Exchange in the barranco: Organizing the internal economy

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dc.contributor.advisorEl-Dahdah, Fares
dc.creatorHerrera Duran, Yvette
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25T02:07:04Z
dc.date.available2011-07-25T02:07:04Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis thesis problematizes the infrastructural and social boundaries of informal settlements established in anomalous depressed tissues within the gridded city. It does so by proposing a new urban strategy that intends to dissolve the edge condition as well as reconnect extracted points of the settlement as a means to pulsate the activity of the slum dwellers and to incorporate the informal settlement to the city. This new urban approach weaves the inverted topography of the barranco with two pieces of urban fabric that are interrupted. It explores La Limonada, one of Guatemala City's densest and most dangerous asentamientos situated in a barranco. The thesis grows out of three constants of this informal city: informal economies, steep grounds and lack of connectivity and proposes an acupunctural construction of exchange promenades that act as connective infrastructures, exchange platforms, and new public grounds. This Mobilizer engenders a new tectonic paradigm that serves a mediator in this gradient of exchanges between the consolidated city and the asentamiento.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent64 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2010 DURAN
dc.identifier.citationHerrera Duran, Yvette. "Exchange in the barranco: Organizing the internal economy." (2010) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62167">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62167</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2818
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/62167
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectArts
dc.titleExchange in the barranco: Organizing the internal economy
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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