Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item Million Dollar Blocks(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2009) Flink, Stephen Sperling; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Christopher Livingston; Mike Everts (co-chair)Public housing in today's society is an accumulation of truths. These truths are a construct of institutions that are vastly different and sometimes conflicting but control and arrange life within the community. Public housing has transformed into a place of actual and perceived boundaries which constrict the control residents possess within the housing and its surroundings. The lack of control socially segregates, isolates, and stigmatizes residents as well as creates a dangerous environment. The residents' exclusion from outside communities prohibits them from functioning cohesively within society. With the objective of reducing crime rates, this thesis focuses on the physical environment's ability to transform the strict boundaries which separate public and private space within public housing. Blurring the influence of existing private spaces will give residents the ability to express territoriality within the public housing complex. A new order will be generated through localized interrelationships of private and public spaces. This environmental transformation will give residents among the public housing a sense of territoriality and the ability for self surveillance within their community. Inducing modes of habitation found outside of the public housing paradigm will return much needed control of space to the residents within the community.Item Seeley Lake, Montana : developing a sustainable community within a grid-dependent town : developing a sustainable community within a grid-dependent town(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2007) Jones, Justin Balog; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ralph Johnson; Corey Griffin (co-chair)This thesis contends that a community may undergo extreme change, yet retain intrinsic characteristics through the institution of a central, self-sustaining development. Great potential for growth lies in the Clearwater Valley, centering on Seeley Lake. With the development of the central portion of the town, the community may only grow stronger.