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                         Copy and Paste! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VMLw9VZtUwSFP__CjvFhgzX4MbUGXZG3?usp=sharing                                           Hybridized Infrastructures: Altering the American Landscape Will Sutton   The University of Arkansas Department of Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design                       Introduction   Whether we are aware of the realities of residual spaces or not, they exist just about everywhere you go in contemporary urban and suburban life. Residual spaces are all the empty spaces that aren’t utilized for any particular purpose. For example, spaces underneath and in betw...

 Approach Theory Residual space is a phenomenon created by modern and contemporary urban planning practices. These practices consist of large cultural, technological, and economic shifts that occur outside the consideration of how residual space is created. Along with the characteristics of social change described, residual spaces are primarily produced through top-down city planning approaches stringent on obeying zoning, the automobile, and more benign geographic factors. Many times, products of top-down urban planning are resultant of specialists that fail to connect to the place they’re transforming. Consequently, these outside planners fail to create improvised space planning strategies to utilize residual space to its maximum. Defining the Research Seeing as creation of residual space is inherently a mismanagement of space and capital used to fund urban planning projects, more specifically hard infrastructural projects, it’s imperative this topic be researched to ensure...

  Question as is:  What successful strategies of hybridized hard infrastructures exist that can be applied to speculative or incomplete hybridized hard infrastructures to make them viable? Residual Spaces   The built environment is riddled with various planning issues. One happens to be the creation of residual spaces left over from modern and contemporary city planning practices. Erick Villagomez, educator and researcher at the University of British Columbia, defines residual spaces as "A natural result of modern urbanization and the complex interaction of social, technological, and economic processes that drive contemporary urban growth." These spaces often appear near, within, or between automobile infrastructure, deindustrialized sites, and buildings.   These residual spaces yield nothing to communities afflicted by them. They're unused spaces waiting for some niche development to come along or not at all. Historically, residual space hasn't been much of ...

  Disclaimer: This is not everything I'm going to write just yet. I gave myself a time limit for writing in order to successfully finish my project for review tomorrow tonight. Background_04.16.24   The built environment is riddled with various planning issues. One of them happens to be the creation of residual spaces left over from modern and contemporary city planning practices. Erick Villagomez, educator and researcher at the University of British Columbia, defines residual spaces as, “A natural result of modern urbanization and the complex interaction of social, technological, and economic processes that drive contemporary urban growth.” These spaces often appear near, within, or in between automobile infrastructure, deindustrialized sites, and buildings.   It so happens to be that these residual spaces yield nothing to communities afflicted by them. They’re simply unused space waiting for some niche development to come along, or not at all. Historically, resi...