Files
Date of Award
2021
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31949
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
URI
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Abstract
The modern city is failing at embracing the value of difference and common ground is fading. The implicit effects of urban policy are dividing cities and putting their most marginalized communities in an even more vulnerable position. The narrow perspective through which city administration functions has made city policy willfully ignorant to all its implications and oversights. Consequently, these implications lie written between the lines in invisible ink and the fates of whole communities are laid out within them. Diversity is made into segregation and commonality swapped for polarization. And through this the invisible barriers to community relationship, class mobility, property ownership grow bigger. But the city should be a place of confronting and celebrating differences combined with finding common ground through facilitating connections. Cities need urban policy reform that facilitates community investment through empowering ownership for those who have historically been prevented from accessing it. And the urban architecture within needs to encourage community interaction and reflect the needs of all community members while adapting to an evolving model of the city.
Recommended Citation
Djerf, Benjamin, "Building Blocks: Re-framing Urban Inestment and Community Health Through Equitable Empowerment" (2021). Architecture Theses. 609.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/609