DeTROYt
dc.contributor.author | Sonntag, Ramona | en |
dc.contributor.committeechair | Holt, Jaan | en |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Emmons, Paul F. | en |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Architecture | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T20:37:51Z | en |
dc.date.adate | 2007-09-06 | en |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T20:37:51Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2007-02-06 | en |
dc.date.rdate | 2007-09-06 | en |
dc.date.sdate | 2007-05-21 | en |
dc.description.abstract | An attempt to save the city of Detroit, Michigan, and its existing buildings by giving it a new meaning and future. Cars and roads are eliminated. Tiger Stadium is converted into a city-wide freight receiving and shipping facility. A system of pneumatic tubes is implemented in each neighborhood, with a district tube router facility inside the LaFayette Tower. Apartments vitalize the landmark Fisher Building. A new multi-storey research/ education/ work station with more stairs then elevators fills in an old parking lot. | en |
dc.description.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
dc.identifier.other | etd-05212007-142353 | en |
dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05212007-142353/ | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33070 | en |
dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
dc.relation.haspart | DeTROYt.pdf | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.subject | suburbia | en |
dc.subject | European constitution | en |
dc.subject | principles | en |
dc.subject | blimp | en |
dc.subject | Tiger Stadium | en |
dc.subject | suburbs | en |
dc.subject | pneumatic pipe | en |
dc.subject | office building | en |
dc.subject | trash | en |
dc.subject | landfill | en |
dc.subject | freight receiving facility | en |
dc.subject | Fisher Building | en |
dc.subject | utopia | en |
dc.subject | dense city | en |
dc.subject | car | en |
dc.subject | shrinking cities | en |
dc.subject | Troy | en |
dc.subject | stairs | en |
dc.subject | tube router | en |
dc.subject | Detroit | en |
dc.title | DeTROYt | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Architecture | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Architecture | en |
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