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Ashley Whitesides Undergraduate Thesis S2016 Director Darren Petrucci
Promoted by the city to increase land values and provide jobs in the barrios of South Phoenix, industr y became a force of massive disturbance along Buckeye Road, interrupting the residential scale with large industrial lots, many of which have been abandoned. However, latent in the landscape are remnants of better times in the vibrant gestures of ever yday urbanism.
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Inspired by this palate of lively, idiosyncratic street designs- created out of necessity by people making-do- this project seeks to bring identity, value, and vitality to this challenging human environment.
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This project uses concepts and processes of disturbance ecology and ecological succession, specifically the role played by pioneer species and biological legacies in the immediate af termath of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, to develop an urban revitalization plan for Buckeye Road.
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eVeRYDaY uRBaNIsM ON BuCKeYe MOBILE VENDING MACHINE unregulated food sales with a limited variety and quantity of goods
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OPAQUE STOREFRONT
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secure and blocked-off facade
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FLEA MARKET outdoor market where secondhand goods
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BUCKEYE RD.
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vendors
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INFRASTRUCTURE FOREST abundance of vertical infrastructural elements in a relatively small area
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SCRAP METAL SIGN displaying business-specific scrap parts as unofficial signage
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DRIVE THRU STORE a store that motorists can browse through without leaving their car
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MOBILE BUS STOP signs indicating where the bus will stop to pick up passengers, can move depending on the day
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hIsTORY
FENCE STOREFRONT fence that displays goods to people on the street and provides security
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RETAIL MUSEUM designed display of cultural artifacts
9 Although South Phoenix has always been reserved for poor residents and minorities, it used to have a much denser residential scale.
POP-UP CRAIG’S LIST
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1982
temporary unregulated sales appropriating everyday space
CATALOG FACADE
Industry begins to infiltrate South Phoenix as the city promotes development.
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1991
store facade that informs motorists on the street of the contents of the store
PORCH
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transitional space that allows people on the street to interact with the more private activities of the business
a DaY ON BuCKeYe 2013 Morning
The industrial scale along Buckeye Road remains legible today, while the residential scale that used to be there has faded away.
DesIGN 2016 Afternoon
2020
Night
2025
ADE 422: Spring 2016 Barrett Honors Independent Thesis
Student: Ashley Whitesides Instructor: Darren Petrucci