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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Derelict"”.
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Botanical processes in urban derelict spaces
… richness and composition of plant communities on derelict land in the West Midlands. Experimental work included vegetation surveys, soil seed bank investigation, field mapping and seed rain trapping methods. Interpretation of the data involved a range of approaches including vegetation …
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Urban derelict land: an unwanted inheritance or a challenge to innovation
… 80's analysing the causes of increasing urban dereliction, the problems thereby created and how the situation could and should be addressed. Yet in the last decade of this millennium, sprawling urban wasteland remains and continues to appear to inhibit urban regeneration and detract from the …
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Palimpsest : derelict mines and architecture of archeology one hundred years from now
… existing mining town of 40,000 inhabitants. The derelict mineshafts serve as infrastructure for a new civic space of scenic agrarian routes and programmed enclosures: auction floors, warehouses, residential short-stay rooms, water purification systems, mineral baths, crop rotational schemes, …
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A reuse solution for derelict industrial sites : the case of two Navy yards
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Derelict to Dynamic: Examining Socioecological Productivity of Underutilized/Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure, and Application in Baltimore, Maryland
… most vulnerable landscapes. By transforming derelict industrial infrastructure to dynamic socioecological patches and corridors, this work aims to enhance socioecological equity and connectivity. Negative aspects of Baltimore’s contemporary urban condition such as blight, high vacancy rates, …
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Regenerating Sudbury's socio-urban landscape through adaptive reuse
… industrial buildings. These are often part of derelict zones that aggravate the urban challenges of unsafe neighbourhoods, socioeconomic segregation, and environmental degradation. By reviving these defunct buildings through carefully attuned strategies of adaptive reuse, there is an …
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When a city embraces its paradox : the exploration of incremental waste mining of a decommissioned landfill site and its gradual transformation into a productive public space
… values. Such projects include reclaiming of derelict sites which are characterized mainly by poor environmental and physical conditions. The redevelopment of these types of sites has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Their transformation into public spaces represents a …
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Building debris
… to intelligent use of resources and the reuse of derelict spaces. The initial investigation of rammed earth as a building material is followed by site-specific operations at the courtyard of MIT building N51 and on sites located along a three mile stretch of Interstate 93 in Dorchester.
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Scotland's Castles: rescued, rebuilt and reoccupied, 1945 - 2010
… During this time over one hundred ruined or derelict castles and towers were rebuilt and reoccupied, mostly by private owners who purchased the building with a view to restoring it. This was a far greater number of restorations than at any time in the past, yet the literature on castles has …
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Valuing vacancies : Temporal productive revitalisation of neglected land
… beauty of the weedscapes that have colonised derelict sites within the foreshore for the past 79 years and been responsible for the transformation of dredged beach sand into fertile soils, rich in opportunity for temporal productivity. The currently vacant site is located within the reclaimed …
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An evolutionary AI-based decision support system for urban regeneration planning
The renewal of derelict inner-city urban districts suffering from high levels of socio-economic deprivation and sustainability problems is one of the key research areas in urban planning and regeneration. Subject to a wide range of social, economical and environmental factors, decision support for …
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Gas and grain : the conservation of networked industrial landscapes
… and the Cape Town grain elevator stands derelict. The principle question of this thesis asks whether the networks of which these sites formed an integral part, can be conserved with the purpose of future social and economic development within the broad framework of Agenda 21. Working …
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Gas and grain : the conservation of networked industrial landscapes
… and the Cape Town grain elevator stands derelict. The principle question of this thesis asks whether the networks of which these sites formed an integral part, can be conserved with the purpose of future social and economic development within the broad framework of Agenda 21. Working …
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South African Public Secondary School Administration Machinery: A Case of Three Educational Institutions
… Lastly, lack of consequence management for derelict of duty promotes utilisation of inappropriate administration machinery. The researcher recommends for the repurposing of administration machinery to contribute to its efficacy.
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Living with Water: The Potential Urban Ghost Spaces have to Address Flood Mitigation in Toronto, Ontario
… receiving waterways. Ghost spaces are vacant or derelict space that have prior commercial, industrial, transportation, or residential use, receive semi-regular maintenance, and are unused. Past studies emphasize the importance of metropolitan place-based studies for flood mitigation research and …
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Biodiversity of urban brownfields: modelling species occurrence and persistence in dynamic habitats
Urban brownfields (derelict sites) offer habitat for a diverse flora and fauna, including rare species. The continuous changes in brownfield location (due to redevelopment and abandonment) and in their habitat conditions (due to succession) generate a spatio-temporal mosaic cycle of transient …
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Insects in urban brownfields: analyses of species occurrences, community composition, and trait frequencies along a successional gradient
Urban brownfields (derelict sites) are home to a variety of species. Brownfield habitats show high spatio-temporal dynamics, forcing species constantly track suitable habitat. The thesis provides insight into the mechanisms of leafhopper and grasshopper species survival in brownfield habitats. …
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A critical essay and original play entitled ‘the canary and the piano’
… patients as a consequence for breaking into the derelict asylum. While working on the garden Ruth stays with Maud, a retired psychiatric nurse. Ruth’s visit forces Maud to face the guilt and regret with which she is plagued as her past returns to haunt her.
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Centering the periphery: Re-framing East London central business district towards social & spatial equality
… rejuvenation of East London CBD from its current derelict and decaying state, encouraging social and private investment back into East London CBD.
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Planning to improvise : design for the Boynton Yards industrial area
… mistrusting those practices that left behind derelict sites and structures, we inherit these artifacts with the obligation to improvise new forms on the themes they establish. Reoccupation of an abandoned industrial area becomes then, a project of recuperation specific to a particular si te …
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