University supported community design centers in the United States provide an institutional alter... more University supported community design centers in the United States provide an institutional alternative for urban design and planning. They are a link between the innovative and educational milieu of the university and professional practice. Design centers provide the infrastructure that allows faculty and students’ research opportunities and projects that intersect with the practice of urban design and planning, with the goal of improving the physical and consequently, the social environment. This paper assesses the following goals that nascent community design centers should pursue in the planning and design of greenways: 1. focus on developing a collective vision and a tangible plan through public participation, service learning and visualization, 2. execute interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration, 3. establish public-private partnerships, 4. search funds for staffing and implementation with a high proportion from private capital or foundations, 5. pursue a step b...
We prove a geometric version of a classical result on the characterization of an irreducible cusp... more We prove a geometric version of a classical result on the characterization of an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of GLn(AE) being the base change of a stable cuspidal packet of the quasi-split unitary group associated to the quadratic extension E/F , via the nonvanishing of certain period integrals, called being distinguished. We show that certain cohomology of an automorphic sheaf of GL n,X ′ is nonvanishing if and only if the corresponding local system E on X ′ is conjugate self-dual with respect to an étale double cover X ′ /X of curves, which directly relates to the base change from the associated unitary group. In particular, the geometric setting makes sense for any base field.
University supported community design centers in the United States provide an institutional alter... more University supported community design centers in the United States provide an institutional alternative for urban design and planning. They are a link between the innovative and educational milieu of the university and professional practice. Design centers provide the infrastructure that allows faculty and students’ research opportunities and projects that intersect with the practice of urban design and planning, with the goal of improving the physical and consequently, the social environment. This paper assesses the following goals that nascent community design centers should pursue in the planning and design of greenways: 1. focus on developing a collective vision and a tangible plan through public participation, service learning and visualization, 2. execute interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration, 3. establish public-private partnerships, 4. search funds for staffing and implementation with a high proportion from private capital or foundations, 5. pursue a step b...
Redesigning Abandoned Gas Stations Through Phytotechnologies
This design research project showcases design models and strategies for abandoned, existing, and ... more This design research project showcases design models and strategies for abandoned, existing, and planned gas stations through phytotechnologies as a tool for aesthetic experience, ecological performance, and social resilience in the context of brownfield remediation and adaptive reuse. The project uses an abandoned gas station as an exemplary and typical study object. Pollutants seen at typical gas stations are organic chemicals that are derived from petroleum sources and come in many forms. These are petroleum hydrocarbon compounds that are considered lighter fractions, meaning they have characteristics that allow them to be more easily broken down. The project demonstrates how phytotypologies, as a series of selected phytotechnology planting types, can be used in combinations for varying spatial situations due to their ability to remediate the types of contaminants present at gas stations. They create modules that can be easily combined and expanded through exploration of legible ...
The idea of reconciling landscapes through remediation is not new to the discipline of landscape ... more The idea of reconciling landscapes through remediation is not new to the discipline of landscape architecture. However the potential of using transformative remediation to build urban form as a large-scale landscape network and that makes the process of remediation part of an urban landscape experience is still underdeveloped in theory and practice. This paper examines how a remediation process could be exhibited and become a staged design element, and how landscapes of cleaning can become part of the urban infrastructure to create new neighborhoods for research, education, working, and living. The example of two adjacent sites on the contaminated Elbe – Island in Hamburg, Wilhelmsburg Germany demonstrates how the purification process of water and soils can be showcased and experienced by the public and how the landscape framework becomes part of the urban infrastructure. The paper proposes a structural landscape framework for how remediation could become an artistic, aesthetically ...
… of the Annual International Conference on …, 2010
This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amher... more This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@ ...
The idea of reconciling landscapes through remediation is not new to the discipline of landscape ... more The idea of reconciling landscapes through remediation is not new to the discipline of landscape architecture. However the potential of using transformative remediation to build urban form as a large-scale landscape network and that makes the process of remediation part of an urban landscape experience is still underdeveloped in theory and practice. This paper examines how a remediation process could be exhibited and become a staged design element, and how landscapes of cleaning can become part of the urban infrastructure to create new neighborhoods for research, education, working, and living. The example of two adjacent sites on the contaminated Elbe – Island in Hamburg, Wilhelmsburg Germany demonstrates how the purification process of water and soils can be showcased and experienced by the public and how the landscape framework becomes part of the urban infrastructure. The paper proposes a structural landscape framework for how remediation could become an artistic, aesthetically ...
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