Regulating new construction in historic areas
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.
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| author | Sellers-Garcia, Oliver |
| author2 | J. Mark Schuster. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/378622019-04-11T12:09:29Z Regulating new construction in historic areas Sellers-Garcia, Oliver J. Mark Schuster. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109). This study is an examination of how the restrictiveness of different design regulations impacts the process of new construction in historic areas. The North End, South End, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston were identified as historic areas that possessed increasingly restrictive design regulations, and within each neighborhood, two recent new buildings were selected as case studies. Each pair of cases represented a project that had undergone either an easy or difficult approval process under the district's design regulations. Using relevant statutes, interviews with regulators, reviewers, and architects, and the official documentation produced during the approval process, histories for each of the new buildings were compiled and compared. The results of this comparison suggest that, counter to the hypothesis, there is not a direct relationship between the restrictiveness of the regulation and certain variables such as historicism, inflexibility, and contextualism. In many ways, the new construction processes that occur in the North End and Back Bay, the least and most restrictive regulatory environments, respectively, resemble each other much more than they resemble the process that takes place in the South End, which is moderately restrictive. (cont.) Various factors lead to the prevalence of historicist design in the South End, while there is an unexpectedly high probability that new designs in the North End and Back Bay will depart from traditional historic architectural norms. These unexpected results are attributed to the discretion and authority exercised by the individuals administering design review. by Oliver Sellers-Garcia. M.C.P. 2007-07-18T12:58:45Z 2007-07-18T12:58:45Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37862 123903719 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 109 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Urban Studies and Planning. Sellers-Garcia, Oliver Regulating new construction in historic areas |
| title | Regulating new construction in historic areas |
| title_full | Regulating new construction in historic areas |
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| title_short | Regulating new construction in historic areas |
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| topic | Urban Studies and Planning. |
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