Abstract
This paper poses the problem of this scenario in disciplinary terms, it argues about its premises and outlines its essential features. The scope of this paper is not to deliver a comprehensive model for a new approach to urban planning and design, but to set the right framework and rise the right questions so that we can start thinking of issues such as urban regeneration, informal settlements and massive urbanization, community participation and representation, beauty and humanity in space, in a different way.
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst [Dortmunder Lectures on Civic Art] |
| Subtitle of host publication | New Civic Art |
| Editors | Christoph Mäckler, Wolfgang Sonne |
| Place of Publication | Sulgen, DE |
| Pages | 82-111 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Keywords
- urbanism
- built environment
- urban planning
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Plot-based urbanism : towards time-consciousness in place-making. / Porta, Sergio; Romice, Ombretta.
Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst [Dortmunder Lectures on Civic Art]: New Civic Art . ed. / Christoph Mäckler; Wolfgang Sonne. Vol. 4 Sulgen, DE, 2014. p. 82-111.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - Plot-based urbanism
T2 - towards time-consciousness in place-making
AU - Porta, Sergio
AU - Romice, Ombretta
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Contemporary challenges are such – in terms of scale, type and urgency – that a deep shift is needed in urban disciplines just to start dealing with them. Some of us have recently argued that what we still miss is the serious consideration of the factor of time in urbanism, or, in other words, a deeper “time-conscious” approach (Thwaites, Porta, Romice, & Greaves, 2008). Inevitably, that means focusing on change as the essential dynamic of evolution in the built environment, which in turn leads to re-addressing concepts like control, self-organization and community participation. After time and change have been finally firmly placed at the centre stage, the whole discipline of urban planning and design, its conceptual equipment as well as its operational toolbox, reveals its weaknesses under a new light and calls for the construction of a different scenario.This paper poses the problem of this scenario in disciplinary terms, it argues about its premises and outlines its essential features. The scope of this paper is not to deliver a comprehensive model for a new approach to urban planning and design, but to set the right framework and rise the right questions so that we can start thinking of issues such as urban regeneration, informal settlements and massive urbanization, community participation and representation, beauty and humanity in space, in a different way.
AB - Contemporary challenges are such – in terms of scale, type and urgency – that a deep shift is needed in urban disciplines just to start dealing with them. Some of us have recently argued that what we still miss is the serious consideration of the factor of time in urbanism, or, in other words, a deeper “time-conscious” approach (Thwaites, Porta, Romice, & Greaves, 2008). Inevitably, that means focusing on change as the essential dynamic of evolution in the built environment, which in turn leads to re-addressing concepts like control, self-organization and community participation. After time and change have been finally firmly placed at the centre stage, the whole discipline of urban planning and design, its conceptual equipment as well as its operational toolbox, reveals its weaknesses under a new light and calls for the construction of a different scenario.This paper poses the problem of this scenario in disciplinary terms, it argues about its premises and outlines its essential features. The scope of this paper is not to deliver a comprehensive model for a new approach to urban planning and design, but to set the right framework and rise the right questions so that we can start thinking of issues such as urban regeneration, informal settlements and massive urbanization, community participation and representation, beauty and humanity in space, in a different way.
KW - urbanism
KW - built environment
KW - urban planning
UR - http://www.niggli.ch/buecher_e/index.php
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783721208474
VL - 4
SP - 82
EP - 111
BT - Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst [Dortmunder Lectures on Civic Art]
A2 - Mäckler, Christoph
A2 - Sonne, Wolfgang
CY - Sulgen, DE
ER -