Date of Award
2023
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33167
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
URI
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Abstract
Cities across the nation continue to develop and grow, but in many, rundown industrially zoned lots tend to be left alone and become an eyesore. These sites need to be better utilized by the community living around them. There needs to be a way to develop and design a living community system integrated into the surrounding city and local community with the bonus of being semi-self-sufficient. Combining these new buildings into the existing context of the urban fabric is essential to any growing city. Urban redevelopment of a large site within an already growing city can help to influence further community growth if done with specific methods. This thesis seeks to find an architectural solution to how an urban redevelopment project can renew an area of a downtown district by creating an integrative living system into an existing built community. This urban renewal project consists of utilizing and reusing vacant industrial land. This architectural framework hopes to reconnect new integrative communities into their existing urban fabric while starting and integrating into their own.
Recommended Citation
Verschelde, Cody D., "Community Focused Urban Renewal" (2023). Architecture Theses. 220.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/220