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Showing 1 to 20 of 1551 for “"Suburban"”.
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Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
… is partly because the physical design of many suburban environments have repellent and disengaging characteristics. These characteristics have evolved alongside a basic structural transformation of American cities in the last century. In the end, the physical environment of the suburbs makes …
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SubUrban Highrise
Urban homes are vertical. Suburban homes are horizontal. They are two distinct typologies. Both urban and suburban homes relate to their location, vertical like the city, and horizontal like the suburbs. These homes are very recognizable in the American landscape. Suburban homes are 1-2 stories …
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DISTILLING SUBURBAN MYTH: SEMIOTIC DESIGN FOR DENSER SUBURBAN LIVING
… argues that evolving the resource-consumptive suburban forms requires an understanding of its spaces’ mythological denotation. Semiotics, the study of symbols, reveals that suburban form carries symbols reinforcing American ideas of privacy, individualism, status, security, ownership, and …
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Suburban Nation: An Investigation of Suburban Ideology and Youth Culture
… accompaniment to the thesis production entitled Suburban Nation. This documentary film (and the written component) explores the ways in which scholars and cultural observers have addressed the historical development of suburban spaces in North America and how those spaces are experienced by …
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Suburban urban patterns : the future form of suburban growth corridors
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Suburban land planning
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1948
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Reading suburban narratives
This thesis discusses London suburban-set fiction as enacting a key semiotic problem of modernity: how the individual must interpret, make sense of, and inhabit a particular locality. By semiotic here I mean the individual's drive to capture external reality, to read and constitute a sense of what …
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Suburban house studies
… at contemporary American detached single-family suburban dwellings. It does so from a historical/typological viewpoint (descriptive) and from a design viewpoint as well (prescriptive). Diagnostic analysis of over 50 spec/tract house plans provided evidence that many of the plans, while …
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Alternative suburban settlements
… into possible solutions to the paradigm of the suburban settlement. 1995 The condition of life in suburbia is currently drifting away from the ever-changing reality of our culture. The strongly infused notion of a private dwelling amidst a green grass setting has been the normative goal of …
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A suburban general hospital
Typescript (photocopy).
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Epidemiology of suburban deer
Urban and suburban development has expanded beyond the traditional core of major cities. Preservation of open spaces in metropolitan landscapes provides aesthetic and recreational values for humans. However, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations in North America are overabundant in …
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Repairing the suburban metropolis: Introducing varied housing typologies into the suburban city model
Suburban cities are renowned for containing a limited range of housing typologies, specifically the single family house and the apartment. This thesis examines the varied groups whose needs are not served by the housing types offered in the suburban model as well as the role that typical suburban …
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Starting with seven suburban houses
The suburban house, in its mass produced state of replication, represents a condensation of what we as an American culture want, need and look for in a house. This project dwells in the relationship between the function and representation of these ideas, somewhere in the space between the function …
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What next? : densifying suburban Brooklyn
… deal of the South African city now comprises of suburban environments. For all its negative portrayal in architectural discourse, there are also significant positive attributes to suburbia. Currently, the South African suburban condition is densifying. This process of densification means that the …
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An alternative to suburban housing,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1971. B.Arch.
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New patterns of suburban settlement
… of how the symbolic language of American suburban areas is important to the design of suburban residential development. A design case study is included, which illustrates how a concern for the preservation of the symbolic content of suburban form can be integrated with a desire to reduce …
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The Architecture of Suburban America
… never disappear as long as human culture exists. Suburban America provides good material to study such a thesis because, although it has a comparatively simple organization, it exhibits complex contemporary phenomena.
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Suburban housing: living between walls
The site, located in Alexandria, Virginia, is three acres and bounded by a road to the north, existing single family homes to the east and west, and a wooded area to the south. The slope falls away from the road and there is a swale running down the center of the site. The site strategy has three …
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A 500-bed suburban general hospital
Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1961.
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Corporate icons in the suburban landscape
… this thesis will explore. But in their day, the suburban corporate centers represented the epitome of advanced thinking about corporate organization, productivity, innovation, marketing, and architecture. This thesis will focus on how these large centers came into being, how they functioned and …
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