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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"suburbia"”.
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Civilizing suburbia
When I began my study of architecture ten years ago, I honestly believed that architecture could change the world. As I look back at how the American landscape has changed since then I realize that architecture has changed the world, but not necessarily in the way I imagined. As our population has …
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Inverting Suburbia
Suburban sprawl fuels the need for automobiles and is preventing cities in the United States from providing adequate places for pedestrians. Tysons Corner, Virginia is one of these sprawling cities that is a metropolitan suburb of Washington D.C. The way these cities have sprawled prevents them …
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Redefining Suburbia
… are then used to redefine the current concept of suburbia as it relates to nature, community and diversity. These concepts are in turn incorporated into a prototype for a suburban housing development. The prototype is a 38 unit residential housing development on a 2-acre wooded site in a suburb 16 …
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Toward an Age-Ready Suburbia
… planning. It traces the historical evolution of suburbia, critically evaluates existing senior housing typologies, and advances new frameworks for retrofitting residential neighborhoods to better support aging populations. Focusing on Sacramento, California, the research identifies high-priority …
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Somewhere That's Green? visions of sustainable suburbia
… combining the best aspects of city and country, suburbia has traditionally been painted with the rhetorically green brushstrokes of leaves, gardens and grass. In more recent decades, coinciding largely with rapid mass suburbanization sprawling across North America, suburban development has rather …
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Variations on Suburbia: Integrating People-Oriented Design
Suburban development in Canada has grown increasingly dense in recent decades. Despite this, however, most new subdivisions continue to follow the picturesque planning principles of their lower-density predecessors. Garages dominate looping streets of compact semis and rowhouses, producing enclaves …
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Process of building: a school in suburbia
Architecture lies in the synthesis of place, purpose and process. Place and purpose are of course important however the focus of this thesis is process. This thesis is an inquiry into the opportunities and limitations inherent in typical building processes. I wish to more fully know essential …
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Hacking Suburbia: An Architect's Reconsideration of the Home
… offered by large homebuilder companies. Hacking Suburbia purports that if, as architects, we want to take the question of homebuilding and mass-produced houses seriously, we must critically engage the contemporary design tools provided by the homebuilding industry and intervene in them through …
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Homespun Fun: Theme Parks, Suburbia, and the Postwar Child
Scholars of theme parks and their histories recognize that a carefully crafted family-friendly environment is the cornerstone of the themed amusement landscape dating back to the 1950s. From marketing and promotional material; to in-park signage and ride narratives; to the themes of childlike …
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of fiction and faction: Cultivating a Revolution in Suburbia
… project examines the potential for revolution in suburbia, using Scarborough as its speculative case study. In a two-channel video installation that comprises the exhibitions main feature, two possibilities for collective action in suburbia are proposed: Scarborough Sourdough, a group of novice …
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Public space in suburbia : water infrastructure as a community catalyst
… to the pedestrian. Water infrastructure in suburbia must be recognized for what it is-a critical element for the growth and support of human settlements, but also a source of further estrangement of the very people meant to benefit from it. This thesis proposes a solution that mediates the …
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Suburbia 2124: Re-examining Suburban Development through a Contemporary Lens
Suburbia 2124 explores how suburban development will shift in a future without dependence on private automobiles. This thesis takes Hybla Valley, a site characterized by autocentric strip malls and a mobile home community, and transforms it into a pedestrian focused, densely populated, mixed-use …
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The Shape of Consent: A Commentary on Emergent Forms within Suburbia
This thesis reveals relationships between the neoliberal subject and the suburban subject relative to the built environment. It argues that today's "architecture" is an integration of digital and analog worlds. The thesis articulates that American society's subjectivity is imposed by a consumer …
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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
… offers a design proposal for an aggregated suburbia,augmenting the suburban landscape by capitalizing on the trend of enormous data center expansion and, simultaneously,subverting the trend of suburban sprawl. The synthesis of data centers and a new dense suburban center allows the reuse of …
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Securitizing suburbia : the financialization of single-family rental housing and the need to redefine "risk"
Since the foreclosure crisis, a handful of private-equity backed real estate companies have purchased over 200,000 single-family rental homes throughout the nation. Originally, these companies planned to hold the properties until the real estate market improved and then sell the homes to individual …
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Neighborhood perspectives on suburbia : an exploration on form, identity and meaning in the contemporary suburban landscape
Urban designers, planners and social commentators have argued that the contemporary suburban landscape of isolated subdivisions, office parks, and malls is devoid of identity and meaning. Critics protest the environmental impact of suburban development patterns and the increasing fragmentation of …
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A built form/organization projection/exploration of a mixed use, high density inner suburbia/outer downtown edge.
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Generating Newness: The Third Space Modality in The Buddha Of Suburbia, Fruit of the Lemon and White Teeth
… – Karim Amir in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Faith Jackson in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon and Irie Jones and Millat Iqbal in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth – I show how the medium of late twentieth-century British fiction can generate newness for and through its readers. I consider …
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What next? : densifying suburban Brooklyn
… are also significant positive attributes to suburbia. Currently, the South African suburban condition is densifying. This process of densification means that the suburban form as we have known it is currently changing quite rapidly. We now sit in a position where we can either allow these …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… and Elizabeth Bowen utilize imagery of suburbia to formulate critiques of patriarchal gender norms. As lower-middle and working-class families relocated to suburbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they colonized a way of life that was specific to the affluent …
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