Integrative or insulative? : making the most of urban industrial spaces

Faced with the considerable challenge of preserving industrial land in major cities, local governments tend to respond either by safeguarding the land for core industrial purposes, or by broadening its use range to include other nonindustrial activities in an effort to transform it into a more attractive, vibrant place. These two approaches can be thought of as insulative and integrative, respectively. This thesis examines the tensions and tradeoffs that planners face when addressing these two seemingly divergent industrial redevelopment approaches. It examines Vancouver, a city that has received justifiable credit for creating a livable, sustainable urban realm, but in the process has released a large amount of its industrial land to other uses, and is under continual pressure to do so with its remaining industrial land.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Davison, Micah,M.C.P.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Terry Szold.

• Urban Studies and Planning.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128396

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/128396