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2017-09Type
- Master Thesis
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Abstract
By now, 54 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas,1 turning architecture
and urban settings into omnipresent environments for most of us in daily life. The city’s
configuration enables to read its differing neighbourhoods, hierarchies of spaces and
infrastructures, as well as notions of privacy. To quantify the impact of architecture
and urban planning on people’s well-being, one has to break these subjects down into
specific measurable features, starting from large scale elements, such as the broader
connecting street network, the age and historical style of the single constructions and
the functional use of the building. In that matter, this research focuses especially on
the ground floor space. It considers not only its concept of utilisation, but also, on a
smaller scale, details concerning the facade’s design, as well as the composition of the
transition space between the public and the private zones at street level. This transition
space - defined as the buffer zone - is, to a great extent, the space that primarily defines
how cities are perceived. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000266634Publication status
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ETH ZurichSubject
ARCHITECTURE; URBANIZATION (URBAN STUDIES); EnvironmentOrganisational unit
03276 - Schmitt, Gerhard (emeritus) / Schmitt, Gerhard (emeritus)
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