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Reviving Troost: Reactivating Vacant Lots Through Urban Acupuncture, Ayana Belk
Reviving Troost: Reactivating Vacant Lots Through Urban Acupuncture, Ayana Belk
Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference
Modern day cities are riddled with vacant lots that attract illicit activity and give a negative impression of the surrounding neighborhood. Vacant lots are born from an urban history of an increasingly privatized public realm and growing socio-political and economic polarization (Foo 2014, 176). Suburbanization, redlining, and urban renewal disproportionately affected lower income neighborhoods, which are rarely able to rebuild without outside financial assistance. “Urban acupuncture” is a theory that views cities as living, breathing organisms and a variety of projects can serve as “needles” that revitalize the community by healing the parts. When applied correctly this theory can help …
Empowering Women Through The Design Of Domestic Violence Shelters, Alexa Keim
Empowering Women Through The Design Of Domestic Violence Shelters, Alexa Keim
Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference
According to a report published by The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey in 2017, one in four women are sexually assaulted, physically assaulted and/or stalked by an intimate partner. According to the same survey, these women feel fearful, unsafe and show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Supportive housing, in the form of domestic violence shelters, provide these women with a physical environment to combat their situation and to promote their future independence (Pable, 2013, p. 269; Phenice, L. & Griffore, R., 2013). Environmental factors can have an impact on women's psychological sense of safety in this time of …