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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"contemporary urban design"”.
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Salt River multi modal transport interchange
South African cities have unique spatial design challenges which can be attributed to our historical and politically charged urban planning practices. Our cities are characterised by modernist town planning principles which have fragmented communities through spatial barriers such as highways, …
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Landscapes past & urban design The case of Chouteau's Pond in St. Louis
… both visible and hidden layers of past lives. As designers, we inherit landscapes with complex narratives and existing conditions, all contributing to a palimpsest of urban development. The subject of this thesis is Chouteau's Pond, an artificial body of water that once existed just south of …
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Continuums and Conjunctions: An assemblage of Eastern and Western architectural and philosophical perspectives
… Conjunctions examines spatial relationships in contemporary Chinese high- rise architectural design in the context of rapid urbanization. Traditional Chinese architecture was guided by the principles of Feng Shui, placing emphasis upon a harmonious interrelation of architectural and natural …
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PLACEIFY: A data-driven framework for evaluation-by-analogy in early-stage urban analysis and design
Within the field of urban design and planning, the explicit parameterization of many complex aspects of urban environments is a challenge. Specifically, the representation of ‘intangible’ experiential and affective qualities is often difficult, which makes the quantitative evaluation of such …
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From masterplanning to adaptive planning : understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order
My research is an examination of the scope of contemporary urban design and planning tools and processes which can act as alternative qualitative methodologies for the renewal of urban conditions at multiple scales through adaptive methods embracing change, stresses and shocks affecting societies …
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Shaping density : how can high density form yield good urban places?
… lays the foundations for a very high-density urban development of approximately 130-140 dwellings per hectare. However, the actual numbers depend on a variety of inconsistent forces, such as the changing socio-political and economic climate and how these will modify the existing site. What …
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L'evoluzione dialettica spazio-tempo nella cultura del progetto urbano contemporaneo
… Selon cette perspective, les disciplines de l’urbanisme et de l’architecture, qui traditionnellement se sont occupées de la ville comme d’un objet d’intérêt propre, se trouvent aujourd’hui en difficulté dans la définition de leur propre utilisation du temps, devant se confronter avec des …