The practicum project addresses the ongoing relationship between interior space and the urban environment. Despite a common perception of the interior and the exterior as being distinct and separate, a study of these spaces reflects a similar spatial continuum to the one that exists between public and private space. These realms are linked to each other spatially and socially. Through the development of an active transportation hub in Winnipeg, the project seeks to explore the potential of interior design to influence the wider urban environment. Placemaking and scale linking will be used to create places of meaning and identity in a mobile environment. The hub will create a place for sustainable transportation, community connection and improved quality of life for the people of Winnipeg. In this way, interiors can have a direct impact on the dynamics of the city.

Landscape architecture has a dynamic relationship with public art. While public art may enhance a designed landscape, its success is not dependent on it. However, the sensation of how a public art piece is situated in a landscape and responds to its audience can be greatly enhanced with the help and knowledge of landscape architecture. Artists can use the knowledge and understanding of site specificity that landscape architects possess to situate respected and appreciated works of public art located in functional spaces. The purpose of this document is to explore the relationship between artists and landscape architects. Public art is an important part of our society. It can enhance the identity and character of communities, creating landmarks to be remembered. Public art can inform us about the history and culture of our environment, while evoking thought and conversations of community. It can be fun and uplifting, solemn or full of tension, and it can be mysterious and intriguing. The collaboration between artists and landscape architects can create new and wonderful spaces in our urban environments. By using nature and the surrounding environment, visitors can be completely surprised and engaged by what this collaboration can achieve.

The practicum project addresses the ongoing relationship between interior space and the urban environment. Despite a common perception of the interior and the exterior as being distinct and separate, a study of these spaces reflects a similar spatial continuum to the one that exists between public and private space. These realms are linked to each other spatially and socially. Through the development of an active transportation hub in Winnipeg, the project seeks to explore the potential of interior design to influence the wider urban environment. Placemaking and scale linking will be used to create places of meaning and identity in a mobile environment. The hub will create a place for sustainable transportation, community connection and improved quality of life for the people of Winnipeg. In this way, interiors can have a direct impact on the dynamics of the city.

Medina, as the second holy city for Muslims around the world and a place where the Prophet (peace be upon him) lived and is buried, has a distinctive identity. On the contrary, however, the central part of the city, the area where the old city was located, has lost its traditional identity in favour of globalization and modernization. One major factor that affects a location’s sense of place is the absence of public space and green space. In other words, the negligence of the public space’s role in reviving and restoring the identity of a place results in a sense of non-place. For many visitors to Medina, the current state (the contemporary urban setting) of the central city fails to match their expectations. Inserting an urban park (public space) within the area will enhance and help conserve the place’s identity, meet visitors’ visions, and allow more social interactions among visitors and locals. My design proposal is to create an urban park and a public space located at the periphery of the Prophet’s Mosque. The park will offer visitors a quiet place of refuge within the busy surrounding urban context and will demonstrate the location’s identity through shading structures. The program will consist of shading structures, mobile eateries, seating areas, public space, and vegetation.

Orientador: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito / Banca: Beatriz Ribeiro Soares / Banca: Margarida Maria de Andrade / Banca: Arthur Magon Whitacker / Banca: Raul Borges Guimarães / Resumo: Os espaços públicos de Presidente Prudente são analisados na perspectiva de sua dinâmica geral, visando o entendimento da cidade. Nesse sentido, no seu processo de produção e apropriação demonstram a existência de uma sociabilidade segmentada. As reflexões sobre a produção do espaço público são organizadas em três níveis analíticos: a dominação política, a acumulação de capital e a realização da vida. Os dois primeiros níveis estão relacionados ao campo da dominação - no primeiro caso, trata-se da dominação política analisada por meio das ações do poder municipal e das elites locais; no segundo caso, da dominação econômica, as reflexões giraram em torno dos processos de acumulação e reprodução do capital. O terceiro nível de análise desloca o foco da dominação para a apropriação do espaço, ou seja, para as relações socioespaciais produzidas pelo uso, nas práticas cotidianas que conformam o plano do vivido. É, precisamente, nesse plano que as reflexões permitem a leitura das possibilidades de transformação e abrem campo para a esperança. / Abstract: The public spaces of Presidente Prudente are analyzed in their general dynamics perspective, looking for the urban space understanding. In this sense, in their production and reproduction process they reveal the existence of a segmented sociability. The concerns about the production of the public space are organized in three analytic levels: political domination, accumulation of capital and the accomplishment of the life. The first and second levels are related to the domination ground. In the first case we argue the political domination analyzed through the local power and the local elites actions. In the second case, the economic domination, our concerns are the accumulation and reproduction of capital. In the third level the focus is the appropriation of space, we mean, the social-spatial relationships, which are produced by the use, in the everyday practices, which conform the lived space. It's, just, in this level that our concerns allow us to read the possibilities of transformation and hope. / Doutor

No abstract available. Copyright 2006, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Bjornstad, JA 2006, Re-programming public space, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132007-180909/ > / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

Because of the high levels of violence practiced by the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), especially if its lethality is taken into consideration, the Pacifying Police Units - Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs) in Portuguese - were created in 2008 to work in some favelas (slums or shanty towns) of the state’s capital, the city of Rio de Janeiro. This form of policing became the object of attention of several social scientists due to its apparently less violent action in these specific urban spaces, which are historically marked by a social stigma and constitute a special target for police action. In this thesis, we analyze some of the research work that emphasized the UPPs’ characteristics as possibilities for a new and less violent police. It is argued that, despite the features that make the UPPs to be apparently less violent, it is necessary to take into account several other aspects that sociologically explain the police action in Rio de Janeiro and the UPPs. The social construction of Brazilian citizenship and public space affects the way Brazilians build the notion of equality between individuals and social groups, relating it to similarity between themselves and accepting as natural the unequal treatment given by the state’s institutions. This legal and juridical culture, associated to the new economic and financial context that the city of Rio de Janeiro has been going through in the last years, refers to the necessity of state control over some favelas to be able to increase the value of such urban spaces, through land speculation, in order to achieve a surplus-value by implementing new economic and lucrative activities. This state policy is heavily based on “pacifying” the favelas through the politics of security, in which police play a major and important role. Therefore, the thesis begins by offering an explanation of the Brazilian views of public space and citizenship, resorting to some social scientists studies that dealt with the specifics of those notions in Brazil. Then we elucidate how a documentary analysis was made explaining how the UPPs are understood in Brazil. Later, dissertating about the historical development of favelas and police in Rio de Janeiro, explaining the conjuncture in which the UPPs were implemented and how they are understood. Yet, in our research, we consider that the UPPs are not breaking away from the paradigm of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, but using a different practice to give continuity to a traditional function of policing (repression) and a process that one could call of “criminalization” of favelas.

0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

This dissertation investigates public space within a South African con¬text as part of inner city regeneration. The architectural exploration aims to respond to a specific site and neighbourhood needs as identified. Protecting the openness of the site, integrating the site with its surroundings to enhance the potential of social engagement. The proposal provides a framework for spatial possibility in which architecture is used as a framework through which users influence a building’s design. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

Women cannot exist in public space without public toilets, yet it can be difficult to find any that feel clean and safe to go to. That is why I propose to build public toilets for women on Renmarkstorget in central Umeå. Public toilets are where gender issues are exemplified in a public space and are therefore very politically charged. If we want to build for gender equality, we need to be conscious of who we are building for, how the space reflects our social values, and have a clear vision. Equal floorspace is often assigned to men’s and women’s toilets. But women need more floor space in toilets, due to menstruation, bringing children, sitting down to pee etc. This leads to longer toilet queues for the ladies’ room, and consequently, women stay shorter periods of time in public or even avoid it. This especially affects girls, elderly women, disabled women, homeless women, mothers, and pregnant women. The solutions include changing building regulations, architects acting on the issue, and of course electing more women on the city council who can speak on this issue from experience. This proposal includes 7 freestanding structural toilet units, a lunchroom, a playground, bicycle parking, and a bus stop. Because what happens outside the toilet is most important. Those activities need to overlap with the needs of women and enable them to feel seen but not exposed or observed and allow them to have control of their environment. Equality is about voice and therefore architects need to be conscious of how physical, virtual, and social environments either encourage, discourage, include, or exclude those voices by design.