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New Urbanism as an Urban Design Framework: A Critical Analysis
Certain policies and practices have led to the creation of sprawl in American cities. The New Urbanist design framework was created to address the consequences of sprawl and deteriorating cities. This study tests the applicability of the New Urbanist framework as a redevelopment tool in an existing community and describes how the framework interacts with the design process. The investigation uses the New Urbanist principles in the design of Downtown East, a proposed neighborhood in Syracuse, NY. The study reveals that the scale of Downtown East and other factors prevent the breadth of the New Urbanist framework from being fully addressed. However, this limitation does not prevent New Urbanism from contributing to the creation of good community. Also revealed is the importance for the designer to understand and adapt the New Urbanist principles in a conceptual manner rather than adhering to the formulaic nature of the principles.
Dissertation
GLENBOW MUSEUM
Mr. Irfhan Rawji, Chair of the Board of Governors of Glenbow Museum, proudly announces the appointment of Mr. Nicholas R. Bell to the position of President & CEO. Mr. Bell joins Glenbow, one of Canada's foremost...
Newspaper Article
John Grade : reclaimed
John Grade's drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works are buried for termites to devour, sunk into a bay to collect barnacles, or hung in forest trees for birds t o eat. Grade's work represents our changing environment. An attraction to travel and to the land shapes the work, mirroring pattern s found in nature, such as wasp nests, erosion, honeycombs, rocks, trees and the passage of time. Grade invites natural forces to erode and change the work and its material, exploring both control and disruption and risk and measured thought. The works beg in from an experience - a reaction to place and history or a trek into the landscape, whether it is the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest or the hills of Iceland.
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TREATMENT SWITCHING: STATISTICAL AND DECISION-MAKING CHALLENGES AND APPROACHES
Objectives: Treatment switching refers to the situation in a randomized controlled trial where patients switch from their randomly assigned treatment onto an alternative. Often, switching is from the control group onto the experimental treatment. In this instance, a standard intention-to-treat analysis does not identify the true comparative effectiveness of the treatments under investigation. We aim to describe statistical methods for adjusting for treatment switching in a comprehensible way for nonstatisticians, and to summarize views on these methods expressed by stakeholders at the 2014 Adelaide International Workshop on Treatment Switching in Clinical Trials.
Methods: We describe three statistical methods used to adjust for treatment switching: marginal structural models, two-stage adjustment, and rank preserving structural failure time models. We draw upon discussion heard at the Adelaide International Workshop to explore the views of stakeholders on the acceptability of these methods.
Results: Stakeholders noted that adjustment methods are based on assumptions, the validity of which may often be questionable. There was disagreement on the acceptability of adjustment methods, but consensus that when these are used, they should be justified rigorously. The utility of adjustment methods depends upon the decision being made and the processes used by the decision-maker.
Conclusions: Treatment switching makes estimating the true comparative effect of a new treatment challenging. However, many decision-makers have reservations with adjustment methods. These, and how they affect the utility of adjustment methods, require further exploration. Further technical work is required to develop adjustment methods to meet real world needs, to enhance their acceptability to decision-makers.
Journal Article