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Designing for an Unoppressive Prison Architecture

Maraganore, Adam M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491226209146642

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2017, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis examines architecture’s role in the unsuccessful prison institutions in the United States through its use of oppressive architectural elements. Architecture is proven to play a role in making peoples’ lives better or worse, and the following examination pulls apart elements for a better design practice. By examining architecturally oppressive elements, spatial layouts and site specific information, new, more effective facilities can be built. Works of Michel Foucault, Michelle Alexander, Leslie Fairweather are instrumental in providing insight along with the works of practicing architects—Kyle May and Roger Paez or views from prisoners and witnesses of oppression itself from Reverend Kaia Stern. An examination of oppressive architectural elements in prisons, past and present, enlightens at what needs to change and why, creating a new facility in the neighborhood of Northside, in Cincinnati, Ohio which utilizes alternative solutions to the typical oppressive elements of American prisons.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Edson Roy Cabalfin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
136 p.
Architecture
Architecture; Prison; Facility; Oppression; Prison design; Community Integration Center

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  • Maraganore, A. M. (2017). Designing for an Unoppressive Prison Architecture [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491226209146642

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Maraganore, Adam. Designing for an Unoppressive Prison Architecture. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491226209146642.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Maraganore, Adam. "Designing for an Unoppressive Prison Architecture." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491226209146642

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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