ARCH 551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Urban Geography, Urban Design, Planning Permission
22 Jun 2018
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ARCH 551: Topic 22
Regional Planning, Urban Design, and New Forms of Coproduction: An agenda for the 21st century city
04/13/18
What do we mean by city-building?
oThe city is everywhere and everything. If the urbanized world now is a chain of
metropolitan areas connected by places/ corridors of communication … then what is not
the urban? Is it the town, the village, the countryside? … The footprints of the city are all
over these places, in the form of city commuters, tourists, teleworking, the media …
New forms, new structures, new processes
o‘… the restructuration of the modern metropolis has been defined and driven by a new
and specifically regional urbanization process … a third phase in the development of the
industrial capitalist city … [with] globalized, polycentric, and networked city regions as
generative forces … ’
… in which conventional (dominant) approaches to planning don’t fit the bill!
o‘How to deal with the diffuse settlement patterns made possible by the combination of
technological, social, and economic changes is a major question. A complementary
question is how to treat the holes that are left, or made, in contemporary urban space
by expansive development.’
Main ideas:
oKey roles played by local urban design
Applied project-based approaches to reurbanisation
Problem-identification, analysis, and proposal of strategic solutions
oRegional planning as imperative
Linked strategies for shaping urban form, strengthening landscapes, and
servicing polycentric metropolitan regions
Urban design practice is in many ways based on reurbanisation: a broad and explicitly normative
paradigm for dealing with urban growth and development pressures
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