Writing Assignment and 2 Ideas for your Project

Writing Assignment and 2 Ideas for your Project

Please allow me to help clarify the writing assignment and ideas for your project to share on Tuesday.

1) WRITING ASSIGNMENT: Do the readings. You must take ideas from the readings and videos (Guallart and Gehl), one per paragraph in the writing. The use of some supplemental readings is welcome but not required.  Superilla information from Lecture 1 posted in Resources!  *If you have not received comments back from me of your abstract and outline, you should contact me.

2) PROJECT IDEAS: Keep in mind the Social Interaction and Cohesion framework. Choose two ideas for your project that measure urban characteristics that support these ideas. Stay at the urban theory level of the authors we have read.

**We will not get into groups on Tuesday. I will give you two days to start your individual project. We can also do a Grasshopper workshop. Thursday we will pin-up work and get into groups.

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1) WRITING ASSIGMEnT

A proposed outline might be as follows. You could add a second paragraph for any of the middles ideas, perhaps starting with a general paragraph and then getting more specific in the second paragraph with a specific quote and or example.

1. Abstract

2. Objectives of the 22@ district and Superillas as related to workers and residents, public space, other urban strategies such as food, culture, information, sharing, smart technology? How may a unit/system approach (data, local, live input) support this idea of bottom-up planning? (2 Speranza papers, Latour)

3. How does the Plan Cerda (plan or execution) relate to this investigation? (Morales, Guallart, Bailo)
4. How is it a beginning for systems planning and open-ended bottom up design, and provide a base organization for the 22@
district? (Ratti, Rueda, Speranza)
5. Urban Phenomena and the small scale of details (Norburg-Shulz, Zaera-Polo, Vitello, Wilcocks)
6. How may parametric tools relate to create understandings of place from the bottom up in general in Super Illas?

7. Conclusions

8. Social Value

Social Interaction and Cohesion

Social Interaction Cohesion Tool_Chart

Indicators

you could combine 1-3 of these with new urban characteristics of your choosing.

Overall Criteria

Rueda’s larger indicator set of urban ecology and sustainability.