Monday, 25 March 2013

Urban Design and Development Seminar Four


Ø  Climax ecosystem – An ecosystem that has reached its peak/maturity e.g. Tropical coral reef will not evolve into another ecosystem but will be stable

Ø  Fire climax ecosystem – needs fire to survive

- Redwood trees are fire resistant due to their cones needing fire to break open

- if you supress the fire, the ecosystem changes

Ø  Buffalo/ Bison were animals all killed due to sport after civil war in 1965

Ø  Once the buffalo and prairie was gotten rid of what it was – an industrial agriculture

Ø  Range war was the end to ‘open ranges’. This was stopped due to barbed wire, they would fence large amounts of their territory – had livestock within the fences

Ø  Chicago was the major cattle slaughter house in 19th century

Ø  Relationship on capital and time effected how we see distance

Ø  Gateway because of infrastructure and markets and centre for large scale whole sale trade (wood, steel, grain and meat)

Ø  Also became a gateway for finance and retail trade

Ø  Producer services, economic stock markets, bankers, lawyers etc. insurance and real estate

Ø  These services allowed it to grow and evolve – generating most profit – sector driving most urban growth

Ø  Important gateway for capital

Ø  Gateways cities started to become more interconnected. The flow of global society

Ø  Chicago was the first outdoor light installation exhibition

Ø  To change the mind, change the image

Ø  Institution more than mirror organisation – underneath has values (traditions) eg. Vatican.

Ø  Those norms propagated through images. Those images need to be changed if to change the institution.

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