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    [CREATIVES] Housing, Design for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    (2017) Akpedeye, Nicole A.; Hill, Joshua; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Globally, the technology revolution is still expanding, coupled by a rise in entrepreneurship in many parts of the world. With the growing interest in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, housing must advance to meet the demands of these creative individuals and families in order to enable them to succeed in their professional endeavours as well as support their future families at the same time. Maximizing one’s time requires housing that enables living and working in close proximity. There are opportunities to create diverse, mixed-use communities for both living and working in derelict or abandoned areas of cities. Cities, such as Baltimore, historically enabled people to live in close proximity to work, but due to zoning laws and flight to the suburbs, many workers spend too much time commuting and away from their families. This thesis will explore master planning, creating a place and housing types that allow for innovation and entrepreneurship within a city. By re-creating the work-life balance historically present in cities, derelict areas can have a chance at a second life. The emergence of innovation districts in many parts of the country is a precedent that shows how compact areas with various amenities and services can be established to benefit start-ups, entrepreneurs, and the whole community. Thus, mimicking cities of old.
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    SUPERSIZING SOMA: SIMULATING NATURAL GROWTH IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO TO CREATE VALUE. SUPERSIZING SOMA: SIMULATING NATURAL GROWTH IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO TO CREATE VALUE.
    (2012) Reatig, Nooni DIna Leor; Bell, Matthew J; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    A successful urban place is one in which people want to be, and keep returning to. Key ingredients are unmistakable identity, high density, and mixed-uses. This architectural thesis will focus on proving that place-making through design and use, creates value. If high density is created over time on one side of the San Francisco (NoMa, North of Market Street), it is inevitable that the other side should catch up (SoMa, South of Market Street). The proposition is to break up a SoMa superblock into a smaller, human scale while simultaneously building higher than allowable densities in order to attract people, revive the community, and design a transit-oriented development. The project will propose a schematic design and financial pro forma for a portion of the block. Issues addressed will be appropriating value from nearby urban amenities into the site, creating affordable high design to appeal to a spectrum of income levels, from low-income to luxury, and defining an unmistakable identity for the project that expresses the San Francisco lifestyle.