Community Considerations (Asynchronous Session)
A New Approach for Sustainable Cities: Site Selection for an Integrated Urban Farm Model in Istanbul View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Serengul Secmen
The Sustainable Development Agenda has been launched due to the global crisis of food, energy, water and so on, which was approved by the United Nations (UN) in 2015. The scope of the agenda revolves around the sustainability, which is the central concept of its goals. Inevidently, the Covid-19 pandemic might have led to a growing global tendency in the planning and design practices for encouraging Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted to urban areas for becoming more resilient. Zero Hunger is one of the targets of the agenda, which aims to alter food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty. Although food crisis has always been the part of sustainable development, it is obvious that Covid-19 might have brought more pressure on secure food and access. So, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how the global food systems can become vulnerable. Beside various design models, integrated urban farm model is one of the short-term responses to the food crisis, which has already been adapted to the existing building stock in some parts of the World. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the site selection parameters of the model and to make several site suggestions in the city of Istanbul for the application of this architectural practice. Since Istanbul is a metropolis that is densely urbanized, which is lacking of sufficient local urban farming, it is going to be a new approach as an alternative for contributing to the sustainability of the city.
The Case of New Smithboro: A SuperSite Illinois Additional Development View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rolando Gonzalez
By the beginning of 20th century, the State of Illinois in the United States was an important manufacturing land. However, while Chicago grew up the State became one of the most centralized in the nation and townships all around started to decay, with East St Louis as the most critical case. This is something needing urgent attention now more than ever due the current State political and economic situation. Illinois Super Sites is a recent initiative to spread out the state development on a decentralized basis. These are singular parcels with a high potential of Industrial-Business development and interconnection with other locations within the State and neighbor states. The present work shows John W. Kelsey Industrial Park, a Super Site next to Greenville, in Bond County. It is located between Greenville and Smithboro, and this paper is about the hypothetical addition of an urban fabric adjacent to the last, the aggregate sector of Smithboro, we call it New-Smithboro. The included proposed project was created in the Comprehensive Studio, as part of the Master of Architecture at Southern Illinois University on spring of 2021. There’s no doubt that Illinois urgently needs decentralized trends that bring steady economic opportunities everywhere else out of Chicago area, and we propose this could be a good one.
Community Transformation: Critical Environmental Interfacing, Ecosystem Resourcing, and Equitable Community Development View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Craig Anz, Rolando González
This research and design project collaborates interdisciplinary efforts to develop multi-dimensional strategies for revitalization and redevelopment for urban and community settings within the east St. Louis metropolitan areas of Brooklyn, Venice, and Madison, Illinois. While maintaining rich cultural and historic bearings, the subject communities, as with many at-risk regional communities, suffer from socio-cultural, economic, and environmental disparities, mixed with repeated discriminating planning practices and flooding partially brought on by other systemically co-effective development, thus compounding these contentious issues. As embedded case-study research, the systemic scales of inquiry first address how these typically marginalized communities can equivalently develop and operate alongside other metropolitan area communities; second, how ecosystems and natural communities correspond at varying scales to support and build quality amenities; and third, how to build durable systems relations to prevent detrimental environmental outcomes and foster continuing community productivity. Centered on Critical Environmentalist inquiry and what agents constitute as beneficial communities, multilevel attributes are acknowledged as active components of a continually re-generating, interconnecting, and re-vitalizing process within the greater community and environment. The documentation builds upon strategic urban and community practices for regionally-oriented, place-specific development that are applicable within pedagogical and community-based settings, but also development interfacing across multiple contexts for urban development, ecological service-systems strategies, and resilience planning to supply a critical scaffold that communities can further cultivate. The outcomes include master planning scenarios, as well as recommended amendments to existing strategic planning documents to bring these communities together on common supporting goals for long-term development well-being.
Tsunami Resilient Communities: Relationships between Urban Form and Nature along the Chilean Coastal Range View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Paula Villagra
Planning instruments facilitate the construction of the coastal environment, damaging natural resources (e.g. forest, wetlands) that can favor the environmental dimension of resilience, or that related to ecosystem services provided by nature after a disaster that facilitate adaptation (e.g.: water, food). The Chilean coast is no exception. It covers an approximate area of 6.5 million hectares, in which over 4 million people live, most of which are distributed in 65 cities exposed to tsunami. The ways in which these cities have sprawl on the Chilean Costal Range (CCR) have changed community resilience capacity to tsunami. The objective of this study is to analyze the different forms of urbanization on the CCR and how these affect community's adaptive capacity in the event of a tsunami. Through GIS and multivariate analysis, five typologies of cities were identified that vary in terms of the type of occupation and availability of resources for adaptation. Those with the greatest diversity and richness of natural resources have an occupation of around 30% of the CCR. Besides, the entropy of the urban land use on the CCR also explains the availability of resources and consequently, the adaptive capacity of the communities. Furthermore, the precipitation gradient (temperature), which increases (decreases) latitudinally along the coast, affects adaptation as well. The environmental dimension of urban resilience to tsunami is conditioned by a certain type of sprawl of the urban environment on the CCR, and its location, characteristics which are further detailed in this study.
Building Skateboarding: An Exploration of DIY Skate Spots and Tactical Urbanism in Calgary, AB View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jay Heule
Skateboarding is a global culture and evolving community that creatively reappropriates the urban environment, often facing a tense relationship with the public and governing bodies through restrictions, bylaws, and exclusionary environmental design. Through a literature review of planning theories and relevant planning documents, and three semi-structured interviews with individuals involved in building skateboarding in Calgary, this research examines the development of DIY (Do It Yourself) skate spots in Calgary, Alberta, and the relationship between the skate community and the City of Calgary in co-creating the city. The methodological approach taken in this study is exploratory in nature, considering how the theories of tactical urbanism have been articulated in practice, and lessons learned that may support future DIY skate spot growth in Calgary, and beyond. DIY skate spots are seen as incredibly important to the skate community as spaces for skill development, community building, and equitable access to skateboarding, but are often not prioritized at the municipal level. This creates opportunity for DIY spots to exist in the short term but fails to provide longer term direction to collaboratively support spaces for community development when complaints or injury arise. Key opportunities that have emerged from this research include the importance of self organization and community representation by skateboarders when working with the City, the desire for increased communication, transparency, and relationship building between the two groups, and the value of social engagement and community partnerships in supporting DIY skate spots long-term.
