Ruimtelijke planning 2; The Urban Challenge Hoorcollege 6:
Raw – United we stay
Friederichshain, Berlin, it was an old railway area (Unused land, brownfield) about 70000 m2 prime
real estate area, RAW Temple: Squatted buildings, 65 projects, 300 partners, many more users, a
bottom-up grassroots development. Brought in 2007 by a private investor/developer.
Squatting is in NL an institutionalized procedure, Today’s cultural infrastructure (cultural hotspots) is
a result of squatting in the 70s and 80s, anti-squatting; institutionalized rental service to prevent
squatters from taking over otherwise empty buildings.
Richard Florida – The Rise of the Creative Class
- Single most important urban development strategy
- Vehicular idea (Re-Packaging)
Breeding places: Government sponsored, institutional initiative to create creative places
Neighbourhood effect: The idea that this will generate added value to other real estate in the area
Gentrification: The process of transforming working class neighbourhoods or vacant areas of the city
into middle-class neighbourhoods
Effects: Displacement, social changes, Economic shifts
Gentrifiers: Women, Gay people, Bohemians
Planning implications
- Community organizing
- Direct action and sabotage
- Inclusionary zoning
- Affordable housing regulation
- Planning ordinances (participatory planning regime)
- Zoning ordinances
- Community land trusts
- Rent control / Rent-caps
Ruimtelijke planning 2; The Urban Challenge Hoorcollege 7:
Louis Wirth:
- High Density
- Critical mass of people
- Diversity
- ‘’Permanence’’
City Life style (more tolerance, impersonal, less friendly)
,Lewis Mumford: Not the production, economy etc. made the city great but the people living in it!
De Jure Segregation:
- Apartheid
- Segregated school systems
- Segregated public transport
- Segregated territorial systems
- Restrictive covenants on property
“Sale and/or re-sale of this property is only allowed to members of the same race as the current
owner.”
De Facto Segregation:
- Informal behavioural codes
- Segregated labour market (private discrimination)
- Red-lining by (health) insurance companies
- Socio-spatial processes (white flight, black bottom)
- Voluntary clustering with like-minded (China town)
- Lack of social mobility
Possible interventions:
- Neighbourhood regeneration programmes
- Affordable housing programmes in rich neighbourhoods
- Mixing up the population through partial gentrification
- Making different groups meet, mingle and merge
- City beautiful, improving the habitat
Ruimtelijke planning 2; The Urban Challenge Hoorcollege 8:
- Physical (Design, Infrastructure & Amenities)
- Social (Society, Community & Safety)
- Economical (Employment & Crime-limitation)
Ruimtelijke planning 2; The Urban Challenge Hoorcollege 9:
, Socio-spatial exclusion:
- Economic Exclusion (Employment)
- Political Exclusion (Representation)
- Cultural Exclusion (Discourse)
The changing role of women:
- The largest change in the past 100 years (Global North)
- What does it mean for our cities?
- How does it impact consumption?
- How does it impact household composition?
- How does this impact the neighbourhood effect?
Ruimtelijke planning 2; The Urban Challenge Hoorcollege 10:
A struggle of various interests:
- Stakeholders
- Public-private partnerships
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