What history tells us 2 _ #Robert Moses #Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century

Video on Youtube: Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses

What history tells us 1 _ #Robert Moses

Een stripverhaal / a comic

Het levensverhaal van Robert Moses, de architectstadsplanner die het uitzicht van het huidige New York bepaalde. Graphic novel die je een andere kijk geeft op de Big Apple.Scenario van Pierre Christin: Ravian, Lena en vele albums met Enki Bilal.

The achievements of one man changed the the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of one man's mind: Robert Moses, the architect who designed it all. Now, in Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's new graphic biography, the rest of Robert's story will be told.

STADSSALONSURBAINS

STADSSALONSURBAINS

A meeting point for urbanites

The city is the future? Most definitely! Throughout the last decade many new ideas and insights have been presented in the field of Urban Studies. At the STADSSALONSURBAINS we invite renowned international professors to present their ideas to the Brussels audience.

The STADSSALONSURBAINS are a brand new series of lectures and documentary screenings for urban professionals, students and all city lovers. A meeting point for urbanites on Fridays in the Beursschouwburg, just before the weekend starts.

10 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November and 12 December 2014

from 17:30 until 19:30

at Beursschouwburg (rue Auguste Orts 20-28, 1000 BXL)

Lectures in English

Autumn programme

We kick off on Friday 10 October with a lecture by Patrick Le Galès, professor Sciences Po in Paris and expert on the detransformation of cities, European regions and large cities worldwide. Friday 7 November, we welcome Susanne Heeg, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, who is analysing the effects of the liberalization of financial and property markets on cities. We will screen the documentary “The Human Scale”, a critical view on the way we build and use our cities by Andreas M. Dalsgaard and Jan Gehl Architects. And the 1980 documentary “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” by William H. Whyte, that has gained a cult status in the field of urban studies.

Friday 10 October 2014

STADSSALONSURBAINS #1

PATRICK LE GALÈS (SCIENCES PO, PARIS)

GLOBAL MINDS, ROOTS IN THE CITY. EUROPEAN MIDDLE CLASSES IN EUROPEAN CITIES

Political scientist and sociologist Patrick Le Galès recently finished a research project on transnationalism and urban practices with two colleagues in Milan and Madrid, containing 500 interviews about the way professionals and managers combine a slow increasing transnationalism with solid roots in cities. The book will be published in december. At our very first STADSSALONSURBAINS, Patrick Le Galès will give you a preview of the research findings.

By comparing four European cities (Paris, Lyon, Milan and Madrid) Le Galès explores the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies. He reveals how segments of Europe’s urban population are adopting exit or partial exit strategies in respect to the nation state.

Friday 24 October 2014

STADSSALONSURBAINS #2

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF

SMALL URBAN SPACES

A DOCUMENTARY BY WILLIAM H. WHYTE

With an introduction by Pol Ghekiere

This 1980 documentary became a highly influential film in architecture and planning circles. In the film urban planner William H. Whyte analyses the success and failures of urban spaces in New York. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.

Friday 7 November 2014

STADSSALONSURBAINS #3

SUSANNE HEEG (GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT, FRANKFURT)

THE POWER OF FIGURES: CALCULATIVE PRACTICES IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

Urban geographer Susanne Heeg examines the role and importance of calculative practices in the process of establishing a global property market. These practices have contributed to the transformation of the property market into a calculable relation, which makes it possible to perceive and assess the real estate market and its objects internationally. Comparability – which includes the transformation of social, political and economic conditions into numbers – has created the context in which investment decisions take place because they suggest transparency and calculability. These practices are created and shared in a network of global real estate professionals and go along with strategies of territorializing and delineating markets.

Friday 28 November 2014

STADSSALONSURBAINS #4

BRIAN DOUCET (UTRECHT UNIVERSITY)

CAN’T FORGET THE MOTOR CITY: DETROIT IN TEN BUILDINGS

Detroit is the most intensely scrutinised city in America today: bankruptcy, abandonment, arson and the small-scale creative revival of Downtown. But there is so much more to understanding what has happened to Detroit and what it means for the rest of the urban world. The aim of this talk is to go beyond the normal discourses on the city to challenge what we think we know about Detroit.  We will experience the Motor City by way of a virtual driving tour, stopping at ten buildings in the city and its suburbs to further explore the lessons from Detroit, visions coming out of the city and why what happens in Detroit matters for other places as well.

Friday 12 December 2014

STADSSALONSURBAINS #5

THE HUMAN SCALE. BRINGING CITIES TO LIFE

A DOCUMENTARY ON JAN GEHL BY ANDREAS M. DALSGAARD

With an introduction by Jens Aerts (Cosmopolis VUB, BUUR)

The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. “The Human Scale” meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.

Practical

The STADSSALONSURBAINS take place on Fridays at 17.30 at the Beursschouwburg, rue Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28 in the city center of Brussels (premetro La Bourse, metro Sainte-Cathérine, metro De Brouckère). Access is free and you don’t need to make a reservation. You just have to listen to the invited speaker when he or she lectures. That’s all. Be welcome!

An initiative of the Brussels Academy and the Brussels Studies Institute.

Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research

Cosmopolis is a research centre within the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is dedicated to research and teaching in geography, spatial planning and urban design. Committed to pursuing both academic and practice relevant research, Cosmopolis actively engages policy makers, governments, citizen networks and other urban partners to transform knowledge into action.

Landezine – Landscape Architecture App

Een app voor Landschapsarchitecten

A app for Landscape Architects

Link: App Landezine

Website Landezine

In a successful modern city, the car must no longer be king

Our love affair with automobiles has shaped our cities and our lives – but mature metropolises are finally realising that the needs of people are even more important. 

Link: In a successful modern city the car must no longer be king.

Book 1 :How to study public life.
Book 2
                 

The Pedway: Elevating London (Documentary)

The Pedway: Elevating London is a documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London - focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.

Planned & Constructed by Chris Bevan Lee

Link to video: The Pedway

BOOK: To design footpaths, you can become inspired by:

1889 _ Camillo Site _ Groen in de grote stad

Link: Groen in de grote stad
uit: Camillo Site_ De Stedebouw

1998_Michel Corajoud_Couverture de l’autoroute A1 St Denis

Ringland in Parijs _ Lang geleden.

How Public Spaces Make Cities Work / Amanda Burden

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love — and why it's important.

Link: tedtalks/how public spaces make cities work

Boeken / Books

The 100 "Best" Books on City-Making Ever Written?

100 boeken over stede(n)bouw

(politiekers mogen beginnen lezen; niet politiekers ook)

100. Sustainable Communities_Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe

99. Design with Nature_Ian McHarg

98. Ecocities_Richard Register

97. Highline: the Inside Story of New York City's Park In The Sky_David and Hammond

96. The Geography of Nowhere_James Howard Kunstler

95. Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination_Lance Berelowitz

94. Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future_Matt Hern

93. Building Barcelona_Peter Rowe

92. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life For Downtown_Roberta Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz

91. Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception_Dennis Jerke, Douglas Porter, Terry Lassar

90. Delirious New York_Rem Koolhaas

89. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning_John Sewell

88. Sprawl Repair Manual_Galina Tachieva

87. Public Sydney: Drawing the City_Thalis and Cantrill

86. Agricultural Urbanism_Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland

85. Learning from Las Vegas_Robert Venturi et al

84. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities_Southworth and Ben-Joseph

83. Cities and Natural Process_Michael Hough

82. Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture_Witold Rybczynski

81. The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability_Steffen Lehmann

80. Smart Cities_Anthony Townsend

79. Civilizing American Cities_Frederick Law Olmsted

78. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age_P.D. Smith

77. The New City_John Lorinc

76. Designing Community: Charrettes,Master Plans and Form-Based Codes_David Walters

75. The Option of Urbanism_Christopher Leinberger

74. City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver_Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron

73. The Wealth of Cities_John Norquist

72. The Geography of Hope_Chris Turner

71. The Great Good Place_Ray Oldenburg

70. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City_Mikoleit & Purckhauer

69. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space_Don Mitchell

68. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development_Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland

67. The Fractured Metropolis_Jonathan Barnett

66. Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder_Ken Greenberg

65. Wrestling with Moses_Anthony Flint

64. E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It"_William Mitchell (& City of Bits)

63. The Next American Metropolis_Peter Calthorpe

62. Grand Urban Rules_Alex Lehnerer

61. The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary_Dhiru Thadani

60. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design_Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell_

59. Cities are Good for You: the Genius of the Metropolis_Leo Hollis

58. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change_Peter Calthorpe

57. A Country of Cities: a Manifesto for an Urban America_Vishaan Chakrabarti

56. Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form_Loukaitou-Sideris & Banerjee

55. The Pedestrian Pocketbook: a New Suburban Design Strategy_Doug Kelbaugh

54. The Old Way of Seeing_Jonathan Hale

53. Green Metropolis_David Owen

52. City Comforts: How to Build and Urban Village_David Sucher

51. Global City Blues_Daniel Solomon

50. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space_Cooper Marcus & Francis

49. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs_Dunham-Jones and Williamson

48. Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities_Patrick Condon

47. The New Civic Art_Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana

46. Sustainable Transportation Planning_Jeffrey Tumlin

45. Triumph of the City_Edward Glaeser

44. Who's Your City_Richard Florida

43. Perverse Cities_Pamela Blais

42. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces_Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla

41. Cities of Tomorrow_Peter Hall

40. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature_Douglas Farr

39. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things_McDonough and Braungart

38. Visualizing Density_Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean

37. Suburban Nation_Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck

36. Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well Mannered Built Environments_Darko Radovic

35. Le Pieton Dans la Ville/Walking in the City: Sharing Public Space_Jean-Jacques Terrin

34. Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being and Sustainability_Dannenberg et al

33. Good City Form_Kevin Lynch

32. The Vancouver Achievement_John Punter

31. Livable Streets_Donald Appleyard

30. The City in History_Lewis Mumford (and The Culture of Cities, The Highway and the City, The Urban Prospect, etc)

29. Town Spaces_Rob KrierN or Urban Space _Rob Krier

28. New Design Cities_Commerce Design Montreal

27. Design for Ecological Democracy_Randolph Hester

26. The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art_Hegemann and Peets

25. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change_Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen

24. The Great Reset_Richard Florida

23. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design_Charles Montgomery

22. The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_Robert A. Caro

21. The High Cost of Free Parking_Donald Shoup

20. Straphanger: Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile_Taras Grescoe

19. Human Transit_Jarrett Walker

18. City Cycling_Pucher & Buehler

17. Walkable City_Jeff Speck

16. Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project_Ajuntament de Barcelona

15. Modern Civic Art, or The City Made Beautiful_Charles Mulford Robinson

14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations_Jane Jacobs

13. The City Shaped (& its partner, The City Assembled)_Spiro Kostof

12. The Creative City_Charles Landry

11. Town Planning in Practice_Raymond Unwin

10. Life Between Buildings_Jan Gehl

9. The Image of the City_Kevin Lynch

8. Townscape_Gordon Cullen

7. The Art of Building Cities_Camillo Sitte

6. A Pattern Language_Christopher Alexander et al (& his whole series, including A New Theory of Urban Design; The Timeless Way of Building, etc.)

5. City: Rediscovering The Center_William H. Whyte _ includes its smaller predecessor, "the Social LIfe of Small Urban Spaces"

4. Great Streets_Allan Jacobs

3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities_Jane Jacobs

2. The Art of City Making_Charles Landry

1. Cities for People_Jan Gehl

Link:Brent Toderian, MCIP Consulting City Planner + Urbanist

6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever / 6x Ringland

Harbor Drive, Portland

Link:6 freeway demolitions that changed their cities forever

Ontwerp voor de Zenne 4.2 Brussel - Design for the Zenne 4.2 Brussels

Ontwerp voor de Zenne 4.1 Brussel - Design for the Zenne 4.1 Brussels

Ringland

Het land dat ontstaat door de Ring te overkappen!

Ringland zorgt voor een betere mobiliteit, een gezonde leefomgeving en veel meer ruimte in ’t stad!! (Antwerpen, ... )

Link:Ringland

Link:Uit de ban van de ring

Leeswijzer / Readings

'Het syndroom van verkavelingsvlaanderen. Een radicaal pleidooi voor stedelijk wonen.'

Auteur : Filip Canfyn

Filip Canfyn is burgerlijk ingenieur-architect. Sinds 2008 is hij directeur stadsplanning en -ontwikkeling van diverse publicaties rond wonen en is onafhankelijk expert voor de Vlaamse Regering in de Vlaamse Woonraad.

Het Boek

De uitdaging van Vlaanderen bestaat erin om op korte termijn honderdduizenden nieuwe gezinnen te huisvesten maar ook zijn ruimtegebruik, zijnenergieverbruik en zijn mobiliteitslast onder controle te krijgen.

Het huidige verkavelingsvlaanderen, de breed uitgesmeerde suburbane habitat vol huizen-met-tuin in-volle-eigendom, het gewilde resultaat van anti-stedelijke traditie, verkeerde kleinschaligheidsdrang en gesubsidieerd pendelgedrag, kan niet meer als duurzame oplossing verkocht worden.

Meer nog, verkavelingsvlaanderen staat ook voor een nefaste vermiddenklassing, die eveneens moet ingedijkt worden. Die vermiddenklassingdistantieert zich niet alleen van de stad maar ook van de als stedelijk gebrandmerkte kansarmen, werklozen, niet-blanken en eenoudergezinnen, voelt zich beter maar ook bedreigd als hardwerkend huishouden met ruim perceel en wagenpark, en verdedigt het eigen ego- en etnocentrisch gedrag als goed voor de economie, voor de democratisering en dus voor het algemeen belang.

We moeten daarom de woonbanden met de stad weer bewust aanhalen, het stedelijk patrimonium weer bewoonbaar maken, binnen de stad weer betaalbaar verdichten, de stedelijke omgeving weer als collectieve woning verhuren.

We moeten de stad weer écht van en voor iedereen maken, om er weer samen te wonen en te leven.

Zo worden ruimte, energie, mobiliteit en centen gespaard. Zo wordt de samenleving hersteld. Zo wordt Vlaanderen genezen.

Dit boek toont overtuigend met 'facts and figures' het bestaan van dat verkavelingsvlaanderen en die vermiddenklassing aan en onderbouwt vanuit verschillende invalshoeken het pleidooi voor stedelijk wonen.

BOEKVOORSTELLINGEN

DO 06/03 - 18.00u: Onderzoeksseminarie Cosmopolis VUB

DI 18/03 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL THEORIA - Kortrijk

Filip Canfyn geeft toelichting bij zijn boek.

WOE 19/03 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL De ZONDVLOED - Mechelen

Filip Canfyn gaat in debat met Bart Somers (OpenVLD) over stad en nieuwe stedelijkheid

DO 08/05 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL DE LIMERICK - Gent

Filip Canfyn spreekt over Verkavelingsvlaanderen met Pascal De Decker (socioloog, architectuurdocent,..)

Opinie article / Het echte debat over stad wonen en samenleven draait om sociale en goedkope woningnood.

2005 _ Groen in de stad

Groen als stedenbouwkundig element in de jaren zeventig

Marrit van Zandbergen

Thesis voor de master Architectuurgeschiedenis en monumentenzorg,

Universiteit Utrecht

Utrecht, augustus 2005

Onder begeleiding van prof. dr. W.F. Denslagen

Van de geschiedenis kan men altijd leren! Vooral als je ooit op de Bijlmer werkte.

Link naar de thesis

Een park voor de Ninoofse Poort / A park for Ninoofsepoort

Ontwerponderzoek voor de Ninoofsepoort / Design Research for the Ninoofsepoort