Urban Design (Urban Studies)

Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work

by Robin James Smith

Hall, T. and Smith, R.J. (2012) Stop and go: a field study of pedestrian practice, immobility and urban outreach work

Drawing on fieldwork observation of a team of street-level welfare bureaucrats, this article presents a pedestrian... more Drawing on fieldwork observation of a team of street-level welfare bureaucrats, this article presents a pedestrian case-study of routine footwork and slow progress in the making and maintaining of contact between outreach workers and the urban homeless. This material is used to highlight two aspects of modern-day mobilities that are perhaps under-examined and certainly worthy of attention. The first is urban pedestrianism, described here not as a means of transport – walking as a way of getting somewhere (else) – but as a nonetheless necessary practice, a job of work, or chore. The article also examines immobility – stopping – as an active accomplishment, something other than the absence or tethering of movement, and reciprocally linked to the pedestrian activity described. The politics of urban public space provide background and context.

Key words: pedestrian(s), walking, outreach, homelessness, regeneration

SAO PAOLO, PROBLEMS IN A GLOBAL CITY

by Georgios Alexandrou

A shorter version of this article is published in "Building Brazil" by RUBY PRESS

A critical view to the housing policies in Sao Paolo's favelas. A critical view to the housing policies in Sao Paolo's favelas.

Storicità di Gustavo Giovannoni e del suo 'diradamento edilizio'. [Historicity of Gustavo Giovannoni and of his 'building reduction']

by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

In: Gustavo Giovannoni. Riflessioni agli albori del XXI secolo. Atti della giornata di studio in onore di Gaetano Miarelli Mariani, 1928-2002 (Roma, 26 giugno 2003). A cura di M.P. Sette; pp. 41-56. ISBN 88-7597-372-5

DAYLIGHTING AND URBAN FORM: AN URBAN FABRIC OF LIGHT

by Mark DeKay

Universities, cities, design, and development: An anthropology of aesthetic expertise

by Juris Milestone

Spiegelungen / Reflections

by Margaret Maile Petty

chapter published in 'Leuchtende Bauten: Architektur der Nacht' edited by Dietrich Neumann and Marion Ackermann (Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006).

This short essay examines the use of floodlighting in the United States to establish a nighttime presence for... more This short essay examines the use of floodlighting in the United States to establish a nighttime presence for corporate architecture as well as to define a distinctive and modern metropolitan nightscape.

Á procura do centro: Marvila

by Cristovao Pereira

Towards modern urban housing: redefining Shanghai's lilong

by Non Arkaraprasertkul

Payne, S. (in prep) Can the volume housebuilding model survive?

by Sarah Payne

Post Industrial Possibilities and Urban Social Ecologies

by Damian White

Thinking about the legacy of Murray Bookchin after his death for environmental social theory and politics. Yes, he could be a big pain in the ass. However, his focus on urban ecology, post Malthusian social ecological politics, post scarcity focus, ecological humanism and attempt to initiate a discussion about the need for a 'green industrial revolution' was seminal and still unacknowledged and much of his broad aspirations were proposing an much more interesting agenda than anything being proposed in much environmental sociology, cultural geography or political science.

Autonomy Solidarity Possibility The Colin Ward Reader -Aug 27th August 2010-2

by Damian White

Preface/Introduction to Wilbert/White "Autonomy, Solidarity and Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader; A.K Press Edinburgh/Oakland. pp. 1-35. 2011.

Arts of (dis) placement: City Space and Urban Design in the London of "Breaking and Entering"

by Lawrence Bird

published in Cinémas : revue d'études cinématographiques / Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies
Volume 21, numéro 1, Automne 2010
"Prises de rue"
Co-authored with Nik Luka.

Anthony Minghella’s 2006 film Breaking and Entering frames two views of London focusing on King’s Cross station, one... more Anthony Minghella’s 2006 film Breaking and Entering frames two views of London focusing on King’s Cross station, one of the city’s key transportation hubs and, like many such centres, a complex site of marginality. To its main protagonist, the architect/urban designer Will Francis (Jude Law), it is a site to be transformed into a model (in several senses) of what London—and the practice of urban design—have to offer the “new” Europe. The viewpoint of the young Kosovan refugee Miro Simiç (Rafi Gavron) is quite different. He sees King’s Cross from the rooftops, which he clambers as a petty burglar by night to break into local offices. His acts of parkour (defined by its practitioners as “the art of displacement”) are central to the film. Miro, the teenaged character, exists in a space of displacement: displaced from his native Sarajevo, and from the streets of London by his status as refugee and thief. The film contrasts these two viewpoints—one which forms space, and one displaced—by citing real and imagined city-building projects in London, and placing them in relationship to the bodies of Will and Miro.

CHAFARIZES DE LISBOA – MONUMENTO E FUNÇÃO PRÁTICA

by Cristovao Pereira

A possible genesis for urban furniture

by Cristovao Pereira

e-polis No1. book, P 140

Automatic sensation: environmental sensors in the digital city

by Jennifer Gabrys

Published in a special issue of “Senses and the City,” The Senses and Society, edited by Mags Adams and Simon Guy, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (July 2007), 189-200.

This paper discusses the use of environmental sensors, wireless networks and mobile media as technologies of sensation... more This paper discusses the use of environmental sensors, wireless networks and mobile media as technologies of sensation in the city. While these devices enable a “digital city,” in many respects they appear to be immaterial, operating beyond sense. Drawing on two case studies presented by the Digital Cities project in Montreal, the paper considers how applications of environmental sensors and mobile media give rise to new conditions and questions for how we configure sense in the “digital city.” The paper ultimately finds that sensors direct us toward new sites, assemblages and practices of sensation within the urban sensorium.

Citizen sensing in the connected sustainable city: Linking urban and political ecologies

by Jennifer Gabrys

Originally presented in the panel, “The Green Apparatus? Political Technologies of the Sustainable City,” organized by Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield at the AAG in Seattle, 14 April 2011.

In preparation for the special issue, “A New Apparatus: Technology, Government, and the Resilient City,” edited by Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield.

Within current schemes for green cities, which span from urban wildlife initiatives to city agriculture and green... more Within current schemes for green cities, which span from urban wildlife initiatives to city agriculture and green transport networks, citizen sensing and smart cities projects are emerging that attempt to realize improved sustainability through greater urban connectivity. As another layer of infrastructure that enhances the efficiency and timing of cities, digital connectivity presents the possibility of a well-regulated city that becomes green through the enhanced synchronicity and expediency of urban practices and metabolisms.

This paper examines the specific “smart urban infrastructures” that are proposed and imagined in the “Connected Urban Development” initiative. To what extent do proposals for managing and regulating existing urban processes attend to the political ecologies that surface in attempting to make urban ecologies more efficient? The “green apparatus” of the connected sustainable city further encompasses efficient citizens who are wired to track and monitor practices of environmental excess. The second aspect of this paper will then consider the enfolding and imagining of citizen sensing projects within the connected sustainable city. To what extent does the feedback loop between efficient urban metabolisms and personally accountable and efficient urban citizen capture what Foucault might call the subject-making processes of green urbanism, or even a form of biopolitics 2.0?

Sun, wind, and light. Architectural design strategies

by Mark DeKay

Book, 2001, 2nd edition, by Mark DeKay and G. Z. Brown

also see www.sunwindlight.net

How to design... more also see www.sunwindlight.net

How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources

Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also:

* Applies the latest passive energy and lighting design research
* Organizes information by architectural elements at three scales:
* building groups, individual buildings, and building parts
* Brings design strategies to life with examples and practical design tools

Features:
* 109 analysis techniques and design strategies
* More than 750 illustrations, sizing graphs, and tables
* Both inch-pound and metric units

Spatiotemporal modeling of 2001-2009 financial development in Yangtze River Delta using support vector machine and clustering analysis

by Minhe Ji

Co-authored with Wei Wei

Over the past decade, the Yangtze River Delta has witnessed a financial takeoff. Its mechanism need be understood. The... more Over the past decade, the Yangtze River Delta has witnessed a financial takeoff. Its mechanism need be understood. The paper attempts to integrate a number of analytic methods to model the financial development of 16 cities in the region from 2000 to 2009. A set of indicators describing the economic environment, foreign trade conditions, banking and insurance industry, and urban development are first identified, with the financial interrelations ratio being selected to represent financial development. Then, the time series data of each city are used to build a temporal model under the theoretical framework of SVM. In the model, the method of cross-validation is introduced for choosing the best parameter of the kernel function and the penalty coefficient to be used later in model training and regression. In the final analysis, the time series data of each city are analyzed through clustering, showing the dynamics of the cities during 2000-2009.

Façade colour and judgements about building size and congruity.

by Zena O'Connor

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BIOURBANISM

by antonio caperna

Presentation of ISB