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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"the public realm"”.
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Beyond program : designing future industries for the public realm
The thesis project is sited on an existing BP oil refinery site in Whiting, Indiana, just across the state border from Chicago. The project aims to operate within the context of the ongoing debate between the private corporation and its relationship with the public realm (including the …
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Art in the public realm : integrating audience, place, and process
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Innovation districts : economic development, community benefits, and the public realm
Innovation Districts are emerging across the country as vehicles for economic development, job creation, urban revitalization, and sustainable growth. As they continue to be developed, there is a need to rethink the role of community benefits in supporting economic resiliency within the innovation …
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High streets: Constructing the public realm in a low income area
The lack of high streets in low income areas negate the socio-economic vitality of these towns. Through understanding how a high street functions one is able to appropriate the aspects of good streets to low income areas. Locally referred to as main streets, these streets are where most shops and …
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Redesigning the public realm : a new center for Santurce, Puerto Rico
Public space Is the stage upon which the daily drama of communal life unfolds. the dynamic setting for our basic needs: politics. religion. recreation. and commerce. Essential complement to both workspace and dwelling (defined as private realms). the public space provides the common grounds for …
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Infrastructural architecture: social design for the public realm in underground transit systems
There’s a certain allure and poeticism to mass transit, from buses, to streetcars, and trains. It’s curious that a strictly infrastructural marvel of engineering houses such an honest and diverse application of shared architecture, mutual in it’s urban scope. In many ways, the architecture of these …
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
<p>In the years around the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, a renewed interest in republican political theory among progressive liberals coincided with a new kind of civic architecture. For the first time in American history, cities and the urban public emerged as crucial parts of …
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
Exploring both political aesthetics and the politics of aesthetics to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its methodology and contexts for operation, the rural, spaces of leisure and the …
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The role of artists in the public realm: an investigation into artists' generative processes in context.
… and collaborative art practice within the strands of art practice in the public realm raises the question, what is the practical contribution artists make to society' which can only be answered by first understanding how artists work. Introducing the concepts of context, artist-led and …
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Green Infrastructure in the Public Realm: Reimagining Stormwater and the Urban Fabric of Falls Church, Virginia
Impervious surfaces are the greatest contributors to degradation of water quality and large volumes of stormwater runoff. Green infrastructure is the holistic solution to this problem which not only reduces flooding but also actively moves towards achievement of larger environmental goals. Green …
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Transactional terrains : partnerships, bargains and the Postwar redefinition of the public realm, New York City 1965-1980
This dissertation traces the architectural and urban history of the privatization of the public realm. At the center of the research is New York City during the "urban crisis" years of the 1960s, as the city grappled with issues of civil rights, urban policy, and physical decline. The period saw an …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
The topic of my research inquiry is related to my personal narrative of being raised within the Wentworth community. This research aims to highlight the social practices and community connections which have influenced the trajectory of my life leading to my current point of university studies in …
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Hidden gems reimagining the public realm along independence avenue to sustain the local economy in the Windhoek central business district
This urban design research project investigates the reimagining of the public realm along Independence Avenue to sustain the local economy in the context of the Windhoek Central Business District (CBD). The research seeks to explore how the public spaces can be transformed to support local …
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Redefining the edge : housing on Chicago's waterfront
This thesis proposes an approach to the design of urban housing which uses the public realm to reconcile the various desires of the city for continuous, accessible fabric, the developer for property value raising enhancements, and the inhabitant for security and a sense of local community. The …
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Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City
… New York City have become difficult to locate in the public realm. This is a paradox given that Puerto Ricans make up the largest Hispanic subgroup in the larger metropolitan region. This study examines how, when, and why Puerto Ricans became publicly invisible in New York City.</p> …
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Developing tomorrow : creating and financing the ideal public realm for mixed-use urban projects in Denver's South Lincoln redevelopment
… to our personal happiness as our cities face the real risk of losing quality public space, the heart and soul of our urban civilization. The construction of an inspiring public realm develops a sense of place that people value and are attracted to living in. Pedestrian infrastructure and …
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The sacred and the everyday: exploring the relationship between religious space and public
This dissertation began with an interest in the relationship between religious space and the public realm, and a curiosity into the capacity of religious spaces to participate in and construct public. This interest, while conscious of global ideas surrounding the role of religion in the global …
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My own, private Washington
… affairs in Washington D.C. are beginning to lay the foundation for a new exploration of architecture. The division line between national and corporate identities, their spatial relationship to the public realm are beginning to blur. The expanding influence of private entities in public affairs …
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Parallel Processes: Embassy for the European Community
'How should Europe be represented in the world?' This project proposes an Embassy for the European Community in Washington D.C. The design process seeks to reconcile several critical oppositions imbedded within the task. The project develops a new embassy programme which extends the notion of …
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