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Bare House residency Monday 29 March 2010
afternoonChair Annu WileniusG Cowan -Occupying the StreetLiane Vertrate Eindhoven Other UrbanismAnthropologisttransmutations of Afrikaanderplein, RotterdamTerry Meade Brighton Against House Demolitions
occupied territory - building / demolition / building /demolitionKeynotesProf Andrea Kahn (DesignContent NY)Apprehending the SiteDelineating the SiteSpecificity of SiteScale(s) of the Site
figure and ground - ground as (suppressed) sitesite as a relational construct between general andspecifictransscalar mappingAlan Dein
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Bare House residency Monday 29 March 2010
afternoonChair Annu WileniusG Cowan -Occupying the StreetLiane Vertrate Eindhoven Other UrbanismAnthropologisttransmutations of Afrikaanderplein, RotterdamTerry Meade Brighton Against House Demolitions
occupied territory - building / demolition / building /demolitionKeynotesProf Andrea Kahn (DesignContent NY)Apprehending the SiteDelineating the SiteSpecificity of SiteScale(s) of the Site
figure and ground - ground as (suppressed) sitesite as a relational construct between general andspecifictransscalar mappingAlan Dein
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A night time street scene in London Waterloo area
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shows a taxi and bus on a slip road near the train
station. There is a viaduct on the left with a pedestrianway underneath, and on the right an access ramproad to Waterloo train station.The area is well lit and there is a discreet entrance toa pub on the left side of the road.
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This paper is a report on early work in progress on the
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subject of 'occupations of streets in the night time city
- politics of urban designThe main issues relate to the question of how wecould better approach the urban design of streets forthe night time city. Streets are distinguished fromroads in that they are urban places as well as being ameans of access from one place to another.This image shows a road crossing bridge at the
western edge of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, crossing themain east-west artery of the city (Enkhtaivnii Gudamju- "Peace Avenue") where there is also an importantmarket and suburban shopping centre. On the bridge,which accommodates a restaurant, shops and smallstalls along the corridor, there is a statue of ChinggisKhan (Genghis Khan the 13th C emperor, facingwestward toward Europe)
In middle ground is an informal bus stop, wherepassengers are boarding for Khanii Materialnii Zak(Building materials market in the western peri-urbanfringe) and at the right in the foreground, a telephonestall.
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Jane Jacobs
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key figure in thinking about the street
critic of garden city movement and suburbanisationdriving residents out of inner cities into suburbanestates (advent of the car-based suburbia in post warUSA)on the other hand her optimistic view of the ballet ofpetit-bourgeois shopkeepers,choreography of the street
Bentley a key text in the fieldComedia a significant independent report on towncentres at nightalso recommended that councillors beat the bouns oftheir boroughs / electorates annually so they knew theplaces they were representingalso recommended ways of ensuring surveillance interms of eyes on the street
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Anderson ed 1978
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Appleyard 1981 Livable Streets as an innovvator in
the area in the nineteen eightiesMoudon 1999Hass and Klau - a useful range of continentalEuropean examples as well as examples from Britainfor comparisonCarmona et al ed. 2003A key textbook for students of Urban Design, taking
the reader through the key issues in a graphicallyillustrated way, providing an introduction to UrbanDesignCompareGreed and Roberts 1998 Introducing Urban DesignandRoberts and Greed 2001, Approaching Urban Design:the Design Process
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Bentley et al 1985 Responsive Environments
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Responsive Environments
One of the key textsa manual for designerstakes designers through the processes of analysisand design and reanalysis in environmental / urbandesign
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Bentley, et al 1985 "Responsive Environments"
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Permeability and Variety
Office and ResidentialMixed Usecombined blocks
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Waterloo station forecourt at night
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Paving
TreesLighting of landmark buildingBus stop and shelter adjacentresidence / attached to PubWalkway to the rightStreet lighting
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Greeting
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modes of interaction in public space
Brawlingmodes of disorderly interaction in publicasbo has been responsible for improvement of publicbehaviour according to a comment from Alan Deinhistorian at the conferencemodes of social interaction
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Diversity of Night time activity
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Going out to a show
working in a 24-hour or late evening economysupported business eg TescoEngineers working on services Lodon Underground /Rail Works other services down time - traffic is quieterShopping for necessities after work 9-5 / 10-7 eg milk,bread news sweets magazines etcParking during off peak time - eg London Congestion
Charging Zone off peak time 7pm - 7amBinge drinking
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nightlife = alcohol consumption
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binge drinking
abandonment = end of week -milestone celebrations - stag's party - or hen's party(impending marriage)entering university (fresher's party US)birthdaysFootball teams celebrationscompleting exams
environmental perception is dulledbright colours are usedarchitectural taste and discernment of environmentalquality is often reduced
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Rise of youth drinking organisations
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http://carnageuk.com/
see tilllate.comhttp://uk.tilllate.com/en/event/9056999
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Streets are defined as both 'Link' and 'Place'
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combining the spatial qualities of a thoroughfare with
a space which may be 'collectively owned' and caredfor by occupantsdensity of usepersons per hectare,possibly mapped over timelocal and visitingphsical height to width ration - contributes to sense of
enclosure / opennessuses / mixed use streetscommercial / shopping -types of shopping eg x-ratedbookstoreentertainment - often alcohol relatedtheatrevideo librarypub, bar, club
performance venueresidential usesocial housinglandlord large or smallrivate ownershi
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Lighting is critical for night activity. Visibility of the
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forms of the built environment help to remove
ambiguity about occupation of the street and activityof occupants. Colour of lighting is also significant.Energy consumed by lighting is an issue forenvironmental and financial sustainability.Transport varies at different times of day, dependingupon purpose for delivering passengers or freightdirectly or indrectly (eg intermodally train-bus-cycle-
pedestrian), and regimes of parking loading andrelated times of these activities in the night or dayAccessibility and permeability are key to functioning ofstreets for different movement modesBehaviour in the street by any kind of occupants,mechanical or otherwiseCivility is important culturallyIntoxication is a related issue which was highlighted
by the recent Carnage student pub-crawl case, wherean intoxicated young man 'unintentionally' desecratedan urban landmark (urinating on a war memorial)
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voices - interviews
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Sound recordings
Video interviews?actors - workshops - gamesFormalised ways of interacting between stakholdersusings participatory techniquesactivists - collaboration?Activism suggests self-conscious and activestakeholders who purse direct intervientions or
actions in the environment.professionals - observation / consultationelected community representatives, politicians,council officers, planners, architects, social scientists,play roles in the ongoing negotiation and operations ofthe streetagency - collaboration - researchwhat is the effectiveness of internal and external
actors in the processes of operating the street?agencies - observation / consultationwhich organisations form or transform or persisthistorically to operationalse the ongoing life of thestreet
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interest in describing the street scene graphically
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figures and grounds
The street environment and its various actors are in acomplex relationship of dependencies.Theories of environmental science sometime hold thatbehaviour can be influenced by environmental design(eg CEPTED - crime prevention throughenvironmental design)Buildings are key figures - defining the street space
physically; their height, transparency and porosity areimportant and these are relative to the street widthand activityStreet 'furniture' which broadly interpreted may beinterpreted to mean anything ranging from sofas totraffic signals, bus shelters, signage, waste bins tobenches and plantings.Vehicles may range from bicycles and wheelchairs
and mobility scooters to shopping trolleys, roadsweepers, milk floats, passenger cars all terrainvehicles, vans lorries HGVs and constructionequipment. Police horses are still used in centralLondon and in m view still rovide a form of traffic
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examples of transport modelling and pedestrian
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modelling
disregard for buildings and street sceneslegacy of empirical approach to studying mode conflictand flows- safety measured by reduced KSI fugures (killed orseriously injured)- traffic signals to regulate behaviour- pedestrians as natural (primal corporeal) users of
the street behave more viscerallyminimising potential of conflict - possibility for positivecontact?
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elements of a city street
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buildings
carriagewaysfootwayslandmarks
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Key Themes
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Fear and Pleasure
what instills fear -threat of violencesexual threatalcoholwhat allows pleasureconvivalityentertainment
alcoholurbanitysocialityComments and Suggestions / AHRA Nov 09Postcode wars / turf wars / territoriality of parts ofstreetsModelling(Forensic) Pedestrian Modelling of Kings Cross fire
1987 (www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/kxpem/lu.htm)Gender Safe / Unsafeporosity homelessness in the streetDelimiting space of the Street - see Nils Normanartist
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Ben Highmore York / Essexwww.yorku.ca/cities/city/news/files/night&city.doc
City Scapes 2005Ch 2.Street Scenes - Circulation, Crowds, andModernizing LondonKatarina Loew - Soziologie der Staedte 2008-9recomm by Sebastian Schmidt-TomczakSchloer Night Time in the Big City
Francis Als: the clandestine wayPedestrian everyday under CCTV or How to walk thepath of least surveillancehttp://www.msdm.org.uk/archive/FrancisAlys-PaulaRoush.pdf