Category: Urban Design Thesis

Urban design, public space, landscape urbanism, ecology, environment responsive design
Urban Design

Hybrid Thresholds | Saba Amini

The proposal envisions the threshold between the built urban fabric and the natural environment at the water’s edge. It focuses on the development of public space at the water’s edge, and tries to transform that space into a new interface that can be experienced as a valued and essential part

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Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation
Architecture

Urban Design and Development of a Public Space

This thesis uses a case study approach at the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener to focus on opportunities for a high quality public space/square to better integrate a new LRT line and a new GO/VIA rail station into the surrounding city. The conceptual framework of this thesis

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Landscape urbanism, ecology, landscape, urbanization, slums
Landscape

(Slum)scapes of adaptation Weak Grounds, Risk Ecologies, Community Initiatives | Harvard GSD

Rapid population growth, rural-urban migration, and the occupation of vulnerable territories are powerful characteristics for the increase of informal settlements. Largely, informal settlements have been defined by socio-economic standards, poverty, and lack of infrastructure. However, there is little research to comprehend the ecosystems, grounds, and implications of settling those environments.

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Urban design, conservation, adaptive reuse, heritage, urban intervention
Urban Design Thesis

In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion | Mehrauli, Delhi

I intend to study the impacts of the architectural conservation of the Qutub Minar Complex on the urban village of Mehrauli, New Delhi, because the manner in which national- and international-level preservation and planning frameworks operate reveals underlying sociopolitical conflicts and instruments of spatial cleansing. The thesis seeks to develop

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Architecture thesis, public park, urbanism, public space, , cultural center
Architecture

Art Hub as a Public Space | Uneeb Ahmad

The thesis analyzes factors that hinder the communication of artists and the public and aims to conclude a way by which communication may be improved. It studies artists aiming to work in the public realm and their work. The other aspect focuses on the understanding of a public space which

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