Temporal Urban Design - Filipa Matos Wunderlich

Temporal Urban Design

Temporality, Rhythm and Place
Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6870-3 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment.

The book departs from concerns on the acceleration of cities, its impact on the urban quality of life and the liveability of urban spaces, and questions on what influences the sense of time, and how it expresses itself in the urban environment. From here, it poses the questions: what time is this place and how do we design for it? It offers a new aesthetic perspective akin to music, brings forward the methodological framework of urban place-rhythmanalysis, and explores principles and modes of practice towards better temporal design quality in our cities. The book demonstrates that notions of time have long been intrinsic to planning and urban design research agendas and, whilst learning from philosophy, urban critical theory, and both the natural and social sciences debate on time, it argues for a shift in perspective towards the design of everyday urban time and place timescapes. Overall, the book explores the value of the everyday sense of time and rhythmicity in the urban environment, and discusses how urban designers can understand, analyse and ultimately play a role in the creation of temporally unique, both sensorial and affective, places in the city.

The book will be of interest to urban planners, designers, landscape architects and architects, as well as urban geographers, and all those researching within these disciplines. It will also interest students of planning, urban design, architecture, urban studies, and of urban planning and design theory.

Filipa Matos Wunderlich is an Associate Professor in Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, at University College London (UCL) in the UK. Her research interests are on the temporal dimension of urban place design, sensory urbanism, the interface between urban and musical aesthetics, urban design theory and research by design methodologies. Filipa is the Director of the Master in Research (MRes) in Interdisciplinary Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning. She also coordinates ‘Research By Design’ components for both the Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Design and City Planning MSc Programmes. She is an architect, urban designer and musician.

List of figures

List of tables

Introduction

Chapter 1: The need for a paradigm shift

Why the sense of time and rhythm is important for design

The problem of our cities: new conditions and challenges

The problem with growth-led development

The problem with design: obsolete aesthetics hinder innovation

The intermittent loss of temporality with Covid19

Ways forward: an intellectual and aesthetical review

A doughnut spatial economy: an alternative model

Temporal Urban Design: an alternative aesthetic

Cultural and social place-temporalities as temporal heritage to design for

The need for methodological innovation and interdisciplinarity

The need for a paradigm shift

Chapter 2: Time and temporality in urban design

Incorporating time in urban design studies

Planning cities and time

Governing and delivering through time

Mapping through time: time-geography and urban mobility studies

Managing through time: planning for slowing time in the city

Taking stock of urban design research on time

The significance of senses of time in urban design

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Time and temporality in philosophy and in science

Time or temporality: early conundrums in philosophy and science

The first temporal conundrums: origins of the Western discourses

The dialectics on time: Aristotle and Plato

The early Christian times

The dialectic in the Middle Ages: presentism or eternalism

The progressive and instrumental times of the Middle Ages

Eternalism or Presentism: early to late modern physics

Eternalism: the absolute time

Presentism: the crumbling of time

Quantum time: on spacetime, time and rhythm

The time of the mind, experiential or relational time

Critical debates on the experience of urban time: Bergson and Bachelard

Time as duration: intuition and memory, and its distortion in space, by Bergson

Time as discontinuous and creative, by Bachelard

Duration, temporality and rhythm

Temporality: as concrete duration and refrain, by Bergson

Temporality: as created by rhythms, by Bachelard

Listening to rhythms to understand temporal existence

Temporality: phenomenological time, rhythm, rhythmanalysis, assemblage, refrain and territoriality

Temporality: as the phenomenological time

Distaff theories of time and temporality: Deleuze and Lefebvre

Conclusion

Chapter 4: The urban temporal condition: understanding rhythm in urban space

Time constructs in society and space

Temporality as a sense or as a process? Time, rhythm and urban space

Temporality as a sense: experiential and representational time

Temporality as a process time through the rhythms of everyday life

Rhythm, refrain and territoriality

The coincident accent on rhythm to express time in space

Towards the territorialisation of time: paradigm shifts in urban critical theory

Place as temporal: sense of time, sense of place or atmosphere?

Chapter 5: Temporal Urban Design: situating the theory

The case for a turn towards Temporal Urban Design

Manifesto (Thoughts on cities/notes to the urban designer)

What defines Temporal Urban Design?

A new temporal aesthetics for urban place design

The aesthetics of place-temporality

Conclusion: Place-temporality and the principal aspects of its aesthetics and experience in urban space

Chapter 6: An aesthetics akin to music: a new temporal aesthetics for urban place design

Music in urban environment research

Music, place-temporality and rhythm: experiencing, performing and listening

The experience

Performing: choreography and resonance

Listening

The conceptual tools

Three musical processes: rhythm, performance and tonality (or tonal organisation)

Rhythm (as in music)

Rhythm in urban space

The temporal aesthetics of places: eurythmia, performativity and tonality as in a place-score

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Temporal Urban Design: situating research practice

Temporal Urban Design: interdisciplinarity and inherent intellectual foundations

Place-rhythmanalysis: a methodology for temporal urban place design

Researching the temporality and rhythmicity of urban landscapes

Rhythmanalysis in urban studies

The focus on place-rhythmanalysis

Place-rhythmanalysis: ethnography into the temporal phenomenology of places

Working as a place-rhythmanalyst

Listening to urban place as a musician in urban places

The process: the fieldwork

The process: the analysis

Conclusion

Chapter 8: A place-rhythmanalysis: the singular rhythms and temporality of Fitzroy Square

At Fitzroy Square

An everyday place

Architecture and public space design

Nature at the square

Everyday social and cultural profile

A residential and communal square

A multicultural place

An events place

A working and institutionally representative square

An exceptional private-public garden square

Location and relationship to the wider neighbourhood

A particular sense of time, or tempo and the aesthetic significance

Spatial expression of place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square

Social place-rhythms: societal, cultural and functional

At Fitzroy Square

Physical place-rhythms

Natural place-rhythms

Temporal expression of place-rhythms: an horizontal place-rhythmanalysis

Principles for temporal horizontal place-rhythmanalysis

An horizontal temporal rhythmanalysis of social place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square

Physical and natural place-rhythms rhythmanalysis

Temporal expression of place-rhythms: a vertical place-rhythmanalysis

Principles for the temporal vertical analysis

Eurythmia at Fitzroy Square: One day performative narratives

A place-score on the temporal rhythmic aesthetics of place: a representation and interpretation tool for urban designers

The rhythmic DNA of one day at Fitzroy Square: intensity and accentuation barcodes

Summary

Chapter 9: Temporal urban design: Situating practice (epilogue)

Introduction

Framing the realm of practice

Temporary, Acupuncture and Tactical Urbanism

Participatory Data Urbanism

Sensorial and Performative Urbanism

Practising Temporal Urban Design: framing action

A collaborative route to methodological innovation

Tactical interventionism

Craft and craftsmanship in the temporal design of the city

Craftsmanship in urban place-rhythmanalysis

Collective urban craftmanship processes in places co-production

Designing for the Slow and Soft City

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Design and the Built Environment
Zusatzinfo 11 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, color; 35 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, color; 51 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, color; 86 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 630 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
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Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-4724-6870-8 / 1472468708
ISBN-13 978-1-4724-6870-3 / 9781472468703
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