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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Urban Village"”.
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Design guidelines : North Cambridge neighborhood intergenerational urban village center
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Invisible village: A potential alternative for urban village redevelopment in China
… and culturally identifiable community in an urban village redevelopment project in Langfang, China? ABSTRACT This research explores an alternative architectural strategy for urban village regeneration, focusing on Dong Village in Langfang, China. The project investigates how architectural …
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Local and translocal literacies in an urban 'village' : a sociolinguistic study.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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A GENTRIFYING URBAN VILLAGE: THE ROLE OF CHURCH, MONEY, AND IDENTITY IN A PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOOD
… constitutes the research site is Fishtown, an “urban village” in Philadelphia, long known as a white working-class enclave with a reputation for insularity. This research explores how two churches, composed of separate sets of residents, sustain community and deal with conflict in a context of …
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An African Dream Play = Isivuno Sama Phupha : reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu in the contemporary urban 'village' through theatre
… within the dynamic fabric of the contemporary urban 'village'-a space of many cultures, languages, ideologies and levels of economic status. This explication sets my practical research and the production Isivuno Sama Phupha in particular, in a theoretical framework and performance historical …
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Urbanism with Chinese Characteristics and the Right to the City : The Regeneration of Urban-Villages in Guangzhou, China
… to describe and evaluate the transformation of urban form in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, with a particular focus on the relations between social processes and spatial forms in the context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth interviews with key …
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A living monument for a rootless city
… city of Shenzhen has transformed from a small village to a megacity in just three decades due to the nation's economic policies. Despite its economic success, the city struggles with a lack of identity. In this thesis, monumentality is used as an analytical and design tool to address the city's …
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Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Neighbourhood Typo-Morphology: The Case of Kampong Bharu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The rapid development of the traditional urban village in relation to mixed-use, mixed-income neighbourhood are, typologically and morphologically being built and rebuilt, changing and evolving to meet the needs to contemporary society. Moreover, the fast pace of urban transformation has change the …
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Co-Exist
Chinese urban villages which have grown over time have difficulty to operate as a healthy urban environment. As a consequence, residents are often forced to move to the boundary of the city although many prefer its narrow streets and the informality of life. This thesis proposes a modern …
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Genius Loci---Vertical Temple Design
… issues being left, such as boomed populations, urban village emerging, social media issues and lack of human spirit. All of these issues occurred in the modern urban context, which made the "Loci Genius" lose. So how could architects reconstruct and conserve the "Genius Loci." I try to build the …
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Public realm usage patterns : lessons from Shenzhen's disappearing urban villages
Shenzhen's villages in the city or urban villages are forms of informal settlement that emerged in the midst of rapid Chinese urbanization. For a period of time, both the city and villages mutually benefited from the arrangement where rural-designated urban villages used their unrestricted …
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motus et re-creation: Movement and re-creation on accotink creek
… scale of Fairfax Circle in Fairfax City in suburban Northern Virginia and a piece of this area -- a small section that acts as a threshold from urban village to natural park/trail/creek bed. This smaller section is also along the most eroded section of the Accotink Creek. At the "master plan" …
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Nothing is Perfect, But Something is Just Right: Redevelopment of Inner-Ring Suburbs - Integrating Ecological Systems into Modern Urban Villages
… the amenities necessary to support a walkable Urban Village center are present within a half mile in each direction along the route. The project proposes a design for revealing a continuous flow stream channel currently piped underground and creating integrated stormwater detention basins along …
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Vertical Village : towards a new typology of high-density low-income urban housing
Apocalyptic global urbanization is old news. For generations statistically supported oracles have warned against the rising tide of rapid urban growth, one must only casually search the keywords "urban slum" on Goggle to witness the physical manifestation of these abstract predictions across the …
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Changing Cityscapes and the Process of Contemporary Gentrification: An examination of the transformation of Ringsend within the context of post-industrial growth in Dublin
… is a key feature of post-industrial growth and urban re-generation. A central concern of this research is to investigate the implications of the process of gentrification at the level of locality. This study approached this investigation by an examination of these processes within a particular …
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Crowdsourcing in community participatory planning in China : case studies in four communities in Shenzhen
… participatory planning is a crucial component of urban planning but there is no effective public participation in the Chinese planning decision-making process, which brings up social conflicts and planning failures. As more urban redevelopment are launched in China and social media becomes more …
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Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages
… development between industrialization and urbanization. This process of land commodification has resulted in the demolition of existing productive urban fabric such as urban villages. And yet paradoxically suffering from both high vacancy rates and exorbitant property prices, developed …
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High Density Residential Design
… is one the most significant phenomena of China's urbanization. In the thirty years since the "Reform and Open Up" policy began, Guangzhou has experienced economic growth and urban expansion and attracted a vast number of migrants. Seen as the product of the rapid urbanization, urban villages …
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Rebuilding the city from an ecological perspective
… paradigm shift. Planning, and more specifically urban design, have significant "leadership" roles to play in this movement. This thesis explores an ecological approach to design as an alternative to current theory and practice. By initially exploring ecological theories, a broad base is …
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Gender, authority, and the politics of land in Lesotho
… later, the reality looked much different in one village. Rather than having their land access secured or enhanced by the law, women in the village were being dispossessed by real estate developers, with the assistance of government bureaucrats. MCC's short-term data and measurement of outcomes, …
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