A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar o tema do edifício multifuncional na cidade contemporânea de São Paulo, e foi conduzida pela hipótese de que para cada uma das novas centralidades que se constituíram historicamente na cidade, a solução de inserção urbana do edifício multifuncional assumiu características específicas, decorrentes de variáveis representadas pelas características morfológicas do tecido urbano; pelo modelo de cidade contido nos planos urbanísticos ou nas obras viárias que engendraram a consolidação de tais centralidades, e ainda de acordo com o parâmetros contidos códigos ou na legislação de parcelamento, uso e ocupação do solo vigentes. A compreensão deste quadro evolutivo, e o deslocamento das contribuições resultantes de tal análise para o âmbito das propostas apresentadas pelo Plano Diretor Estratégico de São Paulo (PDE 2014), desdobrou-se em uma hipótese complementar: de que a retomada da solução do edifício multifuncional no contexto dos Eixos de Estruturação da Transformação Urbana (ZEU), deverá reconhecer as particularidades deste território da cidade, com destaque aos padrões de inserção urbana e do modelo de cidade contidos nos elementos que compõem a atual rede de mobilidade, bem como os aspectos morfológicos que os contituem. / This project\'s goal is to analyse the mixed-use building theme in the contemporary city of São Paulo. The project has been conducted by the hypothesis that for each and single one of the new centralities that were historically constituted in this particular city, the urban insertion solution of the multifunctional building has taken specific characteristics that come from variables represented by the morphological features of the urban fabric. Such as the city model contained in the urbanization plans or in the roadworks that had engendered the consolidation of such centralities, and yet in the codes and installment legislation, soil usage and its ocupation. The comprehension of this evolutionary scenario and the analyses\' contributions that were deslocated to the proposals\' scope presented by the Plano Diretor Estratégico de São Paulo (São Paulo\'s Strategic Master Plan - PDE 2014) have unfolded into a complementary hypothesis: that the resumption of the mixed-use building solution in the context of the Structure Pivots of the Urban Transformation (ZEU - Eixos de Estruturação da Transformação Urbana) should recognize the particularities of this city\'s territory, focusing on the urban insertion patterns and the city model contained in the elements that compose the current mobility net, as well as the morphological aspects that constitute those territories.

The aim of this Master thesis was to create urban structure in the particular resident area of Brno that would revitalizing and activating that particular and at the same time keep on the original estate. The main target is also to design various facilities that would enhance current environment and provide new opportunities.

Sedan ett antal år tillbaka väljer allt fler att bo i innerstaden med små barn. Det har skapat ett enormt behov av nya förskoleplatser. Den vanligaste lösningen har blivit paviljonger med tillfälligt bygglov där antalet moduler monteras efter behov.  Med denna flexibla möjlighet tycks dock barackerna ha kommit för att stanna och blir oftast något helt annat än den provisoriska lösning de en gång var ämnade för.   Ett annat problem som förskolan står inför är att maten inte tillagas på plats utan körs ut från storkök och levereras i värmeslådor. Det fungerar förvisso men den pedagogiska poängen går om intet.   Syftet med projektet har varit att rita ett dagis i Stockholms innerstad som med samutnyttjade funktioner ger ett flexibelt förslag. Till förskolan hör ett restaurangkök som också serverar en restaurang, öppen för allmänheten. Kvällstid används vissa av barnens lokaler till en dansstudio. Samutnyttjandet blir kärnan och drivkraften i projektet.   Tomten är belägen i ena hörnet av Tantolunden på Södermalm.  Den avgränsas av bilväg och tågspår samt stora nivåskillnader. Buller och trafikfaror är påtagliga. Samtidigt delar den norra sidan ett fantastiskt parkläge med den kulturmärkta Ekermanska malmgården som funnits flera hundra år på platsen.   Att bygga i park är kontroversiellt och byggnaden har därför fått som uppgift att tydliggöra platsen som i nuläget är svåranvänd. Med publika verksamheter mot Ringvägen blir den en destination istället för en passage. Med en förlängning av Ekermanska gårdens riktning definieras också parkrummets gräns. Volymen i sig omsluter en innergård som blir barnens trygga oas. / An increasing number of families with small children are now choosing to live in Stockholm’s inner city, which has led to a tremendous need for more pre-schools. The most common solution today is to use pavilions with temporary building permits where modules are assembled as required from time to time. As they provide such a flexible solution, these barracks are however often being used in a permanent manner, quite different from the interim solution they were once intended to be.   Another problem that pre-schools face is that the children’s food is not cooked on location, but is instead prepared in industrial kitchens and delivered to the pre-schools. Although this is a viable solution, it does not fulfill the intended educational objective. The purpose of this project has been to design a pre-school in Stockholm’s inner city which provides a flexible option due to co-usage features. The pre-school’s kitchen also caters a restaurant which is open to the public. In the evenings, part of the children's space is used as a dance studio. This co-usage of space and function becomes the core and driving force of the project.   The grounds of the pre-school are located in one corner of the park Tantolunden on Södermalm. One side of the grounds is adjacent to motor roads and railroad tracks and significant differences in level. Noise and traffic dangers are obvious. At the same time, the north side of the grounds shares an amazing park with the heritage listed Ekermanska malmgården which has existed at this site for centuries. Building in parks is controversial and the building has therefore been given the task of clarifying this site, which is currently difficult to use. By providing businesses open to the public along Ringvägen, it becomes a destination instead of merely a place of transit. By providing an extension of Ekermanska malmgården's direction, the boundaries of the park are also defined. The volume itself encloses a courtyard that becomes the children's safe haven.

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The population of Austin, Texas is projected to reach 1.6 million people by the year 2040, which doubles the city’s current population. The populations of cities in neighboring counties, Hays and Williamson, are projected to experience even more growth within the same time frame. For the first time in history, over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, so sustainable development is currently relevant for urban planning. Until 2010, Austin lacked a mass public transportation system. Currently, Capital Metro, Austin’s main public transportation operator, operates the Red Line of the MetroRail, a commuter rail system. The Red Line only serves a specific subset of the population in Austin and its northern neighbors, running from the city of Leander, through northern Austin, before its final stop in downtown Austin. Because of this, Capital Metro will begin operations on a new method of rapid mass transit: a bus rapid transit system called MetroRapid. With two lines opening in 2014, MetroRapid will function as a mass rapid public transit option for two of the busiest north-south corridors in the city. The opening of MetroRapid will provide opportunities to stimulate growth in areas focused around this transit system. Transit-oriented development can be a method of guiding Austin’s future growth that will theoretically facilitate and encourage public transit use. The benefits to such growth would be reduced congestion, less dependency on automobiles and fostering communities that are vibrant and self-sustaining. This paper defines Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs), Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), and analyzes the MetroRapid stations themselves as Austin moves toward becoming a sustainable city. / text

This mixed-use space was designed to celebrate Richmond, Virginia’s arts and design communities. By creating a contemporary Richmond experience in a historic trolley shed, it is a space to create, relax, and inspire. This dynamic platform will showcase Richmond’s talented new creatives, from painters and sculptors to fashion designers and graphic artists. A central retail space featuring the wares of local designers is adjoined by an exclusive art gallery with exhibitions and live performances that change on a regular basis. The space also includes a sit-down restaurant and a smaller, more casual café, where patrons can dine with friends or chat over coffee. This project explores the idea of flexibility as it pertains to architecture and interior design. Strategies such as overlap versus separation, public versus private access, and the use of materiality to delineate hierarchy were all employed in this journey to create a space that remains flexible in both the organization of and interactions amongst its internal occupants and purposes to also serve as a venue for external events.

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Jason Brody / The design of a transit-oriented development (TOD) is a major concern with regards to its functionality and prospects for success. The Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Missouri, home of two professional sports venues, has a unique location on a proposed transit corridor, the Rock Island. This corridor is planned to run between downtown Kansas City and suburban Lee's Summit. Therefore, the Truman Sports Complex site is a natural choice for a TOD. Building a TOD at the Truman Sports Complex will create a focal point on the Rock Island Corridor that connects Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums to downtown Kansas City and Lee's Summit via a regional transit system; bring together a diverse population through the creation of a walkable, mixed-use center located adjacent to the regionally known cultural institutions; and encourage new development around the junction of Interstates 70 and 435, a major transportation node in Kansas City, Missouri. This study, focusing on the design of such a project on this specific site, employs an extensive site analysis informing conceptual and specific planning ideas. It draws from a large body of literature and precedents, incorporating well established elements and principles into a new development that is both unprecedented in the Kansas City region and unique among TODs and sports-related districts. The main findings reveal the desirability of a strategy to develop on the existing parking surface of the Truman Sports Complex and reroute the Rock Island Corridor through the middle of the site so that it passes between the two stadiums. The final plan incorporates a mixed-use program, with retail, entertainment, offices, and apartments, into a variety of building types, including garden apartment buildings, low- to mid-rise mixed-use buildings, and high-rise towers, placed throughout the site in a compact, walkable grid pattern of streets. The significance of this project is that it can inform the Mid-America Regional Council, the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority, and other relevant stakeholders about the potential for developing on this site, and it demonstrates that a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly, large-scale transit-oriented development with a wide variety of program is both viable and desirable at the Truman Sports Complex.

This study explores the relationship between planning policy and quality of life and, in doing so, contributes to long running debates occurring within the planning literature, and between planning practitioners and planning theorists, about the nature of this relationship. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between planning policy's approach to combining residential and non-residential uses, an understudied area of policy, and the quality of life of tenants' and residents' association (TARA) members, an understudied population which frequently participates in the planning system. Within the study, quality of life is understood in terms of preference-satisfaction theory which equates the 'good' life with the satisfaction of preferences. Subsequently, where policy's aspirations for the built environment overlap with the environmental preferences of TARA members, it is assumed that policy might, when reflected in the built environment, support members' quality of life. To investigate such instances of overlap, the study first explored policy's approach to combining residential and non-residential uses through a qualitative content analysis of written policy, interviews with local authority planning officers and an analysis of planning applications and their associated decision notices. Then, to investigate the environmental preferences of TARA members, focus groups were held with a diverse sample of TARAs. These focus groups suggested ways of amending policy so that it might better satisfy members' preferences and, perhaps then, better support their quality of life. A conceptual framework was developed to begin to explore the deliverability of these amendments with data for this exercise collected from self-proclaimed representative bodies for the planning profession and housebuilding industry. In pursuing these interests, insights into a number of additional issues emerged, including, the relationship between policy as 'content' and policy as 'process', the interests, activities and spatial distribution of TARAs, the planning system's potential to support the quality of life of TARA members, and planners' and housebuilders' attitudes towards land use mix and the State's planning apparatus. Taken in its totality though, the study‘s major contribution perhaps lies in suggesting answers to the vexed question of what should be civil society's role in the planning system. In terms of land use mix, the study found that planning policy and TARA members shared a largely similar conceptualisation of the 'good' residential environment with both favouring predominantly residential areas, featuring pockets of green space, 'everyday' services, and the exclusion of most traffic generating, obtrusive and noisy uses. They also shared a similar conceptualisation of the 'good' town or city centre with both favouring land use mix, a concentration of activities and the presence of residential occupiers. Consequently, in these instances, policy perhaps seems suited to supporting the quality of life of TARA members. However, in other instances, members' preferences and policy‘s requirements were seen to diverge. Furthermore, the task of revising policy to avoid these points of divergence seems challenging. The study updates and expands knowledge on an understudied area of policy and a relatively understudied population. It presents insights into policy's approach to land use mix, and attitudes towards this approach, at a time when the planning system is experiencing considerable change with regional planning due to be abolished, neighbourhood planning introduced and a new form of national planning policy launched. The study comments on the implications for the research findings of these various developments. It also identifies environmental designs and characteristics that might be of interest to policy-makers if an objective is to address the concerns of a frequently vocal participant in the planning system (i.e. TARAs).

<p>U disertaciji su istražene karakteristike mešovitih namena, kao urbanog fenomena i planerskog koncepta. Formulisan je poseban metodološki postupak, koji uključuje i redefinisanje indeksa mešovite namene, primenjen za istraživanje relacija između programske strukture grada i brojnih drugih parametara, čime je omogućeno formiranje utemeljenih stavova o savremenom gradu kao složenom sistemu. Konkretno područje izučavanja je grad Novi Sad i pet specifičnih susedstava, a na osnovu rezultata rada date su i preporuke za poboljšanje istraživanja i planiranja mešovitih namena.</p> / <p>The dissertation examines characteristics of mixed uses, as an urban phenomenon and a planning concept. А special methodological procedure, including redefinition of mixed-use index, has been formulated for exploring the relations between the program structure of the city and a number of other parameters, which enabled making of well-grounded conclusions about contemporary cities, as complex systems. The particular area of study is the city of Novi Sad and five specific neighbourhoods, and on the basis of results of the work, there were given recommendations for improving of research and planning of mixed uses.</p>

Under 1960 och 1970-talet öppnade flera Domusvaruhus runt om i Sveriges stadskärnor. Med bilen kunde både nära- och långväga besökareresa till varuhuset. I takt med att externa köpcenter och e-handel har tillkommit har antalet besökare till de centrumnära galleriabyggnaderna (tidigare Domusvaruhus) minskat. Numera är det vanligt förekommande att handelsverksamheter tvingas stänga på grund av konkurrensen från externa köpcenter och e-handel. Detta resulterar i tomma lokaler i centrumnära galleriabyggnader som för med sig ett mindre utbud att erbjuda besökare. Färre besökare till de centrumnära galleriabyggnaderna resulterar i färre besökare till platsen runt om galleriabyggnaden men också hela stadskärnan.Syftet med detta examensarbete är att bidra med ökad kunskap om hur befintliga centrumnära gallerior kan omformuleras som idé och i singestaltning. Detta för att möta dagens utmaningar hur galleriabyggnaderna återigen kan bidra till centrumutveckling samt hållbara och attraktiva stadsmiljöer. Målet är att finna en ny utformning och funktion för Odenhuset i Trollhättan. Resultatet ska även kunna tillämpas på andra befintliga gallerior i liknande centrala stadsmiljöer. Studien utfördes genom metoden Research by Design som innehåller detre faserna: förstudie, designprocess och designanalys. Genom Research by Design är det möjligt att skapa ett gestaltningsförslag för den nya utformningen där förslaget bygger på en vetenskaplig förstudie. Den första fasen förstudie, inkluderar platsbesök och litteraturstudier. De gallerior som besöktes i studien är antingen i framkant av att kombinera verksamheter i byggnaden (Mixed Use) eller är i en liknande situation som Odenhuset med allt färre aktiva verksamheter. Slutsatsen av arbetet är att det är grundläggande att acceptera handelns utveckling för att finna en ny funktion för centrumnära galleriabyggnader. Handeln har kontinuerligt förändrats utifrån människans behov. Då externa köpcenter samt e-handel uppfyller människans nya behov bättre än vad centrumnära galleriabyggnader gör har denna konkurrens uppstått. Resultatet av gestaltningsförslaget i detta arbete är därför flexibelt och anpassningsbart för centrumnära galleriabyggnader så att de återigen kan uppfylla människans nya och framtida behov. Gestaltningsförslaget och den nya funktionen av den centrumnära galleriabyggnaden bör lämpligen inkludera olika typer av verksamheter. Fler verksamheter samlade på samma plats skapar ett större utbud och därmed skapas bättre förutsättningar för att locka till sig besökare. Att kombinera verksamheter ger goda förutsättningar till att skapa mångfald och rörelse i och utanför byggnaden. Den nya utformningen inkluderar verksamheter som ger förutsättningar till att få människors vardag att fungera bättre. / During 1960 and 1970, several Domus department stores opened in the city centres of Sweden. By car, both local and long distance visitors could visit the Domus department store. As the external shopping centres and electronic commerce appeared, the number of visitors to the city malls (previously Domus department stores) has decreased. Nowadays, it is common for trade business to be forced to close the business because of the competition from external shopping centres and electronic commerce. This results in the fact that empty rooms nowadays are commonly found in city mall buildings. With the empty spaces, the city mall buildings have a limited range of goods and services. Less visitors to the city mall buildings result in less visitors to the place next to the city mall building, but also less visitors to the entire city centre.The purpose of this master thesis is to contribute with increased knowledge of how the existing city mall buildings can be redesigned as an idea and in its design. This because it is necessary to meet today’s challenges how the city mall buildings can contribute to a better sustainable and an attractive urban environment. The aim of this master thesis is to find a new design and function for Odenhuset in Trollhättan. The result should also be able to apply for similar existing city malls in central urban environments.The study was conducted by using the method called Research by Design. The method contains the three phases: pre-studies, design process and design analysis. Through Research by Design, it is possible to create a design proposal for the new function of the building where the proposal is based on scientific pre-studies. The first phase pre-studies includes site visits and literature studies. The city mall buildings that were visited for thestudy are either in the leading edge of Mixed Use or does the visited city mall building has many empty premises in the building.The conclusion of this master thesis is to find a new function for a centreclose city mall building, it is essential to accept the trade development. How trade has developed and changed is based on what human needs has looked like. Since external shopping malls and electronic commerce meetpeople nowadays needs better than the city malls does, the competition for customers has arisen. The result of the design proposal is therefore flexible and adaptable in order to make the city mall buildings once againbe able to meet new and future human needs. The design proposal and the new function of the city mall building should conveniently include different activities available for everyone. To combine different activities creates a wider range for the place. A wider range makes better conditions for the building to get more visitors and movement around the place.The design proposal gives space in the city mall building for activities thatmakes people’s everyday lives work better.