Roosevelt Island: Completing an Urban Community

• Main Author: Kilgore, Karin M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: SURFACE at Syracuse University 1999
• Subjects: housing prototype; Roosevelt Island; Architecture; Urban; Community and Regional Planning
• Online Access: https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/35; https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=architecture_theses

The thesis became an architectural exploration of what makes neighborhood and community at two scales: at the scale of the city (macrocosm), represented by the urban plan; and at the scale of the individual (microcosm), represented by the concept of the house and housing. At these two contrasting sc...