Towards MultipliCity : Burlington, Vermont - a strategy of design advocacy

The thesis has been an exploration within an attitude towards urban design. This attitude is structured on a belief, in the necessity for inclusive thinking and appreciation of the multiple phenomena of life, as the basis for a design process which seeks to understand and transform the form of a city. In the evolution of the thesis a methodology for urban analysis has been developed and its implications explored through an investigation of alternative urban forms for the city of Burlington, Vermont. The methodology seeks to develop a range of informed positions towards an appropriate city form through multiple advocacy design projections, as well as multiple syntheses of these. It is felt that this kind of analysis is a necessary ingredient for an urban design process which attempts inclusiveness.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1984

Author dc:creator

• Edgcomb, James Loring

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John R. Myer.

• Architecture.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73258

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