MINI THESIS 'THE URBAN SYNDROME'

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This Mini-Dissertation explored the City’s neglect of the urban user since the industrialization period, between 1960 & 1970, and aimed to create a revolutionary environmental change which would change the attuned mood of urban design and subsequently place the urban user in the centre of all relevant urban functioning systems.

 

With Industrialization, the CBD reverted to functionality and started to accommodate the hustle and bustle routine of City living; consequently it evoked the inception of the urban syndrome. The urban syndrome in essence entails all the negative effects the urban fabric has on the society and could be viewed as a form of urban/societal depression that is directly proportional to the city and its systems.

 

Research of multiple ‘curing’ methods and applicable architectural intervention will contribute in celebrating the urban user and refrain from the disconnectedness of urban assemblages that is caused by vehicular domination and buildings that are impersonal in nature.