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Architecture to Support a Transient America

DePolo, Kelsey
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1430-4297
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623166138974014

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The United States’ labor market is shifting towards temporary gig work, advancing communications technologies are eliminating the need for people to meet in shared physical spaces, and global warming threatens the longevity and livability of cities and towns around the world. In the future, it will be increasingly unnecessary and even ill-advised for humans to attempt to settle permanently in one location, yet the transient populations that currently exist in America are already insufficiently supported by the infrastructural systems in place. This paper examines the successes and failures of these systems as a means of evaluating the validity of any proposed or existing architecture meant to support a mobile society. The nature of this society is considered as well: how do the inherent needs of a nomadic, propertyless culture differ from those of a sedentary, land-owning culture, and how can the two co-exist within a landscape that has been striated by centuries of development? With these concepts in mind, past flawed predictions of future societies of highly-mobile peoples and the architectures proposed to accommodate them are also studied to determine why they failed to become reality. Through these studies, this paper also attempts to answer whether a highly-formalized architectural construct is even the correct tool to support a transient society with diverse needs and reasons for adopting a nomadic lifestyle.
Edward Mitchell, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
83 p.
Architecture
Nomadic; Capsule; Mobile; Architecture; Transience; Plug-In

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  • DePolo, K. (2021). Architecture to Support a Transient America [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623166138974014

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DePolo, Kelsey. Architecture to Support a Transient America. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623166138974014.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DePolo, Kelsey. "Architecture to Support a Transient America." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623166138974014

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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