‘To know the path, is to rule the system’understanding Urban Vitality, for socio-economic value capturing & social capital is crucial
Ir. Peter G. de Bois, Architect & Urban Designer
(Em) Professor. Delft University of Technology & University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
Editor in Chief ‘Vital City’ Magazine Member AoU, Academy of Urbanism London Dir. Office4UrbanreSearchUrban-knowledge platform
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explaining whyTo know the path is to rule the system
Urban Vitality
is based on
an effective inter-relation between
spatial, economical and social urban systems
2005 © de Bois, Delft University of Technology
whyUrban Vitality
derives from the capacity of cities
to maintain their spatial conditions for urban quality
throughout a constant process of conscious re-validation
for societal innovation
spatial transition and flexibility in time
the worldGlobal threats local impacts
Extreme diaspora to Urban areas specifically harbour city’s
6.5 milliard now, 9 milliard in the near future
2% of surface is urban, needing 75% of all sources
300.000 people a day coming to cities
Extreme unbalance and concentration of people
More people inside this circle than outside
Extreme geographical flow’s, production is footloose
Knowledge is sustain
Extreme youth -15 | 24- unemployment up to 23,5%
Drain of social kapital
Extreme differences in democratic & economic systems
(Un) Predictable players
Extreme unbalance in access to food, water and minerals
There is a BIG slow war going on in 25 area’s, political powers using religion as leverage
The Netherlands second biggest export of vegetables in the world
Global treats for world peace
Extreme differences in human rights and emancipation
Secularisation versus democracy
Extreme differences in perception about income and wealth
1% has 40% of wealth
what we consider ideal what we think the truth
Extreme spatial separation & social-economic segregation
Income differences, 1 to 400……… the gap between the elite and the common people
Need reflection & actualisation of the concept of:
liberté - égalité - fraternité
Extreme waste of natural resources, related to extended land use
The paradigm of individualism, collectivism and totalitarianism
the cityGlobal paradigms, local impacts
Extreme urban expansion & physical fragmentation
Physical en functional divisions, socio economic fragmentation
Extreme loss of socio-economic support basis in public domain
The price for adapting a non-generic urban planning doctrine
New centre of Saint-Dié based on CIAM rules and historical centre of Parma
Extreme decrease of value of public space and private property
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Diminishing economic support basis in daily urban system
Extreme loss of local values due to global financial derivatives
Financial perversion on derivatives 550.000 billion SWAPS yearly, 550.000.000.000.000400 billion SWAPS per day, 400.000.000.000
Perversion of our liberal society
the societyGlobal developments local impacts
Extreme governance downfall of our welfare state
195020182008
rise and fall of collective governance
transitionThe assignment for a vital society in the 21th century
is urgent on three levels of interest
The balance between individualism en collectivism:
About learning to live with uncertaintyAbout interactions between our virtual, mental en physical worldAbout less ownership and more sharingAbout more the bottom up and less top down
Need to focus on:
Individual development | consciousnessMaking choices | giving place | connecting | quality of the city Societal awareness | participation | local societyLocal collectivism | sharing power | ownership
The assignment for a vital society 3.0
2013 Based on Prof. Jan Rotmans
The importance of, sustainable value capturing;
About co-creation and circular processAbout community based business en social cost benefits
Need to focud on:
Bounding and bridging of values in time and space | transparency | political consensusLocale coordination of investments | making value creation physical
The assignment for a vital society 3.0
The quest for, Quality of life:
About the value of lifeAbout trust in society and here leadersAbout room for individual identity and ideasAbout freedom of being
Need to focus on:
Personal reflection | mindfulness | daily urban system | locale identityEmpowerment | re-democratization | transparencies | citizenshipIntegration | validation | community building | empowermentCommunity | safety | being in charge
The assignment for a vital society 3.0
Resume:
Guarding the quality of:
The liberal democracyThe sharing welfare and ideasThe societal participation and social capitalThe inter-connection of virtual, mental en physical content of lifeThe implementation of circular economyThe integration of smart and clean technology
The assignment for a effective and vital society 3.0
whyUrban Vitality
is a precondition
for socio-economic value capturing
essential for
social capital, socio economic benefits & good citizenship
smart cityTo know the path is to rule the system
whySmart cities, urban vitality
statementUrbanVitality is an essential precondition
for the socio-economic existence of the smart city
Smart economy is about
The innovation of society
Smart flows and places for the daily urban system
Smart Cities are key elements in world economy
They derive from multiple flows of values
facilitated through concentrated networks of smart people
through socio-economic coincidence & confrontation
through economic synergy & creative thinking
Smart people make Vital Cities
Smart people like and need smart Cities
howGlobal technology local transition
Hardware makes us software
Context related action
Instant democracy
Understanding processes, tracking Garbage
Understanding processes, tracking Garbage
Flickr and Twitter
1.800.000.000 pictures shared on internet every day, connecting the virtual, mental and physical world of daily urban life
Mood twitters, understanding happiness or dispair
Bottom-up governance
We are software
We are the cloud
whatSpatial urban rules are about
our ‘daily urban system’, the ‘time-space’ budget
Its about context
knowing where you are
Real-time ‘daily urban’ system Amsterdam by GPS research
© WAAG society 2001
Individual spatial circuits in a parallel urban network
Its about motive
understanding why
Copyright © Joosten, Victor, Shops and Blocks, how block typologie influences the naturel movement economic proces, Berlin and Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology 2005
Amsterdam central area
position of retail, urban network, block and density relations
Photo streams Flickr, - tourists red- locals yello- Regionals bleu in Amsterdam central area
1.800.000.000 pictures shared on internet every day, connecting the virtual, mental and physical world of ‘daily urban’ life
© Erik Fisher
places of interest
Its about
the fit between
time‘urban flows’
space ‘urban places’
Representing the perception of our position in space
Facilitating ‘flows’ between ‘places’ in the urban network
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People like to flow in circuits
People like to flow in circuits, GPS research City Centre Haarlem
whatParameters for urban vitality
Parallel urban networks for variation of flows
providing socio-economic coincidence & support on urban places
Parallel contra Serial urban networks
Serial URBAN system by planning like New Towns
Weak support basis
Parallel URBAN system by organic developmentlike Amsterdam
Strong support basis
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Facilitating the overlap for socio-economic encounter, support basis for social capital
Parallel contra Serial urban networks
Facilitating the overlap for socioeconomic encounter and social cost benefits
Connecting the top –global- and the bottom –local- urban network by aINTRA net, connecting supply & demand
Supporting socio-economic demands byphysical connections, immediate context and precondition for FLOWS & PLACES
Smart technology for urban life and quality of vital cities
Variation of places, anchor points- shopping streets and malls, - parks,- squares, - harbours - sport facilities etc
Support basis - multifunctional densities on private domain and- intense use on public domain
Condensed spatial conditions on the parallel system
Variation of flows- streets, - alleys, - boulevards - (park) lanes, - canals etc
Variation of flows in a parallel urban network
2007 © Ir. E Stolk TUDelft 2009 © Ir. P. G. de Bois
Parallel URBAN flows and places alternating development
1994 © Ir. P. G. de Bois TUDelft
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By-pass A16Connecting A4
21th century
In The Hague these destinations comprise: (1) the coastal area; (2) the beach and the pier of Scheveningen; and (3) the city centre with the Parliament buildings, the city squares and shopping area, the tram tunnel, the City Hall and the theatre area.
In Delft these are: (4) the connection across the highway to IKEA, the recreation area of the "Delftse Hout" and the connection to the dwelling areas of Pijnacker. Further along the line lies the landscape area of "Midden Delfand" (Central Delfland)
And eventually in Rotterdam there can be found: (5)Aeroport, "Blijdorp" Zoo; (6) the City Hall with a number of squares including the cultural area around the "Doelen"; (7) the new "Koopgoot" shopping area; (8) the river fronts, the "Maasbrug" (Meuse Bridge) and "Maasboulevard" Meuse Boulevard) and the recentdevelopments on the "Kop van Zuid" pensinsula; (9) the "Zuidplein" (South Square) as centre of Rotterdam South; and eventually (10) the landscape area south of Rotterdam.
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Upcoming transition of the A13
Urban ‘places’ already existing on the urban corridor A13
Coolsingel, 4 episoden
Transition of flows, change of place
howKnowledge about urban systems
Understanding ‘flow’ connection of the city market ‘places’
© Ir. P. G. de Bois 2011
Analysis of the (inter)relation ‘flow’s’ between urban anchor points ’places’
Stepping stone relation “Markets” in the city and the extended areas
Understanding the hierarchy of the urban network
Understanding ‘steppingstones’ of urban places ‘anchor points’
Amsterdam Rotterdam
© Ir. P. G. de Bois 2011
The stepping stone relation between anchor points, ‘places’, derives from the quality of the bounding and bridging condition in the ‘flows’ system of the urban network
Analysis of the (inter)relation ‘flow’s’ between urban anchor points ’places’
Understanding ‘complex urban systems
Reconnecting Copenhagen Ørestad , NON plase of the city
Ørestad Copenhagen making the SLOW RING by flows & places
Activating existing beach Connect urban Anchor points by missing links
Ørestad Copenhagen making the SLOW RING by flows & places
Missing links in the local urban network
Concept of the new urban ‘flow’ system
Ørestad Copenhagen concept of the SLOW RING
The Bridge to connect the SLOW RING
Urban Design flows & places
Ørestad Copenhagen, connections effects & social cost benefits
Connecting knowledge understanding Urban Vitality
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