The Urban Place: Places for Jay to Sit

This thesis is an exploration of the design of successful urban places, those that are filled with people enjoying the vitality present in a density of life. The inspiration for this thesis came from a statement made by Jason Bergen. While walking through downtown Blacksburg, unsuccessful in our quest to find a place sit down and eat lunch, Jay said, "You know Jon, there are no good places to sit in Blacksburg." Without realizing it, Jay had made a simple observation that can be used to assess the quality of an urban environment.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Chambers, Jonathan Perry

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Rott, Hans Christian

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Reinholtz, Charles F.
• Lynch, Maurice
• Pittman, V. Hunter
• Brown, William B.

• urban design
• Architecture
• Blacksburg

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-81098-20362

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36970