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Public Space Acupuncture

2015-02-15 Architecture
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Release : 2015-02-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Public Space Acupuncture by : Helena Casanova

Download or read book Public Space Acupuncture written by Helena Casanova. This book was released on 2015-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the financial crisis deepens in many European countries and the construction sector remains in a slump, many plans for urban regeneration have been shelved. Cities are cutting their spending on large public works, so the time is ripe for low-cost strategies that have a positive impact on the urban habitat. One such strategy is Public Space Acupuncture, in which independent, but coordinated small interventions help regenerate urban public space and city life. It is based on Zygmunt Bauman’s characterization of the current era as Liquid Modernity. With works on Switzerland, The Netherlands, Austria, China, Germany, Spain, Albania, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia and Korea.

Urban Acupuncture

2014-09-16 Architecture
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Release : 2014-09-16
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Urban Acupuncture by : Jaime Lerner

Download or read book Urban Acupuncture written by Jaime Lerner. This book was released on 2014-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil in the 1970s and ‘80s, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of the sustainable and livable community. From the pioneering Bus Rapid Transit system to parks designed to catch runoff and reduce flooding, and the creation of pedestrian-only zones, Lerner has been the driving force behind a host of innovative urban projects. In more than forty years of work in cities around the globe, Lerner has found that changes to a community don’t need to be large-scale and expensive to have a transformative impact—in fact, one block, park, or a single person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city. In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner celebrates these “pinpricks” of urbanism—projects, people, and initiatives from around the world that ripple through their communities to uplift city life. With meditative and descriptive prose, Lerner brings readers around the world to streets and neighborhoods where urban acupuncture has been practiced best, from the bustling La Boqueria market in Barcelona to the revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea. Through this journey, Lerner invites us to re-examine the true building blocks of vibrant communities—the tree-lined avenues, night vendors, and songs and traditions that connect us to our cities and to one another. Urban Acupuncture is the first of Jaime Lerner’s visionary work to be published in English. It is a love letter to the elements that make a street hum with life or a neighborhood feel like home, penned by one of the world’s most successful advocates for sustainable and livable urbanism.

Digital Urban Acupuncture

2016-09-27 Political Science
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Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Digital Urban Acupuncture by : Salvatore Iaconesi

Download or read book Digital Urban Acupuncture written by Salvatore Iaconesi. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance. The work is the result of years of research across sciences, arts, design, ethnography, cultural geography, performed by multiple researchers, understanding the Relational Ecosystems of cities (the flows of relation, information, knowledge and emotion in the city) and using them to reinterpret the concept of Urban Acupuncture: from the Third Space, Third Landscape and Third Generation City, to the Third Infoscape; from Urban Acupuncture to Digital Urban Acupuncture. The book starts by exploring the many theories and methodologies which have been used to try to capture and use the revolutionary potential found in the daily lives of cities. From De Certeau, to Latour, Bateson, Bhabha, and all the way to Castells, Clèment, Boyd, Casagrande. In a progression which moves from the Third Space (Soja, De Certeau), to the Third Landscape (Clèment), to the Third Generation City (Casagrande), to the Third Paradise (Pistoletto), the book arrives at a definition of the Third Infoscape, following up on Kevin Lynch: a new legibility and imageability of the city. Its main themes and objectives lie in the desire to observe and understand the radical transformation of the definitions, boundaries and configurations of what we call public and private spaces, in different cultures and communities, in the age of communication, information and knowledge, and to use these understandings to formulate a set of working hypotheses for the positive, constructive, active and participatory usage of these transformed scenarios, contributing to the re-definition of concepts such as citizenship, city-governance, urban planning, civic decision-making, and more. And using, in the process, techniques such as Urban Acupuncture, Actor-Network Theory, Diasporic analysis, Peer-to-peer Urbanism and more. Multiple real-life research scenarios and documented case studies will be used, from 4 continents, coming from our research and from other international contributions.

Urban Acupuncture

2019
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Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis Urban Acupuncture by : Jiyoung Park

Download or read book Urban Acupuncture written by Jiyoung Park. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This design thesis applies the concept of "Urban Acupuncture" through the lens of Landscape Architecture within a UNESCO-designated historical community in Suwon, Korea. Due to the historical fabric of the area, development is highly restricted and the neighborhood community is facing difficulties, including the restrictions on redevelopment, pressure to accommodate increased tourism, increasing vacant spaces, and an imbalance of development. To address these issues, this thesis proposes utilizing urban vacant spaces and enhancing existing open space to address community needs identified through community involvement. To identify specific developable outdoor sites for residents and visitors within this neighborhood, the thesis draws on the results of two community meetings, held in the Haenggung neighborhood in 2018 and 2019. Based on the community needs identified at these meetings, the thesis design focuses on appropriate sites within the neighborhood to ease the growing tension. The specific focus of the design is four spaces including a multifunctional open public plaza, community p-patch park, and open public seating area for residents and visitors. The methods and concepts developed and demonstrated in this thesis can be applied throughout the entire Haenggung neighborhood and can create a better sustainable community within Suwon City in the future.

The Hackable City

2018-12-05 Technology & Engineering
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Release : 2018-12-05
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis The Hackable City by : Michiel de Lange

Download or read book The Hackable City written by Michiel de Lange. This book was released on 2018-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.

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