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Urban Densification: The Incremental Development of Cincinnati and the re-appropriation of its Historic Urban Fabric

Southard, Joseph M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941281

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Considering the current shift to information-based economies and the decay of manufacturing sectors, industrial cities are striving to adapt by restructuring local economies, redesigning their urban centers, and mediating the expansion of the periphery. The goal of this thesis will be to explore an urban regeneration or rejuvenation process that embraces the existing context of an underutilized historic building. This thesis research provides a narrative of Cincinnati's early development, eventual industrialization and its transformation in search of a new identity. It examines the city's incremental development, subsequent social, economic and physical decay and its current urban regeneration that is based on the re-appropriation of its historic landscape. The project site, Glencoe Place Hotel and Apartments, located in Cincinnati's Mt. Auburn neighborhood, manifests a visible link to this urban neighborhoods' past. The building's re-use and re-design will build upon contemporary architectural language, but also allude to the building's previous history, form, and character. The design intervention promotes an urban intensification intended to incorporate activity and circulation as working variables to condense and redirect the pattern of the site's urban life. The programmatic strategy consists of a hybrid building typology that is able to anchor an abandoned housing complex to the adjacent Christ Hospital, an institution looming over the site. This renegotiated interconnectivity is intended to re-appropriate, re-populate and re-activate the abandoned urban site.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
74 p.
Architecture
Urban Regeneration; Architectural History; Urban; Public Housing; ; ;

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  • Southard, J. M. (2013). Urban Densification: The Incremental Development of Cincinnati and the re-appropriation of its Historic Urban Fabric [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941281

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Southard, Joseph. Urban Densification: The Incremental Development of Cincinnati and the re-appropriation of its Historic Urban Fabric. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941281.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Southard, Joseph. "Urban Densification: The Incremental Development of Cincinnati and the re-appropriation of its Historic Urban Fabric." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367941281

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