Mixed use and diversity as a New Urbanism principle guiding the renewal of post-industrial districts

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Maria Cysek-Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Strategic Renewal ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract The revival of post-industrial areas, understood as a factor determining contemporary urban development, is a key process in regeneration. Such areas attract strategic renewal projects, because despite their perfect location next to city centres, they have long been inaccessible to city residents. The backbone of the projects is provided by programmes laying out the future functions of such areas and their target users. In the past, mono-functional districts were popular but their numerous weaknesses have meant that mixed use and diversity are increasingly being introduced into urban areas today. Mixed use and diversity underlie the urban design movement known as the New Urbanism. This article assesses the role of mixed-use and diversity as the New Urbanism principle guiding the renewal of post-industrial areas. It is based on desk research and a comparative analysis of two case studies: the Paris Rive Gauche (France) and the New Centre of Lodz (Poland). The article concludes that regeneration based on the New Urbanism principle of functional and user diversity leads to an effective renewal of run-down urban areas. The applicability of other New Urbanism principles stressing the need to ensure harmony between an urban design strategy and the human scale in the revival of urban neighbourhoods is also worth considering in the long term.

scholarly journals New Urbanism and Contextual Relativity: Insights from Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-416
Author(s):  
Crystal Filep ◽  
Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

Contextual relativities in the diversifying expression of New Urbanism are increasingly important. In this article, we explore the significance of context using a Scandinavian setting as example. We examine two embodiments of the Swedish realisation of New Urban neighbourhoods. Important in our exploration are the relationalities with contemporary contexts and belief systems, since every effort to create space becomes “an elaboration of the beliefs and values of some collection of people, expressed and fostered in their promotion of a preferred reality” (Stokowski, 2002, p. 374). The findings from the study demonstrate that the Swedish New Urban neighbourhood—no matter how meaningful as a communicative form mediating between agents and structures—cannot effect social cohesion or isolation. Rather, form communicates or evokes meaning in a variety of complex ways, suggesting the importance of “look[ing] to multiply…our readings of the city” (Leach, 1997, p. 158), particularly high<em>-</em>level readings that echo notions of the common good. Those concerned with New Urbanism’s embodiments should deliberate on relational fluidities and thereby strike a balance between conceptualising such urban design as either deterministically exceeding its power (Lawhon, 2009) or as side-lined to the whimsical relativity of particular consumers (Latham, 2003; Smith, 2002).

scholarly journals Urban Entertainment Center (UEC) as a Redevelopment Strategy for Large-Scale Post-Industrial Sites in Seoul: Between Public Policy and Privatization of Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Il Lee ◽  
Soe Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Post Industrial

The decline of inner-city manufacturing industries is a global phenomenon, leaving behind vacant land and brownfield sites in cities. These post-industrial areas with their negative images of dereliction and obsolete urban environments have prompted many cities to implement various redevelopment strategies, among which is the concept of the Urban Entertainment Center (UEC), which combines shopping, recreation, and entertainment, with various public spaces. This study attempts to understand the changes that have been triggered by the revitalization strategy of UEC development in large-scale post-industrial sites in Seoul. Here, Special Planning District (SPD) regulation has been adopted to induce creative and long-term urban developments; however, this has been limited to private high-rise residential buildings. This paper examines two UEC development cases applied along with the SPD in semi-industrial areas for their achievements that differ from former implementations. Our analysis reveals several positive aspects: it provides a sustainable urban infrastructure for the region, overcomes the limitations of the SPD regulation practice, and establishes improved urban environment and design quality oriented toward public interest. The “privatization of planning” has become an issue in redevelopment projects. However, the two UEC precedents that are discussed imply that building cooperative public–private partnerships through a reciprocal process will secure more public benefit overall.

Whose Traditions Count? Questioning New Urbanism’s Traditional Neighborhood in the American South

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2095453
Author(s):  
Antonio Raciti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
American South ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
The American South

This article discusses the ontological underpinnings and normative assumptions of the New Urbanism paradigm by exploring how long-term residents explain differences in two historic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. By using an engaged research approach, it examines the production and transformation of space, questioning the meaning of traditions from the perspective of Black residents. Findings suggest that a paradigm of urbanism ought to be built on a systematic investigation of the people–space–time nexus, arguing that the intersection of urbanisms is a way to understand and act on phenomena of urbanization often overlooked by mainstream urban design approaches.

scholarly journals REVISITING AND RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY URBAN DESIGN

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Almantas Samalavicius
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Scientific Principles

Urban and architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros, a professor of mathematics at Texas University, San Antonio is affiliated with departments of urbanism in several countries and has made a significant contribution to the understanding of urban planning on a human scale. His important books on various issues in urban and architectural theory are well-known to all members of the profession and academy, especially those seeking for the application of scientific principles in urbanism. Nikos Salingaros has contributed significantly to the New Athens Charter (2003) – an important yet largely neglected document providing timely guidelines for reshaping present mainstream urbanism that still remains under the spell of urban ideology coined by Le Corbusier, Giedion and legions of their followers. A critic of Corbusian doctrines as well as more recent tendencies of urbanism based on stale legacy of Modernism, Nikos Salingaros offers a different approach to the interpretation of contemporary cities and complexity of their functions. He is among those scholars and practitioners who firmly support the principles of urban design promoted by members of the movement known as New Urbanism. Our talk with Nikos Salingaros revolved around the issues of the need to reconsider and reshape our present attitudes prevailing in urbanism.

Algorithms-Aided Sustainable Urban Design

2018 ◽  
pp. 342-363
Author(s):  
Fernando T. Lima ◽  
José Ripper Kós ◽  
Rodrigo Cury Paraizo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Dynamic Testing ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Geometrical Features ◽  
Algorithmic Approaches

This chapter is part of a research on algorithmic approaches to sustainable urban design. It focuses on the use of computational tools to provide quick and dynamic assessment while planning and discussing interventions in urban areas. The objective is to address the use of algorithmic systems to formulate effective strategies for sustainable urban projects, guided by Transit Oriented Development (TOD) principles. TOD is an urban development model that considers geometric principles and measurable parameters for designing sustainable cities. It advocates the creation of mixed-use neighborhoods within walking distance to a variety of transportation options and amenities, so that basic urban needs are easily accessible. In addition to establish a theoretical framework connecting algorithmic-parametric concepts and geometrical features of TOD, this chapter describes an experimental employment of algorithmic models working on TOD principles, in order to enhance a systematic and dynamic testing and subsequent argumentation for sustainable urban projects.

The Urban Design Discourse and Professional Divide

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Kashef
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Morphological Aspects ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
The City

This study examines the strands of thought that define the urban design discourse today. One of the common and primary urban design approaches developed an understanding of the visual, perceptual, and psychological dynamics underlying human behavior in urban areas. It associated urban design with the visual characteristics of built forms and their impact on people's perceptions and ability to create clear mental maps or images of their surroundings. Another approach emphasized historical, typological, social, and morphological aspects of built forms. It linked successful urban spaces with mixed-use, traditional urban models and advanced place-making principles that encourage spatially defined, legible, and culturally grounded built environments. Lately, there has been an increased debate about the potential of developing an all-encompassing, holistic urban design approach that synthesizes prior urban design approaches and is predicated on the premise that urban design is an interdisciplinary activity concerned with creating livable/sustainable built environments. However, dialogues with architects, landscape architects, and planners revealed an entrenched professional divide among urban design practitioners based on their educational backgrounds and subsequent experiences. This study is premised on the need to address the contradictory views about the city in design and planning educational curricula in order to bridge the intellectual divide and build a holistic or interdisciplinary urban design approach.

The heritagization of post-industrial re-development and social inclusion in Amsterdam

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda van de Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract The histories of former industrial urban areas offer a contested and ambiguous framework for urban redevelopment. Whilst the newly emerged creative industries are framed in continuity with an industrial past, cultural heritage is being mobilized by different actors to authenticate or to contest the redevelopment of working-class neighbourhoods. This article explores the ongoing transformation of post-industrial Amsterdam North, an area that has become subject to active urban redevelopment since the 2000s. Based on ethnographic material, this study examines how 'heritage as development' ‐ based on cosmopolitan ideals of social inclusion ‐ reinforces a process of heritagization grounded on cultural rights that involves working-class memories of solidarity and dissent. I argue that the Amsterdam case complicates dualist interpretations of gentrification and heritagization as processes of categorizing individuals as 'winners' and 'losers'. Heritage practices tend to reinforce cultural differences that produce feelings of exclusion rather than inclusion, but also offer pathways for emancipation and a re-appropriation of local heritage for long-term working-class residents.

scholarly journals Time architecture: Stadtlandschaft Lichterfelde Süd, Berlin

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Beigel ◽  
Philip Christou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Military Training ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Design Competition ◽  
Post Industrial

This winning design in the 1998 Lichterfelde Süd International Landscape and Urban Design Competition is for the regeneration of a former military training ground on the southern boundary of Berlin. The brief was for a new urbanism of the periphery, with 3200 dwellings on a 115 hectare site. The design is a continuation of research embracing conditions of uncertainty and change on mainly post-industrial or former military sites. It could be described as a fragment of an infrastructural urbanism in preparation for an unpredictable diversity of architectures.

scholarly journals Rewitalizacja zamknięta jako przykład zagospodarowania poprzemysłowego obszaru Łodzi

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Świerczewska-Pietras
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Prospective Development ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the notion of closed revitalization as an example of function alteration of post-industrial areas’ of I.K. Poznanski factory in Łódź. In Poland, due to the transformation of the system and economy, the country’s entry into the European Community and finally equalization of opportunities and balancing of the differences between our state and the countries of Western Europe, revitalization of degraded urban areas is, currently, more and more often recognized as an important issue. In recent years, several revitalization projects aiming at the alteration of functions of post-industrial areas have been commenced. Non-profitable operation of industrial plants led to a decrease in production and, thus, a decrease in employment. Sizes of the industrial facilities and limited technical possibilities regarding renovation works often did not allow for the development of the facilities by potential lessees. Those locations have stood abandoned and useless for many years, losing their architectural value and contributing to the spatial degradation of their respective city areas. Therefore, the identities of those cities which were strongly associated with industrial production have been gradually lost. Alteration of the functions of such sites by means of revitalization is an opportunity for their prospective development and growth.

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