There are huge demands of limited lands in Hong Kong. It is an increasing trend for Hong Kong Government to develop open space for the use of recreation activities as they found out that it is very important to the individual as well as the community. Other than recreation use, those open spaces can also served to allow air ventilation, penetration of sunlight and also act as a place for amenity and visual relief in Hong Kong. Although, these functions are very important in the high rise building environment, high density city like Hong Kong, there are many small public open spaces in urban area which are not in a good quality. They cannot function well in responsive to the context of the area, enhancing the quality of the neighborhoods and suited for the public need in the community which they turns out become not as popular as they are expected. The pocket open space in urban area is relatively small, surrounded by commercial buildings or residential buildings. They usually have a simple setting with planters and street furniture. Different activities involvement by different users in these small open spaces create a small community in the urban area and supposingly can enhance the interaction within people in the area. Considering that there are complaints from the Artists that there are not enough outdoor arts space in Hong Kong and public arts is the trend of some of the cities in other countries to enhancing the identity and culture of the urban areas, such as the King Williams ArtWalk in Otario in Canada. However, It is not popular in the urban dense space in Hong Kong. It is good to exploring a possible new way to sustain the unique culture by applying public arts platform in the urban area. The site is located around the Aberdeen Street in Central. It is an old district with new culture style but lack of solid identity and energy throughout the space. Although there are different organic developments, the streetscape is without strong characters. The following pilot project is aim to use art platform as a tools to revealing the missing link in urban context and also adding a possible new function to the open space in urban dense area as a “outdoor showroom” of arts in the city in order to vibrate the city and raise the awareness of public arts to the publics. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

As children’s independent mobility in urban environments continues to decrease, children become further removed from all realms of city life. There is a need for children to practice and demonstrate their autonomy in public, and a properly planned and designed environment can support such skill building in urban settings. This practicum envisions wayfinding as a pivotal intervention in the urban environment to enable children’s independent mobility and environmental familiarity. The research focuses on the planning of a wayfinding strategy for Canadian school-age children (ages 8-10) as a way to encourage independent mobility in an urban context. This research is based on a review of children’s wayfinding psychology and planning strategies, inspiring design precedents, a detailed site audit and hands-on mental mapping exercises with children. The result is a set of research, consultation, planning, policy, and design recommendations to develop a child-friendly wayfinding strategy in the Exchange District neighbourhood of Downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. / October 2015

Winnipeg is a spatially, culturally, psychologically and visually fragmented city, particularly due to the vehicular-oriented growth which has engendered segmented land-use, dismantled walkable networks and provoked disconnection between culture and nature as well as within nature itself. In particular, the displacement of daily life from the complex web of interrelationships in ecosystems, which are essentially the mechanisms supporting our existence, should be the primary concern of urban design. In order to resolve this critical issue, this practicum will isolate and examine a problematic site while deconstructing fragmentation into specific causes, namely pollution, habitat degradation, placelessness and lack of urban ecological education. Concluding that this condition is ultimately created by our own fragmented thinking, the production of pragmatic solutions which continually evoke further fragmentation, I present a series of solutions to these challenges in the form of a landscape architectural design proposal for the City of Winnipeg.

Winnipeg is a spatially, culturally, psychologically and visually fragmented city, particularly due to the vehicular-oriented growth which has engendered segmented land-use, dismantled walkable networks and provoked disconnection between culture and nature as well as within nature itself. In particular, the displacement of daily life from the complex web of interrelationships in ecosystems, which are essentially the mechanisms supporting our existence, should be the primary concern of urban design. In order to resolve this critical issue, this practicum will isolate and examine a problematic site while deconstructing fragmentation into specific causes, namely pollution, habitat degradation, placelessness and lack of urban ecological education. Concluding that this condition is ultimately created by our own fragmented thinking, the production of pragmatic solutions which continually evoke further fragmentation, I present a series of solutions to these challenges in the form of a landscape architectural design proposal for the City of Winnipeg.

Emerging trends in the re-inhabitation of central cities and government funding of numerous financial incentives have succeeded in making brownfield redevelopment a far more lucrative opportunity for developers over the past decade. However, the redevelopment process itself remains virtually unchanged, maintaining a narrow focus on environmental remediation, site engineering, and short-term market demand. Land use, instead of design, drives the entire process. This approach fails to sustain development and recognize larger redevelopment opportunities based on local and regional context. Despite an increasing amount of public money used to fund incentives, development continues to overlook potential positive externalities presumably to avert risk and increase feasibility. The purpose of this thesis is to re-examine brownfield redevelopment from the perspective of urban design in order to define ways in which design might offer solutions to these shortcomings and play a more critical role in future redevelopments. Using case studies of past redevelopments of former auto plant sites, Landscape Urbanism in brownfield redevelopment, and design proposals for auto plant sites from the GM and Ford closings of 2005-2006, the thesis investigates three primary questions. First, what is the conventional brownfield redevelopment process, to what extent has urban design been involved, and what are the major issues and lessons that can be learned? Secondly, what examples of brownfield redevelopment have integrated urban design to addresses these issues and what are the specific principles that inform design? Finally, how can urban design strategies, based on principles of Landscape Urbanism, lead the redevelopment of brownfield sites?

The project-based research questions how professionals working in the built environment can engage a broader range of 'others' (students, client, users) in ways of seeing and acting in a meaningful way. It challenges the role of the expert in architecture and urban design and in particular their use of the masterplan, which is often an oversimplified reductive response, laden with generalisations and the ill-considered overlay of inappropriate models. Design methods are designed to enable us to see afresh and respond accordingly. These are demonstrated in three suites of projects that include urban installations such as Five Walks for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, war memorials, lectures, photographs and teaching practice such as Taipei Operations, a student workshop, architectural exhibition, and book. The design research is situated within an expanded field of cross-disciplinary practice that includes art, landscape architecture, urban design, architecture and geography. Tools are developed to enable us to understand the city at many spatial and temporal scales; observations made at a micro scale reveal systems at a macro scale - a bottom-up approach. The application of the methods explored implies that

Submitted by Patricia Figuti Venturini (pfiguti@anhembi.br) on 2018-10-04T15:01:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mayra Ferreira Martyres Alexander.pdf: 5800165 bytes, checksum: e2b95c0e12973de9cd47a71d20b9ff44 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patricia Figuti Venturini (pfiguti@anhembi.br) on 2018-10-04T19:17:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Mayra Ferreira Martyres Alexander.pdf: 5800165 bytes, checksum: e2b95c0e12973de9cd47a71d20b9ff44 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patricia Figuti Venturini (pfiguti@anhembi.br) on 2018-10-04T19:18:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Mayra Ferreira Martyres Alexander.pdf: 5800165 bytes, checksum: e2b95c0e12973de9cd47a71d20b9ff44 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-04T19:18:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mayra Ferreira Martyres Alexander.pdf: 5800165 bytes, checksum: e2b95c0e12973de9cd47a71d20b9ff44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present research presents as main focus on the possibility of the creation of the Ecomuseum of Belém, considering as reference the new museology that when recognizing the city as an open place for interaction, it allows a dialogue between the urban design of the city and museum. The urban restructuring actions that occurred in the city triggered the need to safeguard the goods through the preservation of cultural heritage, this scenario associated with the dynamics of the city and the appreciation of its architectural, natural and cultural heritage, in addition to local customs and rituals, contributed to the elaboration and implantation of the ecomuseum. This configuration of museum emerged in the face of the restlessness of new habits, the processes of communication and technologies that instigate to add other possibilities of interactions in the quotidian of the city. It is believed that the present characteristics in the city of Belém qualify it to be classified as an ecomuseum, since they are aligned with the debate of the contemporary museum and can transform the look on Belém and its urban landscape, fomenting an open museum for exchanges, either with the visitor/ inhabitant, with the institutions, and/or with the public and urban space. Based on this premise, a development, management and action plan was developed, with the participation of the community and public and private institutions, for the ecomuseum. This proposal seeks to debate the preservation and appropriation of urban space through design, art, architecture and nature. / A presente pesquisa apresenta como foco principal a possibilidade de elaboração do Ecomuseu de Belém, considerando como referência a nova museologia que ao reconhecer a cidade como local aberto à interação, possibilita um diálogo entre o design urbano da cidade e museu. As ações de mudanças na paisagem urbana ocorridas na cidade, desencadearam a necessidade de salvaguardar os bens através da preservação do patrimônio cultural, cenário este que associado a dinâmica da cidade e tendo como referência a valorização de seu patrimônio arquitetônico, natural e cultural, além dos costumes e rituais locais, contribuíram para a elaboração do ecomuseu. Essa configuração de museu surgiu diante da inquietude de novos hábitos, dos processos de comunicação e das tecnologias que instigam a agregar outras possibilidades de interações no cotidiano da cidade. Acredita-se, que as características presentes, na cidade de Belém, a qualificam para classificá-la como ecomuseu, pois elas se encontram alinhadas com o debate do museu contemporâneo e podem transformar o olhar sobre Belém e sua paisagem urbana, fomentando um museu aberto para trocas, seja com o visitante/habitante, com as instituições, e/ou com o espaço público e urbano. A partir dessa premissa, foi elaborado um plano de desenvolvimento, de gestão e de ações, com participação da comunidade e instituições públicas e privadas, para o ecomuseu. Essa proposta busca debater a preservação e apropriação do espaço urbano por meio do design, arte, arquitetura e natureza.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMCSF.pdf: 29988440 bytes, checksum: 147f1a21bcc97c1b57879d0698799102 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-16 / This work analyses the urban project of a housing sets named Parque Vicente Leporace. It is situated in the city of Franca, Sao Paulo State, developed by CECAP, at the end of the 70`s. The project methodology and the context are related to the historic process of arrangement the governmental policies to provide houses for worker in the country. It is distinguished from the others because of its great proportions and for having an urban project that is not traditional and very different, and which can be considered an example of the last phase of urban policy of National Housing Bank BNH-. Its importance lies in the particular characteristics of the project and the way it was implemented step by step. The construction of houses polarised a population of 15 thousand people, which means, they almost built a new town, which has a specific identity inside the city of Franca. It encouraged an urban expansion in that region whose main inhabitants were workers and people from the underclass, giving this place character and importance as a sub urban centre. The urban project was a result of urban majority thoughts during the BNH housing politicies and CECAP structuring at that time. There had already existed a provisional plan about the problems of product a social state housing in the country. The housing policies had decisive moments with crises sights and in the professional course tried to find solutions to urban problems of the housing sets. / O trabalho analisa o projeto urbanístico do Conjunto Habitacional Parque Vicente Leporace, localizado na cidade de Franca-SP, desenvolvido pela Companhia Estadual de Casas Populares CECAP -, no final da década de 70. A metodologia projetual empregada e a contextualização do empreendimento se relacionam com o processo histórico de estruturação de uma política habitacional para o país. Destacou-se devido às suas grandes proporções e apresentou um projeto urbanístico não convencional e diferenciado, podendo ser considerado um exemplar da última fase da política habitacional do BNH. A sua importância reside nas características particulares do projeto e sua implantação em etapas, que demonstraram as transformações por que passou a política habitacional no Estado de São Paulo até o final dos anos 90. O empreendimento polarizou uma população de quase 15 mil habitantes, o que significou a construção de uma nova cidade, que veio a ter uma peculiar identidade junto ao município. Induziu a expansão urbana naquela região, com uma ocupação predominante de baixa renda, chegando a adquirir características e importância de um sub-centro urbano. O projeto urbano foi fruto do pensamento urbanístico dominante durante a vigência da política habitacional do BNH e de estruturação da CECAP. Naquele momento, já existia uma reflexão sobre os problemas da produção da habitação social estatal no país. A política habitacional passava por momentos decisivos com sinais de crise e, no âmbito profissional, buscavam-se soluções aos problemas urbanos dos Conjuntos Habitacionais. Palavras Chave projeto urbano, BNH, habitação social, política habitacional.

Master of Science / Department of Architecture / David Seamon / This thesis draws on observations of user behaviors in Kansas State University’s North Quadrangle to propose a plaza design for a site within the quadrangle adjacent to Cardwell Hall. As a practical method for conducting environment-behavior research, the thesis gathered observations of moving and resting behaviors to understand the North Quadrangle’s current usages. The observations of moving behaviors provided evidence for identifying potential spaces within the North Quadrangle where a plaza might be designed and built. In turn, observations of resting behaviors provided an understanding of sitting and standing behaviors in the North Quadrangle plaza. In terms of research related to plaza behavior and design, the most significant work drawn upon was William Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Whyte, 1980). According to Whyte, a plaza is sociable if large numbers of people are drawn to it informally in the course of their everyday activities and movements. In this regard, the design aim of the proposed plaza is to promote sociability within the North Quadrangle by attracting pedestrians traversing the North Quadrangle’s busiest pathways and thus drawing them into the plaza. More specifically, to promote plaza sociability, the design makes use of the three most important plaza-design factors identified by Whyte: (1) location; (2) street-plaza relationship; and (3) seating. In other words, first, the plaza should be located near large pools of potential users; second, the plaza should be designed as an extension of the most heavily trafficked pathways; and third, the plaza should incorporate sitting opportunities for users via seating that is physically and socially comfortable. The behavioral observations and guidance provided by the literature review have been used to generate twelve design guidelines on which the proposed plaza design is based. The presentation of final plaza design incorporates explanations of these twelve guidelines followed by illustrated design schemes.

A cidade de Ribeirão Preto durante a primeira metade do século XX foi construída em urbanos e discursos políticos, notamos que diferentes representações urbanas se tornaram motivo de polarizações político-partidárias na atividade institucional da Câmara Municipal. Isso nos levou a abordar a complicação desses interesses em dois momentos históricos da formação da cidade de Ribeirão Preto. Durante a Primeira República, frente aos discursos dos Intendentes Municipais e a atuação da Empresa de Água, colocamos em evidência as concepções urbanísticas de Saturnino de Brito no que tange a implantação da rede de abastecimento dágua e a crise desse recurso hídrico em 1912 na cidade. Num período subsequente, a partir dos anos 30, diante de uma ocupação mais abastada ao sul do município, procuramos contrapor as representações dessa ocupação ás diretrizes como o território de fábricas e moradias populares, e o sul, como o espaço de bairros residenciais urbana de Ribeirão Preto não apenas como um cenário material, mas como o resultado de interesses políticos, urbanísticos e financeiros. / During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Ribeirão Preto was built in the midst of the professional performance of characters of different shades. Among technical reports, urban plans and political speeches we perceived that different urban representations were the cause of political polarizations in the institutional activity of the City Council. This led us to approach the aggravation of these interests in two historical moments in the Ribeirão Preto\'s city formation. Initially, during the First Republic, comparing the speeches of Municipal Managers and the Water Companys actions, which concerned the implementation of its supply network and the lack of water resource crisis, we put in evidence the urban conceptions of Saturnino de Brito, who even elaborated a report about the water management in the city. In a subsequent period, from the 30s, regarding the wealthy occupation of the southern highlands of the municipality we contrapose representations of this occupation with elements of the Master Plan elaborated by urban planner José de Oliveira Reis in 1945. At the end of these two periods, we saw the consolidation of two aspect of the citys growth characterized in the north as the territory of factories and affordable housing; and in the south as the space of residential neighbourhoods and elitist commercial services. Thereby, the aim of this research was not only to portrait the material scenario of Ribeirao Preto\'s urban configuration, but also to portrait it as the result of political, urban and financial interests.