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COMMERCE PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY URBAN ENVIRONMENT |
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THE SUB-URBAN
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PERIPHERAL MALLS SPRAWL CONGESTED MOTORWAYS WASTE POLLUTION |
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THE URBAN SYSTEM: THE MIXED-USE TRADITIONAL CITY |
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INTEGRATION MIXED-USE CLEAR BOUNDARIES PUBLIC REALM PEDESTRIAN NETWORKS PUBLIC TRANSIT CO-EXISTENCE SMALL RETAILS TO SUPPORT RESIDENTIAL CORRECT DENSITY |
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| It is made of urban blocks, mixed-use buildings always aligned on street edge; retails at ground floor, offices and residential above. It is extremely important to recognize the typological condition: the qualities of a specific environment, its urbanity, are strictly related to the morphology, to the mix-use, to the definition of a friendly human-scale space with buildings on street, sidewalks, arcades, inner courtyards. This elements have nothing to do with the geographic peripheral condition. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The morphology of the traditional urban neighborhood at the metropolitan scale: Paris, quartier St. Germain | |||||||||||||||||||
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SOMETHING IS CHANGING
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TRANSFORMING OBSOLETE PERIPHERAL MALLS INTO MIXED-USE URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS |
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Eastgate, California, USA (1995-2001)
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Mashpee Commons, Mashpee, Massachusetts,
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CASE STUDY: COMPARISON
AT THE SAME SCALE OF PARIS AND BOLOGNA
CIVICARC - Architectutral and Urban Design Studio at the Faculty of Engineering - University of Ferrara |
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| A comparison might help understanding the difference between the twopatterns. In 2005 Paris has 2.150.000 inhabitants within the Boulevard Peripherique ring, on an area of 9,470 hectares, which corresponds to a density of 220 inhabitants/ha. In 2005 Bologna has 373.000 inhabitants on a "urbanized surface" of 9,400 hectares, which corresponds to a density of 45 inhabitants/ha . | |||||||||||||||||||
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mixed-use traditional city: the Paris pattern. A contemporary metropolis of 2 millions inhabitants organized in 20 Municipalities and 80 traditional urban quarters. Paris' citizens live today , at the beginning of the third millenium, within a great urban metropolis, compact and limited. Each arrondissement has got its own centre, its Town Hall, its own market place, its clear identity. A polycentric metropolis that has elected for 20 years Jacques Chirac as mayor, and today Albert Delanoe. |
Bologna 2005: the historic centre is clearly recognizable and the morphology of the first urban neighborhoods built outside the medieval walls reads as compact and well defined. But the remains of the metropolitan area are a sprawl, an immense sub-urban area, with building scattered everywhere and road dispersed without any apparent logic, mostly cul de sac. A devastating pattern for both the urban ecosystem and the natural one, expecially here in Italy where oil prize has reached 1,18 Euro per liter. | ||||||||||||||||||
| BOLOGNA: TRADITIONAL COMPACT CITY AND PERIPHERAL MALLS/SHOPPING CENTRES | |||||||||||||||||||
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Comparison of an urban traditional
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FERRARA: TRADITIONAL COMPACT CITY
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Comparison of the historic centre
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Comparison of an urban traditional
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TRIENNALE IV - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - "CITIES, COMMERCE, ARCHITECTURE" ABOUT EXHIBITION(click!) |
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