Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies

Kamalipour, Hesam; Peimani, Nastaran

doi:10.1057/s41289-020-00145-3

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“…The primary aim of this subject is to introduce a range of research methods concerning critical questions in the field of urban design. It also seeks to enable students to deepen their methodological understanding and critical thinking in relation to those forms of urbanism that have remained underexplored [60][61][62] and to the ways in which urban places work at the intersections between spatiality and sociality [63], between the measurable and the non-measurable [64], and between urban morphology and streetlife intensity [65,66]. Figure 1 illustrates the RMT subject in relation to other subjects in the MA UD.…”

Section: Urban Design Education and Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector. Exploring the capacity of this sector to adapt in the state of uncertainty has become more significant than ever. In this paper, we critically reflect on our experience of teaching urban design research methods online during the early COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This is an exploratory case study with a qualitative approach with an aim to inform resilient practices of teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Drawing on the experience of teaching the Research Methods and Techniques subject during lockdown, we discuss the rapid transition from face-to-face to online teaching and point to the challenges and opportunities in relation to the learning and teaching activities, assessment and feedback, and digital platforms. This paper concludes by outlining some key considerations to inform the development of more adaptive and resilient approaches to online teaching in the context of unprecedented global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that it is critical to move beyond fixed pedagogical frameworks to harness the productive capacities of adaptive teaching.

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Section: Urban Design Education and Research Methodsmentioning

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Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021

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“…According to the survey results, undertaking field site visits throughout the urban design studio subject has been considered helpful for learning experiences. This lends itself well to the discussion that field site visits are critical in enabling encounters between the shared body of knowledge in the field and the conditions of real cities, encouraging comparative approaches to the narratives of urban development, challenging the related urban design theories, and testing their relevance to design thinking and intervention [23,31,32]. We found that while using virtual platforms such as Google Earth and Google Street View can enable students to navigate the studio sites and conduct preliminary remote site analyses, face-to-face field site visits are favoured by many design studio students.…”

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The Future of Design Studio Education: Student Experience and Perception of Blended Learning and Teaching during the Global Pandemic

Peimani

Kamalipour

2022

Education Sciences

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Urban design studio education aims to prepare future urban designers to more effectively understand how cities work and critically engage with the role of design intervention in the built environment. A design studio is an appropriate setting where this can take place. This paper details the design and delivery of a postgraduate urban design studio subject in the MA Urban Design programme at Cardiff University during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. We particularly investigate the capacities and challenges of blended learning and teaching, with a primary focus on the experience and perception of students in the context of design studio pedagogy. To this end, we discuss the findings from an online survey of postgraduate urban design students and reflect on their experience and perception of the related learning and teaching activities, assessment, feedback, field study visits, workshops, and digital platforms during the subject delivery period in the 2021–2022 academic year. The outcomes of this paper can inform future practices of blended learning and teaching incorporating a mix of face-to-face and online modes of delivery in relation to design studio education, particularly in the context of unprecedented global health challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…The urban ecology of the station areas in the western station areas comprises both formal and informal economies and shows how different forms of self-organised activities can loosen up the spatial striation of public space and maximise its affordances associated with the emergence of vibrant urbanity and economic productivity. Informal vending here is attracted to pedestrian flows mediated by urban attractions [37,51]. Such activities are often clustered in proximity to station entries and shopping centres and along the most accessible public spaces from the station.…”

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Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

Peimani

Kamalipour

2022

Urban Science

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The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. While there has been a surge of interest in investigating the agency of urban planning and design in mitigating urban sprawl and its environmental impacts by creating mixed-use, dense, and walkable places, the extent to which the public space can enable streetlife intensity in proximity to transit remains underexplored. Through extensive urban mapping and comparison of two transit nodes in Tehran, this paper articulates the key morphological elements of building density, functional mix, and access networks, how they work in relation to forms of urbanity and informality in public space around stations, and what inferences can be made on how public space within station areas work in the context of rapidly urbanising cities compared to those in Western contexts. The nexus between functional mix, retail edges, and forms of urbanity has been found critical to the spatial configuration, performance, and transformation of transit station areas. Forms of informality have also been found integral to how public space works in the context of transit urban design. This paper contributes to the newfound accent on urban design dimensions concerning TODs in the context of less formal and more congested cities of the global South.

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Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies

Cited by 29 publications

References 48 publications

Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

The Future of Design Studio Education: Student Experience and Perception of Blended Learning and Teaching during the Global Pandemic

Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

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