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Re-appropriating Decline: Urban Renewal of a Shrinking City

Stuart, Megan A.

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2010, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
This thesis proposes to investigate an intervention specific to Akron, Ohio, using the five concepts of action outlined by Shrinking Cities as a means to critique the current goals of Akron that resulted from the Imagine.Akron: 2025 initiative. The five concepts of action include “negotiating inequality, self-governance, creating images, organizing retreat, and occupying space.” The intervention will test the Shrinking Cities model specifically for a Midwest City such as Akron, Ohio. A study of the Shrinking Cities model is worthy from a contemporary urban development perspective because the Shrinking Cities principles, at first glance, appear to be a complete reversal of the modernist principles specifically outlined by the Congrés Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM). According to CIAM, urbanism consists of habitation, leisure, and work. Therefore this thesis is equally a comparative study of Shrinking Cities and CIAM concepts of urbanism as they can be applied to the City of Akron, Ohio. To undertake this study of Akron, the analysis will critique the master plans and goals of the city dating from the cities conception to the present. It is hoped that an analysis of the concepts contained in these diverse documents can be applied to the development and understanding of contemporary urbanism.
Nnamdi Elleh, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Riorden, MARCH (Committee Chair)
48 p.

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  • Stuart, M. A. (2010). Re-appropriating Decline: Urban Renewal of a Shrinking City [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277136060

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stuart, Megan. Re-appropriating Decline: Urban Renewal of a Shrinking City. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277136060.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stuart, Megan. "Re-appropriating Decline: Urban Renewal of a Shrinking City." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277136060

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)