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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"productive landscape"”.
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
Homelessness in Singapore Despite the official claims that there are no homeless, destitute or starving people (in Singapore), the condition of homelessness in singapore is by no means eradicated. Through the survey of housing typology in Singapore in relationship to their real estate values, …
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Waste farm: a productive landscape for integrated waste management
… waste is low. This project aims at creating a productive landscape that uses waste as a vehicle to enhance the livelihoods of informal waste pickers and encourage local communities to see the economic and environmental value of recycling waste. By providing secure storage and sorting, …
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Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
Increasingly, the productive use of land is being demanded by developing cities because of the continuous influx of businesses and population. Meanwhile, because of the relocation of many industries to outlying districts, for the same reason, post-industrial sites near the centers of growing cities …
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The productive landscape : wetland rehabilitation at the lower reaches of the Liesbeek River
… for site regeneration, specifically in a landscape that is undervalued in its current condition. The design, located at the lower reaches of the Liesbeek River, explores wetland rehabilitation and agricultural production, by viewing architecture as a soft machine that becomes a part of …
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Productive landscape: Turning vacant and underutilised spaces into urban agriculture, for social, economic and environmental benefits in the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) site, Cape Town
In our fast changing times, where political, religious economic structure are failing to meet the need for equitable and caring world. New radical approaches are called for. The challenges before us are unprecedented both within our country and globally. The challenges of our time include the fast …
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The healing of a lost past : the revitalization and adaption of Cullinan mining compound
… the beauty of these ruins within an unrestricted landscape, where the natural has started infiltrating into all areas of this site. It starts to evoke emotions of a romantic lost time although this is not the case. This environment has lost its identity of a harsh working lifestyle where many of …
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Historicizing the landscape : recovering the aesthetics of the Alhambra
… The contemporary monument encompasses a vast landscape complex saturated by nine hundred years of continuous occupation. The fragmented form of the palace complex, adapted and reconstructed for centuries, achieved coherence through the reification of tropes celebrating the landscape in 19th …
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Grafting the sub-terrain: Working from the ground up in Mowbray
… technique used for propagation of similar productive trees, combining one plant portion with another to assist growth of the plant as an integrated whole. The concept of grafting can be applied to soils and reshaping of the sub-terrain. This will be achieved by cutting out the fragments of …
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Empowering Power Town : a contextual study that ascertains social and architectural sustainability
… and how it came to be, and why it is an unproductive settlement. Part two, 'a landscape enthused architecture', explores cultural, productive and responsive landscapes and their implication in architecture. Methods are investigated that help to uncover the complex layers of site and …
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Waterfront spectacular
Through discourse analysis and site evaluation, this thesis asks two questions: first, what is the potential of the contemporary urban waterfront to structure and perpetuate meaningful spectacle; and second, what is the potential for spectacle to restructure the post-industrial public waterfront …
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Lactis : an agriculture and training facility on the Irene dairy farm
In Africa and specifically in South Africa, agriculture is the sector from which most rural communities derive their financial income, it is also the source of food for both rural and urban communities. The greatest challenge that Agricultural development faces is the means by which …