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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Street Life"”.
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From Street Life to Community Life
… develop and perform their understandings of the street life that they observe in their neighborhood. It involves a phenomenological investigation into how a group of eight young Black males make sense and meaning of street life and street gangs in their neighborhoods. It involved conducting one, …
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Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis
<bold>Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis</bold> The most unique feature of downtown Minneapolis is the extensive Skyway system that links over sixty city blocks above the streets and sidewalks allowing its users to completely ignore any activity occurring below them. …
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The ghetto marketplace: program and design for Black street life.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.
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DOMESTIC HORIZON
… to create a CITY ABOVE GROUND, and to expand street life on the ground.
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Living the Downtown: The era of new neighborhood cities
… of those changes on the city's urban fabric and street life.
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Rethinking walled residential compound in peripheral urban China : a guideline for boundary and size design
… inconvenience of public transportation, lack of street life, redundancy and exclusiveness of public amenities. However, the existence of enclosing perimeter has its historical context and contemporary causes. Instead of completely rejecting "walled community" as a viable typology, this thesis …
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Eastern Seaport Master Plan
… city’s hub for water transit, and designing a street front for the mixed-use city blocks that encourages street life in Boston’s harsh climate, the master plan will create a dynamic urban neighborhood that functions as its own entity but ties back to Boston as part of the city’s call to reclaim …
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Filling the Gaps: Reimagining Public Space as a Continuum
… found in the gaps of time and space along the street. Yet, these moments are rapidly disappearing from the urban fabric. Who owns public space? To address this question, Filling the Gaps reflects on the agency of the street and the different actors that come into play. How can the notion of …
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Beyond the market : a case study of the downtown revitalization paradox in Framingham, Massachusetts
… property values, and stripping neighborhoods of life. In the early 21 t century, with recent immigrants to the U.S. largely bypassing major urban areas for suburbs and small cities, these new destinations now face "urban" pressures in devising redevelopment strategies and plans. The town of …
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Transformation of the courtyard house--low-rise high density urban housing in Korea
… of construction, and a revitalization of street life and open space.
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How have youth experienced trying to get off the street : what has helped and hindered
The experience of how youth get off the street is scarcely documented. The present study explored what helped and hindered youth in their experience as they tried to get off the street and addressed the following research question: “How have youth experienced trying to get off the street: what has …
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'Street children' and education: a comparative study of European and third world approaches
“Street children” appear, within current forms of state provision, an irreversible aspect of the world's 'out of school youth 1. NGOs demonstrate appropriate strategies, but do not have the resources for widespread action. State Educational Systems are inert, but have the possibility of a more …
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The city expressed : everyday media production and the urban environment
… produced about place. This content - photos of street life, overheard quotes, and local reviews, for example - emerges out of daily routines, and has a reciprocal relationship with the urban environment, both contributing to, as well as reflecting the life of the city. In this thesis, I aim to …
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Cultural Sustainability through Architecture
… by office blocks, which contribute little to street life on weekends, my thesis is dealing with the broad topic of cultural sustainability. I began my thesis thinking about a project dealing with ecological sustainability, but not long after starting to research, I gained the knowledge that …
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Prototypes for public infrastructures
… criticized for their failure to contribute to street life along Second Avenue, a matter made worse by the fact that the land the buildings occupy was taken through eminent domain. This thesis proposes an alternative to the existing attitude toward ancillary structures by introducing a series of …
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The vertical form of public ground : the typological reimagination of a skyscraper through the reinterpretation of relationship between the architecture and urbanism of Manhattan
… the urban fabric and respond to the existing street life and culture. Finally, the thesis proposes a skyscraper as an urban connector, by virtue of rethinking of circulation and structure. This new type of a skyscraper supports the multiple strata of public space and cultural programs, such as …
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Redefining Public Space in Hanoi. Places, Practices and Meaning
… Whereas “Hanoi was renowned for its quiet streets in the 1980s” (Drummond 2000: 2382), nowadays it is characterised by its bustling street life. Public spaces, such as streets and sidewalks, are appropriated by private individuals for mostly small-scale economic activities. Existing green …
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Perception of Street Children and the Role of Community in Supporting Their Access to Education
This study focuses on the perceptions of street children and the role of community in supporting them to access education. It specifically explored the perceptions that primary school teachers have about street children; and how the street children identify themselves. It also examined the role of …
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Micro active network after massive urban expansion
… mode, and as an example for sustainable urban life in relation to transit development mode. The test field of this thesis is Shenzhen, a city that developed in an automobile-dependent mode and now aims to shift towards a transit-oriented development mode. Through city form analysis and …
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