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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Post-industrial cities"”.
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Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development
… of redevelopment will be the same in a small post-industrial city as in a large, economically diverse one. Housing developers entering the context of a small post-industrial city must reconsider this idea. They must understand an idea of "holistic" housing revitalization that leverages the …
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Revitalizing Post-Industrial Cities: A Sustainable Approach through Eco-Cultural Tourism in West Virginia
… of eco-cultural tourism in revitalizing post-industrial cities, with a focus on the network of towns along the Ohio River in West Virginia. The research seeks to understand the multifaceted impacts of tourism on urban development, social infrastructure, and economic growth in small towns. …
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Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communities in midwestern post-industrial cities
… communities through case-study analysis of four post-industrial cities: Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through intensive site visits to these Midwestern cities conducted over a six-month period in 2011 as well as interviews with …
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Rethinking homeownership : why alternative tenure strategies are needed to stabilize neighborhoods in Lawrence, MA
… and resources with the unique needs of smaller post-industrial cities in the United States. Given the distinct demographic, economic and physical characteristics of smaller, postindustrial cities, I rely on Lawrence, MA as a case study to examine housing tenure and homeownership …
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Valuing Vacancy: Land Banking and Property Governance in the U.S. Rust Belt
… the shadow state towards property governance in post-industrial cities. Through a mission of resisting speculation in vacant housing, land banks further challenge the neoliberal orthodoxy of market-first policies, even while their work still reproduces existing capitalist property relations. …
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Glasgow Harbour: a marketable heritage?
… through its current regeneration project. Post-industrial cities commonly adopt the gentrification process as a means of cleansing society, erasing the memory of its industrial heritage and projecting a positive image for the region. This dissertation reflects on the heritage, identity and …
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The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo
… to connect two isolated neighborhoods within the post-industrial city of Buffalo, NY. The design strategy capitalizes on existing opportunities in Silo City, a neighborhood of abandoned grain elevators that attracts visitors with intermittent activities and seasonal events; and the Old First Ward, …
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Adaptation and adaptability : expectant design for resilience in coastal urbanity
… to changed circumstances. Adaptation occurs in cities when an event or fluctuation provokes a re-figuring towards new conditions or hazards. Considering current environmental and systemic changes in coastal post-industrial cities, this thesis explores adaptation and adaptability's form and …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… to create new print-based representations of post-industrial urban space. My printmaking methods revealed parallel actions, techniques, and material qualities that reference aspects of the post-industrial city such as structure/dematerialisation, complexity, simultaneity, and the transition …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… to create new print-based representations of post-industrial urban space. My printmaking methods revealed parallel actions, techniques, and material qualities that reference aspects of the post-industrial city such as structure/dematerialisation, complexity, simultaneity, and the transition …
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Urban constellations: reading contemporary cityscapes with Benjamin and Baudrillard
… the new cultural spaces, of twenty-first century post-industrial cities, and in relation to each other. I argue, following Benjamin, that these spaces function as contemporary ‘dreamhouses’. Deploying a constellation of Benjamin and Baudrillard’s ideas to read such spaces illuminates the …
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Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen
… This has led to a vastly sprawled, monotonous industrial urbanism, where urban environment has become a spatial product rather than a living city. However, just as Western post-industrial cities have experienced, some Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due …
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Manufacturing Social Capital: Social Networks through Civic Innovation Initiatives
The gentrification of industrial land in post-industrial cities is a driving force to displace urban manufacturing firms from cities. Entering the 2010s, manufacturing clusters started to be rebranded as innovation districts that connect manufacturers to entrepreneurs, designers, and artists to …
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Reimaging the city : the impact of sport initiatives on tourists' images of urban destinations
… Indeed, several commentators suggest that cities are consciously attempting to manufacture images and identities by manipulating a range of myths, traditions, lifestyles and urban cultures. The need to develop appealing city images is a particular concern for post-industrial cities …
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«Give me a break! I'm from Brooklyn, we're not fancy» Institutions, Housing and Lifestyles in Super-gentrification process. A Field and Historical research in Park Slope, New York City
… and this had to do with the changing role of post-industrial cities within the American economy, the processes of government/local institution interventions in the neighborhood housing market, the changes in class interests, morals and ideologies, and the increased aestheticized re-scriptings …
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Lightweight structures in urban design
… towards the environment that is needed in our cities. Lightweight architecture is concerned with optimal and, particularly, parsimonious use of materials and effort. Much lightweight architecture is tensile as structures loaded in tension use the least amount of material. Now that modern …
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Redeveloping Lawrence, Massachusetts' [sic] Historic Mill District : insights into adaptive reuse in untested residential markets
Lawrence, Massachusetts is one of a number of post-industrial cities in the northeastern United States that has the potential to convert underutilized industrial buildings into a valuable community asset, namely housing. Yet, despite a plentiful supply of historical industrial buildings, the …
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From Section 8 to Starbucks: The Effects of Gentrification on Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
… gentrification for the economic development of cities and this research contributes to the discussion by uncovering how housing is affected in a Rust Belt city. The deindustrialized cities of the American Rust Belt have been largely ignored within the gentrification literature because of the …
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… dissertation were to (i) assess and identify post-industrial urban neighborhoods with food-insecure and vulnerable populations, and (ii) explore and analyze the role of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in addressing place-based food insecurity. The study used mixed-methods, including qualitative …