Library Trends 46 (1) Summer 1997: Buildings, Books, and Bytes

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The Lumberjack, March 23, 2011

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The Daily Texan

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Detroit: Revitalizing Urban Communities

This thesis examines the relationship between architecture and planning in Detroit. The relationship between these two disciplines has reinforced gross inequality in socioeconomic status over many decades. It has been compounded by racism which planning policy and Architecture exploited during the 20th Century for private interests. This impacts the built environment at all scales. Today division is reinforced through small details such as how handrails are placed on benches, but it extends to planning metropolitan areas, and how they are divided up into city and suburb. At the scales between, both architecture and planning reinforce the segregation within their own disciplines, but the stage is set at this intersection. The scale of 1”=100’ has a history of being a scale at which both architectural form, and planning, can be expressed simultaneously. This is famously seen in the scale model of San Francisco which was commissioned by the City during the Great Depression. Architecturally, the prevalence of skywalks between major buildings in urban areas has greatly increased. These networks grow organically, responding to a market demand for division, a city within a city. In Detroit, neighborhoods have edges, and within a few blocks, there is emptiness and abandonment. It is one of these edges that is explored in the intervention. The edges are oftentimes reinforced by the built environment with walls, traffic regulations, and pedestrian access carefully controlled at the scale of the neighborhood. Therefore, the thesis proposes a new form of development and is interested in this scale where architecture and planning are supposed to meet. Through this interdisciplinary approach, more problems are addressed simultaneously. The intervention identifies an educational district just outside of downtown Detroit and greatly expands it over several decades. 3 focus buildings were developed in more detail to sketch possible formal outcomes of the exercise in the built environment. The intervention proposes greater community input which informs this reimagining of neighborhood. The idea also draws on the concept of a “15-minute neighborhood,” which has been proposed by the mayor of Detroit as a solution to urban blight in Detroit

Impacts of information technology on a local institution : transition of the public library in local communities

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-206).Innovations in information technology in the 1990's have impacted society in many ways. Discussions about the implications for society have taken place from various points of view. In urban planning, the discussion has focused on the significance of physical communities in the information technology (IT) society. However, there have been few discussions about the use of information technology at local institutions, particularly focusing on information access and distribution. Public libraries, which are among the most common public institutions found in local communities, once enjoyed popularity and an important position in local governments. However, more recently, these institutions have been regarded more or less as wallflowers by their local communities. Furthermore, the public library faces a paradox in the information age. Information has never been so important as it is now, and public libraries are supposed to be community resources for information. Yet, the public library remains at the margin of the IT society. Moreover networked information even calls into question the significance of the physical space of libraries. Still, there is community demand for information access and community space, which suggests potential needs to be fulfilled by public libraries. This thesis spotlights the impacts of information technology on the transformation of local institutions, and focuses on the public library as an example. It examines the potential roles of the public library from the view points of communities and local governments by focusing on the extension of its historical roles and new social needs in the IT society. The thesis consists of three parts: Chapter 1 examines the contexts of public libraries in the information society, Chapter 2 analyzes a case in Union City, New Jersey, and Chapter 3 suggests future plans and extends lessons to other institutions. The Union City case study demonstrates the possible important roles that public libraries could play according to local community needs in the IT society. After the countrywide initiative that created the Information Highway, it is time for local communities to promote locally tailored "Information Main Streets" reflecting community priorities. These would encompass the local economy, education, social issues and other community issues. The study suggests the need for local governments' active involvement in planning the local public libraries.by Akemi Yao.M.C.P

Prospectus, September 7, 2011

HOW PARKLAND CAME TO BE, College First to Ask About Sexual Orientation on Admission Application, Flight 93 Memorial: 10 Years later, $10 Million Short, Student Government Candidates 2011, Families Get Savvy Paying for College, Chuck Shepherd\u27s News of the Weird, Payrolls Flat in August; Unemployment Stuck at 9.1 Percent, Reality Shows at Parkland College?, Heeling to the Heels, 9/11 Spawned Big Changes on Campus, A Flexible Way to Us the Sun\u27s Rays, A Guide to ANGEL, Code Red: Scarcity of App Developers Stifles a Growing Industry, Stop the Whining: Why a Laptop is Still Better for School Than an iPad, Cobras Host Kick for the Cure, Behind the Scenes: Parkland Theatre (part one), Pygmalion Approaches: A Talk With the Festival\u27s Founder, Seth Fein,https://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2011/1010/thumbnail.jp

The LumberJack, March 05, 2008

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Spartan Daily, November 13, 2000

Volume 115, Issue 52https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9619/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, September 8, 1983

Volume 81, Issue 7https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7057/thumbnail.jp

Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog

Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog was written in the form of blog posts from May 2009 until March 2010. The blog chronicled successes and failures in the transition from city life to organic agriculture, as well as explored the nature of the blog form. The thesis reads in reverse chronological order, as a blog would. It was and remains an experiment in form, voice and technique