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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"industrial landscape"”.
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Claiming the urban industrial landscape
… McGrath highway. It supports a variety of light industrial uses that first located there because of proximity to the railroad line. The current actiVities that surround this open area of disused rail sidings are scrap yards, auto parts stores, and warehouses. The open character of the site and …
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Reconnecting man with nature : post industrial landscape development
… in the 18th century, transforming the natural landscape and influencing the people directly dependant on it, this enforces to the consumer culture we experience every day. This industrial development all over the world has disregarded apparent and non-apparent relationships that humans have …
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A museum of movement : reinterpreting the industrial landscape
… space was created and maintained by continuing industrial and infrastructural concern. The physical site, all of the industrial residue, and the large-scale infrastructure has been built in the past-and is being built in the present- to support the metropolis of Boston. The architectural …
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Contemporary perpsectives and strategies for transforming the industrial landscape
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Rethinking the industrial landscape : the future of the Ford Rouge complex
… industries in the past century and the industrial landscape that this activity has produced has had profound physical, environmental, social and economic impact on the communities of which they are an integral part. Throughout the past century, industry has dominated the man-made …
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Re-Presencing Woodstock Gasworks: Remediation and re-imagination of an industrial landscape
… that was to be extended in the contemporary landscape, it was about a wasted piece of post-industrial land that was intended to be programmatically re-imagined to redefine our relationship with infrastructure. The second part and final outcome is a building proposal. Its function has been …
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Localness : a village proposal for mixed use reappropriation of the industrial landscape
… addresses the transformation of single-use industrial space to mixed-use public and private space, linking pedestrian and vehicular paths within the village of Sussex, WI. The industrial revolution often reinforced the separation of functions (residential, commercial, industrial, civic) into …
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Kolmanskop : an industrial heritage resource or only a tourist attraction? : the assessment of value with regard to Kolmanskop Ghost Town and the industrial landscape of the Sperrgebiet National Park, Namibia
… site is also able to fulfil the criteria of an industrial heritage resource? The principal method employed is that of values-based conservation. The study relies principally on the survey of a broad range of individuals and stakeholders in order to establish present values as they pertain to …
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Reclaiming the Daylight Factory: The Significance of Versatility in the Preservation of Early Twentieth Century Concrete Frame Industrial Buildings in Dayton, Ohio
… daylight factory, a multi-story concrete frame industrial building that proliferated in the built environment in the early twentieth century, has become industrially obsolete. Despite this current status, the daylight factory is a valuable typology for understanding the American industrial …
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Locomotion : a railroad museum for Chattanooga
… built environment. It is about exploring a landscape rich with associative memories. Through the design of a railroad museum on abandoned railroad lines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this thesis seeks to define an architecture that is integrated with the industrial landscape in an …
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Think water : reconditioning the Malden River
… potential for the rejuvenation of a neglected industrial site at the edge of a river. The Malden River in Massachusetts, one of the most polluted rivers in the Boston Harbor Watershed, was utilized by heavy industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the purposes of power …
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Societal and technical issues in the industrial development of Saudi Arabia and Egypt
Sustained industrial development in developing nations has been an impetus for economic growth and technological advancements for the past several decades, in addition to being a major contributor to poverty reduction. This thesis focuses on the underlying societal and technical issues regarding …
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Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture
… tells the story of being captivated by the post-industrial landscape of Williamsburg, Brookyn, NY, followed by landing in New Orleans and her fascination with post-Katrina architecture. Grounded in the analog techniques of traditional black and white photography, Levitsky describes the various …
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Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the …
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Metallic links : for the integration of city to sea and people to city
… barrier or barriers in this instance is the post industrial landscape of Culemborg that currently acts together with the N1 freeway as a barrier between Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory to the surrounding coastal areas as well as access to the site itself. This place is a lost space that …
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Sacred Greenspace in the South Wales’ Valleys
… in relation to Darran Park, located in the post-industrial town of Ferndale, South Wales. The area has experienced social and economic changes during the twentieth century, largely due to its transition into a post-industrial landscape, and today is an area of social, physical and cultural …
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Seeing systems and the beholding eye : computer-aided visions of the postwar British landscape
… of Britain's countryside into a modem industrial landscape-the visual appearance of the country was placed at the center of debates about identity, progress, and heritage. Among a vocal and interested public, the proliferating power stations, power transmission lines, open-pit mines, …
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Forging city and lake: Marquette's waterfront beyond the ore dock legacy
… waterfront ore dock in 1971, the city’s post-industrial lakeshore has been left to decay and has become the locus of a marginal landscape. This scenario is true for many harbor towns with ore docks on Lake Superior. There have been recent efforts to redesign Marquette’s waterfront and …
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