Urban AnalTical approach The Case of East 23rd St. Lawrence, Ks, USA

(Mohammad Saleem Alfruati)

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Abstract

The image of the city, familiar as it may be, may not be appropriate to most urban America. Paying a careful look at city structure, one can easily notice some parts, though organically important, are less poetic, weakly integrated, and lack identity. As an example of such urban areas, this paper shed a light on East 23rd Street, a main street located in the southern part of Lawrence, Kansas in the USA. After the analyses of its urban, social, and visual components, the research ended up with seven issues of concern to the area such as: East 23rd St. as it is, does not provide any sense of entrance to the city of Lawrence, it shows conflict among some uses such as harmful factory, residential and blight condition for some area. On the light of these concerns, objectives are developed followed with a number of strategies to promote the area synthetically, socially, functionally, and esthetically. 
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