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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Jane Jacobs"”.
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Jane Jacobs The Ethicist: Systems of Survival and Jacobs' Moral Philosophy
This work intends to show that Jacobs’ moral philosophy makes a strong case for objective moral knowledge. She posits that there are two moral syndromes that are intended to guide working life morality. Roughly speaking, the commercial syndrome guides commerce and the guardian syndrome governs …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… case in light of writings by the urban ecologist Jane Jacobs, for whom differentiated experience served to problematize the certitudes of consensual planning, and follow it through analyses of objects and the publics they generate. I address the production and reception of works by Kara Walker, …
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Fitness trails for continuing care retirement community residents: motivational cues to participation
… This research investigates the extent to which Jane Jacobs’ (1961) work with sidewalks in cities can be applied to the fitness trail within the CCRC. The research questions generated for this study were: To what extent is the success of the fitness trail dependent on the intricate mutual support …
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Alice in a township : accessible learning through an interactive communal educational environment
… of spatial hierarchy, supported with theories by Jane Jacobs [1961] and Jan Gehl [2010 and 2011] on qualities of a humane compact city space. These theories will then be combined with educational design theories of learning spaces implemented as a city in miniature, ultimately allowing the …
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City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life
… the shift to the university’s discourse, while Jane Jacobs is presented as within the analyst’s discourse. The reading of Jacobs shows her to be primarily concerned with the economic aspects of cities. A deeper analysis of Lefebvre’s theories, along with Manuel Castells’ theory of the ‘space of …
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Urban Landscape Change in New Orleans, LA: The Case of the Lost Neighborhood of Louis Armstrong
<p>While Jane Jacobs' frontal assault on "modern planning" is now over forty years old, communities around the United States are still struggling to deal with the legacy of modernist interventions that dramatically altered the historic urban form and culture of their downtowns. In the worst cases, …
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The assessment, planning and design of small public spaces in urban areas
Jane Jacobs wrote (1989, p. 92), of four similar squares near City Hall in Philadelphia, that only Rittenhouse Square was ‘beloved and successful’. Her explanation was its diversity of pedestrian generators. Other theorists, including Hillier (1999) and Gehl (2010), have given equally confident …
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Mapping Informality: An Approach to Classifying Sidewalk Informal Practices and Elements Through Street View Imagery
… infrastructure, shapes the everyday choreography Jane Jacobs called the “sidewalk ballet.” Yet because governments rarely collect census-grade data on such activity, informality remains poorly documented and weakly understood. This thesis introduces a transferable computational framework to …
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
… the problem of the city as a system. The work of Jane Jacobs and William Whyte in the 1960s is studied since it represents a critical engagement with the sidewalk, and a reaction against the 'scientific' planning orthodoxy exemplified by the public housing projects of Robert Moses. Jacobs' …
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Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York
… and youth at the center, melding the politics of Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs and offering an alternative urban vision. </p>
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A computational tool for evaluating urban vitality using Kendall Square development proposals as a case study
… of the theoretical contributions put forth by Jane Jacobs regarding urban vitality. Chapter 2 discusses the four-diversity conditions for urban vitality and early attempts to validate these conditions. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the urban elements of both Kendall Square and Harvard …
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Mixed use property development and its place in UK urban policy
… and their citizens. Inspired by the work of Jane Jacobs, theorists have proposed the value of mixing types of buildings, streetscapes and activities in urban space, arguing that such diversity is the key to urban vitality. This argument has been widely accepted and absorbed into the …
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Centro de esparcimiento cultural. Reutilización de un edificio industrial pesquero
… de Lilian Wong y “desarrollo urbano” de Jane Jacobs para darle valor al inmueble reutilizado, vinculando el exterior con el interior en el cual propondremos infraestructura cultural pública, entre otros usos. La cultura ayudará en la formación de identidad, promoverá la participación de …
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Primary care practices by default or by design : case study of a physician
… practice itself the physician-patient encounter. Jane Jacobs, in her 1992 book, "Systems of Survival A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics", lays out 2 value systems: the guardian syndrome (Dr. Terence Meaford) and the commercial syndrome (Health right Plus the PMO). Her …
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I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal
… distorting dichotomy between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—the respective avatars of “top down” and “bottom up” approaches to urban planning. Zeckendorf and Pei imagined, designed, and built large-scale urban projects imbued with substantive architecture, mixed in use, technological and …
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Convergence: A New Future for the Samuel Madden Homes
… environments and communities. As Jan Gehl and Jane Jacobs examined in Cities for People and The Death and Life of Great American Cities respectively, simple pragmatics do not make for livable environments. A truly humanist approach to design for living in cities requires not only good policy, …
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Into the city: A Multi-Disciplinary Investigation of Urban Life
… urban life. We operationalize the theory of Jane Jacobs, one of the most famous authors in urban planning, who suggested that the built environment and vitality are intimately connected. Using Web and Open data to describe neighbourhoods, and mobile phone records to proxy urban vitality, we …
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INFLOW: Spatially Integrating Local Water Capture into Gugulethu and Surrounds, Cape Town
… integration. They create along their edges, what Jane Jacobs refers to as 'border vacuums' (Mehaffy, et al, 2015:206). To remove these barriers of flow, the research design proposal applies the 'accessibility surface' (Dewar and Louw, 2016:25) to movement and surface water systems (including …
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Shaping density : how can high density form yield good urban places?
… characterized primarily in the works of Jane Jacobs: “The death and life of great American cities". In its wake, the most important questions and ideas of contemporary urban design were established. Many of the principles revolved around the idea that a city should first and foremost …
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Infrastructural architecture: social design for the public realm in underground transit systems
There’s a certain allure and poeticism to mass transit, from buses, to streetcars, and trains. It’s curious that a strictly infrastructural marvel of engineering houses such an honest and diverse application of shared architecture, mutual in it’s urban scope. In many ways, the architecture of these …