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Building Resilience: A Complex Systems Approach to Sustainable Design

Major, Sarah J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337363724

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
As cities around the world continue to grow in population, they also evolve complexities that challenge human understanding. This is the human gap, which tends to exacerbate fundamental problems such as the urban divide. Complex Adaptive Systems theory is an interdisciplinary framework and one tool that can be used in the conceptualization of not only our existing urban paradigm, but also in a resilient, sustainable future. In this framework resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to absorb shock and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure and feedbacks - and therefore the same identity. This thesis explores the implications and possibilities of a theoretical translation of Complex Adaptive Systems theory to a sustainable design methodology for building resilience. This methodology will be applied to the design of the New England Center for Arts and Technology, a replication site inspired by the Manchester Bidwell Corporation in Pittsburgh, dedicated to transforming lives and communities through adult job training and youth arts education. The role of architecture in this will be primarily to support the resilient capacity of human beings and the evolving social-ecological system as a whole.
Michael McInturf, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, PhD (Committee Member)
176 p.
Architecture
Resilience; Social-Ecological Systems; Innovation; Sustainabilty; Adaptive Capacity; Design;

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  • Major, S. J. (2012). Building Resilience: A Complex Systems Approach to Sustainable Design [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337363724

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Major, Sarah. Building Resilience: A Complex Systems Approach to Sustainable Design. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337363724.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Major, Sarah. "Building Resilience: A Complex Systems Approach to Sustainable Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337363724

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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