To browse Academia. Paper presented to the Berlin international symposium The Role of open spaces in the transformation of urban landscape hold by The Italian Institute of Culture. In it I summarize after the review of different urban landscapes that there is a need to recover traditional urban layouts in order to create a comfortable city and sustainable landscape, at least in concrete zones. As in all the processes I reviewed, the key still lies in open public spaces.
Herein, there is a need for design, for guidelines of urban design containing appropriate rules of town planning and renewal, urbanisation and maintenance of open spaces. Catharine Ward Thompson. Barbara L Stark. Gandong Cai. The proposition of this paper is to examine the agency of landscape in subverting, energizing and reinvigorating a specific kind of deserted space in cities-Urban Under Space.
The term Urban Under Space refers to residual infrastructural spaces, such as under-bridge space, abandoned subway stations, air raid shelters, etc.
The wide availability and continued generation of Urban Under Space in cities that were investigated in North America and Asia reflect a problem in modern planning. But it also provides an opportunity of positioning these pieces as a network of new urban landscapes that can offer a unique and attractive public space experience.
The paper provides an elaboration of the invented term, a case analysis of the creative re-use of Air Raid Shelters in Chongqing, and a systematic research to prototype the issues and opportunities as related to such spaces. The paper also discusses its potential as a ground for unique urban public experiences. Helena Degreas. These two elements are closely connected to physical support and pre-existing environmental dynamics. Therefore we see no sense in breaking them in any studies related to the urban form.
