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    [ ] In Progress - An Incremental Degrowth System
    (2025-04-25) Park, So Min; Friedman, Nathan; Jimenez, Carlos
    The prolonged vacancy problem in post industrial cities of the rust belt has been uprooted by numerous factors including deindustrialization, white flight, and suburbanization. Surmounting in communal, societal, and legislative pressure, the city of Detroit saw decline in population since the mid 20th century, which continues to disproportionately affect historically marginalized communities within the city limits. Since the beginning of industrialization, growth has become an expectation. This thesis explores how the community can maintain, retain, and repair some essence of the existing condition by prioritizing a system to manage a shrinking city. By reinforcing the local, contesting urban growth, and redefining ownership, the plethora of city owned parcels are incrementally collected and consolidated across multiple residential blocks to restructure areas of growth and provide a public space that gives back to the community. In the vicinity of the consolidated block, underutilized infrastructure and homes are deconstructed with the help of permanent and temporal built interventions. A series of lightweight modular buildings stretch across the central residential block, promoting communal activity and incentives for degrowth while alleviating maintenance efforts and costs to benefit nearby residents.