Suburban city : redevelopment of a community's identity

The thesis is a proposal for a community center and residences in Somerville which takes into account three aspects of American residential culture: 1) the changing structure of the traditional family; 2) the changing suburb and the competition with traditional center cities; and 3) the loss of community identity that is a consequence of the first two. The project takes as reference research into the culture of the American neighborhood, suburban or urban, as well as various architectural, programmatic and contextual examples.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1992

Author dc:creator

• Parnas, Jean-Pierre

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jan Wampler.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69292

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/69292