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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"riverfront"”.
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Riverfront project
The natures of reason and architecture are things man has struggled with since the beginning. As reason evolves and gets more complex, human needs and values change. Interaction among ourselves and surroundings has become a need. Architecture balances this need creating a unifying spirit. This …
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Riverfront Development Program Funding
The Riverfront Development Program concerns the residents along the Missouri River from the city of Blair, Nebraska to the confluence of the Platte and Missouri rivers just south of Bellevue, Nebraska. Between these points, the area on both sides of the Missouri is to be developed in a variety of …
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Housing and neighborhood services for the Cambridge riverfront
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A new vision for Taipei's Sung Shan riverfront district
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Regeneration of Ccuyahoga Flats – [De]-Industrialized Riverfront in Cleveland, Ohio
Post-industrial riverfronts in the ‘Rust-Belt’ region of the United States have faced the consequences of [de]industrialization, including massive ecological disturbances. The Lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland started facing those consequences when it was modified in the 1800s. The river channel …
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Beyond Shock City : towards a new cultural model of riverfront development
… In the state of Gujarat, India, the Sabarmati Riverfront divides Ahmedabad into the east and the west, the old city and the new city, characterized by populations varying in religious, social, and financial status. Due to the tension between the two sides, the river is a physical and …
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A Bridge to the Mississippi: A Transportation Museum on the St. Louis Riverfront
St. Louis, like many riverfront cities around the world, has become isolated from the river upon which it was founded, the Mississippi. This thesis proposes a new riverfront transportation museum for St. Louis, as a means of reconnecting the city and the river. The museum, located in the …
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Reprogramming Pittsburgh's post-industrial riverfront: an open space vision for the south side
… city it must contend with its dilapidated urban riverfronts along the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, the river was considered solely as an economic engine that fueled the growth of America. Once the world’s largest producer of glass and steel, …
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Ecological minimalism: an approach for designing urban parks
… the test site is a portion of the Detroit riverfront, which serves disparate uses today: it is a busy entry to Canada, where several ports are operating extensively, and a series of parks and plazas along the riverfront provide recreational opportunities. However, the riverfront is wrought …
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Predictors of Management Preferences Among Riverfront Landowners and Boaters on The Great Egg Harbor River: A Study of Stakeholders in a Multi-Jurisdictional Setting
… (1) to determine the extent to which boaters and riverfront landowners on the Great Egg Harbor River are similar or different in perceptions of environmental and social conditions and preferences for management; and (2) to explore factors that contribute to riverfront landowners' and visitors' …
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A mix-use design proposal of the Martin Luther King bridge : a study of the use of a bridge in a historic St. Louis riverfront
This thesis is a exercise in a design proposal on the levee of the Mississippi spanned by a 1950's steel bridge in a historic St. Louis district known as Laclede's Landing. My intentions are to introduce a connection between the river and the city that will provide access to the water's edge to …
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Waterfront spectacular
… is then explored as a design strategy on a riverfront site in downtown Detroit, Michigan, as part of the Detroit by Design 2012 Detroit Riverfront Competition. The author proposes a concept called “CityWorks Plaza & Port: a Publicly Owned Working Wharf and Repurposing Cooperative” as a model …
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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
… pools†moored along the Mississippi riverfront. Beginning in 1836, these pools represented a transitional phase between the long extant tradition of bathing and swimming for free in the river and the development of commercialized, waterfront pleasure resorts for the masses in the late …
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Choreographing a Greenway: Exploring Experiential Diversity Through Choreographic Dance Principles
… engagement and activate space. The Anacostia riverfront in Washington, D.C. suffers from a severe lack of experiential diversity and is redesigned in this thesis to explore how experiential diversity can enhance greenway design using choreographic dance principles. Many dance principles can be …
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Urban Stitch
… an iconic public architecture, and a modern riverfront with a new urban identity, thus raising the quality of the city.
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Interactive embankment: topography of fluctuating water levels and human interaction
… intervention, which also creates the dynamic riverfront landscape. Contemporary urban riverbanks, when armored with levees or flood walls, usually hide this feature, limit the potential benefits it may bring to the landscape, and often lack public access. This thesis studies precedent …
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… Midwest, and the commercial might of a southern riverfront metropolis. St. Louis also reflected the de facto racism of the North, and the formalized ""Jim Crow"" of the South. This study integrates the fields of African American urban history, African American labor and working-class history, and …
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Resident Participation in Watershed Management: Preference for Riparian Landscapes, Attitudes, and Behaviors- Case Study of Cedar River Watershed, Washington
… River, but to the flood mitigation of private riverfront properties. Therefore, engaging the residents along the river is a primary concern of local non-profit conservation organizations such as Forterra. Successful communication with private landowners begins with an understanding of the …
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Alternate Imaginaries for the Kinara: River Ravi’s Edge as a Threshold
… mega-urban development projects planned for the riverfront, which not only overlook the communities living along its banks but also employ idealized depictions of Ravi to attract capital. Finally, this thesis questions how the river's edge can be remapped to allow for the dismantling of top-down …
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The staying power of perceptions in a dynamic system : a longitudinal stakeholder analysis in the Yellowstone River Valley
… Yellowstone River decision making and/or were riverfront landowners each with the capacity to shape the physical features of this system. This study takes a scholarly approach to expressed participant concerns as empirical evidence that reflects the socio-hydrological phenomenon occurring in …
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