Browsing Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design Faculty Research by Department "Architecture and Planning"
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A Multimodal Appraisal of Zaha Hadid's Glasgow Riverside Museum—Criticism, Performance Evaluation, and Habitability
(2023-01-09)High-profile projects promoted by governments, local municipalities, and the media do not always meet program requirements or user expectations. The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by Zaha Hadid Architects, which has generated ... -
An Intelligent Approach for Performing Energy-Driven Classification of Buildings Utilizing Joint Electricity–Gas Patterns
(11/9/2021)Building type identification is an important task that may be used in confirming and verifying its legitimate operation. One of the main sources of information over the operation of a building is its energy consumption, ... -
Enhancing Historic Building Performance with the Use of Fuzzy Inference System to Control the Electric Cooling System
(Sustainability;Volume 12, Issue 14, 7/21/2020)In recent years, the interest in properly conditioning the indoor environment of historic buildings has increased significantly. However, maintaining a suitable environment for building and artwork preservation while keeping ... -
Historic Roots of Modern Residential Segregation in a Southwestern Metropolis: San Antonio, Texas in 1910 and 2010
(6/1/2017)This study seeks to understand the historic roots of modern segregation by comparing residential racial patterns in the city of San Antonio over time. The year 1910 is recreated for San Antonio by georeferencing and ... -
Intergenerational Day Centers: A New Wave in Adult and Child Day Care
(2023-01-01)Intergenerational Day Centers (IDCs) are an innovation that addresses two important societal challenges, the continuing need for childcare and the emerging demand for older-adult supportive services that help them remain ... -
Measuring the Spatial Dimension of Automobile Ownership and Its Associations with Household Characteristics and Land Use Patterns: A Case Study in Three Counties, South Florida (USA)
(4/6/2017)Motorization and increased levels of car ownership have partly contributed to traffic congestion and air pollution, which is a prime concern in the era of climate change. Therefore, vehicle ownership-related topics have ... -
New Mobility Study: Considerations for the UTSA Downtown Campus and Community
(12/10/2019)This New Mobility Study addresses rapid technological changes in transportation and communication technology, tailored to the context of downtown San Antonio. Graduate students at the University of Texas at San Antonio in ... -
Review: An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research, by Creamer, Elizabeth G
(Journal of Planning Education and Research;, 3/23/2021)If complexity and interdisciplinarity are crucial challenges for urban planning research, our field should build more sophisticated approaches to understanding problems. An Introduction to Fully Mixed Methods Research ... -
San Antonio 360: The Rise and Decline of the Concentric City 1890–2010
(4/19/2017)This paper catalogs the suburban expansion of San Antonio, Texas by decade between the years 1890 and 2009, a time frame that saw the city reorganize its morphological structure four times. The city inhabited a 36-square ... -
Spontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housing
(Land;10(5), 5/19/2021)The world can learn two key lessons from spontaneous settlements: (i) design so as to adapt to human biology; and (ii) design to save energy. Timeless processes of urban growth and sustainability have forced societies to ... -
The Importance of Domestic Space in the Times of COVID-19
(10/19/2021)This essay discusses a deep malaise of contemporary architecture, made more obvious by experiencing COVID-19 lockdowns for several months. Evidence-based arguments urge society to improve human health and well-being by ... -
Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types: Comparing multi-scale conditions surrounding existing vacant lots
(2023-03-10)Vacant and abandoned land can be public eyesores that can potentially result in neighborhood distress in the long term. In some cases, the contextual conditions of a neighborhood have been shown to have more of a negative ...