two selected case studies highlight economic ...