Interstitial Urbanity:Fragments of Place Within the Post-Modern City

Architecture;Architecture;Urbanism;Urbanity;New York City;Queens;Long Island City;Hunters Point;Interstitial Urbanity;Place;Real Estate Development

Tsui, Matthew

University of Waterloo

关键词: Architecture;    Architecture;    Urbanism;    Urbanity;    New York City;    Queens;    Long Island City;    Hunters Point;    Interstitial Urbanity;    Place;    Real Estate Development;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

This thesis introduces Interstitial Urbanity as a strategy for addressing issues of urbanity and place within New York;;s peripheral developments. Driven primarily by market forces, these developer led office and condominium complexes are currently being constructed along the post-industrial shorelinesof New York;;s outer boroughs. Interstitial urbanity proposes an urban centre: a fragment of place within a non-place settlement. The theory is manifested in the design of an interstice that sits within the Queens West development on the Long Island City waterfront. Taking the form of a multi-layered public space, the interstice is comprised of a waterfrontmarket square flanked by a commuter train terminal and an arts centre housed in a turn of the century power plant.