RE-URBIA: Packing and Cracking the Suburban Condition

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RE-URBIA: Packing and Cracking the Suburban Condition

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2021

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title: RE-URBIA: Packing and Cracking the Suburban Condition

creator: Daniel Deodato

subject: Suburbs, Massachusetts, Boston; Architecture, Domestic, Designs and plans; City planning, Social aspects; Housing

description: Over the past decades, city planners and policymakers have enacted suburban zoning regulations aimed at restricting affordability as a means to protect predominantly white middle-class neighborhoods from other races and the lower-class. This hasresulted in a built suburban environment that is exclusionary and environmentally untenable by design, promoting a housing model characterized by sprawled land use, conformity, and individualism that has been carried to the present day. New design practices will radically rethink the low-density and deprived suburban conditionto open up new architectural opportunities towards more socially equitable and environmentally conscious communities. This thesis builds upon a suburban site that is generic by design. It was modeled in accordance to the typical conditions and constraints found in suburban zoning regulations throughout the country. A series of modular residential and commercial units are then sewn into this prototypical fabric, creating more adequate levels ofdensity which give opportunity to more contemporary ideas of social and financial equity. This increase in neighborhood sociability will in-turn promote the sharing of energy and resources in a reinvented model of environmental stewardship, where entire communities can operate self-suffciently.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2021

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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