Research and Publications
Faculty from the College of Design, Construction and Planning are engaged in meaningful research that explores ways to create a built environment that minimizes environmental harm and provides more healthy and viable settings for human communities.
Faculty Books
History
Social & Political
Spaces
Sustainability
Technical
Sustainability Project Highlights
Architecture
Donna Cohen: TunaHAKI Center in Moshi. This project is a sustainable performing arts center for orphans in a Tanzanian village.
Interior Design
Maruja Torres-Antonini: Green Residence Halls Are Here.
This project explains the current trends in sustainable campus housing across the nation.
Landscape Architecture
Tina Gurucharri, Peggy Carr, and Paul Zwick: Building Community and Economic Development Strategies in Hamilton County,Fl.
This is a group project which analyzes the use of land within Hamilton County in order to develop strategies for community and economic development.
Urban and Regional Planning
Ruth Steiner: Traffic and Bicycle Safety Education Program.
The primary role of this project is to promote safe walking and bicycling in educational settings throughout the State of Florida
Faculty Sustainability Research Interests:
School of Architecture
Vandana Baweja: Histories of environmentalism and architecture; Ph.D. Dissertation: A Pre-History of Green Architecture: Otto Koenigsberger and Tropical Architecture from Princely Mysore to Post-Colonial London
Nancy Clark
Martin Gold
Michael Kuenstle
Bradley Walters
Rinker School of Building Construction
Kevin Grosskopf, Ph.D.: Collective Threat Assessment and Recovery of Critical Infrastructure and High Value Domestic Targets
Charles J. Kibert, Ph.D.: Ethics of Sustainability; Application of Photovoltaics in the Built Environment; Community Sustainability; Deconstruction
Robert J. Ries, Ph.D.
Department of Interior Design
Maruja Torres-Antonini: Collaborative and Pro-Environmental Communities; Sustainable Student Housing
Nam-Kyu Park: Sustainable Student Housing
Department of Landscape Architecture
Glenn Acomb: Water conservation in the landscape; the Performance of low-impact development design in the landscape; Green roof design and plant compatibility
Margaret “Peggy” Carr: Greenways Planning, design, and management; Global landscape planning using GIS; Interpretation of natural systems for land use and resource planning
Tom Hoctor, Ph.D.: Application of landscape ecology and conservation biology to regional and conservation planning; Greenway and wildlife corridor design; Raster GIS analysis and modeling; Large carnivore and listed vertebrate species ecology and conservation
Kevin Thompson: Focused on exploring methods that enable young designers to recognize and comprehend the subtle and often elusive characteristics of place in landscapes outside of their own cultural familiarity
Kay Williams
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Gene Boles
Kathryn Frank: The Role of Collaboration in Everglades Restoration; The Societal Impacts of Collaboration in Florida; The Impacts and Best Practices of Youth Participation in Planning; The Impacts of Civil Environmental Science; Applied Research in Watershed Planning
Dawn Jourdan Ph.D., J.D.
Joseli Macedo, Ph.D.: Urban Design; International Development Planning; Human Settlements; Housing; Urban Issues in Latin America
Ruth Steiner, Ph.D.: Transportation policy and planning; Land use and transportation interactions; Multimodal transportation planning; Growth management; Transportation concurrency; pedestrian and bicycle facility design; Travel behavior; Travel demand management; Planning research design; Environmental impact assessment; School planning
Paul Zwick, Ph.D.: Design, Development; Analysis of paradigms used for computer applications in Urban and Environmental Planning, and Engineering
