Urban design

European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2018

Developing countries are subject to quick cultural changes as they evolve. Modern cities have been constructed by the interactions between different types of subjects. The identities of the actors that have been altered by communication in different forms of systems need new structures and infrastructures. The infrastructures should be in alignment with this evolving situation. The substructure is one of the objective reasons for the communication of citizens as, in this regard, individuals (citizens) will experience more emotional enjoyment from the freedom based on the number of facilities available to them. As with both objective and subjective discourses, the city will become more prominent in the modernized architectural structures if it is within the subjective scope of the citizens" free choices. To survive in this vibrant era, architecture has no choice but to be combined with the technologies derived from the modern science. Therefore, if technology or architecture is one of the options available to the citizens of metropolitan cities, it will create small communities and places due to its discursive nature and its locality and amusing quality where the citizen and city are placed in a dynamic situation as an actor and substructure. Our approach in this article has been scientific research and the impact of technology-architecture on modern urban development is studied based on the views of George Simmel and the city"s dependence on the architecture which has derived from this notion.

Article, 2025

According to the UN-Habitat 2020 Population Data Booklet, the world population living in the existing 1934 large metropolises is 2.6 billion people: one-third of the world's population. By the year 2050 will be 66% of the world population living in cities. There are 8936 intermediate cities in the world and urban agglomerations today occupy 7.6% of land mass of the planet. These data are alarming due to the density of construction, the consumption of resources, emissions into the atmosphere, the amount of waste and a long etcetera that they imply. However, beyond all those factors that today are "integrated" into the "planning" of the city, there is the failure of architecture and urban planning, which around the world is evident in the daily lives of people, every time that, in contemporary urban conglomerates, the intersubjective relationship of their inhabitants, with the environment and among themselves, is almost impossible for the exercise of a truly free, fraternal, fair, equitable and happy life. Therefore, I call for a deep reflection on what I consider should be a return to the Architecture of the City and on the possible extinction of urbanism.

Roadsides, 2020

collection no. 004 • Architecture and/as Infrastructure Roadsides

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Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2019

10 years after the foundation of NIRD URBAN-INCERC and its journal, this Editorial attempts to draw a line and make a balance of the achievements and failures of "Urbanism Architecture Constructions", and outline its future prospects.

2015

Organization city as organism|new visions for urban life Contents Volume 1 » Introduction Giuseppe Strappa Section 1 Plenary Session » City as a process. Rome urban form in transformation Giuseppe Strappa » A double urban life cycle: the case of Rome Giancarlo Cataldi » Studies for an anthropology of the territory. New achievements from Saverio Muratori's archive Nicola Marzot Section 2 Heritage and Historical Fabric Historical Urban Fabric Chair_Pisana Posocco » Abandoned villages, from conservation to revitalization Rossella de Cadilhac » Learning Process from Historic Urban Fabric of Ula and Adaptation in Akyaka Feray Koca Modern and Contemporary Design in Historical Cities Chair_Renato Capozzi I Fabrizio Toppetti » The 'consecutio temporum' in the contemporary-historical city design Fabrizio Toppetti » Shapes and Layers Kornelia Kissfazekas » A Comparative Study on Morphological Evolution of Inner-city Residential Blocks in Tokyo and Beijing Guan Li, Wu Zhouyan, Ariga Takashi » Figure follows type. Notes above contemporary project in compact urban fabric Manuela Raitano » Chiaramonte Gulfi, an experience of urban morphology Renato Capozzi » The post-liberal city of the 19 th century as a resource Ida Pirstinger » Athens urban transformation Anna Ntonou Efstratiadi » The architecture of the city contended between history and contemporary Giovanni Multari city as organism|new visions for urban life » New architecture in the ancient city. The typological-procedural approach of Caniggia, Bollati and Vagnetti groups in the competition for the extension of the Chamber of Deputies Illy Taci, Cristina Tartaglia, Giancarlo Salamone » Urban Tissues and Masonry Plastic Language. Emanuele and Gianfranco Caniggia's Houses in Via Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome Antonio Camporeale Architectural Heritage Chair_Manuela Raitano I Karsten Ley » Transformation and specialization of the historical center of Santiago of Chile: the evolution of the urban fabric around the "Plaza de Armas" square

It becomes quite evident from the various discussions and debates about our built form that urban design was always a response to either the constants or the variables of an existing situation/ context. It was always used as a tool to emphasize the permanence/temporality of ideas, these being always a result of changing time and social conditions. It is this debate between that of change vs. continuity that is most vital to Urban design. The topic is of even more importance in the Indian urban context as we have cities which have largely been a result of social production of spaces which are at the crucial juncture wherein the change being brought about is of a contrasting nature. The paper attempts to understand how would then our cities attempt to regulate these aforementioned transformations using varying tools of urban design, thus giving us an ideological framework for newer theories on Indian urbanism.

2018

The city is an oeuvre, closer to a work of art than to a simple material product.

The Urban Design Companion, ed. Tribid Banerjee (Routledge) , 2011

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and natural sciences. Companion to Urban Design includes more than fifty original contributions from internationally recognized authorities in the field. These contributions address the following questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field and the current practice of urban design? What are the major methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates, conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of urban design in recent times? There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

How architects means today the reality has to be? From South America to China, the hyper-metropolis, is paradoxical in its inhumanity. Is the economics and financial system a degenerate form of ideology, or an implicit destiny in the construction of the city of the past, unable to accept and include or even resist the social and economic transformations of our time? Or the European city can still set an example or an alternative to global mega-cities? The uniquely instrumental ability, or, the ability of architecture to materialize the idea of a city, or more generally the idea of space, is an assumption of this argument, and yet, although we can be certain that this capacity is always expressed, by Renaissance treatises up to the heteronomous expressions as «S, M, L, XL» which urges us to take a position as architects on the contemporary city is its aesthetic reason.