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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"train station"”.
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Roanoke Passenger Train Station: Framing Icons
… framing of graphical qualities of the passenger train and the city of Roanoke, Virginia. A passenger train station frames these icons and brings people directly to the train. This framing creates a new icon for the city. An area on the train tracks is revitalized and creates a permeable threshold …
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Digital Regionalism: Identity, Place and the Ottawa Train Station
… an amalgamated transit terminal at the Ottawa Train Station.
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Concealing the Mechanism: The Addition and Rehabilitation of Roanoke's Norfolk and Western Passenger Train Station
… the historic Norfolk and Western Passenger Train Station located in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, and design an addition onto the building. The train station will serve as a cultural center for the city of Roanoke. By researching and analyzing the history and formal implications of the …
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Air Pollution Distribution under an Elevated Train Station (A Case Study of Silom Station in Downtown Bangkok)
… constructed an overhead rail system with 24 stations. The BTS train station, S2, in this study area covers Silom road and obstructs the air pollutant dispersion in a congestion area. The 1: 200 physical model of the buildings along Silom road with the train station, S2, was simulated in this …
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A Train Station for Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia: An Analysis of Blacksburg's Urban Condition and the Insertion of a New Defining Landmark
… a new feature of the downtown foursquare grid. A train station that occupies the vicinity of the historic â Huckleberryâ rail line characterizes, defines, and augments the public regions of downtown Blacksburg.
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Re-Connecting: a redevelopment of the Wynberg Precinct
… initially divided due to the installation of a train station. Wynberg is located in the southern suburb of Cape Town and is a highly active transport interchange which includes a train station and 3 taxis ranks with an estimated average daily density of 21,000 commuters. Subsequently, the high …
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A Gateway to the City
Through this thesis I explore how a train station can serve as the platform for an experience that is more profound than simply coming and going, and instead can provide a moment that allows travelers to appreciate the location that they are traveling to or from. A train station is almost uniquely …
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Accommodating density: an alternative to Cape Town's suburban mode
… in the area. The project surrounds the Hazendal train station. It includes a social housing section with community facilities; a new train station entrance with a community hub; private plots, and market-related housing facing the Black River. The proposed design for the dissertation could set a …
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Salt River multi modal transport interchange
… through spatial barriers such as highways, train lines and fences while current development perpetuates urban sprawl. Due to these circumstances many contemporary urban design policies promote densification strategies through transit orientated approaches.In my thesis project, I propose to …
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Locomotion: A Cinematic Approach
… the site of Carpinteria, California's Amtrak train station lies an opportunity to maximize public space through an investigation of those in motion at this place of convergence, including cars, busses, pedestrians, skateboarders, bicyclists, and trains. A cinematic process of design allows for …
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Measuring Accessibility and Explaining Trends in Commute Mode Choice in Washington, D.C. from 1970 - 2000
… in commute mode share followed by distance to train station. Land use variables demonstrated weak correlations with variations in mode share due most likely to a lack of density gradient within the study area. The creation of variables to determine land use mix by census tract posed technical …
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Economic and policy analysis on high-speed rail and interactions with air transport
… model. We find that the location of the train station has the largest impact on the partnership level. Finally, major results and future research directions are discussed.
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Engaging vestiges of negative social memory: from an order of segregation to linkage
… located on the flyover of the Cape Town Train Station precinct. The building has slowly deteriorated since the end of apartheid when its function was made redundant. Today it stands as a squalid remnant of the segregated society it was built to serve. Damaged and decaying, it provides an …
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Drawing borders: the political and symbolic importance of the United States in the creation of Czechoslovakia
… in 1928, was re-installed at Woodrow Wilson Train Station in the capital of the Czech Republic. The original statue commemorated Wilson's involvement in the creation of interwar Czechoslovakia, and his support for its independence. It also symbolized the democratic ideals which brought the …
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Taipei terminal rail station : casting an urban gateway
Access is a key issue in the design of railway stations. The evolution of the train station typology, has resulted in many types of stations based on the development of the stations' access. Since rail travel on a larger scale is a system of access between cities, it is important to look at the …
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The effectiveness of contextual cues in encouraging stair use
… message can increase stair climbing in a train station. Based on this finding, chapter three implemented a point-of-choice intervention using a longer calorific expenditure message in four buildings and successfully increased stair climbing. The inability to translate intervention success …
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Redesign of the platform-side actuation system for the Kendall Band interactive musical sculpture
… Matisse located within the MBTA's Kendall/MIT Train Station. The sculpture, installed in 1987, consists of three instruments, Kepler, Galileo, and two sets of bells known as Pythagoras, each operated by its own system of mechanisms and linkages, and "played" by passengers using handles located …
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Stadspoort Amsterdam
… the immediate context of Amsterdam's central train station in order to reinvigorate the station's intended purpose of serving as a gateway to the city. Implicit in this goal is the need to examine the transportation and visitor functions housed on the site and to resolve them in a more …
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Threshold
… what is possible to be expressed at an English train station. The thesis is ordered in a loosely chronological fashion based on the main speaker's life. The first section explores fairy tales and nursery rhymes, adolescence, and the power of story; the second section contains poems of isolation …
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Moving mindsets: A multidimensional inquiry into urban justice through the lens of urban mobility and the evolution of public space
… is the revitalisation of the Pentech Metrorail Station, envisaging an integrated transport node that incorporates a vocational education centre and community information and resource centre. Emphasising the Cape Peninsula University of Technology's (CPUT) role and public realm vitality, the goal …
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