Dead Among the Living: Burning Bodies in Inner City Wellington

Urban Life ◽

Western Society ◽

Urban Context ◽

Life And Death ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

The Dead ◽

Business District ◽

A Site

The architecture of cremation has struggled to embrace an identity; it has remained ambiguous in its architectural typology and religious association since it was first introduced into western society. Additionally, the absence of a ritual place for death in urban life is one manifestation of the contemporary idea that death does not belong in the modern living city. Death is seen as having no place in a society obsessed with youth and vigour; it has become an architectural taboo. The increased reluctance to physically address death as the inevitable consequence to life has resulted in death associated architecture eroding to the point where it has become absent in our everyday lives. With the expansion of Wellington during the 1800’s, cemeteries formerly on the outskirts (Mount and Bolton Streets) became engulfed by the sprawling city. Overflowing with corpses by the 1900’s, these sites now remain dormant, eliminating any opportunity for the public to ‘see’ death daily. Situating a crematorium within a Wellington urban context will not only address this issue, but also successfully meet the demand for more burial spaces, as Makara Cemetery is nearing capacity, and Karori Cemetery is already full. A site located in the ‘dead centre’ of Wellington’s central business district becomes the testing ground for a new urban crematorium – one that aims to reduce the anxiety around death by inclusion of it within people’s everyday lives. It aims to provide mourners with a more meaningful experience, and the general public a cosmopolitan necropolis. The presence of an urban crematorium and columbarium provides continual opportunities for people to reflect on their own mortality, honour and remember the dead, and be reminded to live while they can. A methodological approach of testing architectural sequences in relation to pattern language theory will allow for a thematic progression for mourners from sorrow to acceptance through the use of light, shadow, and sectional arrangements. This investigation into the meaningfulness of relationships between people and buildings, life and death, translates into spaces ready to be further invested with meaning by mourners.

Systematic Ground Motion Observations in the Canterbury Earthquakes and Region-Specific Non-Ergodic Empirical Ground Motion Modeling

Earthquake Spectra ◽

10.1193/053013eqs137m ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 1735-1761 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Brendon A. Bradley

Keyword(s):

Standard Deviation ◽

Ground Motion ◽

Strong Motion ◽

Motion Modeling ◽

Strong Motion Station ◽

Systematic Effects ◽

Canterbury Earthquake Sequence ◽

Business District ◽

A Site

This paper presents an examination of ground motion observations from 20 near-source strong motion stations during the most significant ten events in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence to examine region-specific systematic effects based on relaxing the conventional ergodic assumption. On the basis of similar site-to-site residuals, surfical geology, and geographical proximity, 15 of the 20 stations are grouped into four sub-regions: the Central Business District; and Western, Eastern, and Northern suburbs. Mean site-to-site residuals for these sub-regions then allows for the possibility of non-ergodic ground motion prediction over these sub-regions of Canterbury, rather than only at strong motion station locations. The ratio of the total non-ergodic vs. ergodic standard deviation is found to be, on average, consistent with previous studies, however it is emphasized that on a site-by-site basis the non-ergodic standard deviation can easily vary by ±20%.

TEMPAT KESEHATAN HOLISTIK DI PURI KEMBANGAN

Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) ◽

10.24912/stupa.v2i2.8568 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 2041

Author(s):

Laurencia Barnessa ◽

Alvin Hadiwono

Keyword(s):

Urban Society ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Point Of View ◽

Social Needs ◽

Urban Life ◽

Holistic Healing ◽

Daily Routine ◽

Business District ◽

High Level

This project is located in Puri Kembangan’s region which known as a Central Business District,, entertainment and residential area .In life, healthiness is one of the most important thing in life that sometime still poorly understood by the society. In the modern era today, society have a different point of view and attitude towards healthiness. In order to maintain the balance of modernization, there are health treatment called holistic healing that had been popular recently. Holistic healing space is a healthiness comprehensive that not only focus on one aspect only, but to a lot of aspect such as body, mind and soul. The growth of diseases have increasingly diverse from time to time and possess a deadly impact that affect the complexity of the urban society lives. Therefore, it is very important to notice holistic healthiness, not only physicall aspect but mind and soul as well. In everyday life, espicially work routine tend to cause a high level of stress in the society that drive the urge to be free from daily routine or be refreshed to fulfill psychological needs. As for social needs, human needed the time to socialize with friends and communicate with other people. The Holistic Healing Space project is expected to be a vessel for the society to fulfill the condition of their Holistic Healthiness and manage a healthier urban life pattern, because maintaining healthiness is not an ordinary thing but had already become the lifestyle of urban society. Keywords: healthy; holistic; urban Abstrak Proyek ini terletak di kawasan masyarakat menengah keatas daerah Puri Kembangan yang merupakan kawasan perkantoran, hiburan dan hunian. Dalam kehidupan, kesehatan merupakan salah satu hal utama yang terkadang masih kurang dipahami oleh masyarakat. Di era modernisasi saat ini, masyarakat memiliki cara pandang dan sikap yang berbeda terhadap kesehatan. Untuk mengimbangi modernisasi, ada pelayanan kesehatan yaitu kesehatan holistik, yang belakangan ini mulai populer. Kesehatan Holistik ini merupakan kesehatan menyeluruh tidak hanya pada satu aspek saja, tetapi pada banyak aspek seperti tubuh, pikiran dan jiwa. Perkembangan penyakit dari waktu ke waktu semakin beraneka ragam yang memiliki dampak mematikan, sehingga mempengaruhi kompleksitas kehidupan masyarakat urban. Maka dari itu, pentingnya memperhatikan kesehatan secara holistik, tidak hanya pada fisik saja tapi juga kesehatan pikiran dan jiwa. Selain itu dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama rutinitas pada pekerjaan menyebabkan tingkat stres yang cukup tinggi di kalangan masyarakat, sehingga menimbulkan keinginan untuk keluar dari rutinitas atau refresing untuk memenuhi kebutuhan psikologis. Sehingga proyek Holistic Healing Space ini berharap bisa menjadi wadah untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat akan kondisi kesehatan holistik serta mengusahakan pola hidup urban yang lebih sehat, karena menjaga kesehatan bukan sesuatu hal yang biasa tetapi sudah menjadi gaya hidup masyarakat urban.

The Central Business District in American Cities

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.654 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Remus

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Traffic Congestion ◽

Urban Life ◽

Land Values ◽

White Families ◽

Race And Class ◽

Business District ◽

American Cities ◽

The central business district, often referred to as the “downtown,” was the economic nucleus of the American city in the 19th and 20th centuries. It stood at the core of urban commercial life, if not always the geographic center of the metropolis. Here was where the greatest number of offices, banks, stores, and service institutions were concentrated—and where land values and building heights reached their peaks. The central business district was also the most easily accessible point in a city, the place where public transit lines intersected and brought together masses of commuters from outlying as well as nearby neighborhoods. In the downtown, laborers, capitalists, shoppers, and tourists mingled together on bustling streets and sidewalks. Not all occupants enjoyed equal influence in the central business district. Still, as historian Jon C. Teaford explained in his classic study of American cities, the downtown was “the one bit of turf common to all,” the space where “the diverse ethnic, economic, and social strains of urban life were bound together, working, spending, speculating, and investing.” The central business district was not a static place. Boundaries shifted, expanding and contracting as the city grew and the economy evolved. So too did the primary land uses. Initially a multifunctional space where retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and financial institutions crowded together, the central business district became increasingly segmented along commercial lines in the 19th century. By the early 20th century, rising real estate prices and traffic congestion drove most manufacturing and processing operations to the periphery. Remaining behind in the city center were the bulk of the nation’s offices, stores, and service institutions. As suburban growth accelerated in the mid-20th century, many of these businesses also vacated the downtown, following the flow of middle-class, white families. Competition with the suburbs drained the central business district of much of its commercial vitality in the second half of the 20th century. It also inspired a variety of downtown revitalization schemes that tended to reinforce inequalities of race and class.

Concrete Island: Lost Sites and Hidden Heritage

10.26686/wgtn.17064380.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Zackary Johnson

Keyword(s):

Place Identity ◽

City Centre ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Urban Context ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Urban Planner ◽

The Public ◽

Business District ◽

In cities like Auckland, suburban sprawl has led to the introduction of extensive elevated motorways that create barriers and cuts across the ordering elements of the city. Urban planner Roger Trancik refers to the areas beneath and adjacent to these urban motorways as “lost sites”, considered ‘unbuildable’ even though they occur within the central business district. This research investigation looks at how architecture can help return a sense of place identity and cultural significance to otherwise placeless zones defined by elevated urban motorways. The central Auckland site for this design-led research is the Central Motorway Junction (CMJ), commonly referred to as ‘spaghetti junction’ — a site physically and environmentally inappropriate for housing development, but large and high profile enough to contribute significantly to Auckland’s ‘cultural hub’. The proposed programme for this investigation is a new facility to house Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’s stored collections. Arguably New Zealand’s most valuable cultural holdings, only 3% of Te Papa Tongarewa’s collections are on display at any time. The rest of the museum’s stored collections are completely hidden from public view within its back of house facilities and warehouse structures in Wellington. Due to Wellington’s location on major fault lines, studies are underway to permanently move the stored collections to Auckland, where they will remain removed from the public eye. This design-led research investigation proposes that once these collections are relocated to Auckland, if they are made visually accessible to the public, they could provide a vital extension of the cultural hub for the city centre. The investigation proposes to architecturally inhabit one of Auckland’s most prominent lost sites, the Central Motorway Junction, in a way that celebrates its iconic elevated motorway as a viable urban context capable of actively contributing to urban re-vitalisation and cultural consolidation. The thesis investigation examines the city’s motorway infrastructure as a framework for a new typology for architecture that actively uses the ‘motorway typology’ to establish architectural and place identity. Simultaneously the investigation explores how expansive elevated motorway sites can provide significant footprints for new public buildings to enhance the cultural identity of the urban centre.

Life and Death, City and SuburbThe Transformations of Late Antiquity

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198852759.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 229-234

Author(s):

Allison L. C. Emmerson

Keyword(s):

Late Antiquity ◽

Fifth Century ◽

Urban Life ◽

Late Antique ◽

Cultivated Land ◽

Life And Death ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

History Of ◽

The Dead ◽

“Life and Death, City and Suburb: The Transformations of Late Antiquity” is a brief epilogue considering urbanism of the fifth century CE and beyond. As Rome’s population shrank, the city reoriented itself into a constellation of small settlements, scattered within the Aurelian Wall and surrounded by cultivated land. The residents of these settlements buried their dead within the wall, a development that has been seen to represent a sea change in mentality, but which is better read as a result of the city’s new topography and demography. Suburbs, furthermore, did not disappear in this period. Late Antique suburbs grew up around the suburban shrines of Christian martyrs, not only at Rome, but also in other Italian cities like Mediolanum and Nola. This period was marked by both continuity and change, but through it the dead remained present in urban life, continuing relationships carried through all stages in the history of Italy’s cities.

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb

10.1093/oso/9780198852759.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Allison L. C. Emmerson

Keyword(s):

Late Antiquity ◽

Economic Life ◽

Urban Life ◽

Life And Death ◽

Republican Period ◽

The Social ◽

Bounded Space ◽

The Dead ◽

The Many ◽

A Roman city was a bounded space. Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was divided from its rural surroundings not only physically, but also legally, economically, and ritually. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this separation, an unexpected phenomenon marked the Augustan and early Imperial periods: Roman cities developed suburbs, built-up areas beyond their boundaries, where the living and the dead came together in environments that could become densely urban. Life and Death in the Roman Suburb examines these districts, drawing on the archaeological remains of cities across Italy to understand their character and to illuminate the factors that led to their rise and decline, with a particular focus on the tombs of the dead. Work on Roman cities still tends to pass over funerary material, while research on death has concentrated on issues seen as separate from urbanism. This book aims to reconnect those threads, considering tombs within their suburban landscapes of shops, houses, workshops, garbage dumps, extramural sanctuaries, and major entertainment buildings to trace the many roles they played within living cities. It argues that tombs were not passive memorials, but active spaces that both facilitated and furthered the social and economic life of the city, where relationships between the living and the dead were an enduring aspect of urban life.

Concrete Island: Lost Sites and Hidden Heritage

10.26686/wgtn.17064380 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Zackary Johnson

Keyword(s):

Place Identity ◽

City Centre ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Urban Context ◽

Urban Centre ◽

Urban Planner ◽

The Public ◽

Business District ◽

In cities like Auckland, suburban sprawl has led to the introduction of extensive elevated motorways that create barriers and cuts across the ordering elements of the city. Urban planner Roger Trancik refers to the areas beneath and adjacent to these urban motorways as “lost sites”, considered ‘unbuildable’ even though they occur within the central business district. This research investigation looks at how architecture can help return a sense of place identity and cultural significance to otherwise placeless zones defined by elevated urban motorways. The central Auckland site for this design-led research is the Central Motorway Junction (CMJ), commonly referred to as ‘spaghetti junction’ — a site physically and environmentally inappropriate for housing development, but large and high profile enough to contribute significantly to Auckland’s ‘cultural hub’. The proposed programme for this investigation is a new facility to house Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’s stored collections. Arguably New Zealand’s most valuable cultural holdings, only 3% of Te Papa Tongarewa’s collections are on display at any time. The rest of the museum’s stored collections are completely hidden from public view within its back of house facilities and warehouse structures in Wellington. Due to Wellington’s location on major fault lines, studies are underway to permanently move the stored collections to Auckland, where they will remain removed from the public eye. This design-led research investigation proposes that once these collections are relocated to Auckland, if they are made visually accessible to the public, they could provide a vital extension of the cultural hub for the city centre. The investigation proposes to architecturally inhabit one of Auckland’s most prominent lost sites, the Central Motorway Junction, in a way that celebrates its iconic elevated motorway as a viable urban context capable of actively contributing to urban re-vitalisation and cultural consolidation. The thesis investigation examines the city’s motorway infrastructure as a framework for a new typology for architecture that actively uses the ‘motorway typology’ to establish architectural and place identity. Simultaneously the investigation explores how expansive elevated motorway sites can provide significant footprints for new public buildings to enhance the cultural identity of the urban centre.

DECIPHERING URBAN LIFE: A MULTI-LAYERED INVESTIGATION OF ST. ENOCH SQUARE, GLASGOW CITY CENTRE

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i2.1278 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 137 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ashraf M. Salama ◽

Adel M. Remali ◽

Laura MacLean

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Urban Space ◽

Social Life ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Urban Life ◽

City Centre ◽

Urban Context ◽

City Life ◽

And Performance ◽

An urban space is a vital stage for social interaction and city life. Measuring the city life is always related to social, economic and cultural conditions of an urban context. Social gathering increases the quality of urban space and improves economic vitality. This paper aims to explore how successful urban spaces could impact the growth and performance of an urban context, not only as a physical urban reality, but also as a generator of social life. Utilising St. Enoch Square as a case study, a multi-layered methodological approach constituted in a series of tools was implemented, including behavioural mapping, visual preference survey, walking tour assessment, contemplating settings, and observing physical traces and by-product of use in order to interpret various forms of experiences that take place. Findings reveal various attributes of St. Enoch Square while highlighting different qualities that promote and support the overall vibrancy of the city life. Conclusions are drawn to emphasise that the physical and spatial characteristics of an urban space are critical factors for maintaining social interaction while creating essential opportunities that support the human experience in the public realm.

Horror and Death: Rethinking Coco's Border Politics

Film Quarterly ◽

10.1525/fq.2020.73.4.41 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 41-49

Author(s):

Orquidea Morales

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

Horror Film ◽

Walt Disney Company ◽

Life And Death ◽

Walt Disney ◽

Day Of The Dead ◽

Animated Film ◽

Border Politics ◽

The Dead ◽

The U.S

In 2013, the Walt Disney Company submitted an application to trademark “Día de los muertos” (Day of the Dead) as they prepared to launch a holiday themed movie. Almost immediately after this became public Disney faced such strong criticism and backlash they withdrew their petition. By October of 2017 Disney/Pixar released the animated film Coco. Audiences in Mexico and the U.S. praised it's accurate and authentic representation of the celebration of Day of the Dead. In this essay, I argue that despite its generic framing, Coco mobilizes many elements of horror in its account of Miguel's trespassing into the forbidden space of the dead and his transformation into a liminal figure, both dead and alive. Specifically, with its horror so deftly deployed through tropes and images of borders, whether between life and death or the United States and Mexico, Coco falls within a new genre, the border horror film.