This week, the fourth Streetscape Territories Notebook was published!
This publication covers the EU Intensive Program workshop “Streetscape Territories, Spaces of Inclusion”, that was held in Barcelona in January-February 2014 in collaboration with KU Leuven, TU Delft, Chalmers UT, PU Catalunya, TU Bratislava and ENSA Montpellier (see previous posts).
The notebooks are available in the KU Leuven libraries and on request (mail to ben.robberechts@kuleuven.be)
ISSN 2294-4672
A Perecian Attempt to Exhaust the Glasgow Subway
by Jack Donaghy, Johanna Jokio, Anna Nienhaus, Dennis Rodgers and Evan Williams
Urban Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Introduction (Dennis Rodgers)
This collective piece is the result of a practical fieldwork exercise undertaken by students in the context of an MSc-level course on “Urban Theory and Research” that I taught at the University of Glasgow between 2013 and 2015. This course explored the epistemology and methodology of urban research, in order to get to grips with the ways in which different investigative approaches shape our understanding of cities. It particularly highlighted how cities can and have been apprehended, interpreted, and represented on a number of different scales, from the individual to the global, and through a range of different lenses, and how this has critical consequences for our knowledge about cities. The course also examined how and…
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Gallaudet University campus / Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts university in the world that teaches its students in both English and American Sign Language, has launched an international design competition to remake its 99-acre campus in Washington, D.C. into a hub for deaf culture. According to the university, design teams will be challenged “to rethink the sensory experience of the campus through the deaf perspective.” The $60 million project also aims to create a new campus gateway and “redefine the university’s urban edge as a vibrant, mixed-used creative and cultural district.”
University officials believe Gallaudet is leading an “emerging renaissance known as Deaf Gain: a paradigm shift that switches the emphasis from hearing loss to the cultural, creative and cognitive gains of deaf ways of being in the world.” To enable this paradigm shift, they are starting with their own campus, redesigning it using “DeafSpace
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BY ANNA CLARK , PUBLISHED JUNE 19, 2015
Pope Francis called for an extraordinary global response to climate change this week in his much-anticipated encyclical. But the first pope from the developing world also has a message for urban planners: Build better neighborhoods for the poor. And while you’re at it, find a way to integrate the natural world in city design. “We were not meant to be inundated by cement, asphalt, glass and metal, and deprived of physical contact with nature,” he writes in Laudato Si. It’s subtitled “Our Care for Our Common Home.”
Cities have become unhealthy places for human beings — not only because of toxic emissions, but also because of poor transportation, visual pollution, congestion, social exclusion, violence, noise and even “the loss of identity.” And inequality looms over it all.
“In some places, rural and urban alike, the privatization of certain spaces has…
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