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" The purpose of this research is to examine the mechanical reliability based on safety of the storage of plutonium pits in the Department of Energy (DOE), PANTEX plant by systematically considering pit containers, environmental controls, storage facilities, and surveillance programs." -- (iv)

It is estimated that nearly two in three people will live in urban areas by 2045. The city is increasingly seen as a place of opportunity. It has become a receptacle for new social, cultural and economic strata. The urban environment is converted and mutated by everyday public performances. This condition becomes evident when the street is inhabited as a space that connects the workplace, the home and institutions. The built wall often attracts and establishes these new activities. It is here that conventional architectural typologies are challenged. This dissertation explores the notion of the wall in an attempt to reconfigure the sidewalk. A conceptual network of interfaces that contain infrastructure, public services and urban armatures is proposed. Within this context, it is argued that architecture should support these everyday performances as well as define a new spatial identity, within the urban environment. C13/4/54.

In 1981 I was nineteen years of age. I had out grown who I was and my environment . I needed to go to new ground, but insecurity got the best of me and I stayed . It took about 3 months for everything to go cloudy , dark and disastrous and the critical point was disconnecting from my frontal lobe. I systematically let myself down and was now locked into psychosis. Un-medicated I got to experience the full roll out of the un-hinged psyche to the boundary fence of humanity. I would live in the space of schizophrenia for the next 35 years , which is the profound disconnect from present physical reality. I learnt that the system is not about healing , it's about civilizing with medication and making money . To reconnect the disconnect from basic to subtle I had to become my own Dr Katz and eventually allow that to happen . Schizophrenia is void of human consciousness and humanity, which has it's pros and cons. Here is the story of my journey of surviving, healing and making it back to the land of the 'living'.duanealarah@gmail.com