Essays about: "street typology"

Found 4 essays containing the words street typology.

  1. 1. Spatializing Hospitality : A design exploration on how to provide spatial agency to immigrant households in Sweden

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Kajsa Grundström; [2023]
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    Abstract : The thesis investigates how a host country can apply ethics of hospitality to housing that allow refugees and asylum seekers spatial agency. The necessity of doing this is to reduce the passive state of being “guests” for refugees when they are waiting for answers of asylum application approval. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hacking the New Development : Turning a Shopping District into a Garment Manufacturing District

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Mohit Nihalani; [2021]
    Keywords : London; Chrisp Street Market; urban manufacturing; reindustrialisation; consumption; fashion; shopping district; redevelopment; hacking; labour; postcolonial;

    Abstract : Chrisp Street Market in London, the first pedestrian shopping district in the UK, will be redeveloped into a contemporary version of a pedestrian shopping district. The design employs the 'mixed-use' building typology often used to make public life 'active' and 'lively', by attracting the population to participate in consumer society in public space, at a time when the role of overconsumption in the acceleration of climate change within sectors like the fashion industry is becoming increasingly problematic. READ MORE

  4. 3. Community Garden Streetscapes : promoting social cohesion between the formal city and the informal settlements in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Amanda Backlund; Evelina Bengtsson; [2020]
    Keywords : community garden; social cohesion; informal settlements; urban agriculture; streetscapes; streetscape design; Buenos Aires;

    Abstract : Urbanisation causes challenges related to environmental issues and social conflicts (Sijmons 2010; Elmqvist et al. 2018). On a local level, in the informal settlements of Hurlingham in Greater Buenos Aires, it is expressed through unequal distribution of urban land, severe floodings and segregation (Janches 2020a; van de Berg 2018). READ MORE

  5. 4. Patterns and predictability of visual attention in different street types : An eye tracking study exploring the predictability of the distribution of  human visual  attention based on the spatial arrangements of buildings in a two-dimensional plan.

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

    Author : Martin Månsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Eye tracking; Urban design; Two-dimensional planning; visual attention; influence of street types; street typology; streetscape; morphology;

    Abstract : Streets are the most resilient elements in a city. While buildings are replaced and property borders redrawn, the streets remain. The primary means of planning new streets and the built environment surrounding it is by the creation of a two-dimensional plan - in a Swedish context called a detailed development plan. READ MORE