gothenburg workshop: speculations concerning urban form
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Gothenburg Workshop:Speculations Concerning Urban Form & Structure
Yale Urban Design WorkshopChalmers Spatial Morphology Group
Giambattista Nolli, Pianta di Roma, 1748Spatial continuity of urban fabric
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Campo Marzio, 1762Spatial disjunction of urban figure
Charles Booth, Poverty Map of London, 1889Mapping urban life
Kevin Lynch, Image of the City, 1962Mapping the perception of urban form
Florence, “Chain View”Francesco Rosselli, 1480s woodcutBounded and designed city
Sheffield, England19th century industrial cityCity unbounded and un-designed
London 1851 balloon viewIn search of a metropolitan vantage point
London space syntax map, BartlettDegree centrality of urban streetsIn search of methodology
Eugène Hénard, 1905Urban circulation diagrams:The tyranny of the center
Le Corbusier, Ville radieuse, 1935East-west axis of Paris
Eugène Hénard, East-west crossing of Paris, 1904The diagram negotiated
Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin, 1925The diagram realized
Urban morphology: fabric and public space
Edward Bacon, The Design of Cities, 1957 (after Giovanni Fanelli) Sequence of public spaces in Renaissance Florence
Saverio Muratore, Studi per un’ operante storia urbana di Venezia, 1959Charateristic Venetian urban fabric
Aldo Rossi, The Analagous City, 1976The city as layered collective memory
Colin Rowe and Fred KoetterCollage City, 1979Composite buildings
Giancarlo de CarloUrbino diagram, 1966
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, andSteven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972Spatial and semiotic analysis of the Strip
Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vrisendorp,The City of the Captive Globe, 1978The utopia of the Manhattan grid
Christopher Alexander, village structure algorithmNotes on the Synthesis of Form, 1964
Rob Krier, Urban Space, 1979Urban morphology and typology as
a combinatorial system
Clarence Perry, 1929Neighborhood unit
Bergsjön, 1963-Site plan (YSoA)
New UrbanismSeaside and Celebration
Thames River estuary, ConnecticutRegional picture
Avery Copp House Museum c. 1800Groton, ConnecticutIndividual non-profit institution
Thames River Heritage ParkYale Urban Design Workshop, 2016Concept sketch Analytic diagram Final plan
Thames River Heritage Park“Cool,” analytic diagram
Thames River Heritage Park“Hot,” thick and rhetorical representation
Drawing Architecture StudioDashilar district, BeijingHot and thick representation
Bartlett SchoolSpace Syntax map of skateboard parks in LondonCool and anaylitic representation
How do we understand Gothenburg?Patterns of historical developmentBeyond the centered, concentric city –
a new “theory of Gothenburg form”Gaps in the system
Gothenburg 1871 Plan for ExpansionRationalization of growth according to techniques of modern urbanism
Gothenburg 1888Industrial growth beyond historic center and new infrastructural typologiesPersistent street and block-based parcelization
Gothenburg satellite photoSuburbanization; pre and post-war project-based development;
limited-access highways; industrial and institutional campuses
Vasagatan and Lindholmsallen: Connectivity, redundancy, fine-grained fabric, interstitial landscapeMissed connections, minimal overlap, industrial fabric, interstitial pavement
How do we guide, but not constrain, intelligent urban development?Project vs. PlaceInfrastructure vs. Mobility and AccessPark vs. Park SystemFigure vs. GroundBlock vs. StreetFragment vs. Microcosm