Estrada Coronel Pedro Correia is a street near the Rio 2016 Stadium site. How will the public realm change here?
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Informal street architectures
Balancing the movement and place characteristics of mixed use streets in cities like Ulaanbaatar, Ha Noi and Rio de Janeiro would seem to occur more 'organically' than in Europe, but an architectural cultural approach to street scenes- complementing the engineering of highways as public realms - will show similarities with the streets I have investigated in Frankfurt and London.
Estrada Coronel Pedro Correia is a street near the Rio 2016 Stadium site. How will the public realm change here?
Estrada Coronel Pedro Correia is a street near the Rio 2016 Stadium site. How will the public realm change here?
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Informal workers, informal streets
A session on economic planning and development at the World Planning Schools Congress suggests informal workers (auf Deutsch nichtdokumentiere Arbeiter, vielleicht auch Gastarbeiter) in large cities often have potential to better organise, and are a vital element of city vitality. (WPSC session 15A) The case of WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment Globalising and suggests three sectors of workers, street vendors, waste pickers and home workers, all vulnerable and poor marginal citizens have much to offer to city vitality in many cases.
Other research showed Tax Increment Financing (TIF) schemes were used in Chicago city regeneration, with the intention of decreasing blight and creating jobs, (even if not in the TIF area?) but also drained funding from schools and other urban social infrastructure. The lack of localism in the programme seemed to work against its effectiveness.
A UTM Curtin study tour investigating 'vibrancy' in the new cities Cyberjaya and Putrajaya in Malaysia suggests these centres seem to have almost dispensed with the old idea of the street. The new Malaysian urban culture here is car and road based, segregated, along a multi-media development corridor with sparsely located iconic buildings. On counts such as walkability, cycleability, interconnectivity and transit orientation, the urbanism was considered lacking, although for the benefit of international 'direct investment' the area is located near the KLIA International Airport.
Other research showed Tax Increment Financing (TIF) schemes were used in Chicago city regeneration, with the intention of decreasing blight and creating jobs, (even if not in the TIF area?) but also drained funding from schools and other urban social infrastructure. The lack of localism in the programme seemed to work against its effectiveness.
A UTM Curtin study tour investigating 'vibrancy' in the new cities Cyberjaya and Putrajaya in Malaysia suggests these centres seem to have almost dispensed with the old idea of the street. The new Malaysian urban culture here is car and road based, segregated, along a multi-media development corridor with sparsely located iconic buildings. On counts such as walkability, cycleability, interconnectivity and transit orientation, the urbanism was considered lacking, although for the benefit of international 'direct investment' the area is located near the KLIA International Airport.
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| Cyberjaya http://goo.gl/maps/2DKd7 |
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Bare Street, Bare House
For the exhibition Bare House in Pori, opening May 28, I will present posters with some drawings, and with some of my Ulaanbaatar diaries (Blog extracts)
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Trolleybus, Ulaanbaatar Street
Bare Street, Ulaanbaatar
Shop Sign, Street and Public Transport by Michael Chu
The proposed contribution for Bare House, in Pori this May - to be called Улаанбаатарийн Гудамчнууд or alternatively 'Bare Street' - is concerned with urbanisation and the informal peri-urban environments of Ulaanbaatar. The informal districts of Ulaanbaatar (known as гэр хооролол) are expanding due to internal migration following the recent extreme winter 'zuud', which has damaged rural livelihoods. A series of six banners of urban landscapes (printed using a local UB technique for making shop signage) forms one part, a small drawing studio / installation with pencil drawings, sketchbooks and a blog forms another. The weblog diary and sketches document the work and day-to-day life of a certain 'nomadologist', an architect teacher trainer in a peri-urban construction college, walking from the edge of the formal city through a 'ger district' to a training college and live construction site. Some features of the year-long blog include Live Projects , Participation, Sustainable Tourism, and a wheelchair tour of Ulaanbaatar streets. What will be the future for nomadic peri-urbanism?
Gregory Cowan (AUS / GB)
ARTISTS/ARCHITECTS:
GREGORY COWAN, AUS/GB
ALETTA DE JONG, NL
MICHAEL FÜRST, AUT
KATRIN HORNEK, AUT
SONIA LEIMER, ITA/AUT
CHRISITAN MAYER,GER/AUT
ANA REWAKOWICZ, PL/CAN
CHRISTINE SAALFELD, GER/NL
OULA SALOKANNEL, FIN
SER-ODIN DOLGOR, MN
SEDBAZARIN GANZUG, MN
TOGMIDSHIIREVIN ENKHBOLD, MN
ANNU WILENIUS,FIN
YO.DALKH-OCHIR, MN
AUTHORS:B. DAAJAV, MN
GREGORY COWAN, AUS/GB
SAARA HACKLIN, FIN
TAINA RAJANTI, FIN
ANNU WILENIUS, FIN
Curator / ORGANISATION: ANNU WILENIUS
Friday, 1 May 2009
Growing a Greener London
Actions: What You Can Do With the City is a recent exhibition at the CCA in Montreal, featuring several thought-provoking examples of informal urbanism and greening. The London based work of Guerilla Gardeners and What If , and the projects of the French group aaa (of Urban Act) stood out to me, for example. Like the exhibition 'London Yields', this was another prompt to collectively pursue more growing and greening of gardens in our patch of London.
I just noticed an edible garden being constructed in Weston Rise. Thornhill Bridge (N1) and Marchmont Street (WC1) are further potential locations in the local area where "actions" could be undertaken, and develop ideas from the Leeds urban wildlife and greening project in the previous blog entry below...
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