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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Urban Interventions."”.
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Urban Interventions: Architecture as a mechanism of inclusion
In the rapidly urbanizing world, it may seem normal to hear that while only 2% of the earth's surface is occupied by cities, 53% of the world's population lives in cities. What may seem alarming however is the fact that of that 53%, 33% of city dwellers today actually live in slums. To place …
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Alternative Urbanism Between The Formal And Informal: Investigating The Transformative Potential Of Small Urban Interventions In Neoliberal Cairo
… research interest in community-based small urban interventions that have been activating and reshaping urban spaces in many cities around the world. The study engages with the arguments regarding the transformative potential of these alternative modes of intervention discussed in the …
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Explorations on an urban interventions management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change.
How we plan and manage urban development has become an increasingly complex challenge, due to unpredictable and rapid conditional changes in post-modern cities. In turn, this calls for a paradigm shift in the way we understand and practice urban planning and design. A resilient urban planning …
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Explorations on an urban interventions management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change.
How we plan and manage urban development has become an increasingly complex challenge due to unpredictable and rapid conditional changes in postmodern cities. This in turn calls for a paradigm shift in the way we understand and practice urban planning and design. A resilient urban planning system …
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The role of professionals in partnership-based urban upgrading interventions
In South Africa, current urban planning models and traditional state-led urban interventions seem to have noticeably failed to sustainably address the integrated problems that are evident in informal settlements throughout the country. In the case of many current urban interventions, professionals …
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In Search of Forms in the Design of an Urban Intervention
Urban Interventions are too often regarded by long-time inhabitants of city neighborhoods as a means to displace them from their homes to make room for expensive chain stores and exclusive residential buildings - gentrification. This view is unfortunately correct more often than not. An …
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Habitar o Comércio, uma questão central: a política habitacional no bairro do Comércio em Salvador (1970- 2024).
… marked processes of population decline and urban depreciation, driven by economic and political transformations as well as shifts in broader urban dynamics. Within Salvador’s Historic Center, the neighborhood of Comércio illustrates this pattern in a particularly emblematic way, showing a …
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Architecture of interiority (architecture of traces)
… derived in the proposal of three PROTOTYPICAL URBAN INTERVENTIONS that explored the REFORMULATION of spatial relationships in order to create intimacy within a highly transparent volume. By reinventing a cultural typology one can engage in a discussion about IDENTITY. By creating spaces of …
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Defining and Enhancing Place-Identity in Historic Cities: Embracing heritage, conflict, and globalisation in Erbil, Iraq
… around the world, spatially impacting urban form. This is further compounded during post-war reconstruction by global influences that have played a strong role in re-shaping urban form and distinctive place-identity of unique historical landscapes. One recent example is the case of …
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Invisible Logic of Space Forming - Rethinking the Urban Growth in Yueyang, China
… of the country’s spectacular and accelerating urbanization in the last three decades. In the era of globalization, China’s urban landscape has been dramatically changed by massive deconstructions of existing building fabric, as well as large scale new construction of imported western …
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City in the River: Regeneration of the Santa Catarina River as an Intermittent Urban River
… How should an intermittent river in a dense urban context be regenerated? This thesis reimagines its ecological, hydrological, and public potential. Set in Monterrey, Mexico, this research addresses the urgent need to rethink water management in the face of the intensifying climate crisis …
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Rearrangements – Four Urban Experiments Between Soil and Sky
… practice as an architect-artist in the fields of urban intervention, ontological design and experimental worldbuilding. My projects involve prototyping arrangements in urban space that contain ideas currently excluded from modern colonial urban design. These ideas, both specific and broad, include …
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Three essays examining social vulnerability and place-based determinants of health
… emphasize the importance of considering how urban interventions might have heterogenous effects by SES.
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A computational tool for evaluating urban vitality using Kendall Square development proposals as a case study
… in their interactions within the contexts of urban planning. Whether planned interventions or new developments, the aim of this research is to give stakeholders the ability to weigh the implications from these interventions on the vitality of districts. Chapter 1 lays the foundation of the …
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Bottoms, Hollows, and Flats : making and remaking the lower section of the American city
This dissertation is an urban environmental history of the low-lying American slum. Using qualitative research methods, I investigate the historical phenomenon of topographically based, socio-economic segregation in cities, and how urban actors first created these places then remade them. I examine …
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On the Relationship Between Spatial-Temporal Outdoor Thermal Comfort Simulations and Bike Ridership
… mode choice are key information required by urban planners and policy makers to promote and implement thermal comfort concepts. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) has been linked to outdoor activity patterns and used to evaluate the effectiveness of urban interventions to improve …
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Race & Mobility in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Migration Control
… Such matters are now also substantially urban. As cities of refuge rely increasingly on tech companies to develop digital urban infrastructures for accessing information, services, and socioeconomic life at large, they are also inviting the border closer to cities and migrant bodies. This …
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Living the Downtown: The era of new neighborhood cities
… the reflection of those changes on the city's urban fabric and street life.
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Long-term prospects of land value uplift in planned new urban centres: Measurement, modelling and predictions
… fast growth frequently desire to plan new urban centres in currently low-demand areas where the potential for radical urban transformation is high, but the prima facie prospects of LVC are poor. Urban planners often recognise that good land value gains could eventually arise in low-demand …
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Formas de inserción de los yacimientos arqueológicos en áreas fuertemente antropizadas de la Costa del Sol: Una aproximación metodológica previa al aprovechamiento territorial de la ruina.
Starting from the premise that archeology, by definition, does not seek the necessary use or recycling of archaeological remains within the territory that contains them, which could materialize into the creation of identity, wealth and culture enclaves, this work proposes an inductive method of …