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Integration of the Intermediary: Reappraisal of Brooklyn Bridge Park

Pang, Justin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120364164897

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2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Architecture traditionally adheres to the infrastructural networks that facilitate its continued value, tending to maintain a dichotomous standard in which core and periphery are dictated by the density of the adjacent infrastructure. This thesis acts as a critique of New York’s past and current attempts to foster reciprocating relationships between major highways and the districts they intersect, specifically in consideration of its crucial junctures at conditions that can be considered the intermediary. These intermediate areas in New York, particularly waterfronts, exist closest in proximity to the city’s most vibrant realms, yet are paradoxically the most distanced due to the highways that sever them, resulting in a forfeiture of seamless connectivity. As issues involving environmental change and developmental expansion reveal themselves, aging infrastructure in these waterfront margins continues to experience growing challenges to the city’s resilience and progression. Furthermore, a fragmented approach to architectural development without consideration of future dilemmas perpetuates a static outlook on how cities should utilize these peripheral areas. Through the analysis of urban phenomena such as Jane Jacobs’s “border vacuum” and Rem Koolhaas’s “Generic City” the research in this thesis will contextualize the ambiguous approach through which New York has been stitched together and hence its continued subsistence. In addition, a new pragmatic response will demonstrate how these ambiguous conditions can be exploited architecturally to facilitate connectivity and increasingly interdependent networks involving infrastructure and the public realm.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
87 p.
Architecture
architecture; infrastructure; urban design; resilience; New York; highways

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  • Pang, J. (2019). Integration of the Intermediary: Reappraisal of Brooklyn Bridge Park [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120364164897

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pang, Justin. Integration of the Intermediary: Reappraisal of Brooklyn Bridge Park. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120364164897.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pang, Justin. "Integration of the Intermediary: Reappraisal of Brooklyn Bridge Park." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120364164897

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