Route through Concrete: Employing cultural appropriation to restructure America's strip malls
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin12771358492021-08-03T06:14:05Z Route through Concrete: Employing cultural appropriation to restructure America's strip malls Nafziger, Fern M. Architecture strip mall culture appropraition <p>This thesis focuses on human appropriation into a transitioning retail structure of the American suburban neighborhoods. There is a current phenomenon of immigrants settling into suburban environments, and at the same time closely carrying their cultural heritage. How can the individual change their environment to fit their own needs and desires while only being one part of a larger whole? By studying the differing perceptions of political, social and physical boundaries these small business owners will methodically implement a way to break the confines of the encasement of a strip mall. How these businesses grow and expand, diminish and contract, can influence how the building is restructured through time. By exploring the everyday, a method of implementing changes will be developed to continually alter the structure of the strip mall to better serve both the entrepreneur and the neighborhood.</p><p>The intention of this thesis is to reveal a method by which retailers of all cultures can express their identity through how they appropriate space within specified boundaries. To accomplish this, it will be necessary to explore means by which to express this difference in culture to the ‘outside’ to allow people to be more socially accepting and aware. These two objectives will in turn have a positive residual effect on the suburban community by improving the now declining conditions of the suburbs as well as empowering ethnic entrepreneurs to open and grow in their business ventures.</p> 2010-08-05 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277135849 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277135849 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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