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Showing 1 to 20 of 283 for “"urban fabric"”.
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A transformation of Shanghai's urban fabric
… juxtapositions of building typologies and urban forms. Entire sections of the urban center are being replaced with large scale developments while the city overall expands into the periphery, replacing farmland with gated superblock developments. The city may be said to be losing identity as …
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Philadelphia Public Housing: Reknitting the Urban Fabric
… is a reclaiming of the American downtown. Suburban USA still sprawls at alarming rates, but cities are beginnng to shed their image of havens for crime and the homeless. A more acute investigation at the neighborhood scale reveals situations more reluctant to adapt. Pieces of the urban fabric …
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Contextus: A Modern Intervention in the Urban Fabric
… with a community that is it truly woven into the urban fabric. The Shaw Neighborhood branch of the District of Columbia Public Library system closed in 2004. The building at the intersection of 7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue could no longer serve the needs of the community, and shall be …
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A multi-use block in the urban fabric
The spaces we inhabit, the urban fabric, the interplay between the two: this architectural thesis seeks to explore the many components of a mixed-use project, its relationship to the city, and its use by potential inhabitants. Through this mixed-use project, many aspects of similar …
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Cultivating Cubanidad : weaving a cultural nexus into Havana's urban fabric
… planning, accompanied by a set of comprehensible urban redevelopment vocabulary. Then to test adaptability, the development strategy is systematically employed in the context of Havana, Cuba, looking at the Central Havana neighborhood of Colon, as a design case study.
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E Pluribus Unum: A Study of Reconnecting a Broken Urban Fabric
… that comprises it to stitch together its urban fabric, creating connections between various, potentially disconnected, parts. Architecture mediates its surrounding public and open spaces, including plazas, streets, and parks. To fully understand a site of a future development, it is first …
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City Infrastructure and Fractured Space: Creating Continuity in a Fractured Urban Fabric
… discontinuities in the physical and social fabric. Over time, the pattern of cities has changed; movement spaces have fractured the social spaces. The social dimension in the design of movement spaces has been neglected and thus these spaces have primarily become products of the functional …
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Hybridizing old downtown Suwon City: how new urban fabric may save the past
… approaches are required for creating alternative urban models which emphasize sustainability and landscape productivity. The Old Downtown of Suwon City, South Korea, which is encompassed by the Hwaseong Fortress and designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, is currently experiencing …
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The urban weave: Interlacing intangible threads to form a cohesive hybridized urban fabric
… informal systems within formal systems in an urban space that will result in a paradigm shift of the way informality is viewed by the public. The intervention seeks to find a balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design. Where architecture does not control how the …
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Green Infrastructure in the Public Realm: Reimagining Stormwater and the Urban Fabric of Falls Church, Virginia
… the watershed. Furthermore, there is a dynamic urban character to the street as it transitions from a residential zone to the commercial zone. Both streets present excellent possibilities for road diets, pedestrianization and traffic calming which bolsters the implementation of stormwater …
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Introverted architecture and the human dimension : the conflict of placemaking in the disconnected urban fabric of Doha, Qatar
… mega-projects with no regard to the remaining fabric of the city. This can be owed to the relatively short urbanization period that the country has undergone, with its heavy reliance on international firms. The consequence is a city that has lost much of its historic core and vernacular …
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Reknitting the urban fabric : a new Alexander Platz as a link and connector in the formerly divided Berlin
… This particularly applies to the fragmented urban fabric of the Germany's Capital City. The dilemma is how to rectify the urban the urban environment surrounding Alexander Platz in East Berlin while tying the formerly divided city together. This thesis will evaluate Berlin's current and past …
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"The dangerous edge of things" : Paris, les Halles: A study of the integration of building projects into an existing urban fabric.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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Taipei mobility : gone in less than 300 seconds : mixed modality transportation system in dense mixed-use urban fabric, take Taipei City for example
Urban designers and planners always try to tackle the urban issues from spatial, cultural and economical point of views; However, sometimes these issues were limited or, even more, created by current transportation system. The thesis will discuss about the relations of urban mobility and urban …
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Deferential Form
… in the Bay area, many of which are in the suburban regions of Silicon Valley where they have erected massive symbolic entity. However, with the lack of urban fabric in Silicon Valley, the “Google Bus” would transport tech employees to work in the suburbs and back to the city of San Francisco …
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Creating Connections in the City: From road to street; and buffer zone to landscape: Residual highway space as a tool in stitching segregated neighbourhoods into the urban fabric
… could be an opportunity to stitch together the urban fabric. The project aims to address these spaces by using program to create connections. It finds its program in a sports centre on the border between Bonteheuwel and Langa. By understanding how our cities came to be fragmented globally, and …
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The process of design : a tool in the exploration and understanding of place
… on the understanding and representation of an urban fabric. This document is not a historical essay nor a thematical critique of the design of an architectural form but an analysis and an attempt to understand the vernacular, the evolution and transformation of San Antonio, Texas. The objective …
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Walls with Presence
… a building. Walls are necessary elements in the urban fabric, and as such, should be celebrated. They enrich the space that they surround and enrich that which surrounds them as part of the urban fabric. The project involves first creating walls with presence, then enclosing them in a manner that …
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A reinterpretation of "sense of place" : a study of the Stone Town of Zanzibar
… the evolution of the Stone Town of Zanzibar, an urban fabric that had undergone a phase of upheaval that was brought about by a brief period of rapid change in its political, social and economic structure. The relevance of the investigation lies mainly in the historical context of the urban …
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