Desiring Docklands: Deleuze and Urban Planning Discourse

Wood, Stephen

doi:10.1177/1473095209102234

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“…An assemblage is a dynamic set of relationships rather than a cluster of things; assemblage thinking in relation to cities involves a quest to understand how urban alliances, synergies and symbioses work. It has been developed as theory by DeLanda (2006DeLanda ( , 2016 among others and applied in a burgeoning (often bewildering) variety of ways in geography, urban planning and design (Dovey, 2106;Farias and Bender, 2010;McFarlane, 2011;McGuirk et al, 2016;Müller, 2015;Rankin, 2011;Simone, 2011;Wood, 2009). It has been variously identified with 'relational' (Jacobs 2012), 'material' (Rydin, 2014) and 'nonrepresentational' (Thrift, 2007) thinking.…”

Section: Assemblage Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is functional mix? An assemblage approach

Dovey

Pafka

2017

Planning Theory & Practice

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Functional or land-use mix has been seminal to urban design and planning for over 50 years-mixed-use reduces the need for travel, increases walkability and generates streetlife intensity. In this paper we review existing methods of measuring functional mix and rethink the ways in which it might be conceived, measured and mapped within a framework of assemblage thinking. We suggest a live/work/visit triangle as a promising method with a focus on the interconnections between functions rather than functions in themselves. Mapping techniques are developed to reveal the ways functional mix changes at different scales from streetscape to walkable neighbourhood. This approach is tested on detailed floor area databases from the cities of New York, Barcelona and Bogotá. Rather than reducing mix to an index, such mapping reveals each city as a mix of different mixes. These maps can be understood as urban xrays that enable interpretation and diagnosis of urban functional mix.

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Section: Assemblage Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is functional mix? An assemblage approach

Dovey

Pafka

2017

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…On the basis of this understanding, urban policymaking then becomes a practice aimed at managing the linkages between interventions. It is geared to instrumentally adapt boundaries and programmes to maintain certain visions of urban space (Wood, ). Conversely, a unitary view of space and time considers the city as permanently mutable.…”

Section: Self‐organized Urban Development: Disaggregation Of City‐regmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐Organization and Urban Development: Disaggregating the City‐Region, Deconstructing Urbanity in Amsterdam

Savini

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The idea that cities are self‐organizing systems, and that the state has a limited capacity to control and shape them, has gained momentum in the last decade among planning professionals, designers and politicians. Recent political discourse on new localism and liberal individualism builds on a similar understanding of cities, giving responsibility to citizens and their collective associations in light of state rescaling. The consequences of such perspectives for urban development have yet to be conceptualized. This article proposes a critique of the use of self‐organization in policy practice, building on the argument that this concept destabilizes two constitutive categories of urban intervention: spatial boundaries and temporal programmes. In so doing, self‐organization conveys two peculiar understandings of agency in city‐regional spaces and of urbanity: the disaggregation of city‐regions and the deconstruction of urbanity. Looking at the recent change in Amsterdam's urban development practice, I show that, while self‐organization is used to emphasize that city‐regions constitute interconnected systems of dynamics, when applied in policymaking it in fact leads to the disaggregation and fragmentation of urban regions. Moreover, while the capacity of self‐organization to deconstruct codified notions of urbanity that frustrate urban relations is often celebrated, its use in policy produces newly exclusive urban fabrics.

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“…Seoul, South Korea, used nature to revitalise an urban area by uncovering an important stream, Cheonggyecheon, that runs through the city, utilising the stream as a focus for urban redevelopment (see Shin and Lee, 2006;Kang and Cervero, 2009). The Docklands in Melbourne, Australia, have taken advantage of disused space near the city's waterfront and regenerated the area through heritage conservation, public art, business creation and tourism in a bid to expand the Central Business District (Dovey and Sandercock, 2002;Wood, 2009). Finally, Temple Bar in Dublin, Scenarios are a useful tool to help think about and visualise the future and, as such, are utilised by many policymakers and practitioners.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%