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18 May 09

Events | RUDI - Resource for Urban Design Information

Info page for an upcoming June 2009 UK conference I would love to attend: "a place for creativity? unlocking the original in urban design and development"

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how projects can and should be funded and ways of involving the people that live and work in the places to be re-designed.
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16 Nov 08

Next American City » Urban Design After Oil Liveblog

Portal page for "Re-imagining cities; urban design after the age of oil" symposium
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Correspondents Lloyd Alter (TreeHugger and Planet Green), Ryan Avent (Grist), Nate Berg (Planetizen), Andrew Blum (Metropolis and Wired), Randy Crane (UCLA School of Public Affairs) and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (New York Times Magazine, Architect, and Metropolis) bring you updates from the Re-imagining Cities: Urban Design After Oil symposium.
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...and subsequent articles (see link).

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10 Nov 08

"Offshoring Audacity," CEOs for Cities :: Blog, View Entry

I would love to have attended the Chicago Humanities Festival conference. Carol Colletta's summing up sounds intriguing, with lots of important issues and themes raised. The discussion around high-speed rail and how Chicago could be connected to a bunch of other great cities to maximize each one's potential depressed me a bit, insofar as I'm reminded that my city (Victoria) sits on an island, which leaves us only with ferries and airplanes... <sigh>

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The morning session had a consistent message: Chicago must dream big to compete with London, Paris, Beijing and Shanghai. These four cities were mentioned repeatedly, and the clear ambition is for Chicago to compete with these cities. But what made the first presentation this morning especially exciting was Rick Harnish, who runs Midwest High Speech Rail Coalition. He makes a compelling, detailed, persuasive case for high speed rail in the U.S. The coalition is pushing a high speed system for the Midwest that connects Minneapolis to Cincinnati, Detroit to St. Louis, with Chicago at the hub of the "X". If the increasing calls for federal investment in infrastructure continue, high speed rail could move from plan to reality. Putting all of these cities within 3 hours of comfortable travel from downtown Chicago will increase productivity, help centralize business in these city centers, likely lead to increased density around stations
President-elect Barack Obama has talked openly and repeatedly about his support for high speed rail and, according to Rick, high speed rail also has the support of Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. Could high speed rail really be in the near future of America?
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- Offshoring Audacity was a discussion of architecture as a manufacturer of identity of place. The discussion picked up on a theme sounded by Saskia last weekend: Uniqueness of place is what is most valued but our system of global finance (and architecture?) pushes in the direction of sameness.
- The session's other provocative theme was this: If it is Western architects designing buildings in the Middle East financed with Russian oil money, where exactly is "offshore"? Who is us and who is them? Where is here and where is there? All of the panelists were under 40 (and several much younger), and it strikes me that the concept of "offshore" has little relevance to them.
- This echoed the discussion at the CEOs for Cities national meeting and our Friday Creative Cities Network gathering on the increasing challenges to institutions by the next generation. Think about those severely challenged: newspapers, churches, big arts institutions, old-style nonprofits (instead, we reward "social entrepreneurs"). The question is, is it worth tweaking the existing institutions? Or will something completely new appear to take their place?

30 May 08

"The Toronto Society of Architects presents Food in the City" Canadian Architect - 5/29/2008

Here's some food for thought: "A city without food is a city without soul. Many of our favourite urban spaces in the city are places where we buy food: think of St. Lawrence Market, Kensington Market and Dufferin Grove Park. Many of the city's great festivals are about food, such as the Taste of the Danforth or the various food festivals at Harbourfront in the summer. All of our great cultural neighbourhoods are defined by their flavours, like Corso Italia, Little India and Chinatown."

On Tues. 6/3 the Toronto Society of Architects presents "Food in the City." Wish I could be there...

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This discussion assesses the health of the city through examining the cycles of its food: the growth, sourcing, production, buying, selling, cooking, and eating of food in the city.
A city without food is a city without soul. Many of our favourite urban spaces in the city are places where we buy food: think of St. Lawrence Market, Kensington Market and Dufferin Grove Park. Many of the city's great festivals are about food, such as the Taste of the Danforth or the various food festivals at Harbourfront in the summer. All of our great cultural neighbourhoods are defined by their flavours, like Corso Italia, Little India and Chinatown.
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- But the distribution and purchasing of food also shapes our urban form. Large supermarkets on the periphery of our communities have decimated Toronto's history of vibrant neighbourhood corner stores. Chain restaurants in the parking lots of "power centres" threaten the family-run ethnic restaurants that have made Toronto a culinary destination. Even our street food policies provide us with the sole non-choice of a bland hot dog dressed with processed condiments.
  - http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/05/29/mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-food-wall/ - on 2008-05-30
  - re. the bylaws concerning street vendors, see also the related Spacing.ca article. - on 2008-05-30
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22 Feb 08

› Notes from the ‘Global Place’ conference

Still to read through this blog post, which I bookmarked because it includes such a great photo of Liane LeFaivre, friend from way back when at MIT days! Liane has a new book out on playgrounds, also bookmarked today, and has (judging by Kauffman's blog entry) been up to interesting things elsewhere, too. Re. the conference itself, Kauffman writes, "The conference was a resounding call for pragmatic utopianism and an integration of urbanism and ecology. It had an emphasis on getting things done rather than living to an ideal. Yet there was some agreement that there is gap between academic discussion and the cultural and material realities. Enough talk. There is a greater need for implementation." This makes me think that my interest in the local isn't so marginal, perhaps, insofar as *theory* happens ...what's the word?, across time & space? = unlocalized?, while *implementation* is local. So, if you understand the local very well -- and it's really NOT easy -- you get a better sense of how theory can work or be useful. K. adds a very useful observation re. the difference btw. space & place. The latter is made over time.

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Proposed design solutions rarely spoke of how sustainable architecture practices could be incorporated into a larger idea of empowered development that addresses issues of poverty and self-reliance. Many participants mentioned the necessity of giving urbanizers the freedom to determine and adapt to their own built environments. Yet we glanced over the subject of how communities with differing wealth, expertise and capabilities could autonomously and locally apply sustainable solutions from the bottom up.
there is great variation amongst the situations and drivers that bring people to move entire lives and families from one space to another. But space is not even the same as place. Place is something uniquely made over time. We should wonder how ‘place’ is made when people exodus en masse to locations of proximity to economic opportunity.
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- The legislative branch has lost much of its political power to the executive, which is usually aligned with global corporate capital.
  
  Privatization removes functions of legislature and shifts them to the private sector
  
  Sassen believes that cities are a critical space for overcoming the hollowing of the legislative body and in their capacity to make informal politics.
- - - Beautiful! That clenched hand, ready to thrust forward, encapsulates Liane's innate enthusiasm and energy wonderfully! I can just hear her saying "yes! take the picture now!" - on 2008-02-21
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- As a critical regionalist, Liane Lefaivre seeks to understand the context of a place in order to give it meaning.
  
  Le Faivre’s current project uses the concept of play to confront major issues affecting European cities, especially the tension between communities. Citing Schiller, Gross, Freud, Huizinga, and the Dutch painting genre “Children’s Play,” she talked about the importance of play in exploring our world and in crossing over cultural boundaries.
  
  Post World War Two, the Dutch chose to instill civic values and a civic experience through play. Aldo Van Eyk designed multiple play spaces in central neighbourhood locations in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam playgrounds were not conceived individually, but as part of a net. They were polycentric, interstitial and participatory.
- Michael Sorkin, whose work deals with the investigation of how politics and architecture are ‘conjoined,’ came with a stunning if somewhat ironic talk about slums as utopian propositions. At the core of the urban crisis are slums, where 1.5 billion people live. And though slums remind us of the most desperate of human conditions, and are very real problems, they are paragons of efficiency and democracy. They can respond to our environmental oversights.
  
  The canary in the minefield has croaked and the solution is to build sustainable cities.
  
  As Jane Jacobs spoke of good cities being self-organizing and morphological, slums, with these and other desirable qualities give us the possibility of thinking of the utopian condition:
  
  high degrees of internal equality, which can be identified as the basis of solidarity
  low levels of consumption
  high levels of reuse and recycling
  logical adjacencies to economic resources
  high levels of self-organization stemming from tight community grouping
  scales that are morphologically adaptable
- Celebrated Indian Architect Charles Correa conveyed the great hope India has placed in its cities. He pointed out how they break down the caste system, provide freedom, generate economic skills and are agents of social engineering. He maintained that we need to increase the carrying capacity of cities, and that we should not be looking for beauty in them, but in the synergy that delivers the quality of what we would call a ‘city.’ While celebrating the absorptive capacity of Indian cities as destinations for rural immigrants who otherwise would have gone to ‘Australia’ he described Bombay as “a great city and a terrible place.”
  
  Correa, in one of the more referenced moments of the conference, differentiated between the scientific ideas of similarity as they relate to building large-scale projects from scratch:
  
  Same-similar is life. Same-identical is death.
  
  Correa then presented his own bill of rights for Indian Housing:
  
  open to sky space
  malleability
  incrementality
  participation
  income generation
  equity
  disaggregation
  pluralism
  - "Same-similar is life. Same-identical is death." = interesting way to put it... - on 2008-02-22
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- With neoliberalism shaping globalization, there’s heightened competition amongst cities to attract industry and tourism. Rather than seeing cities as efficient and perhaps aesthetic places to live, they are being reconceived and marketed from the demand side as sites from conferences, festivals and conventions. Susan Fainstein argued that global cities can bear responses to the transitory whims of global corporations, the competition for foreign capital, and the placelessness of global culture.
  
  Global citiies are strategic sites for economic control - yet they cannot control themselves - control emanates from them, but its not clear how much control cities have over their own boundaries.
  
  While cities are becoming more responsive to global forces, Fainstein thinks we should encourage democracy on the local level to allow for equitable relationships. Inspired by David Harvey’s “Social Justice and the City,” and praising Amsterdam as a city with high social equality without sacrificing prosperity, she listed three factors that allow cities to deliver justice:
  
  the extent to which government is entrepreneurial
  the amount and quality of planning
  the amount of focus given to those most in need
  
  Fainstein praised Sen and Nussbaum for their ‘capabilities approach’ to development which seeks to ensure substantial freedoms to people, and sees poverty as capability-deprivation. One such poverty is environment degradation, which often is caused from distant global forces and reinforces environmental injustice. Global climate change has the potential to disproportionately impact poor communities who may not be able to react to problems they didn’t create. Local populations need to be able to respond to global challenges in a way that ensures social justice.
- Anthony Townsend of the Institute for the Future discussed the role of mobile devices in the future of the city. With mobiles, people can record, document, and annotate social space. Ideas, insights and emotions can be transmitted. Townsend calls this functional telepathy “telepathic urbanism.”
  
  Telepathic Urbanism would help us experiment with new social ways of urban living that are based on real-time information and feedback. Thus we could get more out of the existing structures of cities and optimize our lives in them through a better representation of their energy, resource and material realities.
- And finally, Robert Jan van Pelt, expert witness in the trial against holocaust denier David Irving, explains in this video (sorry embed not working) how an architectural analysis of Auschwitz proved that the holocaust was not an accident.
  
  we can follow all these decisions and see that their is no practice of killing, then their is a practice of murdering, then there is a policy of murdering…architecture of the camps morphed into the question of answering holocaust morphology…was it intended yes or no?

01 Feb 08

Innovations for the Built Environment 2008 - Designing energy efficient tall buildings

- one of many pages on "Innovations for the Built Environment" conference coming up in London, Feb. 26-28/08. This page is from the "seminars" section, which lists many sessions over those 2 days. Other sections include links to the "exhibit," "attractions," "the arena," "conference," and more.

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08 Jan 08

Internet Research Conference - CFP

The Internet Research Conference in Copenhagen (October 2008) lays out its call for papers. The theme is " Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place."
Synopsis:
In the past few years, new forms of net-based communities are emerging, distributed on various websites and services, and making use of several media platforms and genres to stay connected. Now, as mobile and location-based technologies are reintroducing "place" as an important aspect in the formation of communal and social activities, it is time to consider and rethink the concept of online or virtual communities. Not forgetting the lessons we have learned from studying the early virtual communities, how do we describe, analyse, theorise and design the communities and social formations of the early 21st century? How do we address the blurring of boundaries between places and communities on- and offline.

We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that address the conference themes.

Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.

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09 Nov 07

Art & Science Symposium - Edmonton Cultural Capital of Canada

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