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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"vacant space"”.
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From vacant space to active place: leveraging state-owned land for affordable housing - a case study of Youngsfield
Access to affordable housing in well-located areas across Cape Town is a pressing issue faced by low-income households. Attempts have been made at addressing the issue through affordable and free housing subsidies being implemented, but these have not improved access to opportunities for low-income …
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Living with Water: The Potential Urban Ghost Spaces have to Address Flood Mitigation in Toronto, Ontario
Urban ghost spaces have potential to reduce flooding in the Lower East Don Watershed by reducing and delaying stormwater runoff to receiving waterways. Ghost spaces are vacant or derelict space that have prior commercial, industrial, transportation, or residential use, receive semi-regular …
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Growing pains : dealing with excess demand and the conflicting benefits of community gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts
… gardens are one of the most popular uses of vacant space in the United States; there are likely over 6,000 operating in the country today. Although only a tiny portion of the population has ever participated in one, people applaud them for a range of benefits including community …
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Anadiplosis: In between Cemetery and City, Sacred and Secular
… circulation, environment of artificial space. Narrative has its media, form, method, genre, rhetoric, in order to describe a series of related events or experiences. People are the users of all architectural spaces. The experience of space is always manipulated by the designer from the …
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More than an eyesore: redefining urban wastelands through an integrated natural systematic design approach
… populations rise and cities sprawl, seemingly vacant space within cities has become potentially valuable land. What once was considered the fringe or the outskirts has been engulfed by urbanization and surrounded by neighborhoods. Furthermore, as technologies and industry advance, former …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… form of the city through (re)designing urban space. This dissertation proposes a framework of a design method based on find the best possible means of urban design to support the decision making via improving metabolic system and shaping urban form toward the self-sufficient cities to …