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Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott; Izenour, Steven

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“…There are noticeable changes every year: new hotels and signs as well as neon-embossed parking structures replacing on-lot parking on and behind Fremont Street. Like the agglomeration of chapels in a Roman church and the stylistic sequence of piers in a Gothic cathedral, the Golden Nugget casino has evolved over 30 years from a building with a sign on it to a totally sign-covered building [2]. So, urban architecture is always changing in not regulated sites.…”

Section: The Surveys On Mobility and Social Benefitsmentioning

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Progress, Mobility and Urban Regeneration in a Traditional Neighbourhood: El Encino, Mexico

Collazo¹

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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During the second half of the 20th century, the cities in Latin America began to grow rapidly, and the historic built environment has changed since then. Some of them preserved historic architecture, some others changed dramatically, and a few combined historic buildings with factories and the dynamics of new ways of mobility. This is the case of the neighbourhood: El Encino in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The factory: JM Romo was established in 1957 in El Encino. It pursued welfare and prosperity in the neighbourhood, helping with economics sustainability, such as a theme park development, building an indoor basketball court and schools for its workers. Somehow a social sustainability was achieved, but there was a loss of the historic buildings that were bought by the factory -and then they were torn down, and trucks changed the mobility on the narrow streets of the historic neighbourhood. So now the urban image of El Encino is a combination of the factory facades, parking lots and historic buildings. To find out about the social benefits to the factory workers and the opinion of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood two different surveys were conducted. Some of the results showed that the factory has pursued facilities for their workers, but not for the whole neighbourhood. Also, some residents built a garage in their houses because of the increasing traffic. Fortunately, the city planning has considered in the last years restoring the facades of the main houses, also changing the pavement, and building a new museum. Besides, the Guadalupe Posada Museum preserves the famous printings of this Mexican designer. It is through the analysis of the factory impacts (social and mobility), the developing of the neighbours to improve their own resilience and the late urban planning that the site can be preserved as part of a sustainable city.

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Section: The Surveys On Mobility and Social Benefitsmentioning

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Progress, Mobility and Urban Regeneration in a Traditional Neighbourhood: El Encino, Mexico

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2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…The order in this landscape is not obvious [but] [t]here is an order along the sides of the highway.' 56 Similarly, Banham notes that 'the city [of Los Angeles] has a comprehensible, even consistent, quality to its built form', and that it 'is as far from being an impenetrable mystery as it is from being an urbanistic disaster-area'. 57 The related challenge is to develop ways to get at the consistency beneath the apparent chaos of the fair that avoid the reductive situation Simon Sadler lamented, of tremendous images, representations and simulations that simply formalized what was perceived to be chaos.…”

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Illusory objects and fairground architecture

Walker

2015

The Journal of Architecture

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(300)The fairground has long been overlooked as a site of architectural interest. This has slowly begun to change in the last 50 years, when a few architects have been drawn to various aspects of the fair-its history, its visual or technical appeal, its accommodation of multiple programmes, or its nomadic, temporal, event-based nature-as a source of inspiration, and championing it as an example of 'other' architecture that can provide a refreshing alternative to traditional architectural production. Yet there are many aspects of the fairground that don't fit this story: in fact, the fairground shares much with static, permanent, and hierarchical architecture. While the form and appearance of fairground rides are constantly reinvented to offer novelty, the fair itself is underwritten by strong traditions and provides visitors with a certain reassuring predictability. These characteristics make it difficult to define precisely what the fairground is, and this difficulty haunts various attempts to pay it serious attention. This article provides a broad survey of work that has taken the travelling street fair as its object of study, directly or indirectly. Part I of the article is organized around a number of awkward-contested, missing, or unstable-objects that mean such work is rarely straightforward, compared to the writing of other architectural histories. Part II pursues the challenges of writing about the fair in more detail: borrowing the notion of 'illusory objectification' from anthropology, it traces what such a notion can reveal about the ways we see the fair, and how we might look at it differently in order to develop a clearer understanding or appreciation of the fair's architectural complexity. KeywordsFairgrounds; travelling fairs; Illusory Objectification; history writing; English town. Part I: The Possible Objects of the Travelling Street Fair 1 Introduction: Contested ObjectsAlthough it is the glow of an event that catches our eye and fascinates us, Braudel [On History, 1980] argues that such superficialities belie greater complexities, for events emerge from an impenetrable milieua darkness or contingency-and this black night must be taken seriously. -Craig Lundy 1Lundy's concern is with the writing of history, although the distinction he draws here-the warning, if you like-has a particular resonance when considered in relation to the fair. The architecture of the fairground clearly sets out to provide that eye-catching, fascinating sparkle. As punters, visitors to the fair, we willingly submit. The travelling fair brings together rides, attractions, and food stalls which are set up for a short time-typically two or three days-in towns and villages all over Europe. In the UK in particular, travelling fairs squeeze into impossibly tight urban spaces, while others take up grand boulevards, some fill market places or take over open fields. The travelling fair caters for all-comers, young and old. It is an experience nearly everyone can relate to, a common cultural currency, and the fair itse...

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“…Como referências histórico-conceituais para o estudo, foram utilizadas três vertentes bibliográfi cas principais: aquela que aborda o enfraquecimento do discurso funcionalista do modernismo - Rossi (1995Rossi ( [1966), Venturi et al (2003Venturi et al ( [1966), Gregotti (1975), Colquhoun (2004); aquela que estuda a relação entre o historicismo arquitetônico e mercado imobiliário - Diez (2008), Venturi (2004Venturi ( [1966), Botton (2005) e aquela que destaca a facilidade de captura e aproximação do público com esta linguagem - Tschumi (1994), Teixeira Coelho (1979.…”

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“…Para exemplifi car a atitude de oposição a uma expressão puramente abstrata, podemos tomar como exemplo Robert Venturi (Venturi et al, 2003), que buscou demonstrar a importância dos elementos simbó-licos na história da arquitetura, alertando a respeito do fato da dimensão arquitetônica ser diferente da dimensão puramente espacial ou da pura visibilidade. Sugerindo uma nova postura, pautada na adesão à consciência histórica, a partir da complexidade da forma, este autor buscou 6 A esse respeito, bem como a respeito das diferentes concepções subjacentes ao termo "historicismo", ver Colquhoun (2004).…”

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Produção arquitetônica, linguagem e construção da cidade: estudo do uso de elementos historicistas na arquitetura contemporânea de Florianópolis

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Produção arquitetônica, linguagem e construção da cidade: estudo do uso de elementos historicistas na arquitetura contemporânea de Florianópolis Architectonic production, language and city construction: A study of the use of historicist elements in the contemporary architecture of Florianópolis (SC, Brazil) RESUMO -Este trabalho tem por objeto o uso de elementos historicistas na arquitetura produzida no período contemporâneo na cidade de Florianópolis, os valores envolvidos em seu uso e seu papel na construção da imagem da cidade. Toma como estudo de caso a capital do estado de Santa Catarina, a partir do reconhecimento da massiva utilização desta linguagem na cidade, fruto do acelerado processo de crescimento e do importante papel do mercado imobiliário, relacionado com o desenvolvimento urbano-turístico, neste processo. O trabalho, baseado em referências teórico-conceituais diversas, discute a temática a partir das seguintes vertentes: o desenvolvimento do historicismo arquitetônico com o enfraquecimento do discurso funcionalista do modernismo, a relação entre historicismo arquitetônico e especulação imobiliária e a facilidade de captura e aproximação do público com esta linguagem. Em termos empíricos, o trabalho foi desenvolvido utilizando um método que analisa, classifi ca e agrupa a arquitetura com tais características a partir de diferentes variáveis: uso, escala, época de construção, proposta de inserção urbana e valores expressos. Esta classifi cação permitiu desvendar aspectos específi cos dessa manifestação arquitetônica, dos valores expressos e de seu papel na construção da paisagem contemporânea da Ilha de Santa Catarina.Palavras-chave: arquitetura historicista, linguagem arquitetônica, arquitetura e construção do espaço urbano, Florianópolis.ABSTRACT -This study discusses the use of historicist elements in the architecture produced in the contemporary period in the city of Florianópolis (SC, Brazil), the values involved in their use and their role in the construction of the city's image. It takes as a case study the capital of the state of Santa Catarina based on the recognition of the massive use of this language in the city, which is a result of the accelerated process of growth and of the important role of commercial real estate industry, related to the urban-touristic development, in this process. The study, based on various theoretical and conceptual references, discusses the topic from the following aspects: the development of architectonic historicism with the weakening of the functionalist discourse of modernism, the relationship between architectonic historicism and real state speculation and the ease of capture and proximity to this language by the public. Empirically, the study was conducted using a method that analyses, classifi es and groups the architecture with such features from different variables: use, scale, time of construction, proposal of urban inclusion and values expressed. This classifi cation makes it possible to reveal specific aspects of this architectonic manifestation, ...

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Progress, Mobility and Urban Regeneration in a Traditional Neighbourhood: El Encino, Mexico

Progress, Mobility and Urban Regeneration in a Traditional Neighbourhood: El Encino, Mexico

Illusory objects and fairground architecture

Produção arquitetônica, linguagem e construção da cidade: estudo do uso de elementos historicistas na arquitetura contemporânea de Florianópolis

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