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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"Public Realm"”.
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Beyond program : designing future industries for the public realm
… corporation and its relationship with the public realm (including the commodification of natural resources). The background to this project is rooted locally in the early urbanization of this region at the hands of corporations such as U.S Steel, but also historically through an examination …
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Defining the American public realm : an escape from tradition
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Art in the public realm : integrating audience, place, and process
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Public realm usage patterns : lessons from Shenzhen's disappearing urban villages
… as a community and place through its dynamic public realm. The unplanned activities and street life in the village's alleys and niches include many social and recreational uses alongside necessary economic and domestic uses. The urban village becomes a potential model for a responsive, …
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Innovation districts : economic development, community benefits, and the public realm
… resiliency within the innovation ecosystem. Public innovation centers have the opportunity to bolster this environment by providing needed community space, fostering exchange within the public realm, and helping to sustain a mix of budding startups and established firms. Innovation space such …
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High streets: Constructing the public realm in a low income area
… an institutional building that aids a positive public realm. The objective is to reinforce the emerging high street in Delft by facilitating diversity. The components of street diversity are explored by developing three building types that make various street conditions namely; a building onto a …
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Redesigning the public realm : a new center for Santurce, Puerto Rico
Public space Is the stage upon which the daily drama of communal life unfolds. the dynamic setting for our basic needs: politics. religion. recreation. and commerce. Essential complement to both workspace and dwelling (defined as private realms). the public space provides the common grounds for …
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Transport sanctuary : a secure public realm within a city of violence
… can effectively intervene to create a secure public realm in pluralistic and fractious urban environments grows more vital. This thesis explores the spatial and social notion of sanctuary as an architectural strategy in such contexts, using the design of a central transit station in a northern …
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
… New York in 1898, a renewed interest in republican political theory among progressive liberals coincided with a new kind of civic architecture. For the first time in American history, cities and the urban public emerged as crucial parts of democratic citizenship, at least for progressives …
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Symbols and Spatiality of Social Media: Re-constructing the Digital Public Realm
… project centers around the making of the digital public realm and its social impact. In the first half, I aim to offer a diagnosis of today's problematic online environment from an architectural and urbanistic point of view. In the second half, I will present two new symbols that have the …
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Art Ecology and Planning: Strategic Concepts and Creativity within the Post Industrial Public Realm
… expand the artists' role in the post-industrial public realm and its environmental context. The general focus was on transformative approaches to contemporary public art. The specific interest (and area of practice) is defined by artwork that takes an interdisciplinary approach to new forms of …
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
… to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its methodology and contexts for operation, the rural, spaces of leisure and the public realm. It is a response to threats to spatial and …
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Engines of culture : learning from the unique public realm of the long distance train
… how to design and manage the train and non-train public spaces. In addition to my ethnographic research, I analyzed the changing symbolism of the train. My research indicates that the long distance train exhibits qualities similar to Foucault's concepts of heterotopia, and that though it is in …
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Bridging across Nicosia's divide : from a "no man's land" to a shared public realm
This thesis addresses the issue of creating a new urban identify for Nicosia, Cyprus, by rebuilding the Buffer Zone -the "no man's land" that presently divides the city- in a way that encourages the sharing of the urban space by both the Greek and Turkish communities. The author investigates …
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The role of artists in the public realm: an investigation into artists' generative processes in context.
… within the strands of art practice in the public realm raises the question, what is the practical contribution artists make to society' which can only be answered by first understanding how artists work. Introducing the concepts of context, artist-led and residency with reference to the …
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From anonymity to public space : exploring the role of farmers markets in Los Angeles' public realm
… concerns of centrality and a coherent public realm. As Robert Fogelson points out, Los Angeles is "a city hooked on growth, deeply divided socially, and perhaps too fragmented to generate the kind of public life that could override the destructive consequences of maximizing private …
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Green Infrastructure in the Public Realm: Reimagining Stormwater and the Urban Fabric of Falls Church, Virginia
… after tabulating a confluence of stormwater and public realm factors. S. Maple Avenue is a part of the Falls Church bike network and is also designated to become a civic great street. Meanwhile, Annandale Road has the potential to play an active role in collection and management of stormwater. …
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A variation of the New Urbanism : provision of a public realm for the City of Attleboro, Massachusetts
… 's primary goal is to provide and enhance a public realm, th is thesis examines how the New Urbanism has conveyed its ideals to establish public environments. From the examination, three models, "Networks, Spatial Sequence, and Activities," are designed to facilitate the New Urbanism's …
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Transactional terrains : partnerships, bargains and the Postwar redefinition of the public realm, New York City 1965-1980
… and urban history of the privatization of the public realm. At the center of the research is New York City during the "urban crisis" years of the 1960s, as the city grappled with issues of civil rights, urban policy, and physical decline. The period saw an ongoing shift in how city and state …
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