North Port

North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiefer, Ryan
Other Authors: Hight, Christopher, Colman, Scott, Finley, Dawn, Wittenberg, Gordon
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Urban Study
Arctic Development
Megastructure
Utopia
Negative Utopia
Architecture
Infrastructure
Arctic
New Ground
Climate change
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107979
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Summary:North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern context; a way-station at the furthest extant of habitation where architecture works as a mediator and sanctuary in a changing terrain. It is a product of an unbalanced economy and reflects the infiltration of mining development pursuance in the north, an increasing pressure contrary to existing modes of habitation.

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