Urban Code : 100 lessons for understanding the city. / by Anne Mikoleit and Moritz Pürckhauer. txt

Por:

Mikoleit, Anne and Moritz Purckhauer

Colaborador(es):

Pürckhauer, Moritz

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press , 2011Descripción: 111 p. ill. ; 21 cmTipo de contenido:

text

Tipo de medio:

unmediaded

Tipo de soporte:

volume

ISBN:

9780262016414

Tema(s):

Clasificación CDD:

307.76

Clasificación LoC:

HT166 H535 2011

Contenidos:

Preface: 01 People walk in the sunshine -- 02 Street vendors are positioned according to the path of the sun -- 03 Street vendors facilitate pedestrian movement -- 04 Safe surroundings increase profits -- 05 High turnover makes up for high rent -- 06 Rents rise with increasing pedestrian density -- 07 Global shops sell their wares on popular streets -- 08 Salespeople posses analytical knowledge of the district -- 09 Passersby have an intuitive knowledge of the district -- 10 Familiar chain stores are landmarks 11 Brand names attract people. People attract brand names -- 12 Shops attract other shops -- 13 Tourist carry bags -- 14 Shops give away bags -- 15 Street vendors completment the surrounding selection of shops -- 16 Human traffic complies with shop opening times -- 17 Street vendors reinforce fluctuactions -- 18 People attract people -- 19 Places of concentration depend on places of emtiness -- 20 Cars can park in niches -- 21 Cars park on top of another -- 22 Street vendors follow wrecking balls -- 23 Constant grids afford manifold patterns of movement -- 24 Equal grids provoke unequal blocks -- 25 Buildings outlive uses -- 26 A block consists of many buildings -- 27 Each building has at least one entrance -- 28 No entrance is the same as any other entrance -- 29 Entrances are meeting points -- 30 Entrances are hurdles -- 31 Shops attract pedestrians into the depths of the block -- 32 Each building houses a business -- 33 Small, specialized shops are essential to maintaining a district's variaty -- 34 Display windows are mirrors -- 35 Pedestrians are potential buyers -- 36 Pedestrians walk on sidewalks -- 37 The sidewalk is a cellar entrance -- 38 Wares are stored in the cellar -- 39 Deliveries are limited to the early hours of the morning -- 40 Delivery vans block the streets -- 41 Locals and tourists use the streets at different times -- 42 People walk more slowly in the afternoon -- 43 Rituals result from parallel working hours -- 44 The day to day happens on the street -- 45 Workers wear work clothes -- 46 Taxi drivers live on the street -- 47 Locals have dogs -- 48 Every thirtieth pedestrian has gray hair -- 49 Old people sit on benches -- 50 Benches are found on public squares -- 51 Playgrounds draw children in -- 52 Not every playground is a playground -- 53 Fathers meet fathers on playgrounds -- 54 Small public squares are busier than large public squares -- 55 Crossroads are public squares -- 56 People wait at crossroads -- 57 Hot dog stands are at crosssoads -- 58 Snack stands smell of food -- 59 Shops lead people -- 60 Shop are new, houses are old -- 61 Shop owners put their trash bags out on the street -- 62 A city is made up of characteristic parts -- 63 Streets were once communal spaces -- 64 Public squares and niches create positive outside spaces -- 65 People sit with their back protected -- 66 Sitting people observe their environment -- 67 Pedestrians lost in thought are not lost -- 68 Tourists stands still. Resident pass -- 69 When people stand still, groups develop -- 70 Groups attract people -- 71 Street performers animate public spaces -- 72 Groups walk more slowly than individuals -- 73 Nightlife hotspots increase pedestrian traffic -- 74 People are afraid of the dark -- 75 Many lights illuminate the night -- 76 Street cafés lie at at the center of events -- 77 Subway stations thicken pedestrian traffic -- 78 Narrow streets carry many pedestrians -- 79 Narrow streets carry little traffic -- 80 Cobblesstones tells stories -- 81 Local streets are one way streets -- 82 Cars drive down main roads faster than down main roads faster than down side streets -- 83 Pedestrians walk on a red signal, if traffic is slow -- 84 Traffic jams tend to bring out aggresion -- 85 Weeds reduce aggresion -- 86 The counterpart to the urban everyday is the urban park -- 87 People who walk have a destination in mind -- 88 Good walkways have a good range of destinations along them -- 89 Destinations are more attractive when they invite stay -- 90 Grocery stores are important local destinations -- 91 Grocery stores on street corners have an advantage -- 92 The livelihood of a street begins at crossroads -- 93 SoHo life begins with traffic lights -- 94 Traffic lights create traffic noise -- 95 People wait for taxis. Taxis compensate for public transportation -- 96 Taxis compensate for public transportation -- 97 Subway stations are at borders -- 98 A neighborhood has borders -- 99 Through streets are borders -- 100 Fractures create friction -- Epilogue --

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A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city.

Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons"-maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays-that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, a primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the observant city stroller) can move from "People walk in the sunshine" (lesson 1) to "Street vendors are positioned according to the path of the sun" (lesson 2); consider possible connections between the fact that "Locals and tourists use the streets at different times" (lesson 41) and "Tourists stand still when they're looking at something" (lesson 68); and weigh the apparent contradiction of lesson 73, "Nightlife hotspots increase pedestrian traffic" and lesson 74, "People are afraid of the dark."

A lesson may seem self-evident ("Grocery stores are important local destinations"-of course they are!) but considered in the context of other lessons, it becomes part of a natural logic. With Urban Code, we learn what to notice if we want to understand the city. We learn to detect patterns in the relationships between people and the urban environment. Each lesson is accompanied by an icon-like image; in addition to these 100 drawings, thirty photographs of street scenes illustrate the text. The photographs are stills from films shot in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo; the lessons are inspired by the authors' observations of SoHo, but hold true for any cityscape.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface:
01 People walk in the sunshine --
02 Street vendors are positioned according to the path of the sun --
03 Street vendors facilitate pedestrian movement --
04 Safe surroundings increase profits --
05 High turnover makes up for high rent --
06 Rents rise with increasing pedestrian density --
07 Global shops sell their wares on popular streets --
08 Salespeople posses analytical knowledge of the district --
09 Passersby have an intuitive knowledge of the district --
10 Familiar chain stores are landmarks
11 Brand names attract people. People attract brand names --
12 Shops attract other shops --
13 Tourist carry bags --
14 Shops give away bags --
15 Street vendors completment the surrounding selection of shops --
16 Human traffic complies with shop opening times --
17 Street vendors reinforce fluctuactions --
18 People attract people --
19 Places of concentration depend on places of emtiness --
20 Cars can park in niches --
21 Cars park on top of another --
22 Street vendors follow wrecking balls --
23 Constant grids afford manifold patterns of movement --
24 Equal grids provoke unequal blocks --
25 Buildings outlive uses --
26 A block consists of many buildings --
27 Each building has at least one entrance --
28 No entrance is the same as any other entrance --
29 Entrances are meeting points --
30 Entrances are hurdles --
31 Shops attract pedestrians into the depths of the block --
32 Each building houses a business --
33 Small, specialized shops are essential to maintaining a district's variaty --
34 Display windows are mirrors --
35 Pedestrians are potential buyers --
36 Pedestrians walk on sidewalks --
37 The sidewalk is a cellar entrance --
38 Wares are stored in the cellar --
39 Deliveries are limited to the early hours of the morning --
40 Delivery vans block the streets --
41 Locals and tourists use the streets at different times --
42 People walk more slowly in the afternoon --
43 Rituals result from parallel working hours --
44 The day to day happens on the street --
45 Workers wear work clothes --
46 Taxi drivers live on the street --
47 Locals have dogs --
48 Every thirtieth pedestrian has gray hair --
49 Old people sit on benches --
50 Benches are found on public squares --
51 Playgrounds draw children in --
52 Not every playground is a playground --
53 Fathers meet fathers on playgrounds --
54 Small public squares are busier than large public squares --
55 Crossroads are public squares --
56 People wait at crossroads --
57 Hot dog stands are at crosssoads --
58 Snack stands smell of food --
59 Shops lead people --
60 Shop are new, houses are old --
61 Shop owners put their trash bags out on the street --
62 A city is made up of characteristic parts --
63 Streets were once communal spaces --
64 Public squares and niches create positive outside spaces --
65 People sit with their back protected --
66 Sitting people observe their environment --
67 Pedestrians lost in thought are not lost --
68 Tourists stands still. Resident pass --
69 When people stand still, groups develop --
70 Groups attract people --
71 Street performers animate public spaces --
72 Groups walk more slowly than individuals --
73 Nightlife hotspots increase pedestrian traffic --
74 People are afraid of the dark --
75 Many lights illuminate the night --
76 Street cafés lie at at the center of events --
77 Subway stations thicken pedestrian traffic --
78 Narrow streets carry many pedestrians --
79 Narrow streets carry little traffic --
80 Cobblesstones tells stories --
81 Local streets are one way streets --
82 Cars drive down main roads faster than down main roads faster than down side streets --
83 Pedestrians walk on a red signal, if traffic is slow --
84 Traffic jams tend to bring out aggresion --
85 Weeds reduce aggresion --
86 The counterpart to the urban everyday is the urban park --
87 People who walk have a destination in mind --
88 Good walkways have a good range of destinations along them --
89 Destinations are more attractive when they invite stay --
90 Grocery stores are important local destinations --
91 Grocery stores on street corners have an advantage --
92 The livelihood of a street begins at crossroads --
93 SoHo life begins with traffic lights --
94 Traffic lights create traffic noise --
95 People wait for taxis. Taxis compensate for public transportation --
96 Taxis compensate for public transportation --
97 Subway stations are at borders --
98 A neighborhood has borders --
99 Through streets are borders --
100 Fractures create friction --
Epilogue --

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Publishers Weekly Review

Sometimes an outside eye picks out things a local one takes for granted or doesn't register at all. Such is partly the case with this urban planning case study, a taxonomy of 100 succinct features ("lessons") describing the ebb and flow of pedestrian life in the shop-lined streets of New York's upscale SoHo district that aims at general truths in urban design and experience. The illustrated, sober, and surprisingly bland pocket volume co-written by two architectural researchers in the Urban Synergy Group at ETH Zurich university employs a user-perception model of urban design in understanding the psychological logic of this formerly manufacturing, now fashionable area characterized by galleries, boutique stores, street vendors, and varying local and tourist foot traffic. But while buttressed by short passages from classic user-oriented urban planning texts by such trailblazers as Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, and Christopher Alexander, the treatment is as concerned with the value and pricing of real estate as it is with the lived experience of people, emphasizing how businesses in particular cultivate a socially diverse pedestrian traffic. Students of business and urban planning will find the bite-size lessons apt if basic. Those average foot travelers seeking inspiration for, and insight into, city living would likely get more from livelier case studies already out there in an array of travel literature and practical travel guides. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Anne Mikoleit is a research scientist and PhD candidate, teaching architecture and urban design in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Moritz P rckhauer is a former research scientist at ETH Zurich and is currently practicing architecture in Zurich.

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