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. This article begins to look at the city and its forms under a rarely used way. The open space becomes the protagonist of the analysis. This approach considers both publicly and privately owned spaces. It evaluate the role of different types of retreats that shape backyards, enclosed yards, parking lots, parks and plazas, etc..
