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Activating Vancover's Laneways : Re: Imagining the Downtown Eastsides Under-Utilised Public Spaces
As a departure point for this thesis project, I retain a duality of presuppositions. The first maintains that the city of Vancouver’s laneways have long existed as under-utilised and under-appreciated, in-between spaces; hidden in plain site (Loukaitou-Sideris 1996), often deteriorating and habitually prevailing in a dilapidated state of disrepair. The second notion asserts that - despite their current materiality - these spaces inherently retain innumerable potentialities for re-imagination and activation. Accordingly, much of the discussion is based on the role of spatial imaginaries and their impact on how we both interact with, and are affected by, the physical environment. Principal to the appropriation of this concept is the idea that there exists a two-way process. Essentially, how we imagine a space, generates the conditions upon which we act towards, and consequently, interact with, said space. Counteractively, it also considers the role of the physical environment as a determinant in the emergence of spatial imaginaries. The primary aims of this analysis are to better comprehend the processes which have created and continue to influence the physical composition(s) of the laneways, as we both see and experience them today. Once mindful of these processes, the projects resolve is to offer a series of recommendations which can conceivably culminate in both the expeditious and long-term activation of these spaces.
Activating Vancover's Laneways : Re: Imagining the Downtown Eastsides Under-Utilised Public Spaces
As a departure point for this thesis project, I retain a duality of presuppositions. The first maintains that the city of Vancouver’s laneways have long existed as under-utilised and under-appreciated, in-between spaces; hidden in plain site (Loukaitou-Sideris 1996), often deteriorating and habitually prevailing in a dilapidated state of disrepair. The second notion asserts that - despite their current materiality - these spaces inherently retain innumerable potentialities for re-imagination and activation. Accordingly, much of the discussion is based on the role of spatial imaginaries and their impact on how we both interact with, and are affected by, the physical environment. Principal to the appropriation of this concept is the idea that there exists a two-way process. Essentially, how we imagine a space, generates the conditions upon which we act towards, and consequently, interact with, said space. Counteractively, it also considers the role of the physical environment as a determinant in the emergence of spatial imaginaries. The primary aims of this analysis are to better comprehend the processes which have created and continue to influence the physical composition(s) of the laneways, as we both see and experience them today. Once mindful of these processes, the projects resolve is to offer a series of recommendations which can conceivably culminate in both the expeditious and long-term activation of these spaces.
Activating Vancover's Laneways : Re: Imagining the Downtown Eastsides Under-Utilised Public Spaces
Cameron, Samuel Owen (author)
2013-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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