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Hunter, Stacey. "Scotland's New Urbanism : in theory and practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15745.
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What form is taken by the architecture and planning movement known as the New Urbanism in Scotland? To answer this, and offer an original contribution to knowledge, the thesis takes as its starting point a survey of New Urbanism and moves to connect it to how New Urbanism is understood and practised in contemporary Scottish urbanism. In it, I argue that New Urbanism does not pay attention to the complexities of the recent spatial-social history of places and adds to the semantic confusion of new places generally. The thesis is a historical-spatial study concerned with the transfer of knowledge between New Urbanist theories and practice and how they have been received and reconfigured transnationally. The thesis is organised into four parts. It begins with a literature review that is a metahistoric account of the movement paying close attention to the symbiotic relationship of the U.S. and Anglo-European procedures and charting the theoretical basis and key figures, events and canonical developments. The scale narrows its focus throughout the thesis in a linear fashion, moving in chapter three to a close reading and review of Scottish governmental policy documents and associated literature produced since 2001. The aim here is to chart patterns in the official approaches that illuminate a tendency towards the New Urbanist procedure. I posit that government support for New Urbanism demonstrates an institutional preference for growth over social equity. I argue that the emergent New Urbanism in Scotland is representative of a perceived lack of community aligned with the privileging of upper middle-class tastes and lifestyles which are held as the dominant representation of cultural life (S. Zukin, 2009). Simultaneously, a move towards neo-traditional planning and architecture is also a politically sanctioned strategy for economic growth that prioritises growth in housing over environmental or ecological sustainability. Two site studies document the emerging New Urbanism in Scotland by analysing two different approaches. The site studies deal with one built example and one masterplan located in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire respectively. Separated into two sections they can be read as comparative studies which account for two distinct manifestations of Scottish New Urbanism; a modified Anglo-European version promoted by the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community and an ‘imported’ US version typically led by established urban designers DPZ (or Urban Design Associates), with both broadly receiving government support. The purpose of the research is to contribute to a better understanding of the movement’s origins and subsequent recontextualisation in a specifically Scottish condition. This is arguably relevant not only to contemporary Scottish urbanism but to general scholarship on the organisation and politics of space.
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Peebles, Robert. "Ontological Liberation: Hybrid Infrastructures For The Anthropocene." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623170118342559.
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Franklin, Rosalind Ethelline. "War machines of the charitable city : fundraising and the architecture of territory in Paris." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271627.
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This dissertation explores the entangled territorialities of charitable fundraising, redressing the under-theorisation of the praxis as a social construct and a transformative spatial process. It approaches fundraising from an etiological perspective, drawing on French continental theory, particularly the work of Michel Serres and of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as concepts arising from literature in relational geographies and in business studies. Unlike many scholarly accounts, which obscure the fact that this property-challenged, property-desiring practice relies on the hospitality of others in order to extract and transfer resources, this study argues that the trait of interloping is crucial to fundraising’s expansive colonisation of urban space. Seizing on the notions of minor architecture and itinerant territoriality, it thinks through fundraising’s habits, inhabitations and habitats. By doing so, it reveals a form of nomadic war machine specialised in crafting parasitic architectures that invade urban territories to constitute a territory of its own. That this state-authorised territory has become an obligatory passage point within contemporary networked societies says much about how power is forged through the intersection of political, moral-economic and socio-affective parameters. Moreover, in uncovering a hint of revanchism against the property-owning classes, this research points to the usual affective politics emerging at a time of state metamorphosis and protracted economic uncertainty. This conceptual work provides entry for an ethnographic exploration of the charitabilisation of urban life within the context of austerity in contemporary Paris. Evidence collected from interviews, participant observation, video, photography, maps, drawings and extant literature is used to illuminate fundraising’s polydimensional strategies and widespread yet minimally disruptive appropriations and expropriations. While other authors have documented the movement of fundraising in France from utter marginalisation to mainstream to strategic importance, this study traces the political and territorial machinations of the powerful Parisian network of non-profit leaders, association executives, heads of fundraising agencies, management consultants, lawyers, and government officials who lead the push for a more generous France. The continuities, tensions, and contradictions between this group’s production of space and the realities of on-the-street fundraising are explored through a series of case studies. The views presented highlight ways in which fundraisers induce and take advantage of breaches in prevailing articulations of space, time and citizen-bodies to fortify more-than-capitalist urban logics. Collectively, they render visible the temporalities, hotspots, technologies, imaginaries, schemes, and hypocrisies informing an aggressive incrementalism. The new view of Paris imparted foregrounds the enterprising, contested and geographically uneven process of cultivating the habit of ceding property, both in the sense of subjectivities and of material rights. This dissertation’s conceptual and empirical strands make it possible to apprehend how minoritarian actors become dominant. Extending the minoritarian’s right to temporally hold power and property is shown to involve continuously testing and exploiting the affordances of relations. Displayed and analysed are the contamination of ideals and the breaking of pacts within fundraising’s moral pursuit of wealth transference. Such promiscuities ought to be regarded as, this study emphasizes, a form of preparedness for the city to come.
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Shi, Yu. "Colonizing the urban wilds: invader or pioneer?" The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366333944.
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Oliveira, Cinthia Soares de. "Henri Lefebvre: possibilidades te?rico-metodol?gicas para Arquitetura e urbanismo." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/12306.
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Previous issue date: 2011-11-17This paper presents the theoretical-methodological possibilities of the French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, for the discipline of architecture and urbanism in an effort to overcome the fragmentation imposed by the institutionalization of science in general. From Du rural ? l'urbain (Lefebvre, 1970) compilation, it brings the author's other works from the period between 1968 and 1974, indicating the conduits for reflection and their interrelationships with methods, types of analyses and other procedures to treat the space-time urban. The methodology involves a research on the author s 'today and yesterday' in the scientific field, a research and analysis of his procedures in highlight of philosophical, social, economic and political aspects, the historical context of his references and provides significant and possible elements for the study, research and extension in the area in question
Este trabalho apresenta possibilidades te?rico metodol?gicas do fil?sofo e soci?logo franc?s, Henri Lefebvre, para a disciplina de arquitetura e urbanismo, no esfor?o de ultrapassar a fragmenta??o imposta pela institucionaliza??o das ci?ncias de modo geral. A partir da compila??o Du rural ? l urbain (LEFEBVRE, 1970), abrange outras obras do autor do per?odo entre 1968 e 1974, indicando condutas para a reflex?o e suas inter-rela??es com m?todos, categorias de an?lises e outros procedimentos para tratar o espa?o-tempo de vida urbana. A metodologia envolve pesquisas sobre o ontem e o hoje do autor no meio cient?fico, investiga??es e an?lises dos seus procedimentos ? luz de aspectos filos?ficos, sociais, econ?micos e pol?ticos, a contextualiza??o hist?rica de suas refer?ncias e apresenta elementos significativos e poss?veis para o estudo, a pesquisa e a extens?o na ?rea em quest?o
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Anandam, Anahita. "Flexible urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36910.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-96).
This thesis seeks to find a new approach/method towards urbanization in existing low density neighborhoods in major metropolitan cities in the United States. The near South side of the city of Chicago (a city that carries a history as the most modern city in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century) will be taken as a site for development. The site of the Illinois Institute of Technology has an associated history dating back to the nineteenth century as well as an extensive housing development built as a post world war two response to a lack of housing in major metropolitan cities. Today, the area stands deserted, with a few housing tower blocks that remain occupied. The idea of flexible urbanism that would benefit the Chicago neighborhood can be traced back in history to the eighteenth century, a period during which rationality created a new type of society. Rationality is fundamental to this thesis, taken to its hilt with the idea that extreme rationality could lead to a sense of madness and diversity in options and ways of living in order to organize society today.
(cont.) The idea of extreme rationality can be seen through history with the development of the prisons and asylums in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and later in the design of the microraion, the unit of neighborhood development in the Constructivist period of the Soviet Planning process. During that period the garden city movement grew in the United Kingdom propagating the return of nature in the design of cities. A comparison to the garden city would be another new Town in England: Milton Keynes, a city where land was distinguished as separately zoned areas. These ideas of rationality and rule based zoning systems are fundamental to this thesis, and taken to its extreme to understand the city parametrically, in three dimensions. Finally, the application of this new approach towards densification shows that this strategy is one that can be used universally to revitalize, reinvigorate, and re-emphasize the use of extreme rationality in order to create vitality in cities, and diversity in use.
by Anahita Anandam.
S.M.
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Kim, Lora H. 1975. "Rubberbanding urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67745.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).
The comprehensive planning approach is a method that necessitates parceling activities, zones, and the connective infrastructure. Buildings thus become dumb boxes 8 that are repeated and placed in their work parcels, live parcels, or play parcels. The space between the boxes, either becomes neglected space or traffic space. :b. This stratification and separation is a product of the blunt expediency inherent in modern development. (Kwinter and Fabricius. "Generica," 525) In the past, it took ~ Cf.) decades or centuries to develop cities; now, it typically takes 5-15 years. (Ibid) This efficient and fast machine predicts social and local processes as the master plan ..... calculates every step. There is little regard for time as a major factor in this production, in terms of time as economic and political support systems that may change ~ behind the development project, and secondly, time as a component that may allow for unexpected behavioral and organizational patterns to emerge. The current C') strategy flattens the complexity of our contemporary urban condition, and the result is a stale, static, and culturally unsustainable urbanism. ..... Notodden is currently using this orderly process of structuring urbanism to revitalize the new downtown. This master plan exposes how the end architectural forms and urban patterns become static and life less. As a result, even when there is financial and political support for innovation as there are in Notodden, it seems we are stuck to repeat the same approaches and forms. The example of Notodden's master plan wholly exhibits the paradigm crisis in which urban planning is "exposed as anachronistic, dangerous and intellectually spurious." (Graham and Marvin, 110) However, the potential of Notodden, Norway, the site of exploration, lies in the transformation of the new city, not through the current master plan, but through the specific programmatic negotiations and architectural development of the currently proposed Blues Center. Architecture becomes the urban generator, and the Blues Center, which is transformed from a performance site in August for the annual Notodden Blues Festival, into a music, media and skills center. This first project becomes the catalyst for cultural, social and economic change for this urban area. By prioritizing and focusing on the potential energy of this principal vision, it generates other unexpected programmatic and place-making concepts that need to be conceived after this primary organizational, cultural, and economic force is constructed through a Rubberbanding Urbanism. Rubberbanding urbanism is an original concept that demands participants of the urban development process to perceive the existing urban scape as adjustable and negotiable. Within this urban scape, there are flexible boundaries or bands that can stretch beyond traditional parcel lines and overlap with other bands. As the notion of bands have no set definition attached to them yet in urbanism, it is easier to see them more abstractly at many scales: as predefined programs, as current parcels or boxes, or as infrastructure, building, open space. The goal is to rethink and reinvent density, function, and time in an urban and architectural context while allowing for negotiation at each step. Because the proposed site in Notodden is barren, this seems appropriate as a development idea. This method actively attempts to " ... [privilege] not the formal, morphological attributes of building, but rather [create] a repertoire of operatives affected by time patterns of connectivity, and changing populations of multiple components. "(Graham and Marvin, 110) The bands are dotted so that they suggest flexibility until other bands present constraints or parameters. As bands overlap or stretch, new hybrids can be created. Spaces, programs, and scapes can then be designed through this unpredictable and constantly negotiable process. Throughout the process, participants create the rules and protocols as they go.
Lora H. Kim.
M.Arch.
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Miller, August. "Vertical Urbanism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367925374.
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Makrynikola, Nefeli. "Industrial Urbanism." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-244805.
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This thesis presents the history of urbanism through the point of view of theevolution of the productive process history from the irst Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) to today, as well as a proposal for a development of an area in Trelleborg,Sweden that includes also manufacturing, based on Europan Competition’s 2017theme of “Productive City”. In the irst part it presents the history of the industrial erastarting from the 18th century until today though a chronological diagram, includingpolitical, social and technological events, as well as important urban planning ideasand innovative factories. Then proceeds to a more extended presentation of industrialurbanism theory based on theoretical approaches and realized examples. The inalpart of the thesis presents a case study of the “productive city”, which includes themasterplan of the area, diagrams for the location of manufacturing and ideas for thetypes of manufacturing that could be included in the urban block. It concludes withinal consideration about production and the role it can play for a better future.
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Kummer, Quinn. "New(er) Urbanism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306502862.
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Jarosz, Maxwell A. (Maxwell Albert). "Toxic urbanism : hearth, heimatlosigkeit, home." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108934.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 123 blank.
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In an increasingly toxic world where the average person's body contains 29/35 of the toxins listed on the restricted and hazardous substance list, toxicity is unavoidable. This thesis asks how toxins can re-imagined to become active agents in design. Through the negotiation between hard and soft boundaries this work speculates on an architecture of gradients, densities, and velocities to produce temporal spaces of occupation. The year is 2024. Humanity has settled in a condition of toxic urbanism, contained by the toxic wastelands of the periphery. The Anthropocene has wreaked havoc and produced a world of toxins. Early estimates of the exponential destruction caused by our toxic landscapes of production were misled by constantly shifting metrics of toxicity provided by different agencies, bureaus, and offices. Our remediation efforts were too slow, too costly, and failed to produce any agency in the age of toxicity.We continued to produce superfund sites across the country. Landscapes of toxic air, contaminated soil and polluted water became our second nature. As we shifted from one machine age to the next, the continued autonomy provided to production landscapes allowed increasingly more toxic means of production to be developed, this methodology assured there would be no post-toxic future. Within the confines of toxic urbanism, people suited up in protective suits every day. They wore protection more for peace of mind than protection of body. As we destroyed the land, the interior was perfected, continuous halls stocked with machinery created a perfectly sterile environment that defined people's lives, the sprawling mechanized interiors of the no-stop city had finally been realized. We had come a long way. Ever since humanity created the cave fire, toxins had been part of our environment. The hearth, originally acted as both an object of environment and an object of culture. As we followed the flames into modernism we found ourselves in a state of homelessness explicated by the dichotomy between our technological culture and its toxic means of production. Heidegger, described the sensation as Heimatlosigkeit, the signification of our existential orientation in the era of Gestell. Humanity has however always been a risk adverse society, and as they began to reject the sterile environments of safety for toxic environments of experience agency was produced in the design of toxins. In an increasingly toxic world, this thesis explores how toxins can become active participants and drivers for the production of temporal spaces defined by the hard and soft boundaries they operate within. Architectural interests in materiality and dimension are replaced in favor of velocities, gradients, and densities that define zones of occupiability.
by Maxwell A. Jarosz.
M. Arch.
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Pratt, Melanie Leanne. "Shadow urbanism." Thesis, connect to document Full-text document, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/17909.
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Wilson, Krista. "Human urbanism immersion into place /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Ghasemkhani, Yashar. "Containers : project for a new urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65547.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Pages 68 and 69 are blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This project investigates the possibilities of a new urbanism in vast territories of urban industrial and logistics landscapes, which have become a significant feature of the American city. It is a search for a hybrid typology of habitation and production for these neglected fields. The project starts with a research on urban industrial landscapes of major American cities in order to extract common features, then focuses on Boston industrial area as an example of such condition. It explores patterns with the ability to expand and readapt to different scales and urban conditions. The project concludes with proposing a new typology, which maintains industries on the ground level, adjacent to transportation networks, and proposes a stem structure, which runs through these mega boxes, providing access, infrastructure and service spaces for industries while creating a base for a new linear city on top. mergence of industries and habitation allows new forms of agriculture and energy production, using industrial waste water and waste heat, which this project has tried to address with design solutions.
by Yashar Ghasemkhani.
S.M.
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Okcuoglu, Tugba. "Imagining Public Space in Smart Cities: a Visual Inquiry on the Quayside Project by Sidewalk Toronto." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21866.
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Recently, the ‘Smart City’ label has emerged as a popular umbrella term for numerous projects around the world that claim to offer an enhanced urban experience, often provided in collaboration with international companies through private-public partnerships. As smart cities pledge to create long-term economic sustainability and progressive form of urban entrepreneurialism, it is getting important to highlight risks such as the reduced role of the public sector, technological dominance and data privacy.In contrast to more a conventional, long-term, holistic master planning, a technologically pre-determined form of Smart City endangers the emancipator usage of public spaces as spaces of diversity, creativity, inclusive citizen participation and urban sustainability.This research approaches the concept of Smart Cities as a future category and, thus, targets to develop a comprehensive visual analysis based on architectural representations in the form of computer-generated images (CGI’s). The Quayside project, a notable and widely criticized urban development project, by Sidewalk Toronto, a cooperation between Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs which is a sister subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., has been selected as Smart City case study as. Visual analysis was conducted by using the theoretical frame advocating ‘Coordinating Smart Cities’ in contrast to ‘Prescriptive Smart Cities’ by Richard Sennett. In addition to Sennett’s concept of ‘Incomplete Form’, Jan Gehl’s ‘Twelve Quality Criteria’ was used as coding categories to elaborate the content analysis which was followed by semiological and compositional interpretations. Visuals have been investigated in three sequential sets and analyzed focusing on time-based comparative frequency counts for sets of visuals. Concentrating on how future public spaces are illustrated, the study aims to uncover and to discuss how Smart Cities are being imagined and advertised.
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Lundberg, Måns. "Backyard Aesthetics : Towards an Etical Urbanism." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133162.
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Malan, Andre De Merindol. "Adaptive urbanism : shaping rapid growth in Nairobi." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107313.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Within the past half century many African nations regained independence and in the process, imported various development models from the Western World. Joan Clos, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations claims "it is now evident that all these models have failed to achieve the goals that African nations had set themselves". Considering these past failures along with rapidly increasing urbanization rates, a poor economic outlook and on-going vulnerability to natural disasters, the need for reconsidering urban strategies is more pressing than ever. The relatively nascent state of urbanization on the subcontinent should be see as an opportunity to embrace new paradigms of urban development. No African city is more poised to become a test bed for change than East Africa's center for innovation and globally connected capital of Kenya - Nairobi. The thesis proposes a project for the Nairobi metropolitan region. A current population of 8 million people is set to double by 2050. And, by some estimates, up to 60% of these people currently live or work outside of the formal sector. The project unfolds across scales, from global and regional concerns down to housing clusters. Richard Neuwirth's notion of harnessing the power of the informal plays out here by carefully calibrating how much public participation or indeterminacy is built into the interventions at each scale. Housing types and clusters have endless permutations while the regional plan is centrally instated. The design project resonates with the New Town movement in scale and ambition, specifically in cases where these ideas were exported to the Global South in the fifties and early sixties. It also embodies a critique of these projects Utopian visions that sought to 'solve' the 'problem' of the city and the totalizing approach these took.
by Andre De Merindol Malan.
S.M.
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Brabin, Marlee. "Digital Urbanism: Defining the Modern Public Realm." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427899391.
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French, Sherri Marie. "New Urbanism: Its Interpretation and Implementation." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1292.
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In recent years a new planning movement has emerged popularly known as New Urbanism. This movement has come about in response to typical subdivision design and implementation of single-use Euclidian zoning practices that have been associated with sprawling subdivisions and communities zoned for single uses, and which result in little diversity of income, neighborhoods devoid of any unique character that create a sense of placelessness, increased social isolation and dependence on the automobile, and increased consumption of land and other resources. New Urbanism seeks to mitigate these and other problems through the manipulation of the built environment. Among other solutions, typical New Urbanist communities incorporate mixed use centers, emphasize design of streets and public space as well as parks and open space, provide a variety of housing types, and focus on transit-oriented development. However, as is often the case with "new" or different ways of doing things, implementing New Urbanism can be difficult. As such, the purpose of this study is to identify the barriers to successful implementation of key design characteristics of New Urbanist communities. Also of interest as the research developed were the reasons for the success of some communities in being able to implement important design features of New Urbanism. To do this, a typology of spaces associated with New Urbanism and supported by the literature was established. Two communities in Utah's Salt Lake Valley were then structurally evaluated against this typology. Daybreak and Overlake were the two communities selected, both of which were constructed according to New Urbanist principles. This evaluation informed questions used during interviews with key informants from each community. During these interviews key informants provided information on the original vision of each community, discussed differences between that vision and its implementation, identified barriers to implementing the original vision, and also discussed the gaps identified during the structural assessment.
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Nevrokopli, Foteini. "Communal Urbanism : Applications in Densified Urban Environments." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-233137.
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Cox, William E. "Towards a genius loci : Atlanta architecture and urbanism." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30739.
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Philippou, Pavlos. "Cultivating urbanism : the architecture of contemporary cultural institutions." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542457.
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Ritchot, Pamela (Pamela Rae). "Tuktoyaktuk : responsive strategies for a new Arctic urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62886.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221).
The Canadian Arctic is facing a set of compounding crises that will drastically impact the future of its coastal frontier. At a time when climate change is having a detrimental impact on the Arctic landscape, Northern communities are on the frontline of resource development where industrial money promises major territorial and social change. In this way, the Inuvialuit population of Tuktoyaktuk will find opportunity in crisis as they strategically manipulate both the agendas of the petroleum industry as well as the federal government's own incentive for Northern development in order to construct a new coastal frontier and secure a post-oil economy defended from the rising sea. This form of oil urbanization provides an architectural and infrastructural imperative for this thesis, as change will occur rapidly and at a much larger scale than these communities could spark or manage on their own. The Tuktoyaktuk landscape will undoubtedly become transformed by the creation of occupiable, defensive infrastructure that secures new land on which to reimagine the arctic dwelling and its temporal interface with a rising sea and a changing economy. Mobilized by the demands and goals of the Inuvialuit population, this thesis examines Tuktoyaktuk as an exemplary model for strategic modernization and development of remote Arctic communities on the frontline of industrialization. The goal of designing this enhanced urban structure is to make use of the finite economic opportunity to set up the framework from which the community will thrive and grow upon the retreat of the oil operations. By maximizing the opportunities that emerge from these complexities of place, we begin to unveil a unique and timely moment for architectural and infrastructural innovation.
by Pamela Ritchot.
M.Arch.
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Wong, Chit Ying Natalie. "Manufactured landscape : strategies for peri-urbanism in Dongguan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63060.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-91).
Thirty years of Open Door Policy has brought about a series of urban restructuring of cities in the Pearl River Delta of China. The Peri Urban fabric of the these cities are formed as a result of complex orchestration of urban processes. In particular, rural hinterland are increasing being exploited as a vacuum for industrial expansion. The mono-functional spread of industrial estate has a limited life span, it is vulnerable to economic downturn, and undermine the possibility of small scale farming, an economic practice that is proved still relevant given the fact that rural and urban citizenship still maintain a clear distinction. This thesis proposes a new model of industrial facility that addresses the conflict of rural land resources rapid industrialization. It provides the necessary infrastructure for a constantly changing rural urban economic model. It is invested in creating an urbanity out of this unique economy without necessarily abiding to the conventional zoning model. Architecturally the project transforms the generic conditions of each constituent production program in response to a typological reconfiguration.
by Chit Ying Natalie Wong.
M.Arch.
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Barve, Aditya S. (Aditya Shankar). "Urbanism of disassembly : strategies for Alang's shipbreaking industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82266.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143).
Waste is an integral part of our contemporary civilization based on consumption and material culture. From an empty soda can to the spent nuclear fuel rod, we define waste as the matter without immediate use: rotten, broken, unwanted. The notion of waste is also spatial-waste is simply matter in the wrong place and consequently of no value. One defining feature of globalization is the flow of waste to the places that extract value out of this otherwise worthless matter. Situated on the western shore of the Gulf of Cambay in India, Alang is one such place. Alang owes its existence to the rise of modern maritime industry. Here obsolete end of life ships are broken, by manual labor, to transform them into a reusable commodity- steel. With an average lifespan of 25 to 30 years, most of these ships, often full of hazardous waste at the end of their working life, end up on the beach of Alang to be dismantled for their steel. Taking advantage of its unique geographical conditions, cheap migrant labor, and lax environmental regulations, Alang recycles half of the world's scrapped ships. It is the epicenter of a scavenger economy that turns obsolete vessels into reusable commodities for a rapidly developing economy. With the example of Alang, this thesis asserts that, due to their intricate connectivity to the global networks, places of resource extraction acquire an extra-territorial urban character. Only by acknowledging the urban nature of such places, can we start to design for these flows of waste, migration and resources. This thesis aims to explore the potential for urbanism to intervene into an industry like Alang to develop a regional strategy of urban metamorphosis.
by Aditya S. Barve.
S.M.in Architecture Studies
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Danielsons, Amy L. "Edible Urbanism: Fostering Growth and Community Engagement Through Food." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397476517.
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Becker, Christopher Robinson 1969. "Reappraising the New Jersey Turnpike : tactical interventions in urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30225.
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The New Jersey Turnpike, despite its quotidian and grey appearance, is still an incredibly effective tool for codifying and speeding up time and movement, right down to the routines and habits of each body within its territory. Yet, over time, the joints and connections of this monolithic system have begun to weaken and decay. As cracks have formed, urban architecture now has opportunity to create tactical interventions that both patch the system and challenge its modernist underpinnings. In a sense, design for the Turnpike of today should provide the traveler--who is literally and metaphorically stepping out of the hermetic system of the automobile--with wild design elements that grow between the cracks in the system. As they grow, their success will depend upon their ability to work within the existing order while also enhancing and revealing the anonymous and individualized travel experience of the various user groups using it today. As tactical interventions, they strive to offer a "postmodern" alternative that challenges the Turnpike's modernist notions of universalized space and time. To develop such interventions, the thesis work is composed of three parts that build upon one another. The first section considers the engineering history of the Turnpike as a means of understanding the genetic code of the roadway and how that code is able to so effectively codify space and time for those occupying the system. The second section then attempts to employ alternative urban design tools for analyzing today's conditions and how those conditions of decay might serve as a platform for developing strategies of urbanism along the Turnpike. Finally, the last section sets forth some preliminary strategies and tactical interventions that draw upon the ideas and concepts gleaned from the first two sections.
by Christopher Robinson Becker.
M.Arch.
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Albrecht, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Simon). "The city of a hundred voices : Berlin's polyphonic urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106410.
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Berlin's multiple layers and its eclectic urban character of the past 100 years have resulted in a city rich with different architectural voices and urban ideals. The constant making and unmaking of Berlin's urban form has become part of the its unique DNA. Yet, after its reunification in 1989, a new voice emerged which began to strongly dominate the city's other "voices". Reacting to the traumas of the previous century, this voice, now termed "The Critical Reconstruction," attempts to glaze over the city's rich and conflicted personalities of the past. It resurrects a convenient and conservative interpretation of the 19th Century city and its bourgeois ideal of urbanity to "beautify" and "unify" the urban environment. New projects that appear old, zoning laws that dictate all new inner-city developments to mimic Berlins fictive and idealized past, and many other planning and design operations, most symbolically the recent reconstruction of the Stadtschloss (City Castle), are all representative of this trend. This "Critical Reconstruction" approach continues to lead the city into an architectural-urban monoculture, creating a homogenous image of the city, overpowering its other voices. Where there was once a plurality, now stands a single voice above the rest. This project brings to the forefront a polyphonic mechanism by which Berlin's diminishing other voices can recover and regain a prominent role in shaping its urban character. By redeveloping the principles of each voice into spatial operations, speculative interventions into the city fabric redraw the image of the city through a manipulation of the lens through which the city is read by its users.
by Benjamin S. Albrecht.
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Rio, Malcolm John(Malcolm John Rio UltraOmni). "Drag hinge : "reading" the scales between architecture and urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123600.
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Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies (Urbanism), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Ballroom is a queer subculture that emerged out of drag performance(s) and is largely comprised of queer people of color (QPOCs) in New York City during the early 1970s. In ballroom, contestants "walk" categories that emulate archetypal traits of another gender, sex, or social class, or battle through dance, commonly known as "voguing." Most ballroom participants belong to one of a series of groups known as "Houses" which are led by a Mother and/or Father who provides wisdom and guidance to the other members of the House, known as children. In pre-1990s ballroom, known as "Old Way," both houses and ballroom performance rapidly evolved to provide ever more inclusive safe-spaces for the many young QPOCs disproportionately affected by the economic and social hardships prevalent during the later-half of the twentieth century. This thesis looks at how Old Way ballroom used the politics of the Image, what Stuart Hall refers to as the contestation and struggle over what is represented in the media, as a means to reclaim collective political agency and compares it against the ways Image is utilized by the various apparatuses and institutions composing mainstream American social order as well as by stakeholders in New York City's contemporaneous urban development as a biopolitical means of controlling urban space. In so doing, this thesis seeks to position ballroom's history as an architectural and urban text which offers an urban analysis of New York City from a QPOC perspective as well as a related social critique of its uneven development.
by Malcolm John Rio (Rio UltraOmni).
S.M. in Architecture Studies (Urbanism)
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Turner, G. Matthew. "A spatial structure for an Atlanta urbanism." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21703.
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Petiot, Damien. ""Templum [...] maximum et primarium est urbis ornamentum". Architecture et cadre urbain des églises dans les traités, les villes neuves et les aménagements urbains de l'Italie de la Renaissance (1450-1615)." Thesis, Tours, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUR2028.
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Édifice emblématique de la Renaissance, l’église fut au coeur des réflexions théoriques des architectes italiens. Leur pensée, émanant directement du De architectura de Vitruve et de ses nombreuses éditions renaissantes, accorde également à la ville un rôle majeur dans l’élaboration d’une communauté humaine idéale. Il n’est donc guère étonnant que les deux thèmes, architecture religieuse et art urbain, se rencontrent dans la théorie comme dans la pratique pour magnifier la demeure divine. Toutefois, loin d’être mis à l’écart, le lieu de culte s’insère au sein d’un réseau viaire dense et complexe qu’il faut analyser soigneusement pour juger au mieux de la place accordée à ce type de monuments. Située à proximité d’autres symboles du pouvoir, tels que les palais seigneuriaux et communaux, l’église instaure un dialogue ambivalent avec ces derniers. De même, la place et/ou l’avenue qui la précèdent peuvent aussi bien contribuer à son isolement qu’à son intégration urbaine. Au fil des lectures, les concepts même d’architecture religieuse et de cadre urbain apparaissent donc polysémiques. Et l’analyse des constructions de la Renaissance ne clarifie en rien la situation. S’appuyant sur des sources variées (traités d’architecture, ouvrages d’humaniste, dessins, plans, etc.) le présent travail tend à interroger les valeurs multiples des lieux de culte de la Renaissance. Leur cadre urbain contribue-t-il nécessairement, comme l’affirme Alberti, à en faire les principaux embellissements de la cité ?Symbolic edifice of the Renaissance, the church was fundamental in Italian architects’ theoretical reflexions. Their thought, based on Vitruvius’ De architectura and its numerous Renaissance editions, attributes also a great importance to the town in the development of an ideal human community. There’s nothing surprising about that both topics, religious architecture and town planning, meet each other in the theory as in the pratice to glorify the God’s house. However, not at all isolated, the place of worship is inserted in a concentrated urban network. Located close to other symbols of power, like seigneurial castle and local council, the church establishes an ambivalent dialogue with them. Similarly, the town square and the avenue can contribute to its isolated location or its urban integration. Therefore, the notions of religious architecture and town planning appear polysemous. Relying on varied sources (treatises, humanists’ writings, drawings, plans, etc.) the present thesis strives to examine the numerous values of Renaissance’s churches. Does their urban setting participate to make the church the city’s greatest and noblest ornament, as claimed by Alberti ?
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Hayashi, Tomomi. "How can Architecture and Urbanism work in a Periphery?" Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33015.
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In today's society urban liveliness has moved from the center of city to its periphery in a diluted manner. There exists the continuation of monotonous cityscape as by-product and leftover of architecture and urbanism. Herein lies the question: how to build a meaningful 'place' in a site where the sense of place is lost. This book is a record of the challenge in my belief that architecture is generous spatial entity which has both elaborated condition and quality orchestrated by the relationship to its site, structure, and material to enhance the quality of life through the human senses.Master of Architecture
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Moussamim, Saad. "The Alternative to Sprawl: A Civil Consolidation - Integrated Interdisciplinary Approach." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51808.
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Being a suggestive method of interpreting, and responding to the suburban
context, my approach does not draw guidelines or promotes a personal agenda.
In the same way that an architectural treatise is not a handbook, it is far from
becoming a written code. It is an attempt at understanding how universal values,
from our shared past, can contribute to our designs for the future.
Therefore, let us first reinterpret the way we consider architectural history. Let
us ask: How did certain patterns of development come about? Not what
architectural style they belong to! In this case study, I carefully investigated
regional, local, historical and cultural concerns, and responded to the current
situation. I will not claim my response to this site as the solution, but one of
many possible iterations that could be improved, grown, adjusted and modified.
I present to you: The Alternative to Sprawl : A Civil consolidation. This thesis
considers the redevelopment of three shopping centers, in Bailey's Crossroads of
Fairfax, VA, into a transit-oriented mixed-use community.
It is an interdisciplinary integrated approach, based on social issues. Although, it
matters to admit that in order to draw a creative, yet informed architectural solution,
one has to learn to step away from research and data to come up with truly inspired
work. My approach is the alternative to the commonly accepted alternative to sprawl.
I believe I can offer a thriving urban environment for every suburban individual,
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Bunza, Matthew (Matthew Peter). "Tohoku Topo-Urbanism : oblique community form in post-Tsunami Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79130.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.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 (p. 168-169).
Tohoku Topo-Urbanism explores the potential inhabitation of the oblique as an alternative model of community form and resilient reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Japan. In its wake, the 2011 Tsunami left a redefined landscape and enormous questions about the future of people and place. Since then, the Japanese Government's plans for reconstruction put a moratorium on housing in lowland areas, necessitating a new residential geography. Because here, flat land is few and far between, the thesis proposes the notion that slopes become the new geography. Unfortunately, existing plans now result in mountain-top removal and extreme excavation in order to create flat 'buildable' land, and in other cases relocate entire communities far inland. The results can be detrimental to the natural and cultural landscape, and threaten to destroy already fragile communities. Thus, this thesis is positioned as an alternate form of settlement that seeks a balance between productive and preserved landscape, and suggests that development emanate downslope from the hilltop; so that the oblique becomes a vital link between the highland and lowland nodes - a dualdatum reality of Post-Tsunami urban form. The thesis sees the site as both abstract and specific; and asks how an understanding of ground conditions (such as slope, landform, vegetation, and orientation) can inform design. How might topography generate access, infrastructure, and public space? How can landscape experience foster interaction between people and nature? The thesis explores these questions while solving problems inherent in normative methods of slope construction (constraints of economy, constructability, hazards, and mobility) by leveraging gravity, natural energy, innovative material and construction systems, and the power of place. Tohoku Topo-Urbanism lies at the intersections of architecture, human settlement, and landscape; and thus the response and scope of the thesis is both multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary. It operates through policy, an urban masterplan (Chapter 03), and a strategy for landscape management; and finally, explores how architectural building typologies (Chapter 04) might fit within this framework. The hope is that the sensitive inhabitation of slopes will allow communities to remain integrated with existing lowland areas and infrastructure, ensure safety from future natural disasters, while making every effort to foster interaction between the human, cultural, and natural landscapes.
by Matthew Bunza.
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Burnham, Justin (Justin Paul). "The new food-tech city : adapting Chicago's post-stockyard urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72810.
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This thesis examines the latent potential of Chicago's former Union Stock Yard, which consequentially draws attention to the polarities of industrial food production. The Union Stock Yard was once symbolic of an era where urban progress was equated with efficiency and growth. Today, the site is facing an identity crisis: it is characterized predominantly by underutilized warehousing, however, innovative closed-loop food producers (such as The Plant and the Iron Street Farm) are indicative of an emerging narrative that focuses on sustainability, health, and taste. This thesis offers a design proposal for a new food technologies cluster that includes multifunctional programmatic components for: research, production, and marketing (as well as new residential communities.) The goal is to formulate a design solution that selectively packages existing elements (river, warehouses, workforce) with new buildings, infrastructure, and public spaces - to build a flexible urban network that will reconnect to the larger square-mile Chicago grid. To do so the study draws upon original analytical studies and numerous precedents that convert decommissioned industrial land. The design product will provide reflection upon the past as it presents a scenario for the future.
by Justin Burnham.
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Kuo, Meng-Fu. "Urbanism across: new urban ground in Taipei's old city core." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127872.
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This thesis re-imagines Taipei's urban core as a series of above and below urban spaces that weave together disparate neighborhoods around the city's main train station. In the late 20th-century, following the post-war economic boom of Taiwan, the government initiated a huge construction project that relocates Taipei's railway infrastructure under the ground. This project initiates the new construction of metro systems and total two-kilometer-long underground passageways, which accommodates the commercial and public activities originally existing on the ground level. This adjustment resulted in the city center a huge sterile plaza surrounded by large driveways, devoid of the formation of public activities. This thesis explains how the overly engineering-oriented thinking of underground space design that channeled pedestrian movement away from the street can disconnect the city's public space and the trace of local history. Instead, the thesis proposes urban strategies and designs across several scales: human perception, architecture, cultural-scape, and landscape, to create an active, accessible, sustainable, and multi-layer public space to breathe new life into Taipei's historic core. Challenging the government and international renewal plans proposed in the past decade, that densify the site without much consideration to the historic context, pedestrian network, and surrounding neighborhoods, this thesis proposes a set of new linkages between the public space above, and pedestrian flows below. New designs proposed in the thesis transform the current pedestrian experience through establishing a network of semi-outdoor, outdoor, and interior gathering spaces, and in between the urban ground and infrastructure. Activated by a diverse range of programs, the city center is thus 'liberated' from its current infrastructural limitations and is offered back to the residents and the multicultural identity of Taipei, and Taiwan.
by Meng-Fu Kuo.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Vanky, Anthony P. (Anthony Phong). "In-transit urbanism : the landscape of logistics and the time present." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65748.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Upon arrival in Memphis by air, a sign welcomes passengers to "Memphis - America's Distribution Center", a reflection of one's place in the city, and the country. Rather than a romantic reflection of the cultural heritage of the city with Elvis Presley and B.B. King, the statement places passengers not at the destination of their travels, vis a vis a "welcome to", but en route somewhere else. Memphis International Airport, identified via its aviation code "MEM", is not a place of arrival-a terminal, from "terminus", the end-but a location to be passed through-a state of being in transit or colloquially "passing through". Few passengers and goods conclude their travel here; MEM's raison d'etre is as a layover, as travelers are being distributed elsewhere as a result of the efficiency of the hub-and-spoke model of aviation. As a result, MEM is the world's busiest cargo airport. At its peak, an upwards of six flights arriving a minute carrying Apple computers, Mickey Mouse plush toys, cooking items from William-Sonoma, and the variety of other goods to and from all corners of the world destined for FedEx's so-called SuperHub. Because of the presence of such a facility, MEM has arisen as an economic capital in an improbably location within the interior of the United States replete with its own sprawling developments. MEM, as an airport city, challenges the social and cultural norms of what one considers a traditional city, as its reasons for being is the economy of moving goods and founded on the way we do business and not the way we live. This thesis proposes an urban form for MEM's surrounding city that serves as a means of regeneration of the surrounding, decaying area as well as accepts the condition of being in transit for goods and people as a primary condition of existence. In Brophy's character's words, it is an urbanism that "[perpetually remains] in the present moment, in at least semi-sempiternal transit between departure from the past and arrival in the future" and is more appropriate than the status quo within the context of MEM with regard to the transitory nature of goods, passengers and employees. The urban logic is thus a metaphor of FedEx in the transposition of technological logics, such as the flow of bodies and the interface of machine, the parcel, and the human occupant.
by Anthony P. Vanky.
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Feng, Zisong. "Conceptual urbanism : towards a method of urban form and urban design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65980.
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Sayed, Hazem I. "The Rab' in Cairo : a window on Mamluk architecture and urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75720.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-476).
This dissertation is a reassessment of Mamluk architecture and urbanism in Cairo, based on a detailed study of one of the more important elements in its urban fabric, the rab' or apartment building. This building type is investigated via its extant examples and the extensive archival collection from the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The salient features of the rab' are identified, and its variations noted. The relation of the rab' to private dwellings is elucidated, and the changes that occurred in the residential architecture of Cairo from the early Fatimid through the Mamluk periods are presented. Its role in the urban fabric and in the patterns of pious endowments is analyzed through reconstructions based on waqf document. New information about Mamluk architecture and urbanism brought to light by the study of the rab' is used to reassess some of the more widely accepted characterizations of the Mamluk period.
by Hazem I. Sayed.
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Lee, Tien-Yun. "Outlining the indeterminate emergence : landscape as a framework in contemporary urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45963.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-136).
Since the last decade of the 20th century, landscape has become an emerging medium in the practice of urban design projects. Rather than architecture, landscape, once viewed as margin and subordinate of the architecture and planning discipline, now reverse its role from passive ground to active figure in the discussion of urbanism. However, the discussions surrounding landscape as urbanism still rely on case-by-case project practice and lack clarity and theoretical framework. This thesis will explore the common ground of the notion of landscape urbanism. The first part of the thesis compares the theories regarding landscape, city, and urbanism since 1960. The second part of the thesis investigates how landscape can act as a social instrument in the enormous territory of the East Valley in Phoenix when facing rapid population growth. I expect that there is a definable limit to legitimate landscape as a framework of urbanism in order to provide an alternative strategy for dealing the urban problems of contemporary metropolis.
by Tien-Yun Lee.
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Borba, Isabel Maria de Melo. "Ensino de arquitetura e urbanismo - UTFPR na prá¡tica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-17012019-145820/.
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A tese investiga o ensino de arquitetura e urbanismo no Brasil, enfatizando a experimentação prática e as possíveis aplicações nos seus contextos locais. Apresenta como estas atividades têm sido desenvolvidas no curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), e como a história de 108 anos da instituição, ligadas ao ensino tecnológico, influenciam as bases pedagógicas do curso. Apresenta também uma proposta para melhoria da qualidade de vida nas universidades, aplicada à UTFPR. Examina doze novos cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo das Instituições Federais no Brasil, com o máximo de dez anos (2006-2016), apresentando a forma como estes cursos, integrados com as comunidades locais, vêm contribuindo para o ensino. Organiza duas descrições históricas, uma referente à evolução dos cursos no Brasil, culminando em uma base cadastral dos mesmos, a qual mostra uma análise pouco positiva referente às avaliações dos cursos. Outra, refere-se aos aspectos pedagógicos gerais e aplicados ao ensino de arquitetura e urbanismo, os quais apontam para novas formas de pedagogias mais abertas, e a importância do Canteiro Experimental como eixo estruturante nos cursos. Diante destas constatações, as quais indicam a necessidade da mudança de paradigmas no ensino superior no Brasil, são propostos conceitos norteadores que podem contribuir para novos caminhos em busca da excelência na formação profissional do arquiteto e urbanista.The present thesis investigates how Archicture and Urban Planning is taught in Brasil, emphasizing the practical experimentation and possible applications in its local contexts. It presents how these activities have been developed in the Undergraduate course of Architecture and Urban Planning at Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) and how 108 years of history , together whit technological teaching, have influenced the pedagogical bases of the course. In addition, it presents a project to improve the quality of life in the universities, applied to UTFPR. It searches twelve new undergraduate programs of Architecture and Urban Planning at Federal Institutions in Brazil, ten-years old maximum (2006-2016), showing how these courses, integrated whit local comunnities, have been contributing to education. This research organizes two historical descriptions. One about the evolution of the courses in Brazil - that culminates in a data base that shows a not very positive analysis of those courses evaluation. Furthermore, it refers to the general pedagogical aspects and its application to the teaching of Architecture and Urban Planning, which point to new kinds of more open pegagogies, and the importance of the Experimental Construction as a structuring axis in the courses. Considering these findings, which indicate the need of a paradigm shift in higher education in Brazil, guiding concepts are proposed that may contribute to new paths in the search of excellence in the professional training of the Architect and Urban Planner.
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Titelboim, Yair(Yair Yakov). "Granular urbanism : adaptive strategies for obsolete downtown neighborhoods." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129932.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, February, 2020Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223).
Tackling the problem of obsolescence in North American cities, this thesis interrogates the question of how we should plan for the regeneration of aging office buildings. I argue that current whole-building, coarse-grained office-to-residential conversion results in entire urban neighborhoods turning into "sanitized vertical suburbia" (Moss 2017) that fail to create balanced, affordable, and inclusive communities. In response, this thesis offers a new floor-by-floor "fine-grained" (Lynch 1981) framework for space conversion. As a case study, I look at conversions In Manhattan's busy financial district that have created an instant elite neighborhood, with 10,000 new luxury units developed over the past fifteen years. To address hyper-gentrification generated by current conversion methods, I introduce a 3D Design and Data Toolkit (DDT) that redefines the conversion process and offers a selective, floor-by-floor approach to balance the quantity and mix of new residential units with the quality of urban life. This tool helps city planners, urban designers, and developers identify spaces for conversion and match demand and supply across scales. As such, this work offers a strategic, multi-scaled approach aimed at reducing grain, increasing market potential, and reinforcing urban vitality in a new conversion process.
by Yair Titelboim.
M.C.P.
S.M. in Architecture Studies
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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McCulloch, Stacey L. "Theory and design, justification for new urbanism design attributes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0026/MQ31853.pdf.
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Burnham, Kent D. "Sustainable Urbanism through service in Littleton, Colorado." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1481.
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Yarwood, John R. "Al Muharraq : architecture, urbanism and society in an historic Arabic town." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1988. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2994/.
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Tuerk, Stephanie Marie. "Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103491.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-298).
This dissertation documents how the aesthetic dimension of architecture came to be seen as an object of public utility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century France. It examines the work of a network of architects, artists, political representatives, art critics, poets, archaeologists, pedagogues, and other intellectual elites, who argued, through journals, pamphlets and books, and various legislative debates, that architecture's aesthetic capacity could both remedy public problems and reform the public itself. The study casts these "aesthetic reformers" as motivated not only by a wish to serve the public, but moreso by a desire to serve architecture itself, rehabilitating its social status through claims to its own utility. Drawing forth the influence of contemporary theories of philosophical aesthetics, psychology, and pedagogy on these aesthetic reformers, I demonstrate how they concluded that architecture's social utility lay in its ability to improve the morality of the French public. The project argues that this conclusion accordingly reoriented architecture's focus to from the building itself, to the city, and finally to entirety of the environment over the course of approximately forty years, as architecture became increasingly invested in its relationship to the public. I substantiate this argument through studies of private associations and societies which collectively sought to intensify the aesthetic affect of the built environment through the preservation of both buildings and natural features, the promotion of architecture as a form of art for the public, and the new practice of urban planning. In bringing this moment when architecture's aesthetics were conceived as public utility to light, my study offers a new genealogy of the idea that architecture could better society.
by Stephanie M. Tuerk.
Ph. D. in Architecture: History and Theory of Architecture
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Oktem, Caner. "Urban Archipelago reconsidered : a new metabolism in Tokyo Bay for contemporary coastal urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106422.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145).
Coastal areas are home to more than half of the world's population and many of its most populated urban areas. Coastal urbanism remains very much in demand despite major risk factors such as sea level rise, longterm shoreline erosion, storm surges, land liquefaction, and subsidence. City-building on reclaimed land is an ambitious form of development yet prevalent around the world, especially where an economic growth agenda is pursued aggressively against the availability of land resources. This thesis develops a critical design agenda to respond to how pro-growth forces and environmental change can be negotiated towards a reconsidered coastal urbanism. The thesis argument is that coastal urban and territorial form should not follow a static master plan based on a risk model; instead, it should employ/follow a dynamic gradient of permanence and ephemerality in multiple time scales, following coastal succession as a design analogy. Tokyo Bay is the site of experimentation. The world's largest metropolitan area has a long history of land reclamation debates and projects, which resulted in a highly articulated urban coast with reclaimed shorelines, and near- and off-shore artificial islands with a mix of uses. The on-going construction of the urban archipelago is an outcome of urban and regional metabolisms, where incinerated solid waste, dredged sediment, excavated soil, and demolished buildings are deposited to make new land. Demand for post-industrial urban development and land reclamation is still alive in coastal Tokyo despite the vulnerabilities of flooding and seismic events. Large waterfront sites are now available for new development. The construction of permanent and temporary facilities in Tokyo Bay for the 2020 Summer Olympics offers an opportunity to develop a succession- based design strategy-not only for the 2020 peak condition, but also in anticipation of future transformations. The design exploration establishes, via strategic cartography, a resiliency district framework based on a gradient of permanence and flexibility in the ground condition. The sharply delineated boundary between land and sea is rethought as a dynamic frontier zone of flexibility that adapts to flooding and sea level rise and as an active site for coastal deposition and submersion. A second, elevated ground level is proposed to serve as a pedestrian and emergency thoroughfare, as well as an extension of transportation and logistics infrastructure. The Metabolist imaginary envisioned Tokyo Bay as a site of continuous urban growth towards a mega-scale climax state; ground was taken for granted and the possibilities of urban decline or reconstruction were hardly considered within the same design utopia. This project argues for a New Metabolism in which the ground is conceived as an indeterminate landscape of change. The uncertainties of the ground are addressed by an 'artificial land' infrastructure which organizes and facilitates transformation over time.
by Caner Oktem.
S.M.
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Lau, Sing Yeung (Sing Yeung Sunnie). "The death of growing cities?! : reconstructing the post-utopian urbanism in China now!" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79133.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132).
THROUGHOUT HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS; THERE WERE MOMENTS OF COLLECTIVE ATTEMPTS TO REBUILD A UTOPIAN FUTURE TRIGGERED BY POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND/ OR ECONOMIC CRISES. CRISIS SEEMS TO BE A UNIQUE MOMENT TO INITIATE/ GAIN CRITICAL MASS ATTENTION TOWARDS MAKING A NEW PAGE/CHANGE IN HISTORY. IN OTHER WORDS, AS (ARCHITECTS AND URBAN PLANNERS) WE ARE CONSTANTLY RECONSTRUCTING UTOPIAN FUTURES, GREAT MODERNIST VISIONS IN THE 1920S' AND LATER IN 1960S'; THOUGH THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO COPE WITH THE EVOLVING ECONOMIC/ SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM--THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF CAPITALISM - THAT WE ARE OPERATING WITHIN SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN REALITIES AND THE INDIVIDUAL/ COLLECTIVE, PROJECTED FUTURE HAS SEEMED TO FAIL US. UTOPIA- BECOMES DYSTOPIA- OR EVEN SOMETHING UNREACHABLE - A MERE IDEOLOGICAL HOPE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION--ALMOST LIKE A DOGMATIC RELIGION. PROJECTING INTO THE FUTURE, IN THE YEAR 2050, WHAT IF MOST DEVELOPMENTS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ARE FACING PROBLEMS OF MAINTAINING OR DEALING WITH OVERSIZED INFRASTRUCTURES? PROBING THE FUTURE IN TODAY'S EYES SUGGEST THAT THE FATE OF "NEW" CITIES HAVE LONG BEEN SCRIPTED AND ARE PRESCRIBED TO DOOM. AND NOW, WE ARE IN A CRITICAL MOMENT OF CRISIS/ OPPORTUNITY IN TURNING OVER TO A PATH TO A NEW ATTAINABLE REALITY IN THE MIST OF UNIMAGINABLE SPEED OF CITY MAKING PROCESS IN CHINA. NEVER BEEN MORE URGENT THAN BEFORE, ECONOMIC GROWTH ACCOMPANIED BY VAST URBANIZATION-THE CITIES AND THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE ARE IN TROUBLE NOW.... HOW SHOULD ARCHITECTS/ URBANISTS REACT IN A SMART WAY THAT COULD DEVISE A REMEDY TO "CORRECT" THE ULTIMATE "SYSTEMATIC FAILURE" IN THE POST-UTOPIAN FUTURE? AND WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO URBANISM--30 YEARS AGO-WILL HAPPEN NOW? THIS THESIS INTENDS TO REVISIT AND UNPACK THE ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGY OF HYBRID GROUP-FORM IN HOUSING, QUESTIONS THE PERMANENT/ INFLEXIBLE NATURE OF THE IDEOLOGIES OF THESE TYPOLOGIES. THE THESIS ATTEMPTS AS AN COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OF AN ANATOMY OPERATION IN FINDING THE ELEMENTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PARADOX OF INCAPABILITY IN ADDRESSING THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH OF CITIES ESPECIALLY AT THOSE MOMENTS OF ARISING COMPLICATION AND MULTIPLICITY OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL CRISIS IN THE NEW ERA OF CHINA.
by Sing Yeung (Sunnie) Lau.
M.Arch.
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Du, Bois Morné. "Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience to Reclaim Informal Settlements Right to the City." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78605.
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Informal settlements sit at the transition between numerous dimensions of globalisation and political decisions. Although poverty plays a big role in the manifestations of informal settlements, it is more complex due to the human tendency to find resolution with living in the city. The problem when looking at the “solution” for informal settlements is by blaming the growth of it on simplistic “problems” because of political and civil state tendencies. Global governance promotes human rights yet on the other side of the spectrum aim to decrease informality and poverty causing a stigma of unworthiness towards people living in these settlements (Huchzermeyer 2011). Thus, this project aims to investigate the impact architecture has on informal urbanism and the legal boundaries surrounding it. Plastic View, an informal settlement situated amid the affluent eastern suburbs of Pretoria, South Africa, is presented as an example of how these policies that have been misinterpreted over a span of more than a decade, with little to no evidence of architectural engagement. Civil disobedience tests the statute and forms part of constitutionalism moving towards the process of effecting and affecting the law through any extra-legal action. The division between interior and exterior law is the foundations of all law (Finchett-Maddock & Lambert 2013). Architecture can be the best expression of the law and its organized system. Expression through urban development and spatial planning of informal settlements that will reconfigure the law by putting these settlements on the grid of property rights (Finchett-Maddock & Lambert 2013). Architecture becomes the physical embodiment of law (Karim 2018). Acting as the private realm the adjacent Moreleta NG church has initiated various socially engaged programmes which aims to uplift the community of Plastic view. Through the use of various design principles this project's architectural intentions is to activate the South Eastern boundary through seaming together both the private and public realm.
Through the use of intimate and open public spaces, permeable inclusive spatial layouts allow for new opportunities for civil discourse between various social realms. By activating and occupying these various spaces, exclusive socio-legal and socio-spatial boundaries can be broken down.Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Architecture
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Truter, Clive Warren. "Stimulating urban renewal; through forging connection between architecture + public infrastructure towards an integral urbanism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17482.
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In this dissertation I discuss the significance of field conditions to offer architecture a strategic dimension to evaluate process and enable public infrastructure with the potential to become catalytic towards an integral urbanism. Inscribed in this idea is a recognition that conventional architectural and planning practices are deficient to anticipate new alternatives in isolation; is that these traditional approaches are unsuccessful in negotiating mass mobility, interrelationships and perceptions in the contemporary city. Objectives The first objective is to transcend beyond traditional perceptions of infrastructure and develop an understanding of what infrastructure could be, through reconfiguring how it functions holistically in the urban landscape. Secondly, the aim is to formulate a comprehension of field conditions, through siting its significance for architecture as a strategic process-driven medium, to decode [or notate] latent and progressive urban scenarios. The third objective is located in the proposition, which explicitly notates a shift from the conventional notion of urban renewal, as we have come to understand it locally towards an integral urbanism. This aim of this is to investigate