Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Katherine Nesse / Many cities around the United States struggle with racially segregated neighborhoods (USA on Race 2013). The existence of isolated neighborhoods continues to reinforce racial distrust and promotes stereotypes. Some of the primary negative consequences associated with residential segregation include unequal job opportunities, greater health risk, high concentrations of poverty, educational constraints, and high building and lot vacancy rates. Residential segregation is an issue in Kansas City, Missouri along Troost Avenue. Troost Avenue is a stark racial dividing line within the city core. West of Troost Avenue, whites account for 88 percent of the population while blacks make up 93 percent of the population to the east (Troost Village Community Association 2013). The intent for this project is to create a resource to help establish and promote social interaction within the Troost Avenue neighborhoods by creating a purpose-driven community garden at the St. James Place apartment complex. The site’s unique location, positioned adjacent to other apartment complexes and subdivisions in the Citadel Neighborhood, had the potential to attract many types of users to the garden site. Through a process of literature review, surveys, interviews, and precedent study analysis, design goals were established. The design proposals for the St. James Place Community Garden focus on increasing site activity, establishing accessibility, and promoting originality.

With the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the interstate system included an elevated segment of Interstate 10 constructed over Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana. The I-10 Claiborne Expressway provided access to downtown by destroying a tree-lined boulevard and contributing to the decline of an African American neighborhood. In 2005, after hurricane Katrina, several community-based plans proposed that the elevated I-10 Claiborne Expressway be removed. This thesis compares the removal proposals to the decision making processes of five case cities that have removed expressways. Necessary conditions were applied to all expressway removal cases. Currently, the I-10 Claiborne Expressway decision making process lacks defined structural integrity and safety concerns, a reduction in the value of freeways by power brokers, documented support of the business community and “selling” of idea by a public agency. These conditions were necessary to the decision to remove expressways in all case cities.

The St. Charles streetcar is an important transit line in the city of New Orleans, with about 65,000 people living within a ½ mile walking distance from it. However, the line experiences a very high streetcar/automobile crash rate due in large part to the large number of grade vehicle crossings over the tracks that lack signalization. Through traffic modeling, the closure of many of these vehicle crossings and the diversion of automotive traffic to the remaining, signalized crossings is analyzed to determine traffic impacts on street network. The result is a modest increase in traffic, about 7-8%, at the remaining signalized intersections.

Interessada em discutir o papel da arquitetura na conformação e na qualidade dos espaços urbanos, através do estudo da interface entre interior e exterior dos edifícios, entre os edifícios e a cidade; essa pesquisa visa identificar o impacto da morfologia desses espaços de transição nos usos e apropriações que o cidadão desenvolve nestes lugares. Foram levantados aspectos que caracterizam a configuração arquitetônica e urbana do espaço, bem como outras questões envolvidas, como a gestão dos espaços, que tanto influenciam na ambiência resultante. O leitor é convidado a um passeio pela avenida Paulista, onde são identificadas situações em que a relação entre o edifício e a cidade se destaca pela maneira como estão integrados, procurando entender como esses espaços influenciam a percepção do cidadão a respeito do espaço urbano. / Interested in discussing the role architecture plays in the construction and quality of the urban spaces, through the study of the interface established between the buildings\' internal and external spaces, between buildings and the city; this work intends to identify the impact of these transition spaces on uses and the way citizens develop life. Some aspects were found important on the architectural and urban space, as well as other matters that make a difference on the urban life, like the managing of those spaces. You are invited to come on a walk along the Paulista avenue, where the relationship between buildings and cities call our attention on several situations. The intention is to understand how those spaces alter the perception of the urban space.

A Avenida Paulista é considerada um dos maiores ícones de São Paulo, pois simboliza uma metrópole que se transformou significantemente dentro de um contexto de expansão urbana único, desde o último quartel do século XIX até final do século XX, sendo que a grande questão estabelecida é, como ela, praticamente desde sua inauguração em 1891, constituiu-se em uma imagem que se metamorfoseou em ícone e, mesmo com as mudanças que sofreu, acompanhando o desenvolvimento da metrópole, continuou sendo considerada como tal, diferente de outros ícones que, por motivos diversos, acabaram, de certa forma, por mudar seu grau de representatividade à medida que a aglomeração se expandia. Optamos pelo período, entre 1880 e 2007, que abrange desde um pouco antes de sua inauguração até a atualidade, pois acreditamos que este recorte histórico dê conta de mostrar os movimentos de transição da expansão urbana nos diferentes momentos históricos vividos na produção da metrópole, tendo a construção e afirmação desse ícone como elemento de instigante reflexão. Assim, nossa pesquisa privilegiou, além das fontes bibliográficas e iconográficas inerentes à expansão urbana de São Paulo, entrevistas que deram subsídios para compreender o processo de apropriação do espaço da Avenida Paulista. A pesquisa, então, trata da formação e consolidação de um ícone que representa a metrópole de São Paulo: a Avenida Paulista. / The Paulista Avenue is considered one of the greatest landmarks of São Paulo, because it represents a metropolis which changed significantly, from the last barracks of the 19th century to end of the 20th century, in an unique urban expansion context, and the great issue is how did it, since its inauguration in 1891, become a symbol which was metamorphosed into icon and, even when going through changes, was able to keep up with the city\'s development and continued being considered as such, different from other icons that, for several reasons, vanished because their degree of representativeness changed as the agglomeration expanded. We selected the period from 1880 to 2007, which goes from a little before its inauguration until the present time, due to the fact that we believed that this historical sample would be able to show the transition movements of the urban expansion in different moments in time throughout the city\'s development, and the construction and the establishment of that icon was the element of instigating reflection. Thus, our research was based on, besides the bibliographical sources and the inherent iconography of the urban expansion of São Paulo, interviews which helped us understand the appropriation process of the Paulista Avenue space. This research, then, is concerned with the construction and establishment of an icon that represents the metropolis of São Paulo: the Paulista Avenue.

O olhar ao espaço e à arquitetura, a partir do pensamento da Hospitalidade, é um olhar que busca pela dimensão de abertura, de fluidez do lugar; uma perspectiva que vai além da própria materialidade, geometria, adentrando na sutil dimensão humana, vivida do espaço. Num relato da experiência de ser recebida na Vila Tronco, comunidade de Porto Alegre, busco, no presente trabalho, revelar formas do acolhimento manifestadas nesse território informal, espontâneo, lugar à margem do resto da cidade. A partir do pensamento de Levinas, Derrida, Deleuze, inicio o trabalho com uma visão afastada, cartográfica da Vila para, mais além, adentrar no território; busco, então, identificar, através da perspectiva adotada por Fernando Fuão, as formas do acolhimento, os afetivos lugares de encontro da comunidade. Numa poderosa capacidade de reconstituição, a Vila cria e recria formas de acolher, grandes aberturas, clareiras, em meio ao espaço tantas vezes fechado, hostil. Posicionada junto a uma grande avenida em processo de duplicação, a Avenida Tronco, a comunidade, que tem absorvida boa parte de seu território, manifesta uma lúcida atitude receptiva, abrindo-se ao outro e constituindo uma nova fronteira, uma nova superfície de relação. / The look to space and architecture, built on the thought of Hospitality, is a look that seeks the dimension of openness and fluidity of the place; it is a perspective that goes beyond the materiality and geometry themselves and enters the subtle human and lived dimension of space. In this work, through the narration of the experience of being received in Vila Tronco, community of Porto Alegre, I seek to reveal the welcome forms expressed in this informal and spontaneous territory, a outlying place from the rest of the city. From the thought of Levinas, Derrida and Deleuze, I start with a distant and cartographic view of the slum, to further enter the territory – I search to identify, through Fernando Fuão´s perspective of welcome forms, the affective gathering places of the community. With a powerful ability of reconstitution, the slum creates and recreates forms of welcome, large openings, clearings amid the often enclosed and hostile space. The duplication process of the large Tronco Avenue has absorbed much of the territory of the slum, which is positioned nearby. Even so, the community expresses a lucid receptive attitude, opening up to the other and building a new frontier, a new relationship surface.

Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.

The goal of this thesis is to investigate and propose housing that increases density while offering a better quality of life for citizens inhabiting Toronto’s Avenues. This thesis compares three different building prototypes, all of varying scales and typological characteristics. The viability of each prototype is discussed with regards to the current economic and regulatory conditions within the city, as well as the varying quality of life that each prototype creates.

In this study, the socio-spatial formation of a public place in Ankara, the capital city of the Turkish Republic, is analyzed between the 1950s and the 1980s. Within this framework, the focus of analysis is the Tunali Hilmi Avenue (earlier &Ouml / zdemir Street) as one of the main streets in Ankara. To understand experiences of daily life in relation to spatial constitution of a public place is vital for this study, because this opens the way for discussing the formation of a &ldquo / street&rdquo / as a public place where social forms and practices come into being in the city. Focusing on the socio-spatial experiences of people on a street as a public place, this study uses visual and written documents about the architectural and planning processes, as well as the information gathered from oral history survey about the experiences of individuals, in order to understand how public life and public place are shaped in a reciprocal manner, and how the spatial formation of a street is realized in relation to daily experiences of its inhabitants. The decades from the foundation of the Turkish Republic until the late-1950s are initially presented as the period when this part of the city transformed from a suburb of vineyards into a residential area. The main period of analysis in this study is from the late 1950s to the late 1980s when the Tunali Hilmi Avenue was formed as a significant public place in Ankara, acquiring residential as well as cultural, recreational and commercial functions to act as an urban sub-center in the city. Aiming to produce a comprehensive architectural history of the socio-spatial formation of the Tunali Hilmi Avenue as a public place, with reference to its public role in a specific period of time, this study examines this process as associated with the contemporary changes in the built environment and daily life of Ankara. From such a broad perspective, the study evaluates the unplanned formation of the Avenue as an urban sub-center not only as an urban or architectural entity but also as a social process.

Project (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-129).