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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"middle landscape"”.
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Place In The Middle Landscape
… with the vast expansiveness of the American landscape have led to settlement patterns within the urban environment that are distinctively American and non-traditional. The continual tension between principles of collective majority rule and rights of individual equality has led to an …
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Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape
… seeks to tie into the underlying ideology of the middle landscape that has shaped housing development in the United States up to this point, and re-imagine its physical manifestation. An incremental approach is taken in imagining what housing might be in America, considering our myths surrounding …
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A New Middle Landscape: An Urban Neighborhood
… is an exploration of a new housing type: a middle ground between a single-family detached house of the suburbs and a high-density apartment building of the city. A block in the Shockoe Bottom district of Richmond, Virginia is the site for this medium-density living environment. The building …
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How Form and Function Create Community in the Middle Landscape
The middle landscape, more commonly referred to as Suburbia, has become spatially discontinuous, lacking the cohesive union, open spaces and city centers that once defined community. Presently, the middle landscape's community spaces do not offer the opportunity for familiar and chance encounters …
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Infilling the middle landscape : suburban zoning codes to retain historical place making forms
… at retaining the historical characteristics of landscape and place which predate the increased density. The thesis seeks to demonstrate that maximum allowable density can be achieved while retaining the existing hierarchy of contiguous spaces and the relationship(s) of dwelling units to that …
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Organizing the middle landscape : a proposal for mixed-use nodal development in Atlanta
(cont.) of streams and adjacent junk spaces and serves to link areas of the city that are currently accessible only by automobile. The second involves the engagement of this new infrastructure through the addition of dense, walkable urban nodes composed of a variety of the elements that make up a …
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Terraced Landscape: A School Building Design in Virginia Tech
… is an exploration of the fusion of building and landscape. Along with the development of modern design education, architecture design has been subdivided into several specific branches which actually cause harm to the whole design process and education in turn. In this thesis, I try to bridge the …
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Sustainable landscape planting in the Negev Desert
… which will help to promote more sustainable landscape development in the region. The study combines the data collection in the field of 163 plant species located in the Negev desert and the literature review of these species. The plants’ key physical, visual and aesthetic characteristics as …
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Towards a middle townscape
… city areas but also in the Realm of the Middle Landscape. Although it is hardly possible to invent a new architecture, the necessity remains to think about questions of urbanism and its built structures in the context of history, technology and sociology. One interpretation which …
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Beyond pastoralism : through community gardens to a model of sustainable design and a metaphor of integration
… a common mythos which constructs an idealized middle landscape between city and "nature," isolating both. Community gardens present us with a productive way of seeing "nature" and cities together and the gardens gives us a metaphor which can facilitate the sustainable design of our built …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… rather than metaphorical understanding of the “middle landscape,” i.e. the physical location that allows a pastoral shepherd to fulfill his representative function. Incorporating Marx’s analyses in his seminal book Machine in the Garden, I also propose that the North American pastoral differs …
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Urban Market and Farm for Nashville
… the built environment, architecture as well as landscape architecture can transform our existence on the land and sustain a harmonious economy through the cultivation of food grown within the neighborhood. How we structure ourselves on the landscape via architecture speaks to our perception of …