The thesis aims to expand the contribution of architecture in developing innovation environments; it explores the issues confronting the subject through the lens of architectural urbanism, and proposes to instigate architecture as a strategic tool for the effective materialisation of the city of innovation. Although the thesis topic is mainly concerned with the scale of the urban quarter, It is nonetheless recognizes the convergence of key ideas and their interdependency across the three scales of innovation environments, namely the regional scale, the scale of the urban quarter, and the scale of the individual building. The thesis alms to open up the current debate on what diagrams and types mean to architecture as theory and as practice, so as to exploit the Inventiveness of architecture for the planning of a new generation of large-scale innovation environments.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:700284 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Aw, Chye Eng Arthur |
| Publisher | Open University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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