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Showing 1 to 20 of 443 for “"Urbanism"”.
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Butterfly / urbanism
… during the past two decades. Butterfly/Urbanism proposes to enhance Monarch butterfly habitats through a new approach to agricultural economy, as well as through strategic urban design. In order to integrate Monarch butterfly habitat with a new type of urbanism, three aspects are …
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Rubberbanding urbanism
… is a stale, static, and culturally unsustainable urbanism. ..... Notodden is currently using this orderly process of structuring urbanism to revitalize the new downtown. This master plan exposes how the end architectural forms and urban patterns become static and life less. As a result, even when …
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Flexible urbanism
… that remain occupied. The idea of flexible urbanism that would benefit the Chicago neighborhood can be traced back in history to the eighteenth century, a period during which rationality created a new type of society. Rationality is fundamental to this thesis, taken to its hilt with the idea …
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Landscape as Urbanism
… has new found relevance in contemporary urbanism becoming the medium that defines urban form; inserting the built environment within the context of complex natural, social and cultural environments. Landscape has the potential to design relationships between dynamic environmental …
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Infrastructural Urbanism: Hybridizing Our Networks
<p><em>“The story of people can be told through our infrastructure. In the rise and fall of cities throughout history, the places best positioned for a thriving future have always been those that offer systems to create the lives that we want. And we can see that as the innovations of canals, …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
Literary Urbanism and the Symbolist Aesthetic argues that the modern city influences urban writers to develop particular literary-visual practices that translate urban experience into poetry and prose. Chapter one considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles …
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Toxic urbanism : hearth, heimatlosigkeit, home
… Humanity has settled in a condition of toxic urbanism, contained by the toxic wastelands of the periphery. The Anthropocene has wreaked havoc and produced a world of toxins. Early estimates of the exponential destruction caused by our toxic landscapes of production were misled by constantly …
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European urbanism in Caracas (1870s-1930s)
… Rotival. Considering that the emergence of urbanism cannot be reduced to its mere technical contents - especially in the backward context of the Venezuela of that period - the research traces not only the transfer of urbanistic ideas, but also the importation which took place in the domains …
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Amphibian urbanism in Dhaka’s contested wetlands
… to urban wetlands that imagines an amphibian urbanism that thinks with coupled social and ecological dynamics across scales and temporalities in an urbanizing world.
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Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction
… African urbanity. I argue that the Gothic urbanism which these texts unfold enables the ascendance of generative, anti-dualist modes of reading the contemporary African city that are simultaneously real and imagined, old and new, global and local, dark and light - modes that perform as much …
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Containers : project for a new urbanism
… project investigates the possibilities of a new urbanism in vast territories of urban industrial and logistics landscapes, which have become a significant feature of the American city. It is a search for a hybrid typology of habitation and production for these neglected fields. The project starts …
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Water Urbanism: Fish Market Design Proposal
The first civilizations we have ever heard of were along the banks of mighty rivers like Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Huang. These civilizations developed along rivers as riverfronts provided opportunities for tradeand transportation, fertile land to grow crops, water for drinking, washing, livestock …
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[D]urbanism: The revelation of repressed transgression
… the deviance from the skeletal remains of modern urbanism. A city branded as devastated is actually the epitome of owning the margin. This thesis amalgamates disenfranchised city islands by accelerating Detroit's underlying and inherent urbanism of transgressive circulation and communication …
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Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India
My dissertation examines how current governances in cities of India are involved in engineering a new politics, i.e. the sculpting of civic subjects. This agenda, to sculpt civic subjects by entrepreneurializing spaces, is relatively new. I chronicle that beneath this political maneuver to …
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Adaptive urbanism : shaping rapid growth in Nairobi
Within the past half century many African nations regained independence and in the process, imported various development models from the Western World. Joan Clos, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations claims "it is now evident that all these models have failed to achieve the goals that …
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Ecological Urbanism: Embedding Nature in the City
… focus on the built environment is "landscape urbanism." First appearing in the 1990s, landscape urbanism is a theory that argues that the best way to organize a city is through the design of its landscape, rather than the design of its buildings. At its best, landscape urbanism encourages a …
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Urbanism of disassembly : strategies for Alang's shipbreaking industry
… This thesis aims to explore the potential for urbanism to intervene into an industry like Alang to develop a regional strategy of urban metamorphosis.
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Granular urbanism : adaptive strategies for obsolete downtown neighborhoods
Tackling the problem of obsolescence in North American cities, this thesis interrogates the question of how we should plan for the regeneration of aging office buildings. I argue that current whole-building, coarse-grained office-to-residential conversion results in entire urban neighborhoods …
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