Meaningful Urban Design: Teleological/Catalytic/Relevant

Inam, Aseem

doi:10.1080/13574800220129222

Cited by 47 publications

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“…Broadly defined, reading the city involves the spatial representation and interpretation of its key socio-economic, cultural, and geographical aspects. Particularly, in an era when cities are facing serious physical challenges such as the rise of sprawl (Duany et al, 2000), the questionable future of public space and the decline of public realm (Banerjee, 2001), the crisis of local identity (Arefi, 1999), and fragmentation (Inam, 2002;Wheeler, 2002), Clay's concerns still persist. Capturing the socio-economic and spatial dynamics of the city and communicating them to others matter because our perceptions of the city would influence the problems, and in turn, the solutions we ascribe to those problems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

The pedagogy of the American city: revisiting the concepts of place, non-place, and placelessness

Arefi

2004

Urban Des Int

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The concepts of place, non-place, and placelessness were used in a course on reading the American city during the winter quarter of 2003 at the University of Cincinnati. The course was open to both graduate as well as undergraduate students and some 16 planning and architecture students registered for it. The class examined these concepts against the backdrop of the relevant literature and especially Grady Clay's concerns about the conventional ways of reading the city. Using each concept separately, students were asked to interpret Cincinnati's urban landscape both textually and graphically.While the students' case studies varied widely in terms of the scale and the verbal description of the selected concepts, they shared similarities. For example, students' projects on the concept of place emphasized identity, history, a sense of attachment, and memory. Case studies on non-place, however, focused on connectivity, freeways, bridges, and parking lots; projects on placelessness, on the other hand, stressed lack of meaning as a result of standardized developments with cookie-cutter buildings and theme parks. In sum, incorporating these concepts shows promise for interpreting the dynamics of the American city.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

The pedagogy of the American city: revisiting the concepts of place, non-place, and placelessness

Arefi

2004

Urban Des Int

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“…However, in the age of globalisation, the terms have been reversed and urban planning is used as a tool for the economic boost of cities in the new competitive environment [4][5][6]. We can claim that the urban planning and the innovative architectural design can be used as tools to produce or to contribute to the socio-economic development [6,7].…”

Section: The Change Of Urban Morphology In the Contemporary Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impacts of new technologies on urban transformations

Katsara

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper concerns the impacts of new technologies on urban morphology, structure and landscape. More specifically, it investigates two aspects of impacts: (a) the change of urban morphology in contemporary cities by means of computer-aided architectural design and construction techniques, and (b) the shift of the spatial core and the expansion of the CBD in the post-industrial cities by means of the emerging new clusters of technology intensive and knowledge based firms in inner city areas. The research documents these impacts of new technologies by illustrating examples of metropolitan cities located in both the economic core and the periphery of Europe, such as Milan, Barcelona and Athens.

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“…Smith, 2006, Mitchell, 2006). Although such discussions are gradually entering the field of urban design, studies within this field continue to focus almost exclusively on matters of form, function and aesthetics, while the complexity of the social processes influencing the production of public spaces and their implications for urban design practice are seldom discussed or analysed (Cuthbert, 2007;Inam 2002). Therefore this study sought to understand how different forces and actors influence the production of public spaces and to illustrate such understanding in the case study of the renewal of a deprived neighbourhood of Barcelona's metropolitan area.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the field of urban design, there is increasing interest in understanding the close relationship between social, economic and political processes and the way public spaces are provided and managed (Schmidt and Németh, 2010;Thompson, 2002;Inam 2002). This interest is based on the growing acceptance of theoretical conceptualisations of space, where it is argued that the production of cities, neighbourhoods and public spaces cannot be separated from their wider socio-political context or from the multiple, contrasting and overlapping ways people use, value and perceive them (Lefebvre, 1991).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%