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Healing the Anatomy of the City: An investigation into the top-down and bottom-up methods of improving social infrastructure

Part 2 Dissertation 2016
Fiona Rogoff
 University of Portsmouth | UK
A comparative study of the architectural approaches taken to improve social infrastructures of cities today. Likening the city to the human body with its various systems, the dissertation discusses the seemingly hidden and broken social infrastructures of Portsmouth, analysing the inherent values of top-down development versus bottom-up, community-driven regeneration.

Tutor(s)
Walter Menteth
2016
The Island City of Portsmouth in context
Gradient of deprivation evidenced throughout the central wards of Portsmouth, emphasised by its ‘doughnut’ analogy of thriving constructs at its coastal edges in comparison to its deprived centre.
Existing perceptions centrally deprived Portsmouth.
Example of Portsmouth’s thriving coastal edges – Gunwharf Quays.
Example of Urban Acupuncture – Pop Brixton by Carl Turner Architects
Thesis design development for Portsmouth, instigated by dissertation study
Proposed model. Thesis design development for Portsmouth, instigated by dissertation study.
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