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Final report (digital file - PDF) for MArch Studies (Urban Design pathway) final project "Thresholds of Cowcaddens".
Abstract: Alternative model to the modern city of urban enclaves is a city of thresholds. These thresholds “possess power to mediate actions that open spatially as well as socially fixed identities and encourage chance encounters” (Stavrides, 2007) connecting one space to another, as a mode of transition within the urban fabric and interlink between public and private.
Cowcaddens, a neighbourhood located within the city centre, yet segregated by elevated roads and unwelcoming ground floor car park underneath the 1960s housing estate’s pilotis, presents a Glasgow specific issue of disintegrated urban fabric as a result of post-war developments. To address this challenge, the concept of thresholds is applied, setting up the research question: Can concept of thresholds be explored on the scale of a neighbourhood and become a tool to determine and replace physical and social boundaries?
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Having previously completed undergraduate degrees in BA Art History and Theory and BSc in Urban Design and Planning, Ancane's interest in Urban Design leans towards theoretical and social aspects of the discipline. Her latest interests are focused on questions of how the built environment of a city affects people who inhabit it through the design guidance in a sense of both – choices in directions and actions as well as being a part of a constant development processes and its consequences. She tries to combine concepts of energy efficient and socially just environments with theories of a spatial presence and memory, looking into notions of demolition, re-construction and up-cycling.
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Donated by Jekaterina Ancane, Mar 2022.
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Catalogued by Michelle Kaye, Collections Lead, Oct 2024.
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