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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"streetscape"”.
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Elevating Small Town Streetscape
… Blacksburg, a small town, by building multilevel streetscapes and community spaces that contribute to the town's character and identity. The vertical street could accommodate more amenities, commercial spaces, and residential units without encroaching on surrounding natural areas or sprawling into …
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Aqua.Street.Scapes: Interpreting Natural Hydrologic Processes while Enhancing the Urban Streetscape
This project proposes a new urban aquifer strategy that utilizes stormwater to create a cascading plaza and an improved 'great street' in Washington DC. A system of urban aquifers is developed beneath the surface of the street, perched atop the compacted, impermeable soils below. This set of …
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De-gentrifying the streetscape : reclaiming tactical urbanism for San Francisco's Tenderloin
San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is often described in classic "skid row" terms as a neighborhood characterized by crime, prostitution, drugs, homelessness, seedy hotels, and rampant blight. It is described as 'hopeless' and 'lost', and a place to be avoided at all costs. In reality, the …
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"Between Illusion and Reality": Presentations of the Past in Canadian Streetscape Exhibits
Since Canada’s first streetscape exhibit opened in the British Columbia Provincial Museum in 1972, visitors have immersed themselves in partial historical narratives. Built up with half-sized façades inspired by historical buildings and staged with historical artifacts to make the settings appear …
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Exploring Pedestrianism in Contemporary Streetscape Planning: A Scrutiny of the YongeTOmorrrow Initiative in Downtown Toronto
… in the planning and regulation of the urban streetscape. However, the plan under scrutiny proposes an overhaul to the streetscape that creates a reinvented pedestrianism. This is a danger to publicness, as its benefits will be limited to businesses and their middle-class consumers, whose …
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Jazz, improvisation, and streetscapes : guidelines for in-fill development
… respectful and engaging of the context of the streetscape? Improvisational jazz is a form of music whose practitioners seek to integrate the familiar and the novel into a unified composition. Certain practices guide performers in achieving these dynamic syntheses of new and old. These practices …
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Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education
The 2014 Agricultural Act (Economic Research Division) (aka: The Farm Bill) was an important limelight shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy population and proximity to fresh, healthy food. Further legislation such as the …
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Impacts of sustainable streets on housing prices: a hedonic analysis in Chicago
… sustainable site? How far is a sustainable streetscape able to affect neighboring housing prices? Second, do project’s characteristics such as construction status, age, and size influence a property's sale price? Third, is there any variation in the effects of different streetscape projects? …
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Shaping Streetscapes within the Complexities of Urban Informalities in the Cape Flats
… contribute to creating functional and vibrant streetscapes that effectively respond to the needs and aspirations of the local community. Utilizing a qualitative research approach, including in-depth interviews, site observations, and design analysis, this study aims to identify strategies for …
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The Varied Experience of Pedestrian Movement in Community Living
… private interaction and the experience of the streetscape. It questions how to use the streets in our daily life. How it becomes part of our living space? The space, which is in between public and private life, but not belong to one another. The space which contains internal and external values …
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Present and Active: Unpacking The Negotiated Logics of Container Street Traders in the Governance of a Ghanaian city
… roles in the everyday governance of city streetscapes in Wa, a city in the Upper West Region of Ghana. In negotiating access to space by either renting, perching, buying, or constructing container stalls and setting up their trade, they shape the street and its built environment. Providing …
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Woodward Avenue, Detroit : a pedestrian zone for a changing downtown retail street
… center should be an active ingredient of the streetscape, rather than an introverted entity. The thesis design proposal attempts to integrate the various projects into a system of related improvements which reinforce the street.
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Filling the Gaps: Reimagining Public Space as a Continuum
… publicness along the street. How can a continuum streetscape for public life emerge within the city? Through tactical interventions and urban storytelling, the project reimagines a process where urban dwellers renegotiate and extend the public realm's boundaries.
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Street media : ambient messages in an urban space
… in bits and fragments on the surfaces of the streetscape, these media often escape our notice - tuned out as visual clutter or dismissed as unimportant. Yet, attentive viewing and analysis reveal much about the local culture of communication and expression. This thesis blends empirical and …
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Private in Public - Public in Private: A Library on H Street NE Washington, DC
… in Washington, DC. Its location in a rebounding streetscape demands that the library give the surrounding context a large role in its design. Public space is a priority, and the building is porous to extend the exterior into the interior and vice versa. The library's ever-changing role in a city …
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Form-based zoning : what place is this code?
… urban standards (building envelope standards and streetscape/thoroughfare standards), and architectural standards. This thesis questions if the 'product' of form-based codes, i.e. the place imagined as a consequence of form-based codes, is differentiable based on place character. Place character …
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lndoor recreational walking in semi-public spaces : assessing demand and design standards
… such as crime prevention, traffic calming and streetscape improvements have been employed in cities and towns across North America, cold, icy and snowy weather conditions as well as other factors prevent many individuals from walking year round. This thesis identifies indoor walking spaces and …
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