Sustaining the Liveliness of Public Spaces in El Houma through Placemaking

Khemri, Mohamed Yazid; Melis, Alessandro; Caputo, Silvio

doi:10.32891/jps.v5i1.1254

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“…The changing public place is the result of the imagination and interactions between people. It is essential for place comfort, safety, and security to create a unique identity for the place, [29]. Placemaking gradually started focusing on the cultural developments in urban places, as it greatly impacts the creation of a sense of place that evokes the city character, [30].…”

Section: Sense Of Place and Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards A Comprehensive Model of Placemaking Strategy Assessment of Livability in Commercial Streets Via Placemaking

Ali¹,

Baper²

2023

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Livability is one of the paramount characteristics of the current era that architects striving to achieve. This situation becomes even more important on commercial streets, whose functional diversity and constant movement of people require special action. In Erbil, commercial streets suffer from neglect in terms of adopting places for livability. Although it has huge potential to form an attractive and entertaining environment other than shopping. Some countries have developed standards for the design of commercial streets. The basic requirements are the same, but details usually vary according to the diverse needs of people. The research aims to identify a comprehensive framework (A Checklist) for placemaking to form the basis for measuring livability in one of the vital streets in Erbil city. This Framework is considered the basis for assessing and designing at the same time, supporting designers to achieve two main pillars: develop existing streets and suggest basic principles for future street design. This article adopts a practical framework, a questionnaire, a field survey, and observation as research methods. The research concluded that altogether placemaking dimensions are essential in activating livability, and a sort of balance between the main dimensions appeared. The more applied strategies, the higher the street livability.

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Section: Sense Of Place and Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards A Comprehensive Model of Placemaking Strategy Assessment of Livability in Commercial Streets Via Placemaking

Ali¹,

Baper²

2023

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“…He has shown in his research, for example, how an obsolete telephone booth can become a cooking space to prepare street food or how an occluded window becomes an altar (Lara-Hernandez and Melis, 2018). Similarly, Khemri et al. (2020) describe how a wall of Algiers' El Houma can become either an exhibition space or a place where it is possible to organise a community event within the context of a funeral or even a wedding.…”

Section: Architectural Exaptation: An Initial Categorisationmentioning

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Learning from the biology of evolution: exaptation as a design strategy for future cities

Melis

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Melis

2022

SASBE

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PurposeThis paper highlights the importance of transdisciplinary studies in times of crisis. In the first part, the study shows the benefits of the introduction of literature on biology to better understand the evolutionary dynamics of architecture.Design/methodology/approachThe focus of the research concerns architectural exaptation. In biology, exaptation is a functional shift of a structure that already had a prior but different function. We will also learn that, in biology, all creative systems are redundant and involve variability and diversity.FindingsAs a conclusion, through the comparison between biology and architecture, we will, therefore, try to build an architectural taxonomy that demonstrates how indeterminism is not a subcategory of design. Instead, design paradigms in which redundancy and variable diversity of structures reflect functionalism constitute an equivalent and essential complement with respect to design determinism.Originality/valueIt demonstrates how architectural exaptation, intended as an indeterministic and radical mode of design, can contribute to overcoming the current global crisis because structural redundancy is frequently functional, mostly in ever-changing and unstable environments. For instance, the failure of a planned function of a city can be an opportunity to re-use a structure designed for an obsolete function to respond to unexpected constraints.

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“…Cities should be enjoyable places to live in if they are designed for collective activities and provide equal opportunities for urban resources (Gehl, 2010), as having equal and easy access to public space promote cities' creation for people (Roger, 2010). The city should provide opportunities for physical activities such as walking in a safe and secure environment (Khemri et al, 2020) and using vegetation in placemaking to sustain the liveliness of the urban space (Khemri et al, 2020). The Urban Quality of Life (UQoL) depends on countless factors; physical features are essential as healthy living and security (Meyer, 2018).…”

Section: The Public Health and Safetymentioning

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Acts of Deforming a City; Top-Down Placeless-Making in Pretorian Cairo

Saad¹

2022

CUS

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Top-down or authoritarian urban interventions, in Cairo mushroomed in 2018; flyovers, transforming the streets into express and arterial roads cutting through residential areas. Furthermore, they were carried out in the name of "development"; however, their liveability measures and Placemaking aspects seem questionable. In order to monitor and evaluate the top-down urban interventions' measures, significant cases from Pretorian Cairo were chosen for assessment. Various authoritarian urban interventions from 2018 to 2022 in Cairo are collected, described according to their values, are analyzed in relation to Placemaking aspects and objectives. Neglecting pedestrians' safety, ignoring acts of imagining places for human activities, maximising capitalist profit, creating car-oriented projects and eliminating potential public collaboration produced a process the author calls placeless-making. They presented the following characteristics: overwhelming domination of commercial investments, street billboards in numerous sizes and designs and visually unidentified spaces. No place identity was created, no public collaboration was achieved, and no physical activities were encouraged.

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Sustaining the Liveliness of Public Spaces in El Houma through Placemaking

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 publications

Towards A Comprehensive Model of Placemaking Strategy Assessment of Livability in Commercial Streets Via Placemaking

Towards A Comprehensive Model of Placemaking Strategy Assessment of Livability in Commercial Streets Via Placemaking

Learning from the biology of evolution: exaptation as a design strategy for future cities

Acts of Deforming a City; Top-Down Placeless-Making in Pretorian Cairo

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