Monday, 4 March 2013

Urban Design and Development Seminar One



Ø  Industrial revolution – mass production enabled cities to grow

Ø  Infrastructure and capital and people = City

Ø  The anatomy of the city – the structure and function:

- City makes connections – concentrated dose of activity. Human life compressed.

- Cities are more productive economically and socially – universities, temples etc. and environmentally – exclusively they have the biggest impact on nature

Ø  “A city is transaction maximising system” Richard Meyer 1968.

Ø  To read: Ed Bacon – Design of Cities. William H White. Allan Jacobs – Great Streets.  

Ø  Compresses all the senses – concentrated density

Ø  Different people experience the same phenomenon in different ways – planners need to provide variety throughout the city

Ø  Two important parts of humans:

- Social

- Territorial – Global market, governing bodies, boundaries

19th century Europe was expanding so much they removed their walls around the cities

American cities never had any and Beijing removed them in 1960’s

Public/private

Property law (zoning) – use, title, planning for city/project ownership

Ø  Communities of interest and communities of place

Ø  Manuel Kastells:

The way we live and the debt, mortgages etc. based on the ‘Australian dream’. This way of living (unsustainable) is the reason of the CRISIS due to it being fuelled by debt.

CRISIS – inability of a system to reproduce itself – change, adapt, evolve.

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