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Patricia L. MachemerLandscape Architecture Program
Urban and Regional Planning Program School of Planning Design and Construction Michigan State University 101 UPLA Building East Lansing MI 48824-1221
Although there are efforts underway to educate the public on landscape planning and land management, educational efforts geared toward children have been limited. This study recognizes the importance of landscape plan...
Although there are efforts underway to educate the public on landscape planning and land management, educational efforts geared toward children have been limited. This study recognizes the importance of landscape planning education, children's inherent spatial cognition, and their observational and creative skills. However, there are limited opportunities for children to be landscape planners and the elements children believe are important in the design and planning of their ideal community are unknown. Therefore, this investigation reports on an active teaching activity for children and presents a research study on children's perceptions and preferences in designing an ideal community. The participants are children between 3rd and 10th grade in a rural migrant farming community in Michigan. Foam-core models were produced and analyzed to answer the following research questions: (i) what are the key dimensions of an ideal community and (ii) are there hidden patterns of preference? Using principal component analysis, 87% of what is important to the rural students regarding “ideal communities” can be explained. The first component represents what is familiar to the children, Their Place, and accounts for nearly 28% of the variance. This study also produced a conceptual spatial map of an ideal community for all of the student participants. The map reveals that a school provides a link to many other aspects of children's lives. The research and its findings provide a method for understanding children's perceptions about their landscape, and information on what constitutes an ideal community.
The most common concern expressed by the public regarding aggregate mining is the negative aesthetic impact the activity has upon the scenic quality of the landscape. It is important that rehabilitation efforts restor...
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(纸本)9781622760862
The most common concern expressed by the public regarding aggregate mining is the negative aesthetic impact the activity has upon the scenic quality of the landscape. It is important that rehabilitation efforts restore scenic quality as well as function to the post-mining landscape. To this end the Management of Abandoned Aggregate Properties (MAAP) program rehabilitates ten to twenty-fives sites in Ontario annually, based upon the criteria of safely, aesthetic, ecological and economic concerns. This study assesses the public's visual preference for different aggregate property naturalization designs. To investigate this relationship, computer-modeled rehabilitation designs of an aggregate properly were developed using landscape modeling software to simulate three-dimensional development over a fifteen year time period. Respondent groups evaluated how natural, rehabilitated, attractive they perceived the simulations to be and assigned a rank order to the eight design strategies from best to worst. design alternatives are shown to improve the perception of aggregate rehabilitation efforts over the current methods being commonly employed by MAAP.
Reclamation specialists are constantly searching for efficient and effective revegetation methods upon xeric sites. In our investigation, we created a small forest patch, densely packed with woody plants and observed ...
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(纸本)9781622760862
Reclamation specialists are constantly searching for efficient and effective revegetation methods upon xeric sites. In our investigation, we created a small forest patch, densely packed with woody plants and observed the development (expansion and mortality) of individual plants and groups of plants in the patch for the last 20 years. The patch has expanded from about 0.11 acres to about 1 acre in area;while the inner core of trees has only slightly expanded from 0.08 acres to 0.10 acres in size. The collective basal area of most tree species has increased but is now spread across many individuals. The basal area growth of some of the inner individuals has nearly halted (less then 0.1 inches in dbh over 5 years). In contrast, many surviving edge trees have increased their basal area with some individuals growing more than 0.5 dbh inches per year. Box elder (Acer negundo L.) is the only species that has greatly increased in the number of individual trees (dbh ≥ 10 cm). Siouxland Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides Bart. Ex Marsh. "Siouxland") has gone extinct. Woody plant seedling recruitment continues to occur for northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.), woodbine (Pathenocissus quniquefolia (L.) Planch), riverbank grape (Vitis riparia Michx.), Eastern red cedar (Juniperus viginiana L.), grey dogwood (Cornus recemosa), Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Marsh.), and common hackberry (Celtis occidentalis L.). A small stand of Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) remains in the understory of the inner core of the stand and the wood chip mulch which was applied during installation has been consumed. The full extent of the stand has become unrecognizable, as the stand has now merged with naturalized stands of sumac (Rhus sp.). Our study indicates that such an approach can achieve 100% shrubland savanna cover in 20 years, by establishing patches over 10% of the Lower Grey Cloud Island landscape. In contrast, traditional landscape treatme
The paper proposes a layered scripting language technique for representation and control of avatar behavior for simpler avatar control in various domain environments. We suggest three layered architecture which is con...
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The new Italian battleship Leonardo Da Vinci suffered a severe fire in 1916 resulting in the ship capsizing in Taranto harbor. The ship was not destroyed but upside down. The Italian Navy thought she could be salvaged...
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The new Italian battleship Leonardo Da Vinci suffered a severe fire in 1916 resulting in the ship capsizing in Taranto harbor. The ship was not destroyed but upside down. The Italian Navy thought she could be salvaged and returned to service. The chosen approach was to refloat the ship upside down. Superstructure was cut away under water and the turrets dropped to bottom of the harbor in order to reduce the draft enough to get the ship into a drydock. In drydock, the still bottom-up ship was prepared for being turned upright. The ship was taken out of the drydock and by weight additions plus selective flooding the ship was capsized again but this time coming upright. Two appendices to the paper describe other ships floating upside down and other approaches to righting capsized ships.
This article argues that the integration of art and planning has been inadequately developed, and calls for a renewed exploration of their inter-connection. City planning has had a variable relationship with art, movi...
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Workplace agility is emerging as the highest priority for the providers of workplace services and infrastructure. ‘Agility’ means continuously improving work and the infrastructure that enables it. An agile workplac...
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