URBAN DESIGN POLITICS

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POLITICS OF PUBLIC REALM

QUESTIONS – PUBLIC REALM

Does the physical public realm simply consist of all the open spaces outside the private domain of building interiors, secluded courtyards and gardens ?

Is it everything that can be perceived by senses from places to which everybody has right of access ?

Do public has FREEDOM of ACCESS ?

URBAN DESIGNIN

AUTOCRATIC & DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES

Autocratic SocietyCentralized Planning

Based Government / Leader Opinions

Not Subject to any Control from Citizens

Large Scale

Ruthless

Example:Haussmanisation of Paris

Redevlopment of Bucharest under CeausescuBerlin Olympic under Hitler

Via della Conciliazione under Mussolini

Democratic SocietyLegislated Planning

Based on mutual decisions

Subject to any Control from Citizens

Urban Renewal to Large Scale

Example:Postdamer Platz – Renzo Piano

Guggenheim Bilbao – Frank Gehry

Via della Conciliazione BEFORE

Via della Conciliazione AFTER

HOW ABOUT AUTOCRATIC Developments in Democratic Societies ?

Large QuantityHousing Estates

Example:Lippo Karawaci

Bumi Serpong DamaiSummarecon Serpong

Alam Sutera…………

FOUR GENERIC TYPES OFURBAN DESIGN WORK

TOTAL URBAN DESIGNUrban designer is part of the development team that carries a scheme through from

inception to completion

ALL-OF-A-PIECE URBAN DESIGNUrban design team devises a master plan and sets the parameter within which a number of

the developers work on components of the overall project

PIECE BY PIECE URBAN DESIGNGeneral policies and procedures are applied to a precinct of a city in order to steer

development in specific directions

PLUG IN URBAN DESIGNThe design goal is create the infrastructure so that subsequent developments can ‘plug in’ to it or, alternatively, a new elements of infrastructure is plugged into the existing urban fabric

TOTAL URBAN DESIGN

LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN FOR PUBLIC REALM AND BUILDINGS

Design/Planning holds total development and design control

Infrastructure and buildings designed as a unit

POWER IN FINANCIAL AND POLICY

Boulevardul Victori Socialismului (Avenue of the Victory of Socialism)NOWUnirii Boulevard

3.5KM in length92 metres in width

ALL OF A PIECE URBAN DESIGN

Developed by different urban designer/firm

Built accordance to UDGL (Urban Design GuideLines)

PIECE BY PIECE URBAN DESIGN

Improving the Quality of Precincts of existing cities

Begins with generalized mental image of how an area should perform

What it should to get that performance ?

District Design / Specific Building Types and/or other facilities within a particular percinct

NEW YORK DISTRICTS – theater district

1 Astor Place – Gwathmey Siegel & Assoc.

PLUG IN URBAN DESIGN

Background: Destruction effect of FALSE infrastructure project (such as inner city highway)

Implementation of an infrastructure project

Singapore MRT System