dc.contributor.advisor |
Allen, N |
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dc.contributor.author |
Linford, Harry |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2020-05-26T02:52:33Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50918 |
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dc.description |
Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Today, people are increasingly feeling disconnected from their neighbours and neighbourhoods. In large scale neighbourhood development projects how do we ensure that a sense of place and identity, moments of human connection and a strong sense of community are not forgotten? I began my thesis with a literature review, to contextualise the research within the discourse about neighbourhoods and the potential of public spaces to contribute to the concept of neighbouring (how people connect with one another in place). Aspects of diversity, identity and social interaction, within a neighbourhood context, were analysed as key principles of this. Literature from the fields of placemaking, community planning, wayfinding and micro urbanism further framed the scope of the research and led to the development of the key research question: “How can we design an Integrated Neighbourhood through the Process of Intentional Neighbouring that is orientated towards Public Space?” A methodology to guide the research inquiry and further explore the key concepts of Integrated Neighbourhoods and Intentional Neighbouring was then developed. The first phase was to learn from the literature and develop a neighbourhood framework, which could underpin the design process and act as a check and balance to review design decisions against. This was important for me to understand how to critique my work. Next, a development site was chosen and analysed as a case study where ideas about how to rethink neighbourhood design processes could be tested across scales, from Macro masterplan through to Micro human-scaled design interventions. The Macro scale thinking presented in this thesis is focused on implementing a public space hierarchy. This will be across a case study neighbourhood as a catalyst for understanding the potential of the site in new ways. Following this, key nodes within the neighbourhood could be chosen to test the design thinking at the Meso or intermediary scale. This would be to explore varied design outcomes and experiment with different types of public space design and architectural intervention. Finally, at the Micro scale, specific moments within each location could be designed and interrogated. Working across scales in this iterative way enabled me to examine the finer aspects of creating neighbourliness within neighbourhoods and explore a network of Micro implementations across the site. As part of the design process, two focus group workshops were undertaken to understand the value of public spaces to people and what to include in them, to help determine the design outcomes being sought in the thesis. The conclusion of the thesis will be to assess the key learnings from the design process and the potential of my designs to make a viable contribution to the success of a neighbourhood development project. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA |
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dc.rights |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
The Design of an Integrated Neighbourhood. Port Nikau, Whangarei |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Architecture |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.elements-id |
802676 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2020-05-26 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112949267 |
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