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Loizides, Christis. "Dissipative urban space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75964.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
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Our life evolves as an interaction between predictable and unpredictable patterns. Variations and impediments stimulate our free, non-mechanical impulses towards unpredictable patterns. At the macroscopic level. history can be seen through an ever-repeating cycle moving from a cumulative trend towards order. to a decaying process. Through a similar viewing lens the past trends that regulated the physical context have been moving from concentrated and dogmatic ideologies. to dispersed and spontaneous ones. Since the 18th century. the Machine Age is geared towards the perfection of the machine. Within this frame of development. it took no more than 200 years for the trend of "machine perfection" to be explicitly applied. at the microscopic level. upon the urban environment. At the urban scale of design. The internationally accepted manifestations of the Chart of Athens have been projecting dogmatic patterns of development: The ''ideal" definitions of uses and "orderliness", inside and outside the built shells. have brought about the problem of segregating the liveliness of the city. Such regulating orders have negated the particularities of the public spaces: the spaces where the mixture of both intended and unintended patterns of activities. and regulated and unregulated forms. acclaimed publicness through time. The physical structure of all urbanizations is the result of the antagonistic interaction between concentrated totalities on the one hand. and dispersive partialities on the other. The first process is the product of the aforementioned deterministic development while the second one is the more unpredictable. evolutionary development that follows. My goal ·is to bring both processes into equal consideration when taking on the role of shaping a micro- scale. public space. It seems that the recent acknowledgments qualities in the "street", the "square". the "19th-century fabric", are weak in challenging the negative aspects of the International style. They still do not escape from generating guiding and deterministic environments. Dissipative urban space aims at a rewardingly rich public experience by embodying. yet not determining. both regulated and "unregulated" physical patterns.
by Christis Loizides.
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Hanf, Johannes. "urban order + space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35857.
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wilderness and urban texture
Since the earliest beginnings of civilization, mankind has strived to form urban space by limiting its outlines and bringing a system of order to the wilderness of nature. Thus street and place mark the public space clearly bound by built mass, the enclosure of the more private space.
In many modern cities of the United States the urban counterpart of street and place the continuous building mass is largely missing. Colin Rowe describes this phenomena as the unpleasant condition of urban texture of the modern city. If we want to fix that urban wilderness of the American City, we have to redraw its outlines and redefine its spaces.Master of Architecture
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Toljan, Irena. "Urban Space Index." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-256001.
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Architects and urban designers have a unique background to deal with the experiential qualities of cities. Quality of urban spaces is an essential aspect of livability (Southworth, 2003). The quality of urban spaces is important, specifically the interaction between buildings and the street, and it has been explored by Jane Jacobs, Jan Gehl and many more. BIM and CIM is new technology to analyze and design buildings and cities. With fast technology development, there are many options today on how to deal with the experiential qualities and make a 3D model using image-based input.
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Hudson, Joanne. "Informal spaces creative (re)appropriations of urban space." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.591937.
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Whilst there exists a body of work concerning the nature of wastelands and derelict spaces - what I term 'informal spaces' - within human geography, urban studies architecture and planning literature, there have been few attempts to link these theories with spatial planning practices. Accordingly, responding to this lack of sustained empirical research, this thesis explores the relationships between spatial planning practices and the production, (re)production and use of 'informal spaces,' ultimately aiming to further our knowledge of these complex relationships. It considers the potential of such spaces to act as a standpoint from which critical perspective towards much urban planning and design can be generated. Furthermore, investigating whether such commonly derided spaces can be conceptualised as a rich resource for urban life. The thesis does this by analysing how four chosen case studies within Manchester and Salford are appropriated, modified, performed, and conceptualised. Following the selection of the case studies, utilising qualitative data obtained by ethnographic methods including walking, observation and photography, unstructured interviews and further ethnographic interviews whilst walking, the study examines the ways in which such spaces are used by a variety of publics. Further qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, the analysis of secondary sources including current planning documents and historical data, are investigated and subsequently analysed to build an accurate genealogy of the sites, understanding in detail the planning contexts and future visions that have produce and sustain them as 'informal.' Key themes focus on the temporalities of the planning process as well as the ways in which stalled timescales intersect with other temporalities of nature and of cultural practice, encouraging appropriation. The ordering and disordering processes that designate and transform these spaces, are also discussed. Finally, the multiple affordances, encouraged by periods of temporal suspension and associated processes of disordering, that promote a diverse array of practices and potentialities are analysed. This research also contributes to debates surrounding the spatiality of dereliction.
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Heimsath, Kabir Mansingh. "Urban space of Lhasa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547758.
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To, Tai-fai Peter, and 杜泰輝. "An urban "Catholic" space." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984162.
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To, Tai-fai Peter. "An urban "Catholic" space." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25956401.
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McDuell, Pinky. "Metamorphoses of space." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Merrifield, Andrew K. "The dialectrics of urban space." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358509.
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Wong, Chi-hung, and 黃自鴻. "Space in Taiwan urban novels." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35808068.
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Witte, Craig Eric. "Ritual space : an urban monastery." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70629.
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JAHROMI, K. KERAMAT. "HUMAN MOBILITY IN URBAN SPACE." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/466096.
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Nowadays we witness a rapid increase of people mobility as the world population has become more interconnected and is relying on faster transportation methods, simplified connections and shorter commuting times. Unveiling and understanding human mobility patterns have become a crucial issue to support decisions and prediction activities when managing the complexity of the today's social organization. The strict connections between human mobility patterns, the planning, deployment and management of a variety of public and commercial services have fueled the rise of a vast research activity. Throughout this work, we are more interested and mainly focusing on urban mobility because here most of the human interactions take place and mobility has the greatest impact on management and optimization of public and commercial services.
In this thesis, we provided a general framework for dealing with the modeling importance of locations from a per-user perspective and identified a few novel properties of human mobility. Also through characterizing the transition patterns driving user movement among visited places, we pave the way to propose a new mobility model in urban spaces. Meanwhile relying on the relevance of visited places, we propose a new algorithm for detecting and distinguishing Home and Workplaces. And finally, we suggest a framework for predicting the different aspects of Encounter/Colocation events. By exploiting the weighted Bayesian predictor we could enhance the accuracy of prediction w.r.t. the standard naive Bayesian and also to some other state-of-the-art predictors.
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GÃis, Rodolfo Anderson Damasceno. "The Metropolis and mega events. Social implications Space of World Cup 2014 in Fortaleza." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11081.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorThe megaevent, especially sports, is an activity that has been growing in recent years in the world, tend to generate employment, income, exposure image of the place internationally, attracting public and private resources, streamline urban projects that will enable the achievement of games and later will be a legacy of the event. In this sense, the lure of megaevents have been seen by planners, governments (those with a position of entrepreneur) and private initiative as a strategy for the growing economy, catalyst improvements and social inclusion of the city in the globalized economy. The research On the mega metropolis. Socio-spatial implications of the 2014 World Cup in Fortaleza therefore has the general objective to understand the socio-spatial implications of projects and investments in infrastructure and equipment in Fortaleza associated with this sporting event. Government structures were created in the federal, state and local in order to facilitate the completion of the World Cup 2014. In Cearà have as an example the Secretaria Especial da Copa - SECOPA conveyed to the state government and responsible for articulating the actions of other government agencies. The projects related to the mega promote profound changes in the spatial production of Fortaleza. Greater magnitude of the works of urban mobility improvements that involve pathways, VeÃculo Leve Sobre Trilhos - VLT and Bus Rapid Trasit - BRT stand out in the context of the mega event in Fortaleza. In the wake of these changes come into play two more agents: real estate, taking the opportunity to launch their products near the areas benefited by the works of Cup, Populations and Communities Rail calls in the vicinity of the railway project VLT fighting the removals and violations of their rights. Based on this scenario that consolidates the research seeks to understand how projects relate Cup Fortaleza urban planning and possible territorial disputes generated by singularities, the behavior of the housing market works before the mega event and compared with areas of targets removals and replacements possible use. The table is raising changes in the spatial configuration of Fortaleza.
Os megaeventos esportivos vÃm crescendo nos Ãltimos anos no mundo e agilizam projetos urbanos que viabilizarÃo a realizaÃÃo dos jogos e que posteriormente ficarÃo como legado do evento. Tudo isto com o intuito de gerar emprego, renda, exposiÃÃo da imagem do lugar a nÃvel internacional, atraÃÃo de recursos pÃblicos e privados. Neste sentido, a atraÃÃo de megaeventos tem sido vista por planejadores, governantes (estes com um posicionamento de empreendedor) e iniciativa privada como estratÃgia de aquecimento da economia, catalisador de melhorias sociais e inserÃÃo da cidade na economia globalizada. Esta dissertaÃÃo tem, pois, como objetivo geral compreender as implicaÃÃes socioespaciais dos projetos e investimentos em infraestrutura e equipamentos em Fortaleza associadas à este evento esportivo. Estruturas governamentais foram criadas nas esferas federais, estaduais e municipais no intuito de viabilizar a realizaÃÃo da Copa do Mundo de 2014. No Cearà temos como exemplo a Secretaria Especial da Copa â SECOPA vinculada ao governo estadual e responsÃvel por articular as aÃÃes entre outros ÃrgÃos governamentais. Os projetos relacionados ao megaevento promovem transformaÃÃes profundas na produÃÃo espacial de Fortaleza. De maior magnitude, as obras de mobilidade urbana, que envolvem melhorias de vias, VeÃculo Leve sobre Trilhos â VLT e Bus Rapid Trasit â BRT, se destacam no contexto deste Megaevento na capital cearense. Na esteira destas transformaÃÃes entram em cena dois atores: o setor imobiliÃrio, aproveitando a oportunidade para lanÃar seus produtos prÃximos as Ãreas beneficiadas pelas obras da Copa; as comunidades e os movimentos sociais que lutam contra a remoÃÃes e violaÃÃes do seus direitos. Com base neste cenÃrio que se consolida a pesquisa busca compreender: 1- como os projetos da Copa se relacionam com planejamento urbano de Fortaleza e os possÃveis conflitos territoriais gerados pelas suas singularidades; 2 - o comportamento do mercado imobiliÃrio diante das obras do megaevento e a relaÃÃo com as Ãreas alvos de remoÃÃes e as possÃveis substituiÃÃes de uso. O quadro que se constitui suscitam mudanÃas na configuraÃÃo espacial da capital cearense.
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Silva, Carlos Henrique Costa da [UNESP]. "A reprodução do espaço urbano na cidade de São Paulo na perspectiva da hotelaria de alto padrão." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104319.
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A metrópole paulista desempenha funções de comando na economia brasileira, configurando- se como ponto de interligação entre o mundo e o Brasil, colocando-se como porta de entrada e lugar que permite a consolidação e expansão dos mais diversos tipos de investimentos de capital que interferem no processo de reprodução de seu espaço. Destacamos nesta Tese, os empreendimentos hoteleiros de alto padrão que surgiram no período recente na cidade (1980 a 2000) e que vêm participando de um processo o qual estamos denominando de reforço da centralidade em sua porção Sudoeste. Neste processo, vislumbramos a ligação entre o capital imobiliário, o capital financeiro, o setor turístico com o incremento das viagens realizadas por motivos de trabalho a cidade, criando mecanismos para permitir a ampliação do processo de reprodução do capital através da reprodução de empreendimentos hoteleiros em uma determinada porção da cidade, utilizando-se do espaço urbano como ferramenta primordial para maximizar o lucro.
The metropolis of Sao Paulo plays the part of command in the Brazilian economy, setting up as a point of interconnection between Brazil and the world. Sao Paulo is a doorway and a place that allows the consolidation and expansion of an assortment of investments that interfere in the process of reproduction of the space. In this thesis we emphasize the high standard hotel business enterprise that recently took place in the city (1980 to 2000) and became part of a process we called of reinforce of the centrality in the southwest portion of the city. In this process we observed the connection among the real state capital, the financial capital, the tourist sector with the increase of business travels to the city. This way they are created mechanisms to allow the amplification of the process of reproduction of capital through the reproduction of hotel business enterprises in a specific portion of the city, using urban space as a primary tool for maximizing.
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Tan, Mime. "Assimilation of urban street into urban green space system /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38033902.
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Tan, Mime, and 陳美美. "Assimilation of urban street into urban green space system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500979X.
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NARKAR, POONAM. "URBAN [DIS]ORDER: REINVENTING URBAN SPACE? THE CASE OF INSTANBUL, TURKEY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155749060.
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Sürer, İdil. "The Emergence of public space in Barcelona throughout 20th Century: Defining past and future of public space in Barcelona within the context of the approaches of two urban actors." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/587197.
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The city is not a stable, static entity; therefore, it continues its transformation throughout time, and this conversion is reflected on public spaces which connect the city’s past with its present and future. Public space serves as an icon that reflects the identity of the society as well as being the most powerful visual connection between land, buildings and human. In the entire history of human settlement, public space has been the basic element of formation.
Hence, this research aims to examine the natural, cultural, social development of Barcelona by means of presenting the relations of public space with identity, culture, tradition, politics, memory and time, especially through approaches and works of two important actors in the 20th century urban history of the city: Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí and Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola.
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SOUZA, GABRIEL DE LIMA. "SPACES OF COLLISION: REPRESENTATIONS OF URBAN SPACE IN THE MOVIE CRASH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27361@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Ao considerarmos a Geografia como uma ciência que contribui para a interpretação da realidade com a finalidade de construir contribuições sobre o entendimento do mundo, percebemos que o cinema torna-se uma importante representação nessa interpretação. A inserção da cidade na relação entre cinema e Geografia, leva-nos a perceber que os fatos narrados não têm a cidade apenas como palco de seu desenvolvimento. Esse desenrolar de situações é construído também pela vida cotidiana na metrópole e pelas relações sociais em ato, ou seja, as práticas sociais. Diante disso, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar os conflitos sociais e as tensões que se dão no espaço urbano a partir das representações vistas no filme Crash – No Limite, uma vez que a própria imagem do cinema apresenta essencialmente analogias com a espacialidade. Pretendemos responder: como podemos pensar essas tensões, os conflitos sociais e, sobretudo, as representações do espaço urbano a partir da representação cinematográfica?
By considering Geography a science that contributes to the interpretation of reality in order to build approaches towards the understanding of the world, we notice that cinema becomes an important representation in this interpretation. Inserting the city in the relation between cinema and Geography leads us to perceive that the narrated facts do not have the city just as stage for its development. Such development of situations is also build by the daily life in the metropolis and by the social relations on , that is, the social practices. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the social conflicts and tensions that occur in urban space from the representations watched in the movie Crash , since cinema s own image essentially presents some analogies with spatiality. We intend to answer: how can we think this tensions, the social conflicts and, most of all, the representations of urban space from the cinematographic representation.
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Sorochan, Cayley. "Flash mobs and urban gaming: networked performances in urban space." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=67004.
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In this thesis I analyze "flash mob" and "urban gaming" practices as manifestations of online social relations in actual spaces. In contrast to theories that emphasize the democratizing and empowering effects of new communication technologies I argue that flash mobs are an example of the depoliticizing effects of online consumption and participation. I explore the highly mediated nature of flash mob performances through an analysis of the visual technologies used to document and represent them online and the social networking sites used to organize them. Through an analysis of flash mob video spectatorship and a Marxist approach to social space, I argue that the participation and activity that is demanded of users in online contexts and seen in flash mob and urban gaming events often functions to defer political action and further incorporate social space into processes of capitalist valorization.Dans ce projet de mémoire l'auteur se prête à l'étude des "foules éclairs" (flash mobs) et des "jeux urbains" (urban gaming) contemporains en tant que manifestation de relations médiatisées par ordinateur et actualisées dans des espaces actuels. À l'encontre de ceux qui voient chez les foules éclairs l'effet démocratisateur des nouvelles technologies de communication, l'auteur y voit plutôt un effet de dépolitisation de par la même participation et la communication médiatisée. L'analyse des dispositifs sociaux et visuels qui sont utilisés pour les resprésenter ainsi que pour les organiser s'ajoute à l'approche marxiste à l'espace social pour enfin rendre l'hypothèse que ces activités laissent à un temps différé l'action politique et, de plus, rend l'espace social aux effets de valorization capitaliste.
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DZIWORNU, MICHAEL GAMELI. "Containerization of Urban Space: Implications for Spatial and Urban Transformation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/307625.
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Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke e Sangeeth Ram hanno dichiarato nel loro documento politico completo sull'Harvard Business Review che la crisi immobiliare nel mondo non ha bisogno di una soluzione rivoluzionaria, ma di una soluzione innovativa alla crisi degli alloggi. Sebbene i ricercatori urbani si siano a lungo interessati alla trasformazione del tessuto urbano, meno attenzione è stata prestata allo svelamento della materialità dei processi urbani. Con l'intervento statale nella fornitura di alloggi e infrastrutture critiche lontano dalla vista, gli abitanti delle città, specialmente nel sud del mondo, si stanno rivolgendo a strategie alternative per affrontare le realtà della vita urbana. Il container ha effettivamente trasceso il suo mandato principale come facilitatore del commercio globale. In questo contesto, questa tesi decostruisce la containerizzazione dall'economia politica globale agli studi urbani critici, un collegamento, spesso ignorato, nella letteratura tradizionale. Più specificamente, questa tesi valuta la normalizzazione delle anomalie urbane, come la containerizzazione dello spazio urbano. La tesi esplora anche gli effetti negativi dell'urbanistica dei container, in particolar modo il rischio per la pianificazione spaziale e per lo sviluppo urbano sostenibile. La containerizzazione dello spazio urbano è un processo epocale e un momento di svolta nella dinamica urbana del Ghana. Fondamentalmente, il contenier antropomorfizza la condizione urbana. Il contenitore analizza perfettamente la nuda vita ed espone le realtà vissute di un'ampia fascia della popolazione urbana all'interno della logica del governo neoliberale locale. Questa tesi sottoscrive l'idea che i concetti di interruzione, slancio e rischio siano utili per comprendere i meccanismi e la struttura per la teorizzazione della materialità dei processi urbani come la containerizzazione dello spazio urbano. La tesi adotta approcci sia qualitativi che quantitativi, utilizzando sei quartieri all'interno dell'area metropolitana di Accra del Ghana come caso di studio principale. La tesi attinge ad ulteriori casi comparativi prendendo in considerazione città del Regno Unito, Sud Africa e Stati Uniti d'America. La strategia empirica è costituita anche da dati secondari tratti da varie fonti. L'analisi mostra che mentre l'urbanistica dei container funge da simbologia espressiva di grandezza architettonica, monumentalismo e ostentata dimostrazione di una vita rispettosa dell'ambiente nel discorso urbano occidentale, tali interventi nel sud del mondo sono tentativi genuini da parte delle famiglie a basso reddito di rivendicare il diritto alla città. Questa tesi mostra che la crisi e l'ethos della rabbia contro il mercato immobiliare tradizionale hanno accelerato e amplificato la transizione verso la sperimentazione dei "conteiner" come processo alternativo di abitazione e sostentamento urbano. L'analisi spazio-temporale a livello di quartiere rivela che la stabilità e resistenza del materiale, l'accessibilità economica e un senso di immediatezza sono alla base del fascino dei container. Per molti, l’istallazione dei container ha ridotto alcune incertezze della vita urbana garantendo una transizione stabile nel mercato immobiliare formale. L'analisi mostra anche che tale fenomeno ad Accra è una conseguenza della frammentazione nell'ordine economico e sociale. Grazie a questa tesi è stato dimostrato come lo sviluppo dei conteiners non è più un processo marginale nel tessuto urbano, ma sta diventando sempre più normalizzato ed egemonizzato. La tesi discute anche le implicazioni dell'urbanistica dei container sulla deprofessionalizzazione della progettazione urbana e l'illusione del controllo da parte delle autorità locali riguardo alla manifestazione incrementale e disordinata dei processi urbani informali.Jonathan Woetzel, Jan Mischke, and Sangeeth Ram once wrote a comprehensive policy paper in the Harvard Business Review that the world’s housing crisis doesn’t need a revolutionary solution. Assuredly, what the world needs is an innovative solution to the housing crisis. Though urban researchers have long been concerned with the transformation of the urban fabric, less attention has been paid to the unraveling of the materiality of urban processes. With state intervention in housing and critical infrastructure provision far from sight, urban dwellers, especially in the global south, are turning to alternative strategies to deal with the realities of urban life. The container has effectively transcended its core mandate as the facilitator of global trade. Against this backdrop, this thesis deconstructs containerization from the global political economy to critical urban studies, a link, frequently ignored, in mainstream literature. More specifically, this thesis investigates the normalization of urban anomalies, such as the containerization of urban space. The thesis also explores the negative effects of container urbanism, mostly the risk to spatial planning and sustainable urban development. The containerization of urban space is an epoch-defining process and a watershed moment in the urban dynamic of Ghana. Fundamentally, the container anthropomorphizes the urban condition. The container perfectly analogizes bare life and exposes the lived realities of a large section of the urban population within the logic of glocal neoliberal governance. This thesis subscribes to the notion that the concepts of disruption, momentum, and risk are useful for understanding the mechanisms and framework for theorizing the materiality of urban processes such as the containerization of urban space. The thesis adopts both qualitative and quantitative approaches, using six neighborhoods within the Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana as the primary case study. The thesis draws further comparative cases from cities in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States of America. The empirical strategy also consists of secondary data drawn from various sources. The analysis shows that whereas container urbanism serves as an expressive symbology of architectural grandeur, monumentalism, and an ostentatious display of environmentally conscious living in the western urban discourse, such interventions in the global south are genuine attempts by low-income households to claim the right to the city. This thesis shows that the crisis and the ethos of rage against the traditional property market have accelerated and magnified the transition towards experimentation with ‘containers’ as an alternative process of urban housing and livelihood. The spatiotemporal neighborhood-level analysis reveals that material durability, affordability, and a sense of immediacy underpins the allure of container improvisation. For many, the improvisation of the container has reduced some uncertainties of urban life by ensuring a stable transition into the formal property market. The analysis also shows that container improvisation in Accra is a consequence of fragmentation in the economic and social order. If this thesis has been clear on one singularity, it is that container improvisation is no longer a fringe process in the urban built environment, but increasingly becoming normalized, and hegemonized. The thesis also discusses the implications of container urbanism on the de-professionalization of urban design and the illusion of control by local authorities regarding the incremental and disorderly manifestation of informal urban processes.
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Sariyildiz, Hatice Ozlem. "Graffiti And Urban Space In Istanbul." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608345/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to uncover and discuss the spaces appropriated by graffiti writers and to reveal out the possible resistances involved in the act throughout the writers’
motivations, characteristics, spaces they produce and all over process they are entering into together with the specifications of graffiti in Turkey. It demands to unfold the possibilities sheltered in everyday practices looking through graffiti and subsequently revealing out possibilities in graffiti looking through everyday life. It sees the urban space as a social product, which is incomplete without the tactics of the inhabitants and redefined as a result of appropriation. It looks through the history of graffiti, graffiti writers, their motivations and descriptions, working mechanism of the act, spaces chosen and their overall relations to power placed upon urban space in regard to its predescribed theoretical framework reaching out an integrated explanation on play/game theory and resistance it describes. It claims graffiti as a game of the juveniles acting in urban space as their playground.
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Bolofer, Carl. "Urban voids re-inventing marginalized space /." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Marini, Charikleia. "Re-defining urban space through performance." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8600.
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This thesis contributes to discourses concerned with urban space and performance practice. It identifies ways in which built environments become performative; how the built environment performs meaning(s) within the urban context and how spatial practices of contemporary performance engage with city-spaces. The programming and order of urban space tends to fix meanings; increasingly regulated and singlepurpose city-spaces seem unable to react to informal or unplanned activities. However, this thesis suggests that urban space entails inherent opportunities for conceiving and practising space otherwise and looks at a spatial spectrum – from leftover spaces to London’s landmarks. It analyses incomplete presences in the built environment and their unexpected (re)uses, which make urban space an arena of ideas, interaction and creativity. It examines how spatial practices of performance, such as site-specific performance, audio-walks and installations, inform our (re)thinking of space, its meaning and its re-appropriation. It argues that through performative concepts and actions, space manifests a changeable and dynamic quality, rather than motionlessness and inertia. The thesis involves an interdisciplinary approach employing geography, urban, architectural and performance studies. It looks at four types of built spaces that have been used for performance purposes; a disused warehouse at 21 Wapping Lane, the converted power station housing the Tate Modern art gallery, the exterior of the National Theatre’s building and the London district of Wapping. All of these sites are awaiting, or are undergoing, major alterations in their design or planning, involving reconstruction and expansion, or total demolition. The uncertain future of these sites and buildings, the inevitable decay of their material, and the temporality of the built environment invite questions of architectural design and urban planning in terms of performance. The examination of these sites at this moment of change and the potential impact of the redevelopment plans on city life make this research timely, since the thesis emphasises the imperative of re-defining concepts of space, planning strategies, and design processes so as to imagine a less determinate, more creative urban space.
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Williams, Shannon L. "Triangle Park: addressing residual urban space." Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7022.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
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In the 2009-2010 academic year at the Kansas City Design Center, four students undertook a design project seeking to transform an underutilized traffic median into a usable urban public space. The space, known as “Triangle Park,” is located at Avenida Cesar E. Chavez (West 23rd Street), West Pennsylvania Avenue, and Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. This report describes the existing site conditions and challenges to creating an inviting public space. The report explains how the students arrived at the finalized design using precedent studies, multiple design iterations, and community input from the Westside and Crossroads neighborhood stakeholders. The finalized design focuses on providing connectivity between people, the site, and the city as a whole. Opportunities for connection are offered by improved pedestrian circulation and a comfortable, well-defined outdoor space. Three major structural interventions are proposed: an illuminated overhead canopy beneath the Interstate-35 overpass provides shelter for pedestrians; a raised walking path enhances an already prominent pedestrian route; and a wooden deck provides opportunities for sitting and lingering. The ability of the design to meet the community’s stated needs and to serve as a social public space is evaluated to determine the likelihood of positive and worthwhile project outcomes.
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Tatsuya, Shibata. "Subjective response to depicted urban space." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362424.
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Since the beginning of Japan's post-war boom her major cities, notably Tokyo, have developed with remarkable speed but relatively little pre-planning and control. So the consequent economic benefits have been accompanied by a level of visual disorder. Public and governmental opinion has therefore recently begun seeking development-control guidelines for improving the visual quality of the urban scene. Some Japanese researchers, building partly on the work of their us colleagues, have responded by trying to identify the most aesthetically significant aspects of the urban visual landscape. This thesis contributes to this search a particularly quantitative approach. It begins with a review of urban-design aesthetic theory concentrating on more recent "psychometric" investigation. It then describes and discusses the main method of the thesis: representation of urban scenes through video stills, computergenerated images, or photographs and the exposure to these representation of groups of sample subjects, and statistical analysis of the subjects' questionnaires responses. Special attention is paid to the reliability with which the aesthetic qualities of a given urban configuration can be generalised from 2-d "perspective" views of it, and to the relationship in subject responses between physical elements like buildings and trees and abstract characteristics like "openness", "enclosure", "age", or "expectant space". These procedures are applied to questionnaires completed by Japanese subjects regarding representations of various Tokyo street scenes, and by largely British subjects regarding contrasting "old" and "new" landscapes in the Hampstead and Milton Keynes areas. Initial investigations suggest that the elements of predominant subjective significance include the proportion of visible sky, the abundance of foliage. This thesis ends by suggesting aesthetic guidelines drawn from these results, considering spatial elements and roles of foliage, and discussing aesthetic assessment for development-control purposes.
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Olckers, Heinrich. "Entopia : creating an urban transition space." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29933.
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This study is aimed at identifying ways in which architecture can facilitate social cohesion and desegregation. The preindustrial vernacular, which has failed to adapt from apartheid ideologies, has been proposed to include social integration as opposed to the creation of segregated environments. This is achieved through the design of an urban waiting room and gateway at the threshold between Pretoria Station and the inner city of Pretoria. The investigation can be summarised as creating entopia, which translates to achievable space, focus on architecture of the every day, cater to real world needs of city users and address problems unique to place and setting - which in the context of Pretoria, includes the promotion of social integration. Copyright 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Heinrich, O 2011, Entopia : creating an urban transition space, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11292011-162950 / > C12/4/38/gmDissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Wright, Timothy John. "Community Space in the Urban Context." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34439.
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Division is everywhere in our culture. We are divided by races, economic level, political affiliations, religion, nationality, and the list goes on, and on. Everywhere we turn we are faced with things that divide us, but we are rarely brought together. There are very few things in the world that allow us to set aside our differences and come together. Unfortunately public housing complexes in the U.S. have far too often served as a dividing factor in our society. As many public housing complexes have become synonymous with violence, neglect, and criminal activity, residents have been forced to avoid the public spaces, allowing them to become deserted community wastelands.
But we can reverse the trend. This thesis will show that by creating spaces that encourage interaction between people, such as community centers, public parks, and retail nodes, we can begin to restore social housing complexes. By removing some of the barriers from our society we can help people reconnect with their neighbors and become more involved with their communities. This thesis will show that the removal of barriers from our public life also highlights the importance of reinforcing barriers in our private lives. This thesis will also demonstrate that bringing together different groups can not be accomplished by a single building but is most effective when accomplished by a group of buildings working in conjunction with each other. This thesis will show that careful planning and architecture can serve as the catalyst for bringing together people and communities.Master of Architecture
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Fredrickson, Kirsten I. "Creating Life in an Urban Space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33378.
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Towns contain spaces defined by human interaction with their surroundings. In any town, certain places seem inviting while others seem cold and unfriendly. This is the result of subtle design decisions that directly effect the character of a place. This investigation focuses on the interaction of architecture in our daily lives and how it affects us in ways that we often overlook. The life of a town is in its relationship between the architecture and the people which inhabit that architecture.Master of Architecture
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Olson, Jeffrey L. "The Evolution of Urban-Rural Space." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376926850.
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Motene, Katlego. "Urban re-vision: Philippi market space." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19078.
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This thesis investigates a link between food security and rural to urban migration in the city of Cape Town. Philippi as a Gateway to the City of Cape Town for many people migrating from rural South Africa, especially people from the Eastern Cape is therefore a natural site for the investigation. The point of departure is that the city is defined in relation to the landscape [agriculture being the generator of this landscape]. My observations are that when migrants come from rural settlement, where land is a primary source of food, through farming at household/community/commercial level, they abandon the embodied knowledge of how to produce a livelihood from the land as this knowledge is perceived to be of little value in the city. The aim of this thesis is to propose an architecture that allows the spatial practice of the migrant, as it relates to food production, to become visible as a function of the city.
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Cottam, Hilary. "Zozobra : the tensions of urban space." Thesis, n.p, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18869.
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Zheng, Jiamin. "Urban Regeneration Through Creative Public Space." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174903.
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Yang, Juncheng S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Urban complex : between institutions and space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123611.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This research studies hyper-dense, non-planned, informally repurposed, and mix-use buildings in contemporary Chinese cities. Growing population density and a booming urban economy in the past decades have created an incentive to re-utilize more lucratively mid- and large-scale, mix-use buildings that occupy prime locations in cities. In these buildings where the current usage exceeds the allowed occupancy and differs from planned and designed purpose, individual actors and relevant stakeholders establish self-organized institutions, along with formal governance, to manage the common-pool resources inside these buildings. The research describes such buildings as an urban complex because of not just the mix-use quality, but also the intertwined, transforming structure of social institutions. As formal and informal institutional setups interact to invent dynamic structures for collective action and governance to address the limited common-pool resources inside the informally repurposed, mix-use buildings, a unique urbanism in the inside begins to emerge. To analyze such an environment, I propose to study such an environment through a holistic lens that takes into account the interaction of spatial organization and existing social networks. Seeing such a unique environment as a lesson for addressing urban informality and commoning in cities at large, I aim to speculate potential guiding principles for improvements or reinvention.
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Poorthuis, Ate. "Social Space and Social Media: Analyzing Urban Space with Big Data." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/41.
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This dissertation focuses on the key role that big data can play in minimizing the perceived disconnect between social theory and quantitative methods in the discipline of geography. It takes as its starting point the geographic concept of space, which is conceptualized very differently in social theory versus quantitative methodology. Contrary to this disparity, an examination of the disciplinary history reveals a number of historic precedents and potential pathways for a rapprochement, especially when combined with some of the new possibilities of big data. This dissertation also proposes solutions to two common barriers to the adoption of big data in the social sciences: accessing and collecting such data and, subsequently, meaningful analysis. These methods and the theoretical foundation are combined in three case studies that show the successful integration of a quantitative research methodology with social theories on space. The case studies demonstrate how such an approach can create new and alternative understandings of urban space. In doing so it answers three specific research questions: (1) How can big data facilitate the integration of social theory on space with quantitative research methodology? (2) What are the practical challenges and solutions to moving “beyond the geotag” when utilizing big data in geographical research? (3) How can the quantitative analysis of big data provide new and useful insight in the complex character of social space? More specifically, what insights does such an analysis of relational social space provide about urban mobility and cognitive neighborhoods?
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Souza, Paulo Ricardo Salati de. "Áreas urbanas desfavorecidas do município de Rio Grande/RS." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2011. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/2274.
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A formação do município do Rio Grande está vinculada a transformações políticas e econômicas em diversas escalas. Atualmente seu espaço urbano vem sofrendo influências oriundas de novos arranjos nas escalas global e nacional. Os investimentos implantados voltados às operações e atividades portuárias e industriais, trouxeram situações de tensões no uso das áreas portuárias ocupadas e urbanizadas por populações de baixa renda. O trabalho apresenta uma revisão bibliográfica de estudos sobre os problemas urbanos e intraurbanos. Em um segundo momento relata a evolução e formação urbana do municipío e as características do espaço urbano em suas ligações entre processos mundiais e nacionais, sobretudo com a implantação de um Pólo Naval bem como a atual situação socioeconômica do Rio Grande. Finalmente descreve as características espaciais e socioeconômicas de áreas passíveis de serem atingidas pela expansão portuária. Com base em conceitos e metodologias que caracterizam e definem o grau de desfavorecimento das áreas estudadas. A base dos dados são o Censo 2000 e levantamentos socioeconômicos realizados em 2008 e 2009, verificando que ocorreram pequenas mudanças nas condições de desfavorecimento.
The formation of Rio Grande city is linked to political and economic transformations at several scales. Actually, its urban space has been influenced of the new arrangements in the global and national scales. The investments implemented pointed towards port and industrial operations and activities brought stress situations in the use of the port areas, occupied and urbanized by low-income populations. The paper presents a literature review of studies about urban and within urban spaces problems. In a second moment, it relates the evolution and the formation of the urban municipality, and the urban space in the links between global and national processes, especially with the establishment of a Naval Pole, as well as the current socioeconomic situation of Rio Grande. Finally, it describes the spatial and socioeconomic features of areas that can affected by the expansion port, based on concepts and methodologies that characterize and define the disadvantage degree in the studied areas. The basis of data are the 2000 Census and the socioeconomic surveys, realized in 2008 and in 2009, verifying that occurred small changes in conditions of disadvantage.
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Imilan, Ojeda Walter Alejandro. "Urban ethnicity in Santiago de Chile Mapuche migration and urban space /." kostenfrei, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus-22696.
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Narkar, Poonam. "Urban [dis]order reinventing urban space? the case of Istanbul, Turkey /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1155749060.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2006.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Jan.25, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: informal space; reinventing urban space; spatial practices; social space; Istanbul; Includes bibliographical references.
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Chau, Pui-see, and 鄒佩詩. "Urban form and space considerations in urban development: towards west rail." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259893.
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Chau, Pui-see. "Urban form and space considerations in urban development : towards west rail /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21041337.
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Gillespie, Thomas Anthony. "Accumulation by urban dispossession : struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5875/.
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Despite the growing recognition of the utility of Marxist theories of primitive accumulation for understanding the current ‘neoliberal’ phase of capitalist development, there is a lack of in-‐depth research on the particular dynamics that ‘accumulation by dispossession’ assumes at the urban scale. This is a problem compounded by the lack of dialogue between Marxist theorists of primitive accumulation and critical urban geographers researching neoliberalism at the urban scale, particularly in the context of the Global South. This thesis addresses these shortcomings through an in-‐depth empirical case study of struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana. Situated within a critical urban theory approach, it draws on a range of qualitative data gathered during fieldwork to explore the actors, motives, mechanisms and struggles that lie behind accumulation by dispossession at the urban scale – or accumulation by urban dispossession -‐ in Accra. This thesis argues that neoliberal structural adjustment has created a large ‘informal proletariat’ in Accra. This dispossessed surplus population has been expelled from the formal capitalist economy and therefore has to create ‘urban commons’ in order to reproduce itself outside of the capital relation. Since these commons place limits to capital’s ability to valorise the urban fabric, state-‐led accumulation by urban dispossession is a strategic response that employs a range of physical-‐legal and discursive mechanisms to overcome these limits through the gentrification of the urban environment, the enclosure of the urban commons, and the expulsion of the informal poor. The thesis also demonstrates how non-‐state actors in Accra enact accumulation by urban dispossession through governmental technologies that reshape the subjectivities of informal settlement dwellers so as to enclose them within a market logic. Rather than being passive victims, however, this thesis argues that Accra’s informal proletariat actively contests accumulation by urban dispossession by creating and defending urban commons through a combination of everyday acts of ‘quiet encroachment’ and organised collective action.
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Bjornstad, Jensen Arne. "Reprogramming public space." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132007-180909.
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Viljoen, Christina Elizabeth. "Urban Consulate." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63649.
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Urban Consulate is an exploration of urban exchange and growth within the 21st century paradigm. This dissertation investigates the potential of reclaimed civic space within the city as urban catalyst for participation and growth – a platform with which to regenerate meaningful participation within the urban environments and ensure densification without negation and destruction.
The suburb of Brixton is one of the oldest suburbs in Johannesburg. Located to the west of Braamfontein and viewed as a compartmentalized fragment within the city of Johannesburg, this urban suburb forms the laboratory of investigation for the dissertation. Currently in flux, the area is rezoned for urbanisation and densification within the Johannesburg City plan. There are various proposals to relink the suburb back to the city.
The chosen site of investigation is concerned with harnessing both the local condition and its potential to connect to the city of Johannesburg. In an attempt to redefine concepts of territory and boundary in civic architecture, the investigation is contextually located between urban fragments of suburbia, urban conditions and veld (natural environment). The site is a lost urban asset on the edge of Brixton next to the Sentech Tower. The urban intention is to reprogram the site as part of a productive public landscape, while the programmatic intentions are to enable the urban condition of city growth through facilitating local needs and desire lines. The dissertation therefore blurs the present day distinctions of ‘public’, ‘social’, ‘productive’, and ‘natural’ space while at the same time placing focus on local and socio-economic conditions. It investigates how the support of community and local conditions enables the urban.
The architectural intentions are to “blur” the physical and perceived boundaries between the dweller and the city, the suburban and the urban. The scheme seeks to find how architecture as an enabler of “structures of enchantment” – the ordinary and extraordinary that make up a city – can facilitate individual and collective memory and couple the idea of city and the fantastical with that of home-finding and the everyday. In short, the 21st century approach to design and city-making must shift towards a participative approach in terms of urban exchange and place-making.Mini Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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Fong, Ching-to Solomon. "Metamorphosis of city : art space /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25946262.
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Karaman, Ozan. "Deterritorialization And New Approaches To Urban Space." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1104926/index.pdf.
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Robinson, Wilfred Iain Thomas. "Transience and durability in Japanese urban space." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/405/.
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The thesis addresses the research question “What is transient and what endures within Japanese urban space” by taking the material constructed form of one Japanese city as a primary text and object of analysis. Chiba-shi is a port and administrative centre in southern Kanto, the largest city in the eastern part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region and located about forty kilometres from downtown Tokyo. The study privileges the role of process as a theoretical basis for exploring the dynamics of the production and transformation of urban space. Three aspects of temporal experience identified by Giddens – routine, biographical and institutional time – are adopted as a framework for considering how the dynamics of social reproduction are expressed in terms of transience and durability within urban form. A methodology is developed to explore the changing interrelationship between six conceptual ‘entities’ – the individual, household, dwelling, establishment, premises and site. Metrics are identified for each to facilitate a consistent analysis over time of the changing relationship between these based on a formal diachronic longitudinal survey. An analysis of the spatial transformation of the material form of the city between 1870 and 2005 was completed based primarily on recording the changing use over time of about 4,500 sample points. The outcome of the study is presented in five substantive chapters. The first considers characteristics of the layout of neighbourhoods and dwellings that have endured largely through their close association with processes of social reproduction. The following four chapters examine chronologically the evolution of the city, documenting transformations in urban form and their expression in terms of changing use of volumes of space, the characteristic infrastructure, premises and dwelling types, and how these relate to broader trends in Japanese history. The final chapter summarises the interrelationship of these transformations and draws some conclusions concerning what promotes transience and durability in an urban environment.
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Or, Kar-lok Carol, and 柯家樂. "An urban space re-creation: Southorn Playground." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984794.
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Lane, Jordan. "Urban Shepherd : Cultivating space, food and us." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146240.
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Urban shepherd advocates the design and implementation of coherent productive living systems in urban environments. Central to urban shepherd is the creation of multifunctional urban space networks designed to improve ecosystem health while meeting human needs by inducing top-down institutional and bottom-up individual change. Urban Shepherd creates such change through a strategic vision, process and system. Exploring the urban experience through social and environmental landscape use, community ecologies and future architectural practice, urban shepherd offers effective practices of experimentation, future urban natures and the occasional sighting of sheep, pigs and chickens.Urban Shephard förespråkar utformningen och tillämpningen av naturliga system integrerade i vår urbana miljö. I fokus ligger skapandet av det multifunktionella urbana systemet, designat att förbättra de befintliga ekosystemen och samtidigt möta människors behov genom att möjliggöra förändringar på såväl systemnivå som för enskilda individer. Genom att utforska arkitekturens roll i det sociala och praktiska användandet av det urbana rummet med hänsyn till samhällets behov av anknytningen till naturen, kan Urban Shepherd erbjuda effektiva lösningar i nydanande urbana miljöer med hjälp av en och annan gris, ko och höna.
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Prescott, Holly. "Rethinking urban space in contemporary British writing." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3011/.
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Rethinking Urban Space in Contemporary British Writing argues that the prose literature of its featured authors offers a unique forum through which to perceive and account for the multifarious agency of urban space. Chapter one examines the limitations of using the Marxist spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, widely adopted by literary scholars, to account for the widespread appearance of abandoned, subterranean and transient spaces in contemporary British writing. The thesis then develops new ways of reading which, unlike Lefebvrean theory, allow such spaces to emerge as affective and narrative agents, shaping narrative form and action. Chapter two focuses upon reading abandoned spaces in the work of Iain Sinclair and Cheshire-born author Nicholas Royle; chapter three examines the agency of the subterranean city-space in narratives by Neil Gaiman, Tobias Hill and Conrad Williams; and chapter four interrogates the agency exerted by the hotel space in contemporary hotel novels by Ali Smith and Monica Ali. Throughout, the materialism of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer is combined with affect theory to stress the narrative and affective agencies achieved by such urban spaces, precisely due to their transcendence of the networks of production and exchange which dominate the capitalist-driven cities of their fictional worlds.
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Stewart, Anson F. (Anson Forest). "Advancing accessibility : public transport and urban space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111444.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220).
After decades of academic research, urban accessibility metrics are beginning to see adoption in transportation and metropolitan planning practice. Such metrics capture the potential for reaching destinations enabled by transport (e.g. number of jobs available within a given commute time), not just the mobility benefits accruing from the use of transport (e.g. time and emissions reductions for a given commute), and have well-established advantages. From a transportation equity perspective, for example, measuring the potential for reaching destinations instead of actual travel avoids bias against groups who travel infrequently due to current or historical barriers to access. This dissertation elaborates on how accessibility concepts complement theories of urban planning and social space before considering two related extensions of accessibility metrics for public transport planning. First, drawing on collaborative planning literature, and using mixed-methods including pre-test/post-test survey designs, various versions of interactive mapping tools were tested in public workshop settings. The outcomes of these workshops suggest that accessibility concepts can improve public involvement in transit planning. Suitability for broad public participation applications, however, requires accessibility to be easily customizable and tailored to constraints that users find salient. Constrained accessibility metrics are the second focus of this dissertation. Adjusting accessibility metrics to account for unreliability in actual transit operations, matching and competition in destination opportunities (e.g. jobs), and capacity in transit networks, may help align these metrics more closely with users' personal experience. Spatial analysis techniques are used to implement some of these adjustments and show that they strengthen correlations with broader urban outcomes of interest, such as employment and use of healthcare resources. The concluding part of the dissertation discusses how these findings can inform substantive and procedural dimensions of public transport planning and urban policy.
by Anson F. Stewart.
Ph. D. in Transportation