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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"residential districts"”.
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Transitional neighborhoods : between the central business and established residential districts : Bay Village, a case study
"Transitional neighborhoods" had been traditionally viewed as areas that do not have much value to the urban fabric. Given that popular opinion, how have some of these neighborhoods survived the Central Business District expansion and Urban Renewal? Bay Village in Boston, Massachusetts is a prime …
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Reconnecting urban communities : Northeastern University Housing Project, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
… that cities are composed of many distinct districts that were formed as smaller cities. According to Rossi, designers should operate on these districts as the first step toward designing cities as a whole. Boston is one of the case studies in Kevin Lynch's image theory. The image map he …
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… promised to replace the *khrushchevki* with new residential districts. The municipality justifies the Renovation by claiming that the *khrushchevki* are decrepit and anachronistic, and that residents are near-unanimous in their support for the demolition. In this dissertation, I theorise the …
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Proposing Design Guidelines of Insa-dong by Referring Design Guidelines of Old City Historic District
… that both place are mix of commercial and residential districts and mix of traditional and modern buildings. The study assesses the history and the architectural history of Insa-dong, and also analysis of design guidelines of Old City Historic District and character defining features of …
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Bottoms, Hollows, and Flats : making and remaking the lower section of the American city
… and speculators made urban lowlands into residential districts nicknamed bottoms, hollows, and flats beginning in the late nineteenth century. I argue that the deliberately incomplete implementation of urban interventions such as sewerage, water supply, and flood protection created …
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Assessing sustainable urban forms in Erbil city of Iraq
… To accomplish this, five case studies of residential projects with variable states of occupancy, completion, and social profiling have been chosen to investigate the practice of the sustainable urban form indicators. The research adopted a mixed-methodological approach, which combines …