#citymaking

[bunnydarko]

I do what I do best at, working with the media I’m most comfortable with #powerpoint #citymaking #globalcity #visualsociology https://www.instagram.com/p/BrCs3AgnTTK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8hp6wjrvrybg

[brandonpang]

#Hot thoughts #melting my mind Could be your accent mixing with mine You got me uptight, twisting inside Hot thoughts all in my mind and all of the time, babe Spoon - hot thoughts #citymaking #singapore (at Asia/Singapore)

[radicaldomesticities]

Project Cityscope

“I could start here, at the center of my body. What if I understood myself, and everyone I love, as part public space? A dumping ground for the externalities of capitalism? Doesn’t that make me grounds for a revolution? 

Wouldn’t I want to transform the very concept of value, which means “price equal to the intrinsic worth of a thing,” but comes from the Latin word for strength and well-being? Wouldn’t I want to take the most radical care of everything we share?”

ALLISON COBB is a poet and writer working on a book called Plastic: an autobiography that involves collecting and labeling plastic she finds in public spaces.

[creatingcity]

A Statement of Intent - Anja Linna

“How can feminist ethics of care inform a critical, feminist spatial practice that is empowering and inclusive? How can I use `caring` as a critical tool to create architectural proposals? How can I formulate a strategy for an alternative urban development, that critically imagines another way of making space, social and common, than the commercial and conventional? How can this thesis project be inspired by and participatory through people’s everyday practices as acts of urban care-taking?”

AMAZING.

More of these questions and ideas here: http://urbandomesticities.tumblr.com/

[futurecapetown]

#CityTalk: Does film have the power to shape our cities?

#CityTalk: Does film have the power to shape our cities?

Film has been described as the most important cultural form of the 21st century  and the city is of course the most important social organisation. What is the relationship between film and the city; can we use film as an instrument to measure the progress of our cities? Film has the distinct ability to capture the spatial complexities,diversity and the human condition of the past,present and…

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[elexiliodelasrosas]

EVEN

“The most critical design problem facing urban transformation is not the design of any particular building or neighborhood. It is the design of the city governance structure.”

                Gerald E. Frug

I found these essays to be somewhat redundant. They could be, and already have been summed up into the simple sentence: urban design challenges are not threatened by designer’s abilities, but rather by government regulations. That being said, I found the first essay sets a good start and when tied back to the rest of the essays, the sequence is articulate. As mentioned, collaboration is important, and it is important to note that collaboration in reshaping the urban setting should involve various design fields, fields dealing with cultural and social constructs, and most definitely, it should involve close cooperation with government agencies. Government agencies play a significant role on the reshaping of our cities, it is after all, government agencies that dictate how the city is distributed.

[elexiliodelasrosas]

PULLING THE UMBILICAL CORD- LANDSCAPE URBANISM RE-SHAPES THE URBAN CONGLOMERATE

The theory of landscape urbanism has, in essence, the idea that landscape can guide the process of city-making, with architecture complementing it and surrounding it. My take on this chapter was more on a programming side. The examples offered referenced projects in which the programming of the landscape seeks to bring back the estranged suburbs, pull them by the umbilical cord back to the Mother Metropolis. In this chapter, I understood that though the city as a structure has dispersed and scattered over the years, it is still possible, though landscape urbanism and its programs and functions, to agglomerate the constituents of a city and obtain more concentrated consumerism and production. In this context, landscape urbanism takes on even a bigger challenge—re-structuring the city, not physically, but in function.

As the single most important factor in a city are its citizens themselves, programming in landscape urbanism is incredibly critical.