Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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    Post-Industrial Landscapes: Amplifying Existing Food Systems in Chicago's Chinatown
    (2021) Li, Juanita; Williams, Brittany; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Cities have long grappled with how to feed their populations, globalization being a key tool for supplying food and enabling city growth beyond ecological limits. Outside the agro-industrial complex, the Chinese diaspora in the United States built an efficient, biodiverse and global food system to satisfy cultural yearnings. At the local level, residents in Chicago’s Chinatown have adapted private and public space to meet food needs in creative ways as a complementary system. These adaptive strategies allow Chinatown to be food rich while also experiencing high rates of poverty. Looking forward, new urban developments should support and sustain these activities as vital elements of urban food systems to complement conventional large scale agriculture. Incorporating multiple strategies to amplify the food system in Chinatown can serve as a model for diverse urban food system strategies at multiple scales.
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    Under the Arch of Friendship: Culture, Urban Redevelopment and Symbolic Architecture in D.C. Chinatown, 1970s-1990s
    (2009) Khoo, Evelyn; Gao, James Z; History/Library & Information Systems; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This thesis explores the history of the urban development and architectural changes in Washington, D.C. Chinatown in the late twentieth century. Urban development in D.C. Chinatown traces the way in which local politics, ethnic community elites and the larger international backdrop of geopolitics and the globalizing economy found expression in the visual streetscapes and architecture in the neighborhood perceived to be a predominantly ethnic site. This essay argues that the case of D.C. Chinatown represents a larger call for a spatial turn in Chinese American history, where more emphasis can be placed on the uses of symbolic architecture in determining Chinese American identity and settlement.
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    Reclaiming Community Through Multiple Generations: Mixed-Use Housing in Portland's Chinatown
    (2004-05-19) Lee, Kimberly Anne; Gournay, Isabelle; Architecture
    For over half a century, the traditional Chinatown, typically located in an urban context, has become an isolated entity in which generations of Chinese and Chinese-Americans are fleeing to the suburbs. This project will focus on creating an inter-generational mixed-use housing complex that provides for community resources and services. The goal of this thesis is to encourage a reactivation of a deteriorating community through the interaction between first, second, and third generation Chinese and Chinese-Americans. This project will investigate the greater cultural context of how the family unit is composed, how an eastern typology may be adapted to the western society, and how to deal with issues concerning an "identifiable place." The site is located in Portland, Oregon's Chinatown. It is situated just north of downtown on the edge of the Willamette River. The site is nearly desolate, but shows immense promise for an activated community.