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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Urbanity"”.
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Architecture for Urbanity
Designing architecture that reinforces urbanity starts with an intuitive understanding. Urban places are complex, containing many simple systems which combine to make a chaotic whole. This complexity is full of events, incidence and energy. In creating an architecture for urbanity, complexity is …
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Barren urbanity : transition and superimposition
Last winter I visited a housing cooperative named 'LSM' in Lublin, Poland. In a town of 350,000, 50,000 people lived in the estate located 1 kilometer southwest from the medieval and nineteenth century city center. What I saw was a cold barren landscape dotted with rectilinear concrete slab …
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The politics of urbanity : form and knowledge
This thesis focuses on the search for a more equitable urban environment. In Western Europe, the hope that cities are relevant forms of living and interacting, still exists. In Brussels, in the last fifteen years, the inhabitants formed a unique network of actions that attempts to recapture the …
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Adaptation and adaptability : expectant design for resilience in coastal urbanity
What is the nature of and possibility for urban resiliency through adaptation? Adaptation implies responsiveness to phenomena that are disruptive to a system's functioning; it is a willful evolution in response to changed circumstances. Adaptation occurs in cities when an event or fluctuation …
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Reconciling Social Housing and access to urbanity in Rio de Janeiro
This work is a discussion around the potential of "Parcelamento, Edificação ou Utilização Compulsórios" in English: "Compulsory land parceling, building and use" (or CPBU) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The law exists under the umbrella of the City Statute, a set of laws implemented in Brazil in …
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Visualising process and placemaking : upgrading shack urbanity in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… informal settlements, formulated here as ‘shack urbanity’. A purpose-designed representational tool – the Shack Urbanity Intervention Tool (SUIT) – has been developed to draw together data from polar arrival points into a simultaneous dimension of reference for navigating between the concrete and …
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Cosmopolitan comuneros: celebrating indigeneity through the appropriation of urbanity in the Quito Basin
My dissertation examines urban indigenous identity in the Quito Basin in contrast to essentialized representations of indigenousness that emanate from emerging multicultural state policy and prominent indigenous movements in Ecuador. Based on ethnographic research I conducted between 2003-2011, I …
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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
America's Midwest experienced its most rapid growth after the age of industrialization, stretching the suburban landscape beyond our wildest imagination, to a state of ubiquity. In the case of Iowa, this suburbanization comes at the sacrifice of the most valuable virgin agricultural land. In the …
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Spatial characteristics that create & sustain functional encounters: a new three-layered model for unpacking how street markets support urbanity
… the role of street markets in supporting urbanity as defined by Sennett (1974) to mean the ability for people to ‘act together without the compulsion to be the same’. The study draws together and builds on three strands of literature – public space, difference and social encounters – to …
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A mixed-use building for Washington D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue development area: diversity and urbanity as a design problem
This project has produced the design for a multi-use building combining offices, retail, and housing on a site in a prominent central area of the United States Capital.
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Kaupunkimaisuuden mittaaminen : Suomeen soveltuva alueluokittelumenetelmä
… the areas which are classified into the same urbanity class can contain different features if the intensity of the variables is high enough. The variables were chosen so that they represent different dimensions of urbanity but the emphasis was put on built environment. The key variables were: …
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Inbetween spaces: investigation of materials in contrast
Urbanity ls the use of the in-between spaces; use of every available lot, every square inch of space.
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Distributed household effects of climate policy in the United States
… of economic outcomes across geography, urbanity, and income groups. Climate policy has the potential to assess more costs to low-income households than high-income households (regressive) as well as more costs to rural households than metropolitan. The objective of this study was to …
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A Train Station for Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia: An Analysis of Blacksburg's Urban Condition and the Insertion of a New Defining Landmark
… the rules and characteristics of Blacksburgâ s urbanity and to project those rules into a new feature of the downtown foursquare grid. A train station that occupies the vicinity of the historic â Huckleberryâ rail line characterizes, defines, and augments the public regions of downtown …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… form of definition, in the absence of a physical urbanity that speaks of identity, character and community. This thesis is about making the "crossroads" where people communicate with one another. The need to provide shade to allow pedestrians to partiCipate in the life of the city is an essential …
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Effects of Internal Versus External Attribution and Body Mass Index on Weight Prejudice
… obese individuals. A respondent's age and urbanity were not shown to significantly predict weight prejudice.
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Play and tolerance : notions of looseness in social and material assemblages
… city in hopes of identifying potential for an urbanity outside the paradigm of compliance.
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Chengdu CSR : factory town 2.0 : urban regeneration of a socialist factory town in the west of China
… bands of different programs in order to obtain Urbanity and Temporality in the regeneration plans for these factory towns. Inspired by the local cultural element, Mahjong, these design principles are further developed into one major urban strategy, Mahjong. This strategy shifts the previous …
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The Eventuality of Space : Adaptability and Incrementality in the Suburban Hinterland of Mamelodi
… the opportunity to introduce new scales of urbanity to the context, whilst still being sensitive and encouraging existing spatial functions and patterns.
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Manufactured landscape : strategies for peri-urbanism in Dongguan
… economic model. It is invested in creating an urbanity out of this unique economy without necessarily abiding to the conventional zoning model. Architecturally the project transforms the generic conditions of each constituent production program in response to a typological reconfiguration.
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