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Transforming Nature Of Place And Route 280, Peteris Ratas
Transforming Nature Of Place And Route 280, Peteris Ratas
Theses
This thesis studies the nature of place, which is a specific, identified location in space, in the conditions of driving in a car on a highway. This study opposes the common opinion that highways destroy identity of a specific location and they have only utilitarian role. This thesis wants to prove that on Route 280 exist a possibility for an identity of a location and that the highway is a place, but the traditional dimensions of a place are modified by high-speed travel in a car. It will analyze actual observations on Route 280.
Traditionally, space was inhabited at slow …
Vital Communities Criteria For Urban Neighborhood Development, Peter Frederick Smith
Vital Communities Criteria For Urban Neighborhood Development, Peter Frederick Smith
Theses
It is the goal of this document to explore the issues and physical attributes related to the creation of vital communities. Research into North American and European precedents of planned community design, from the late 19th Century to the present, and the study of the qualities of vitality of two healthy neighborhoods; The Beaches in Toronto, Canada, and the Ironbound in Newark, New Jersey, have demonstrated that the model for neighborhood development is the main street.
Further research determined that Springfield Avenue, in the City of Newark, New Jersey, would provide the armature for the revitalization of an urban neighborhood, …