Architecture of Apocalypse, City of Lights

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-162
Author(s):  
Marion Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
New Wave ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Post War ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

The inception of the New Wave coincided with a profound mutation of the French urban fabric: parts of historic city centers were razed in post-war modernisation schemes, while 'new towns' were planned outside major cities to relieve the pressure of population growth. This chapter analyses New Wave filmmakers' diverse engagement with architecture - old and new - and urban change in both fictional and documentary genres. Themes for discussion include New Wave directors' ambivalent representation of the new forms of architectural modernity that emerged in France in the 1950s and 60s; their interrogation of the living conditions on modern housing estates; and their examination of the relationship between the built environment, affect, and memory. The chapter also considers the movement's fascination with the tactile textures and surfaces of the city.

scholarly journals O wybranych przestrzeniach mieszkalnych funkcjonujących współcześnie w miejskim krajobrazie kulturowym

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
Joanna Olenderek ◽  
Maciej Olenderek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Innovative Idea ◽  
Post War ◽  
Open Housing ◽  
Space Architecture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

On selected living spaces that function in contemporary urban cultural landscape Streszczenie Autorzy artykułu opisują wybrane przykłady przestrzeni mieszkalnych ukształtowanych i zrealizowanych w XX i XXI wieku a funkcjonujących do obecnych czasów w krajobrazie miast. Starają się wyjaśnić i ocenić odniesienia do filozofii ich budowania i etyki projektowania. Szczególnie zwracają uwagę na procesy manipulacji a zachowania szacunku do natury i otwartych przestrzeni. Zostało to przedstawione na przykładach międzywojennych historycznych osiedli w Łodzi im. Mątwiłła Mireckiego i Werkbundu we Wrocławiu oraz miasta ogrodu Zlin firmy Bata. Fabryka butów Baty zmieniła wygląd całego miasta, które stało się sprawnie funkcjonującą przestrzenią, z precyzyjnie zaprojektowaną architekturą warunkującą każdy aspekt życia. Okres powojennej myśli urbanistycznej przedstawiono na wzorze osiedla Sadów Żoliborskich oraz nowatorskiej idei lat 70-tych na przykładzie konkursu na osiedle Ursynów w Warszawie. Odniesiono się do idei miasta ogrodu i jego odsłony w latach 80-tych poprzez tworzenie zielonych, otwartych osiedli w zabudowie niskiej i dywanowej w ramach zleceń rządowych. Wprawdzie te idee nie były zrealizowane ale pozostawała myśl i pragnienie. Poszanowanie terenów zieleni o zasadniczym znaczeniu dla charakteru miejsca zaprezentowano na przykładzie zespołu domów pasywnych w Konstantynowie Łódzkim czy osiedla Aspern w Wiedniu, sposobu ich procedowania i tworzenia. Zwrócono uwagę na rangę poszanowanie wartości krajobrazowych, wyjaśniono zależności pomiędzy przestrzenią, architekturą a naturą. Podjęto próbę znalezienia priorytetowych o kapitalnym znaczeniu elementów gry przestrzennej dla zachowania wartości nadrzędnych dla środowiska naturalnego i architektury. On selected living spaces that function in contemporary urban cultural landscape The authors of the article describe selected examples of living spaces shaped and constructed in the 20th and 21st century and functioning to the present day in the city landscape. They try to explain and evaluate references to the building philosophy and design ethics. They pay particular attention to the processes of manipulation and respect for nature and open spaces. It was presented on the examples of the historical interwar housing estates in Łódź Mątwiłł Mirecki and Werkbund in Wrocław and the Zlin garden city by the Bata Company. The Bata Shoe Factory changed the shape of the entire city into a functioning space, with architecture conditioning every aspect of life. The period of post-war urban thought was presented on the model of the Sadów Żoliborskie estate and the innovative idea of the 1970s on the example of the competition for the Ursynów estate in Warsaw. It was based on the idea of a garden city and its presentation in the 1980s by creating green, low open housing estates as part of government commissions. Although these ideas were not realized, the idea, thought and desire remained. The respect for green areas of fundamental importance for the character of the place was presented on the example of the passive house complex in Konstantynów Łódzki or the Aspern estate in Vienna. The importance of respect for landscape values was emphasized, and the relationship between space, architecture and nature was explained. An attempt was made to find the main elements of space, which was of paramount importance for the preservation of values superior to the natural environment and architecture.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aled Davies
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....

scholarly journals From the Thirties to post-war reconstruction. The Land Reclamation Consortia and rural architecture in Italy.

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 03001
Author(s):  
Luca Monica ◽  
Luca Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Design Space ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Rural Architecture ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Operational Aspects

This investigation highlights a new conception of design space in architecture, in the relationship between settlement and land, rooted in architectural historical studies and research on rural and agrarian economy and unlocks a potential regeneration and restoration of the rural villages of Italy’s cultural heritage. In Italy, the theme of rural architecture has gained momentum ever since the spread of the Modern Movement, reviving settlement and spatial principles as a moral lesson for the general development of new aesthetics and a new society. Innovative concepts inspired by Arrigo Serpieri such as “Integral Land Reclamation”, and long-standing institutions such as the Land Reclamation Consortia, became official law in 1933, and played a crucialrole in this process, particularly in consolidating new architectural thinking that was to endure up to post-war reconstruction and beyond, until our own times. Paradoxically, ideologically opposing phenomena, settlements related to the extensive land reclamation of the Fascist period and the rural redevelopment of the Fifties, were somehow based on comparable theoretical and operational aspects. We can recognize these ideas by looking at the most interesting experiments developed in these two periods: the city of Sabaudia designed by Piccinato, and the village of La Martella at Matera designed by Quaroni (and sponsored by Adriano Olivetti). The quest for a new “moral aesthetic” of architecture undertaken by leading representatives of Italian Rationalism was to re-emerge in the neorealism of post-war reconstruction.

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPACES SUSTAINING CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINA’S INCREASINGLY GLOBALLY FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENTS: USING A CASE STUDY OF PUTUO IN SHANGHAI

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The City

This paper explores what it means for a public space to embody the city within rapid urban change in contemporary urban development and how a space can accomplish this by embracing the culture of the city, its people and its places, using the particular case of Putuo, Shanghai in China. The paper employs mapping and empirical surveys to learn how the local community use the act of communal dance in everyday public spaces of this neighborhood, and seeks not to find generalizable rules for how humans comprehend a city, but instead to better understand how local inhabitants and their chosen activities can influence their built environment. The findings from this emphasize the importance to identify how public spaces can help to define cities with China’s emerging global presence, whilst addressing the ways in which local needs and perspectives can be preserved.

scholarly journals The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951–2011

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Brown ◽  
Niall Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Areal Interpolation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Between the 1960s and 1990s a series of urban redevelopment projects in Manchester radically transformed ethnic settlement in the city. The ward of Moss Side, which had been a gateway for Caribbean and African immigrants, experienced repeated slum clearances in which whole communities were relocated and large tracts of housing stock were demolished and redesigned. The relationship between these physical and demographic changes has been overshadowed by the persisting stigmatization of Moss Side as a racialized “ghetto,” which has meant that outsiders have constructed the area as possessing a fixed and homogenous identity. This article uses geographic information systems in conjunction with local surveys and archival records to explore how the dynamics of immigrant mobility within Moss Side were shaped by housing stock, external racism, family strategies, and urban policy. Whereas scholarship on ethnic segregation in Britain has focused on the internal migration of ethnic groups between administrative areas, using areal interpolation to connect demographic data and the built environment reveals the intense range of movements that developed within the variegated urban landscape of Moss Side.

scholarly journals Alma-Ata: some architectural narratives of the soviet city

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Z. B Abylkhozhin ◽  
◽  
I. Krupko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Post War ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article explores some visual narratives of the architectural landscape of Alma-Ata city (modern Almaty). Historical narratives produced or studied by historians in the text are no less vividly and distinctly manifested in the visual sphere. In many ways, this can be attributed to the design of urban space and its architecture. Architecture not only directly depends on the socio-political, ideological, and symbolic regime, but often creates it. Being a product of the era, a zone of perception and reflection of its impulses, the architectural landscape of the city creates a socio-cultural space, which in turn forms the mental background for the inhabitants of this city. Knowledge about cities is a special subject field for comparative urban studies, including a culturalanthropological and ethnographic basis. The article attempts to describe the two main architectural narratives of the city of Almaty (Stalinist Empire style and Soviet modernism) and their projections in the space of historical memory, as well as the relationship of these narratives with the corresponding ideologies (imperial geopolitical ambitions of the USSR in the post-war period and the ideology of modernism of the 60-80s biennium). The problem of updating the cultural heritage of Soviet architecture in the historical memory of the Kazakh society is also posed.

November, 1494: Politics in Motion in the Streets of Florence

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-95
Author(s):  
Niall S. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Abstract The spectacular entry of Charles VIII into Florence in 1494 initiated a series of political negotiations and maneuvers in which the French monarch, the local government, and the embattled Medici family vied for control over the city. With the threat of violence so present and reliable information so scarce, Florentines had to perform subtle interpretations of the movements of these actors in order to determine what was happening to their city. These eye-witness accounts reveal that the most elaborately staged ritual and the most improvised single gesture were part of a moving tableau whose meaning was contingent on understanding the relationship between the paths taken, the places visited, and the manner in which the protagonists moved through the city. As a result, we can learn how early modern cities were constituted by the ceaseless exchanges between the ephemeral movements of communities and the solidity of the built environment.

scholarly journals Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7421
Author(s):  
Isabelle Soares ◽  
Gerd Weitkamp ◽  
Claudia Yamu
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The success of university campuses depends on the interrelations between creative encounters and the built environment, conceptualised here as spatial affordances for creativity. Such an interface plays a fundamental role in interactions for knowledge sharing and the exchange of ideas on campus. Due to campus public spaces generally being considered as the leftovers between buildings and classrooms, undermanaged, and overlooked, little is known about the extent to which this built environment enables or inhibits creative encounters in such spaces. The inner-city campuses and science parks (SPs) of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the case-studies of this research, differ in terms of their location relative to the city, their masterplan typologies and the arrangement of buildings. However, they are similar in terms of the aforementioned issues of public spaces. The novelty of this research is the attempt to overcome such issues using an innovative mixed-methods approach that tests the ‘spatial affordances for creativity’ with empirical data collection and analysis. This raises the importance of mapping, quantifying and analysing the spatial distribution of momentary perceptions, experiences, and feelings of people with methods such as volunteered geographic information (VGI). The results show that proximity between multiple urban functions and physical features, such as parks, cafés and urban seating are important when it comes to explaining the high frequency of creative encounters between people. Urban designers of campuses can use the applied method as a tool to plan and design attractive public spaces that provide creativity through the transfer of tacit knowledge, social well-being, positive momentary perceptions, sense of community, and a sense of place.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Urban Vibrancy and Built Environment: An Empirical Study from an Emerging City in an Arid Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
Runde Fu ◽  
Xinhuan Zhang ◽  
Degang Yang ◽  
Tianyi Cai ◽  
Yufang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The North ◽  
District Center ◽  
Urban Development Policy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Creating a vital and lively urban environment is an inherent requirement of urban sustainable development, and understanding urban vibrancy is helpful for urban development policy making. The urban vibrancy theory needs more empirical supplementation and more evidence for the effect of the built environment on urban vibrancy. We use multisource urban spatial information data, including real-time population distribution (RPD) data and small catering business (SCB) data; quantitatively measure urban vibrancy; and build a comparative framework to explore the effect of the built environment on the urban vibrancy of a northwestern emerging city in China. The results demonstrate that the two urban vibrancy metrics present a spatial distribution pattern that is high in the south and low in the north areas of the city with significant spatial aggregation. Land-use intensity and diversity have strong positive effects on urban vibrancy but present a different pattern of effects on the two vibrancy measures. The influences on urban vibrancy of distance to the district center and distance to the nearest commercial complex are spatially complementary in the study area, and the effect of accessibility factors is weak. Our findings suggest that a somewhat cautious approach is required in the application of these classical planning theories to Urumqi.

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