Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Urban hub of Diamniadio'

La ville nouvelle ne fait plus recette dans de nombreux pays occidentaux, notamment dans les politiques urbaines. Mais dans les pays du Sud global, en particulier en Chine et dans de nombreux pays africains confrontés à de multiples défis urbains, des projets emblématiques annoncés comme des « villes nouvelles » voient le jour. Aujourd'hui, à la lumière de nouveaux défis et de contextes géographiques spécifiques, le terme mérite d'être revisité. Cette recherche se concentre sur les projets de villes nouvelles en Afrique en général et sur le cas de Diamniadio au Sénégal en particulier. L'intérêt porté par les gouvernements à l'option ville nouvelle s'inscrit dans un double contexte. D'une part, depuis les années 2000, la plupart des pays africains ont connu une bifurcation marquée par le retour d'une forte croissance économique et d'un champ urbain diversifié investi par de grands groupes privés et des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG). À l'échelle mondiale, la pensée urbaine a évolué du « développement durable » à la « ville durable ». À Dakar, au Sénégal, l'approche de la planification a consisté à mettre en œuvre de grands projets d'infrastructure à la périphérie de la ville, dans le but de desserrer la concentration des activités et des populations et de les redéployer vers de nouveaux pôles urbains. Cependant, la réalité urbaine émergente est encore méconnue. C'est l'objet de cette recherche. À partir de l'exemple du pôle urbain de Diamniadio dans la région métropolitaine de Dakar, il s'agit de comprendre le processus de production d'une ville nouvelle à l'aune de la métropolisation et de la ville durable
The "new town" is no longer a recipe for success in many Western countries, especially in urban policies. But in the countries of the global South, especially China and many African countries facing multiple urban challenges, emblematic projects heralded as "new cities" are seeing the light of day. Today, in light of new challenges and specific geographical contexts, the term deserves to be revisited. This research focuses on new city projects in Africa in general and the case of Diamniadio in Senegal in particular. The interest shown by governments in the new town option is part of a dual context. On the one hand, since the 2000s, most African countries have experienced a bifurcation marked by the return of strong economic growth and a diversified urban field invested by large private groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). At the global scale, urban thinking has evolved from "sustainable development" to the "sustainable city". In Dakar, Senegal, the planning approach has been to implement major infrastructure projects on the outskirts of the city, with the aim of reducing the concentration of activities and populations and redistributing them to new urban centers. However, the emerging urban reality is still unknown. This is the purpose of this research. Using the example of the Diamniadio urban hub in the Dakar metropolitan region, it aims to understand the process of building a new town in the context of metropolitanization and the sustainable city

PLEASE NOTE: THIS THESIS IS EMBARGOED. Historically, urban agriculture (UA) in the African context has been viewed as a food security and livelihood intervention. However, influenced primarily by discourses in the Global North, the framing of urban agriculture has shifted. Increasingly, advocacy from urban planners has shaped how UA “gets done”. Drawing on contemporary planning concepts, these practitioners have been innovating new forms of urban agriculture that connect UA to the built environment, such as vertical farming, rooftop gardens, and mixed-use urban “agrihoods”. However, scholars from the fields of Southern and African urbanism and critical urban planning, have raised concerns regarding the uncritical application of Northern theories, including those from urban planning, into the African context. Specifically, there is concern around planners’ lack of regard for the inherent characteristics of African cities as they attempt to world them into global cities. Against this background, this dissertation examines the process behind attempts to integrate these new forms of urban agriculture into the African context through a case study of the Lukhanyo Hub project in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing specifically on visions for urban agriculture at the Lukhanyo Hub, this dissertation asks, How do each of the actors articulate the purpose/function of urban agriculture? What is the spatiality of their ideal urban agriculture and why? and What is the role the state, civil society organizations and community in that vision? To answer these questions, participants from the project development team, municipal government, and civil society organisations were engaged in in-depth interviews and participant observation. The results centred around four themes: creating a farmer network, urban agriculture and environmental education/training, economic or distribution model, and creating a contextualised but replicable Hub model. Several challenges and critiques emerged throughout the data collection process, which seemed to stall the development. The author argues that this forced the development team to take a more participatory, co-development approach. This should have positive effects on the future of the project, though further research will be required to say for certain.

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser les relations entre périurbanisation et territorialisation autour d’une question principale, la gouvernance des espaces périurbains métropolitains. Dans les grandes villes ouest-africaines, ces espaces sont affectés par de rapides et multiples mutations dans un contexte de décentralisation accélérée. Pour analyser ces mutations et les dynamiques de régulation qu’elles suscitent, nous privilégions une approche territoriale comparative. Á l’échelle micro, il s’agit d’appréhender les dynamiques de la périurbanisation en s’interrogeant sur le poids des contextes locaux. Á l’échelle des collectivités locales et du périurbain, le développement économique et résidentiel est mis en relation avec des logiques d’acteurs et des pratiques gestionnaires pour questionner les mécanismes d’évolution de l’espace et leurs effets sur la gestion et le développement des territoires. Enfin, à l’échelle macro, les observations et les analyses sont replacées dans la métropolisation dakaroise. Nous partons des usages non agricoles de l’espace dans trois collectivités locales, Diamniadio, Sangalkam et Yene, pour y étudier l’évolution du périurbain, ses mécanismes, les logiques et les pratiques des acteurs. Leur positionnement dans l’axe majeur Ouest-Est de l’étalement métropolitain pèse sur leur évolution et d’importantes différenciations sont observées aux échelles intra- et interterritoriale, témoignant d’une rupture avec le modèle centre-périphérie, au profit d’une dynamique multifonctionnelle et polycentrique à l’Est de la capitale sénégalaise
This thesis aims to analyze the relationships between urban sprawl and territorialisation, focusing on the crucial issue of metropolitan suburbs governance. In Western Africa large cities, suburbs are involved in complex spatial, socioeconomic, political and managerial transformations, in a context of decentralization. To analyze these transformations as well as the new dynamics of regulation they entail, we have adopted a territorial approach. At the micro scale, we try to understand the dynamics of urban sprawl through the weight of local contexts. At the meso scale of the whole set of suburbs, residential and economic developments are linked to the logics of actors and managerial practices. We try to understand the mechanisms of spatial transformations and their consequences on urban management. At the macro level, we are focusing on Dakar metropolisation. Field surveys have been conducted within three local authorities, Diamniadio, Sangalkam and Yene, in order to study mechanisms, practices and logics of actors. Diamniadio, Sangalkam and Yene have specific local characteristics and, taking into account the major urban sprawl axis, they are located differently. In these three local authorities, processes of differentiation have been observed both at intra and inter territorial scales, which breaks with the former model center-periphery and reflects a new polycentric and multifunctional evolution in the Eastern suburbs

Within the context of this dissertation, community transformative education is regarded as a pathway to an explicit community lifelong learning culture of learning. It aims to liberate marginalized communities from states of oppressive socio- economic status-quos within contested urban locations. The dissertation explores the manner in which architecture can play as a networking tool, in a form of facilitating the social construction and distribution of local knowledge & resources within a contested urban location. Through the identification of global and local issues, new perspectives developed through the consideration and incorporation of local socio-educational networks act as crucial points of focus. The intention of these networks of focus is to use them as tools to improve the contextual circumstances of the contested urban location, through the empowering and transforming community learning. The conceptualized architectural approach of this dissertation, is seen as a tool in which the relationships between communities of different socio- educational backgrounds in contested urban contexts are enabled and encouraged to collaboratively construct and employ their own local knowledge and skills in order to flourish together as one community. Local support is essential for community enablement- as every developmental progress hinge on it as foundation. It is therefore, access to local knowledge and resources that form the foundation of the social production of the explored space. This, in turn, has the ability to create an urban environment rich in livelihood-enriching programs and functions, aiming at improving the lives of its inhabitants, and consequently giving rise to atmospherically and spatially rich and improved urban fabric and inclusive learning environments.
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Boogertman and Partners
Architecture
MArch (Prof)
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Since launching policies of economic reform in the 1980s, China has emerged from several decades of economic and urban stagnation to become more integrated into the regional and global economy. Cities have been integral to the growth machine of economic development. China has experienced rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in the context of national institutional arrangements favouring decentralisation towards regions and cities, and reform towards a market-oriented economy. This political and economic transition has led to rapid changes in the urban landscape, including the construction of mega urban projects in peri-urban areas in the context of competitive and entrepreneurial urbanism. The main body of this thesis describes the planning and development processes of the Hongqiao project, the project’s relationship to urban development and spatial restructuring in Shanghai, as well as the nature of urban change. This thesis empirically investigates the construction of a mega urban project, its governance mechanism and its impact on relocated people and neighbouring districts. It includes an intensive case study of the Hongqiao project in Shanghai based on empirical data derived from questionnaires, interviews and secondary data. The implementation of the project has involved the participation of government at various levels, state-owned companies, estate developers, banks, relocated people, all of them involved in numerous activities of flexible competition, cooperation, and negotiation. It is argued here that a land-based urban growth coalition was formed which became the driving force behind the Hongqiao project. The thesis argues that this coalition, led by the local state, has played a crucial role in the construction of the Hongqiao project in the context of competitive urbanism. The participants have maximized their own interests, particularly entrepreneurial government, which benefits most from lucrative land revenue place-making. The thesis argues further that competitive urbanism reveals a process of accumulation by dispossession, whereby the interests and voices of relocated people were ignored by powerful participants. The livelihoods of local residents of the Hongqiao project were impacted and compensation was limited, resulting in a paradoxical state of affairs that can be summarised as, “better living condition but worse life.”

A pesquisa tem como objeto de análise os hubs de mobilidade, estações intermodais classificadas como os nós principais de uma rede de transporte público. Em função dos diversos modais articulados, são pontos privilegiados de acessibilidade e conectividade em escala local e metropolitana, superando a definição técnica e funcional exclusiva de equipamentos de transporte e posicionando-se como fortes indutores de transformações urbanas. O contexto de estudo é a metrópole de São Paulo, considerando suas problemáticas urbanas atuais e as alternativas planejadas para o sistema de transporte público. Procuramos debater as principais questões que envolvem a interação das redes de mobilidade e a urbanização na metrópole, incluindo temas como dispersão urbana, os desequilíbrios derivados da forma de expansão da área urbanizada e planos que pretendem vincular mobilidade, uso e ocupação do solo. Abordamos esses temas por meio da revisão bibliográfica, da análise de planos urbanísticos (Plano Diretor Estratégico de 2002 e 2014) e de mobilidade (Plano Integrado de Transportes Urbanos de 2020 e 2025), além de uma etapa propositiva, na qual identificamos e hierarquizamos os hubs de mobilidade da rede de alta e média capacidade planejada para São Paulo e, a partir deles, elegemos estudos de caso para o ensaio de suas áreas de influência. Elaboramos esta etapa, ademais, na tentativa de fornecer parâmetros para projeto urbano, sendo este definido, ao final, como ferramenta fundamental de atuação na realidade urbana contemporânea e de viabilização das propostas comprometidas com o adensamento urbano e a redução dos extensivos deslocamentos diários na metrópole.
The subject of this study is the mobility hubs, intermodal stations classified as the main nodes of a public transportation network. Because of the variety of transportation modes that these points articulate, they are privileged areas of accessibility and connectivity in both local and metropolitan scale, overcoming the exclusive functional and technical definition as transportation equipment and being considered powerful inductors of urban transformations. The study context is the São Paulo metropolitan area, involving its current urban issues and the alternatives planned for public transportation system. We seek to discuss key points related to the interaction between mobility networks and urbanization in the metropolis, including topics such as the urban sprawl, the instability derived from the expansion pattern of the urbanized area and plans that intends to link mobility and land use. We deal with these themes through literature review, the analysis of urban master plans (PDE 2002 and 2014) and the metropolitan mobility plans (PITU 2020 and 2025), as well as a purposeful step in which we identify and classify the mobility hubs in São Paulo planned transportation network. From this last level, we selected some case studies to investigate their influence areas. Furthermore, this step tries to provide parameters for urban design scale, which is defined at the end of the study, as an essential tool to work in the contemporary urban reality and to enable proposals compromised to the urban density intensification and the reduction of the

This thesis investigates the role of cultural development in urban strategy. In particular, it reflects on the application of Western-developed theories and practices of cultural planning to culture-led urban developments in Asian cities. Through the case study of the Hub City of Asian Culture project in Gwangju, Korea by employing documentary analysis and supplementary semi-structured intervews, the thesis investigates cultural and urban policies, the background and process of the project delivery, the ways the project has affected change in the city, and future challenges for Gwangju. The thesis identifies four key characteristics of culture-led urban development projects: these are, the emergence of most large scale culture-led urban developments out of a longer history of culturally focused planning and policy, the centrality of city image change as a key driver, as well as the pursuit of economic impact, and the engagement of local communities as, at least, an important discourse in the development and implementation of such projects. The thesis uses its identification of these characteristics as a frame to examine the case of the Hub City of Asian Culture project. It was initially anticipated that this frame for understanding culture-led urban development projects would reveal the similarities of the Asian case with those Western cases which the frame was developed. In fact the investigation has revealed that the processes of project delivery in Gwangju have shown quite different aspects from the Western examples due to the city’s unique local context. Drawing particular attention to the ways in which the Hub City of Asian Culture has been implemented, and how it has tried to solve the challenges and opportunities that emerged from the local context, the research contributes to a wider discussion of culture-led urban strategy, and furthermore hopes to contribute to the developing discussion of culture-led development in Asia.

This thesis investigates the phenomenon of creative hubs in former industrial sites based upon the case study of Hub Criativo do Beato and its process of implementation in Lisbon, Portugal. The hub is explored in relation to political-cultural power embedded in the practice of globalism and public-private partnership. The empirical study represents a common case of creative hubs, but also indicates of a unique aspect of implementation as the decision-making process is shown to bypass the municipal planning department. Conflicting narratives between the rhetoric of the intermediary actor StartUp Lisboa and local concerned are analysed by given value-and-power questions of Flyvbjerg (2002) in relation to globalisation, the creative economy and neo-liberalisation. Data is collected through interviews with actors representing different perspectives and interest to the eastern riverside. Findings shows that globalisation is in the eye of the intermediary manager of the project as an opportunity to accumulate investments and knowledge for the city. The local economic practitioners portray an already ongoing entrepreneurial and global processes in the eastern riverside, and present opposed wishes for governmental involvement within the entrepreneurial and creative practice. The conclusion draws attention to the principal concern of the creative discourse taken for granted in practise. In this case, narratives show that Hub Criativo do Beato is carried out mainly for the city to compete on the global arena, without greater concern for the local context, which resulted in missing great opportunities to deal with challenges and local participation in the planning approach to the eastern riverside of Lisbon.

L’Impronta Ecologica denunciata dai cambiamenti climatici mostra che la società deve oggi a"rontare problemi che coinvolgono l’urbanizzazione globale, su cui incidono sia i progetti di interesse “planetario” che gli interventi alla scala minore. In base a tale consapevolezza la presente ricerca delinea percorsi operativi e interventi di dimensione regionale e urbana, proponendo indirizzi per la progettazione sostenibile di opere infrastrutturali capaci di incidere sulla qualità della vita urbana e di rappresentare componenti strategiche per la tutela del territorio. Data l’ampiezza della questione, l’ambito di interesse della ricerca viene delimitato tramite l’analisi degli aspetti che saldano il panorama culturale e l’universo della mobilità; si descrivono a questo scopo le esperienze che legano il tra$co e la storia della città moderna, i nuovi segni che gli assi di comunicazione creano nell’organizzazione delle maglie dell’urbanizzazione cui il paesaggio fa da sfondo e il peso delle infrastrutture sul territorio; vengono inoltre valutati i dati recenti circa il consumo del capitale naturale. La tesi di Dottorato assume come caso di studio il territorio marchigiano al %ne di sviluppare strumenti di ausilio alla ri-progettazione dello sviluppo armonioso delle potenzialità locali, attraverso pratiche progettuali che coniughino il funzionamento delle opere infrastrutturali alla valorizzazione del patrimonio dei centri minori, che rappresentano elementi di alta qualità ambientale e di competitività rispetto al predominio della civiltà metropolitana. Viene e"ettuata un’analisi del potenziale del sistema infrastrutturale delle Marche rispetto alle politiche nazionali, alla struttura della Macroregione Adriatico-Ionica e ai &ussi dettati dalla programmazione transfrontaliera per la creazione della European Mobility Network; l’analisi è condotta in riferimento ai piani regionali e nazionali per la logistica, agli studi della Commissione della Comunità Europee, all’ESDP- European Spatial Development Perspective (CEC 1999) e alle politiche espresse nel Libro Bianco 2011 (White Paper on Transport, Commissione Europea). All’interno dello scenario nazionale e internazionale vengono 10 The cases studied allow a variation in enlightened modes of crossing the territory and in adapting to the local resources, summarized in a series of categories: sharing, daily mobility, reuse, waterways, inspiring places, customization. The principles and strategies identi!ed serve as a theoretical support for the application of new measures for controlling the transformation of the Marche territory, investigated through a process of critical reading through ‘systems’ that represent the articulation of what is real in its environmental, infrastructural, constructed, and productive-commercial components. The assessment of the current state of the overall system is performed via a graphic schematization of the regional territory. That is functional to the identi!cation of noteworthy areas and points where the proposed intervention concentrates new structures within an overall strategy of sustainable regeneration and re-balance of the polycentrism that characterizes the Region. For this purpose, the territory is divided into three main macroareas (Apennine, historic town, Adriatic town) where new functional units are placed, in accordance with an in-depth strategic design through a Masterplan, and on the basis of a hierarchy of hubs of the !rst, second and third order, depending on the level of interconnections that the new magnets of attraction establish with the existing one. The logistic centers identi!ed are put to use in a dialogue between various interest generating terminals- the smaller urban centers- and the infrastructural frame, establishing new circuits of relations in the fragmented settlement system of the Marche region. These new cells set themselves in contrast to the anonymity of “non-lieux” (airports, train stations, shopping centers), because to the explication of the main role of the tra#c $ow axes, they add the further value of adjusting the system of accesses to the area, of intersecting the paths of alternative routes and of promoting the values of the places you go through. The cells structure is composed of a main organizing center the “multi_ structural epicentre”, and of “urban hubs”. The common theme in the gradual decrease in scale is the creation of integrated transport systems for a tra#c decompression action. Such a structure is simpli!ed through a planning exploration carried out in the central coast area of the regional territory, by the town of Loreto, destination of international tourist $ows, and the smaller towns nearby. The role of the infrastructural centers is veri!ed by “new images” that hypothesize the long-term e%ects of the impact of new structures on territorial bonds. The present research returned a proposal indication for alternative ways to use the territorial resources and a study of 11 scelti casi di interventi che coniugano l’architettura all’utilizzo delle infrastrutture secondo i principi della mobilità sostenibile. Gli esempi virtuosi analizzati permettono una declinazione delle modalità illuminate di attraversamento del territorio e di adeguamento alle risorse locali, sintetizzate in una serie di categorie: sharing, daily mobility, riuso, vie d’acqua, luoghi ispiratori, personalizzazione, smart living. I principi e le strategie individuate fungono da supporto teorico per l’applicazione di nuove misure di controllo alla trasformazione del territorio marchigiano, indagato tramite un procedimento di lettura critica attraverso sistemi che rappresentano l’articolazione del reale nelle sue componenti ambientali, infrastrutturali, costruite, e produttivo -commerciali. La valutazione dello stato attuale del sistema complessivo viene articolata mediante una schematizzazione gra"ca del territorio regionale, funzionale all’individuazione di aree e punti notevoli nei quali la proposta di intervento concentra nuove strutture nell’ambito di un piano complessivo di rigenerazione sostenibile del policentrismo che caratterizza la Regione. A questo scopo il territorio viene diviso in tre macroaree principali (macroarea appenninica, macroarea borghi storici, macroarea città adriatica), in cui vengono collocate le unità funzionali proposte, secondo un disegno strategico approfondito tramite un Masterplan e sulla base di una gerarchia di nodi di primo, secondo e terzo ordine, dipendente dal livello delle interconnessioni che stabiliscono con l’esistente. I poli osmotici individuati sono a servizio del dialogo tra i terminali generatori di interesse- i centri urbani minori- e il telaio infrastrutturale, istituendo circuiti di relazioni nelle reti del sistema insediativo frammentato delle Marche. Le nuove cellule si pongono in antitesi all’anonimato dei non-lieux (aeroporti, stazioni, centri commerciali), perché all’esplicitazione del ruolo principale degli assi di scorrimento aggiungono il valore ulteriore della regolazione del sistema degli accessi alla regione, dell’ intersezione con i percorsi della mobilità alternativa e della promozione delle valenze dei luoghi attraversati. La struttura dei poli si compone di un centro ordinatore principale l’epicentro multi-strutturale, e di hub urbani; il tema comune nella progressiva discesa di scala è la creazione di sistemi integrati di trasporto "nalizzata alla decompressione del tra%co. Sul piano metodologico tale struttura viene sempli"cata attraverso un’esplorazione progettuale, svolta nell’area costiera centrale del territorio regionale, in corrispondenza della città di Loreto- meta di ussi turistici internazionali- e dei vicini centri minori. Il ruolo dei poli infrastrutturali viene veri"cato tramite “nuove immagini” che ipotizzano gli e$etti di lungo termine e dell’incidenza delle strutture progettate sugli assetti territoriali. La ricerca ha prodotto l’indicazione propositiva di modi alternativi di utilizzo delle risorse del territorio e lo studio di strutture rispondenti alle necessità della società sostenibile e della stabilità degli ecosistemi, atte a creare un rapporto più evoluto con il territorio.
The present research addresses the issues of improving the existing architectural and environmental heritage, particularly in smaller towns, entrusting infrastructures with further roles besides that of primary use, in order to integrate the possibilities of the operation of economic and social networks within which the smaller towns have to !nd a functional reuse. The prolonged economic crisis, litmus test of the ecological and environmental crisis in progress, has highlighted the heavy di"culties of a model of unsustainable development. The present study juxtaposes to exaggerated urban consumerism and regime of competition among metropolitan areas that caused the congestion and the crisis of the development model, the energetic quality of individual “minor” places. To the latter one would like to give added value and better usability, by proposing potential structures to make the facilities inscribable in the term “infrastructure” permeable to their gravitational area, thus making the infrastructural works useful to the tourism, culture and logistics system. Signi!cant is the case of historic towns in the Marche region, a prototype of urban sprawl, investigated in the present research through the aspects connecting sustainable infrastructures and urban transport networks to the quality of city life. The concept of sustainability is declined in order to meet the contrasting demands of conservation and growth by addressing the issue of defending the balance of the smaller towns and their social matrix, yet including the necessary endowment of services and infrastructures for city welfare, socioeconomic growth and adaptation to the needs of contemporary life. The new paradigms of growth that the results of this research suggest are centered on the revolution of the mobility culture and on project planning logics able to transform infrastructures in opportunities to regenerate the area. The research work takes place within the context of scienti!c activity on regional architecture that the Dicea Department - Architecture Section of the Università Politecnica delle Marche has been performing for many years to protect the local cultural resources.

Food has lost its important role in city´s life thus its presence in people´s life has also weakened. Cities are less able to sustain themselves and rely on import food. Supermarkets, which offer a broad scale of groceries from all around the world, are the number one food resource in Sweden while people are getting detached from the region they live in and from the origins of the food they consume. Local farmers struggle to survive economically while the population is slowly increasing, so does the demand for food.[1] The current context leads to the question: can Norrland be less reliant on import food? This thesis seeks answers and possibilities for cities with cold climates specifically using Luleå in Northern Sweden as a prototype and urban agriculture as a tool. It researches the past and the current situation of food production in the area. It also explores existing initiatives which are working on local food level and possibilities for cultivation in cold climates. The purpose is to understand the existing environment, the structure of resources in and around the city. In addition to existing resources, this thesis also explores urban voids for indoor production and connects them to the main intervention, a hub, which works as a platform for education, meetings, and distribution of local products. The focus of the proposal is the public, urban level. This platform is located close to the city center and has a scale which makes it able to reconnect the otherwise fragmented city. By parks included, which are planted with autochthon plants this intervention becomes a representation of the region, a living exhibition of the possibilities in Norrbotten. It accommodates several functions such as restaurant, greenhouse, shop, research center and a market in order to reach a broad scale of users. The intervention introduced in this paper is an outcome of the specific context rather than an ultimate solution for every city with cold climates. This proposal suggests possibilities to bring food closer to the people by raising awareness and seeking opportunities to implement food production into architectural planning and design as well as showing the existing possibilities in Norrbotten. [1] Luleå Kommun, Befolkningen i Luleå 2000-2014, https://www.lulea.se/kommun--politik/fakta-kvalitet-jamforelser-och-statistik/befolkningsstatistik/befolkningen-i-lulea/befolkningen-i-lulea-2000-2015.html

The thesis proposes a modification of an area on the southern edge of a Brno housing estate Lesna, defined by train tracks from the south side, třída Generála Píky-Okružní crossing from the west, Heleny Malířové street from north and Okružní-Merhautova-Seifertova crossroad from the east. A thorough survey of the southern part of the Lesná settlement is carried out in the first part and the most pressing problems of the region are determined. The following part is then an urban planning study, aimed at dealing with discovered problems. The proposed design deals mainly with unification of two halves of the central area to allow for direct access of the train station, enlargement of a main road in the Okružní street to incorporate a new tram line and placement of a new office building for Brno-Sever municipality in the bottom half of the territory to increase its attractiveness.

This research paper is discussing light, and brightness in particular, in terms of perception, taking Odenplan as a case study.Some links between light characteristics and behaviour patterns, such as lingering, have been made, raising the discussion about the qualities of the artificial lighting that would add to convivial urban spaces at nighttime, attempting at differentiating between how people think they would behave and how they actually behave in a public square, and the impact of artificial lighting on public tendencies, suggesting if people feel comfortable and safe in the space, then they tend to perceive the space brighter. The research has shown that it is hard to draw conclusions when it comes to perceived qualities of light. Different research methods have been used with the intention of suggesting a methodology to be explored by others, including literature review, empirical study, informal interviews and word association survey.

Rising concerns related to the effects of traffic congestion have led to the search for alternative transportation solutions. Advances in battery technology have resulted in an increase of electric vehicles (EVs), which serve to reduce the impact of many of the negative consequences of congestion, including pollution and the cost of wasted fuel. Furthermore, the energy-efficiency and quiet operation of electric motors have made feasible concepts such as Urban Air Mobility (UAM), in which electric aircraft transport passengers in dense urban areas prone to severe traffic slowdowns. Electrified transportation may be the solution needed to combat urban gridlock, but many logistical questions related to the design and operation of the resultant transportation networks remain to be answered. This research begins by examining the near-term effects of EV charging networks. Stationary plug-in methods have been the traditional approach to recharge electric ground vehicles; however, dynamic charging technologies that can charge vehicles while they are in motion have recently been introduced that have the potential to eliminate the inconvenience of long charging wait times and the high cost of large batteries. Using an agent-based model verified with traffic data, different network designs incorporating these dynamic chargers are evaluated based on the predicted benefit to EV drivers. A genetic optimization is designed to optimally locate the chargers. Heavily-used highways are found to be much more effective than arterial roads as locations for these chargers, even when installation cost is taken into consideration. This work also explores the potential long-term effects of electrified transportation on urban congestion by examining the implementation of a UAM system. Interdependencies between potential electric air vehicle ranges and speeds are explored in conjunction with desired network structure and size in three different regions of the United States. A method is developed to take all these considerations into account, thus allowing for the creation of a network optimized for UAM operations when vehicle or topological constraints are present. Because the optimization problem is NP-hard, five heuristic algorithms are developed to find potential solutions with acceptable computation times, and are found to be within 10% of the optimal value for the test cases explored. The results from this exploration are used in a second agent-based transportation model that analyzes operational parameters associated with UAM networks, such as service strategy and dispatch frequency, in addition to the considerations associated with network design. General trends between the effectiveness of UAM networks and the various factors explored are identified and presented.

The main aim of this thesis is to design electric scooter, which is ideally adapted for urban mobility and which will be a practical, attractive and environmental friendly alternative to the car with a combustion engine. Emphasis is given to proposal of ergonomic, aesthetic and functional solution of the system, which makes that scooter can be folded into a mobile compact shape. Folded scooter can be carried at public transportation vehicles and park right at home or in the office. The unique design and practical features of a scooter should be attractive not only in terms of personal mobility, but also as a utility vehicle for private companies and public institutions.

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjama Klaipėdos miesto istorinio centro prieigų erdvinės struktūros ir kompozicijos tobulinimo principai. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas – teritorijos, esančios šalia transporto mazgo ir geležinkelio linijos, potencialo išryškinimas miesto kontekste bei artikuliuotos urbanistinės struktūros sukūrimas. Identifikuojami vertingi ir nevertingi miesto plano struktūros elementai, jų poveikis nagrinėjamai teritorijai. Sprendžiamos susisiekimo, erdvinio karkaso formavimo problemos. Vykdoma naujų traukos objektų paieška. Remiantis atlikta urbanistine analize, pasaulinių analogų tyrimu, pateikiamas galimas plėtros modelis. Akcentuojant transporto mazgą, geležinkelio liniją, upės pakrantę ir svarbiausias trasas, kompozicinėmis priemonėmis pateikiama teritorijos urbanistinė koncepcija ir detalizuojamo komplekso architektūrinė išraiška. Siūlomas naujas visuomeninis miesto traukos centras – stočių terminalas, – kuris diktuoja teritorijos užstatymo paskirtį, susisiekimo ir viešųjų erdvių organizavimo galimybes. Detalizuojamas urbanistinis-architektūrinis akcentas – stočių terminalas. Baigiamojo darbo rezultatas - nauja nagrinėjamos teritorijos urbanistinės struktūros, įprasminančios Klaipėdos miesto istorinio centro prieigas, koncepcija. Darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos išvados ir rekomendacijos.
The thesis examines the accesses of historical center of Klaipeda city, its spatial structure and development of the new principles of composition. The main aim of the work is to articulate the urban structure of the territory situated near the transport hub, railway lines and to highlight its potential of urban context in Klaipėda‘s city.Identifying useful and lightweight structural elements of the urban plan and its impact on the site, forming spatial structure and transportation problems, ongoing search for new attractions highlights the possibilities of concept. The possible development model derives from the urban analysis and the global analogue of the investigation. The concept, its composite means of urban areas and the architectural idea is based on the main elements such as transport hub, the railway lines, river coastline and the main roads. The proposed new civic center of gravity - the station terminal - applies opportunities to organize the use of the transportation and public spaces in the territory. The urban-architectural accent - the station terminal - is detailed. Final result is a concept of a new urban structure of the site, which represents the access to Klaipeda city's historical center in the new point of wiev. In the end the conclusions and recommendations.

Cette thèse est consacrée au phénomène du renouveau de la marche en milieu urbain. Depuis une dizaine d'années, un grand nombre de villes en Europe et ailleurs ont entamé une réflexion en profondeur sur la promotion de la marche sur leur territoire. Cette démarche est accompagnée d'opérations de valorisation urbanistique, à différentes échelles, dans une optique de développement intégré de la ville dite multimodale. La marche est ici considérée non pas uniquement pour elle-même, mais en tant que pivot de la multimodalité. Ce thème porteur de nouvelles dynamiques d'aménagement qui transforment le fait urbain est analysé à partir d'un cadre théorique transversal à la croisée de l'urbanisme, la géographie, la sociologie et l'anthropologie urbaines. La méthode employée est fondée sur l'observation participante multi-terrains, prenant comme cas d'étude principaux Lausanne, Genève et Bilbao. A partir des expériences menées par ces villes pour promouvoir la marche à différentes échelles, la thèse construit son plaidoyer autour de l'échelle de l'agglomération, envisagée comme la seule à même de pouvoir véritablement assurer le renouveau de la marche dans le contexte de la ville du XXIe siècle. Ce plaidoyer récapitule les raisons qui font de cette nouvelle échelle de réflexion, a priori inattendue, une étape nécessaire pour garantir l'intégration de la marche au sein de stratégies multimodales complexes au sein de bassins de vie toujours plus étendus. La thèse passe ainsi en revue diverses actions pour redonner à la marche ses lettres de noblesse et lui assurer la place qui lui revient au sein du système de mobilité complexe qui fonde aujourd'hui le monde urbain.

In my master thesis I deal with a design reconstruction of the current public transport terminus of Nemocnice - Bohunice. Terminus layout includes transfering the tramway line from Osová stop to the hub, the new tramway stop is a setting-back track. There is preserved the utilization of hub by existing city and regional lines of buses and troley buses and newly established regional bus lines (401,402,403,404) and also the entrance to the Bohunice hospital parking in the design. This design provides a safe flow of passengers and pedestrians and their safe road crossing.

Thesis (MTech. degree in Architecture: Professional)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2008.
The aim of this dissertation is to design an urban-agricultural building to facilitate small scale intensive farming on the edge of the city of Durban. The buildings assume the typology of a vertical farm which has been named the 'ZED' farm, 'ZED' being dichotomous. Firstly the term has been borrowed from Bill Dunster Architects who coined the acronym 'ZED' (Zero Energy Development), which is one of the project's inherent objectives. The second meaning of 'ZED' is a translation of the building's main programmatic function of production in the vertical Z-axis. The site is located on the interface of the metropolitan edge, in an area bustling with activity ranging from industry, trade, recreation, public transportation, and a residential component. This area is flanked by the Umgeni Road corridor and the Suncoast Casino lifestyle entertainment centre along the beachfront.

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國立成功大學
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Cities would grow and decay in a long-term way just as complex organisms would be born and dead at a cycle .There might be a precise strategy which is able to discover the symptom within the urban where problems occurred . Facing the trend of the global warming and globalization ,It is the right time and opportunity for urban regeneration while the remarks above are mentioned. Here are the circumstance and occasion where has a plan of rebuilding the railway into underground in Taichung , Taiwan . Underground railway, is a huge challenge for the urban structure which is steady at the heart of the city for almost a century . However ,it is beneficial for this big-dig not only in the city infrastructure but in the coalescence of the urban spaces once lacerated by the railway .More further ,it can initially create a catalyst which may effect a penetration of the built field from the urban central district. Urban hub , basically is for the purpose of the Transit Oriented Development , it is the term of current network technology to denote the nodal point where flows from different directions are exchanged and redistributed. Urban hubs of maga-city are those nodes where multi modes of vehicle engage. By the very nature of its connectivity, An urban hub should be a concentrated area of densely built and intensely used to accommodate activities requiring heavy transportation to move large crowd. For the specific moment arriving , we should re-conceptualize about the free lands and bring into the urban hub thoroughly . Third Skin is an interface built between buildings and the urban. It establish mutual norms are made to maintain the environmental quality through the some mechanism of urban design guidline. It is also a new built form to mediate the segreration of the artifacts and the nature. Creating a hub is meant to strengthen the built form and mix uses ,building the third skin is to make the built form coexist with the nature. Both are useful means for urban regeneration in the way of sustainable developments.

Leung Kar Ho, Eugene.
"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report."
"May 2010."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109).
Text in English with some Chinese.
Chapter PF --- PREFACE
Chapter 01 --- MOBILITY & THE CITY
Chapter 02 --- TRANSPORTATION HUB
Chapter 03 --- DENSIFICATION & INTENSIFICATION
Chapter 04 --- PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 05 --- THE SITE
Chapter 06 --- DESIGN CONCEPT
Chapter 07 --- DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 08 --- THE DESIGN
Chapter AX --- APPENDIX

The essence and feeling of any city around the world may be experienced by discovering the local markets and exploring the cities rich histories, food and culture. Johannesburg is unique in the way traders have adapted to the ever changing social and political situation of our country. This thesis will deconstruct the new era of markets, revealing the very social and political issues that consume and surround them. Exploration of the topic will initiate by understanding the historical context and learning from the contemporary trading system in order to ultimately plan a contemporary market set within a historical environment. Explorations of markets and trading within the Gauteng region will reveal the divide that occurs between the various trading typologies and the effect it has on our society. Through rethinking spatial environments the contemporary market has the potential for narrowing the cultural divide, providing new systems and spaces for public interaction and revitalising the urban environment. Research will reveal the important role markets play in the lives of people and the importance of the need to provide fresh products and revitalise the urban framework in order to enhance a healthier lifestyle. Evidence based design research will provide the tools and contribute to the architectural response of the topic and the creation of the proposed market intervention which aims at creating a dynamic hybrid that captures the authenticity of our food and market culture

Within the contemporary urban renaissance, culture and visual arts act as catalysts for change. Art and culture-led approaches, working across disciplines, provide wide social and economic benefits that affect people, places and communities. The proposed design develops a synthesis between the arts, culture, economy and urban vitality by creating a platform for artists. The goal of the project is to connect Pretoria's multicultural richness and strengthen the network of creativity and cultural regeneration. The project is shaped and informed by the living urban surface in which it is set. It is specific to its site and program, rather than the product of a formal and aesthetically driven vision. The building is allowed to transform into a living connective skin that transforms between the fragments of unforeseen future programs, becoming part of the city skin.
Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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Chan Man Kong.
"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2001-2002, design report."
Includes bibliographical references.
introduction
index
timeline
genesis
Shelter and Local Spirit In Yau Ma Tei
site
program
design
Chapter - --- phase i
Chapter - --- phase ii
Chapter - --- phase iii
Chapter - --- phase iv
bibliography
acknowledgement

M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)
This book is based in, and begins with, dialogue. This is the exchange between author and reader, as consumer of its narrative. Portions of this work are interactive in order to extend and capture this dialogue between each of us and the ‘material’ content that “constitutes the city, as lived experience, encounter and representation. The book is an imagining of the city. It is a visual-textual craft anthology that develops over time as a collection of artefacts that point to an alternate future reality. This is done through the process of design. [0.1] The dialogue is interlaced with cross-stitched personal histories[G] of both author and the site. There are many personal reflections about place, image and experience of space comprising the presented material. These are woven into the subject matter. The book sews together these patches of the experiential, the visionary and the idiosyncratic nuances of the existing and future city, and site. The format and composition of the pages that follow resemble material ‘things’ as the manifestations of city. Using montage and collage as devices of visual narrative, the subject and design process is suggested, developed and compiled. The ‘image of the city’ is derived through collection and accumulation of textile-tectonic narrative. This is presented as assemblages that can, at any point, be read as past, present or possibility.

A research report proposal submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Architecture (Professional). January, 2019
In recent years, research studies have shown an increase in stress levels especially among people living in cities. Clear links have been established correlating wellbeing with the environment. Studies show that urban environments increase tendencies of unhappiness and stress among people. This study identifies inefficiency in systems that facilitate mobility as one of the causes of stress among city users. It recognises mobility as a core component of any system that facilitates the efficient flow of things between points. Inadequacy in systems of mobility can therefore cripple a system by preventing the free movement of things from one point to another. Like so many developing cities, the urban environment of Kampala, the capital of Uganda that is undergoing rapid urbanisation and often unchecked development faces challenges regarding mobility. In Kampala, majority of the population either walk or rely on public transportation and yet the inadequate infrastructure and systems of mobility denies them the right to freely and easily access and navigate their city. This both directly and indirectly results in physical and psychological stress in city users leading to frustrations and financial losses and consequently prevents wellbeing. The study focuses on the Old Taxi Park which is the most frequently used public transportation facility for daily short trips around the city of Kampala. Recognising that the failing state of infrastructure and inadequate systems of organising the movement of vehicles and people in and around the park render it one of the black spots that contribute to and often escalate the problems regarding mobility presents the Old Taxi Park as a suitable site for a project to address the city’s navigational challenges. This is aimed at mitigating stress among the people who engage with the city. The project thus proposes a revamp of the Old Taxi Park to facilitate efficient movement of people within Kampala. In order to further enhance wellness, the project draws on the healing and restorative power of nature. Although nature has been linked to improved well being, having been found to have numerous restorative benefits especially for people who constantly interact within densely inhabited fast paced settings, the city centre of Kampala which has the highest population density and fastest pace of life in the entire city critically lacks instances where people can interact with and so benefit from the nurture of the elements of nature. Therefore this research project takes an approach of reintroducing various elements of nature to the urban fabric through the design of the transportation hub and how it integrates with Kampala’s urban fabric. The main objectives for the project are hence to promote efficiency in the systems of mobility and to reintroduce nature within the urban sphere in order to promote wellness for the people who interact with the concrete jungle that was once the City of Seven Hills
MT 2019

The relationship between cars and cities is changing. The auto-centric development predominant in America in the 20th century is beginning to subside and disappear. It is being replaced by efforts to make cities more sustainable, enjoyable, and accessible by their citizens without the need to always own a personal vehicle. Given the issues inherent in building more infrastructure to support the ever-growing demand for automobiles, continuing to rely on fossil fuels to power them, or living in neglected spaces designed for machines, an alternative solution is needed. While entirely giving up the car today is socially, politically, economically, and physically impossible, new ways of dealing with it are becoming viable. These developments are currently in their nascent stages, but they hold immense potential to transform the way urban mobility operates in the near future. This thesis explores architecture's response to this emerging reality and proposes that it is time for the car and the city to foster a productive relationship. In the past, architects and urban planners have designed and re-designed the built environment to accommodate the needs of the automobile. Today, there is a need for an architecture which integrates mobility and the means of powering it with vibrant and social urban space. Through the design of a networked mobility hub for Long Island City in Queens, New York, this thesis will re-imagine the relationship between cars and architecture, creating a new paradigm for dealing with the automobile in the city.

In the late twentieth century, global economic forces changed the face of many North American cities. Cities which were built upon industry, that had provided both job certainty and economic vitality, faced questions of survival in response to shrinking population and urban blight. Unprepared for these drastic changes and unable to address them survival gave way to resignation. Buffalo, New York is an example of a once successful and vital city that continues to experience de-population due to the collapse of its industries. The collapse not only created economic repercussions but also effected the city’s built environment. Many of the Buffalo’s urban monuments, testaments to the ambition of the city, now sit empty; as do the working class neighbourhoods that surround them. The Thesis examines the role which architecture can play in understanding, strategizing and re-envisioning the life of deteriorating cities. Focusing on the City of Buffalo, the design centers on the New York Central Terminal. It proposes a radical repurposing of the Terminal to create a new urban hub which will spur the re-building of the city’s urban fabric. The design outlines a staged 25 year strategy for the de-construction of sparse areas and the strengthening of critical urban networks, thus creating a strong framework upon which a new physical fabric for the city can build and develop overtime. The Terminal, once a significant rail hub is re-envisioned as a revitalized hub for the new city. A key connective point within this urban framework, it encapsulates a variety of program moved from the surrounding neighbourhood to the site. The Terminal will act as an architectural catalyst for change, working within the larger urban strategy to spur a natural re-growth and densification of the city. The thesis presents the radical re-thinking of the architect’s role in the twenty-first century. As current economies and industries face change the urban climate is adapting from one of constant growth to one of strategic re-use. Skeletons of once successful cities lay across the North American landscape. Their urban artifacts: the grain mill, steel manufacturing plant and rail yards, which once supported whole cities as both providers of employment and definers of cultural identity, now stand as empty reminders of a prosperous past. The Thesis shows how these buildings , like the New York Central Terminal can be given a renewed cultural significance and powerful roles within the revived urban life of their cities.

Urban informality is a process established by people in the informal urban context to shape existing formal cities to form new informal cities that facilitate their everyday lives. This phenomenon has grown substantially in Latin American, Asian and African cities to a point that people have transformed many of their formal post-colonial cities within these regions to informal cities that can facilitate urban informality. Instead of seeing this process as a way where people living in the informal urban context are trying to create cities and infrastructure that suite their context and way of life, architects and urban design professionals are repeatedly adopting 'western norms‘ to solve urban informality rather than facilitating it. This starts to create a gap between the architectural built form and the way people live. The research was then undertaken to bridge this gap between built form making and the lived realities in the informal urban context by using the underlying principles of urban informality defined by the people to generate meaningful built form within the South African, African context. To achieve this, the research carried out investigations on current literature that dealt with three main principles that defined urban informality that could be used to generate an appropriate built form with the informal urban context. These principles were; socio- economic principles, emergence and the culture of urban informality and these started to suggest a flexible built form that can be adapted by its users to suit their needs. These principles were then tested against precedent and case studies to see their validity in the global and South African context. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a number of professionals that had a better understanding of the case studies than the author to make sure that the analyses and the conclusions based on those analyses were accurate. The research findings ultimately defined an indeterminate built form that is formed through a participatory process between the collaboration of urban design professionals and the future inhabitants of the built form. This built form is 'loosely‘ defined and its inhabitants can manipulate and reconfigure it, to a certain extent, to suit the future unforeseen states of urban informality. The research also outlined a framework that can be applied in the design phase of a multi-purpose trade hub in Durban, South Africa.
M. Arch. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2013.

M. Tech. Architecture (Professional)
This dissertation responds to the current urban situation in Pretoria's Central Business District and entails the design of a Creative Hub through the rejuvenation of Pretoria's Burlington Arcade in the Church Square node. The Creative Hub will function as an incubator space for the creative industry, as well as potentially becoming a catalyst for the rejuvenation of the inner-city of Pretoria. Tshwane's inner-city's economic role has reduced dramatically compared to cities such as Johannesburg. Private and public sectors turn their investment interest away from the city towards the suburbs. A solution needs to be found to encourage investment and increase visitor confidence in the city's long term commitment to change. As with any urban regeneration project, it would require dedicated investment from the all sectors, over a lengthy period of time to initiate this change. The Creative Hub acknowledges urban renewal as the long term goal for the inner-city, but aims to evoke interest within the Church Square node to serve as a vehicle for change to occur through the introduction of "a people's place". Students, creative individuals and professionals, tourists, city dwellers, city goers as well as artisan traders are invited to meet within the space to promote Church Square as the historically rich, culturally textured environment it is.

South Africa boasts such intrinsic beauty in its social and physical geography and at the heart of this beauty lie its people. For each culture that has fought for their beliefs and systems, wars have been fought and lives have been lost. One thing which remains constant however is the belief that we the people can work together to live in peace and harmony and leave a better place to those who come after. Apartheid South Africa was divisive in many ways and its results have left many wounds on the country’s architectural geography. Social inequality is manifest in the tapestry of everyday life and the Peri-Urban scars of our past have become vivid thresholds of crosscultural debate. The Apartheid planning model of disconnection through race and class has seen a massive effort to refocus on Durban’s urban core, whereas the rich tapestry of the Peri-Urban townships is often neglected. In order to reconnect the outer city geographies back into the urban whole an investigation into the theory of connection between people and their physical environment needs to be undertaken. This dissertation looks at how the theory of connection might enable a unified Durban and rehabilitate the tenderness of past planning processes. Public Transport is one such mechanism which can connect communities, no matter the distance nor socio-economic status and it is within this context that the dissertation offers new insight into the critical and exciting reconnection process.
M. Arch. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2013.

Decaying urban spaces are common in post-industrial New England. When manufacturing activities withdrew from New England they left holes in the urban fabric. Physical absence of these former economic drivers is easy to note in empty mill buildings, warehouses, and storefronts. Farther reaching impacts of this exodus are less apparent. Jobs went with manufacturing. Raw materials needed to be harvested and made available to manufacturers; the finished products needed to be distributed, sold, and moved; supporting businesses provided for these needs. Many other groups supported manufacturing; some through the management of the companies, some catered to workers’ needs, or the needs of workers’ children and families. This network of groups and individuals connected to industry made up vibrant communities in the heyday of manufacturing in New England. When manufacturing left many of the groups providing support functions collapsed. Many people moved away, or if they stayed they were left unemployed or underemployed. Whole communities were damaged when manufacturing left New England. Many have not yet fully recovered. The goal of this thesis is to propose a path toward the revitalization and repair of the urban fabric of depressed post-industrial communities in New England. Many post-industrial New England communities have lost their identity. These places have empty buildings, empty lots, and their main streets, former “downtowns,” are quiet. There is little to recommend these areas as a place to be. These depressed and decaying places need revitalization. They are no longer centers of manufacturing or industry; they need a new identity, one that reflects what they are now and what they would like to become in the future. Revitalization should be grounded in a study of the unique place it addresses. There are communities and inhabitants present in even the most depressed places. These groups need to be recognized and their needs identified before revitalization can be undertaken. Revitalization should be inclusive. Residents should feel encouraged to stay in, and be proud of, their community. Revitalization should be sustainable; socially, ecologically and economically. If revitalization of a depressed area calls for attracting more residents and businesses, those targeted to inhabit the revitalized space should fit into the existing community, not displace it. This thesis proposes a revitalization of a depressed post-industrial area of Millers Falls, Massachusetts in the vicinity of East Main and Bridge Streets. This revitalization proposal will be carried out within a framework of study of place, inclusivity, and holistic sustainability.

This design project addresses the contemporary supermarket chain, seeking to bring back to this typology the traditional sociality and dynamic qualities of the urban marketplace. In this sense to ‘bring back’ does not mean to restore time, but rather to provide the means for public engagement by establishing the supermarket as an active civic space. By negotiating between the micro-levels of everyday life and the macro-levels of culture and civic society, I propose to transform the supermarket into a communal ‘event-space’ by formulating a ‘kit of parts’ that is applied to the national supermarket chain New World – “the only local supermarket nationwide” – thereby establishing it as a viable, productive social hub. Encouraging health and wellbeing benefits through the rituals of cooking, dining, learning, communing and consuming, this sociocultural connection to the commercial environment also reinforces health research studies, which advocate a community-based approach toward producing the best outcome for upward mobility and community revitalization. The concept is developed through research into historical and contemporary models to a final proposal of a range of Communal Elements. These elements are adapted and applied to three site-specific locations around New Zealand within an urban, suburban and rural context. This new approach to land use, innovative partnerships, health planning and sensory-based design strategies instigates a radical revision of the role of the supermarket. The thesis proposes that this is not only fiscally viable but that it provides positive assets to communities and neighbourhoods as a global entity within a local reality. The project investigates ways in which spatial design can reconstruct quotidian consumption and public space, revising amenity infrastructure through site-specific interventions that draw on commensality, ix ABSTRACT “the exchange of sensory memories and emotions, and of substances and objects incarnating remembrance and feeling” (Seremetakis, 1994, p.225).