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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Urban decay"”.
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Transforming the Potchefstroom industrial area and the Ikageng Gateway corridor to combat urban decay.
Urban spaces are dynamic entities shaped by the interplay of physical infrastructure, social dynamics, economic forces, and historical legacies (Stanley et al.,2012). This research project explores the complexities of urban decay and transformation within the Potchefstroom Industrial Area, South …
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Urban decay and regeneration strategies in small towns: a case study of Thohoyandou, South Africa
Evidence of urban decay in small South African towns has been increasingly discernible over the years. Undoubtedly, other small rural towns face a myriad of challenges attributable to historic apartheid planning. They are distressed and underperforming despite having urban regeneration strategies …
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I know you are, but what am I? : stories
… who struggle with issues of alienation and urban decay.
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Psychogeographical displacement: Responses to exploitation of urban space in the visual arts
<p>This project addresses the impact urban space has on individuals. Representations of New York, New Orleans, and Detroit are used to demonstrate the interconnectedness among space, people, and social issues. Social issues manifest themselves in urban decay, and the inhabitants react to this …
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Preserving the Heartbeat of Trench Town: A Vision for Urban Renewal
Urbanization has increased the demand for housing in major cities across the Caribbean. Jamaica is one of several islands dealing with the overwhelming difficulty of providing and improving the living conditions of individuals living in informal settlements. In the heart of Jamaica's capital, …
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Fugitive Architecture: Obsolescence, Aspiration, and Adaptation in Vancouver's Urbanizing Industrial Areas
… this thesis problematizes notions of urban decay and renewal, unsettling norms of market economics and urban planning. Profit-driven design methodologies diminish a building's material quality and longevity, adversely impacting life-cycle outcomes. Central to this thesis is a new …
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Binghamton's missing teeth: a study of city-owned vacant lots in Binghamton, New York
… in shrinking cities that have experienced urban outmigration and economic decline. Low-income neighborhoods and blight lead to conditions where vacant lots exist, consequently producing disamenities for the residents that live near them. Considered magnets of crime and stigmatized for their …
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Developing A Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse in Philadelphia, 1960-1973
… responses to the composite challenges of urban decay and was influenced by concerns for development, law enforcement, and fiscal survival. In the early 1960s, a focus on development and a combination of overt racism and the more subtle psychological process of racial othering made drug …
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Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Regenerating Urban Vacancy: A Case Study of Songkhla, Thailand
This thesis investigates the pervasive issue of urban vacancy in Songkhla City, Thailand, characterized by the prevalence of vacant, abandoned, or underutilized properties. Such urban vacancies arise from a complex interplay of factors, including economic downturns, demographic shifts due to urban …
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Design for decline
… is both a symptom of, and contributor to, urban decay. By redefining sustainability as a strategic tool for facilitating the transition between growth and descent, could we envision an architecture that-facing obsolescence, foreclosure, and neglect-both transforms itself spatially and …
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The experience and image of American elevated railways : rapid transit infrastructure in the urban consciousness
… were noisy, blocked sunlight, and contributed to urban decay -- due to local context, response to the elevated lines in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia differed among those who used, maintained, and lived by the line. For some, the line was a backbone of community commerce or memory; for others, …
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Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan
… and largely uninhabited, creating vast urban blights. Dubai risks damage to both its image and its ability to function. The city's decline, however, presents a unique opportunity for immediate and sweeping intervention against urban decay. My thesis proposes a dialectical planning …
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Modelling The World : The Social Constructions Of Systems Analysts
… but was later expanded to tackle the problems of urban decay, population growth, and environmental collapse. It is therefore now aimed at large scale social engineering. The aim of the dissertation is to take tools drawn largely from the sociology of knowledge in order t o provide a perspective on …
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Urban regeneration through transit-oriented development: an initial perspective from the global South
… and change, certain areas begin to physically decay and suffer from the flight of both its residents, as well as socioeconomic activities. The means by which these areas are regenerated remains an issue for many cities, who are unable to reconnect these places with opportunities needed to …
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Getting Off Track: Roanoke, Altoona and the Derailment of Norfolk Southern
… whole. Each has a chapter in the story of urban decay and renewal with different endings. But the actions of their elected officials, before, during, and after their community's single industry downsizes or leaves, make all the difference. The following comparative policy paper examines the …
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Crime politics and late modernity : an exploration of community, identity and morality
… that explores the link between disadvantage, urban decay and crime rates. Yet under New Labour, community decline has been reframed as moral breakdown. This has led to a battery of rhetoric and policy, designed to instil moral and social responsibility. This thesis explores the intellectual …
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Sustainable project management in urban development projects: a case study of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Project, Rivers State, Nigeria
Sustainable urban development is fundamental to future generations as it determines the sustainability of cities and urban infrastructures. The project considers sustainable management of ongoing urban development in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Urban areas are the future for humanity; …
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Investigating the potential use of existing buildings for vertical farming
… existing buildings can be used to accommodate urban vertical farms. The objectives were focused on reviewing existing legislation, building design considerations, the possible usage of VF as a solution to urban decay, reviewing the global VF trends, and considering why real estate developers …
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Submergence as emergence : expanding social waterscapes in a shrinking city
This thesis seeks to reclaim spaces of urban disinvestment by developing alternative forms of contact and connectivity across urban water systems. Framing water as a mode of gathering, this project connects myriad urban realities, peoples, and practices. Alternative forms of linkages provide users …
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Adapting at multiple scales: Towards a contextualised adaptive reuse of disused commercial infrastructure in secondary South African cities
… then and the CBD is beginning to experience urban decay. With this as background the dissertation, explores regeneration of a CBD and the opportunities that lie in large scale disused concrete frame buildings in Nelspruit, a secondary South African city. Affordable housing plays an important …
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