scholarly journals Re-envisioning modernity: transformations of postwar suburban landscapes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
Access To Nature

While most historic cities show traces of modernist influences, the highest manifestation of modernist planning is found in North America’s postwar suburbs. As such, these environments have been highly criticized for their lack of identifiability and public space, characteristics that do not support contemporary human desires for variety and social interaction. In the immediate future, growing demands for housing and transit will create opportunities for urban transformation, and provide a platform for a contemporary critique of modernism and its evolution. This thesis postulates that postwar suburbs can be adapted to better meet the desires of 21st century residents, while maintaining privacy and access to nature. Through an analysis of potential nodes within existing suburban settlement patterns, and a critical engagement with the ongoing critique of modernism, an architecture which defines public space and creates recognizable images can be developed within the existing fabric of suburbia.

scholarly journals Re-envisioning modernity: transformations of postwar suburban landscapes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
Access To Nature

While most historic cities show traces of modernist influences, the highest manifestation of modernist planning is found in North America’s postwar suburbs. As such, these environments have been highly criticized for their lack of identifiability and public space, characteristics that do not support contemporary human desires for variety and social interaction. In the immediate future, growing demands for housing and transit will create opportunities for urban transformation, and provide a platform for a contemporary critique of modernism and its evolution. This thesis postulates that postwar suburbs can be adapted to better meet the desires of 21st century residents, while maintaining privacy and access to nature. Through an analysis of potential nodes within existing suburban settlement patterns, and a critical engagement with the ongoing critique of modernism, an architecture which defines public space and creates recognizable images can be developed within the existing fabric of suburbia.

Prekäre Kopräsenz. Raum, Sozialräume und geteiltes Erleben in Zeiten der Pandemie

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
Thomas Wabel
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Direct Encounter

Abstract The article explores changes in public self-awareness resulting from the reduction of social interaction in physical presence during the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the three dimensions of shared public space, social interaction in direct encounter, and shared meaning, the text argues that dwindling opportunities to experience social cohesion may become paradigmatic for more fundamental deficiencies in societal interaction. Seen in this light, church services in physical presence can help to maintain a sense for public life in physical presence, unmediated by digital tools.

Kaffeekonsum als Problem

Daphnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 212-234
Author(s):  
Louis Delpech
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Drinking Habits ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract The rise of coffee consumption and steady expansion of coffee houses all over Europe in the last decades of the 17th century is often connected to the emergence of a public space, new modes of communication and social interaction, and eventually seen as a catalyst for the early Enlightenment. Yet those new places and drinking habits also had a disrupting effect on accepted norms of sociability and raised questions about potential health risks. Those debates are particularly well reflected in Leipzig publications between 1690 and 1730. This article takes three cantatas on coffee by Johann Gottfried Krause, Daniel Stoppe, and Christian Friedrich Henrici as a point of departure to investigate the emergence of this new genre in Leipzig and bear upon its social, literary, and musical implications.

scholarly journals Ensuring Sustainable Urban Transformation in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
B. Setiawan ◽  
Tri Mulyani Sunarharum
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Third World

Of the many important events that occurred in the two decades of the 21st century, the process of accelerating urbanization—especially in third-world countries—became something quite phenomenal. It's never even happened before. In the early 2000s, only about 45 percent of the population in the third world lived in urban areas, by 2020 the number had reached about 55 percent. Between now and 2035 the percentage of the population living in urban areas will reach about 85 percent in developed countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries will reach about 65 percent. By 2035, it is also projected that about 80 percent of the world's urban population will live in developing countries' cities.

scholarly journals Learning from Slussen: place, idea and process in the transformation of central urban interstices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Clua
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Original Structure ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
Political Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Intense Debate

Over the last two decades the Slussen in Stockholm designed by Tage William-Olsson in 1935 has been the subject of an intense debate about how to update it to the contemporary needs. Tabula rasa, reconstruction or renovation? This lively discussion, however, has resulted in a final proposal granted by the expertise of an international firm but controversial for its political management, opposed to several social groups and, above all, highly problematic in terms of urban form and sustainability. The strategic location of this place, the indelible presence of its modern shape in the collective imaginary or the overwhelming force of the new paradigms of public space, have ended up provoking a range of more than twenty-five proposals in a short period of time. But while today this process seems to be settled and the demolition works of the original structure has already started, it would be still useful to draw some conclusions relevant to other similar interstitial sites in European compact cities where architecture, infrastructure, public space and landscape meet in such an intense way. Thus, this paper summarizes some of the last arguments of the on-going doctoral thesis about the recent evolution of Slussen according to four different outstanding topics: the form of place and history as an undeniable premise; the strength of tactics versus the power of the image in the process; the importance of time in the sequence of urban decision-making and, finally, the weight of urban culture as a key argument in contemporary urban transformation processes.

scholarly journals MENAKAR IDEALITAS LAPANGAN PUPUTAN SEBAGAI RUANG PUBLIK MASYARAKAT KOTA DENPASAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Wahyu Budi Nugroho ◽  
Gede Kamajaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Aspect

This research discusses public space in Denpasar, Bali, focusing on Lapangan Puputan. Theoretically, public space has three functions, namely recreational, social interaction and political aspect. Using Habermas's theory on public space, this article found Lapangan Puputan fulfils three functions of public space. Yet, there is a lack of society's understanding on the function of public space, in which the space is functioned more for economic activity. They also refuse if Lapangan Puputan is used for political activity.

scholarly journals PENGARUH JALAN LINGKUNGAN SEBAGAI RUANG INTERAKSI SOSIAL TERHADAP LINGKUNGAN PERMUKIMAN BUNGUR, JAKARTA PUSAT

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Nany Yuliastuti ◽  
Adinda Sekar Tanjung
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Interaction Space ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Neighborhood Environment ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Final Project ◽  
The Social

<span class="hps">Streets are one of important network that will connect between area<span lang="EN-AU">.</span> Streets are the stage for commerce and exchange of goods, even for doing work, especially in eastern countries (Jacobs in Kiang et al, 2010<span lang="EN-AU">:</span>160). Street of Asia have been and continue to evolve as distinct from those of the west, reflecting the unique Asian cultures (Dayaratne in Kiang et al, 2010<span lang="EN-AU">:</span>63). The unique can be looked from street that used for held community festival, held funeral, street market, and social activity space, etc.Residential street became public space that very useful for social interaction space (visible in daily activity and community festival). Activities that happen on the street eventually will add other functions on the street as a space of social interaction. <span lang="EN-AU">Residential streets</span> in the <span lang="EN-AU">Bungur Sub District, Central Jakarta</span> used by the public as a space for exchanging ideas, buying and selling, children's playground, and an annual festival.The aim of this research is to analyze influence residential street and alley function as social interaction space on neighborhood environment<span lang="EN-AU">.</span> However, research method that used in this final project is quantitative with survey research strategy and statistic descriptive as analysis method. The results showed that the <span lang="EN-AU">residential streets</span> in <span lang="EN-AU">Bungur Sub District</span> has become a public space that allows people to interact with each other<span lang="EN-AU"> (</span>shown by a variety of activities<span lang="EN-AU">)</span>. Social interaction has strengthened the social ties <span lang="EN-AU">and realized a</span> strong kinship<span lang="EN-AU"> in these neighborhood</span>.<em><span> </span></em></span>

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