Community Focused Urban Renewal
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Abstract
Cities across the nation continue to develop and grow,
but in many, rundown industrially zoned lots tend to be
left alone and become an eyesore. These sites need to be
better utilized by the community living around them. There
needs to be a way to develop and design a living community
system integrated into the surrounding city and local
community with the bonus of being semi-self-sufficient.
Combining these new buildings into the existing context
of the urban fabric is essential to any growing city. Urban
redevelopment of a large site within an already growing
city can help to influence further community growth if
done with specific methods.
This thesis seeks to find an architectural solution to
how an urban redevelopment project can renew an area
of a downtown district by creating an integrative living system
into an existing built community. This urban renewal
project consists of utilizing and reusing vacant industrial
land. This architectural framework hopes to reconnect
new integrative communities into their existing urban fabric
while starting and integrating into their own.