Browsing by Author "Kennon, Paul A., Jr."

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    A continuous system of community facilities for the redevelopment of blighted areas in the city
    (1967) Daly, Thomas Braden; Kennon, Paul A., Jr.
    By looking at blighted areas it becomes clear that the development of blight is part of the growth-change-decay cycle of the city. This is sometimes effected by the form of the city structure. The location and activities of blighted areas can be seen to have positive as well as the more evident negative values. An analysis of areas which have maintained continuous redevelopment reveals that diverse activities and foci have developed. Life as opposed to dullness is evident. Society, the political structure, economics and physical form are the major contributors to the development of blight in American cities. This thesis is con-cerned primarily with the physical form of the city as this form is related to the development of blight, and as this form can be changed to encourage the redevelopment of blighted areas. Objectives for inducing redevelopment can be formulated. There must be a desire for redevelopment by the people of the area. The public policy must encourage this desire and provide a framework for redevelopment. Foci and activities existing in the area must be reinforced and expanded to provide the life necessary to stimulate redevelopment. A mechanical transportation structure and a pedestrian communication structure must be a fundamental part of this redevelopment. This thesis suggests that a continuous system of community facilities can provide the focus of a physical framework which will stimulate redevelopment of blighted areas.
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    An Urban Renewal approach for Latin America
    (1967) Gomez, Luis Emilio; Kennon, Paul A., Jr.
    My thesis is a system of Urban Renewal by combining work, housing and community facilities in deteriorated central sectors of Latin American cities. The arguments which uphold this position are: The immediate necessity of revitalizing deteriorated sections of cities which have grown without proper attention. -- The urgency of construction on a large scale, especially dwellings, to cover the existing deficits of housing and demographic growth. -- The need for realizing the tvork of urban renewal through the govern-ment in each of the different Latin American countries. -- The necessity of increasing Industrialization and the economic development in each of the Latin American countries. -- The change which should be realized in the traditional form of city planning in the concept of integration of the basic dwelling, work recreation and circulation of wrban planning and the concept of integration rather than their separation. -- The application of the concept of "evolution" In architecture and urban planning, that is to say taking into consideration the process of the life cycle, growth, development, and renewal of the parts.
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    Architecture and exchange, a design proposal for community facilities
    (1966) Belschner, Andrew Kuehn; Kennon, Paul A., Jr.
    An architectural responsibility is illumination. Through their work architects can help direct men toward realizing the infinity of their potentials as human beings. One becomes knowledgeable through analysis. The meeting of knowledge with intuition is a synthesis of experience and imagination. For an architect, the discoveries derived from such a synthesis lead to architectural realization, the giving of form to ideas, if the ideas are significant and the realization a stimulating expression of the idea, then the architecture has a degree of rightness that makes it a fitting image of mankind. Community development projects in Chile, carried out by the Chilean Community Development Program, illustrate this search for rightness based on the analysis of social, economic, and psychological needs of the modern Chilean community.
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    Cities: Systems for growth
    (1967) Medina, Jose M; Kennon, Paul A., Jr.
    My thesis is an approach to the design of the city and of any segment of it by the simultaneous consideration of the following systems: -Systems of man-made land -Systems of man-made climate -Systems of separation -Systems of integration -Systems of linkage -Systems of hierarchy To support my thesis I propose to demonstrate the following: -Cities are the physical expression of a society. They are characterized by spaces formed with a basic technology in which social relationships take place. -The basic technology is man-made land and man-made climate. Therefore you can establish systems of man-made land and systems of man-made climate. -Social relationships are the interplay of activities within a social structure. As a result you can establish systems of grouping of functions and systems of organization of structures. - The formation of space with a basic technology involves placing things together, placing them apart, connecting different spaces and establishing an orderly whole. For that purpose you can establish systems of separation, systems of integration and systems of linkage. -In all the above mentioned systems we can establish hierarchies. On the other hand, cities are formed by three basic elements: The physical-environment, man and society. The physical environment can be broken down to nature, networks and shelters (the last two as a product of man and society's forces). -The study of nature, man, society, shelters and networks will allow us to determine how, where and why the systems should be utilized. The demonstration will be a project for a community in the city of Houston based on my thesis.
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    Low income family housing within urban contexts
    (1971) Aguilar N., Freddy Luis; Kennon, Paul A., Jr.
    This thesis will be a study of those physical aspects of urban environments which have a bearing on the physical solution of housing for laboring classes in the U.S.A. and Latin America. An attempt will be made to define the nature and extent of the low income family housing problem according to varying physical stages of urbanization. Within a physical framework, adequate low income family housing types and placement will be proposed. PART ONE of this study approaches the problem analytically. The assumption is made that stages of urbanization differ in the U.S.A. and Latin America. An analysis of these assumptions will provide some conditioning aspects with which to face the housing problem. These stages are the contexts of the housing problem. PART TWO of this work establishes the hypothesis that the prototypes of the housing solution depend on the comparative stages of urbanization. A matrix model will be proposed for comparison and analysis of the recommended solution at a given point in time. The subject of the Part Three is the hypothesis that the location and density of the typical housing should be derived from the physical forces of the local context and its stage of urbanization. In reality, economic and social factors and their related political aspects are also important considerations, but this paper will concentrate on physical factors only. In Part Four Houston, ( the fifth largest American city ), and Antofagasta, ( the fifth largest Chilean city ), two cities which are similarly related to their respective nations, will be examined as two different physical contexts that condition their physical housing solutions. The thesis will be completed by a diagramatic presentation of prototype designs for Houston and Antofagasta that illustrate the text's principles.