Independence Avenue Urban Vision Study

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Independence Avenue Urban Vision Study

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Kansas City Design Center

Type

Landscape + Planning › Urban Green Space

STATUS

Concept

The project was driven by the realization that absent of the demand for high-density development, the state of progressive vacancy and fragmentation of urban fabric will continue. Rather than ‘dreaming up’ a complete city, the design focus was shifted toward confronting the unyielding reality of the place and devising strategies to convert the problematic conditions into positive attributes creating the possibilities for urban transformation that is true to its own circumstances. All design interventions were conceived as tactical, associated with the critical locations as the means of propelling the reordering of the urban context. They were predicated on the assumption that urban transformation could not be carried solely through architectural means but the tactics for the activation of the vacant and underutilized urban space short of building. This included rethinking the urban space as an infrastructural reserve, a productive agricultural territory, and a hybrid of a public domain where utility and communal life cyclically exchange.

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Independence Avenue Urban Vision Study

Independence Avenue Urban Vision Study

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