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Item Greenvale in East Riverdale - Urbanism inspired by Sustainable Community Acion(2021) Venkitaraman, Bhavishya; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Greenvale, situated in East Riverdale is an Agrihood designed around three main ideas – community, sustainability, and wellness. This mixed-use development aims at creating an environmentally friendly neighborhood that remains relevant through ensuing climate change. The development seeks to bring equitable housing to the area in a manner that will incorporate economic growth in the form of jobs and affordable rents for its residents. It further seeks to preserve and enhance the existing diverse community through inclusive zoning, educational opportunities, and cultural programming. Through carbon reduction, storm water management, heat island mitigation and urban farming, the neighborhood models a contemporary method of incorporating mixed use developments in transit-oriented zones, giving the residents access to public modes of transportation, and connecting them across the DMV area. This thesis looks at how urban agricultural techniques might play a role in mitigating gentrification, while providing affordable and equitable housing, addressing climatic environmental change, considering integrated economic opportunities for communities facing displacement in the area and looks to model a seedling of change through the proposed development.Item Designing Happiness: Architecture and urban design for joy and well-being(2016) Habtour, Rebecca; Simon, Madlen; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Scientific studies exploring the environmental and experiential elements that help boost human happiness have become a significant and expanding body of work. Some urban designers, architects and planners are looking to apply this knowledge through policy decisions and design, but there is a great deal of room for further study and exploration. This paper looks at definitions of happiness and happiness measurements used in research. The paper goes on to introduce six environmental factors identified in a literature review that have design implications relating to happiness: Nature, Light, Surprise, Access, Identity, and Sociality. Architectural precedents are examined and design strategies are proposed for each factor, which are then applied to a test case site and building in Baltimore, Maryland. It is anticipated that these factors and strategies will be useful to architects, urban designers and planners as they endeavor to design positive user experiences and set city shaping policy.Item Urban Catalyst: Continuing the Legacy of Massachusetts Avenue(2016) Englehart, Samuel; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis proposes a reconnection of Massachusetts Avenue to the Anacostia River waterfront in Washington, DC. An intervention at the site of Reservation 13 will reconcile a difficult urban edge and reunite the neighborhood of Lincoln Park with the river. It also addresses the discontinuity of the avenue to the southeast and proposes the development of a bridge between the Western bank and ultimately Randle Circle. Along this reconciled corridor will be a series of architectural interventions that serve to promote community involvement. Ultimately this thesis is about generating an urban continuity and the cultural vibrancy and understanding that such a connection would foster.