dc.contributor.author | Hitzler, Nina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-08T17:53:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-08T17:53:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-08T17:53:06Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/71406 | |
dc.description.abstract | Privatization, urbanization, and advancements in communication
technology and social media have contributed to social isolation
and the degradation of public space by removing the real-life
interactions and chance encounters, essential for producing
valuable offline social networks, from urban life. This trend is
exemplified by partnerships between private developers and the
city resulting in condo lobbies masquerading a public space. Post
offices are explored as an opportunity to capitalize on a declining
public building typology, with a history of communal use, in order
to retain them as public assets amid rampant development. The
appearance and strategic location of post offices evoke in our
collective memory a valuable notion of civic and public. Postal
Station K at Yonge & Eglinton in Toronto serves as a prototypical
site. Vertical connections are explored as a means to encourage
social interactions between multiple publics accessing the
building, by providing visual connections as well as conditions
that allow people to transcend typical social segregations that
may stunt life in public spaces. This thesis aims to negotiate
a symbiosis between latent public buildings and the forces of
urbanization through the conception of a new type of vertical
public space that catalyzes social interaction. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | public space | en_US |
dc.subject | post office | en_US |
dc.subject | civic | en_US |
dc.title | PEOPLE MEET IN PUBLIC: SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN THE VERTICAL CITY | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2016-03-21 | |
dc.contributor.department | Faculty of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Brian Carter | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Sarah Bonnemaison | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Catherine Venart | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Diogo Burnay | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |