Urban Design

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Flashcards 79
Language English
Category General Education
Level University
Created / Updated 02.02.2016 / 29.07.2016
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Micro Scale

Micro/Temporary Programs

Medium Scale

Community Projects, Informal/Hybrid City, Destruction/Reconstruction, Ecology Landscape, Housing

Macro Scale

City Extension, Suburbia, Governance/ Policy, Public Infrastructure / Mobility

Micro Definition

Bottom Up, Temporary, Need for communal leisure, recreation, sporting activities

Medium Definition

Implemented in the urban fabric, like the Green Plan in Mexico City, Infrastructural Projects as the Bus Rapid Transit System

Macro Definition

Urban Plan or Project, Massive urban transformation in a big part of the city, Berlin: Megascale Planning ( like Third Reich)

Micro/Temporary Programs

new form of urban reactivation of leftover and residual space, for limited time, with recreational and educational functions, describes also nomadic urbanism: a space in constant transformation, bottom up, individuals start to take proactive roles

Community Projects

include social infrastructure where buildings and landscape with educational and recreational functions are implanted into the urban fabric

Informal/Hybrid City

inter-connection and mutual dependence of informal and formal parts of the city, overlap and influence eachother creating a hybrid urban environment

Suburbia

new mode of urbanism that pushes the growth to the periphery leaving entire downtowns empty, defined by new transportation networks, single family house typology, shopping malls

Housing

social housing development schemes, vast rows of uniform homes, minor access to public facilities, detached from city center, often self organizing

Destruction/Reconstruction

issues of de-urbanized and destroyed cities, processes of renovation and re-structuration leads to new identity and new functions

Ecology/Landscape

implementation of such interventions in the urban fabric, sustainable development scenarios

Governance/Policy

initiatives that come from such entities intended to (re)shape a city or restructure in the larger scale

Public infrastructure /mobility

plans for the construction of highways, railway networks, bridges and so on for the constantly growing cities

São Paulo Tools

Urban Mobility, (Infra)Cultural Design, Microplanning

Tool: Urban Mobility

TC: Public Infrastructure / Mobility

Y: 2012

Urban Parangolé (Urban Think Tank proposal for Audi Future Award)

Tool: (infra)Cultural Design

TC: Community Projects

Y: 2000

CEU 2000-2004 Centros Educacionais Unificados (Alexandre Delijaicov, André Takiya and Wanderley Ariza)

Tool: MicroPlanning

TC: Micro/Temporary Programs

Y: 2008

Urban Creative Practices (Urban Creatives, Local Inhabitants)

Berlin Tools

Megascale Planning, Critical Reconstruction, Temporary Urbanism

Tool: Megascale Planning

TC: City Extension

Y: 1910-...

The legacy of a delayed metropolis (Hermann Jansen, Albert Speer, Hans Scharoun and others)

Tool: Critical (Re-)Construction

TC: Destruction /Reconstruction

Y: 1990

Urban Ideologies of post-wall Berlin (Josef Paul Kleihues, Hans Stimmann and others)

Tool: Temporary Urbanism

TC: Micro/Temporary Programs

Y: 2000

Urban Pioneers (Raumlabor and other small-scale offices, Berlin City Gov.)

Zürich Tools

Planning The Metropolitan Area, Redensification, Creating Informality

Tool: Planning the metropolitan Area

TC: Governance /Policy

Y: 1900-...

Cities Growing Beyond their administrative borders (Planning authorities on federal, cantonal and municipial levels, universities, planning offices

Tool: Redensification

TC: Housing

Y: 1988-...

Transforming Neu-Oerlikon (Land owners like ABB, planning authority)

Tool: Creating Informality

TC: Micro/ Temporary Programs

Y: Since 2002

Upgrading the Informal (Architects:EM2N, Builder-owner: PWG, public foundation owned by the city of zurich)

Caracas Tools

Oil and the automobile city, The hybrid city, Multiple Hubs

Tool: Oil and the automobile city

TC: Public infrastructure /Mobility

Y: 1948-...

Expansion Plans (Robert Moses, City Government)

Tool: The Hybrid City

TC: Informal and hybrid city

Y: 1940-...

Barrios (Self-built initiatives)

Tool: Multiple Hubs

TC: Public infrastructure /Mobility

Y: 2007

Metro Cable for a barrio (Urban Think-Tank)

Mexico City Tools

Recovering Waterscapes, Network of Green Infrastructure, Macro-Scale Housing

Tool: Recovering Waterscapes

TC: Ecology /Landscape

Y: 2000

Project Ciudad Futura (Innovative Green Infrastructure Offices)

Tool: Network of Green Infrastructure

TC: Public Infrastructure /Mobility

Y: 2000

Metrobus - Reorganizing Public Transport (Traffic Planning Department of the city government)

Tool: Macro-Scale Social Housing

TC: Housing

Y: 1940-2010

Social Housing Blocks, Family Housing Development (Mexican National Government)

Athens Tools

Developer as Architect, Post-Olympic Urbanism, User-Generated Urbanism

Tool: Developer as Architect

TC: Governance /Policy

Y: 1930-...

Building Regulation (Planning and construction regulators)

Tool: Post-Olympic Urbanism

TC: Housing

Y: 2004-...

Mega-event as generator (Developers, IOC, Different Governmental Levels)

Tool: User-generated Urbanism

TC: Micro/ Temporary Programs

Y: 2009-...

Small Scale Change (Artists, Activists)

Sarajevo Tools

Identity Construction, De-Urbanisation, Turbo Urbanism