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RE-WEAVING THE URBAN FABRIC: A new midtown residential neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia

机译:重新编织城市面料:弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯的新中城住宅区

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American cities have been struggling with suburban sprawl and urban flight for the last fifty years. With rising costs, lengthening commutes, limited resources and shrinking open land, many residents are reconsidering life outside the city. If communities are to reevaluate their settlement patterns and look to new life in the urban center, to what extent can urban design and architecture re-weave and revive a once thriving district on the verge of collapse?Downtown Newport News is strategically located on the Hampton Roads peninsula, between the James River and the C&O railroad, and therefore faces growth limitations. The city has witnessed an urban flight, leaving Newport News abandoned and deteriorating. Instead of an urban metropolis, midtown is now largely used for surface parking for Newport News Shipbuilding, the major industrial employer. By critiquing the city's existing master plan, this thesis will propose to reconnect midtown with the Parkside community to provide public amenity, increased access, and future growth potential, serving as a prototype for development within Newport News and beyond.Early in its history, the shipyard took on the paternalistic responsibility of housing its employees, while today few housing options remain due to disrepair or abandonment. Consequently the workforce commutes daily, utilizing Newport News solely as a large parking lot, nearly 100 acres. This thesis aims to reintroduce a variety of housing types and appropriate community facilities to meet the needs of the shipyard's employees and others in the community, while investigating ways to weave traditional suburban ideals with the needs of a compact city. The premise here is that instead of providing only parking for the shipyard, the city should provide housing options, close to work and other amenities that can result from a dynamic urban waterfront community.
机译:在过去的五十年中,美国城市一直在郊区扩张和城市飞行中挣扎。随着成本上涨,通勤时间延长,资源有限以及开放土地的减少,许多居民正在重新考虑城市以外的生活。如果社区要重新评估他们的居住方式并寻求市中心的新生活,那么城市设计和建筑可以在多大程度上重新编织并复兴濒临崩溃的曾经繁荣的地区?位于詹姆斯河和C&O铁路之间的道路半岛,因此面临增长限制。这座城市见证了城市的飞行,使纽波特纽斯(Newport News)被抛弃并恶化。如今,市中心不再是城市大都市,而是主要用于主要工业雇主纽波特纽斯造船厂的地面停车。通过对纽约市现有的总体规划进行评估,本论文将建议重新将市中心区与Parkside社区连接起来,以提供公众便利,增加的交通出入和未来的增长潜力,作为纽波特纽斯及以后地区发展的原型。船厂承担着安置其员工的家长式责任,而如今由于失修或遗弃,几乎没有房屋可供选择。因此,劳动力每天上下班,仅将Newport News用作一个大型停车场,将近100英亩。本文旨在重新介绍各种住房类型和适当的社区设施,以满足造船厂员工和社区其他成员的需求,同时研究将传统的郊区理想与紧凑型城市的需求交织在一起的方法。这里的前提是,城市不仅要为造船厂提供停车位,还应提供住房选择,工作场所和其他设施,这些可能来自充满活力的城市滨水社区。

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    Cronin Abigail Buckley;

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