Abstract
dc:description.abstractOne of the major challenges of the 21st century is the rapid growth of many cities<br />and the decline of others.<br />There are many cities like Cleveland which were built to serve a far greater population<br />than currently inhabits the city. Infrastructure built for 800,000 now services<br />400,000 leaving creating surplus capacity and derelict spaces; urban voids which<br />have fallen into disuse. Manufacturing and shipping industries occupy valuable<br />waterfront space, highways create rifts and large civic public spaces designed<br />with the best of intentions create vacuums.<br />Cleveland is not dealing with the issue of growth but with transformation; in its<br />remaking as a place of mixed communities and neighborhoods. Understanding<br />the city spatially is the first part of an exploration into devising interventions that<br />can utilize existing infrastructure, reclaim and re-purpose spaces to generate new<br />uses and new vitality. This thesis is concerned with identifying an opportunity and<br />proposing a programmatic and spatial transformation.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Architecture
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Architecture
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Architecture
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hall, Matthew William
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Holt, Jaan
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Emmons, Paul F.
- Zwirn, Robert
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- vt_gsexam:339
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/19302