Theses and Dissertations from UMD
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Item Gateway to the City: Reconnecting Center City Philadelphia to the Delaware River Waterfront(2012) Gavin, David Michael; Kelly, Brian; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md)This thesis proposes to examine the relationship between the dense city core of Philadelphia and the Delaware River waterfront. The thesis will consider the possibility of reestablishing connectivity between the city and waterfront that existed prior to the construction of I-95. The site in Center City Philadelphia is located along I-95 and bounded by Market Street, the Delaware River, and Walnut Street. The space over I-95 will be considered as potential buildable area and underdeveloped areas along the Delaware River waterfront will be investigated to promote greater utilization and active daily use. The thesis will study how appropriate programming of underutilized city land can activate the river's edge and establish links between neighborhoods immediately adjacent to the site. The thesis will also examine how park systems might provide an extension of comfortable open space prevalent throughout the eastern areas of Center City.Item Integrating Infrastructure South of the Capitol(2017) Camargo de Albuquerque Sanchez, Pedro Henrique; Kelly, Brian; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis looks at the role that infrastructure plays as it relates to the city. It is about taking an area of uninhabitable and divisive infrastructure and elevating it to something civic. It focuses in an area just south and west of the U.S. Capitol Building. It aims to embrace railroad and highway infrastructure as elements that serve multiple city needs, as part of the everyday, while adding artistic and monumental attributes to Washington D.C. It accepts the premises that the presence of, and the need for, the infrastructure will remain. This thesis proposes a master plan, involving the redevelopment of portions of Interstate 395, 695, and 295 highways and the railroads, to provide better use of valuable land, re connection of neighborhoods, and to create place, experienced through a series of civic spaces. Ultimately this thesis aims to set a new ideal that embraces infrastructure and elevates it to civic quality.Item Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre(2010) Covert, Kalle; Haggh-Huglo, Barbara; Music; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Nearly every opera company in North America conducts some form of outreach to children with the intent to educate and develop young audiences. By examining the forty-year history of Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre, the biography of its most influential director, Evelyn Swensson, and four children's operas commissioned and produced by the company, I identify the educational and artistic goals that have made this company successful. These include allowing children opportunities to participate in the creation of professional opera, providing high quality preparatory materials, and performing operas based on quality children's books that are taught in the school curriculum. The critical analysis of four original children's operas compares the approaches of three different composers to this task and demonstrates key features of successful children's opera, which include brevity, relevant subject matter, repetition of themes or lyrics, and a balance between musical elements that are familiar and unfamiliar to children.Item THE DISTRIBUTION OF CALLINECTES SAPIDUS MEGALOPAE AT THE MOUTHS OF CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE BAYS: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARVAL INGRESS(2009) Biermann, Jeffery Lee; North, Elizabeth W; Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Transport of Callinectes sapidus (blue crab) megalopae from the continental shelf into estuaries may influence recruitment variability of this economically important species. This research seeks to determine the vertical distribution of C. sapidus megalopae near the mouths of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, and thereby infer swimming behaviors that may influence ingress to these estuaries. Megalopae and physical conditions were sampled at locations from ~10 km inshore of the estuary mouths to ~40 km offshore in coastal shelf waters in September 2005 and 2006. Megalopae were present in greater abundance and at shallower depths during night compared to day at all locations, suggesting a diurnal effect on distribution within the estuary and on the continental shelf. Unlike previous studies, offshore distributions did not indicate surface oriented behavior. Within the mouth of Delaware Bay, limited evidence suggests that megalopae presence in the upper portion of the water column increases in response to nocturnal flood tides. Results suggest photoinhibited swimming near the mouths of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. In context of previous laboratory studies, these findings indicate that estuarine chemical cues at very low concentrations may induce changes in megalopae behaviors and stimulate molting at least 40 km offshore of estuarine mouths. Results suggest wind-forcing and density-induced subtidal flow are more likely mechanisms for ingress to Chesapeake and Delaware Bays than tidal-transport.