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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Placemaking"”.
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Placemaking
The Architecture of the "home" as we know it has taken many shapes and approaches throughout history. Early people resided in naturally occurring caves to guard against the harsh climate while nomadic tribes built temporary structures to follow game through the plains. During the settlement of …
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Red Wall: a study of placemaking
a small house... in which the details can be explored thoroughly with an understanding of construction through experience, detail, and context.
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Placemaking and Belonging in Brooklyn: Bushwick City Farms
… migrants appropriated the space through acts of placemaking in order to address their needs for food security, social services, and a sense of belonging amidst faltering efforts at the city level. Through these efforts, these acts of placemaking qualify as rights-claiming activities as they …
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Interactive Placemaking: Creativity and User Experience at Urban Installations
Interactive placemaking offers many new opportunities for the consideration and design of urban place, particularly through offering engagement with the creativity and experiences of local populations. This thesis explores the recent area of interactive placemaking from analytical and creative …
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Re-Imagining the Street as Placemaking Tool in Claremont CBD
Among the many problems that exist in the urban built environment today, uninviting pedestrian spaces is a prominent characteristic especially adjacent to inner-city shopping centres. Often, this is accompanied by a divorce of the building from the street, where the irony is that the street, which …
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Immigrant placemaking in colonial Australia : the Italian-speaking settlers of Daylesford
The Italian-speaking settlers of nineteenth century Daylesford were among the first sizeable group of non-English speakers to contest the prevailing Anglo-centricism and to help pave the way towards Australia's multicultural future. The examination of this group interweaves the particular histories …
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Creative placemaking in heritage sites. The case of Wudadao, Tianjin, China.
In recent years, creative placemaking has been adopted globally as a strategy for heritage-led urban revitalization. However, this approach is increasingly critiqued for triggering side effects such as gentrification, displacement, and the erosion of community identity. While most research exists …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… campuses. They are quite literally engaged in "placemaking" and they are developing these new neighborhoods and communities in the shadow of fundamentally place-based institutions. Furthermore, as universities seek to expand their physical campuses, they often find themselves entering the field …
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At Limbe, Malawi: Space-placemaking through the integration of street trading practices
… through the theories of everyday life, space-placemaking, and the kinetic city. Mainly, the traders expressed the need to be involved in all decision-making processes directly affecting them and the need for a platform that facilitates this civic engagement. As such, this design dissertation …
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Visualising process and placemaking : upgrading shack urbanity in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… the process of upgrading and the problem of placemaking. Political and housing history contextualise the current ‘captured’ state of affairs, establishing ground for a conceptual framework that navigates sometimes contradictory registers of engagement in development. The focus of the argument …
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Implications of natural boundaries for placemaking as a collaborative practice between humans and animals
… and nonhuman animals each take part in their own placemaking practices. This study evaluates the practice of placemaking as it relates to long-term wildlife-human cohabitation and coexistence. Here, placemaking refers to the practice of attributing meaning to geographic locations or physical …
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Threads of connectivity: Placemaking as a catalyst for bridging the infrastructure divide along the Voortrekker corridor
… networks can become integrated with the use of placemaking to serve surrounding communities better. To do this, the paper will focus on unpacking the spatial structure around infrastructure networks and the components of a sustainable city and the importance of public space. This theory and …
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Architecture and Memory at the Intersection of Transit, the Built Environment, and Placemaking in Tysons, VA
… insertion of experiential community building, placemaking, equity, and opportunity. Through a truly public intervention, the thesis acknowledges the wonder of the urban palimpsest, and the beauty that can thus emerge in both the physical and ephemeral realm, through the intersecting layers of …
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Introverted architecture and the human dimension : the conflict of placemaking in the disconnected urban fabric of Doha, Qatar
Doha, the capital city of Qatar, has become a metropolis of disconnected inward-facing mega-projects with no regard to the remaining fabric of the city. This can be owed to the relatively short urbanization period that the country has undergone, with its heavy reliance on international firms. The …
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The role of women in the formalisation of housing and placemaking: The case of the Victoria Mxenge housing project
… inclusion in the formalisation of housing and placemaking to redress the historical and systemic failings of the state. This dissertation examines the multifaceted challenges within informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa. It delves into three key issues: gender inequalities, the …
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‘Looking locally to understand transculturally’: A heritage and placemaking approach to the linguistic/semiotic landscapes of Cornish heritage in Mexico
In the years c.1824-1848, miners and their families migrated from Cornwall – a duchy in the southwest of the United Kingdom – to Hidalgo in central Mexico. This coincided with the decline of Mexico’s long-standing mining industry and Cornwall’s rise in the same. Although a historical view on …
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Seeds of the future in the Present: Exploring the Intersections of [placemaking] through the Anatomic-Tectonic and Nature Reconnection Practices
… Bo-Kaap, this research explores the concept of placemaking, uncovering the critical role of nature in fostering a sense of self through embodied pedagogical practices. The research emphasizes the significance of place memory and identifies the mountain as a powerful mnemonic, central to the …
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Siberian imaginaries: evaluating participatory placemaking as a tool for civic development of shared spaces in the postcolonial contexts of Yakutsk and Lensk, north-eastern Siberia
… practice examines the potential of participatory placemaking as a tool for the civic development of shared urban spaces in the postcolonial contexts of the cities of Yakutsk and Lensk located in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), North-Eastern Siberia. Inhibited by its colonial history and forced …
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Urban Entertainment Destinations: A Developmental Approach for Urban Revitalization
… revealed the importance of six key strategies- Placemaking, Multi-Anchoring, Contextual Links, Critical Mix & Mass, Programmability, and Branded Identity. Particular attention was placed on placemaking; designing gathering spaces, pathways, material choices, spatial relationships, and programmed …
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