scholarly journals Conviviality in the city: experience-based spatial design against the segregation of places

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Katja Maununaho ◽  
Eeva Puumala ◽  
Henna Luoma-Halkola
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Design ◽  
The City

Inside-Out Houses: Urban Belonging and Imagined Futures in Dakar, Senegal

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Melly
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Money Transfers ◽  
The City ◽  
Inside Out

In every neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal, large houses in various stages of construction stand as witnesses to and evidence of transnational movements of labor and capital. These ambitious building projects, funded by Senegalese migrants living and working abroad, have utterly transformed the city landscape, and their pervasiveness leads many Dakarois to assume that everyone must be migrating. Intended as eventual family homes, investment properties, or a combination of the two, the innovative layouts and architectural flourishes of these not-yet houses echo lives lived elsewhere while drawing on local aesthetics and approaches to spatial design. Though some houses seem to near completion within just a year or two, most structures linger for several years or even a decade, slowly eroding as families and hired contractors wait for money transfers from abroad. Some constructions boast newly laid bricks or fresh paint, while others are obscured by overgrown vegetation and debris.

The Landscape and the Spatial Design Research of the City Wall Ruins Park of the Old City at Xiaoyi

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 1057-1060
Author(s):  
Wei Cheng Han ◽  
Rui Shen
Keyword(s):  
Water Body ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Main Body ◽  
City Wall ◽  
City Block ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Old City ◽  
The City

The city wall ruins park of the old city at Xiaoyi is a ruins park with the city wall as the main body. With the amusement belt formed by the cultural and historical city wall ruins and the moat, and the landscape belt formed by the historical and cultural city block, and also using the design of the space, the water body, the path and the architectural ornaments, the plan focuses on protecting and inheriting the city wall ruins park of the old city at Xiaoyi with the method of protection, restoration, isolation and so on.

Ungating the city: A permeability perspective

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 2586-2602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guibo Sun ◽  
Chris Webster ◽  
Alain Chiaradia
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Road ◽  
High Data ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Pedestrian Network ◽  
Healthier Living ◽  
The City ◽  
Data Requirements

China is seeking to prohibit the construction of any new gated communities and to gradually open existing schemes after three decades of growth of large-block gated estates. In this article, we use permeability analysis to explore the ‘what if?’ question posed by the policy: what if gated communities became permeable? We ask the question in respect of non-motorised access. We use two permeability metrics, closeness and betweenness, as outcome measures of gated and non-gated versions of the city. We construct a bespoke complete pedestrian network, rather than using the road network, for our permeability modelling. Nanchang, a medium-sized Chinese city with widespread gated communities, is our study area. A series of permeability analyses with and without gated communities is conducted using GIS and spatial design network analysis (sDNA). On the basis of these analyses, we sequentially sort the gated compounds whose opening will maximise permeability gains with minimum expropriation of property rights through coercive ungating. We offer the analysis to urban scholars, planners and governments by way of a quantified simulation. This study and methodology, which is transferable without high data requirements, can assist urban practitioners in reconfiguring urban form to promote a healthier living environment (more walking) and more economically viable local service centres (greater pedestrian footfall concentrations).

The Optimistic Research of Spatial Form of Zhaohua Ancient City in China

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3406-3409
Author(s):  
Ping Yao ◽  
Li Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Form ◽  
Space Sequence ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Perfect Order ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Street Space ◽  
City Gates ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
The City

The Zhaohua is an ancient city on the Chinese Sichuan Road with more than 2000 years glorious history, and still preserve completely city gates and city walls, and the streets and lanes until now. The environment landscape space of inside and outside of the city construct were in perfect order, which were comply with “Nature and humanity” layout idea, The spatial design of whole this city has the feature of the Contrary Space Sequence combination in growth of Chinese historic ancient city. However, the Zhaohua ancient city faced with the modern spatial pattern which grows in the historical evaluation, especially with continuous exploitation of the ancient city combines with tourism economy, a problem that the space demand between residents and tourists must be arise. In the foundation of the effective protection of traditional space culture, we put forward and research to carry on space form optimization and adjustment to border space and street space, in order to meet the modern urbanization development needs, meanwhile, it has extremely important research significance to the ancient cities’ protection and the reasonable tourism development.

scholarly journals Urban Foodscapes and Greenspace Design: Integrating Grazing Landscapes Within Multi-Use Urban Parks

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Davis
Keyword(s):  
Community Gardens ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Movements ◽  
Grazing Lands ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
The City

Since the early 2000s an increasing number of planning and design projects, within the spatial design fields of landscape architecture and urban design, have focused on food landscapes and their re-integration into the urban environment; particularly as a result of recent global movements toward creating more sustainable cities and human settlements. This article explores the potential contribution of grazing lands within cities of the Global North as a multi-beneficial layer in public greenspace design. Plant-based urban farms and community gardens have experienced significant growth within developed nations in recent years, in both scholarship and practice, however the design and implementation of integrated grazing lands within the urban zone has been largely left out. For much of the Global North animal agriculture is still considered primarily rural. This research considers the potential of integrating grazing lands within the city through multiuse greenspace design, and undertakes a case study design critique of Cornwall Park, Auckland where since 1903, the Park has provided urban grazing for sheep and cattle, alongside other land uses and experiences such as recreation, heritage, bio-diversity, and education. Undertaking a “descriptive critique” of Cornwall Park, and its 100 Year Master Plan, this research is intended to enhance, the understanding and role, grazing animals can play within public greenspace.

scholarly journals Landscapes of Knowledge and Innovative Learning Experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 347-352
Author(s):  
Massimo Faiferri ◽  
Samanta Bartocci
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Ordinary Meaning ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
The City

AbstractIn these historic times, when there is a crucial shift in the way we consider the cultural and architectural aspects of learning spaces, it is important to investigate the role this spatial resource plays in the urban context. This, so we can understand the need to break with the outdated ideas about school that are deeply rooted in our society. There is common ground between architecture and pedagogy, a possible dialogue between space and knowledge, which can generate new explorations into the ordinary meaning of educational spaces and landscapes of knowledge, as a chance to expand the concept of inhabiting a space and how that impacts the world, and to devise a new urban condition. By first considering cities as a broad, extended learning space, we provide a chance and an incentive to reflect on the role of spatial design. The city is an important educational tool, since it represents a space of discovery, growth, socialization, tension, conflict and adventure. It is also where autonomy, adaptive intelligence and relational skills are developed. A new relationship between school and the city defines the future of learning and civilized co-existence.

scholarly journals Discovering Weedy Landscapes as Sensory Commons

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Inkeri Aula
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Anthropology Of The Senses ◽  
The City

Abstract Environmental relationships need to be understood as crucial in contemporary social research. This article explores relating with nature in urban contexts and its diverse temporalities. How do people relate to the more-than-human natural environments in the city? How does urban nature appear through sensory memories and perceptions? To answer these questions, this research analyzes sensobiographic walks conducted with young (15-30 years of age) and old (70+ years of age) city dwellers in Turku, southwest Finland. Via transgenerational sensobiographic walks (Järviluoma 2021), less controlled urban green spaces such as parks, riversides, margins, and pathways are discovered as weedy landscapes, where encounters between the human and the non-human take place. These weedy landscapes allow the sharing of sensory experiences and memories of transformation, following that sensing itself can be grasped as a collective endeavor. This article asserts that urban biodiverse sites maintain their interrelations with other forms of life. The multi-sensorial atmospheres they provide - smells, sounds, silences, views, moisture, shadow, feeling - could be cherished as sensory commons. The findings presented in this article contribute to current discussions in several research fields from urban planning to mobile ethnography, landscape architecture, spatial design, and the anthropology of the senses.

scholarly journals Edge, Center, and Spine: Exploring the Multi-Dimentionality of Contemporary Landscapes in Middle Eastern Cities

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. Salama ◽  
Anna Katharina Grichting
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Evolutionary Design ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Review Reports ◽  
The City ◽  
Productive Landscapes ◽  
City Park

This paper offers an overview of landscape interventions in three Middle Eastern cities and a positional interpretation of the way in which different landscape typologies can contribute to their socio-spatial and environmental contexts. The paper identifies three levels of contribution of contemporary landscape – edge, center, and spine - corresponding to three landscape typologies: the edge typology is a linear coastal landscape that acts as an interface between the city and the sea; the central typology is a city park that reactivates or regenerates a fragment of the city and communities that surround it; and the spine is an ecological infrastructure – a wadi - that articulates and curates the natural and constructed flow of water creating productive landscapes and public spaces. In undertaking the discussion and analysis, a multi-layered general methodology was employed. First, to induct generalities on three projects identified a literature review and analysis of development and technical review reports is conducted in order to elucidate a considerable number of issues underlying each landscape typology while classifying them under three main sub-headings that include contextual background, evolutionary design and planning aspects, and key spatial design features. Second, to deduct particularities concerning the contribution of each typology, critical discussion, reflection, and reference to some empirical studies are carried out with the intention of unveiling the contribution of each typology to its context and to the city within which it exists.

scholarly journals Exploration of Spatial Design Issues at Backpacker Hostels in Budapest’s Historic Center; Sebuah Review Terhadap Informality dan Adaptasi Desain di Kawasan Budapest, Hungaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Suda Nurjani
Keyword(s):  
Field Observations ◽  
Design Issues ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Transformation is something that cannot be avoided by everyone. Like wise with the change of a region as a phenomenon that can not be avoided by any country in the world. Many researchers who try to review more about the phenomenon of change as a form of adaptation or adjustment to the new environment. However, in developing an area many factors must be considered. When a previous area has a high historical value, the change becomes a technical matter that requires a thorough study. Like this study by Gergely Horryn et al (2017). In this study, Gergely Horryn et al tried to make an alternative hostels design for the development of the Budapest, Hungary region. Given the high historical value of this city, the authors use the method of comparing literature with design feedback from field observations. The design changes were made based on consideration of the historical value of the city, the interior of the room, and the shape of the building to be displayed. From several fedbcak designs, a conclusion about the design of hostels cube are then termed Hc.

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