Food growing in the city: Exploring the productive urban landscape as a new paradigm for inclusive approaches to the design and planning of future urban open spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Coles ◽  
Sandra Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Fringe belt analysis: a method for confirming the establishment of the historical boundaries of Rabat

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Marques de Sousa Safe ◽  
Staël De Alvarenga Pereira Costa
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Historic Areas ◽  
The City

Fringe belts, extensive areas of low density and wide open spaces designated for institutional use, are a morphological element in the urban landscape. Rabat, capital of Morocco, conceived during the French protectorate, received in 2012, a UNESCO World Heritage title for representing a modern urban planning model that integrates an open space system with its historical nucleus. Nonetheless, criterion (v) – to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment – was deemed grounds for rejecting Rabat’s nomination because the candidate presented seemed to be fragmented and showed a lack of a relationship between property and environment, according to the ICOMOS report. This study considers the Kasbah of Oudayas to be a unique and outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, in contrast to those cases presented in 2012. The aim of this study is to investigate the evolution of urban Rabat according to the morphological periods of development, in order to, ascertain whether or not the fringe belts can reveal the historic areas in which the city has evolved over time. It also seeks to understand how fringe belts may contribute to confirming the Kasbah of Oudayas as the first Islamic urban nucleus in the capital. As such, it is hoped that the paper may: assist practitioners and academics in the fields of urban morphology and heritage; provide initial insights into how to investigate outstanding traditional human settlements; reveal the architectural, historical and cultural value of such sites; demonstrate how the application and dissemination of a methodology may open new perspectives for studies on the subject.

scholarly journals The City of the Future. A new paradigm, a new vocabulary

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Vlaswinkel ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Length Of Residence ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

To design the city of the future, we have to stop extrapolating the problems of today. This is why team Stadsvrijheid developed a new conceptual framework, a new paradigm for the future. On the basis of this paradigm, the team argues back to the here and now. This approach requires different ordering principles and new design tools, in short: the development of a completely new vocabulary. Current ordering principles such as density and functions will no longer be applicable in the future, which will centre on length of residence, production potential and the intricacy of the urban fabric. Combinations of these factors determine the DNA of an area. The team’s conceptual framework for the future sketches a new world in which everything is connected to everything; people as well as things. Technology plays an important role in this. In the resulting circular economy, everything is productive. The test site for this new paradigm was Utrecht’s eastern fringe. This promising location allows the interweaving of landscape and city in the context of today’s urbanization pressure. It is precisely in the monofunctional and fragmented urban fringes that a new type of urban character can emerge by connecting new developments in the field of mobility and technology. Anyone who wants the city to be liveable and healthy has to move towards a city in which walking is the norm and therefore away from ‘radial thinking’ of the traditional city. The outskirts of Utrecht will become gateways to the city or even the Randstad, with the Sciencepark as the global attractor and the Lunetten hub as the global connector. The team translated the contours of the conceptual framework into ordering principles and balanced these using a ‘mixing console’. Important principles are: the intricacy of the urban fabric (everything is connected), travel time (everything is proximate), length of residence (everything takes its own time) and varied production (everything is productive). The mixing console allows an alternative method of organizing areas according to functions or density. A specific mix determines the DNA of a region. The team devised new design tools to create the city of the future. The 'armature’, for example, is a tool that can be used to redefine the current road infrastructure. Development along the Z axis, for example, is based on the principles of urban stratigraphy and builds on the strata of the existing city. This allows densification and the current physical barriers such as the motorways will transform into layered landscapes that will act as hubs connecting future centres. In 2040, city dwellers travel by foot and motorized transport between cities will be connected collectively or individually. The resulting city is a continuous city for pedestrians that not only allows more density, but in which there is more room for greenery as well. Functions such as roads and housing are layered, stackable, connectable entities linked to new energy and transport networks. They create a productive and endlessly connected urban landscape. In this layered city everything, including waste, produces something. Everything is designed to last a certain period of time, for example based on length of residence. In this city, the cost of space is the driving force behind change. This comes with new investment models in which the relationship between interest and involvement play a part.

MEREDEFINISI KAMPUNG: PARADIGMA BARU PERENCANAAN KOTA DALAM MEWUJUDKAN KOTA YANG LEBIH BAIK

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Maria Iqnasia Karen ◽  
Dewi Ratnaningrum ◽  
Maria Veronica Gandha
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Mixed Land Use ◽  
Vertical Development ◽  
The City

The rapid growth of the urban population on limited land pushes the city to grow vertically. Vertical development is clearly very helpful in overcoming the problem of high density, yet the existing module for vertical existence has produced an urban landscape of formal and monotonous that pushes the population to become socially disconnected. This paper aims to propose a new typology of a vertical dwelling in densely populated settlements in Urban Kampoong through a strategy of redevelopment, based on the form of community interaction and characteristics of urban village known as Kampung, in Tambora, West Jakarta. At some point, urban village has presented a new concept of urban development which is compact city, in terms of density, land efficiency with mixed land use pattern, and complex-dynamic social systems, that ensure the sustainability of the kampung and creates a livable community. Furthermore, within the framework of the "urban village", interaction between inhabitants relatively intense, and people feel a strong “sense of belonging” to their home. Urban Kampung can be the start of a new paradigm of urban planning towards a better city. The understanding of the Kampung itself refers to two methods of design, perception of space and locality.Keywords: vertical dwelling; social interaction; urban kampung AbstrakPertumbuhan pesat populasi perkotaan pada lahan yang terbatas mendorong kota tumbuh secara vertikal. Pembangunan secara vertikal jelas sangat membantu mengurangi masalah keterbatasan lahan dan kepadatan, namun model hunian vertikal yang ada malah menciptakan lanskap perkotaan dengan bentuk massa yang formal dan kaku. Hal ini berdampak pada hilangnya interaksi sosial dan kebersamaan penghuninya. Tujuan dari penulisan ini adalah mengusulkan tipologi baru hunian vertikal sebagai solusi bermukim pada permukiman padat di kampung kota melalui sebuah strategi redevelopment atau penataan ulang kawasan berdasarkan karakteristik dan bentuk interaksi warga pada kampung kota di Tambora, Jakarta Barat. Dalam beberapa hal, kampung kota telah mempresentasikan konsep baru pembangunan kota yaitu compact city baik dari sisi kepadatan penduduk, efisiensi lahan dengan pola guna lahan campuran, sistem sosial yang kompleks dan dinamis, dan lain-lain yang menjamin keberlanjutan kampung kota itu sendiri dan menciptakan kondisi kota yang livable. Selain itu, pada kampung kota terjalin ikatan kekeluargaan yang erat dan warga memiliki “sense of belonging” yang kuat terhadap tempat hidupnya tersebut. Kampung kota dapat menjadi awal dimulainya paradigma baru perencanaan kota dalam mewujudkan kota yang lebih baik. Pemahaman mengenai kampung kota itu sendiri mengacu pada dua metode desain yaitu persepsi ruang dan lokalitas.

Emplacing Berlin: Digital Itineraries and Short-term Study Abroad in the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Apgar
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
The City

As destination of choice for many short-term study abroad programs, Berlin offers students of German language, culture and history a number of sites richly layered with significance. The complexities of these sites and the competing narratives that surround them are difficult for students to grasp in a condensed period of time. Using approaches from the spatial humanities, this article offers a case study for enhancing student learning through the creation of digital maps and itineraries in a campus-based course for subsequent use during a three-week program in Berlin. In particular, the concept of deep mapping is discussed as a means of augmenting understanding of the city and its history from a narrative across time to a narrative across the physical space of the city. As itineraries, these course-based projects were replicated on site. In moving from the digital environment to the urban landscape, this article concludes by noting meanings uncovered and narratives formed as we moved through the physical space of the city.

Utopian Visions in United States Urbanism

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
James M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The City

America’s appeal to Utopian visionaries is best illustrated by the Oneida Community, and by Etienne Cabet’s experiment (Moreana 31/215 f and 43/71 f). A Messianic spirit was a determinant in the Puritans’ crossing the Atlantic. The Edenic appeal of the vast lands in a New World to migrants in a crowded Europe is obvious. This article documents the ambition of urbanists to preserve that rural quality after the mushrooming of towns: the largest proved exemplary in bringing the country into the city. New York’s Central Park was emulated by the open spaces on the grounds of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The garden-cities surrounding London also provided inspiration, as did the avenues by which Georges Haussmann made Paris into a tourist mecca, and Pierre L’Enfant’s designs for the nation’s capital. The author concentrates on two growing cities of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and Honolulu. His detailed analysis shows politicians often slow to implement the bold and costly plans of designers whose ambition was to use the new technology in order to vie with the splendor of the natural sites and create the “City Beautiful.” Some titles in the bibliography show the hopes of those dreamers to have been tempered by fears of “supersize” or similar drawbacks.

‘Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Julian Wolfreys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Representation ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is explored by familiar texts of urban representation such as by Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, as well as through less widely read authors such as Sarah Green, Pierce Egan, and Robert Southey, particularly his fictional Letters from England.

Research and application of new media urban landscape design method based on 5G virtual reality

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Guangchao Zhang ◽  
Xinyue Kou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Media ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The City

In recent years, with the rapid development of VR technology, its application range gradually involves the field of urban landscape design. VR technology can simulate complex environments, breaking through the limitations of traditional environmental design on large amounts of information processing and rendering of renderings. It can display complex and abstract urban environmental design through visualization. With the support of high-speed information transmission in the 5G era, VR technology can simulate the overall urban landscape design by generating VR panoramas, and it can also bring the experiencer into an immersive and interactive virtual reality world through VR video Experience. Based on this, this article uses the 5G virtual reality method in the new media urban landscape design to conduct research, aiming to provide an urban landscape design method with strong authenticity, good user experience and vividness. This paper studies the urban landscape design method in the new media environment; in addition, how to realize the VR panorama in the 5G environment, and also explores the image design of each node in the city in detail; and uses the park design in the city As an example, the realization process of the entire virtual reality is described in detail. The research in this article shows that the new media urban landscape design method based on 5G virtual reality, specifically to the design of urban roads, water divisions, street landscapes, and people’s living environment, makes the realization of smart cities possible.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Landscape Change in the City of Bucharest, Romania

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2323
Author(s):  
Constantin Nistor ◽  
Marina Vîrghileanu ◽  
Irina Cârlan ◽  
Bogdan-Andrei Mihai ◽  
Liviu Toma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Complex Structural ◽  
The City

The paper investigates the urban landscape changes for the last 50 years in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Bucharest shows a complex structural transformation driven by the socialist urban policy, followed by an intensive real-estate market development. Our analysis is based on a diachronic set of high-resolution satellite imagery: declassified CORONA KH-4B from 1968, SPOT-1 from 1989, and multisensor stacked layers from Sentinel-1 SAR together with Sentinel-2MSI from 2018. Three different datasets of land cover/use are extracted for the reference years. Each dataset reveals its own urban structure pattern. The first one illustrates a radiography of the city in the second part of the 20th century, where rural patterns meet the modern ones, while the second one reveals the frame of a city in a full process of transformation with multiple constructions sites, based on the socialist model. The third one presents an image of a cosmopolitan city during an expansion process, with a high degree of landscape heterogeneity. All the datasets are included in a built-up change analysis in order to map and assess the spatial transformations of the city pattern over 5 decades. In order to quantify and map the changes, the Built-up Change Index (BCI) is introduced. The results highlight a particular situation linked to the policy development visions for each decade, with major changes of about 50% for different built-up classes. The GIS analysis illustrates two major landscape transformations: from the old semirural structures with houses surrounded by gardens from 1968, to a compact pattern with large districts of blocks of flats in 1989, and a contemporary city defined by an uncontrolled urban sprawl process in 2018.

scholarly journals The visual-landscape analysis during the integration of high-rise buildings within the historic urban environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01044
Author(s):  
Vera A. Akristiniy ◽  
Elena A. Dikova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Typological Structure ◽  
The City ◽  
Information Database

The article is devoted to one of the types of urban planning studies - the visual-landscape analysis during the integration of high-rise buildings within the historic urban environment for the purposes of providing pre-design and design studies in terms of preserving the historical urban environment and the implementation of the reconstructional resource of the area. In the article formed and systematized the stages and methods of conducting the visual-landscape analysis taking into account the influence of high-rise buildings on objects of cultural heritage and valuable historical buildings of the city. Practical application of the visual-landscape analysis provides an opportunity to assess the influence of hypothetical location of high-rise buildings on the perception of a historically developed environment and optimal building parameters. The contents of the main stages in the conduct of the visual - landscape analysis and their key aspects, concerning the construction of predicted zones of visibility of the significant historically valuable urban development objects and hypothetically planned of the high-rise buildings are revealed. The obtained data are oriented to the successive development of the planning and typological structure of the city territory and preservation of the compositional influence of valuable fragments of the historical environment in the structure of the urban landscape. On their basis, an information database is formed to determine the permissible urban development parameters of the high-rise buildings for the preservation of the compositional integrity of the urban area.

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