The Autonomous City: Utilizing superfluous infrastructure in the Age of Autonomy to drive design and integrate vehicles into our architecture

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The Autonomous City: Utilizing superfluous infrastructure in the Age of Autonomy to drive design and integrate vehicles into our architecture

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: The Autonomous City: Utilizing superfluous infrastructure in the Age of Autonomy to drive design and integrate vehicles into our architecture

creator: Christopher Merlo

subject: Autonomous vehicles; Urban transportation; City planning, Social aspects; Streetscapes (Urban design), Designs and plans; Mixed-use developments, Designs and plans

description: The Research and design tests that followexplore a world of the future where the autonomous carhas completely replaced the human driven vehicle. Thisadoption willl create voids within the infrastructure of oursociety that will need to be reconciled before cities cangrow further. These unreconciled superfluous pieces ofland and infrastructure serve as the sites for design testsafter determining the optimal new type of road for thesecars.Exploring interventions in the American Cities ofBoston, New York, and Detroit, the research develops abuilding typology that can integrate the pedestrian andcar into one architecture while connecting the surroundingcommunities.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

type: Thesis

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