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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Abandoned buildings"”.
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Two urban corners : a design exploration for the Holloway block
… of the town, and consisted until recently of abandoned buildings. The author and a partner recently purchased the site and renovated the existing structures for retail and office uses. The two corners, bookends for the block, were vacant at the time of purchase. One is in reality occupied by a …
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A Site Rediscovered
… but it always seemed unattainable; the mills and abandoned buildings prevented access. When my dad said that the last mill burned down at Great Falls in 2009, I was saddened but knew this provided a new opportunity for the community. This project is not about placing a building, but rather …
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Emerging from stasis : a new typology for the public building in centro Havana/
… rest of the world. Its frequent vacant lots and abandoned buildings, products of decay induced by decades of deferred maintenance, offer rich opportunities to imagine the insertion of a new type of public institution into the existing fabric of the city. In a context where the state is currently …
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Design for decline
… of designing for obsolescence is evident in the abandoned buildings of former boomtowns. Designed with growth in mind, obsolete architecture is both a symptom of, and contributor to, urban decay. By redefining sustainability as a strategic tool for facilitating the transition between growth and …
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New into old--building into/onto/around/alongside : a school for the arts in Boston's Theater District
… of this thesis suggests that these empty and abandoned buildings lying in the heart of various historic districts in our cities be "collaged" together as part of a newer ensemble of spaces. It is proposed that the transformation of these buildings begins with a careful study of the existing …
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Adaptive reuse : the Salt River market
… shifts that somehow prove difficult for our buildings to survive in this rapid change. My Interest therefore looks to adaptive reuse as an approach to dealing with the change in our built environment. How do you deal, in an urban setting, with a neglected urban fabric without compromising Its …
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A design project for an urban frontier
… "left over" as remnants of previous programs (abandoned buildings) or the fall-out of large scale construction (highways, public transport, utilities, etc.). The potential of these latter spaces for public use is often unrecognized. This thesis will argue that due to their very natur~, cities …
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Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape
… is currently in a state of decay, plagued by abandoned buildings and crime. Within this focus area I have highlighted 3 key sites of interest, both for their location adjacent to defining natural and man made boundary elements, as well as their state of neglect and ruin or being underutilized. …
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Urban design as a tool for re-imaging a capital city : planning Conakry, Guinea after independence
… to decay lying unused by the new nation and abandoned by the French, leaving behind what were described as ghosts. These ghosts were abandoned buildings and railways throughout the country. There were other ghosts besides the abandoned infrastructure of the French. They had in fact influenced …
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Residents Without Residences: A Study of Homelessness in Birmingham, Alabama.
Popular perceptions of homeless persons are undergoing significant revision in these early years of the 1980's. The traditional pejorative stereotypes are still circulated, as evidenced in the remark made by the morning show DJ reproduced above, but such stereotypes now have to compete against a …
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Phenomenon of Homelessness
… parks, sidewalks, alleys, under bridges, or in abandoned buildings. Dwelling in such habitats exposes them to crime and assault and makes them vulnerable to health issues due to the unsanitary environmental conditions. The thesis delves into addressing the physical environments experienced by …
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Determining the health risk factors impacting residents living in dilapilated buildings in Durban, South Africa
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Masters of Sciences: Environmental Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, 2021.
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Youth and cities : planning with low-income youth and urban youth cultures in New York City and Paris
… spaces such as parking lots, alleyways, and abandoned buildings to meet their needs. These spaces enable a form of urban use and intervention that transforms space spontaneously and ephemerally.
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What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014
… Squatters on the Lower East Side took over abandoned buildings in the aftermath of New York City's fiscal crisis, occupying land in a neoliberalizing city, in a gentrifying neighborhood, and making claims on it that challenged those ways of being in the city. In a context of austerity, in …