Reconceptualising the Periphery: A regional restructuring proposal for Northern New Jersey to catalyse its economic, cultural and environmental capacities from an integrative metropolitan perspective

Reconceptualising the Periphery: A regional restructuring proposal for Northern New Jersey to catalyse its economic, cultural and environmental capacities from an integrative metropolitan perspective

Lee, D.

Sepulveda, D. (mentor)
Van der Hoeven, F. (mentor)
Nadin, V. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Complex Cities and Regions in Transformation

2014-08-29

This thesis proposes an Integral, inter-municipal planning/governance and regeneration framework for Northern New Jersey (North Jersey), a major sub-region of the New York metropolitan region facing major urbanisation challenges, namely socio-economic transformations and mobility gaps. The aim is to present a counter proposal seeking to directly engage operational gaps between local socio-spatial conditions and path-dependent regional/municipal planning processes prioritising Smart Growth(a US version of the Compact City)/ TOD and high-level economic growth. Current socio-spatial outcomes of this mismatch are oft en generic developments that ignore or displace existing communities and/or fail to enhance local spatial fabrics. Focusing on TOD-based urban regeneration, the thesis presents the case that improving the linkage between planning processes and socio-spatial outcomes through an integrative governance/planning framework is the key to ensuring the developmental stability of North Jersey and other sub-regions within the New York area.

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Student theses

master thesis

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