scholarly journals The City of the Future. A new paradigm, a new vocabulary

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Vlaswinkel ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Length Of Residence ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

To design the city of the future, we have to stop extrapolating the problems of today. This is why team Stadsvrijheid developed a new conceptual framework, a new paradigm for the future. On the basis of this paradigm, the team argues back to the here and now. This approach requires different ordering principles and new design tools, in short: the development of a completely new vocabulary. Current ordering principles such as density and functions will no longer be applicable in the future, which will centre on length of residence, production potential and the intricacy of the urban fabric. Combinations of these factors determine the DNA of an area. The team’s conceptual framework for the future sketches a new world in which everything is connected to everything; people as well as things. Technology plays an important role in this. In the resulting circular economy, everything is productive. The test site for this new paradigm was Utrecht’s eastern fringe. This promising location allows the interweaving of landscape and city in the context of today’s urbanization pressure. It is precisely in the monofunctional and fragmented urban fringes that a new type of urban character can emerge by connecting new developments in the field of mobility and technology. Anyone who wants the city to be liveable and healthy has to move towards a city in which walking is the norm and therefore away from ‘radial thinking’ of the traditional city. The outskirts of Utrecht will become gateways to the city or even the Randstad, with the Sciencepark as the global attractor and the Lunetten hub as the global connector. The team translated the contours of the conceptual framework into ordering principles and balanced these using a ‘mixing console’. Important principles are: the intricacy of the urban fabric (everything is connected), travel time (everything is proximate), length of residence (everything takes its own time) and varied production (everything is productive). The mixing console allows an alternative method of organizing areas according to functions or density. A specific mix determines the DNA of a region. The team devised new design tools to create the city of the future. The 'armature’, for example, is a tool that can be used to redefine the current road infrastructure. Development along the Z axis, for example, is based on the principles of urban stratigraphy and builds on the strata of the existing city. This allows densification and the current physical barriers such as the motorways will transform into layered landscapes that will act as hubs connecting future centres. In 2040, city dwellers travel by foot and motorized transport between cities will be connected collectively or individually. The resulting city is a continuous city for pedestrians that not only allows more density, but in which there is more room for greenery as well. Functions such as roads and housing are layered, stackable, connectable entities linked to new energy and transport networks. They create a productive and endlessly connected urban landscape. In this layered city everything, including waste, produces something. Everything is designed to last a certain period of time, for example based on length of residence. In this city, the cost of space is the driving force behind change. This comes with new investment models in which the relationship between interest and involvement play a part.

scholarly journals La reconstrucción de Teruel: el devenir de una identidad | The reconstruction of Teruel: the evolution of an identity

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Miguel Sancho ◽  
Beatriz Martín
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
The City

Como consecuencia de la devastación a la que se verá sometida Teruel durante la guerra civil española gran parte del núcleo urbano se verá afectado. Esta dramática situación planteará la necesidad reconstruir la ciudad pero también la posibilidad de renovar la trama urbana. En el presente artículo se estudiaran las distintas propuestas llevadas a cabo durante este proceso, la tensión entre las ideas reformistas que entenderán la situación como una oportunidad renovadora sin prejuicios e ideas mucho más conservacionistas preocupadas por la identidad histórica de la ciudad, enfrentarán a los distintos agentes involucrados y finalmente dará lugar a la definitiva actuación propuesta. Es imprescindible conocer y reflexionar sobre una sucesión de ideas que plasmadas sobre el papel pueden decidir el futuro de un pueblo, pero también la conservación de su pasado, de su memoria.As a result of the devastation which will come under Teruel during the Spanish civil war much of the urban area will be affected. This dramatic situation arises the need to rebuild the city but also the possibility of renewing the urban fabric. In this article, the various proposals made during this process will be evaluated. The tension between reformist ideas to understand the situation as a renewed and unprejudiced opportunity and much more conservationist ideas concerned with the historical identity of the city will create a confrontation between different involved agents and ultimately lead to the final proposed action. It is essential to know and think of a series of ideas that once reflected on paper can decide the future of the people, but also the preservation of their past, their memory.

scholarly journals Hacking Architecture: Re-envisioning Architecture Typology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki Woon Oh
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Individual Object ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
The City

The city is in flux. The future of living and working in city are changing. A large amount of urban fabric is changing to conciliate our needs for the future. The question is, is a new building necessary? Currently, there are large amounts of underutilized urban building stocks that can be transformed into something new to accommodate our future needs for the city. The future of building is not about creating an individual object, but rather deals with socio-cultural activities that redefine city living. This thesis will be looking at how to deal with existing building and envisioning a new building typology by using the idea of hacking. Following the logic of hackers, everything is hackable; when hackers hack into computer systems, they produce new things by altering original sources. The idea of hacking is introduced as a means of research method to modifying the features of a system and organizational tools to find a new relationship.

scholarly journals Learning from Italian Typology- and Morphology-Led Planning Techniques: A Planning Framework for Yingping, Xiamen

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuyi Xie
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
City Center ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Planning Scheme ◽  
The City ◽  
Planning Problems

As a vital historic neighborhood with an indeterminate large-scale planning scheme, Yingping, located in the city center of Xiamen, China, is struggling with poor livability and growing incoherent private additions and renovations that largely undermine the local historic urban landscape. Inspired by Italian typology- and morphology-led planning techniques, this study explores the possible interpretations and implications of their applications in Yingping to address its interconnected, heterogeneous, and stratified urban fabric and planning problems. The research is developed through a two-pronged multi-layered planning framework. Firstly, from the maintenance perspective, five intervention approaches are grouped, with a specific focus on the leading structural elements of the urban fabric—the arcade streets. Secondly, from the morphological view and through the ecological lens, six characterized areas are identified and classified with respective morphological features and crucial planning problems being faced. This framework provides a strategic thematization of corresponding optimizing strategies and suitable guidelines to direct future governmental actions and to support the self-maintenance of local inhabitants toward sustainable development. The study also presents the possibility that such techniques are applicable to the Chinese context and is expected to inspire further research and practices in China and beyond.

scholarly journals F. BANDARIN, R. VAN OERS (eds.) - Reconnecting the City. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban

ZARCH ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Isabel Ezquerra Alcázar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

Francesco Bandarin y Ron Van Oers (eds.)Reconnecting the City. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban HeritageOxford, John Wiley & Sons, 2014, 344 pp.Idioma: inglés. ISBN: 978-1-118-38398-8

scholarly journals Hacking Architecture: Re-envisioning Architecture Typology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki Woon Oh
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Individual Object ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
The City

The city is in flux. The future of living and working in city are changing. A large amount of urban fabric is changing to conciliate our needs for the future. The question is, is a new building necessary? Currently, there are large amounts of underutilized urban building stocks that can be transformed into something new to accommodate our future needs for the city. The future of building is not about creating an individual object, but rather deals with socio-cultural activities that redefine city living. This thesis will be looking at how to deal with existing building and envisioning a new building typology by using the idea of hacking. Following the logic of hackers, everything is hackable; when hackers hack into computer systems, they produce new things by altering original sources. The idea of hacking is introduced as a means of research method to modifying the features of a system and organizational tools to find a new relationship.

scholarly journals Cities 2020 Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 778 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
National University ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
The City

Abstract This year, CITIES seeks to explore the theme ‘BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN LANDSCAPE IN ASIA PACIFIC. This theme highlighted the continuity in the city between the past and the future also between legacy and development. The best way to bridge the gap between the past and the future is to help the city to find its identity and what the values to move forward in the future. It is not easy to find one identity even for an individual being, and most of the time, to find their identity, they have to reflect on what happened in the past. Cities that don’t understand their identity and value, will have less ability to choose what kind of development suits them the best. Cities without identity, choose the development solely based on the trends and also the opportunity without considering to preserve their unique identities. If this keeps happening, one day we will walk in the Asia Pacific and all the city will feel the same, taste the same and even smell the same and we have lost our uniqueness that makes people come to our city. This is why, it is important to highlight the theme of BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN LANDSCAPE IN ASIA PACIFIC. By bridging the past and the future, we protect our cultural heritage assets and the built expressions of culture, military, economic, and religious forces as well as creating sustainable cities to accelerate our economic and infrastructure growth in a way that will not harm our cultural legacies and societies. For over 50 years, the integral and holistic approach to heritage and urban development has been highlighted in every heritage-related cultural policy document, stressing the need to balance the benefits of socioeconomic and urban development and cultural heritage preservation, and hopefully, this seminar will be one of the key contributors of it. Therefore, the conference presented the keynote speakers from the Australian National University (ANU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) who shared the whole ideas of city’s values and reaching the sustainability in the future. We hope that this conference can stimulate communication, cooperation, information exchanges among participants across countries. List of Conference Photographs, Sponsor Funding Acknowledgements, List of Committees are available in this pdf.

Normalizing Discourses

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
April L. Colette
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Risk Discourse ◽  
The City

Infrastructure development and planning practices, both materially and discursively, shape the unequal distribution of flood risk. Taking the city of Santa Fe, Argentina, to illustrate this point, this chapter shows that because of the complex relationship between climate and outcomes, different people experience different risks in the same city, even while facing the same hazard. The focus is on not only how infrastructure physically transforms the urban landscape but also how it produces and is produced by people’s (both government and individuals) notions of what and who is at risk. Discourse about risk and infrastructure shapes the construction of the material world, the social order of the city, and very much influences how government and individuals perceive and frame risk and, importantly, develop climate-related risk reduction solutions.

scholarly journals Landscape-town-planning reconstruction of the spatially-planning structure of destroyed cities (On the example of the cities of Baghdad and Mosul)

2019 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 02017
Author(s):  
Layij Jasim Sumayah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Future ◽  
Priority Direction ◽  
Landscape Ecological ◽  
The City

The problem of restoring the spatial planning structure of the major cities of Iraq - Baghdad and Mosul, destroyed during the war of 2003-2011. Is currently relevant for ensuring their sustainable development and the formation of a comfortable, safe and environmentally-oriented urban environment. The study of the dynamics of the transformation of urban fabric of Baghdad and Mosul has a number of historical and methodological features related to specific socio-economic, cultural, historical and landscape-urban conditions that ensure their sustainable development in the future. An analysis of the dynamics of changes in the urban fabric of Baghdad and Mosul, which occurred as a result of military operations in these cities, made it possible to determine the priority areas of urban development, which in the future will ensure the formation of sustainable spatial planning structures of these cities. Proceeding from landscape, ecological and historical-architectural and urban development features of the cities of Baghdad and Mosul, the priority direction is landscape-urban reconstruction, based on the principles of landscape urbanism, which will restore and make accessible to residents and visitors of the city the lost historical and architectural objects, preserve identity historical and cultural environment through integration with the transport and green framework, linking the functional and planning zones of the city in a single “infrastructur” At present, such a strategy of urban transformation is used in the restoration of the historical cities of Iraq - Baghdad and Mosul.

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