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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Urban Project"”.
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Developing the small, mixed-use urban project : contribution to neighborhood revitalization
Through out many cities in America, urban neighborhoods are characterized by the diminished vitality and extensive deterioration of their overall landscape. The consequences of modem city planning, architectural design and real estate development through out the past thirty years have abrogated …
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Boundaries to membranes : the urban project revisited : an urban strategy for Rio de Janeiro, Zona Norte
This thesis investigates urban boundaries in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The Zona Norte transitioned in the last hundred years from a rural outskirts area of Rio, into its industrial hinterland, into a fully urbanized dense fabric today. Currently the area is challenged by extreme …
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Landscapes of transformation
… architectural procedural techniques define an urban project which engages the consumption of transformation? This thesis proposes a response to the cultural effect of transformation and is developed through the architectural process of testing procedural techniques. The thesis also responds to …
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The urban dimension of architecture : Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Van Eyck and Vittorio Gregotti, in light of the city
… the city in Europe . Through analysis of recent projects I examine and evaluate the role of the city in the making of architecture. The city is a collective artifact. In the city, the architect is confronted with present-day social , economic and cultural realities, with patterns of social and …
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Archidrome
… family of facades that define any architectural project. Advancing through the rungs of academia and practice, Architects become diligent estheticians, building and maintaining carefully moisturized semblances. As mediatic cosmetologists, they are acutely aware of the public relations exercises …
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Stepping Stones to Resiliency in Families: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Study Following a Two-Generation Preschool Program
… A two-generation preschool program at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Education Housing Child Development Centre (CUPS One World) has been ongoing since 2001. Program objectives include improving early childhood development and school readiness through strengthening children’s …
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Festival modernism : downtown plans & pedestrian malls, 1956-1974
… the increasingly popular and profitable suburban shopping centers burgeoning at the fringe. By the late 1980s, pedestrian malls, once a panacea for struggling downtowns, had become the quintessential failed urban project. The rise and fall of the pedestrian mall marks a critical moment in …
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Producing Public Space in Barranquilla Colombia, (2000-2020). Between Urban Utopia and Dystopia
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Space, place, and nationalism: Constituting, transmitting, and contesting national identity in the urban landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850 to 1940
This study analyzes how urban space in Zagreb, Croatia was used to establish and then contest the trajectory of the Croatia national project between 1850 and 1940. To accomplish this, the study focuses on the extent to which the Croatian national project and the urban project of Zagreb were …