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During these rough economic times, cities and towns across the globe are dotted with vacant lots, unfinished projects developers have pulled out of, projects on hold for years…Even cities with high land value, such as New York, have empty parcels- just waiting, leaving a void in the urban fabric of neighborhoods, an eye sore to those who see it on a daily basis. But what if something could fill that void? Even if it was only temporary until more concrete plans were set in motion? What if you could turn that void into a pop-up park, an impromptu farmers market, an art show, installation, a café, a music venue…? Temporary urbanism is the exciting notion that we don’t have to live with these voids, they can be filled, even if just temporarily. We don’t have to wait for developers to come in with money; we don’t have to depend on bureaucratic processes to shape our cities. It is possible to re-stitch the fabric of our communities and fulfill the immediate needs and desires of our neighborhoods. With temporary urbanism gaining traction in cities around the country, what seemed like a far reach years ago is now a possibility.
Practices of temporary reuse have come to the fore in recent years as material and symbolic forms of re-appropriating 'wasted' vacant urban spaces. In cities in the global north, 'pop-up shops'-temporary occupations of vacant commercial units-have incorporated social and artistic activities to create positive interruptions in the perceived decline of high streets and shopping areas. This chapter discusses the emergence of social and artistic pop-up shops as creative experiential fillers at times of recession and beyond. Drawing on the critical and situated analysis of a selection of community-oriented pop-up shops in London, it interrogates the 'pop-up aesthetics' shared by a diverse range of practices and their intended as well as unexpected readings by members of the public, raising questions about the relationship between emerging temporary cultural practices and processes of urban change.
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
Little Free Libraries: an examination of micro- urbanist interventions2017 •
Micro-urban interventions at the smallest scales represent a challenge for planners concerned with social justice and urban theory. This paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of micro-urbanism through an exploration of the Little Free Library phenomenon. Two case studies in Madison, Wisconsin and Santa Ana, California provide data for a combined quantitative and qualitative analysis that together support a complicated view of the phenomenon and offer insights into urban theory. In particular, the article proposes that Little Free Libraries represent micro-urbanist actions, which can be analyzed according to a theoretical terrain that often blurs the boundaries between “do-it-yourself,” tactical, and guerrilla urbanism. Our research supports the view that micro-urban interventions can take on different forms as either a grassroots contribution to resolving urban problems or a bottom-up effort reinforcing existing and developing spatial inequities.
The overvaluation of the use of automobile has detrimentally affected the importance of pedestrians within the city and consequently its public spaces. As a way of treating contemporary urban paradigms, Tactical Urbanism aims to recover and activate spaces through fast and easily-applied actions that demonstrate the possibility of large-scale and long-term changes in cities. Tactical interventions have represented an important practice of redefining public spaces and urban mobility. The concept of Active Transportation coheres with the idea of sustainable urban mobility, characterizing the means of transportation through human propulsion, such as walking and cycling. This paper aims to debate the potential of Tactical Urbanism in promoting Active Transportation by revealing opportunities of transformation in the urban space of contemporary cities through initiatives that promote the protection and valorization of the presence of pedestrians and cyclists in cities, and that subvert the importance of motorized vehicles. In this paper, we present the character of these actions in two different ways: when they are used as tests for permanent interventions and when they have pre-defined start and end periods. Using recent initiatives to illustrate, we aim to discuss the role of small-scale actions in promoting and incentivizing a more active, healthy, sustainable and responsive urban way of life, presenting how some of them have developed through public policies. For that, we will present some examples of tactical actions that illustrate the encouragement of Active Transportation and trials to balance the urban opportunities for pedestrians and cyclists. These include temporary closure of streets, the creation of new alternatives and more comfortable areas for walking and cycling, and the subversion of uses in public spaces where the usage of cars are predominant.
Public space is still one of the most complex architectural and urban planning programs due to the fact that it is compelled to adapt and meet the increasingly specific needs of a high diversity of users. The purpose of this paper is to show how the principles of design and intervention in public space evolve with the shifting needs and expectations of its users. Therefore the first part summarizes the basic principles developed by specialists in public space starting from William Holly Whyte's studies to the latest publication of Jan Gehl. In order to adapt to the current context of public spaces in a shifting period, three major trends in development and design of these places, namely: ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Pop-Up Urbanism and Tactical Urbanism, are presented. The last part of the article briefly describes and evaluates the University Square as public space. To illustrate the potential of new trends, this final segment shows how PopUp interventions or ICT can significantly improve the quality of a representative public space.
Exploring the linkages between tactical urbanism and community development.
SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal
Temporary uses as means of experimental urban planning2012 •
"Contemporary economic, social and cultural trends support interest in temporary uses of properties and urban space. Temporary uses have an experimental character in development and have agreed to have many societal and commercial benefits, including place-making and support of collaborative practices. This article provides a typology of temporary uses’ socio- spatial conditions and goals. When designed and implemented in urban central areas, currently under-used areas, or areas losing significance, temporary uses are tuned accordingly for intensification, initiation or redefinition of their locations. Four kinds of approaches taken by the public authorities to incorporate temporary uses have also been identified. These are consistent, project-based, centralised-idealistic and best practices approach."
This discussion of participatory urbanism will describe the context from which it emerged in the United States, define the term and its current manifestation, and describe an early example of participatory urbanism seeded by digital tools, in order to raise questions about the role of participatory urbanism in the making of place in the twenty-first century.
This study researches the preference for aesthetically imperfect buildings, sites, and objects today. By means of an analysis of NDSM Wharf as a site where the practice of imperfection is present, this thesis explores how this development relates to and differs from gentrification and rubbish theory while it simultaneously presents an option for the theory of aesthetic imperfection.
Qeios, Authorea (Authorea)
Implications if the Electric Field will be recognized as a form of Acceleration2024 •
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Whither sailest thou?" Points of origins and destinations in the archaeosphere of the Red Sea2020 •
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
Hardcore Actualism and Possible Non-Existence2018 •
2021 •
Air Transportation Systems Engineering
Conceptual Design of a Departure Planner Decision Aid2001 •
Algorithmic Finance
Forecasting prices from level-I quotes in the presence of hidden liquidity2011 •
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
A benzotriazole-mediated route to protected marine-derived hetero-2,5-diketopiperazines containing proline2015 •
Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy
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Signum. Estudos da Linguagem
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