Fill in the blank: an architectural intervention to restore the continuity from infrastructural residue in the densely built Hong Kong

Urban Fabric ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Highway Infrastructure ◽

Left Behind ◽

Problematic Relationship ◽

Residual Space ◽

No Man's Land ◽

Transport Infrastructure has played a significant part in reforming the built fabric of our cities. Highways were constructed to facilitate connectivity the urban fabric ever more. The linear cuts incised through the continuity of both the physical and social fabric of the city. Left behind are impermeable accidental spaces, voids that are inaccessible to the surrounding users. Like no man’s land, the interstitial spaces is its own realm and separates itself from the rest of the system; neglecting its potential as an in-between state, bounded by the edges of communities, infrastructure and landscape. Simultaneously, recognizing architecture as an instrument organization and its capacity to impose order within an increasingly complex and problematic environments. This thesis attempts to address the residual space created from highway infrastructure by investigating the problematic relationship between infrastructure and the urban fabric. Using architecture as the agent to unfold its potential as a junction, it proposes a design process that focuses on the integration of all fields that defines the urban fabric. The thesis incorporates the utilization of leftover spaces as the site for architectural intervention to restore the continuity of the broken city fabric.

NEW MEANING OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

URBAN CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE ◽

10.17673/vestnik.2018.02.22 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 130-134

Author(s):

Nina A. LEKAREVA ◽

Anna Yu. ZASLAVSKAYA

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Large Cities ◽

Domestic Practice ◽

The problems of renovation of urban public spaces of modern megacities are considered with the introduction of new functions and more active inclusion of transport infrastructure in the design process in order to att ract the visitors. Positive examples of such an integrated approach in foreign projects are given. Questions of technically and aesthetically competent landscaping of large cities are being raised. The data of the accounting of the volumes of landscaping of the city of Samara are given, they are compared with the generally accepted standards of gardening. The shortcomings of the domestic practice of point-like landscaping of megacities and methods for solving environmental and other problems with the help of landscape design are exemplifi ed by the example of Samara.

State of Flux: Rescuing Nelson's Waterfront

10.26686/wgtn.17019131 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Jason Macquet

Keyword(s):

Architectural Design ◽

City Council ◽

Urban Fabric ◽

Poor Condition ◽

Left Behind ◽

The People ◽

Material Space ◽

A Site ◽

The Relationship ◽

<p>The neglected coastal edge of the port landscape has left behind unreceptive scars on the city’s urban fabric. These prominent locations are pivotal links between coastal towns and the sea; they are currently in very poor condition.¹ This thesis explores a site with these characteristics, Nelson, nestled between the Southern Alps at the top of New Zealand’s South Island. The compact and intimate geography of the Nelson region is surrounded by the ocean; with the city growing central to its port. Due to the once thriving local exports and industrial trade the port hastily expanded, the inevitable decline of the industrial era has resulted in a landscape of disregard which has distanced the city from the water. These neglected waterfront locations now taint the pristine image of the Nelson Haven. This thesis examines how a carefully considered architectural design can reintegrate this pivotal location back into the city’s urban fabric while reinforcing the relationship between the people of Nelson and the water. This design-led research utilises the sport of rowing with its link to the water as the catalyst to reconnect the people of Nelson to the waterfront and the water itself. This design-led thesis employs the ideologies of atmospheric experiences to materialise the importance of water to sense of place. This is achieved by exploiting the atmospheric experiences of material, space and time through an architectural dialogue with the water’s duality. The Nelson Haven experiences vast tidal movements which forms the foundations for the experience observed at the interface of architecture and water. This thesis further argues that this framework of architectural experience has the potential to serve as a catalyst project to rejuvenate and reintegrate the city of Nelson with its prime waterfront location. ¹ “Rutherford & Trafalgar Parks & Maitai Walkway” Nelson City Council. accessed July 15, 2015. http://nelson.govt.nz/assets/Leisure/Downloads/R-and-T-parks-redevelopment.pdf.</p>

State of Flux: Rescuing Nelson's Waterfront

10.26686/wgtn.17019131.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Jason Macquet

Keyword(s):

Architectural Design ◽

City Council ◽

Urban Fabric ◽

Poor Condition ◽

Left Behind ◽

The People ◽

Material Space ◽

A Site ◽

The Relationship ◽

<p>The neglected coastal edge of the port landscape has left behind unreceptive scars on the city’s urban fabric. These prominent locations are pivotal links between coastal towns and the sea; they are currently in very poor condition.¹ This thesis explores a site with these characteristics, Nelson, nestled between the Southern Alps at the top of New Zealand’s South Island. The compact and intimate geography of the Nelson region is surrounded by the ocean; with the city growing central to its port. Due to the once thriving local exports and industrial trade the port hastily expanded, the inevitable decline of the industrial era has resulted in a landscape of disregard which has distanced the city from the water. These neglected waterfront locations now taint the pristine image of the Nelson Haven. This thesis examines how a carefully considered architectural design can reintegrate this pivotal location back into the city’s urban fabric while reinforcing the relationship between the people of Nelson and the water. This design-led research utilises the sport of rowing with its link to the water as the catalyst to reconnect the people of Nelson to the waterfront and the water itself. This design-led thesis employs the ideologies of atmospheric experiences to materialise the importance of water to sense of place. This is achieved by exploiting the atmospheric experiences of material, space and time through an architectural dialogue with the water’s duality. The Nelson Haven experiences vast tidal movements which forms the foundations for the experience observed at the interface of architecture and water. This thesis further argues that this framework of architectural experience has the potential to serve as a catalyst project to rejuvenate and reintegrate the city of Nelson with its prime waterfront location. ¹ “Rutherford & Trafalgar Parks & Maitai Walkway” Nelson City Council. accessed July 15, 2015. http://nelson.govt.nz/assets/Leisure/Downloads/R-and-T-parks-redevelopment.pdf.</p>

Past and present: cartographic history of Famagusta

Miscellanea Geographica ◽

10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 173-179

Author(s):

Merve Senem Arkan

Keyword(s):

Port City ◽

Urban Fabric ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Modern Times ◽

Left Behind ◽

Historic Structures ◽

History Of ◽

Abstract The island of Cyprus has been occupied by various powers, during which time the historical and cultural contexts of the main cities of the island have changed and left behind material traces. One of these cities is the main port city of the island Famagusta, where the various ruling powers affected its fabric and the different historic structures of the city combine with modern in the contemporary city. These multicultural structures and historical layers can be followed on the maps. The aim of this paper is to follow the changing urban fabric of Famagusta by examining the selected maps from the 16th century to modern times. How much the city undergoes spatial alteration and how much of the historical structure and developments can be followed on the cartographic records? The paper will question the perspective of the cartographers towards Famagusta and their priorities in depicting this multicultural city.

Perancangan Boneka Edukasi Terinspirasi oleh Pencipta Boneka Si Unyil

Prosiding Seminar Nasional Pendidikan KALUNI ◽

10.30998/prossnp.v1i0.49 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

Author(s):

Azhari Amri

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Urban Culture ◽

Urban Life ◽

Rural Region ◽

The Public ◽

The Creation ◽

The Difference ◽

The City ◽

Simple Materials

Film Unyil puppet comes not just part of the entertainment world that can be enjoyed by people from the side of the story, music, and dialogue. However, there is more value in it which is a manifestation of the creator that can be absorbed into the charge for the benefit of educating the children of Indonesia to the public at large. The Unyil puppet created by the father of Drs. Suyadi is one of the works that are now widely known by the whole people of Indonesia. The process of creating a puppet Unyil done with simple materials and formation of character especially adapted to the realities of the existing rural region. Through this process, this research leads to the design process is fundamentally educational puppet inspired by the creation of Si Unyil puppet. The difference is the inspiring character created in this study is on the characters that exist in urban life, especially the city of Jakarta. Thus the results of this study are the pattern of how to shape the design of products through the creation of the puppet with the approach of urban culture.

Evaluation of Road Utilisation as Space For Holding Social Ceremonies in Indigenous Residential Area of Ogbomoso, Nigeria

LAUTECH Journal of Civil and Environmental Studies ◽

10.36108/laujoces/8102/10(0131) ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (March 2018) ◽

Author(s):

S.A Okanlawon ◽

O.O Odunjo ◽

S.A Olaniyan

Keyword(s):

Noisy Environment ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Core ◽

Local Roads ◽

Strict Enforcement ◽

The Mean ◽

The One ◽

The City ◽

The Town

This study examined Residents’ evaluation of turning transport infrastructure (road) to spaces for holding social ceremonies in the indigenous residential zone of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. Upon stratifying the city into the three identifiable zones, the core, otherwise known as the indigenous residential zone was isolated for study. Of the twenty (20) political wards in the two local government areas of the town, fifteen (15) wards that were located in the indigenous zone constituted the study area. Respondents were selected along one out of every three (33.3%) of the Trunk — C (local) roads being the one mostly used for the purpose in the study area. The respondents were the residents, commercial motorists, commercial motorcyclists, and celebrants. Six hundred and forty-two (642) copies of questionnaire were administered and harvested on the spot. The Mean Analysis generated from the respondents’ rating of twelve perceived hazards listed in the questionnaire were then used to determine respondents’ most highly rated perceived consequences of the practice. These were noisy environment, Blockage of drainage by waste, and Endangering the life of the sick on the way to hospital; the most highly rated reasons why the practice came into being; and level of acceptability of the practice which was found to be very unacceptable in the study area. Policy makers should therefore focus their attention on strict enforcement of the law prohibiting the practice in order to ensure more cordial relationship among the citizenry, seeing citizens’ unacceptability of the practice in the study area.

THE SUBURBANISATION OF THE KUALA LUMPUR METROPOLITAN REGION

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pmjournal.v1.i1.38 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jamalunlaili Abdullah

Keyword(s):

Metropolitan Region ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Urban Fabric ◽

The Past ◽

Klang Valley ◽

The Klang Valley has been experiencing rapid urbanisation especially during the past two decades. The area has expanded to become a larger entity known as the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan Region (KLMR). But this development comes at the expense of Kuala Lumpur. The city had consistently recorded net-out migration during the period. This development has consequences on the urban fabric of the city and can lead to the problem

Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/00420980211017811 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802110178 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zheng Chang ◽

Mi Diao

Keyword(s):

Travel Time ◽

High Speed ◽

Local Effect ◽

Network Effect ◽

Housing Values ◽

High Speed Rail ◽

The City ◽

Redistribution Effect ◽

Metro Network

This study analyses the changes in intra-city housing values in response to improved inter-city connection brought by high-speed rail (HSR), using the opening of the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen Passenger Dedicated Line (HFSL) in Shenzhen, China, as an example. The opening of the HFSL and its integration into the local metro network at Shenzhen North Station provide exogenous intra-city variations in access to the surrounding economic mass. With a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the HFSL showed a negative local effect as housing values declined by 11.5%–13.3% in the proximity of Shenzhen North Station relative to areas further from the station after the opening, possibly due to the negative externalities of the HFSL. The HFSL effect can spread along the metro network and lead to, on average, a 7% appreciation of housing values around metro stations (network effect). The direction and strength of the network effect vary by metro travel time between Shenzhen North Station and metro stations. Housing values decreased by 7.7% around metro stations within 5–15 minutes of metro travel time but increased by 63.6%, 16.6% and 29.2% around metro stations within 15–25, 25–35 and 35–45 minutes of metro travel time to Shenzhen North Station, respectively. The HFSL effect on housing values diminishes when the rail travel time is above 45 minutes. We interpret these findings as evidence of the redistribution effect in the city related to HSR connection.

Prediction limits of mobile phone activity modelling

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.160900 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 160900 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dániel Kondor ◽

Sebastian Grauwin ◽

Zsófia Kallus ◽

István Gódor ◽

Stanislav Sobolevsky ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Full Spectrum ◽

Left Behind ◽

Social Events ◽

Prediction Limits ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

City Structure ◽

Thanks to their widespread usage, mobile devices have become one of the main sensors of human behaviour and digital traces left behind can be used as a proxy to study urban environments. Exploring the nature of the spatio-temporal patterns of mobile phone activity could thus be a crucial step towards understanding the full spectrum of human activities. Using 10 months of mobile phone records from Greater London resolved in both space and time, we investigate the regularity of human telecommunication activity on urban scales. We evaluate several options for decomposing activity timelines into typical and residual patterns, accounting for the strong periodic and seasonal components. We carry out our analysis on various spatial scales, showing that regularity increases as we look at aggregated activity in larger spatial units with more activity in them. We examine the statistical properties of the residuals and show that it can be explained by noise and specific outliers. Also, we look at sources of deviations from the general trends, which we find to be explainable based on knowledge of the city structure and places of attractions. We show examples how some of the outliers can be related to external factors such as specific social events.