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Tech giants have emerged to have a significant presence 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 leaving behind a massive isolated and autonomous entity unused. The lack of urban fabric at the sites of the tech giants has therefore resulted in gentrification in the Bay area. Instead, bring the urban fabric to the cities where the tech campuses are located as opposed to bringing only a tech campus to the city. With how much real estate these tech campuses take up, they can become a model for how autonomous campuses can be diffused and deployed into the city to create an urban fabric; an urban fabric that provides a pedestrian street-scape and public space for an urban fabric(less) city.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Kono, Yu R

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Pope, Albert

• Architecture
• Urbanism
• Tech Giants
• Gentrification

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105641

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/105641