Reflections on the Reurbanism Paradigm: Re-Weaving the Urban Fabric for Urban Regeneration and Renewal
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Published Online: Dec 31, 2018
Page range: 5 - 21
Received: Sep 19, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2018-0037
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ReUrbanism reflected via other top dominating paradigms, that of New and Post Urbanism.
| New Urbanism | Post Urbanism | ReUrbanism | |
|---|---|---|---|
| view on the public realm (space and place) | community life over public life (normalised without external ‘outside’ influence) | spaces with multiple characters, surrounded by transformative urbanism and architecture of the highest-order | understanding of cities as parts of spatial structure with their anchored dimension through sequence of places |
| static and dynamic processes in space | community familiarity and shared values in dense traditional urban form and composition | continual transformations and mutations for globalised and nomadic processes and habitations with mixed cultures | contemporary urban design and architecture with contextualised understanding of historical precedents but also of modernity |
| spatial and social dimensions | 3rd places, civic values, and mixed use and composition especially in the neighbourhoods | digital and media places and multiple levels of contact through iconic buildings | prescribed places of gathering, transport links and programed compositions on the urban scale |
| market forces and real estate development | human scale oriented urban and suburban neighbourhoods with civic anchor centres, market demand driven | city branding, place marketing, decontextualised objects with highest real estate order & market driven | high density, compact city development, programmatic forms and compositions, city branding on large scale market driven |
| role and character of civic spaces | dense and urban places with traditional places and images | places of expressions with flowing spaces and urban equivocalness | private use and public use – clear distinction with modern images |
| dominant elements of urbanism | neighbourhoods given more weight than the public realm | weight given to architecture and spaces in between | equal weight to all the elements of urbanism in the composition |
ReUrbanism reflected via urbanism components of context, process and design as well as aspects of space, place and revival.
| Six elements | ReUrbanism |
|---|---|
| context | The city is seen as constant urban fabric with existing building stock that produces density and stable conditions throughout the space enabling a complex set of public and private spaces for diversity to occur with distinct objects and places. |
| process | Classical approach with urban-master planning from above and with a certain number of civic involvement elements in terms of alternatives. Strong sense for the developers and the city structure as a whole and market – real estate forces that guide it. |
| design | Urban revival and regeneration fabric constructs in terms of compositions and ensembles and solidification of urban planning and design procedures. Contemporary urban design and architecture with historical precedents and modern contextualisation. |
| ReUrbanism | |
| space | |
| place | |
| revival |