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Rebuilding Urban Place: Negotiating Individuality And Belonging, Peter R. Webster

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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Rebuilding Urban Place:

Negotiating Individuality and Belonging

New London, CT

September 2013

PETER R. WEBSTER

B.S.,TUFTS UNIVERSITY

M.ARCH, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

Directed by: Professor Kathleen Lugosch

The aim of this thesis is to test an approach for reconnecting ourselves with the urban fabric. By recognising the damage of urban renewal as more than simple blight but rather one that undermines our sense of place, we begin to appreciate the depth of the wound. It is not a matter of reconstructing what was taken away, but rather a process of rehabilitation. Re-establishing a viable sense of place requires …