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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Urban Public Space"”.
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Urban public space on the Las Vegas Strip
This study is an analysis of randomly selected urban public spaces on the Las Vegas Strip. This study uses criterion gleaned from studies of traditional as well as contemporary urban public spaces throughout the world but predominately major cities in the United States such as New York, Los Angeles …
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Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space
<p>Public space is often perceived as a space that is open to everyone and is meant for gatherings and interaction; however, there is often a great competition over the use and control of public places in contemporary cities. This master’s thesis uses as an example Washington Square Park, which has …
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Embodying the City: Identity and Use in Urban Public Space
Certain urban public spaces seem to embody the cities in which they are found, helping to make those cities the vibrant places they are. This project explores how urban public spaces can be created to reflect the vitality of the city by embracing the culture and the people who reside in it. Through …
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The �silent� privatisation of urban public space in Cape Town, 1975 � 2004
… South Africa has witnessed processes of urban fortification, barricading and the gating of urban space that are manifested in contemporary urban South Africa. This research shows that the privatisation of urban public space is not solely a postapartheid phenomenon. Closure legislation has …
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The fantasy of the New York nightclub : a study of an urban public space
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Experience-Oriented Ecological Design: A Methodological Framework to Improve Human Experience in Urban Public Space Ecological Design
… and it is based on the premise that contemporary urban public space ecological designs. Are often deficient in this regard. In order to develop a design methodology that addresses both ecological function and sensory experience, the author examine both contemporary western ecological design and …
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Upholding civility towards diversity in urban public space: exploring the makings of conviviality and belonging in Cape Town's city centre
… with the makings of conviviality in the market spaces in Cape Town's city centre. It investigates the strategies through which diverse actors in the Church Street Antique Market, Greenmarket Square and St George's Mall negotiate - even celebrate - difference. In doing so the study offers an …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
… mid-twentieth century, various architectural, urban, cultural, and computer science discourses have advanced the rhetoric that contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) will fundamentally transform the built and urban environment. More recently, communications and media …
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Light in the city
… qualities of light inform the design of urban public space. The qualities of light investigated in the thesis are inspired by artists, architects and public spaces. The proposed qualities combine with the existing vocabulary of light to produce a design proposal unique to the site. The …
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Downtown Boston : a public place
… the physical and experiential qualities of public space in downtown Boston. Streets are the dominant element of urban public space; other elements include plazas , squares, promenades, alleys and parks. Together they form an interwoven public network giving the city its basic physical …
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Of airports and architecture : exercises in public form
Airports as an architectural and urban typology typically lack physical and spatial integration with their urban context. Contrary to the city, airports have evolved into semi-autonomous spaces and products of political and economic conflicts between local and global constituencies, generating …
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Urban Planning principles as mechanisms for improving informal trading opportunities: A case study of inner-city Johannesburg
… of informal traders who seek to make use of urban public space in their livelihood strategies. However, the forces driving the performance of informal traders have not led to positive development of opportunities for traders. Operation Clean Sweep in 2013, was a means of strongly enforcing …
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The Marginal Public: Marginality, Publicness, and Heterotopia in the Space of the City
This thesis explores the experiences of an urban population who are considered to exist at the social margins of society, but who paradoxically spend much of their time in urban public space. Often referred to as ‘street people,’ the issues they face, such as homelessness and drug addiction, become …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
… architecture can be. In my thesis I propose that urban infrastructure built in the late nineteenth-century, can be the foundation for urban public space in the late twentieth-century. I propose that by exploring the value inherent in an existing structure, or fragment thereof, we can derive …
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South Boston ex-urban : a new living paradigm for harbor revitalization
… have been rapidly redeveloped to facilitate urban expansion in the last three decades. The overlap of industrial decline and new revitalization has prompted new issues. Living in the city and urban demographics are changing. On the macro-level, because of the emptiness of the newly developed …
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"The Image of PLAZA" : an analysis of an academic community web space using Kevin Lynch's approach for "The image of the city"
… of how the design issues of a community web space can be approached from the viewpoint of urban design not in terms of appearance but in terms of its functionality. An urban public place like a plaza and a community web space both serve their residents' social lives whether real or virtual. …
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Conviviality in Bellville: an ethnography of space, place, mobility and being
… a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It is a study of how the mystique of conviviality configures amongst a diverse migrant and mobile population that frequents Bellville's central business district surrounding the train station - an area …
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A matter of understanding : urban design strategies to integrate street vendors in Mumbai
… fail to fit into a newly emerging notion of what urban public space should look/be/operate like. They have thrived, often despite strong opposition from the government, and now even some citizen groups, because they provide a necessary and efficient service. This thesis explores whether, instead …
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Programmable places : mobile games for improving public space
The public realm is an important element of any city. Urban design theorists like Allan Jacobs have described in detail how public spaces can serve city inhabitants with physical comfort and social amenities. Meanwhile, urban political theorists like Henri LeFebvre have pointed out that public …
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Assessing urban dynamics in Johannesburg’s public space : highlighting urban segregation and connectivity patterns of public space from an urban psychology perspective
This research investigates patterns of urban segregation and connectivity in public recreational spaces within the City of Johannesburg, focusing on Innesfree Park and Frank Brown Park along the Corridors of Freedom development spines. Situated in a post-apartheid context, these parks symbolise …
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