Restaging the High Street

A strategy of regeneration for the high street by reactivating its interstices

Master thesis (2022)

Authors

P. Taremi Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

J.P.M. van Lierop Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
H.F. Eckardt Design of Constrution - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
R. Cavallo Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2022 Peyvand Taremi
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Published Date

28-06-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The “traditional” high street that was once a distinctive element in the city’s historic urban fabric, is now slowly declining. This decline is further intensified by the insensitive development of its nearby leftover lands and the lack of investment in the public realm. This research is meant to support a new interpretation for the contemporary high street in the basis of urban interstices and it aims to emphasize the importance of considering the high street and its community in the future city planning. For that reason, a number of urban and architectural placemaking interventions are studied, using a precedent analysis in order to explore possible urban regeneration strategies as an attempt to reconnect the high street to its surrounding urban fabric and functions. Eventually, through specific case of Shoreditch district, this paper seeks to establish the development capacity for the high street, in terms of the available development sites and their potential relationship with the existing infrastructure and services.