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Living In The Shrinking City: Making A Case For An Urban Resurgence In Syracuse, Sou Fang
Living In The Shrinking City: Making A Case For An Urban Resurgence In Syracuse, Sou Fang
Architecture Senior Theses
The focus of this thesis is the City of Syracuse. Understood as a city undergoing population decline since the 1950s, this thesis attempts to engage with the effects of city shrinkage by evaluating the socio-economic and material reality of the city. This project challenges the pedagogy of architecture to both broaden and be very explicit on how its disciplinary questions enter the frame of discussion surrounding the shrinking city discourse. The aim of the research / investigation and analysis (phase 1) is to understand the underlying principles, characteristics and effects of city shrinkage in the case of the City of …