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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"urban intervention"”.
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An urban intervention : enabling frameworks
… these things, that enables other levels of intervention to occur.
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An urban intervention in Milan
… an ideal case history of the development of an urban fabric, and of the consciousness of urbanism itself.
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In Search of Forms in the Design of an Urban Intervention
Urban Interventions are too often regarded by long-time inhabitants of city neighborhoods as a means to displace them from their homes to make room for expensive chain stores and exclusive residential buildings - gentrification. This view is unfortunately correct more often than not. An …
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
… development, architectural criticism, and urban intervention played, as representational and ideological tools, in the process of British colonial formation in Lucknow, from 1765 to 1858. Results show: (1) Architecture and development played a crucial role in annexation of Lucknow by the …
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Rearrangements – Four Urban Experiments Between Soil and Sky
… practice as an architect-artist in the fields of urban intervention, ontological design and experimental worldbuilding. My projects involve prototyping arrangements in urban space that contain ideas currently excluded from modern colonial urban design. These ideas, both specific and broad, include …
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A Living Room for a Town
My thesis is an urban intervention into the small town of Blacksburg, Virginia. The ideas and explorations of this project are derived from the placement of a canopy over the Main Street of the downtown. The thesis addresses the existing energy and essence of the town, while introducing the …
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The road from pope to king : il Corso Vittorio Emanuele, II
… Emanuele II). This thesis will address the urban manifestation of the conflicted relationship between the Papacy and the new royal government of the Kingdom of Italy in Rome, with a particular regard for the manner in which the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II portrays the Risorgimento king. The …
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Disturbing ecologies : interventions in Boston's seaport district
… of nature has been conspicuously absent from urbanistic discourse... The development of the American city can be explained through the opposition between nature and culture, wilderness and city."-- Diana Agrest, 1996. From the Greek for study of the house, ecology refers to the relationships …
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Minima Maxima
… and individuality to arise. In the context of an urban intervention, architecture can unite the city and the people by offering space for the city and creating an active community for its occupants. This thesis uses a micro-apartment complex in Chicago overlooking a park and elevated subway tracks …
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Healing Places
… need of regeneration. This thesis proposes an urban intervention in Oldtown, Baltimore City, Maryland that employs active design, sustainable design, and specialized programming to alleviate the specific health, social, and environmental problems of this community. This thesis ultimately …
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Dematerializing the City
… in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern of the city's fabric, the local traditions, and the basic …
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The Winnipeg core area initiative : a case study in urban revitalisation
… perhaps the most complex challenge faced by urban planners today. This dissertation explores the role of planning in urban restructuring by providing a critical empirical investigation into a major Canadian tripartite planning intervention that spans a decade -- The Winnipeg Core Area …
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The meeting point : rethinking public space in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Can urban intervention affect social behaviors within a city? And if so, what happens when that city is partial to cultural restrictions? The target in question here is the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The dilemma is that the city has no true form of public space; despite having spaces designated …
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Parque Sólon De Lucena: Intervenção Urbana e Vendedores Ambulantes no Centro de João Pessoa - PB
… had to get out of that space, because of a new urban intervention project. Backed by local and state law, the city aimed to remove them, causing negative impacts on the lives of workers who, in some cases, spent more than half of their lives surviving through the use of that space. We found that …
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The project for the historic center of Genoa : toward the integration of urban planning and design
… of either profession to provide quality urban environments. Frequently the problem is attributed to the gap that exists between the plan and planning process which manages the city, and the architecture and design process which creates its three dimensional form. This thesis presents a …
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A tissue, a building, Santiago de Chile : transformation of the images and elements of the language of space and form into the design of a promenade
This study explores a strategy for an urban intervention in Centro Poniente, Santiago de Chile. Centro Poniente represents an urban district that needs some sense of focus and orientation. The hypothesis is that such an intervention should be sympathetic to the character of the city fabric as …
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RetroFILL : residual spaces as urban infill
… site, which will create a model and method for urban intervention.
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Temporary urban regeneration: a systematic approach for a multi-system life cycle assessment
This research attempts to evaluate temporary urban regeneration potential by integrating two systems that make up an interim intervention which addresses an observed problem. The research proposes a systematic approach for a multi-system life cycle assessment model which lays out the process of …
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A people-oriented port city : urban rejuvenation: Port Louis
This urban design thesis is a study of the urban issues and design principles pertinent to Port Cities. 'Man meets water': Our primordial psyche Man has had a relationship with water since time immemorial. Moving freely from earth to water is an activity which comes naturally to the human being. …
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Urban figure
This thesis examines role of the mega-scale urban figure, specifically its appropriateness within contemporary cities. Since Rem Koolhaas's 1993 essay, "Bigness or the Problem of Large," the concept of mega-scale urban intervention has been a prominent issue both in architectural theory and …
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