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Rethinking Rinkeby transforms formalised and separated streets into productive natural spaces. Through engagement and observation on site, this strategy for public space proposes an urban architecture informed by bottoms-up initiatives. Rinkeby, a suburb located in Järva in the North-West of Stockholm, has typically been informed by top-down developments. Through alternative design processes, this degree project aims to improve the expression of identity in the public realm in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood.

This thesis is an exploration of a new housing type: a middle ground between a single-family detached house of the suburbs and a high-density apartment building of the city. A block in the Shockoe Bottom district of Richmond, Virginia is the site for this medium-density living environment. The building is a multi-use complex consisting of forty-six homes, a large central courtyard, and thirteen commercial spaces on its ground floor. The building's massing evolved from a series of studies that took into account interior volumes of space, generous balcony square footage, as well as light and ventilation considerations. These massing studies, along with a strict organization of parts and uses, resulted in a multifaceted orthogonal form. / Master of Architecture

This study presents an overview of Edgewood Land and Improvement Company's early suburban development in Knoxville, Tennessee. It discusses the history of the Washington Avenue Addition and Lincoln Park, developed by Edgewood between 1888 and 1910. The evidence suggests that Edgewood evolved its marketing strategies for both suburbs: Washington Avenue Addition was first planned as an exclusive enclave for the upper-middle class, while Lincoln Park was initially designed for the middle class. Due to national and local economic problems, which caused poor land sales, Edgewood shifted strategies in both suburbs. Ultimately, the Washington Avenue Addition became a multi-class suburb. Lincoln Park was developed as a working-class suburb. / Department of Architecture

L'objet de la thèse est d'étudier les processus de densification des tissus à dominante pavillonnaire des espaces suburbains et périurbains encore peu étudiés sous l'angle de leurs transformations morphologiques. Nous adoptons pour cela une approche qui relève d'une économie politique de la production urbaine, qui s'attache à étudier de manière conjointe les aspects politiques, économiques, sociaux mais aussi réglementaires et techniques qui peuvent expliquer la matérialité des transformations urbaines observées. A ce titre, nous articulons deux courants de travaux : des travaux d'économie politique territoriale et des travaux d'économie de l'aménagement. Plus précisément, la notion de post-suburbanisation, entendue comme un processus généralisé de développement intensif affectant de manière différenciée les espaces de banlieue et conduisant à une autonomisation progressive de ces banlieues par rapport à la ville centre de l'agglomération, est au centre de notre approche. La post-suburbanisation se distingue de la suburbanisation qui reposait plutôt sur un développement urbain extensif. Elle pose donc la question de la densification des espaces pavillonnaires peu denses hérités de l'ère suburbaine. Mais dans ce processus, toutes les communes ne cherchent pas à se densifier, certaines empêchent délibérément la densification, d'autres cherchent au contraire à la favoriser. Ceci nous amène alors à formuler l'hypothèse centrale de notre travail, à savoir qu'il existe un lien entre la stratégie post-suburbaine d'une commune et la forme de densification privilégiée. Nous avons étudié des processus de densification de tissus à dominante pavillonnaire, dans des contextes entre autres caractérisés par l'existence de politiques locales explicites de densification, dans deux municipalités de la région urbaine de Toronto au Canada(Guelph et Markham) et dans deux municipalités de la région parisienne en France(Magny-les-Hameaux et Noisy-le-Grand). La mise en regard des quatre études de cas fait apparaître deux grands types de processus de densification : les processus de densification douce (Guelph et Magny-les-Hameaux) qui se caractérisent par une densification sans changement de forme urbaine et les processus de densification forte (Markham et Noisy-le-Grand) qui se caractérisent par une modification importante de la forme urbaine pouvant conduire au remplacement de tout ou partie du tissu pavillonnaire préexistant par des immeubles. C'est notre premier résultat. L'analyse fine des processus en contexte et des différentes politiques visant spécifiquement la densification, fait apparaître un second résultat : dans les quatre municipalités, les politiques de densification affichées sont explicitement articulées à une recherche de centralité relative. La forme de la densification observée au sein des tissus à dominante pavillonnaire apparaît alors à la fois comme un moyen et comme un résultat du degré de centralité visé d'une municipalité donnée dans la hiérarchie post-suburbaine. Plus précisément, dans les cas étudiés, des politiques incitatives de densification douce sont mises en œuvre dans les municipalités qui adoptent une stratégie de centralité de portée plutôt locale, ce qui se traduit par une politique de croissance modérée, principalement résidentielle. Tandis que les politiques (incitative ou interventionniste) de densification forte sont l'apanage des municipalités adoptant une stratégie de centralité sub-régionale, ce qui se traduit par des politiques de type entrepreneurial visant à attirer des ménages et des emplois sur leur territoire. Cette recherche montre également que si les processus de densification résultent majoritairement de mécanismes de marché qui s'expriment de façon différente en fonction du contexte urbain et culturel national, les politiques mises en place jouent un rôle important dans la création de ces marchés fonciers et immobiliers (...) / The purpose of this thesis is to analyze densification processes at work in low rise residential spaces of suburban and periurban areas that have rarely been studied in terms of their morphological changes. I adopt an urban political economy approach which is sensitive to the political, economic, social, regulatory and technical aspects of the materiality of the urban transformations observed.The thesis articulates two strands of existing work on territorial political economy and land use planning. The concept of post-suburbanisation, understood as a generalized process of intensive development affecting suburban areas in a differentiated manner and leading to a gradual autonomy of these suburbs in relation to the center of the agglomeration, is at the heart of the approach. As such, it raises the question of the densification of the sparse low rise areas inherited from the suburban era. But in this process, some municipalities are not looking to densify and deliberately obstruct densification, while others are, on the contrary, promoting it. This leads us to come up with our main hypothesis, namely that there is a link between the post-suburban strategy adopted and the privileged way to regulate densification. I study the densification processes in low rise areas in different contexts characterized by the existence of an explicit local policy of densification in two municipalities of the Toronto Region in Canada (Guelph and Markham) and in two municipalities of the Paris-City Region in France (Magny-les-Hameaux and Noisy-le-Grand). The analysis of the four case studies reveals two main types of densification processes: soft densification processes (Guelph and Magny-les-Hameaux) characterized by a densification that does not change the urban form, and hard densification processes (Markham and Noisy-le-Grand), which are characterized by a significant change in the urban form that can lead to the replacement of all or a part of the existing low rise areas by multistory buildings. The in-depth analysis of the densification processes and of the different measures that regulate them shows that, in the four municipalities, the densification policies are explicitly articulated with a search for a relative centrality in the urban region. The nature of the densification observed in the low rise areas appears both as a means and as an outcome of the degree of centrality aimed for by a given municipality within the post-suburban hierarchy. The cases illustrate that incentive-based policies of soft densification are implemented in municipalities that adopt a strategy aiming for local centrality, which leads to a moderate, mainly residential, growth policy. Hard densification policies (that can be incentive-based or interventionist) are the prerogative of municipalities adopting a strategy of sub-regional centrality, which is reflected in entrepreneurial policies aiming at attracting households and jobs to their territory. The research also shows that if the densification processes mainly result from market mechanisms that are expressed differently depending on the national urban and cultural contexts, the implemented public policies play an important role in the creation of these local land and property markets. Finally, we identified four types of local densification policies in the low rise areas. These different types of policies determine in a differentiated manner the nature (the urban forms produced) and the configuration (actors involved, actors affected, distribution of capital gains) of the densification processes

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Master of Fine Arts thesis by Mackenzie Browning