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Wild Urban Woodlands: Addressing the Emergent Typology of Post-Industrial Forest Succession

Alt, Reuben
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024538

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The decline of the Industrial City resulted in the emergence of spontaneous nature on sites where frequent use can no longer be maintained. The emergent typology, the Wild Urban Woodland, infiltrates the fractured peripheries of once dense cities. The process, known as natural, ecological, or forest succession, emerges as a product of regional cultural and environmental specificities. The vegetation associated with the process is a clear indicator and constant reminder of the social, economic and cultural transformations that resulted in its occurrence. The Wild Urban Woodland is an embodiment of the place-based characteristics in which it emerges, thus in this new wilderness is the potential to create a culturally significant and self-reflective landscape while embracing the biological and educational benefits of its urban proximity. This thesis investigates the emergence of Wild Urban Woodlands on the once actively occupied, ascended, and descended Cincinnati Hillsides, where a once culturally significant landscape has been detrimentally altered by the transformations in the urban structure. Yet, in this emergent typology is the potential for education, recreation, and the development of an environmental ethic necessary for the growth of future biophilic cities. This thesis proposes a type of urban architecture integrated with the successional landscape; light rather than heavy, permeable to vegetation and nature, and responsive to the environmental specificities of the site, as much as to the adjacent urban and cultural context.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
160 p.
Architecture
Architecture; Succession; Cincinnati;

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  • Alt, R. (2013). Wild Urban Woodlands: Addressing the Emergent Typology of Post-Industrial Forest Succession [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024538

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Alt, Reuben. Wild Urban Woodlands: Addressing the Emergent Typology of Post-Industrial Forest Succession. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024538.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Alt, Reuben. "Wild Urban Woodlands: Addressing the Emergent Typology of Post-Industrial Forest Succession." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024538

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