Tag: Urban Design
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Urban Design II: Los Angeles
Today’s topic will be the Urban Design of Los Angeles. The main tools will be top-down infrastructure (Ecology/landscape), fragmented sub-urban (suburbia) and places for experimentation (micro/temporary programs). Los Angeles is a car city. It is the antagonist to New York, the incarnation of the battle between the East and West Coast. Hollywood is located in…
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Urban Design I: Tools
Throughout the course Urban Design I several “tools” were introduced that impact urbanity. Expansion Tools of this kind belong to top-down approaches and usually give form to the urbanscape in a radical way. Megascale-planing (Berlin) Berlin was an early example of a politically motivated re-organisation of administrative units. Berlin grew from nearly 2 million to…
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Cornerstone Course – Day 3: Urbanisation I
There is a claim that more 50% of humankind live in cities. This claim, however, is wrong. The reason is that a city and an urban environment is not the same and the correct description would be that more than 50% live in urban environments. This differentiation has a huge impact, Caracas, Mexico City and…