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41	The impact of the city on human perception Gomes, Evan 14 September 2016 (has links) The practicum examines the impact of the physical layout of cities on the way we perceive them. In particular it examines the influence of natural, social, and built elements in perception of the downtown core of Winnipeg. It goes on to propose an urban design strategy for the downtown core, supported by supplementary urban design guidelines. / October 2016 Perception Consciousness Design guidelines Urban design City development Development Streets Environments Urban environment Nodes Edges Districts Landmarks North America landmarks Winnipeg Organic street patterns Downtown Winnipeg Zoning Grid Orthogonal Programming Urban fabric Polycentric environment Collective consciousness Human perception Urban image City perception Irregular streets
42	Les agrandissements d’Aix et de Marseille (1646-1789) : Droits, espaces et fabrique urbaine à l’époque moderne / The extension plan of Aix and Marseille (1646-1789) : Law, Space and Urban Fabric in Early Modern Period Puget, Julien 07 March 2015 (has links) À partir de deux opérations d’agrandissement de ville au XVIIe siècle (Aix en 1646, Marseille en 1666), cette recherche vise à comprendre les modalités concrètes de production de l’espace urbain sous l’Ancien Régime, à la fois au plan humain et matériel. Cette étude débute au ras du sol, à l’échelle la plus fine de la matérialité urbaine, à savoir le parcellaire. À partir d’une réflexion croisée autour des droits du sols et du marche de l’immobilier, l’enjeu ici est de mieux comprendre le poids des structures et des mécanismes juridiques privés dans les processus de fabrique de la ville. Changeant d’échelle d’analyse, un ensemble d’interrogations liées au domaine de l'économie du bâtiment permet de mettre en évidence les modalités économiques, sociales et juridiques qui entourent les chantiers de la construction. Le but ici est à la fois de dégager les règles cadrant l'activité constructive, et de déterminer les contours de la pratique des individus dans ce domaine. Cet axe induit une réflexion autour de la structuration à la fin du XVIIe siècle d’un ordre public constructif. Enfin, cette recherche aborde dans un troisième temps l’espace urbain dans son ensemble le plus vaste, à la fois sur le plan matériel et administratif. À partir des cadres politiques et institutionnels sollicités et déployés pour mener à bien ces opérations, c’est la question de l’intégration et de la gestion de ces nouveaux espaces à l'ordre urbain existant qui nous préoccupe. / From two city expansion operations in the seventeenth century (Aix in 1646, Marseille in 1666), this research aims to understand the practical arrangements for production of urban space under the old regime, both in human terms and equipment.This study begins at ground level at the finest scale of urban materiality, the plot. From a cross-reflection on the rights of the land and property market, the challenge here is to understand the weight of structures and private legal mechanisms in urban process.Changing scale of analysis, a set of questions related to the building of the economy domain allows to highlight the economic, social and legal conditions surrounding the sites of construction. The goal here is both to identify the rules framing constructive activity and to determine the contours of the practice of individuals in this area. This axis induces a reflection on the structuration of a constructive public order at the end of the seventeenth century.Finally, this research addresses urban space in its larger whole, both hardware and administratively. From the institutional and public frameworks to carry out these operations, the issue of integration and management of these new spaces to the existing urban order came up. Histoire moderne Histoire urbaine Histoire du droit et des institutions Histoire du marché immobilier Histoire de la construction Fabrique de l'espace Opinion publique urbaine Urban History Early Modern History History of Public Administration History of Construction History of Law Property Rights Economic History Social History Real Estate Urban fabric
43	dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C. Torres-Barreto, Jose Antonio 10 March 2006 (has links) This thesis explores how a displayed image and architecture interact together. This manifesto is analogically explored using parts of the human body such as the eyeballs as a structural analysis for the buildings with a projection of the cornea, the pupil, the retina, the optic nerves and the brain. This analysis follows a sequential order of capturing light, transcribing light into image, and displaying such image onto a screen. Both, the image and architecture are created parallel to each other respectively when conceiving an architectural idea in order to develop the idea into a building and then perceiving the architecture from such building. These steps are a cinematic approach using a video camera to record an experience of movement through the journey of a metro ride. This video is one of the tools used to edit an urban tissue of downtown Washington, D.C. The project becomes a Center for the Art of Moving Images exposing vectors of movements through its architecture. The building is manifested in a three-dimensional design where the site provides a sunken plaza 60 ft below street level perceived as a new floor in the city. The underground metro station transitions to the street surface through the use of this plaza in a very harmonious way. The result is a visual depth parallel to the perspectives perceived in movies where you see beyond the surface of the screen and in this case, beyond the surface of the city. / Master of Architecture Academy Cinema Projection Light Memory Sequence IMAX Film Washington D.C. Torres Tony Screen Illussion Center Art Sound Stage City Sphere Metro Display Vision Transcription Capture Perception Movement Image Architectural Eyeball Cornea Pupil Retina Movies Conceive Perceive Develop Chinatown Urban Building Plaza Vision Urban Fabric Gallery
44	Quand l'aéroport devient ville : géographie d'une infrastructure paradoxale / When an airport becomes a city : geography of a paradoxical infrastructure Drevet-Démettre, Lucie-Emmanuelle 11 September 2015 (has links) L’aéroport est un objet géographique protéiforme, caractérisé par son « obsolescence accélérée » (BANHAM, 1962). Depuis les années 1990, son ultime mutation s’articule autour d’un processus de diversification fonctionnelle engendré par l’injection d’activités nouvelles, parfois éloignées du transport aérien, dans l’objectif d’accroître les profits et la rentabilité de l’infrastructure dans un contexte de privatisation généralisée. Cette évolution concerne les plus grands hubs mondiaux, notamment Paris-CDG, quatrième aéroport du monde selon le trafic passagers international. Cette tendance, qui a donné naissance au concept opérationnel d’airport city, tel qu’il est désigné par les observateurs et opérateurs anglo-saxons, attise doublement la curiosité géographique. En premier lieu, parce qu’elle interroge la fonction première de l’infrastructure de transport qu’est l’aéroport, qui devient alors un objet spatial non identifié qu’il convient de redéfinir. En second lieu, parce que cette désignation d’airport city, traduite par les opérateurs francophones par ville aéroportuaire, interroge la ville et surtout ce qui fait la ville dans ses dimensions matérielle et idéelle, c’est-à-dire l’urbanité et la citadinité. Suffit-il d’injecter des fonctions urbaines dans un espace pour en faire de la ville ? La ville aéroportuaire n’est-elle qu’une ville fonctionnelle ? En s’efforçant d’évaluer la pertinence géographique de la notion d’airport city, cette thèse impose de faire de l’urbanité et de la citadinité des concepts opératoires afin de les confronter au terrain aéroportuaire. Elle s’efforce également de replacer l’aéroport au centre de l’étude géographique en proposant un ajustement de l’échelle d’observation à l’ensemble de la zone aéroportuaire, évitant ainsi la synecdoque particularisante réduisant l’aéroport au terminal. Dans l’évaluation de la citadinité, elle a également pour objectif de saisir les spatialités de l’ensemble de la société aéroportuaire (passagers, employés, accompagnants, SDF, etc.). / Airports are protean geographical objects characterized by their « accelerated obsolescence » (BANHAM, 1962). Since the 1990s, their final transformation has been structured around a process of functional diversification engendered by new activities, which are sometimes very different from air transport, in order to increase the infrastructures’ profits and profitability in a context of widespread privatization. The world’s largest hub airports are concerned by this evolution, especially the Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, the world’s fourth busiest airport by international passenger traffic. This trend, which has given birth to the operational concept of airport city, as the Anglo-Saxon operators and observers call it, stirs up the geographical curiosity in two ways. Firstly, it questions the primary function of airports, which become unidentified spatial objects that need to be redefined. Secondly, the concept of airport city questions the city itself. Indeed, what makes a city a city on a material (urbanity) and conceptual (“citadinity”) level? Can a space with urban functions be considered as a city? Is the airport city only a functional city? By assessing the geographical relevance of the concept of airport city, this thesis aims at making the concepts of urbanity and “citadinity” operational concepts, so as to compare them with the airport ground. By adjusting the observation scale to the whole airport area, it also replaces the airport at the centre of the geographical study. Thus, the airport is not simply viewed as a terminal. Finally, this thesis aims at understanding the whole airport society’s spatiality (passengers, employees, accompanying people, homeless people…) by assessing the concept of “citadinity". Géographie urbaine Géographie des transports Géographie sociale Géographie culturelle France Europe Aéroport Infrastructure de transport Ville aéroportuaire Airport city Edge city Urbanité Citadinité Centralité Territorialité Territorialisation Habiter Hétérotopie Ville expérimentale Ville sûre Fabrique urbaine Paysage urbain Urban geography Transportation geography Social geography Cultural geography France Europe Airports Transportation infrastructures Airport city Edge city Urbanity "Citadinity" Centrality Territoriality Territorialisation Living in (to inhabit) Heterotopia Experimental city Safe city Urban fabric projects Urban landscape
45	Kwasizabantu : a spatial development framework and detail design Wentzel, Dorithea Maria 06 May 2009 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to analyse and interpret the existent and future needs of the people and environment of the mission station, Kwasizabantu,to ensure settlement growth that will enhance the social, economical and environmental aspects of the settlement. This will result in a development framework of the whole site, a master plan for the lifespan of the settlement and detailed design of the heart of the settlement. / Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted Greytown Spatial needs Community upliftment Spatial planning Poor infrastructure Environmental rehabilitation Expression of time Umvuti municipality Site analysis Kwasizabantu Mission station Technical drawings Road system hierarchy Placemaking Urban fabric Continuos movement system Settlement legibility Interconnectedness of functions Direct connections between functions Development zones Waste management Circulation analysis Drainage management Circulation planning Natural conservation management Ideal relationships for development Functional zones Remedial work Structuring actions Holding actions Growth directions Development framework Site plan Master plan Sketch plan Necessitous use Guild design Permaculture Access to the countryside The in-between Cultural context Open space system Multi-use of spaces Visual analysis Future development Self-supportive Hierarchy of spaces Stanger Traditional authority areas Short mist belt grasslands biome Jammerdaal farm Erlo stegen Tabitha school Settlement character Settlement character expression Development context Development boundaries Site planning Baseline information Design decision Economical context Environmental context UCTD

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