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Introduction: Why Urban Observation Matters: Seeing the Better City

verfasst von : Charles R. Wolfe

Erschienen in: Seeing the Better City

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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The idea for this book—a “how-to” guide for organizing and applying visual insights about urban space—germinated one day in 2015, after I showed Meghan Stromberg, the editor in chief of Planning magazine, the dramatic changes to the skyline while we walked across downtown Seattle. Later that day, in a discussion about the role of photography in regulatory improvement efforts, some thoughts coalesced for me.

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Nächstes Kapitel How to See City Basics and Universal Patterns

Lee Einsweiler, interview, April 2015.

Allowing regulatory flexibility within predefined areas is also a feature of “Lean Urbanism,” a movement intended to foster creative, low-cost approaches to redevelopment, based on work funded by the Kresge Foundation.

For example, the D.C. Retail Tumblr blog provides extensive photographic evidence of former retail uses in residential areas of Washington, DC, to show neighbors the extent of former neighborhood businesses and help counter opposition to flexible mixed-use zoning.

Mike McGinn, interview, October 2015.

Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard, “Toward an Urban Design Manifesto,” Working Paper, 1982, Journal of the American Planning Association 53, no. 1 (Winter 1987), 112–20.

Kevin Lynch and Malcolm Rivkin, “A Walk Around the Block,” Landscape 8, no. 3 (Spring 1959), 24.

Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City, trans. Christine Donougher (London: Dedalus Books 2006), 1. Yonnet’s task in Paris Noir was very different from my own, yet his focus on immersion shows, in human terms, how the more compellingly authentic aspects of city life emerge over time:

You’re no true Parisian, you do not know your city, if you haven’t experienced its ghosts. To become imbued with shades of gray, to blend into the blind spots, to join the clammy crowd that emerges, or seeps, at certain times of day from the metros, railway stations, cinemas, and churches, to feel a silent and distant brotherhood with the lonely wanderer, the dreamer in his shy solitude, the crank, the beggar, even the drunk—all this entails a long and difficult apprenticeship, a knowledge of people and places that only years of patient observation can confer. (Paris Noir, 1)

Luc Sante, The Other Paris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), 25.

Murphy McCullough, interview, March 2016.

Michael Heater, “Making the Camera Your Friend,” Planning 79, no. 8 (October 2013), 31.

Anne Whiston Spirn, The Eye Is a Door (Georgia, USA: Wolf Tree Press, 2014), 1–2, e-book available at: http://www.theeyeisadoor.com/#3.

Ibid., 2.

Randall Arendt, “The Highly Effective Planner,” Planning 77, no. 5 (May/June 2011), 48.

Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974).

Matthew Carmona, Steve Tiesdell, Tim Heath, and Tanner Oc, Public Spaces—Urban Places (Oxford, UK: The Architectural Press, 2010), 177; this book references fundamentals that are described in: Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein, A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction (Oxford, UK: Oxford Press 1977).

Nan Ellin, “The Tao of Urbanism,” in What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, ed. Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth (Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2010), 44–56.

Nicole Brodeur, “‘The Pretty and the Gritty’: Tim Durkan Photographs Seattle’s Forgotten,” Seattle Times, March 18, 2016, http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-pretty-and-the-gritty-tim-durkan-photographs-seattles-forgotten/.

*Paul Goldberger, “High-Tech Bibliophilia,” New Yorker, May 24, 2004, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/high-tech-bibliophilia.

The words cited here can be found in many quotation websites online, with attribution to Orson Welles. The passage appears to be abbreviated from a 1982 BBC interview (no longer available online) about Welles’s career:

I think it is very harmful to see movies for movie-makers because you either imitate them or worry about not imitating them. And you should do movies innocently. The way Adam named the animals the first day in the garden. And I lost my innocence. . . . I don’t believe in learning from other people’s pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, innocently, as though there had never been D. W. Griffith or Eisenstein or Ford or Renoir or anybody.

Allan Jacobs, “Looking at Cites,” Places Journal 1, no. 4 (1984); the article discusses ideas from his book Looking at Cities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), 32.

See Charles Landry’s website: http://charleslandry.com. As Landry wrote in “The City as a Lived Experience,” in Monocle (July/August 2007): “The city is an assault on the senses. . . . Think of the smells, sounds, and visual battering. . . . The city is a lived experience. We feel it. It engenders emotions. It effects our psychology. We forget the smells, sounds, the touch, and even taste of the city and perhaps look without observing.”

George Nelson, How to See—A Guide to Reading Our Man-Made Environment (Oakland, CA: Design Within Reach, 2003), xxi.

Gene Balk, “Teardown Town: 1,500 Small Houses Replaced by Giants since 2012,” Seattle Times, November 27, 2015, http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/teardown-town-1500-small-houses-replaced-by-giants-since-2012/.

Gene Balk, “Before-and-After Photos of Amazon’s South Lake Union Turf,” Seattle Times, January 19, 2016, http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/amazons-south-lake-union-turf-do-you-recognize-this-place/.

J. B. Wogan, “How Mobile, Alabama, Used Instagram to Address Blight,” Governing, November 20, 2015, http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-mobile-alabama-blight-instagram.html.

James Brasuell, Chris Steins, and Abhijeet Chavan, “Top 10 Websites—2015,” Planetizen, January 6, 2016, http://www.planetizen.com/node/83095/top-10-websites-2015; see also: Jennifer Evans-Cowley, “The Best Planning Apps for 2016,” Planetizen, January 4, 2016, http://www.planetizen.com/node/82996/best-planning-apps-2016.

See, for instance, the Slow Ottowa Pinterest board that portrays, among other things, exemplary complete streets, walkable paths, and bikeways: https://www.pinterest.com/slowottawa/.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, “Time to Try Pokémon Go: Augmented Reality Connecting People to Places,” Planetizen, July 13, 2016, http://www.planetizen.com/node/87335/time-try-pokémon-go-augmented-reality-connecting-people-places.

Titel: Introduction: Why Urban Observation Matters: Seeing the Better City
verfasst von: Charles R. Wolfe
Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Buch: Seeing the Better City
Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-830-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-776-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-776-6_1

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