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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Edge City"”.
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Heterotopia: Loose Space For an Edge City
In the beginning of my research I focused on transformations of the urban leftover and void space found in between buildings, street networks, parks or other institutionalized public spaces into urban places of character. By studying the spatial qualities of different places and their relation to …
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Employment Decentralization and Bus Rapid Transit in an Edge City Corridor: Veterans Boulevard in Greater New Orleans
… of traditional Central Business Districts. Edge Cities in particular, with their high office space densities, significantly influence surrounding land uses and regional commuting patterns. However, existing transit systems tend to be oriented to historic Central Business Districts and the …
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Giving order to the edge: a new framework : design of a station as a town center
… later, the San Juan periphery has become and edge city. The prediction was accurate. The challenge now is to correct this existing condition. This thesis is an exploration in developing a physical form to provide a framework that will organize the diverse parts. By exploring the connections …
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TG (TRANSIT GUIDANCE) : spaces for wayfinding in multi-modal transportation hubs, a proposal for Atlanta's Lenox Station
"The efficiency of the city and therefore the contribution of urbanization to development will depend to an important degree on how the problems of mobility are resolved. " Wilfred Owen (1972) Based on current urban patterns, this thesis assumes that as cities continue to expand and densify, living …
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City/edge
… the largest metro areas to smaller towns. Major "edge cities" have tended to develop at crossroads where radiating urban avenues intersect with concentric beltways. In our towns, smaller-scale edge cities occur at expressway exits outside the town limits, or where the business route into town …
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Architecture and Memory at the Intersection of Transit, the Built Environment, and Placemaking in Tysons, VA
… Yet, it falls short of breaking out of its "Edge City" classification . I have come to the following critique: although Tysons boasts fascinating urban conditions, its current development structure falls short in facilitating public life for residents, commuters, visitors, passersby, etc. All …
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¿Como se dice “Techie” en Español?: An English Language Development Curriculum to Prepare Latinx High School Students to Enter San Francisco’s Tech Workforce
… California, a dynamic, diverse, and cutting edge city, on the pinpoint of what is being called the “tech boom”, one can see that technical careers are highly valued in comparison to alternate professions, technical workers are more significantly valued, and therefore, are paid significantly …
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Community based workstyle
… town centres, improving transit sys-tem capacity, and expanding suburban work places, all to reduce negative effects of separating work from residence. A major 1990 household survey indicates these physical infrastructure changes slowed the rate of increase of associated stress-ors. However, …
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The Tysons Tunnel decision : a case study of suboptimal decision-making in major transit investments
… is notorious as a sprawling and auto-oriented "edge city" - on elevated tracks that are an average of 36 feet off the ground. Fairfax County hopes the Silver Line will help transform Tysons Corner into a true urban downtown that is walkable and transit-oriented. This goal, however, is shadowed …
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Some Assembly Required: The Structural Condition of Collage in Architecture and Urbanism
It is my intention through this thesis to investigate the structural condition of collage as a culturally relevant approach to understanding architectural meaning and designing architectural form within the context of the urban environment. Meaning in architecture, as it emerges both implicitly and …
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Dense urbanism at the old edge: conflict and reconciliation of streets and buildings
… few decades, new centers have emerged at the edges of traditional cities and pre-World War II suburbs. As these evolve, do they converge towards the urban forms of traditional cities? This question is explored based on a study of urban areas in the Atlanta Metropolitan Region. Atlanta …
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Life in Downtown
Architecture is a product of its surroundings. The response to site, program, and history of place differs everytime. How we interpret a place is influenced by our own experiences in life. We each possess a unique set of tools which we use to construct the spaces that surround us. A place is given …