Regenerating Sudbury's socio-urban landscape through adaptive reuse
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2019-05-29
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A common issue faced by de-industrializing cities worldwide
is the abundance of obsolete industrial buildings. These are
often part of derelict zones that aggravate the urban challenges
of unsafe neighbourhoods, socioeconomic segregation,
and environmental degradation. By reviving these defunct
buildings through carefully attuned strategies of adaptive
reuse, there is an opportunity to address the needs of diverse
users within the local community by sustainably regenerating
the built environment in physical, ecological, cultural, and
socioeconomic terms. Through the adaptive reuse of the
derelict Northern Brewery complex in downtown Sudbury
(Ontario, Canada) into a brewpub and mixed income housing
development, this thesis project offers a critical response to the
city’s high rates of homelessness and lack of affordable housing
as well as its insufficient amount of public green space, while
reconnecting citizens to the site’s history and serving as a
catalyst for further redevelopment projects.
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adaptive reuse, brewery, catalyst, collective memory, community, mixed income housing, Northern Brewery, re-greening, sociocultural sustainability, Sudbury, urban revitalization