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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"post-industrial city"”.
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"Make no little plans." : big moves for the post-industrial city
… leveled in the face of reelection-minded city leaderships, institutionalized planning bureaucracies and developer-driven market forces. The notion that cities evolve in well-proportioned, single-serving digestible bites is as untenable as the notion that a singular logical diagram of …
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Engendering homelessness: an ethnographic study of homeless practices in a post-industrial city
… on homelessness practices in a specific British city. The approach was an ethnographic one and included interviews with homeless people, homeless service providers, statutory housing officers and an observational element in specialist homeless person's assessment centres. The research found that …
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Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development
… of redevelopment will be the same in a small post-industrial city as in a large, economically diverse one. Housing developers entering the context of a small post-industrial city must reconsider this idea. They must understand an idea of "holistic" housing revitalization that leverages the …
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Uncertain futures : young women in transition to adulthood in a post-industrial British city
… two adjacent ‘outer-urban’ neighbourhoods in the post-industrial city of Birmingham, UK. It focuses on three distinct, and inter-related, spheres of transition: education and training, employment and independent household formation, including family of origin, housing, couple relationships, …
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Metallic links : for the integration of city to sea and people to city
… conceived in the idea of barriers within our city. The 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 …
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Urban agriculture as a tool for neighborhood fabric repair in post-industrial Detroit
This thesis focuses on Detroit as a post-industrial city that suffers from abandonment, vacancy, and food security issues. I address this problem through the lens of agriculture, asking how urban farming can be used to repair the urban fabric and increase access to food in two Detroit …
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Evaluating the effect an anchor institution can have on a small shrinking city : a case study of Albion College and Albion, MI
… arts college, to revitalize Albion, MI, a small, post-industrial city. It evaluates the nature of the college's involvement in light of a taxonomy developed by Rita Axelroth Hodges and Steve Dubb in their book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crosswords. Using this taxonomy, the …
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Landscapes past & urban design The case of Chouteau's Pond in St. Louis
… serve as a spatial and cultural reference for a post-industrial city that has undergone tremendous physical and demographic change. With modern development focused on reviving the declining city, the myth of Chouteau's Pond has influenced intentions for contemporary design. The most recent …
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The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo
… to connect two isolated neighborhoods within the post-industrial city of Buffalo, NY. The design strategy capitalizes on existing opportunities in Silo City, a neighborhood of abandoned grain elevators that attracts visitors with intermittent activities and seasonal events; and the Old First Ward, …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… an integral part of the surface and life of the city, I aim to reflect their affinity through mixed-media print processes. My contribution to knowledge includes original approaches, visual strategies and formats to create new print-based representations of post-industrial urban space. My …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… an integral part of the surface and life of the city, I aim to reflect their affinity through mixed-media print processes. My contribution to knowledge includes original approaches, visual strategies and formats to create new print-based representations of post-industrial urban space. My …
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A Window To The City
… change urban environment. A great window to the city, typologically bounded in the form an ice rink is proposed in the post-industrial city of Baltimore. This proposal should be seen as part of the city that is undergoing a transition from an industrial to a commercial city. The ice rink is …
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Scientia est propentia: school personnel perceptions of their role in empowering a college-going culture among low-income African-American students in a mid-size, public school district
… American students in a largely blue-collar, post-industrial city. The grand tour question guiding this research is: What is the college-going culture for low-income African American students in a mid-size, public Midwestern school district? The existing college-going culture was investigated …
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Reassembling the rolling bridge : an art gallery at Fort Point Channel, Boston
… to many railway commuters and residents of the city. Its robust steel assembly, characterized by three anthropomorphic forms, demonstrates the principles of late nineteenth-century bridge design. As a symbol of the industrial age, it is also the last surviving drawbridge of its kind in the city. …
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Equilibriums of Paradox: Pittsburgh's Urban Renaissance through Public Transport
The city of Pittsburgh, PA has been losing population since the steel trade imploded in the 1970's. Every decade, the city lost more inhabitants and began to be hollowed out in the typical fashion of a Rust Belt city. For the first time in four decades, the city saw a rise in population in 2008. …
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Urban Stratigraphy: The Backstory on Thirty-One Buffalo Blocks
… neighborhood was the historic epicenter of the city’s Polish community starting in the 1880s. Using case studies, the following work investigates the natural and architectural history of one corner of the neighborhood, recognized in the early 20th century as the parish of Corpus Christi Roman …
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The urban waterfront in flux : accommodating uncertainty in Brooklyn
Urban waterfronts are host to every shade of a city's development. Once pulsating with trade and production, the very reason for the city's existence, the mid 20th century brought jarring macroeconomic shifts and technological change that left this vibrant edge largely abandoned. Nothing remains …
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The changing social and political issues and their impact on the community design of the False Creek south development
… not property.Vancouver was transforming from an industrial city to a service oriented post-industrial city. A political party founded at this time, The Elector's Action Movement (TEAM), was liberal-oriented and won the municipal election in 1972. Its election co-incided with the False Creek south …
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COMING TO THE SURFACE: THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND CULTURE IN BUTTE, MONTANA
… and smelting activities. Today, Butte is a post-industrial city that is the focal point of America's largest Superfund site as well as the nation's largest National Historic District. There are two types of remediation occurring in Butte: environmental and cultural. Environmental remediation …
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