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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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Phenotypes in phylogeography
Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods and markers, the focus in phylogeography shifted to previously unrecognized geographic genetic variation, thus reducing the attention paid to phenotypic variation in those same diverging lineages. Although phenotypic differences among lineages once provided the main data for studies of evolutionary change, the mechanisms shaping phenotypic differentiation and their integration with intraspecific genetic structure have been underexplored in phylogeographic studies. However, phenotypes are targets of selection and play important roles in species performance, recognition, and diversification. Here, we focus on three questions. First, how can phenotypes elucidate mechanisms underlying concordant or idiosyncratic responses of vertebrate species evolving in shared landscapes? Second, what mechanisms underlie the concordance or discordance of phenotypic and phylogeographic differentiation? Third, how can phylogeography contribute to our understanding of functional phenotypic evolution? We demonstrate that the integration of phenotypic data extends the reach of phylogeography to explain the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Finally, we stress the importance of natural history collections as sources of high-quality phenotypic data that span temporal and spatial axes.
Journal Article