Lauren Holmes
Of the thesis entitled: Nuna-Regionalism: A Vision of Regionalism in Iqaluit
Abstract:
The recent demographic shift towards urbanization in the Canadian Arctic has uprooted a tie to the land that largely defines Inuit cultural identity. The transition of Iqaluit from a seasonal camp to the capital city of Nunavut has been swift, forcing residents to find their place between tradition and modernity, land and city. Though the populations of Nunavut communities are predominantly Inuit, many Inuit maintain a rather negative view of urban spaces in the Arctic, identifying them as places where Inuit values and practices have been eclipsed by Qallunaat (“white people”) ones. While Inuit identity weighs heavily on a connection to the land, the spatial organization of Iqaluit ignores the opportunistic proximity of the urban centre to Frobisher Bay. Similarly, individual buildings often are designed as though sunlight, wind, and snow did not exist. This follows a historical trend of poor and imported design in the Canadian Arctic; design which does not properly serve the needs and aspirations of its inhabitants.
Architecture,
which
fails
to
nurture
Iqaluit's
distinctiveness,
undermines
the
ambitions
of
the
territory.
The
creation
of
Nunavut
in
1999
was
to
be
an
expression
of
Inuit
self-determination,
yet
the
territory
is
unable
to
meet
the
needs
of
its
33,000
inhabitants.
Nunavut
remains
fiscally
dependent,
with
92%
of
its
annual
revenue
coming
from
the
federal
government.
The
thesis
explores
how
expanding
natural
resource
industries
in
the
Iqaluit
region
can
create
agency
for
local
cultural
and
economic
renewal.
Understanding
how
to
shape
industry
infrastructure
to
support
the
visions
the
people
of
Iqaluit
maintain
for
their
community
is
crucial
in
a
place
where
shortsighted
developments
threaten
a
unique
way
of
life.
The
thesis
proposes
an
urban
facility
in
Iqaluit
to
support
and
promote
what
is
currently
a
primarily
informal
subsistence
economy.
Animal
processing,
food
and
craft
production,
and
training
are
accommodated
in
this
new
building
typology.
The
proposal,
while
enabling
Iqaluit
residents
to
participate
more
actively
in
the
economy,
also
applies
regional
cultural
and
environmental
processes
in
an
attempt
to
avoid
some
of
the
mistakes
of
the
past.
A
congruent
system
of
infrastructure
is
proposed
to
aid
in
the
collection
of
raw
materials
across
the
region.
Taking
cue
from
Iqaluit’s
vernacular,
mobile
structures
respond
to
the
seasonal
rhythms
of
Nuna
–
the
land
–
and
its
people.
The
design
harnesses
traditional
activities
through
a
range
of
economic
scales
to
find
new
spatial
and
programmatic
models
for
a
place
in
transition.
Supervisor:
Committee members:
Lola Sheppard
Elizabeth
English,
University
of
Waterloo
John
McMinn,
University
of
Waterloo
External reader:
Neeraj Bhatia
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows:
The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.
The Defence Examination will take place at:
10:00 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (ARC 2026)
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Michael Rutherford
Of the thesis entitled: Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens become Assets
Abstract:
Detroit
is
just
one
example
of
a
post-industrial
city
that
has
been
struggling
with
the
decline
of
the
American
industrial
economy.
In
the
past
100
years,
Detroit
city
has
gone
from
one
of
the
largest
and
most
promising
cities
in
the
world
to
a
widely
vacant,
run
down,
and
crippled
metropolis.
A
shell
of
its
former
self,
Detroit
has
become
the
poster
child
for
all
the
problems
that
many
North
American
cities
experience,
including:
pollution,
crime,
urban
sprawl,
suburban
flight
and
struggling
education
systems.
Among
others,
these
deterrents
have
driven
Detroit
residents
from
their
homes
and
left
the
City
largely
abandoned.
Since
the
mid
1950s
the
population
has
fallen
from
1,900,000
to
713,000
in
2010.
Enrolment
in
Detroit
public
schools
has
fallen
from
approximately
300,000
in
1966
to
52,000
in
2012.
Today
there
are
an
estimated
40
square
miles
of
vacant
land
and
more
still
with
abandoned
buildings
plaguing
the
landscape.
This
thesis
asks
the
question
of
how
best
to
utilize
abandoned
public
schools
as
an
asset
for
the
neighbourhoods
of
Detroit.
Once
symbols
of
hope
and
prosperity
these
vacant
schools
located
in
the
heart
of
many
struggling
neighbourhoods,
now
serve
as
a
reminder
of
the
disparity
and
blight
that
plagues
Detroit.
The
adaptive
reuse
of
abandoned
schools
as
community
driven
educational
centers,
with
a
focus
on
urban
agriculture,
can
lead
the
way
towards
self-sufficient
neighbourhoods
that
allow
residents
to
challenge
the
social
and
economic
paradigm
that
is
Detroit.
The subject of this thesis concerns the transforming of burdens in a blighted city into the assets needed to improve the quality of life for distressed citizens. This thesis argues that this is possible by formulating an architectural response utilizing existing abandoned schools and vacant land to nurture a growing Urban Agriculture initiative that has the potential to play a role in the rebuilding of city neighbourhoods.
The examining committee is as follows: