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Linton, Cynthia Mayhew. "Claiming the urban industrial landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79962.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-109).
This thesis presents a propositIOn about a prevalent urban condition, that of marginal, left over, or disused space. It contends that these spaces, generally viewed as negative attributes by their communities have inherent value, and that appropriate and limited interventions will allow for new appreciation and greater use of these underutilized urban resources. The site explored in the thesis is an area along the Cambridge and Somerville border between Union Square and the McGrath highway. It supports a variety of light industrial uses that first located there because of proximity to the railroad line. The current actiVities that surround this open area of disused rail sidings are scrap yards, auto parts stores, and warehouses. The open character of the site and the location between residential areas of Cambridge and Somerville give it value. Because of its openness and nearness to dense residential areas it has value as a place from which to view the life of the city, to understand the history of the industrial worker in Somerville, and the growth of the city. It is a gathering place for young people, who are drawn to these sites partly because of their "unstructured" nature. The program chosen to activate this site is one which brings together a shop or production facility for bicycle frames with complementary uses, including an instruction area for bike repair, meeting rooms for bicycle groups, and a retail store. Additionally, there is an outdoor component to the program that consists of ramps and other architectural features where bicycle riding can take place unimpeded by automobile traffic. In giving this program architectural form, the layering, the additive quality of the surrounding buildings, and the "randomness" of the total environment are accommodated, and its vitality reinforced. The contention of the thesis is that this new set of uses is sensitive to the site, its natural characteristics, its architectural character and its community's needs. Understanding the landscape and the essential quality of a place is a crucial step in determining appropriate design solutions.
by Cynthia Mayhew Linton.
M.Arch.
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Lau, King-hong. "Urban gallery for design." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25956607.
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Guirado, Cabezas Maria. "Fragmentation and human disturbances in peri-urban forests: effects on vascular flora." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/3672.
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La present tesi analitza els efectes de la fragmentació del bosc i les pertorbacions humanes associades sobre l'estructura, la composició i l'estat de conservació dels boscos en un paisatge peri-urbà mediterrani (la plana del Vallès), tenint en compte factors climàtics, topogràfics, de pertorbació humana i paisatgístics que operen a diverses escales. També es fa especial èmfasi en l'interès dels resultats obtinguts pel que fa a la conservació i la gestió de la biodiversitat forestal en aquestes àrees fortament humanitzades. Més concretament, s'analitzat:- La importància de les variables ambientals, les pertorbacions antròpiques i l'estructura de la clapa i del paisatge sobre el recobriment arbori de Quercus i Pinus.
- La importància dels grups de variables esmentades sobre la composició florística de les clapes de bosc de la plana del Vallès. També la resposta individual de cada espècie per tal d'identificar espècies indicadores.
- Les preferències antròpiques a l'hora de gestionar i freqüentar les clapes de bosc peri-urbanes en relació a les característiques estructurals d'aquestes.
- L'efecte de la mida de la clapa de bosc, dels usos del sòl adjacents, de la distància al marge del bosc i de la interacció d'aquests tres factors sobre la riquesa i la composició florística del sotabosc.
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Whitehill, David J. "Post-Industrial Production industrial incubation in the contemporary urban fabric /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7838.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture . Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Maruyama, Tōru. "Urban development partnerships in industrial cities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68735.
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Farnham, P. "Iconic industrial structures in urban regeneration." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444405/.
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The past two decades have seen a change in the perception of former industrial urban neighbourhoods. At the heart of many stand the dominating structures and sites that once held together the urban and social fabrics. These iconic industrial structures have been instrumental in the regeneration and renewal of areas. Driven by different visions and needs these buildings have found new roles within districts, affecting built environments, social dynamics and economic activities. Private, public and community sectors contribute and implement change with contrasting and complementary outcomes. Positive economic change is fundamental to the improvement of an area. Iconic industrial structures are found to be integral parts of economic clusters or innovative milieux, helping to shape the economic regeneration of an area through their status and qualities. These milieux are central to local, regional and national economic growth. The processes of milieux formation and continuation have become recognised in government-led regeneration initiatives as key components in sustainable communities. Local community groups have also recognised the benefits of economic clusters, providing potential for localised economic growth and associated social and environmental benefits. Tate Modern, Museum in Docklands, The Custard Factory, Camden Lock and the Oxo Tower provide contrasting cases in the outcomes of different driving forces behind each and their differing roles in local urban regeneration.
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Hougen, Krysta E. "Long-term Effects of Industrial History on the Forest Flora of Southeastern Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1237857409.
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Makrynikola, Nefeli. "Industrial Urbanism." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-244805.
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This thesis presents the history of urbanism through the point of view of theevolution of the productive process history from the irst Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) to today, as well as a proposal for a development of an area in Trelleborg,Sweden that includes also manufacturing, based on Europan Competition’s 2017theme of “Productive City”. In the irst part it presents the history of the industrial erastarting from the 18th century until today though a chronological diagram, includingpolitical, social and technological events, as well as important urban planning ideasand innovative factories. Then proceeds to a more extended presentation of industrialurbanism theory based on theoretical approaches and realized examples. The inalpart of the thesis presents a case study of the “productive city”, which includes themasterplan of the area, diagrams for the location of manufacturing and ideas for thetypes of manufacturing that could be included in the urban block. It concludes withinal consideration about production and the role it can play for a better future.
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Li, Rui. "Study on renovation of old industrial zone renovation of Nanyou industrial zone Shenzhen, China /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41651443.
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Nnadi, Emeka Joseph. "Urban industrial dereliction, a strategy of engagement." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53116.pdf.
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Popov, Anton, David G. 1980 Atkin, and Keith Chen. "Essays in industrial organization and urban economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129003.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis. "Chapter 3, written with professors David Atkin and Keith Chen"--Page 4.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173).
First two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the uniform pricing by retailers. I build a theoretical model which illustrates how distributor consolidation in a set of counties may affect retail prices in all counties, depending on how strong the incentive of retail chains to price uniformly is. I test the predictions of the model using Nielsen scanner price data. I study two events of distributor consolidation in Ohio in 2009-2011, which followed upstream MillerCoors joint venture in 2008. In one of the events, distributor consolidation has no price effects. In another, bigger event, prices of consolidated brands (Miller, Coors, Heineken and Modelo) in treated counties increase by 0.46% relative to the control ABI brands. I find no evidence of prices in other counties being affected.
The findings are consistent with some cases of my theoretical model. The implications of this study are that modeling distribution tier and uniform pricing by retailers may be important for horizontal merger practitioners, both for retrospective analysis and for forecasting. Chapter 2 is devoted to the reasons for uniform pricing. I estimate the model, introduced in the first chapter, where supermarket chains have an incentive to set a uniform price for a given product across different locations. The model includes a product-specific baseline price which a supermarket chain sets, and a penalty for deviation from this baseline price. A single store will not deviate from the baseline price, if the marginal profits from doing so are smaller than the penalty parameter. My estimates suggest that the penalty for a dollar change from a benchmark price in a given week is around $12 to $16. Uniform pricing leads to suboptimal choice of prices relative to a problem with no penalty.
There is substantial price re-optimization, which, however, does not affect profits much, due to changes in prices having a small first-order effect around the optimum. Supermarket chains only lose 0.4% of profits from pricing uniformly. Effects on consumers are highly heterogeneous across locations and weeks, with change in consumer surplus varying from -0.55$ to 1.92$ per consumer per week. I show that change in consumer surplus due to uniform prices is positively correlated with income, with higher income zip codes benefiting more from uniform pricing. This effect, although economically meaningful in aggregate, is not large for an average consumer. Chapter 3, written with professors David Atkin and Keith Chen, adds to the literature studying knowledge spillovers in modern cities. The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the determinants of agglomeration.
However, the existing literature studying patterns of geographic proximity in patent citations or industrial co-location has struggled to disentangle the benefits of face-to-face interactions from other spatial knowledge spillovers. In this paper we attempt to more directly measure face-to face interactions using highly granular worker geolocation data in Silicon Valley. To understand the degree to which knowledge flows result from their interactions, we study the relationship between cross-firm worker meetings and cross-citations between their firms. To navigate endogeneity concerns due to firms organizing meetings with firms they wish to learn from, we focus on serendipitous meetings--measured by the interactions of workers in neighboring firms in very different industries--that play a central role in the urban theories of Jane Jacobs.
The subset of these chance meetings occurring during work-hours also serve as costs shifters to meeting face-to-face rather than remotely, allowing us to separately identify the returns to planned meetings. Our results suggest substantial knowledge spillovers from face-to-face interactions, including increases in citations resulting from serendipitous meetings that are a third as large as the elasticity with respect to physical distance.
by Anton Popov.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics
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Silva, Nuno Micael Alvim Coelho da. "Estudo da relação entre o crime e a flora urbana numa metrópole portuguesa." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/5001.
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Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de licenciado em CriminologiaA investigação projectada visa explorar a relação entre a flora urbana e a criminalidade num cenário urbano português, testando a hipótese de que a vegetação contribui para a redução do crime através da mitigação de precursores psicológicos da violência e estímulo da vigilância informal, tal como formulado em estudos prévios. Empregando-se um sistema de informação geográfica, índices de cobertura vegetal produzidos através de detecção remota orbital serão contrastados com os índices de criminalidade georreferenciada derivados de estatísticas oficiais, respectivos às áreas urbanas coincidentes, controlando-se por variáveis sócio-demográficas através de testes estatísticos. Presume-se que os níveis elevados de vegetação são preditores de taxas de criminalidade reduzidas, ou seja, uma correlação inversa entre as duas variáveis. The investigation outlined in this work aims to analyze the relationship of vegetation with crime in a portuguese urban setting, focusing on testing the hypothesis that the vegetation cover contributes to the reduction of crime levels within the city thorough two previously postulated mechanisms, namely by mitigating psychological precursors of violence, and promoting natural surveillance of the streets. By employing a geographical information system, remotely sensed vegetation data is examined in comparison to official crime rates in the corresponding urban regions, while controlling for several social-demographic variables through statistical analysis. It is assumed that high levels of vegetation density are predictive of lower crime rates, which means a negative correlation between the two variables.
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Lineberry, Susan. "Urban oasis : housing for a neo-industrial village." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23196.
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Anderson, Eric. "Urban Oasis : a neo-industrial landscape in Turkey." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23993.
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Hall, Philip A. "The Post-Industrial Urban Void / Rethink, Reconnect, Revive." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282571099.
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Callanan, Joseph Andrew. "Returns to industrial real estate." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71401.
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Espejo, Martínez Carmen. "Centro educativo de la Flora: reconversión de ex planta minera La Africana." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/143904.
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Memoria para optar al título de ArquitectoEste documento presenta el desarrollo del proyecto de título “Centro educativo de la flora: Reconversión de la ex planta minera La Africana”, ubicado en la Región Metropolitana, específicamente en el cerro Lo Aguirre, comuna de Pudahuel. El proyecto se basa en la reutilización de éstas infraestructuras, la cual se encuentra en estado de abandono desde el año 1931, tras el cese de su actividad extractiva cuprífera. A pesar de ser un caso único dentro del área Metropolitana - por ser una ruina muy sugerente en su forma que se inserta como una figura icónica dentro del paisaje, y que además por su escala es apreciable desde distintos puntos del sector poniente de Santiago - el desinterés y la falta de voluntad del sector público y privado ha generado que estos vestigios estén inmerso en áreas de completo desamparo, deterioro y descuido, convirtiéndose en un “punto negro” dentro de la comuna y la ciudad. Es por esto, la generación de un proyecto que potencie el impacto positivo de las áreas industriales obsoletas y visualice “espacios de oportunidad” que a través de la arquitectura ponga en valor el patrimonio industrial y por consiguiente permita revitalizar un área en particular. En este contexto, las potencialidades y necesidades propias del lugar condicionaron al nuevo uso programático, las cuales son: 1) El emplazamiento de estas infraestructuras presenta potenciales paisajísticos relevantes lo cual evoca toda una situación de parque y áreas verdes que no se ha desarrollado. 2) En complemento a eso, el cerro posee un área circundante al terreno que es de interés y preservación ecológica que da cuenta del patrimonio natural de la zona centro del país. 3) Y por último, el bajo índice de áreas verdes, que afecta a la comuna, que según la Organización Mundial de la Salud plantea como recomendables para una mejora en la calidad de vida. Todo esto sumado al interés por conservar y proteger estas sugerentes infraestructuras que son testigos de la memoria, se decide realizar un tema que tenga relación directa con la evocación de parque, con el patrimonio natural, con la cultura, con la enseñanza, con el esparcimiento, y con lo que significa un parque con potencial paisajístico importante propio de la zona centro. Por lo tanto a partir de eso se propone la reutilización de este patrimonio industrial como un soporte educativo recreativo abierto a la comunidad, denominado como “Centro educativo de la flora”.
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Li, Rui, and 李蕊. "Study on renovation of old industrial zone: renovation of Nanyou industrial zone Shenzhen, China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41651443.
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Kudo, Yuya. "Essays on rural-to-urban migration and urban industrial performance in Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9be76708-90ef-4974-9864-b2bd5f9813cf.
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This thesis consists of three independent but thematically related papers exploring the income determination process in African labour markets from spatial and sectoral perspectives. Using long-run household panel data from rural Tanzania, chapter 2 investigates the extent to which education can explain migrants' income and consumption gains. We expect that the higher return to schooling at the destination primarily drives migrants' gains, suggesting that those who cannot afford the cost of schooling cannot reap the benefits of migration. We find that education indeed plays the role, but that it does not appear to be a major factor in limiting the internal migration as a source of raising income and consumption. Exploiting data drawn from urban household panel surveys in Ghana and Tanzania, chapter 3 investigates how rural-to-urban migrants' earnings compare with those of natives in urban labour markets. The chapter attempts to identify the growth of migrants' earnings at the destination (assimilation), making a distinction between wage and self-employed migrants. We find that wage-dependent migrants would achieve higher lifetime earnings if they entered a self-employed sector from their arrival, conditional on individuals' attributes and the varying returns to those attributes across urban residents. The evidence points towards the importance of capital constraints in a decision to start a business. Using firm-level data of manufacturing and retailing from the Enterprise Surveys conducted in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, chapter 4 attempts to improve our understanding of enterprise performance in urban Africa by investigating three aspects of firms' productive structure: technology, total factor productivity (TFP), and firm size. We find that the technology is similar between sectors, that retailing firms are smaller and less capital intensive but not, on average, ones with lower TFP, and that TFP differences are primarily within sectors. All these findings might point towards the importance of factor prices in characterising the industrial structure in urban Africa.
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Lau, King-hong, and 柳景康. "Urban gallery for design." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983972.
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Diaz, Joaquin. "The adaptive reuse of historic urban late industrial buildings." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2801.
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It is the intent of this thesis to provide adaptive intervention that respects and preserves the significant features of historic urban late industrial buildings while enhancing their cultural and economic role within the city that developed around them.
The Dinner Key Boat Yard, in Coconut Grove, will be used to demonstrate the conclusions of this study. Research into the practice and philosophies of historic preservation, and the local history; will be used to identify the attributes of historic value in the case site. An analysis of the surrounding area and case studies of parallel precedence will be used to determine a viable reuse program. The synthesis of this information will determine the new intervention.
The resulting programmatic elements selected for the case site, museums, boat yard, restaurant, and pedestrian connector, are formally expressed to reflect the development, evolution, and public benefits of technology in late industrial society.
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Middlecoff, Whit. "Urban oasis : civic space in a neo-industrial village." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23315.
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Rhie, Christopher. "New urban manufacturing neo-industrial design in Louisville, Kentucky." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87615.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-101).
American manufacturing is experiencing a modest renaissance. U.S. firms are choosing to re-shore manufacturing jobs not out of their sense of patriotism, but because it makes good business sense. The costs of transportation and overseas labor are increasing, opening the door for domestic production. Political leaders are embracing the prospects for skilled, living wage jobs; President Obama has made manufacturing one of the central tenets of his economic recovery plan. This has important implications for cities, which stand to benefit from new investment and increased employment opportunities. However, important questions linger for planners: where will manufacturing jobs materialize within the urban fabric? Are factories even viable within the core cities of industrial regions, where there is the greatest need? If so, what physical planning strategies should those cities be pursuing in order to retain, attract, and increase the number of manufacturing jobs within their borders? This research begins with a history of urban production, from the Industrial Revolution through the present day. Emerging trends are assessed and synthesized into a new model for urban industrial development. That model is tested with a detailed examination of Louisville, Kentucky, a place that embodies the renewed efforts to re-industrialize cities with a manufacturing past. Urban manufacturing typologies are presented that describe the urban forms in Louisville at large, and within the Park Hill industrial corridor in particular. A unified set of design principles is presented and matched to the urban manufacturing typologies, focusing on verticality, mixed uses, transparency, sustainability, connectivity, and adaptability. Finally, the thesis concludes with an assessment of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the implementation of the Neo-Industrial City model.
by Christopher Rhie.
M.C.P.
S.M. in Real Estate Development
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Taylor, Jacob. "Assessing Post-Industrial Urban Change: A Remote Sensing Investigation." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556628456788616.
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Hennigan, Craig Matthew. "Post-industrial Manufacturing of Place, Authenticity, and Urban Citizenship." Thesis, Wayne State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10826143.
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This project explores how people enact citizenship through discourses in postindustrial Rust Belt cities. Drawing on Robert Asen’s discursive theory of citizenship, this dissertation views prevalent discourses through various media tropes. Media tropes reflect and construct authenticity, a key element to the status of urban citizen. Analysis of four tropes, the urban wasteland, nature, rebirth, and DIY, reveals how neoliberal governmentality serves to coopt how people enact urban citizenship. Two books, two documentaries, and a selective sample of booster publications make up the texts analyzed in this dissertation. The aim of the dissertation is to break down common tropes that serve to exclude indigenous urban citizens from revitalization and open up space for more inclusive discourses in the city.
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BANYAS, JEANNE M. "RECONNECTION: INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085598080.
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Kiu, Chung-yin. "Evaluation of different approaches to redevelopment of old industrial areas /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117336.
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Chan, Judy, and 陳柔麗. "Urban governance and the right to space: urban regeneration of industrial buildings in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46735100.
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Leith, Kendra Sawyer. "Challenges for implementing industrial policy in Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50111.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77).
Although Mexico experienced high growth rates in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, the country has not fared well in terms of improvements in poverty and equality, growth in GDP, and job growth in some sectors in the last couple of decades. In conjunction, during the last twenty-five years, the traditional industrial policies of tariffs, local content requirements and quotas have been phased out of Mexico's policy toolkit. However, there have been some industrial policies implemented in Mexico such as investments in training, R&D, and infrastructure especially on the subnational (state) level. Although some state governments have been able to implement industrial policies, there are still many challenges that hinder opportunities to implement these policies such as the national ideology that supports liberalization, insufficient funding and resources, limited governmental capacity, lack of shared vision, and lack of credit available. Even though some states have been able to implement industrial policies in this climate, there are ways in which the government could improve opportunities for executing these policies such as creating a national framework that provides a lot of flexibility at the subnational level, providing more funding and capacity for subnational actors, requiring evaluation to measure the effectiveness of these programs and creating mechanisms that help officials generate a shared vision for strategic planning.
by Kendra Sawyer Leith.
M.C.P.
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Coates, Ashley Nicole. "Wildlife Town Center: Reimagining Landmark Mall as a Space for Reconnecting with the Urban Flora and Fauna." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104157.
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Urban development typically displaces or extirpates wildlife and decreases habitat. While some species such as the grey squirrel and raccoon adapt well to urban living, other species are less successful due to a lack of habitat or the loss of other species. As urbanization continues, the way that humans develop land and interact with species living on that land must be reevaluated. One development model that has been common in the Washington DC area is multi-use development. This development type accommodates various land uses in a small area. The layout of multi-use developments typically includes a central open area for events surrounded by retail and restaurants on the ground level and apartments and office space above. This creates a community where people have all of their needs for goods, housing, and work met within a small area. Another name for these types of multi-use developments is a Town Center. One of the newest proposed multi-use developments in the Washington DC area is at the former Landmark Mall location. The development aims to revitalize the now closed Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia. As a design in development, the Landmark Mall Redevelopment Plan is a prime opportunity to explore a new concept for development: a wildlife town center. In my experience, typical Town Centers are not designed for wildlife. They are designed for heavy human foot traffic with plant selections and surfaces to withstand such traffic. How might a town center be re-imagined to support wildlife and also provide for humans? Animal Aided Design is one strategy. The process of Animal Aided Design takes a sampling of species that could live in a landscape and provides the critical needs for those species. This thesis takes the process of Animal Aided Design and applies it to the Landmark Mall Redevelopment Plan. While the design focuses on five particular bird species, the intention is to create conditions that will suit many more than those five species and that the site will attract a variety of birds as year-round residents, as well as those passing through during migration or staying for the breeding season. The project creates a novel habitat to help increase the viable living and foraging areas for wildlife and protects wildlife populations, while giving people the opportunity to find joy in their interactions with other species.Master of Landscape Architecture
Urban development decreases available habitat and causes wildlife to move to new areas or perish. While some species such as the grey squirrel and raccoon adapt well to urban living, other species are less successful due to a lack of habitat or the loss of other species. As development in urban areas continues, the way that humans develop land and interact with species living on that land must be reevaluated. One development model that has been common in the Washington DC area is multi-use development. This development type accommodates various types of businesses and housing to exist near each other in a small area. The layout of multi-use developments typically includes a central open area for events surrounded by retail and restaurants on the ground level and apartments and office space above. This creates a community where people have all of their needs for goods, housing, and work met within a small area. Another name for these types of multi-use developments is a town center. One of the newest proposed town center developments in the Washington DC area is at the former Landmark Mall location. The development aims to revitalize the now closed Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia into a place for community gathering. As a project in development, the Landmark Mall Redevelopment Plan is a prime opportunity to explore a new concept for development: a wildlife town center. In my experience, typical Town Centers are not designed for wildlife. They are designed to withstand people walking around with their children and pets. The plant selection in these areas are not typically native and have little benefit to the local wildlife. How might a town center be re-imagined to support wildlife and also provide for humans? One would take an approach that is more holistic and designs for the basic needs of wildlife as well as the humans. This strategy is called Animal Aided Design. This thesis takes the process of Animal Aided Design and applies it to the Landmark Mall Redevelopment Plan. While the design focuses on five particular bird species, the intention is to create conditions that will suit many more than those five species and that the site will attract a variety of birds as year-round residents, as well as those passing through during migration or staying for the breeding season. The project creates a novel habitat to help increase the viable living and foraging areas for wildlife and protects wildlife populations, while giving people the opportunity to find joy in their interactions with other species.
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Martin, Renee. "DemolitionLand: succession in the urban landscape." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282576358.
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Rivera-Torres, Leticia. "Tax exemption and industrial development in Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69704.
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Li, Xin Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Brownfields in China : how Cities recycle industrial land." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67249.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174).
Since around 2000, China has been experiencing a major shift in its industrial bases. Many cities have been relocating polluting and energy-intensive plants from urban areas to the less-developed periphery. In the summer of 2005, when I started to pay attention to industrial relocation cases in China, I found that the issue of urban land contamination was not of much concern to either the general public or the government, not even Chinese environmental scholars. I found little evidence that, among relocation projects, former industrial land was properly monitored and treated before construction. Although problems with polluted land have been widely studied in developed countries, this field has remained virtually untouched in China until recently. These industrial sites, usually polluted, are considered brownfields. Without a comprehensive brownfield redevelopment regulatory system in China, I have also observed inconsistence in local environmental activities in dealing with potentially contaminated land. I answer the following four questions: (1) Given the absence of a strong national/provincial brownfield legislative system, why are some brownfields remediated while some are not?; (2) How can the interactions among polluting factories, profit-driven developers, and public agencies affect the outcome of various stages in the land-recycling process? (3) What are the sources of variation in land recycling projects even within the same city? and (4) What institutional arrangement is favorable to pollution remediation? My argument is that, rather than solely relying on reform from the top, local governments have the ability to ensure a sustainable and healthy industrial land redevelopment. Through three case studies of relocation projects (the Capital Iron and Steel Plant, the Beijing Coke Plant and the Beijing Chemical Plant), I find some institutional changes which were not designed initially for brownfields are conducive to more effective and efficient management of land contamination. These changes, such as the introduction of the Land Consolidation and Reserve Center and the auction system, have promoted a transparent decision-making process, increased involvement of civil society, and effective inter-agency communication, all of which reinforced my hypothesis that a relatively balanced participation in decision making among stakeholders involved in land-recycling projects leads to sustainable land recycling.
by Xin Li.
Ph.D.
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Giaimo, Michael Steven. "Some recommendations for the Massachusetts industrial services program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74320.
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Bibliography: leaves 77-80.
by Michael Steven Giaimo.
M.C.P.
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Cheng, Marissa A. "When the cows come home : post post-industrial urban agriculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58267.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
Over the past few decades, the industrialization of food has become increasingly influenced by the consolidation of its controlling corporations. This consolidation has isolated meat processing facilities from small farmers, favoring corporations who have built enormous processing facilities to match their demand. Given that the consumption of beef has leveled out in the past few decades, the environmental costs of producing enough beef to meet demand continue to rise. Factory farming transforms huge tracts of land into wastelands of polluted land, and cultivates animals in unsanitary conditions. The centralization of major farming, packing, and processing facilities has left more distant, more environmentally conscious farmers to struggle with the economics of profit margins. This thesis proposes is a new model of industrial facility that can transition with changes in the industry as it moves towards a coop model from an industrial model. Its urban location pits private and public against each other in conditions that force them to negotiate a truce.
by Marissa Cheng.
M.Arch.
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Johnson, Bonnie Kathryn. "An Industrial Designer's Ethic, A Study: Products for Urban Ecology." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41289.
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This body of work aims to discover opportunities for industrial design to support sustainable ways of living in a materialistic society. At first glance, sustainable living and product design seem incongruent. Perhaps through investigation of the nature of product design and models of sustainability, a plan can be established which actually strengthens the reality of each in light of social, economic and environmental issues.Master of Science
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Davison, Micah M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Integrative or insulative? : making the most of urban industrial spaces." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128396.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-69).
Faced with the considerable challenge of preserving industrial land in major cities, local governments tend to respond either by safeguarding the land for core industrial purposes, or by broadening its use range to include other nonindustrial activities in an effort to transform it into a more attractive, vibrant place. These two approaches can be thought of as insulative and integrative, respectively. This thesis examines the tensions and tradeoffs that planners face when addressing these two seemingly divergent industrial redevelopment approaches. It examines Vancouver, a city that has received justifiable credit for creating a livable, sustainable urban realm, but in the process has released a large amount of its industrial land to other uses, and is under continual pressure to do so with its remaining industrial land.
The thesis first reviews the historical conception of industry as nuisance and how this has led to reflexive assumptions that all industry must be separated from other uses, even as the nature of production has evolved to make many forms of industry much more tolerable to be around. The thesis then defines a set of parameters common to integrative industrial planning - which is arguably newer and less well-recognized than the insulative approach - noting current examples in North American cities. It moves the focus to Vancouver's False Creek Flats industrial district, where a recent area plan is evaluated for how it selectively uses both integrative and insulative strategies to transform the False Creek Flats into a vibrant employment district while also safeguarding much-needed local industries that are vulnerable to displacement.
A final section uses the Vancouver case to highlight some important conflicts cities face when addressing the integrative-insulative question for their own inner city industrial districts. The thesis concludes that Vancouver's False Creek Flats demonstrates promising possible resolutions for some, but not all, of these conflicts.
by Micah Davison.
M.C.P.
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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SETIAWAN, ARIEF BUDI. "FINDLAY-DAYTON LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT, WEST END URBAN DESIGN PLAN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997993050.
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Urkun, Bowe Ilknur. "Comparative Analysis Of Post Industrial Dockland Transformation Initiatives: Guidance For Policy For The Haydarpasa Port And Surroundings." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609287/index.pdf.
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Urban transformation initiatives are interventions that aim to manage urban change. Evolving from slum clearance and renewal, these initiatives took different forms throughout the century, in accordance with their social, economic and spatial contexts. The dominant urban context of the late 20th and early 21st century being deindustrialization and decentralization, urban redevelopment and regeneration initiatives became the highlights of urban policy. Alongside the ever-transforming residential neighborhoods and city centers, deindustrialization brought about change in some other parts of the city that had incredible value: Docklands. These areas were slowly being abandoned in this periodcreating serious socio-economic and spatial problems while also creating unique opportunities for cities in their adaptation to the postindustrial economy. The fall of production as the basis of urban economies was followed by the rise of consumption, which cherished these vast and publicly owned spaces abandoned by production related uses. Turkish cities are, and have been, transforming with a pace which policy intervention can barely catch up with. Turkish docklands are under real estate investment pressure in a similar way to the vacant docklands of postindustrial cities around the world, but with one significant difference. Dockland transformation has not been the condition, but is the desired situation in our port cities
HaydarpaSa port constituting one of the best examples. While still fully functional, this important port and its surroundings, including the HaydarpaSa train station, has been subject to transformation proposals throughout the last decade. Following a number of unsuccessful initiatives, the latest proposal for the area has been HaydarpaSa World Trade Center and Cruiser Project. This thesis aims to understand the actual forces behind transformation of a dockland area in Turkey, and to determine if the proposals have been addressing these forces and factors. The study involves examination of the conditions of urban development in the postindustrial era and some cases of dockland transformation schemes launched in this period. The aim is to compare these cases and their backgrounds to the context of the HaydarpaSa area, in order to determine the relevance of the utilized policy models to transform this extremely valuable part of the Bosphorus.
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Kassinis, Georgios Ioannis. "Towards an improved procedure for estimating industrial-pollutant emissions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67413.
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Suhermanto, Herry. "Industrial-estate development mechanism in Indonesia : a comparative analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70218.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.Title as it appears in the June, 1990 MIT Graduate List: Indonesia industrial estate as a decentralization strategy.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108).
by Herry Suhermanto.
M.C.P.
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Varady, Julia R. (Julia Rebecca). "Contemporary perpsectives and strategies for transforming the industrial landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70702.
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Wasserman, Shanna E. "Sustainable economic development : the case of implementing industrial ecology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42824.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-117).
Industrial ecology (IE) is an emerging paradigm for environmental control. IE offers a framework for altering industrial activities so that they more closely reflect a closed loop cycle, rather than a linear flow of extraction and disposal. Implementation of IE is occurring through the eco-industrial park (EIP) model. An EIP is a group of businesses that are implementing IE principles, through cooperation between one another and/or other organizations. This Thesis examines the current practice of implementing IE through the EIP model. The research methodology includes assessing the Kalundborg, Denmark EIP example, surveying North American EIPs, and studying a case of implementing an EIP in Londonderry, NH. Findings from the research indicate that there is currently a taxonomy of IE practices being implemented through the EIP model. The taxonomy includes practice in land stewardship, green building design, individual firm environmental practices, and byproduct exchange. Each of the four areas of practice have characteristics with implications for how implementation should occur through an EIP. EIP planners and developers should craft implementation strategies in accordance with their IE objectives. Additionally, the management entity of an EIP should have the capacity to implement all IE objects. Finally, a community education process on IE is necessary during the implementation of an EIP.
by Shanna E. Wasserman.
M.C.P.
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Traficonte, Daniel (Daniel Martin). "Patents over planning : industrial capital and federal innovation policy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132757.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, February, 2021Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
In recent years, scholars from a range of disciplines have analyzed the collective set of federal R&D programs as a high tech-oriented industrial policy through which the US government actively targets certain economic sectors over others for state support. Analysts have emphasized one dominant institutional feature of this system: federal R&D programs lack a central planning mechanism, and are instead highly fragmented and ad hoc. While some analysts have interpreted this institutional structure as a strength, others view the absence of R&D planning as a major shortcoming, a view shared by policymakers advocating for increased coordination of federal R&D programs in order to help combat economic and environmental challenges. This study examines the origins and institutional evolution of federal innovation policy, and in doing so, probes possibilities for future reform. My account focuses primarily on the business-state nexus as an explanatory factor, emphasizing the role of politically active industrial firms in shaping the system's legal and institutional structure. I argue that R&D-based industrial firms were opposed to proposals for R&D planning, but only insofar as these proposals also threatened a separate institutional feature to which these firms were more firmly committed: the transfer of patent rights resulting from government-led R&D projects into private hands. During the New Deal and into the immediate postwar period, the link between patent reform and innovation planning prompted industrial firms to lead the attack against progressive calls for a more coordinated R&D system. When government patent policy became decoupled from planning during the Space Race and eventually led to a new consensus on "technology transfer," industrial firms shifted in favor of R&D planning but by that time saw their political influence substantially reduced. The neoliberal business coalition lobbied instead for increasingly fragmented one-off programs to promote specific high-tech fields--a "hidden developmental state" that would remain intact until the present. From this perspective, the structure of the federal R&D system is more a result of a conflict over property than over planning, and the institutional link between coordination and government patent policy may frustrate future attempts to finally realize planned innovation in the US.
by Daniel Traficonte.
Ph. D. in Political Economy
Ph.D.inPoliticalEconomy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Tyman, Shannon K. "Gunpowder Park : a case study of post-industrial reinhabitation /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8086.
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Aydilek, Emre, and Ali Eroglu. "Ulvsunda as Urban Catalyst." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144870.
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Soares, Catarina Nunes dos Reis Garcia. "(Re)viver Alcântara industrial." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16780.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Numa cidade caracterizada por uma grande componente história que ainda hoje é visível na paisagem urbana, encontra-se Alcântara, uma área urbana resultante da expansão de Lisboa. A necessidade de consolidação deste território, advém de um longo passado industrial, que com o passar do tempo levou ao gradual abandono destes espaços, que hoje em dia se encontram obsoletos, e a uma demarcada fragmentação do tecido urbano. O tema de projeto desenvolve-se em torno desta problemática, para a qual se elaborou uma reflexão que procura compreender e encontrar uma possibilidade para evolução urbana, sem que a cidade perca o seu carácter identitário. A proposta vem concretizar um programa funcional, destinado à criação de um conjunto de elementos, que pretende dar uma resposta a aspectos sociais e urbanos, através da regeneração do espaço urbano, associado a um lógica de vida em comunidade e de uma arquitetura direcionada a responder a uma contínua mudança da sociedade contemporânea. Cada vez mais surge a ideia de que um edifício, capaz de lidar com a mudança de uso e de um contínuo evoluir do contexto urbano, responde melhor a questões de nível urbano e de satisfação das necessidades de cada indivíduo. Neste sentido surgem os conceitos de adaptabilidade e flexibilidade, como consciencialização de um novo modo de pensar a arquitetura para uma cidade resiliente.
ABSTRACT: In a city, characterized by a great historical component, which nowadays is still visible in the urban landscape, we can find Alcântara, and urban area that is a result from the expansion of Lisbon. The need to consolidate this territory comes from a long industrial past, which over time has gradually led to the abandonment of these, now obsolete, spaces and to a demarcated fragmentation of the urban fabric. The theme of the project is developed around this problem, for which a reflection has been expounded, in order to comprehend and find possible solution for an urban evolution that allows the city never to lose it’s unique character. The proposal comes to materialize a functional program, directed to the creation of several elements, which aims to respond to social and urbanistic aspects, through a regeneration of urban space, connected to a logic of a community life and an architecture with a purpose to respond to a continuous change of a contemporary society. Progressively, arises the idea that a building, capable of dealing with a change of use and a continuous evolution of the urban context, responds more accordingly to issues concerning urban aspects and satisfaction of each individual’s needs. With this in mind, the concepts of flexibility and adaptability take form, such as the awareness about a new way of thinking architecture for a resilient city.
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Canaran, Cansu. "An Integrated Framework For Sustaining Industrial Beings In The Urban Context." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611256/index.pdf.
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The need and challenge of sustaining industrial beings is a recent phenomenon. Hence the approaches in this regard are not yet profoundly defined to manage the protection and restoration of those beings. In this respect, this thesis searches for an integrated approach for sustaining industrial structures, sites, and landscapes which are typically significant for their heritage value in the urban context. To develop a thematically consolidated integrated framework, the study investigated &lsquoconceptual&rsquo
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main value typologies of the heritage resources and the process of obsolescence in the life-span of industrial beings. Taxonomy for the structures and spaces that constitute the object matter of the thesis formed the basis of an integral typology. This is supported by the specification of the characteristics of industrial beings and the opportunities they offer in the urban context. Correspondingly, strategic approaches and modes of intervention relevant for the different types of industrial beings are examined. The study exposed the analytical framework by assessing industrial beings according to diversity of functions, basic change of use, spatial scale of the projects, types of intervention and the design approaches. The scope of the issue in Turkey is revealed by identifying the present policy framework in accordance with the legislative and instrumental measures. This is complemented by an inventory for the significant industrial heritage sites. The findings demonstrated the particularity of the problematic in Turkey
the distinctive factors behind the emergence of obsolescence
the extremely divergent attitudes to and interests in obsolete industrial beings, as well as the complexity of the industrial sites. As a final task, the application(s) for the industrial sites along The Golden Horn were investigated. The Golden Horn case has also confirmed that such an integrated approach is required to protect and enhance industrial beings. In this manner the basic components of an integrated program considering the sites in the urban context and as problem areas of urban design are specified.
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Mashhour, Ahmed M. "Metal burdens in urban and industrial environments of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278782.
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Papageorgiou, Asterios. "Emerging technologies for climate-neutral urban areas : An Industrial Ecology perspective." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Resurser, energi och infrastruktur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-292648.
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The ever-increasing concentration of human activity in urban areas induces environmental problems beyond their boundaries on scales ranging from local to regional to global, such as resource depletion, land degradation, air and water pollution and climate change. Human-induced climate change is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest sustainability challenges of the present century and it is inextricably linked to urbanization. As a response to climate change, urban areas around the world have committed to reach climate neutrality within the next decades. In this context, the deployment of new technologies can have a key role in achieving carbon neutrality in urban areas. As new technologies emerge, it is essential to assess their environmental performance considering the broader systems context in order to ensure that they can indeed contribute to achieving climate neutrality without compromising environmental sustainability. This thesis aims is to provide insight on the environmental performance of emerging technologies that can be deployed in urban areas in order to contribute to achieving climate neutrality. The two technologies in focus are grid-connected solar microgrids and biochar-based systems for treatment of biomass waste and remediation of contaminated soil. The methods applied to conduct the environmental assessments and fulfil the aim of the thesis are: case studies, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Material and Energy Flow Analysis and Substance Flow Analysis. Moreover, as part of the research efforts, a spreadsheet model based on LCA data was developed. The assessment of the solar microgrid highlighted the importance of using explicit spatial and temporal boundaries when analyzing the environmental performance of energy systems, as it can increase the accuracy of the results. It also revealed that the choice of modeling approach can influence the results of the assessment, which motivates the application of different methodological approaches. Within this context, the assessment showed that in a short-term perspective the integration of a grid-connected urban solar microgrid into the Swedish electricity grid would not contribute to climate change mitigation, as solar electricity from the microgrid would displace grid electricity with lower carbon intensity. The assessment also indicated that operational and structural changes in the microgrid could reduce its climate change impact, albeit not to the extent to generate GHG emission abatements. The assessment of the biochar-based systems showed that these systems have many environmental benefits compared to incineration of waste and landfilling of contaminated soil. They have great potential to contribute to achieving climate neutrality, as they can provide net negative GHG emissions, owing mainly to carbon sequestration in the biochar. Between the two biochar-based systems, a system for on-site remediation can provide additional environmental benefits, as it can lead to more efficient use of resources. However, these systems also entail environmental trade-offs due to increased consumption of auxiliary electricity, while the extent of ecological and human health risks associated with the reuse of biochar-remediated soils is for the moment unknown.Den ständigt ökande koncentrationen av mänsklig aktivitet i urbana områden orsakar miljöproblem utanför deras gränser på skalor som sträcker sig från lokal till regional till global, såsom utarmning av resurser, markförstöring, luft- och vattenföroreningar och klimatförändring. Mänskligt driven klimatförändring är allmänt erkänd som en av de största hållbarhetsutmaningarna under nuvarande seklet och den är nära kopplad till urbanisering. Som ett svar på klimatförändringen har urbana områden runt om i världen åtagit sig att nå klimatneutralitet inom de närmaste decennierna. I detta sammanhang kommer införandet av ny teknik ha en nyckelroll för att uppnå klimatneutralitet i stadsområden. När ny teknik dyker upp är det viktigt att bedöma dess miljöprestanda med hänsyn till den bredare systemkontexten för att säkerställa att tekniken verkligen kan bidra till att uppnå klimatneutralitet utan att kompromissa med miljömässig hållbarhet. Denna avhandling syftar till att ge insikt om miljöprestanda för framväxande teknik som kan användas i urbana områden för att bidra till att uppnå klimatneutralitet. De två teknikerna i fokus är nätanslutna solmikronät och biokolbaserade system för behandling av biomassavfall och sanering av förorenad mark. Metoderna för att genomföra miljöbedömningarna och uppfylla avhandlingens syfte är: fallstudier, livscykelanalys (LCA), material- och energiflödesanalys och substansflödesanalys. Som en del av forskningsinsatserna utvecklades dessutom en kalkylmodell baserad på LCA-data. Analysen av solmikronätet visade att det är viktigt att använda explicita rums- och tidsgränser vid analys av energisystemens miljöprestanda, eftersom det kan öka resultatens noggrannhet. Analysen visade också att valet av modelleringsmetod kan påverka resultatet, vilket motiverar en användning av flera olika metoder. Inom detta sammanhang visade bedömningen att i ett kortsiktigt perspektiv skulle integrationen av ett nätanslutet urbant solmikronät i det svenska elnätet inte bidra till att begränsa klimatförändringen, eftersom solenergi från mikronätet skulle ersätta el med lägre klimatpåverkan. Bedömningen indikerade också att operativa och strukturella förändringar i mikronätet kunde minska mikronätets klimatförändrings påverkan, om än inte i sådan utsträckning att det skulle ge växthusgasutsläppsbesparingar. Bedömningen av de biokolbaserade systemen visade att dessa system har många miljöfördelar jämfört med förbränning av avfall och deponering av förorenad mark. De har stor potential att bidra till att uppnå klimatneutralitet, eftersom de kan ge nettonegativa utsläpp av växthusgaser, främst på grund av kolbindning i biokol. Vi jämförelse av de två biokolbaserade systemen så kan ett system för sanering på plats ge ytterligare miljöfördelar, eftersom det kan leda till en mer effektiv resursanvändning. Dessa system medför emellertid också miljöavvägningar på grund av ökad förbrukning av elektricitet, medan omfattningen av ekologiska och människors hälsorisker förknippade med återanvändning av biokolbehandlad jord ännu är okända.
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