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Title:
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Breaking the Buffer: Retrofitting Isolated Land Use Patterns Into A Connective Tissue for Atlanta
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Creator:
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Beard, Meredith R.
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.U.D.) -- Urban Design
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Urban Design
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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As the prototypical model for sprawling development
patterns, expansive population growth, and water
resource issues, the City of Atlanta is caught in an
unsustainable development model. Its polycentric urban
fabric has allowed the boundaries of its metropolitan
communities to merge together, causing a lost sense
of place, a continued dependence on automobiles,
a loss of rural agricultural lands, and degradation
in public and environmental health. Retrofitting the
city’s urban edge as a pattern of change is a single
project that focuses on linking two components:
transforming development buffer policy and building
upon mental connections users have associated with the
highway. It is part of a comprehensive strategy that
also incoprorates enhancing existing core communities
around the Beltline project and retrofitting suburban
developments along the periphery - resulting in a
landscape that redefines the the term “urban growth
boundary” into one that reinforces place within existing
infrastructure for a city that has already grown beyond
its limits.
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2013-05
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Format:
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PDF : 135 p. : ill
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