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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"lost spaces"”.
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Urban Landscape Change in New Orleans, LA: The Case of the Lost Neighborhood of Louis Armstrong
… into nearly unusable space. Reintegrating these lost spaces into the urban fabric is one of the most significant challenges of urban planners and designers today. Despite the ubiquity of lost spaces in American cities, comparatively little research has been done on the specific historic urban …
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A Centre for Design: Catalyst for Urban Regeneration in Salt River, Cape Town
Our cities are plagued by "lost spaces," left over as a result of the modern movement and extensive mobility routes. These spaces result in negative areas of the city, and are associated with vagrants, pollution and crime, rendering the area and its surroundings unsafe and undesirable. This …
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Spirituality, Void, and Shadows - a spiritual path in place in Pretoria Inner City
… the conventional typology of religious spaces and their engagement with the city and its inhabitants, reasserting the role of spiritual practice amongst everyday activities. As a result of rapid and poor urban planning, our cities are faced with an increase in lost spaces and a lack of …
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From marginalized to optimized : re-envisioning urban highway corridors
… transformation of the urban environment's lost spaces. It explores the underlying trends and methodologies of highway removal, examines several case studies, and then applies these findings to the case of McGrath/O'Brien highway in Massachusetts. This may serve as a precedent for future …
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When a city embraces its paradox : the exploration of incremental waste mining of a decommissioned landfill site and its gradual transformation into a productive public space
… urgent need to provide them with adequate public spaces has never been greater for the planet. Where public places and space itself are lacking. many cities across the world are today investing in projects of reclaiming valuable land to create livable public spaces that respond to and improve …
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Bridging the past and the present “Rediscovering Prieska's forgotten cultural landscape”
The phrase “place of the lost she-goat,” derived from the Koran and associated with the Khoi people, originally referred to a location where farmers settled after rainstorms. This area, overseen by a village management board since 1882 and granted municipal status in 1892, became known for its …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… sustain and convey cultural memory; reclaim lost spaces; incorporate marginalized stories; counter and resist master narratives; forge bridges of pre-and post disaster identities; and open an imaginative space to envision recovery. For this study I draw from the theoretical work of Jill …