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Rhineland's is a Fine-Land Once More: Mobility minded redevelopment of Cincinnati's historic OTR district

Neely, Timothy C

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The personal mobility of the automobile undermines the gathering of people in cities as centers of collective amenity. The isolation of auto traffic is reflected in buildings surrounded by parking with no detail at the human scale. Asphalt infrastructure characterizes the public space of the street with such a universal sameness that large parts of the city seem generic and placeless. The potential introduction of a streetcar for the city of Cincinnati presents the occasion to design policy and built work that promote public life and the activation of public space. The neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine provides a unique setting to address the return of urban space to more pedestrian friendly scale as these buildings weren't designed for the speed and isolation of the car. The location of the streetcar line and its stops allow opportunities to address both event space and the everyday space of the street. The public space of the street, its activation, and its "imageability" are the focus of this thesis.
Nnamdi Elleh, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
67 p.

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  • Neely, T. C. (2013). Rhineland's is a Fine-Land Once More: Mobility minded redevelopment of Cincinnati's historic OTR district [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384870078

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Neely, Timothy. Rhineland's is a Fine-Land Once More: Mobility minded redevelopment of Cincinnati's historic OTR district. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384870078.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Neely, Timothy. "Rhineland's is a Fine-Land Once More: Mobility minded redevelopment of Cincinnati's historic OTR district." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384870078

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)