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Diagramming Toledo/Ohio, Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty, Scot Macpherson
Diagramming Toledo/Ohio, Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty, Scot Macpherson
Andreas Luescher
Diagramming Toledo/Ohio is the third monograph in a series after "The Street in the City: Dorr Street as an Anchor for a Shrinking Toledo" (2009) and "Building A Shared Vision for the City of Toledo" (2010). The research examines issues pertaining to architecture, design and planning with a focus on the challenges presented by urban shrinkage and responses to them in a shrinking rust belt city: Toledo.
The Street In The City: Dorr Street As An Anchor For A Shrinking Toledo, Andreas Luescher, Scot Macpherson, Sujata Shetty
The Street In The City: Dorr Street As An Anchor For A Shrinking Toledo, Andreas Luescher, Scot Macpherson, Sujata Shetty
Andreas Luescher
With the Visioning and Implementation Plan as the starting point, students of architecture from Bowling Green State University and students of geography and planning from the University of Toledo, were charged with developing visionary and sustainable urban design concepts for the length of Dorr Street.
Introductory Review To The Special Issue: Shrinking Cities And Towns: Challenge And Responses, Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
Introductory Review To The Special Issue: Shrinking Cities And Towns: Challenge And Responses, Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
Andreas Luescher
Cities and towns facing sustained population loss are being researched and discussed more than ever before. Once the focus of a relatively small group of architects and urban designers in Europe, these cities and towns are now being studied by scholars across the world. In a range of contexts - from a large, iconic city like Detroit, to a small village in Japan (described by Thomas Feldhoff in this issue), this phenomenon is being observed in unexpected places, and far more frequently than once imagined. A wider population is engaging in this as well, as discussions of the future of …
Building A Shared Vision For The City Of Toledo: An Urban Design Charrette, Andreas Luescher, Scot Macpherson, Sujata Shetty
Building A Shared Vision For The City Of Toledo: An Urban Design Charrette, Andreas Luescher, Scot Macpherson, Sujata Shetty
Andreas Luescher
This urban design charrette will address the challenge of organizing architectural and planning contributions to support Toledo, a city facing long-term economic and population decline.
Make A Delirious Noise: Improvising Urbanism In New Orleans, Louisiana, Jason Michael Stark
Make A Delirious Noise: Improvising Urbanism In New Orleans, Louisiana, Jason Michael Stark
Masters Theses
Decades of poor urban design choices and a lack of attention to the characteristics of communities have played prominent roles in the fracturing of urban communities and the relegation of those without means to the edges of the urban fabric: poverty and powerlessness abetted by geographic location. Rather than “restitching” the urban whole back together, I argue that progress can be made through the generation of local nodes of identity: a polynucleated urban condition. The development of spaces to magnify community identity with respect to localized characteristics produces a community focus to replace the unattainable (for those without means) city …