thesis booklet draft

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ABSTRACT

DEGREE PROJECT BOOKLET

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

Several pandemics have wreaked havoc on the world during the past year. Those

of us in North America observed the convergence of three systemic challenges that were concerned with people’s health, green places, and racial justice. The COVID-19 epidemic brought to light the underlying socioeconomic and health imbalances that had existed for a long time. In addition, as a result of lockdowns, residents in urban areas have become increasingly interested in public open spaces. As Weismayer said in the Relationship Between Natural Urban Surroundings and Resident’s Wellbeing, “Discrimination due to the price for a square meter of land is often driven by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities whereby socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods have worse access to green public space. Similarly, leisure life is driven by societal inequalities and ethnicity. Inequalities are undesired developments with respect to green space access and resulting health benefits, yet have become apparent in manifold ways over the centuries”(Weismayer). Also, another problem that mentioned in this essay pointed out that the lower distance from the urban core, the smaller the mean sizes of forest patches, which all demonstrate that residents do not have the equity of enjoying the green space in urban scale. Urban renovation is important to a city’s seamless growth. The redevelopment should address the social, economic, and environmental impacts. Urban deterioration steadily defunctionalizes ground community space, the programs between buildings. To move land from one program to another requires metabolism. With the ability to specify space needs and steer future development, new landforms can be grown. To revitalize the social worth of the site, the building and its land need a new planned structure. We need landformation to fill up the gaps left by neglected urban initiatives and demands. The new landform system can change the current urban texture and provide the city the property of depth to expand further. Industry City is a historic multimodal shipping, warehouse, and industrial facility located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The privately owned Industry City complex is on 35 acres of waterfront land in Brooklyn. Eight ancient factory buildings numbered 8 to 1 between Second Avenue, 33rd Street, Third Avenue, and 37th Street. 19 and 20 are on First Avenue, Second Avenue, 39th Street, and 41st Street. A 50-year divestment and deterioration era followed the demise of urban industry in the 1960s. Our site includes the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, Industry City, part of Gowanus Expy, and residential areas next to the highway. Thus, the site has been separated into four scales ranging from XL to S. The site’s state nicely matched our thesis topic of Urban Redevelopment and Landformation. To expand Landformation design, the four gradient scales of site must be revitalized by new additions to existing structures.

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