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ItemDemographic Forces and Turning Points in the American City(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-02-23) Myers, Dowell ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; University of Southern California. School of Policy, Planning, and Development
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ItemGradus ad Imaginationem(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-03-18) Clark, Frank ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Music
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ItemDigital Fabrication Lab Research(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-10-20) Shankwiler, Kevin D. ; Al-Haddad, Tristan ; Cavieres, Andres ; Maing, Minjung ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Industrial Design ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture
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ItemSustaining Sustainable Cities: Building Grassroot and Elite Support for Long-Term Urbanism(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-02-25) Elliot, Michael ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of City and Regional Planning ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Public PolicyChattanooga, Tennessee is considered to be amongst the most sustainable cities in the United States. Kent Portney’s research (Taking Sustainability Seriously) places the city in the top ten most seriously engaged in promoting sustainability. At the same time, Chattanooga is well known for its use of civic engagement and partnership-based economic development tools, often called the “Chattanooga Way,” to revitalize its downtown and waterfront. These two factors are not unrelated, as social capital and civic engagement are often cited as necessary ingredients of successful sustainability efforts. Research to date, however, has not explored this relationship effectively. Previous research linking civic capacity to sustainability has largely focused on the environmental aspects of sustainability. Of equal concern are the economic and equity aspects. In this light, sustainability in the city and region cannot depend solely on the concentrated redevelopment of the urban core, which constituted the initial focus of Chattanooga’s sustainability efforts. More recently, the City of Chattanooga has actively sought to expand the focus of its sustainability efforts both into the neighborhoods within the city and across the region. This presentation explores the link between civic engagement and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the impact of civic engagement on moving cities beyond traditional sustainability goals (that emphasize environmental-economic values) to more holistic goals (that integrate equity concerns explicitly into the environmental-economic-equity balance). This work hypothesizes that capacity of cities to engage more holistic goals emerges out of the civic capacity developed from earlier efforts to promote civic engagement in sustainability efforts. The presentation explores the processes by which this growth in civic engagement occurs, its interaction with sustainability efforts, and the longer term implications for maintaining the social capital needed to promote sustainability.
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ItemAn Energy‐Aware, Agent‐Based Maintenance‐Scheduling Framework to Improve Occupant Satisfaction(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-31) Song, Xinyi ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of ArchitectureFacility management has become increasingly challenging due to complex building systems that generate more diverse and complex maintenance issues. Facility managers and staff must deal with many daily maintenance requests despite various limitations, such as limited budgets and staff, which can cause delay in responding to some maintenance requests. A scheduling framework is proposed in this research to assist in improving facility management efficiency. In practice, maintenance work is scheduled according to various priorities. For example, facility managers first consider the impact of each problem in terms of system failure and safety. In addition to those two factors, the framework considers both energy efficiency and occupant satisfaction. It first quantified occupant satisfaction with data from current building maintenance work. An empirical study on occupant satisfaction was done based on classical disconfirmation theory and referenced post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) research. A survey was designed to collect data to quantify occupant satisfaction. Based on the disconfirmation theory, an agent‐based model was then developed to prioritize maintenance work to achieve maximum occupant satisfaction. Subsequently, a building energy model was simulated in EnergyPlus to quantify the impact of different aspects of a faulty HVAC system on energy consumption. Finally, the framework was tested through simulation and the results showed that occupant satisfaction level and building energy efficiency were improved by 30 and 97%, respectively, when using the framework.
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ItemSmart Space and Interactive Architecture: Making Technology-Empowered Living Labs at NCKU(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-10-11) Jeng, Taysheng ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; National Cheng Kung UniversityDigital technologies continue to proliferate, enabling ever smarter devices, materials and space to change the way we interact with our built environment. While smarter materials, devices, and space can be pervasively embedded in our built environment, it is likely to change the way we live and how buildings perform. This lecture provides an overview of smart space and interactive architecture relating to the design and implementation of technology-empowered living labs at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. The NCKU architecture living labs create new spaces to ignite creativity and interactivity, including Green Classroom, Interactive Studio, Robotic Architecture, Smart Home, and Augmented Garden. Examples of some research projects are presented to demonstrate sustainable, sensing, and responsive capabilities of smart space and interactive architecture.
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ItemEthics & Values for Reflective Urban Automation(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-01-24) Borenstein, Jason ; Leigh, Nancy Greene ; Phillips, Carolyn ; Shelden, Dennis R. ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Ethics and Technology ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of City and Regional Planning ; AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research CenterUrban automation’s potential to create disruptive technologies that change cities’ future development is already in evidence, but there is much more to come. Urban automation refers to artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, and sensors are that being deployed in the built environment to support more efficient urban living and improved quality of life. While many benefits can be derived from urban automation, its various forms raise issues of access, privacy, safety, trust, control, and automated discrimination, that need to be addressed in its design and deployment. The panelists of this College of Design Research Forum will explore ethical principles and values from a range of perspectives that include, autonomous vehicles, building AI and sensors, urban supply chain logistics, and disability services. The panelists of this College of Design Research Forum will explore ethical principles and values from a range of perspectives that include, autonomous vehicles, building AI and sensors, urban supply chain logistics, and disability services.
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ItemResearching Suburban Retrofits(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-08-25) Dunham-Jones, Ellen ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of ArchitectureWhat is the state of current research on retrofitting suburbia and what are some of the research questions and new tools that are on the horizon? This presentation begins with an overview of the author's work to date with June Williamson on urban design strategies for re-inhabiting, redeveloping and regreening underperforming suburban properties into more sustainable places. It follows with discussion of the many opportunities for scaling up these strategies and developing more robust databases and performance metrics in future interdisciplinary collaborations.
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ItemDefining Artifact and Context in Gothic Architecture: Why It's Not So Obvious(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-10-25) Hollengreen, Laura H. ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of ArchitectureThis talk will discuss the “edges” of the Gothic cathedral. Cathedral buildings are big and their walls meet the ground solidly, so how and why are the boundaries of the artifact in fact less definite than they appear? Meanwhile, the setting for such buildings appears to be consistently urban but "context" can be variously construed even within the restricted realms of urban form and spatial practice. The signal example of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Chartres will provide material for a thumbnail case study of these challenges to interpretation.
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ItemHow to Write a Winning Proposal(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-04-29) French, Steven P. ; Borello, Lisa ; Eastman, Charles M. ; Sprigle, Stephen ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Building Construction ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Industrial Design ProgramThe workshop focused on how to prepare a successful research proposal. Dr. Steven French, McKenney Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Architecture lead the workshop. A panel of faculty and staff responded to faculty questions about the structure and mechanics of proposal writing. Panelists included: Ms. Lisa Borello, a research coordinator in the School of Building Construction who specializes in grant proposals and editing scholarly work. Dr. Stephen Sprigle, a professor with joint appointment in Industrial Design and Applied Physiology, Interim Chair of the School of Industrial Design, and a lead researcher at the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access. Professor Chuck Eastman, who holds a joint appointment in the Colleges of Architecture and Computing, is one of the pioneer researchers in the area of Building Information