Category: Urban Design

Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, 2011

Kindle Edition

Review

“The authors are clearly enthusiastic about this technology and its possibilities, yet they do address privacy concerns. Particularly interesting is their discussion of the ways in which net locality impacts political engagement and local government, and how location awareness is effecting other cultures.” (Publishers Weekly , 30 May 2011)

Introduction

  • Net Locality
  • Organizing the Web
  • Location Awareness
  • Reading the Book
    • Chapter 4….Urban spaces are becoming hybridized(de Souza e Silva, 2006)
    • Chapter 5….net localities are transforming community interaction…and civic engagement
  • References

Chapter 1: Maps

  • Mapping Social Information
  • GIS: Converging Maps and Computers
  • Web GIS
  • Net Locality
  • Is the World Too Much With Us?
  • References

Chapter 2: Mobile Annotations

  • Locating Devices
  • Attaching Information to Location
  • Tracing and Mapping Locations
  • Mobile Annotation
  • Location Awareness Goes Mainstream
  • Location is Everywhere
  • References

Chapter 3: Social Networks and Games

  • Digital Connection in Physical Spaces
  • Games and Interaction
  • The Expansion of Location Awareness
  • New Spaces, New Practices
  • References

Chapter 4: Urban Spaces

  • Good Old Public Spaces
  • “Getting Away with Going Away”
  • Performance in/Of Public
    • Refering  Rockferrer center’s skate link and space and cloud of people watching it, he suggests there’s fluidity of state of people between performing and watching it.
  • Transformed Urban Spaces
  • References

Chapter 5: Community

  • Community and Society
  • Neighborhood Connectivity
  • Designing Engagement
  • Hyperlocal News
  • Government 2.0
  • The Politics of Net Localities
  • References

Chapter 6: Privacy

  • The Public Nature of Locaton Data
  • The Privatization of Public Spaces
    • distinction between private and public is socially constructed and therefore variable and constantly changing.
  • Power in Net Localities
  • References

Chapter 7: Globalization

  • Japan
  • China
  • Considering the Net-Local Future
  • References

Chapter 8: Conclusion

  • Technological Infrastructures
  • Social Infrastructures
  • Moving Forward
  • References

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 1995

http://www.amazon.com/Disenchanted-Night-Industrialization-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0520203542/

Amazon.com Review
The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture. Very Highly Recommended.

邦訳はこちら

http://www.amazon.co.jp/闇をひらく光―19世紀における照明の歴史-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276433/

これは続編(20世紀編？）ドイツ語の原書と日本語訳しかない。

http://www.amazon.co.jp/光と影のドラマトゥルギー―20世紀における電気照明の登場-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276441/

Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism, Mirko Zardini(ed), 2005

Product Description

Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of the qualities, comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life. From darkness and night to urban soundscapes, to the urban air and climate, this book presents a new, “sensorial” approach to urbanism. In defense of public spaces in contemporary cities, writer Cedric Price has observed that “mental, physical, and sensory well-being is required.” Included here is a rich collection of images on the different urban themes addressed in the exhibition, along with a series of insightful and critical essays. Contributors include Constance Classen, David Howes, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, and Mirko Zardini. Edited by Mirko Zardini. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in./320 pgs / Illustrated throughout.

Design, implementation and evaluation of a novel public display for pedestrian navigation: the rotating compass、Rukzio, et al, 2009

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518722
http://andrewjohnsonhci.blogspot.com/2010/02/design-implementation-and-evaluation-of.html

Maya Lin

from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin

Lin, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City, went on to design other structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989) and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan (1995).[16]

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. The title comes from an address she gave at Yale in which she spoke of the monument design process. Talking about the origin of her work, Lin says “My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings and this can include not just the physical but the psychological world that we live in”.[5]

According to Maya Lin, art should be an act of every individual willing to say something new and that which is not quite familiar.[5] When a project comes her way, she tries to “understand the definition (of the site) in a verbal before finding the form. To understand what a piece is conceptually and what its nature should be even before visiting the site”.[5]

Calleja de las Flores, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calleja de las Flores, Great Mosque of Córdoba in the background.The Calleja de las Flores is one of the most popular and tourist streets of Córdoba city in Andalusia, Spain. Positioned as an intersection of the street Velázquez Bosco, is a narrow street that ends in a plaza

California Wash, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, 1996

http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=301



California Wash is a narrative work of landscape sculpture combining a garden that portrays the former wash ecology, light, pathways, mural and sculptural forms that address the transformations of this site that are the inevitable outcomes of urbanization.
A drainshed mural, drawn on the new Pico-Kentner outfall cover, represents the current human settlement pattern with the California Wash garden as a reasonable reflection of, or memorial to, that which once existed. The mural also contains bronze plaques inset into the concrete, images of certain of the original fauna of the area. It is a reminder of the original life web of the Pico watershed, and of the disappearance of bio-diversity and the region’s most precious resource, its water.

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, Ronald Lee Fleming, 2007



Book Description
ISBN-10: 185894371X | ISBN-13: 978-1858943718 | Publication Date: April 1, 2007
This expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale. Dozens of case studies of spectacular and innovative works throughout the United States are accompanied by practical information, cost and policy analysis, artist interviews, examples of failures and major controversies, and strategies for the future, making this book an essential reference for anyone involved with transforming and improving our public spaces. “The Art of Placemaking” features public art projects since the 1990s, including the integration of public art in urban design, historic interpretation, street furniture, transit-station and roadway-corridor design, mural towns and more, making this title an invaluable resource for artists, architects, urban planners and teachers, as well as non-professionals seeking to bring art into their communities.

Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design, David Gissen(Ed), 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Territory-Architecture-Beyond-Environment-Architectural/dp/0470721650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314778583&sr=1-1

Product Description

Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting which pre-exists the production of new things. Ultimately, it suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.