This thesis explores the design issues of place making within the context of a
growing city that has a confined/restricted urban boundary. The challenge is to
re-utilize urban space (such as existing roads, lot lines and open areas) to design
significant spaces for the community at large. These spaces need to meld
together existing layout with new and often more densified programs. This multilayering
is a cost effective way for the city to grow and provides a richer, more
sustainable environment for its inhabitants.
New programs, at the same time, need to recognize the old, historical, and
sometime sentimental significance of a place that reverberates within the existing
population. The goal is to revitalize the fabric of city-to create vibrant, livable
spaces that recognize and enhance the social, historic, sustainable, and
economic welfare of a growing city and its inhabitants.
Grand Boulevard and Boulevard Park, North Vancouver, British Columbia is one
such challenge. Site inventory and analysis provide a platform for evaluating
interventions into the cityscape that can maintain the unique and historical
infrastructure of Grand Boulevard. A theoretical review of place making, through
the ideas of memory and space, defines a design methodology based upon
flexible reiterative social spaces for public interaction.
The analysis and methodology come together in the design proposal for Grand
Boulevard and the adjacent Boulevard Park. The proposal maintains the
physical structure of the boulevard and park, while increasing program uses
through the incorporation of a community complex and two major promenades.
One promenade corresponds to the historic greenway of the Green Necklace
which, at this time, the City of North Vancouver is reworking into its city fabric.
The other promenade links the civic node of City Hall and Library to the
community node of the Grand Boulevard neighbourhood. This design thesis
brings together the physical and program structure of Grand Boulevard into a
cohesive whole that provides rich spaces that not only can be utilized by the
nearby neighbourhood inhabitants but also by the growing population of the City
of North Vancouver. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15777 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Suen, Jennie |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 23400782 bytes, application/pdf |
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