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Fluid Urbanism: Connecting The Tennessee River Mega-Region, John D. Koelsch
Fluid Urbanism: Connecting The Tennessee River Mega-Region, John D. Koelsch
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Urban Identity, Mustapha A Farrakhan Williams
Urban Identity, Mustapha A Farrakhan Williams
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The New Parallel: Urban And Agrarian Political, Environmental, And Architectural Landscapes Of The Demilitarized Zone, Robert Vincent Truka
The New Parallel: Urban And Agrarian Political, Environmental, And Architectural Landscapes Of The Demilitarized Zone, Robert Vincent Truka
Masters Theses
North and South Korea share the most heavily armed military border in the world. Technically both sides are still at war dating back to 1950. The 38th parallel, also known as The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a 156-mile long by 2.5- mile wide border condition with over two million plus known landmines buried with-in its boundaries. The Juxtapositions of the financial, political, economical, and military modalities could not be more drastically different between North and South Korea. North Korea is a communist autocratic military dictatorship and has one of the worlds lowest Gross Domestic Products (GDP). South Korea is a …
Operational Jakarta: The Problem Of Representation, Kevin Patrick Jeffers
Operational Jakarta: The Problem Of Representation, Kevin Patrick Jeffers
Masters Theses
As the twenty-first century unfolds with newly formed degrees of hypercomplex interactions and reactions amongst space, time, economy, politics, social dynamics, and cultural paradigms, we are observing new typologies of urbanism that are different in kind, rather than degree, from the previous “urban” upon which the vast majority of present theoretical and practical discourse has been based. The techniques, strategies, and methodologies of the twentieth-century no longer serve to adequately represent or to explain the phenomena of today’s incipient mega-cities. A new vocabulary must be developed. A new way of seeing is required in order to understand and therefor to …
A City Divided: “Fragmented” Urban Space In 20th Century Buenos Aires, Marianela D'Aprile
A City Divided: “Fragmented” Urban Space In 20th Century Buenos Aires, Marianela D'Aprile
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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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 …