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Systems & Flows_SO 2_Q4_HC 7_Rebuild by Design
Vulnerability of cities/society
Storm Sandy: New York (flood & Manhattan without light)
People often need a disaster (shock; shows the risks of the system) to come to action and make the environment resistant
Almost was much worse (destruction of critical infrastructure: hospitals etc): system fails, not 1 part of the system
Storm showed a connected path/relation (cohesion) of everything
Solving the problem is a chance to reconnect social, economy & ecology, close the gap between science & politics: vulnerability is the result of politics & policy (choices)
Poorest neigbhourhoods mostly the least protected,
Dutch 1953 disaster: never agian, USA: connect protection level to property value, mostly black communities bad protected
Rebuild by desgin (resillience projects): create jobs, promote business and education, and ensure the safety in waterfront communities.”
Andrew M. Cuomo – New York State Governor.
Antropocene: we have to do something with this disaster & the effects (systematic relation between disaster & were effects occured (and in with extent).
Rebuild by design principles for better plans
Compare & connect all the data: mapping, comparing & surch for relationships
Result: socially vulnerable communities are triply challenged:
They are less able to take costly risk mitigation measures, have fever resources and are often situated in areas of highes risk.
Designing opportunities
Urbanists: from maps & considerations (scenario's), a multidisciplinary team created numerous concepts/idea's/solutions (possible interventions)
Several companies were involved: Dutch water management, Swedish socialist planning company etc.
Field work: talk with people in certain neighbourhoods
Gather additional data/knowledge of the locals that is informal/not written down (in people's minds)
Jane Jacobs started with discovering the community, governemts only look at numbers (bad neigbhourhood because crime numbers)
Workshops: involve local communities
Involve locals: let them think of idea's/solutions (concepts) from scratch: sketch
In this plan they presented the concepts to locals to discuss -> select a pair of concepts to work out in co-creation with the local community
They know all the in's & out's of their own surrounding & have been improvising for years
What is the real problem?
Regional analysis
Before identifying critical problems & soloutions:
design thinking approach
to develop a
highly nuanced/integral undstanding of the regional vulnerabilities
NOT: surch for the 1 critial point/generator that felt out = problem & fix this (quick-fix-solution)
Co-creation
Final/concrete design projects to solve the problem (integral approach)
Not 1 big solution that will solve everything:
out of data & narratives -> connect to locations -> create specific projects/concepts for every location, based on their own situation
Hybrid approach (Robert Moses & Jane Jacobs)
Moses: modernism: thinking big & making big logical things (Ivory tower planner: bigger=better)
Jane Jacobs: small answers (don't destroy neighbourhoods for big projects), but involve neighbourhood community
Could there be a "love-child"of these two opposite ideologies (combine extreme uncombinable ideologies) ?
Examples: New York projects after Sandy
The Big U (Bjarke Ingels Group)
Combining a big technical intervention with small social interventions along the structure
How to
combine this technical structure
with atrractive environments (can we make attractions of it and keep the
relation between city & water(frond)
?
Inspired by - High Line
What if this large-scale state-of-the-art coastal flood protection were planned in such a way that it could be tailored to the character of each neighbourhood it protects
(transform, but preserve characteristics/the existing)
?
From abandoned above ground rail line to a popular promenade
Living with the bay (Interboro team)
Several projects on different locations:
In each, the team looked beyond the confines of a single site to consider
strategies that worked at the scale of both an ecosystem and a region.
Hoboken (Haskoning)
Big inspiration for other projects
Blue dunes (West 8)
Most cities (globally) are in the most dangerous places: meeting point of river & sea (climate change): talk with biologists (understand the sea)
