Under contemporary capitalism and platform urbanism, domesticity distorts to take on new forms. Dwelling is simultaneously decentralised and re-distributed via digital and urban networks. This ...article argues that these new forms of dwelling necessitate new modes of critique – ones primed for this networked, spatially distributed condition. It proposes to supplement typological and topographical approaches to dwelling with the more 'anexactly rigorous' relational cartography offered by the field of topology. The article begins with an outline of topology, drawing on mathematics, philosophy and geography towards a reconceptualisation of architecture as a boundary-drawing apparatus. The topological condition of modern dwelling is then retraced as a genealogy of interpenetrating edifices, mediating membranes, and prosthetic equipment, which have prefigured present-day formations of domesticity. The second half of the article trains this topological lens onto three architectural tendencies in response to platform urbanism: convivial arrangements of networked living, commoning platforms and thresholds, and counter-protocols of distributed domesticity. Through unpacking these trajectories, the article illustrates the potential that a topological approach engenders via new modes of mapping, critiquing, resisting and subverting the unequally distributed agency and power underlying the circuits of platform urbanism.
Este artículo aborda el caso de estudio de la Galería Central de Palmira, Valle del Cauca. Plantea como objetivo principal develar una ruta para mejorar las condiciones socioeconómicas del comercio ...informal de esta plaza de mercado desde la interdisciplinariedad, la participación efectiva de la comunidad (enfoque bottom-up^ y una estructura metodológica que se encuentra en construcción: el urbanismo táctico. El trabajo abarca dos categorías de análisis: dinámicas económicas y dinámicas sociales, para identificar las problemáticas de un colectivo de vendedores, y con ellos mismos intentar resolverlas. La metodología se distribuye en tres etapas: 1. la construcción de una guía práctica de participación comunitaria; 2. su implementáción para diseñar una propuesta de solución; 3.una prueba piloto para comprobar la efectividad de la propuesta. De los resultados se destacan dos nociones principales: la importancia del trabajo en equipo para lograr los cambios deseados y la necesidad de eliminar las fronteras del individualismo como una conditio sine qua non para ello.
El artículo propone una lectura del proceso de construcción del discurso sobre el urbanismo en Colombia en la primera mitad del siglo XX. A partir de numerosas fuentes hemerográficas, se analiza el ...debate sobre la introducción del urbanismo como un saber especializado y autónomo en el país, y las luchas gremiales que se desarrollaron a raíz de este proceso. Lo anterior se complementa con la identificación de los modelos internacionales de referencia debatidos localmente, primero, en las publicaciones periódicas especializadas y, luego, en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá. Con una mirada atenta a la circulación de ideas, imaginarios y expertos entre América Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos, este texto muestra los tiempos, la recepción, el papel específico de los actores y los espacios editoriales involucrados, así como las alianzas inesperadas y efímeras que se construyen en un marco profesional conflictivo. This article proposes a reading on the construction process of the discourse on urbanism in Colombia in the first half of the XX century. Starting from numerous hemerographic sources, it analyses the debate on the introduction of urbanism as a specific and autonomous knowledge and the corporatist conflicts generated by this process. Secondly, it investigates the international models discussed in magazines and in Bogotá architecture faculty of Colombian National University. While looking at imaginaries and experts circulation between Latin America, Europe and USA, this text highlights the different time of reception, the specific role of involved actors and editorial spaces, the unexpected and ephemeral alliances built in a framework of professional conflicts. Este artigo propõe uma leitura do processo de construção do discurso sobre o urbanismo na Colômbia na primeira metade do século XX. A partir de um amplo sistema de fontes hemerográficas, analisa-se o debate sobre a introdução do urbanismo como um saber especializado e autônomo, e as lutas provocadas por este processo. Em segundo lugar, investigam-se os diversos modelos internacionais de referência debatidos no país, antes nas revistas e depois na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade Nacional de Colômbia em Bogotá. Com um olhar atento à circulação de ideias, imaginários e profissionais entre América Latina, Europa e Estados Unidos, este texto sublinha os diferentes tempos da recepção, o papel específico de atores e espaços editoriais, as inesperadas e efêmeras alianças construídas em um meio profissional conflituoso.
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•Presents a comprehensive smart city conceptualisation to inform policymaking and practice.•Places Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Brisbane under the smart city ...microscope.•Reveals the strength and weakness points of the investigated global best smart city cases.•Generates a clearer and consolidated understanding on the making of successful smart city practice.
Transforming urban areas into prosperous, liveable, and sustainable settlements is a longstanding goal for local governments. Today, countless urban settlements across the globe have jumped into the so-called ‘smart city’ bandwagon to achieve this goal. Under the smart city agenda, presently, many government agencies are attempting to engineer an urban transformation to tackle urban prosperity, liveability, and sustainability issues mostly through the means of technology solutions. Nonetheless, the notion of smart cities is ambiguous, and there are limited conceptual frameworks to assist cities and their administrations in understanding the big picture view of this urban development paradigm. The aim of this paper is to generate a clear understanding on the making of successful smart city practices. This is done by elaborating the smart cities notion through a multidimensional conceptual framework, examining smart city best practices across the globe—i.e., Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Brisbane—, and providing insights of smart city approaches from these cases. The findings of the study disclose the need for a comprehensive smart city conceptualisation to inform policymaking and consequently the practice. This will help in the formation of a much-needed smart urbanism model for the resilient settlements of the climate emergency era.
"To thematize requires a project to select its objects, deploy them in a bounded field, and submit them to disciplined inquiry" (Guha, 1997, xv)
Mainstream urban scholarship envisions urbanization as ...a global process that is best achieved via the worldwide application of the development mechanisms pioneered in the advanced capitalist countries-currently, those of neoliberal globalization. Yet the repeated failure of this vision to deliver on its promise of wealth for all and ecological sustainability compels urban scholars to rethink mainstream presumptions. By means of a ten-point manifesto, we argue that provincializing global urbanism creates space from which to challenge urban theories that treat "northern" urbanization as the norm, to incorporate the expertise and perspectives of urban majorities, and to imagine and enact alternative urban futures.
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