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Cheng, Marissa A. "When the cows come home : post post-industrial urban agriculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58267.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Over the past few decades, the industrialization of food has become increasingly influenced by the consolidation of its controlling corporations. This consolidation has isolated meat processing facilities from small farmers, favoring corporations who have built enormous processing facilities to match their demand. Given that the consumption of beef has leveled out in the past few decades, the environmental costs of producing enough beef to meet demand continue to rise. Factory farming transforms huge tracts of land into wastelands of polluted land, and cultivates animals in unsanitary conditions. The centralization of major farming, packing, and processing facilities has left more distant, more environmentally conscious farmers to struggle with the economics of profit margins. This thesis proposes is a new model of industrial facility that can transition with changes in the industry as it moves towards a coop model from an industrial model. Its urban location pits private and public against each other in conditions that force them to negotiate a truce.
by Marissa Cheng.
M.Arch.
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Stulen, Eliot Falk. "Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49736.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-73).
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the problem of how to effectively reclaim salvaged materials for on-site reuse. As a critique of speculative, clean-slate development, the thesis will explore an incremental disassembly and phased reorganization of a site in Brooklyn at the material and urban scale. Through on-site implementation of manufacturers and automated tooling, this project will speculate on means of creating new value for salvaged materials. The resulting form is a vaulted roofscape that supports public access and leisure space while creating a local strategy for post-industrial renewal.
by Eliot Falk Stulen.
M.Arch.
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BANYAS, JEANNE M. "RECONNECTION: INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085598080.
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Håkansson, Sofi. "The [Post]industrial Intermezzo : - The Wave, Ripple and Current." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171038.
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Hall, Philip A. "The Post-Industrial Urban Void / Rethink, Reconnect, Revive." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282571099.
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Zou, Mingxi. "Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91426.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97).
China has been known as the "world factory" ever since it opened up to the global economy. This has led to a vastly sprawled, monotonous industrial urbanism, where urban environment has become a spatial product rather than a living city. However, just as Western post-industrial cities have experienced, some Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due to reasons such as rising labor costs, rising land costs and new environment laws. Shenzhen, which is a manufacturing center in South China, currently has a 30-45% factory vacancy because companies are leaving to cheaper areas, either in inland China or other countries. Yet, it's not a declining or shrinking city; it is seeking to transform from a manufacturing center to a more diverse production environment with upgraded industries. As the first Special Economic Zone in China, Shenzhen is a city under the influences of both socialist ideology and capitalist market forces: on the one hand, the city has a centralized planning system that guides the overall structure of urban development; on the other hand, Shenzhen has been rapidly "produced" under dynamic market forces, with a clear priority of economic growth. The consequence of this conflict is the inconsistency between the city's master plan and its actual urban form, especially in the aspect of land use. Since the master plan cannot keep pace with socioeconomic changes, it always fails to guide urban transformations in urban changes. Built on Shenzhen's current urban change and its special political background, this thesis aims at developing a dynamic urban design method for Shenzhen's current deindustrialization and industrial upgrading process in order to guide urban transformation while allowing for flexibility to accommodate uncertainties and changes.
by Mingxi Zou.
S.M.
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Schmitz, Laura R. (Laura Renée). "The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97272.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 86).
This thesis sets out to connect two isolated neighborhoods within the post-industrial city of Buffalo, NY. The design strategy capitalizes on existing opportunities in Silo City, a neighborhood of abandoned grain elevators that attracts visitors with intermittent activities and seasonal events; and the Old First Ward, a river side residential neighborhood once home to grain elevator laborers. The two are separated by the Buffalo River, a barrier that once linked the two economically. There are three strategies within the Master Plan - River, Rail Spine and Ward Plan, each of which could be further developed and work together simultaneously. This thesis develops the River Plan and the urban elements within it. Each urban element within the plan can either repurpose, construct or deconstruct features along the river. One of these proposed elements is the Ice Boom Room which both repurposes a site and constructs a new building by using a seasonal and industrial process of the controlled melting of the ice on Lake Erie each winter as an opportunity to connect two neighborhoods year-round. This thesis asks how post-industrial cities like Buffalo can harness existing industrial and natural processes to promote growth and change.
by Laura R. Schmitz.
M. Arch.
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Jiang, Yingying, and 江盈盈. "Open building : a theory of housing for post-industrial society." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198835.
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Malinow, Daniel J. 1979. ""Make no little plans." : big moves for the post-industrial city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30221.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137).
With the current trend in planning and urban design aspiring towards incrementally executed, phased-in projects, it becomes necessary to ask if this strategy is based upon anything more than anxiety, fear and apprehension leveled in the face of reelection-minded city leaderships, institutionalized planning bureaucracies and developer-driven market forces. The notion that cities evolve in well-proportioned, single-serving digestible bites is as untenable as the notion that a singular logical diagram of physical organization can alone dictate a city's character and evolution. Constrained by these two notions the current practice of urban design appears both hemmed in and characterized by the contradiction of Burnham's charge and OMA's 'taboo.' While this 'taboo' may, somewhat correctly, be associated with previous notions of grandeur and oversimplified static models of urban evolution, it should be recognized as a severe constraint on the space of possible solutions to urban issues. As such it represents an obstacle to the formation of new ideas and models, particularly in cities undergoing the most dramatic transformations. Proposing a line of inquiry focused about the notion of radically-large scale urban design proposals this thesis inquires as to the appropriateness of such designs for post-industrial North American cities. It seeks to occupy and explore the 'taboo' which lies at the heart of the paradox of the urban proposition today.
b y Daniel J. Malinow.
M.Arch.
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Alt, Reuben. "Wild Urban Woodlands: Addressing the Emergent Typology of Post-Industrial Forest Succession." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024538.
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Melhuish, Elizabeth Clare. "Inhabiting the Image : architecture and social identity in the post-industrial city." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2007. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/10112/.
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The research presented in this thesis is intended to reveal the layers of social and cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract aesthetic modernism, and one which has been evaluated, within the framework of a national heritage preservation policy, as an architectural landmark of the post-war era of urban reconstruction. By combining the research methods of architectural history (archival) and of anthropology (ethnographic) I have located and interpreted the architecture of the Brunswick within a larger social story that demonstrates how the lived experience of a particular environment exists in parallel with the more objective official discourse that invests a work of architecture or art with cultural significance. The thesis traces the architectural inception and complex evolution of the building, its critical reception, and the proposals for redevelopment that culminated in a major refurbishment and transformation of the shopping precinct in 2006. It goes on to present an ethnographic account of the Brunswick as a social, as much as an architectural space, and an anthropological interpretation of the relationship between identity and place in terms of the specific qualities of the built environment. It shows that the material environment becomes real and vivid to people as an embodiment of the social dimensions of their lives, and that the boundaries between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ – the private space of the home, and the layered sequence of public spaces extending through the building to the city beyond - are not objectively fixed, but subjectively perceived and negotiated in different ways. Although the Brunswick exerts considerable power as a unique architectural image, its boundaries do not define an integrated social space, nor a unified experience of the place as a living environment. Nevertheless, repeated interaction and sensory experience make it a tangible architectural framework for everyday and domestic life which evidently shapes the view from the inside looking out. The research aims to make a significant contribution to knowledge at a meeting-point between anthropology and architecture, which might help to inform future understanding of the interaction between people and the built habitat in modern urban societies.
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Proefrock, Philip S. "DWELLING AND WORK PLACES IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1134694780.
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Sanchez, Brandon (Brandon A. ). "Power at Battersea : understanding post-industrial Britain through an art deco monolith." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118703.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In the modern age, a building serves a purpose beyond that of its intended architectural function. This is especially true of famous buildings, which become important as icons independent of their physical presence. When a building reaches a certain level of fame, its symbolic significance shifts not only as a result of its programming, but as a result of its political, social, and cultural context. These buildings often long outlive their original purposes. When this occurs, architects strive to find a way to best honor that building's history in their redevelopment. This thesis explores the symbolic history of one building in particular, Battersea Power Station in London. Constructed in a long period from 1929-1955, Battersea entered the cityscape in controversy. In less than a century Battersea has gone from environmental demon to beloved architectural icon, from the symbol of a nation's vulnerabilities to the symbol of a nation's ability to oppress. Its meteoric rise to international visibility in the 1970s led to its depiction in countless works of film, television, and other artistic media, each with their own interpretation of the building's significance. The new millenium has brought with it the opportunity to redevelop Battersea. However, its current redevelopment has brought with it a controversy comparable to that which mired its construction nearly a century ago. In a key period since the early 20th century, Britain has seen its industrially-fuelled empire collapse and its international standing fall. The rise and fall of Battersea can help trace Britain's national anxieties over the course of this post-industrial age. In so doing, Battersea Power Station indicates the power that architecture has not only to signify its socio-political context, but to influence it as well.
by Brandon Sanchez.
S.B.
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McNeice, Kelly University of Ballarat. "Window on an era : Geelong : a post-industrial city." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12786.
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"Non-economical industrial sites are being demolished in Geelong, making way for alternative economic development. Whilst progress is inevitable, I question the wisdom of short-term financial gain over long-term loss of identity. The association of industrial buildings with the concept of cultural heritage, art and architecture does not seem so incongrous in other parts of the world."--leaf 2.Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
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McNeice, Kelly. "Window on an era : Geelong : a post-industrial city." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14620.
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"Non-economical industrial sites are being demolished in Geelong, making way for alternative economic development. Whilst progress is inevitable, I question the wisdom of short-term financial gain over long-term loss of identity. The association of industrial buildings with the concept of cultural heritage, art and architecture does not seem so incongrous in other parts of the world."--leaf 2.Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
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Demchak, Gregory L. (Gregory Leonard) 1974. "Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65715.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-137).
The design and construction of modern residential architecture, which came into critical focus by architects of the Machine Age, continues to be a priority in the architectural discourse. For Modern architects, the desire to relate the house to industrial processes was an aesthetic and social imperative that never gained popular acceptance. Today, mention of an industrial, factory-produced house conjures images of mobile homes and cheap construction rather than innovative modern design. At the same time, the typical suburban single-family unit offers little in the way of innovation or individual expression. Land developers, rather than architects or planners, have taken control of the residential market, and do not offer architectural design services to average consumers. As a result, the design of homes adheres to generic standards that are neither flexible nor adaptable to changing family and individual needs. Stylistic choices are extremely limited. The topic of this thesis is to address these and other issues currently impeding the development of innovative residential architecture by exploring the use of computational tools to generate unique architectural solutions. Strategies for obtaining meaningful information from clients that generate spatial rules are explored, as well as a construction methodology that supports multivalent, adjustable architecture.
Gregory L. Demchak.
S.M.
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STEVENSON, MATTHEW D. "POST-INDUSTRIAL PALIMPSEST: MAINTAINING PLACE AND LAYERS OF HISTORY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1084987813.
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Castagnola, Chaparro Giacomo Bruno. "The hill and the hole : from apu to resource in the post-industrial Andean landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81658.
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Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-94).
This thesis takes as a starting point two images: on the one hand I use the old, historically and symbolically loaded image of the apu, which in Quechua means the spirit of the sacred mountain and the home of the ancestors. The apu is also the icon for the environment as whole and stands for the undivided relationship between people and land. I argue that through the historic processes of colonization, modernization, industrialization and globalization, this "whole" is fragmented into the symbolic and literal hill and hole that have resulted from sustained neoliberal economic policies and uneven forms of development. The opposing iconographies of the hill and the hole articulate a model of fragmentation that channels the contested Peruvian history of urbanization and dispossession. I argue this history has been informed by dichotomies between the national state and indigenous communities, between the city and the countryside, and between the formal and the informal settlements. While the hill in this thesis stands for gradual settlement by informal occupation, and the migratory and phenomenological conditions that this implies, the hole is the symbol of land exploitation through open pit mining, of fragmentation, and of dispossession brought on by accelerated economic policies. Therefore, two interwoven histories will compose this rigorous yet speculative analysis as a way to unearthen this complex history, the emblematic hill of San Cristobal in the capital city of Lima that has been occupied for nearly a century with informal settlement, and the post-industrial hole being produced by contemporary mining at the politically symbolic site where the town of Morococha in the Andes now stands. I excavate relevant political and economic accounts, while also reviewing artistic and architectural practices that have shaped and interpreted the territory and the economy. This research, and the analysis of formal and informal artistic and design strategies that I have undertaken, ultimately outline new methodologies and concepts that redefine my own work as an artists, architect, and designer within a research-based, analytical, and critical spatial practice.
by Giacomo Bruno Castagnola Chaparro.
S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology
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Nielsen, Karen Cort. "Spatial Appropri-Action : Tactics for the post-industrial designer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96542.
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This is a project that asks questions. Why are we behaving in certain ways? Why are we using objects for a certain purpose and not others? Why can’t we do it differently? Questions most of us never even consider because we have gotten so used to following the path that is predetermined for us. Throughout this work I will analyze how skateboarding poses a critique of spatial regulations and pre-defined purposes, as well as how skaters are suggesting a whole new perspective on our everyday life. I argue that skaters are in fact the post-industrial designers of their everyday life, and that the perspective of skaters carries potential for sustainable change as it favors the imagination and possibilities over restrictions and limitations. This is a perspective that I believe can help us make better use of the resources we have, both in terms of ecological sustainability, but also with regards to social aspects, as it allows for greater diversity and multitudes of behaviors within the same space. Through several design iterations I have explored how skateboarding offers tactics that can be applied by others to start a process of imagining and performing alternative ways of engaging with public spaces.
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Pieters, Leoné. "Rebuild : Re-conceiving a sense of place in an industrial wasteland." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63678.
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The dissertation offers a contribution to contemporary discourse which is greatly
concerned with the environmental impact of the built environment. It grapples with issues of man’s identity, a reading of place and the relationship between the habitat and inhabitants, by considering how a post-industrial site, namely the Vereeniging Refractories, can be regenerated.
The project investigated the various layers informing place, through the lens
of regenerative theory. The purpose is to develop a narrative that is sensitive to the site’s environmental, social and economic context, yet can weave the past, present and potential future together. Various responses to three main design
drivers, are explored. Narrative (or heritage), environment and programme
were weighed up against each other as architectural informants, to establish the
most appropriate hierarchy guiding the architectural product. As programme a vocational college for the built environment is envisioned. In terms
of the larger scheme for the site, this will be the first implementation which will
facilitate the development of the campus to accommodate various interrelated fields of vocation. Co-dependence, collaboration and integrated learning through doing hands-on activity is explored as a means to build a new relationship between man and environment (as a complete set of ecosystems & narratives) – a relationship rooted in a state of well-being, not one of exploitation and inequality.
The approach alternated between qualitative and quantitative research and
responses, synthesizing decisions into a balanced response.
The programme raised a number of challenges that critically influenced
decisions throughout the design process. Accommodation of spaces for academic
activities parallel to workshops housing traditional and technologically aided
construction largely determined the spatial organization of the project. Iterations
based on environmental response and the requirement of the intervention to act as catalyst for future development justified the proposal. The transformation of the skin of a portal frame structure was explored, in order to optimize the building’s response to the natural elements, whilst creating optimal interior spaces. This transformation embodies the narrative and meaning of the place, through integration of different re-claimed brick types and vegetation into the skin of the architecture. The architectural response takes the user on a journey through the transformation from a post-industrial place-less space towards, a place that connects the various layers present, towards the ideal of a dynamic human and natural relationship of well-being.Mini Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
Carl & Emily Fuchs Foundation
Architecture
MArch(Prof)
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Tyman, Shannon K. "Gunpowder Park : a case study of post-industrial reinhabitation /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8086.
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Stultz, Bailey E. "Mnemonic Futures: Exploring the future of place-based memory in post-industrial landscapes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340029293925.
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Martin, Renee. "DemolitionLand: succession in the urban landscape." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282576358.
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Burdick, Elizabeth. "Rediscovering the Ruderal: An Alternative Framework for Post-Industrial Sites of Accumulation." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306868718.
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Herrmann, James B. "Tension of Connection: The Stitching of the Deindustrialized Inner City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342716023.
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Sistino, Bryan H. "Hybrid Urban Bioscape: An Integrated Design Approach for a Sustainability Research HUB on the Charleston Navy Yard." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367925895.
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Funkhouser, Todd. "Sentinels of The Anthropocene: Investigating an Architecture of The Contemporary Sublime." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623242131059292.
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Faísca, Diogo Filipe Correia. "Reconversão das antigas instalações de apoio aos comboios do Barreiro." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14270.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura de Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.N/A
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Puleo, Catherine. "Place Attachment in the Revitalization of Post-Industrial Downtown Canton: An Analysis of Social, Political, and Architectural Theory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1523794003883859.
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Kuffner, Joshua A. "Illuminating the Sublime Ruin." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941361.
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ROUSE, ADAM A. "CONCEPTUALIZING CONTEXT: DYNAMIC DESIGN THROUGH TIDAL INTERFACE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082946784.
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Meloni, Giaime. "La construction d’une vision paysagère : études des usages de l’action photographique comme outil de projet du paysage." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100094/document.
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La thèse poursuit comme objectif d’explorer la liaison entre le projet de paysage, conçu comme une intention de transformation soit matérielle soit immatérielle du territoire, en relation à la pratique photographique. Il s’agit d’une enquête interdisciplinaire qui essaie de comprendre les interactions possibles entre les deux matières, évitant une soumission de l’une à l’autre. Se matérialise un champ de recherche sur la culture du projet, orienté à déterminer les possibilités d’utilisation de la photographie comme contribution aux pratiques de conception de l’espace. L’étude problématique pose les questions suivantes: La photographie en tant que représentation et interprétation critique, joue-t-elle un rôle dans le processus matériel et immatériel de transformation du territoire? Quel est l’impact/l’influence sur la pensée projective d’une pratique de fragmentation sélective du paysage? Un mécanisme de re-production du réel, tel que la photographie, peut-il proposer une manière tangible de concevoir l’espace?Pour répondre à cette problématique la recherche développe une démarche méthodologique qui souhaite combiner un double niveau d’étude. D’un côté le parcours de connaissance générale, interrogeant le statut de la photographie en relation au paysage, au-delà d’une simple catégorisation d’un genre photographique. De l’autre côté une pratique expérimentale de l’action photographique dans le cadre d’une transformation de la côte du Sulcis Iglesiente, en Sardaigne: une tentative de représentation critique du territoire. La reconstruction d’une image du territoire passe par une prise de conscience et une mise en perspective de son évolution. L'intérêt général est de pouvoir construire la notion de « vision paysagère » comme action de voir spécifique, évitant la formation des stéréotypes ; une pratique capable de proposer un regard interprétative sur le paysage à travers le filtre de l’appareil photographiqueThe thesis aims at exploring the relationship between the landscape project, conceived as a discipline able to transform the material and immaterial territory, and the photographic practice . It is an interdisciplinary research that attempts to understand the possible interactions between the two branches of knowledge, avoiding the submission of one over the other. It is so conceived a field of research on the design culture oriented to determine the potential use of photography as a contribution to the conception of space. The study highlights some key issues: Can the photography, as representation and critical interpretation, perform a role in the process of transformation of the material and immaterial territory? What is the influence of a practice of selective fragmentation of the landscape on the design thinking? May a mechanism of reproduction of the reality propose a concrete way of conceiving the space?In order to answer these questions the research developed a methodology oriented to the combination of two levels of study. On the one hand the creation of a broad knowledge which examines the status of the photography in relation to the landscape, going beyond the simple categorization of a photographic genre. On the other hand an experimental practice of photographic action in the context of the coastal landscape of the Sulcis-Iglesias, in Sardinia. It is an effort aimed at a critical representation of the territory. The aim is to build a concept of vision paysagère, as a specific visual action, which avoids the formation of stereotypes. A practice able to offer an interpretative view on the landscape
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Caignet, Aurore. "Représenter, réinterpréter et réimaginer le patrimoine industriel : la promotion du renouveau de la ville postindustrielle du Nord de l’Angleterre (1970-2010)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20048/document.
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Cette thèse s’interroge sur ce qui subsiste du patrimoine industriel dans les reconversions d’édifices industriels, la régénération d’une ville et de ses espaces hérités de la révolution industrielle, et leur réinvention et promotion. Les représentations qui émergent autour de la mise en patrimoine du bâti industriel, et de la régénération de ce patrimoine et de son environnement immédiat, contribuent à la représentation de la ville postindustrielle. La présence et permanence du patrimoine industriel – dans le paysage et l’image de la ville – sont conditionnées par son degré d’adaptation à des goûts et des usages contemporains. Cette thèse révèle une prise en compte et une représentation moindres du patrimoine industriel malgré une protection et une appréciation accrues, ainsi qu’un tiraillement entre inclusion et exclusion du patrimoine industriel à l’échelle de la ville, du quartier, du bâtiment industriel, et au niveau des représentations visant à leur promotion et à l’attraction de touristes. Elle se focalise sur Bradford et Manchester, deux anciennes villes industrielles du Nord de l’Angleterre, et porte sur une période allant de 1970 à 2010, d’abord marquée par la désindustrialisation et le développement de l’archéologie industrielle, puis par des mutations en matière de conservation et de réemploi du bâti d’origine industrielle, ainsi que par la régénération de la ville postindustrielle et la redéfinition de son image. Cette étude s’achève à la fin des années 2000, une décennie prolifique en termes de réinterprétations de vestiges industriels, et s’intéresse à des réutilisations récentes à des fins culturelles et/ou créativeThis thesis examines what remains of industrial heritage when dealing with the conversion of industrial buildings, the regeneration of a city and its spaces inherited from the industrial revolution, and their reinvention and promotion. Representations that emerge from the heritagisation of the industrial built environment, and the regeneration of this heritage and its immediate surrounding area, participate in the representation of the post-industrial city. The presence and permanence of industrial heritage – in the cityscape and city image – depend on its capacity to adapt to contemporary tastes and purposes. As this thesis suggests, industrial heritage lacks attention and visibility, even though it benefits from greater levels of protection and appreciation. It also highlights an oscillation between the inclusion and exclusion of industrial heritage, whether it is at the level of a city, a district, or an industrial building, and within representations used to promote them and to attract tourist. It focuses on Bradford and Manchester, two former industrial cities of the North of England, and covers a period stretching from 1970 to 2010, as it was initially characterised by deindustrialisation and the development of industrial archaeology, and, subsequently, by mutations in relation to the conservation and reuse of industrial buildings, as well as by the regeneration of post-industrial cities and the redefinition of their image. This study ends in 2010 – the 2000s being a prolific decade regarding the reinterpretation of industrial vestiges – and explores recent conversions of industrial buildings for cultural and/or creative purposes
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Fantasia, Jared Miguel. "Earthworks. An architectural essay for the reclamation of the post-industrial landscape at S. Domingos, Portugal. 37o40´05.8" N 7o29´28.2"W." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/29799.
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ABSTRACT: EARTHWORKS.An Architectural Essay for the Reclamation of the Post-industrial Landscape at S. Domin gos, Portugal. 37"40'06.S"N 7"29'28.2''W
Anthropocene man has sought to dominate nature by transforming her and by exploiting her finite resources. Pol lution, waste and abandoned industrial sites have increased, alongside the exponential rise in population. Man, in the extraction processes of mining in particular,has created new sediments which no one knows what to do with: spoil heaps,rubble and great quantities of toxic matter.
The 1960s and 1980s saw the beginnings of a global ecological consciousness and consequential acts of reclamation in the mining industry, which gave land artists not only a platform for their views relating to the post-industrial trial landscape,but a new "medium" to explore in their art. Whether it was an opportunity to acquire space and machinery to produce large-scale earthworks,or an intentional act of reclamation of the post-industrial landscape through art/ architecture,they saw the potential for post-industrial landscapes to become places to be engaged with through sublime contemplation and interaction.
The following thesis aims to create an understanding of artists who used post-industrial sites for the creation of earthworks and proposes an architectural project as a gesture of reclamation for the open pit at S. Domingos Mine,Portugal ( 37°40'05.8"N 7°29'28.2"W) and its surrounding post-industrial landscape as a means of reclamation through the discipline of Architecture; RESUMO: 0 homem do antropoceno procurou dominar a natureza através da transformação e exploração dos seus recursos finitos. A poluição, o lixo e os locais industriais abandonados aumentaram devido ao crescimento expo
nencial da população. Dos processos de extração de minerio, resultaram sedimentos inutilizados, como por exemplo, montes de escórias, entulho e grandes quantidades de matéria tóxica.
As décadas de 1960 e 1970 viram o inicio de uma consciência ecológica global e os actos consequentes de reclamation na industria mineira deram a land artists desta época não só uma oportunidade para concretizar as suas ideias e perspectivas, mas também um novo medium para explorar a sua arte. Seja isto uma oportunidade de adquirir espaço e maquinaria para produzir Eatthworlcs em grande escala como puramente obras de arte, ou seja um ato intencional de recuperação da paisagem pós-industrial através da arte/ arquitectura. Estes artistas viram o potencial da paisagem pós-industrial para se tornar num lugar de contemplação e interação com o sublime.
A presente dissertação compreende um essaio escrito sobre alguns dos artistas que utilizaram sitios pós-industriais para a realização de Earthworks e uma proposta de projecto arquitectónico para a corta da mina de S. Domingos, Portugal ( 37 • 40'05.8" N 7 • 29'28.2 'W ), que visa arecuperação da paisagem pó-industrial através da disciplina da Arquitectura.
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Ryznic, Jaime. "Post-Industrial New England: Repairing the Voids." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1081.
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Decaying urban spaces are common in post-industrial New England. When manufacturing activities withdrew from New England they left holes in the urban fabric. Physical absence of these former economic drivers is easy to note in empty mill buildings, warehouses, and storefronts. Farther reaching impacts of this exodus are less apparent. Jobs went with manufacturing. Raw materials needed to be harvested and made available to manufacturers; the finished products needed to be distributed, sold, and moved; supporting businesses provided for these needs. Many other groups supported manufacturing; some through the management of the companies, some catered to workers’ needs, or the needs of workers’ children and families. This network of groups and individuals connected to industry made up vibrant communities in the heyday of manufacturing in New England. When manufacturing left many of the groups providing support functions collapsed. Many people moved away, or if they stayed they were left unemployed or underemployed. Whole communities were damaged when manufacturing left New England. Many have not yet fully recovered. The goal of this thesis is to propose a path toward the revitalization and repair of the urban fabric of depressed post-industrial communities in New England.
Many post-industrial New England communities have lost their identity. These places have empty buildings, empty lots, and their main streets, former “downtowns,” are quiet. There is little to recommend these areas as a place to be. These depressed and decaying places need revitalization. They are no longer centers of manufacturing or industry; they need a new identity, one that reflects what they are now and what they would like to become in the future. Revitalization should be grounded in a study of the unique place it addresses. There are communities and inhabitants present in even the most depressed places. These groups need to be recognized and their needs identified before revitalization can be undertaken. Revitalization should be inclusive. Residents should feel encouraged to stay in, and be proud of, their community. Revitalization should be sustainable; socially, ecologically and economically. If revitalization of a depressed area calls for attracting more residents and businesses, those targeted to inhabit the revitalized space should fit into the existing community, not displace it. This thesis proposes a revitalization of a depressed post-industrial area of Millers Falls, Massachusetts in the vicinity of East Main and Bridge Streets. This revitalization proposal will be carried out within a framework of study of place, inclusivity, and holistic sustainability.
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McKichan, Stephanie. "Re-formed rock: designing waste rock piles for the post production landscape." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22144.
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The natural landscape of western North America is being destroyed in the search for mineral resources. There is an opportunity for Landscape Architecture to play a role in the remediation of these sites, in which alternate reclamation plans can be proposed.
This project is an exploration of industrial design in the early stages of a mine proposal. By analyzing the site as it sits prior to production, careful consideration of existing landscape elements can aid in better placement of waste material. Communication between the mining industry and affected communities allows for contributions to the final site design and the potential for an alternative end land use. Throughout this project I have explored layering the numerous industrial, social and environmental factors involved, and creating a design where these layers are represented in partnership with each other.
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Terpeluk, Brett. "The garden in the machine: Rethinking nature and history in the post-industrial landscape." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/17217.
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Lying in the wake of accelerated technological advancement is a landscape of economic and environmental consequence. As older industrial facilities become obsolete, newer technologies look towards virgin land for growth. In turn, the industrial city, once the recipient of generous corporate taxation and stable work force, is saddled with social unrest, economic stagnation, and vast tracts of infrastructure-laden land. Such is the case with the vacated Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
At the root of this thesis is a conviction that regeneration of this site needs to be approached as a multidimensional phenomenon which touches upon the organic, the economic, and the chemical. As such, a kind of petri dish can emerge where physical entropy and the erosion of memory coexist with economic and ecologic growth. This thesis attempts to define a new beginning by bridging the cleft between growth and decay. The history of this site, its entropic future, and the beginnings of a new history are conflated into a single continuum.
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Struthers, Kristen. "Surveying the shield: exploring industrial disturbance in an Ontario mill town." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23965.
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Kenora, Ontario is a city with a strong industrial identity, linked specifically to forestry. Historically sawmills were situated on waterfront properties for purposes of harnessing energy and transporting logs. As technology has evolved, the proximity to water is no longer integral and industry has become less centralized in the city. This practicum explores the implications of the loss of an industrial presence, and the impact of industrial disturbance in both the urban fabric as well as the surrounding region. A design proposal for a specific site, that has been home to a sawmill for over a century, reacts to the research through the design of a large scale public landscape intended to remediate the post industrial conditions and take advantage of the strong historical past.
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Shvartzberg, Carrió Manuel. "Designing “Post-Industrial Society”: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Palm Springs, California, 1876-1977." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-vjp9-4543.
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The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Reservation was established in 1876, the same year as the transcontinental Southern Pacific Railroad completed a station in Palm Springs. These overlapping events would both enable and problematize the settler colonization of the Agua Caliente’s land, creating a checkerboard pattern of “fragmented jurisdiction” that was fundamental for its transformation into one of the wealthiest resorts in the United States. The territorial conflict between the Tribe and the U.S. would only begin to be legally resolved in 1977, when the Agua Caliente won the right to zone and plan their own lands. This dissertation examines how architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure mediated the technical, legal, and ideological struggles that took place in this period; sometimes enabling Imperial dispossession, other times structuring Tribal assimilation and decolonization. The dissertation historicizes and theorizes these processes by examining the modern architecture and urbanism of Palm Springs as a specific settler-colonial, “post-industrial” mode of development which was made possible by the particular territorial configuration that emerged out of nineteenth century Imperialism. It posits a correlation between settler colonialism and the settler imaginaries and material processes of technological progress, capitalist accumulation, natural resource extraction, and cultures of leisure that were uniquely developed in Palm Springs through modern architecture. Critically dismantling the connections between modern architecture, “post-industrial society,” and settler colonialism, this dissertation argues, is a necessary condition for the development of decolonial epistemologies and strategies of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist resistance.
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McGee, Nicholas. "Resilient Urbanism: Bridging Natural Elements & Sustainable Structures in a Post-Industrial Urban Environment." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/936.
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How can the revival of nature combined with the introduction of contemporary structures improve a city’s appeal? The goals of this thesis are as follows: 1) To provide a new public space along Hartford’s waterfront, 2) To relieve traffic of those traveling through Hartford, 3) To allow for easier/increased access for local traffic to access the downtown area and central business district, and 4) To create connections across the River at the Human Scale. The relocation of I-91 to the opposite side of the Connecticut River using existing infrastructure is a clean, concise way of achieving these four goals. By having I-91 cross the Connecticut River south of downtown on the existing Charter Oak Bridge, following the Right-of-Way of the current State Route 2, intersecting with Interstate 84 at a four-way, all-access intersection, and traveling back across the Connecticut River north of downtown using an existing Right-of-Way, the Riverfront opens up while allowing for easier traffic flow for both local and through traffic. A new boulevard in the existing highway’s Right-of-Way that starts and ends at exits off of the new configuration of I-91 allows for local traffic to access all parts of downtown, while having through traffic avoid the commuters and bypass the city completely. The new intersection of I-91 and I-84 across the River in East Hartford would allow all users access to all points, no matter what direction they're traveling; something the current intersection in downtown does not offer. Using existing bridges and Rights-of-Way also does the least amount of damage to current residents of East Hartford and its own waterfront, as there would be no new land needed for this new configuration. The following thesis attempts to bring life back into the downtown area of Hartford, Connecticut through various means that have been proven to work well in other cities throughout the United States.
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O'Neil, Tyler. "The Built Environment and Well-Being: Designing for Well-Being in Post-Industrial Communities During the Age of Urbanization." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/915.
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Well-being is a major cultural concern today and is increasingly a priority for architects and designers. However, the meaning of well-being is hard to define and often misunderstood. Well-being is frequently seen rather narrowly, even though it is essentially a holistic concept that includes physical, mental, social, and economic well-being. To achieve a state of well-being these different aspects must remain in balance. In the age of urbanization, with the world’s urban population expected to nearly double by 2050, the notion of well-being becomes especially important for architects and urban designers when considering the implications for the urban environment to accommodate this influx of people.
This thesis focuses both on understanding the impact that the urban built environment has on holistic well-being across a variety of factors as well as understanding how architecture and design can support well-being in changing urban environments. By clearly defining well-being, assessing current standards for well-being, analyzing a variety of case studies, and ultimately proposing a new, mixed-use development in Providence, RI as an exemplar of urban design and architecture that supports well-being, this thesis outlines a model for how to design for well-being in a way that both supports existing communities while anticipating the growth of these communities as a result of continued urbanization.
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Johnson, Kaila. "Alvar in the post industrial: (re) introducing alvar plant communities in the inwood quarry." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23983.
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This practicum investigates the reintroduction of a globally recognized at-risk plant community, Alvar, into an abandoned limestone quarry, located in the town of Inwood, in the Interlake Region of Manitoba. Alvar develops naturally over the
course of thousands of years, and also naturally exists on exposed limestone bedrock, which is subsequently one of the greatest indicators of suitable areas for limestone quarrying. By utilizing recent techniques proven to be effective in Alvar regeneration, this practicum focuses on the landscape architect as a pivotal tool in creating a functional landscape, both in terms of environmental, social, and economic integrity. Using an ecotourism-based approach to engage the public with the site, while creating a platform for Alvar regeneration and future scientific research initiatives provides an economic, ecological, and social solution to some of the most negatively viewed aspects of the area. This practicum offers an alternative solution to traditional quarry rehabilitation strategies as well as the at-risk Alvar plant communities: strengthening
it by reintroducing it in a post-industrial landscape, while raising awareness about its
historic and ecological significance in an ecotourism-based outlet.
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Piers-Gamble, Clark G. "Curating Place: Using Interpretive Design to Metabolize Change in the Rural, Post-Industrial Landscape of Woronoco Massachusetts." 2018. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/661.
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In this research, I aim to investigate the interrelationships between people, architecture and the landscape, by asking the question "what is the architect's role in curating place'. The goal of this body of work is to challenge the role of the ‘architect' when working within the context of place. This research, and the design intervention developed a process that challenges the profession by asking: “Should an architect be solely the creator of place, or is the architect a curator of place? The research analyzes existing theories related to the definition and concept of place approached from a wide spectrum of professional expertise overtime to attempt to grasp human being's passion related to the dynamic topic of place. The intent is to create a framework for design that can be adopted, implemented and layered upon any place, to unearth, distill, and better understand its essence.
The rural post-industrial landscape of Western Massachusetts specifically focused around the former paper mill village of Woronoco is the stage for this inquiry. place is anchored equally in the qualitative and quantitative forces that shape it and thus requires an attentive observer, a trained observer, but most importantly a local, inspired observer who is fundamentally attached to that place. As both a landscape architect and architect, I offer a heightened awareness of the patterns and processes or ecology of place especially concerning the occupation and physical impact of humans on the landscape through the built environment. The proposed design interventions will attempt to treat place as a living organism, one that is continuously changing and whose dynamics are interconnected and responsive to a broad range of forces that shape it. A place curation design approach has led me to offer a series of design interventions, and not a proposal for a single building. These interventions will not fulfill a single program or fulfill one specific functional purpose; it will not focus on creating a design typology or use a consistent design language or material palette. Instead, the design will introduce multiple architectonic interventions that are derived almost organically in the landscape, in a manner that will stimulate the continued use and engagement with this place. Human interaction, engagement and interpretation is the essential component to ensuring the longterm sustainability of place, allowing it to continuously evolve and be relevant to future generations.
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Rocco, Grant R. "Developing Maker Economies in Post-Industrial Cities: Applying Commons Based Peer Production to Mycelium Biomaterials." 2015. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/257.
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Our current system of research and production is no longer suitable for solving the problems we face today. As climate change threatens our cities and livelihoods, the global economic system preys on the weak. A more responsive, equitable, and resilient system needs to be implemented. Our post industrial cities are both products and victims of the boom-bust economies employed for the last few centuries. While some communities have survived by converting to retail and services based economies, others have not been so fortunate and have become run-down husks of their former bustling selves. The key to revitalizing these cities is to create new industries that empower people, unlike the service economies that deride and devalue them. Peer to Peer (P2P) development models like open source software communities create platforms for people to collaborate on projects and share resources. On the scale of cities, the goal is to stimulate the growth of closed loop, local, micro-economies that are inherently more stable than traditional, centralized economic models.Commons Based Peer Production (CBPP) is a term coined by Professor Yochai Benkler at Harvard Law School. It describes a new model of socio-economic production in which the labor of large numbers of people is coordinated (usually with the aid of the Internet) mostly without traditional hierarchical organization. It is based on low thresholds for participation, freely available modular tasks, and community verification of quality (peer governance). CBPP usually only applies to intellectual output, from software to libraries of quantitative data to human-readable documents (manuals, books, encyclopedias, reviews, blogs, periodicals, and more); however, this system can be adapted for physical manufacturing. A P2P system of development for material goods must be explored through the production of a common resource. Mycelium is the “roots” of fungi. It can be grown anywhere with agricultural refuse as a substrate. It has properties that make it ideal for building insulation and it is environmentally innocuous. It is Cradle to Cradle certified, and it requires little specialized equipment to produce. As a consumer product, it has had trouble gaining traction in a notoriously stubborn market dominated by hydrocarbon based market leaders like extruded polystyrene (XPS). Mycelium products are ripe for development as a regenerative building material. The goal is to increase the R-value of the material, decrease the cost of manufacturing, and carve out a market for this extraordinary product. The purpose of applying a CBPP approach is to increase the speed of development and aid in market penetration. The strategy is to decentralize manufacturing of and experimentation with the product. This requires a robust network of production nodes. Essentially, this involves setting up franchises in select markets (like the Pioneer Valley), where there is a strong interest in local, sustainable products. The nodes would be small cooperative businesses that are licensed to produce the material as well as collect data on the manufacturing and performance of mycelium insulation. The data will then be used to improve the production process. The bulk of the thesis is in designing one such node in Greenfield, MA, located adjacent to the new John W. Olver Transit Center on Bank Row St.
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Büchner, Ingmar Christoff. "Latent potential : a post-industrial artefact : re[ge]nerating resources from a depleted quarry : architecture as interface of exchange between people and resources." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32801.
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The continuing industrialisation of global society, specifically in developing countries, has resulted in the ongoing extraction of the earth's resources to feed the ever increasing demand for economic growth. What will happen when resources become scarce and unobtainable? What will happen when population growth becomes unmanageable? What will happen when the quality of life becomes displaced by the quantity thereof? The effects of such exploitation are already evident, and the longer solutions toward growing global populations and diminishing natural resources are postponed, the bleaker the future for modern human civilisation becomes. Many tipping points are being approached; some have already been passed. Now is the time to innovate and to find alternatives, as ways to redefine the relationships between people and resources.
This dissertation is an investigation of a post-industrial artefact, an obsolete clay brick quarry and brickworks amidst the suburbs on the southern edge of Pretoria. It has undergone constant changes over the last century and quite noticeably during the last decade, as it lies latent in its obsolescence. The effects of time can be observed in the natural processes of decay, entropy and change, as well as in human development and growth. The history imprinted onto the site tells us about the dynamic patterns and relationships between man and his natural environment, seen in this now Post-Industrial Latent Artefact (P.I.L.A.), and hints toward a path for its future. The principles of Regenerative Design are employed to assist in finding and utilising potential within the P.I.L.A. A new life for the site is found by accessing its inherent potential, while the importance of Industrial Heritage is acknowledged. The programme, as latent potential, is generated through the uncovering of the site's patent potentials, in response to global resource concerns and urban resilience. The architectural design is generated through the conceptual basis of exchanges between knowledge, heritage, the social, the bio-physical, the programmatic, and the tectonic. A social spine is intersected and paralleled by areas of new production, in contrast with areas of historical production, which are all supported by an enhanced ecology and tied together into a new synthetic landscape.Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Shnier, Erin. "Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4536.
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In support of a modal shift towards rail for goods movement, a reconceptualization of urban and interurban mobility frameworks leads to the proposed infrastructural fitting for the urban periphery. Keller Easterling’s notion of Situating serves as a tool for engaging the serial aspects of the project territory in order to leverage widespread change. The intervention is born of the premise that while the ‘last mile’ of the supply chain must remain predominantly road based, the ‘second-last mile’ between concentrated distribution clusters is an opportune target for modal shifting initiatives. Towards this end the thesis envisions alternative, elaborated templates for distribution cluster design which optimize instrumental capacity as well as generate new performative possibilities through the conflation of productive, consumptive, and logistical activities. The hybridized type is demonstrated on a greenfield, industrial zoned site in the outer fringes of the Greater Toronto Area. Standard warehouse morphologies are retooled to serve the unfolding trends of agglomeration and just-in-time delivery while functioning as revolutionized, streamlined terminals of inland intermodal exchange. A unique urban condition is created where the freight-intensive logistics cluster interfaces a transit-supportive arterial corridor in the surrounding suburban fabric. Here, a thickened seam is developed to engage pedestrian-scaled experience, offer richness through surprising functional juxtaposition, and capitalize on the potentials for efficient local connections to regional distribution agents.
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Taljaard, Carla Christine. "New Era Ceramics : a solvent for the industrial boundary." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32800.
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The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the legacy of industrial spaces, the effect of this legacy on the surroundings, and how these spaces then become disconnected and isolated after industrial activity is decommissioned. The research forms part of an NRF research scheme that specifically focuses on building the resilience of cities through innovation in the planning, design and construction of the built environment.
The hypothesis on which the dissertation is based states that a process of reintegration of a decommissioned industrial site with the immediate surroundings would enable such a site to become a positive space of transition, and would allow for the reconciliation of society and the ecology that was exploited by the industry. It sees the decommissioning of industrial infrastructure not as a loss or abandonment of obsolete capital, but as the release of energy and potential that can be positively reconstructed.
The mechanistic and reductionist world-view that contributed to an unhealthy relationship between people and their ecological surroundings is theoretically explored through the hybridization theories proposed by Bruno Latour (Latour 1993), and the regenerative methodologies put forth by members of Regenesis (Mang, Reed 2012a).
The potential of obsolete industrial infrastructure to provide powerful leverage points for changing paradigms from mechanistic to ecological is discussed in the light of its history of developing from craft to large-scale production. Craft becomes an important mechanism for the integration of people with the value and purpose of their work, and also of natural materials and the cultural objects they become.
The theories stated above are architecturally applied to an industrial site in Eersterust, Pretoria, which is on the verge of being decommissioned. The site is approached as a constantly evolving and living entity. It is investigated in terms of its patterns and cycles, and these are illustrated as a narrative of all the forces that have impacted on it over millions of years.
The narrative provides clues as to possible programmes and site lifecycles, and enables those phenomena that will nurture the biophysical evolution of the site to be given form. The concept of potential sets arises from this investigation, and informs an architecture that aligns itself with both the ecological and cultural forces on site, and represents the hybridization of the two.
Potential sets distinguish patterns of ecological, social and industrial phenomena that occur on site over different time frames. These patterns aid the understanding of the ecological purpose of the site and the alignment of the built intervention with this purpose.
A building is imagined that will create solutions for public, industrial and ecological spaces, with different levels of engagement between the three. The concept of a solvent enforces the notion of hybridity and allows for new relationships between the public, industrial processes and natural cycles to develop.Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014
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Frank, James W. "Ruins in the landscape: the Blue Hospital of Bugojno." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30376.
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Nearly two decades after the cessation of hostilities, traces of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) are still present throughout the landscape. Ruins resulting both directly and indirectly from the military actions remain scattered throughout urban and rural landscapes. Above the city of Bugojno, stands the shell of a hospital that was never completed and never opened. It is a visceral image full of unfulfilled hope and promise, and a reminder of the catastrophic events of the Bosnian Conflict. With unused and derelict infrastructure of that magnitude, loaded with symbolic meaning, it begs the question, how can it come to be used for the benefit of the local residents? The purpose of this practicum is to effectively design a redevelopment plan for the site of this former regional hospital, producing community space that promotes peace and reconciliation between the ethnic groups affected by conflict utilizing landscape processes and a program of socially based activities such as community gardening and food production. It will explore alternative uses and understanding of ruined infrastructure through investigation of traditional and contemporary landscape design theory pertaining to the picturesque, the aesthetic understanding of ruins in the landscape and the aesthetics of decay.
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Baxter, Shannon D. "Prairie of mine(s): engaging with the remnants of extractive processes." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3088.
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Prairie of Mine(s) explores the incorporation of cultural and historical elements within the reclamation of a post-industrial mining landscape in the South Saskatchewan prairie. Reclamation solely by ecological methods often fails to recognize the industrial processes and people that altered the landscape. This project utilizes experiential, cultural, and historical elements within the reclamation of mining lands to shed light on a part of our history that is frequently overlooked and draw attention to actions made on the earth everyday in order for us to live comfortably.October 2008
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Smit, P. G. "Going West : using landscape to regenerate urban form." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22958.
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Everyone wants to live in a healthy environment, an idea that has always been closely associated with the healthy landscape. Pretoria CBD is no longer a place that offers such a landscape; it is congested, fragmented and placeless. People move far and wide to get away from its hostile environments, chasing after the high gloss images of nature displayed on the billboards and posters of suburbia. They race to find a patch of land within the security complexes and estates of the east, all the while being savagely pursued by the evils of urban sprawl and decentralization. Surely there must be a way of addressing mans need and desire for landscape without perpetuating urban problems and destroying the very nature they strive for? In order to ensure a sustainable future for Pretoria needs to investigate new ways to deal with the urban problems of sprawl and decay. This thesis explores the potential of using landscape as the basis with which one can reorder and reconstruct the urban form in a way that will offer people the ideals they search within a sustainable urban environment. The investigation starts at a regional scale in order to holistically address urban issues and identify opportunities and then works its way across a range of scales down to detail design and place making. It looks new methods of constructing contemporary landscapes not by mere superimposition but by working with the current and historic urban fabric as well as the social, historical and environmental processes that have shaped it over time. It looks to the far from idyllic, yet brutally honest, post-industrial landscape of Pretoria West to construct hybrid landscapes. Arguing that if one were to genuinely offer people a healthy landscape, one they can experience and relate to, the might actually want to live in the city, in return awakening spontaneous urban renewal.Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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