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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"urban framework"”.
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Boston's Back Bay : the urban framework and its visual organization
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1981.
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East Boston buffer : a transferable urban framework for adapting to sea rise
Urban vulnerability to climate change is constantly increasing. Many coastal cities will need to begin sea rise mitigation efforts soon, and now is a critical time for architects to intervene in this process with good design that takes on the issue of sea rise in the city, not just as a problem but …
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Urban accupuncture: Architecture as a catalyst for environmental and water conservation in the context of the Kilimanjaro Informal Settlement
… and water conservation in the natural and urban landscapes of the riverbed, its rivers' edges and its man-made peripheries. This research locates itself at the northern boundary of the city of Windhoek along a stretch of polluted riverbed in the Kilimanjaro Informal Settlement (KIS) where …
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A contemporary dance company and performance areas
… performance areas was proposed within the urban environment of the Pretoria Central Business District (CBD). The site selection was supported by the proximity of an existing theatre. The proposed project responds to the guidelines as formulated by the student urban framework, entitled …
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People and space : building a design and development model for a more meaningful relationship
… attempts to identify and transform the existing framework of the city, allowing for change without losing the continuation of meaningful urban relationships. Thus, this experimentation challenges the conventional approach to design development ventures which begin with a program and build …
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The Contemporary Cape Winery: A Wine Cooperative for Jamestown, Stellenbosch
… responsibility and spatial relationship to urban areas and farm worker communities. To develop this new typology, a site with agricultural potential and a direct connection to an urban farm workers settlement will be used. The potential of the urban environment will be analysed in relation …
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Elandspoort 357-JR
… the idea through the design process. The urban framework aims to preserve, to link and enhance open space in the Pretoria Central Business District. The theoretical investigation and framework directed the need for a site that would allow me to convey my own conclusion regarding the …
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Reprogramming Pittsburgh's post-industrial riverfront: an open space vision for the south side
… river city it must contend with its dilapidated urban riverfronts along the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, the river was considered solely as an economic engine that fueled the growth of America. Once the world’s largest producer of glass and steel, …
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Optimal Configurations for Urban Transit: A Study on Bus and Express Network Design via Analytical Approaches and Mathematical Programming
… 5 delves into the ETNDP within a real-world urban framework, employing a hybrid approach of analytical methods and mathematical programming. A two-stage approach is suggested for the bi-modal surface ETNDP. The first stage employs analytical approaches to establish a methodology for …
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Urban infill housing in a post-WWII landscape : housing in the City of Dresden, Germany
… two intentions. The first, to create a stronger urban framework in the form of a master plan that is based on the planning department assumptions and values based on my research and analysis. The second, to design housing prototypes that work with the existing housing to achieve the first …
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Essays on Spatial Labor Markets and Public Policies
… housing policy. In the first essay, I develop a framework to study theoretically and quantitatively the welfare attributes of spatial mismatch, defined as a misalignment between where job seekers reside and suitable employment opportunities. In a quantitative urban model with frictional labor …
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Reusing the Orange Line : explorations of building associatively within an urban grid
… reality. Given a dominant, all encompassing urban grid context, such as the South End area of Boston, Massachusetts and the opportunity for a small single-block sized intervention within, how does one deal with it? To what extent can the built environment, while ordering our existence, also …
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Threads of connectivity: Placemaking as a catalyst for bridging the infrastructure divide along the Voortrekker corridor
… In the book Points + Lines, Stan Allen describes urban infrastructure as artificial ecologies which manage the flow of energy and resources within the city (Allen, 1999). For artificial ecologies to function sustainably, the systems must be interconnected across different infrastructure silos and …
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The Troupes of Theatre
… Contemporary theatre acts a public space in its urban framework. It invites and welcomes people of all backgrounds to move throughout, congregate, and experience the troupes of theatre in the city. This theatre encourages and welcomes the public to gather and utilize a previously, uninviting and …
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The Economic Effects of Public Housing Programs
… households. We build a quantitative urban framework where housing assistance complements income taxation to redistribute across workers. We argue that the provision of affordable housing involves a trade-off between indirect pecuniary redistribution and direct amenity effects. On the …
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Relaciones entre los usos del suelo, las infraestructuras y la planificación: incidencia de la red viaria y el planeamiento en la aparición del terciario para el caso de la N-VI
… el papel de la red viaria y el planeamiento urbanístico en la localización de las actividades terciarias. A partir de los años sesenta se produce una modificación de los patrones de comportamiento espacial de las actividades productivas. En la raíz de estos cambios está los procesos de …