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This document discusses strategies for temporary urban development and open source city planning. It proposes 6 strategies for opening up possibilities, including cultivating temporary uses and integrating informal practices into planning. It questions traditional urban planning parameters and advocates for an enabling approach where citizens can help design the urban landscape. Specifically, it recommends: 1. Initially activating areas informally through temporary uses to stimulate public awareness and test potential without large investments. 2. Lowering barriers for a wider group of actors to directly engage with spaces to develop use concepts and site designs through action rather than traditional planning. 3. Shifting the role of planners and authorities to be cooperation partners that spur civil society involvement and remove inhibitions, allowing ideas

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Urban Catalyst

This document discusses strategies for temporary urban development and open source city planning. It proposes 6 strategies for opening up possibilities, including cultivating temporary uses and integrating informal practices into planning. It questions traditional urban planning parameters and advocates for an enabling approach where citizens can help design the urban landscape. Specifically, it recommends: 1. Initially activating areas informally through temporary uses to stimulate public awareness and test potential without large investments. 2. Lowering barriers for a wider group of actors to directly engage with spaces to develop use concepts and site designs through action rather than traditional planning. 3. Shifting the role of planners and authorities to be cooperation partners that spur civil society involvement and remove inhibitions, allowing ideas

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Urban catalyst

Cultivating Temporary Use

How to plan temprory use? Integrating informal practices in to the city planning?
Opne source city planning, the planners task is less to establish facts than to create
possibilities
Users as producers of the urban environment
6 strategies can be described as opening fields of possibilities

What is to be done?

Practice of unanticipated developments and the energy of spontaneous uses be


incorporated in planning processes? Can temporary users do more than serve as
stopgaps until the return of economic demand? How can their potential be
harnessed for long term developments? Are alternative models conceivable for a
brand of urban development that does not dictate or define but rather enables???

Questioning traditional parametners of urban design : end results


One begins by asking how can a dynamic be engendered withouth defiing an ideal
state
Planning becomes enabling > strategic significance in particularly in phases of
transition
Cedric Price term ; weak planning, resources and energies are activated by the
removal of development obstacles and inhibitions, by de an re formalization and by
re interpretation and conversion of existing structures

Shift in the role of the planner


Open source city planning- open source = many ideas taken from the it wolrd :
involving a range of social initiatives in the genesis of the city by allowing citizens
not just to inspect plans but to design the urban landscape themselves

Traditional vs classical planning


1. Planning becomes dynamic
Rough objectives from the outset : this is dine on the basis of possible use programs
- webs of spatial relations and densities
the source code of the existing structures of a disused site represens the
principal foundation for open source urbanism, the aters goal is to define as little as
possible and as much a necessary
Classical planning turned upside down firs an accumulation of activities programs
networks little by little express themselves in constructional terms

IN THE FIRST PHASE , the emphasis is on the informal activation of the area
securing usable constructional resources, stimulating public awareness , cultivating
temporary uses

Direcly interacting with thre spaces produces an idea of a sites potential ,

Initial activation without a arge investment of capital ; but if the process of informal
revitalization is successful, the site comes back into use

A specific public identity comes into being


As the process goes forward, the plan is cjhecked against reality and continuously
adapted

2. Shared Control

In difficult economies and city planning situations, new develpoments can be


sparked when owners, municipalities, and active citizns overcome existing
barriers and release synergies

3. Sampling
Site deisgns and use concepts do not come about as the result of
architectural competitions and papproaa;l planning efforts, but as a result of
action
Lowering the ba r for access to direct appropriation for a wider group of
actors; management tools that deal with the transitory
ENABLING STATE
Social welfare state to economically lean state > activating state that spurs civil
society to assume social welfare tasks itself > paternalistic
Enabling state > potential for significant social impulses actors ability to organize
without external control
Authorities become cooperation partners and allies

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