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Harwood, Stacy A. Li, Chuo Zhang, Yue 2015-07-22T22:18:08Z 2015-07-22T22:18:08Z 2015-05 2015-04-30 2015-5 When the New City Rezoning Plan of Manhattan was approved in 2008, it intensified the conflict over living conditions between Chinese tenants and landowners in New York’s Chinatown. As a result of rising real estate prices and loss of small business services, great numbers of Chinese residents and businesses have moved out to new communities, such as Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This thesis applies descriptive methods to compare and contrast several historical communities that are similar to Sunset Park, and then evaluates the impact of landscape and other elements in urban design on their community identity. This thesis compares Chinese communities in: 1) central and suburban Toronto, Canada; 2) central and suburban Los Angeles; and 3) Chicago, Illinois. Each of these communities has weathered stresses from gentrification and/or urban redevelopment processes. This research examines how those Chinatowns were able to revitalize without losing their unique cultural character and identity. In particular, the role of landscape amenities and urban landscape design in this process is examined, in order to understand if and how particular site-scale strategies, techniques and impacts of landscape can support longer-term cultural sustainability of diversified communities. This study applies those lessons to the new formed Chinese community at Sunset Park to illustrate a variety of ways that landscape design might contribute to sustainable development there. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo terms The student, Yue Zhang, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-29 at 12:37. The student, Yue Zhang, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-04-29 at 12:51. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-04-30 at 09:55. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8186 on 2015-07-22 at 10:34:48 Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:18:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ZHANG-THESIS-2015.pdf: 65570091 bytes, checksum: bba1c7f1b3e38db07d59454cbd6e1b80 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4206 bytes, checksum: 941afaa5a314c7818c0af579ae41c7de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-30 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78546 en Copyright 2015 Yue Zhang Chinese identity Chinese community urban landscape Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn text text Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.L.A.