Browsing by Author "Rodenbiker, Jesse"

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    Energy and Climate Change: Recommendations for the City of Springfield Regarding Buildings, Electricity, and Transportation
    (University of Oregon, 2012) Deadmond, Shelley; Grilc, Brandon; Huang, Jennifer; McAndrew, Joe; McNutt, Sarah; Michaelson, Greg; Morris, Damond; Rafuse, Stephen; Richter, Steven; Rodenbiker, Jesse; Schlachter, Rena; Waldman, Brook; Yang, Helen
    The City of Springfield is interested in learning about its current environmental impacts and ways that it might improve its environmental footprint in the future. The students of University of Oregon course PPPM 607: Energy and Climate Change researched three topics—buildings, electricity, and transportation— related to the City of Springfield’s influence on energy use, climate emissions, and quality of life of the community. Based on this research, groups of students made recommendations in these three areas for how the City of Springfield could reduce environmental impacts.
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    Superscribing Sustainability: Reformulating China's Contemporary Urbanism
    (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03) Rodenbiker, Jesse; Buck, Daniel
    Within China's post-1980's urban planning discourse, shan-shui, a significance-laden compound character set translatable as `mountain-water' or `landscape', aligned with urban sustainability. The focus of this genealogical discourse analysis delineates the origins, evolution, interpretation, and application of the term shan-shui within China's contemporary urbanization as a developing urban design paradigm, informed through transnational flows of urban design practices. This work highlights case studies showing this discourse's morphological materializations and analyzes interviews, publications, media, letter exchanges, and urban designs to problematize the use of shan-shui within the discursive processes of urban development and sustainability discourses. The superscription of shan-shui generates a rubric through which Chinese cultural and symbolic elements are (re)formulated in contemporary urban developments and conjoined with sustainable urban design practices facilitating multifaceted ends including efforts towards sustainable urban development, bourgeoning neo-classical urban aesthetics, conceptual bridging of human-nature relations, land-centric capital accumulation, and a vernacular urbanism.