picture of the roofgarden at Blågård School by DYRK Nørrebro

DYRK Nørrebro |  an urban agricultural initiative in Copenhagen, Denmark

Urban agriculture, or agriculture in the city, is an ‘umbrella term’ that covers activities related to production of food in or on the outskirts of cities. A definition used by UN, UN-Habitat, FAO and other important international research institutions explains it as following:

“Urban agriculture is an industry located within (intra-urban) or on the fringe (peri-urban) of a town, a city or a metropolis, which grows and raises, processes and distributes a diversity of food and non-food products, (re-)using largely human and material resources, products and services found in and around that urban area, and in turn supplying human and material resources, products and services largely to that urban area.” (Luc J.A. Mougeot Growing Cities, Growing Food)

The most interesting thing about agriculture in the city is that it is integrated into the city’s own system. It means that it makes use of city resources such as composted waste as fertilizer, excess heat from buildings, a large variety of surrounding actors and their capacities. But most interesting is, that it has a direct contact with customers. Urban agriculture most effectively shortens the path from farm to table, bringing food and people closer together.

pictures of the roofgarden with its mobile raised beds as part of Copenhagens skyline by DYRK

DYRK Nørrebro is an urban farming initiative that works to expand vegetable cultivation in Nørrebro, Copenhagen and creates new urban communities. Nørrebro is one of Copenhagens 10 districts and is a multiethnic society, inhabited by people from all parts of the world. DYRK Nørrebro is a big opportunity for this multi-cultural and some times very devided and troubled district to connect and strengthen the community spirit. It is not only activating the area sustainably and connect with people, but also turns the ‘former conflicted’ image of Nørrebro into positive collective spirit.

Normally we all buy our groceries in supermarkets or other shops and often the goods are produced a long way from where you are living. By using the cityspace of your neighboorhood you shorten the way from farm to table significantly and this is one of the aims of DYRK Nørrebro. Most important for them is, that through vegetable cultivation in town, you can take active action in the long discussions about bad conditions for climate worldwide and they encourage everyone to attend.

Through mobile raised beds and an urban garden DYRK Nørrebro is giving access to kitchen gardens to create local production of vegetables and also focus on sustainability according to the idea of “thinking globally and acting locally”.

DYRK Nørrebros practical work has its roots in a garden center which is currently being established on the roof of Blågård School. Eventually they want to provide a framework for kitchen and flower gardens, beekeeping, soup kitchen, teaching growing lessons, workshops, lectures and harvest festivals and more.

pictures of the growing ‘DYRK community’ at Blågård School by DYRK

The mobile raised beds can be loaned to interested citizens, associations, institutions, cafes and cultural centers in Nørrebro. This way everyone can get started in a small home production of vegetables and herbs at their doorstep or in the backyard but also join the new community on the roof.

Since the initiative has been established in 2010 they have proved that realization of the ideas of food production and urban communities is possible and can have a future. Not only are they providing a local platform for Copenhagens citizens to act “green” and be conscious about the Earth in a scale that is possible and “manageable”, but they also invite you to join the platform as an active part of forming its future and aims.

DYRK Nørrebro is a good example for the growing communities of urban agriculture  worldwide and in the future, we will hopefully all enjoy a more desirable, cheaper and healthier lifestyle within sustainable associations with a high priority of socializing and solidarity within people.

a yard at Vesterbro, Copenhagen by DYRK

More about urban agriculture in Copenhagen:

http://urbanagriculture.dk/ |  A local danish blog telling and sharing all information about urban agriculture in Copenhagen, where to find it and how to be part of the action.

After few months of intensive work at Ecosistema Urbano, we are pleased to announce the launch of dreamhamar, a network design process around Stortorget square in Hamar, Norway.

Network Design is a process of open and transparent design allowing both local and international contributors to work and propose solutions for the same project. For more information about dreamhamar and network design process you can visit the ABOUT page.

Since one of the main purposes of dreamhamar is to encourage people’s participation in the project, please don’t hesitate to share with us your opinions and ideas by commenting this post or just through the CONTACT page.

One of the tools we will be using to communicate the progress of the project is the HAMAR EXPERIENCE, a weekly video broadcasting in which the Local Lab Team and Ecosistema Urbano will describe the project in progress. We will share reports about activities, challenges encountered during the process along with the every day life of the Local Lab Team. HAMAR EXPERIENCE aims to make the process a shared and learning architecture experience.

Join us by watching and commenting the launching session (live from Madrid!) of Hamar Experience next Monday 18th of July at 6 pm on dreamhamar livestream channel at livestream.com/dreamhamar

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images above based on a photo by Jon Kristian Fjellestad

You can also stay tuned by visiting our web dreamhamar.org or following us on twitter at twitter.com/dreamhamar

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Hamar Experience, launching session : next Monday 18th of July at 6 pm at livestream.com/dreamhamar

CONFLICT, el décimo número de la publicación trimestral MAS Context, ya está disponible. Los colaboradores de este número son Jonathan Andrew, Christopher Baker, Vladimir Belogolovsky, David Garcia Studio, dpr-barcelona (@dpr_barcelona), Peter Eisenman, Thomas Hillier, Alex Lehnerer, Nora Niasari, OMNIBUS, Mika Savela, Simon Scheithauer, Cameron Sinclair y Urban-Think Tank.

La revista acaba de estrenar un nuevo diseño web para facilitar el acceso a todos los artículos publicados en estos diez números (más de 100) y permitir comentarios para continuar la conversación. Podéis ver todo el contenido en www.mascontext.com.

Any analysis of today’s reality of European or Spanish cities and their current urban trends will entail placing them in a context of crisis that globally implies, among other structural issues to be taken into account: climate change –with unforeseeable characteristics and demanding modifications to be made to energy and consumption models- or the enormous concerns for the collapse of world economy and the crisis of financial systems and their direct or indirect impact on urban ways of life. This very complex moment forces us to be more conscious of our limits and announces the end of an era of apparent safety and the beginning of another that ranges between the unforeseen and the uncertain.

The current crisis is particularly serious in Spain due to the economic model of preceding years, strongly based on building construction and exploitation of resources, in particular the resource of land. In this context of required change it is necessary to try to focus on a fixed reference point or frame where the basic axis for urban interventions can be set. The current scenario is a complex one, there are few certainties and time and processes are key characters. However, this crisis, like any other crisis, is not only useful for correcting trends but mainly for detecting opportunities. A time of large changes and few certainties is probably when the greatest demand for creativity, innovation and prospecting for opportunities for the future should occur, as well as when time should be taken for thinking before acting, making the most of a moment of lesser economic acceleration.

An adequate reference frame places urbanism as a paradigm of urban sustainability. Since recent years, a broad theory has been developed, with larger or lesser success, based on different principles for urban actions, many of which are focused on sustainable town-planning. Among these we find mainly the peremptory defence of land as a resource in the face of the pressure the city or metropolis exerts on the land in the broad sense. Arguments such as that of raising the density on built urban land, or the defence of the compact city versus the wide-spread city, the increase of complexity of urban uses versus the distribution of mono-functional areas (usually residential areas) and the resulting decrease of mobility or the defence of public transport versus private mobility; these are broadly developed concepts that are all going in the same direction. In general, these arguments are of a global nature and pursue the control of the land, the use of materials or the efficiency of energy processes or consumption.

But these arguments place us in scenarios of growth and development even though they may present themselves as sustainable development. After the past years of construction elation, it may be that the work to be done or the trends with the largest capacity for innovation are not only those belonging to the field of large-scale urban-planning and its developments. It is possible that other more experimental trends acting at a more humble scale may now have a greater projection and capacity for innovation. We could refer to these trends as micro-urbanism.

But, how can we move from macro- to micro-urbanism? How can we reach quality objectives with few resources? After the large strategic operations, copied here and there by all governments and demanding an enormous amount of resources, a reality appears bringing us back to a much more humble condition. This new reality requires greater doses of imagination and much lower budgets.

The strategies directly pursuing the improvement of the citizens’ quality of life are key players in the integration of macro- and micro-urbanism. In the current perspective, the objective of improving quality of life and habitability depends on many factors. Certain strategies would need to be directed towards the improvement of urban design and conditions, while others will probably represent, within the crisis context presented earlier on, important modifications in the ways or styles of living.

With regards to the former strategies and within a domestic scale, we would find those improving the urban quality of existing neighbourhoods, for example by increasing the variety of the public space, prioritizing pedestrian areas, introducing bicycle carriages, developing different outdoors sports, increasing the number or size of green areas and the biodiversity, refurbishing neighbourhoods and buildings, integrating or renovating open spaces on the basis of a broad flexibility of use, etc. These actions aim to re-think or recycle the existing city and to overcome the social perception of excessive abstraction and opacity in the town-planning. Many of these actions, in particular at this scale, will also have to be flexible for dealing with the unstable conditions of the physical and social environment. In some ways, the success will also depend on their capacity to integrate the unforeseen or even to integrate conflicts.

The social and technological context enables and demands progressive experimentation with different ways of acting and different urban designs that enable setting up open processes. Many are the examples of innovative urban actions; they happen spontaneously in public spaces, places or spaces that frequently act as catalysers for social relationships and where heterodoxy sometimes wins.

We are moving from a post-industrial society to a society organised as a network. A current hot issue is how to enable a participative urbanism, open and flexible for any user, by taking advantage of the possibilities offered by technology. How to enable city, suburb or neighbours digital associations.

Talking about quality of life nowadays is becoming more and more connected with collaborative social behaviours that truly imply important changes in the lifestyle. Furthermore, they could, thanks to the technical development, become powerful tools for making citizens share the responsibility of key decisions about their own habitat. This way, work could be done on environmental education from an assumption of active social participation, with the objective of producing a real shared conscience of eco-community. Thinking globally and acting locally could have a great impact based on these education and interaction initiatives.

In brief, along these lines that are perhaps still under-explored in the urban network context, a number of opportunities and expectations of improvement of the urban quality of life are opening up. Using them in an active and non-cosmetic way can produce powerful tools to be used in opaque situations to unveil the transparency of processes, to introduce the flexibility in rigid situation, to stimulate real inter-dependence and social cooperation as opposed to an individualistic ethic.

Text by Flora Pescador for Urbact.

We are pleased to announce the first Call for Paper for the first issue of Urbain trop Urbain magazine: a ”No City Guide for Shanghai”.

The main idea is to develop a digital “no city guide” for the pleasure of the “flâneur urbain”. The review is edited in French language, but English and Spanish Papers are allowed, so most authors will be able to write in their mother tongue. You can find more details (in French) on our web page

Architects, planners, photographers, artists, etc. who visited Shanghai or worked in this town can easily contribute. For the 10th of May we are only expecting an email with an idea, a thematic purpose and the technical mode of expression (just text, or picture, video, sound, etc.). The further definitive contribution is expected in July. All details in our call for contribution below (in French).

Urbain trop Urbain is one of the most influent web-magazine in France in the field of urban culture, with a very interdisciplinary approach to the subject of contemporary citites, mixing urbanism with literature, sociology and philosophy.
The name “Urbain trop Urbain” refers to Human, All Too Human, the book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Planetizen.com: An urban planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses and information for the urban planning, design and development. (@Planetizen)

PriceTags: Gordon Price is a former Vancouver city councillor and the Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. His blog gives readers an insider’s perspective of urban issues. While it with a focus on Vancouver, he cover topics of interest to anybody interested in urbanism.

Urbanophile: Aaron M. Renn’s blog focusing on helping America’s cities thrive and find success in the 21st century. He offers unique perspectives and innovative strategies for cities and their residents. (@Urbanophile).

Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space:Richard Layman blog on placemaking, historic preservation and urban design. His emphasis in on Washington, DC but his posts contain useful “lessons for all cities.

All About Cities: This blog by Wendy Waters explores the economy, society, communities, people, businesses, organizations, infrastructure, civil society and government of cities—and the tensions and connections between them. I have a natural affinity for Wendy and her writing as she has lived in both Arizona and British Columbia ☺(@Wendy_Waters)

CEO for Cities: A civic laboratory of today’s urban leaders catalyzing a movement to advance the next generation of great American cities. Posts by Carol Colletta (@CColetta) and Julia Klaiber (@JuliaKlaiber).

Creative Class Exchange: Richard Florida and his Creative Class team write about urbanism, economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation. (@Richard_Florida)

Walkable DFW: The ‘thought laboratory’ of Patrick Kennedy, a professional urban planner and designer based in Dallas. The blog explores how bionomics relate to self-organizing, emergent urbanism. (@WalkableDFW)

PSFK: “The go-to source for new ideas for creative business.” While urbanism isn’t this blogs major focus, it regularly touches on several issues related to cities. (@PSFK)

Next American City: A national magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders. Their Buzz blog features constantly good content on all aspects of urbanism. (@NextAmCity)

The City Fix: A global blog and social network devoted to news, advocacy and “best practice” solutions for sustainable cities around the world. (@TheCityFix)

source: http://yuriartibise.com/blog/11-blogs-urbanists/

Detroit is known by many as the birthplace of techno, a reputation that has preceded the shrinking city among music-savvy youth for 20+ years. Like most twenty-something Americans,  I have never really considered visiting the city of Detroit – that’s why, when i was asked “what Detroit is like” while living in the other techno-capital, Berlin, I didn’t have much of anything to say – except for something along the lines of “i hear it’s pretty cold”.

Other than to be credited for its music history, Detroit is not one of those U.S. cities that makes contemporary culture news too often. It doesn’t boast notable American monuments (unless you count the first headquarters of auto Industry which, admittedly, unfortunately have shaped our nation quite significantly). It is not, either, one of those U.S. cities that generates tourism like New York, Los Angeles, Miami or Boston.

In fact, the most recent U.S. census report shows that people are migrating away from Detroit at a higher rate than ever before. It’s now estimated to hold 18th place for the largest U.S. City, and Detroit’s population loss has made Michigan (Detroit’s state) the only state to register a net population loss since 2000. While recent census data shows that the total U.S. population has grown 9.7 percent, Michigan’s has fallen by 0.6 percent.

It wasn’t always like this.  Before 1920, Detroit was a modest, compact city that situated its manufacturing along the river, taking advantage of water provided transportation for incoming supplies and outgoing goods. Most of its population lived within a few mile radius of downtown and no one industry dominated-  until the 1920s, when the booming auto industry settled into Detroit.

1914 announcement of Ford’s $5 day sent hordes of job-seekers to the company’s factory in Highland Park (images from the Collections of Henry Ford via. www.autolife.umd)

This initiated a growth spurt for the city, making Detroit, also known as Motor City, the fourth-largest city in the country.  At the cities peak in the 1950’s, it held the title of 5th place.

Ford’s Ford’s Highland Park Plant. (Image from the Collections of Henry Ford via. www.autolife.umd)

Some attribute Detroit’s population loss over the last decade to the travails of the auto industry and the collapse of the industrial-based economy. Others blame a Michigan brain-drain due to a low-quality of life in Detroit. The educated and financially stable residents of Michigan are migrating to other, more attractive cities for work, leaving Detroit-based companies at a loss for qualified employees. Eventually, these companies are forced to move themselves – and unemployment ensues.

A recent New York Times article titled “Detroit Population Down 25 Percent, Census Finds”, quotes 32-year-old Samantha Howell who expresses concern about Detroit’s population decline, “Yes, the city feels empty physically, empty of people, empty of ambition, drive. It feels empty.”. The dramatic scale of population loss (237,500 people in one decade) that the 2010 census has revealed seems to finally be pushing Michigan’s need of an urban face-lift onto the wider radar.

Andrew Basile, Jr, owner of a growing Michigan-based law firm recently shared his story with Rustwire, a blogging site dedicated to consolidating thoughtful, constructive stories about post-industrial cities across the Rust Belt. “We have a lot to learn from each other”, the blog reads.

Basile ‘s essay thoughtfully explains recent migration statistics, the lack of shared developmental values between older governmental officials and younger residents, Michigan’s population’s growing poverty, and the “lack of quality living options other than tract suburbia” – what he calls “poor quality of space”

“The fundamental problem it seems to me”, he writes,“ is that our region has gone
berserk on suburbia to the expense of having any type of nearby open
space or viable urban communities, which are the two primary spatial
assets that attract and retain the best human capital.”

Basile ‘s Images of Metro Detroit, “we have built a very bad physical place”.

As the first region with a automobile freeway, Detroit has adopted an automobile culture and produced Michigan leaders who support urban sprawl rather than work to curb it. As I mentioned in my last Ecological Design Fundamentals post, American cities have been severely influenced by automobile-accommodating design. Michigan is a very good example of the problems that automobile-focused sprawl can bring to space.

Despite Basile’s admitting that he doesn’t see any forward progress or even a meaningful attempt at forward progress to reclaim Detroit’s brain-drained population and better develop urban areas, his term, “poor quality of space”, is still hopeful. With this word choice, Basile is acknowledging the potential that a more ecological re-design of the city space has to re-attract workforce, mitigate poverty problems, and stop environmentally damaging urban sprawl. The problem isn’t Detroit, it’s the special spacial planning, or lack thereof, that has made this urban space undesirable.

Of course, creative efforts to call attention to the the need to improve the under-resourced and intensely blighted Detroit community have been hatching for years. In the 1980s, artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather began transforming vacant lots and abandoned houses into gigantic art sculptures, integrating the street, sidewalks and trees. This work become known as the Heidelberg Project.

This year marks the Art initiative´s 25th year anniversary. Set in one of the most economically depressed zip codes in the country, with over  90% of people living below the poverty level, the Heidelberg Project has developed as a engine for social and economic change. HP’s goal is to inspire people to appreciate and use artistic expression to enrich their lives and to improve the social and economic health of the greater community. HP’s Beautifying of Heidelberg Street has made it one of the safest places in the area, not to mention one of the best quality spaces in the city.

The city of Detroit is experiencing a low point, Basile has gone so far as to say that the city is approaching the point of no return “where the constituency for reform dwindles below a critical threshold and the region’s path of self destruction becomes unalterable”. Still, that point hasn’t been reached- just yet. And initiatives like the Heidelberg Project prove that it doesn’t take much for individuals to bring great change with creative efforts and re-design.

Detroit will likely present the biggest American urban planning challenge of the next decade. But, i believe, that clever re-design and a few more hands up for Detroit, as Basile and Guyton have proved, could revitalize the city dramatically.

And that’s what I plan to tell people when I get back to techno-pumping Berlin.

However, Chicago deserves more recognition for its architecture, which has, in recent years, boasted some of the greenest (and I mean this quite literally) initiatives in the country. Like many U.S. city Mayors, Richard M. Daley announced his intention to make Chicago the greenest city in America. He began this transformation by transforming the Chicago City Hall rooftop into a green garden. Other Chicago dwellers followed suit, greening up businesses and homes with vertical and rooftop gardens.By 2009, Chicago was the city with the most LEED certified buildings in the country.

This week though,  we’ve learned that Chicago is taking its environmentally friendly architectural history one step further. The Willis Tower, formally known as the sears center, will be adding a vertical solar farm on the 56th floor.

The Willis tower is tall – really tall. In fact this ¨planting¨ means there will soon be a vertical solar farm on the tallest building in America!

While Chicago is definitely not the most environmentally conscious city in America, as it lacks the extent of aggressive sustainable development policies and pro-active citizen initiatives that Portland owns, Chicago’s leadership in promoting ¨green¨ architecture is really something special.

Chicago is the city of the arts – it’s a visual city. Adorning the tallest building in the country with solar panels represents and promotes sustainable development  as a partner of the American city.

The 1.3 million tourists who come to gape at the willis building each year will now have a bit greener of an image of what 21^st century urbanism can be. I propose the addition of a vertical  garden next…

(Vertical garden at Caixa Forum, Madrid)

Ecosistema Urbano is participating in the urban development competition From Streetscape to Cityscape: remodelling Thomas B. Thriges Gade in a team together with the two Danish agencies Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Kristine Jensens Tegnestue.

Among 25 teams 7 teams have been selected to make their proposal for the remodelling of the street Thomas B. Thriges Gade in the historical city center of Odense, the third largest city of Denmark.

Since the 1960′s the city center of Odense has been divided into two parts by the 4 lane street of Thomas B. Thriges Gade, which was established as an effort to modernize Odense. On a daily basis 35,000 cars are passing the street. Having served as an thoroughfare for many years, the street is now being remodelled as a step in the sustainable development of the city. When the new bridge Odins Bro will be finished in 2014, the main car traffic will be led around the city center as part of the Planning Strategy for Odense.

When Thomas B. Thriges Gade was established, it cut through the existing neighbourhoods, which left the area appear inharmonious with many different building styles and heights.

The purpose of the remodelling competition of Thomas B. Thriges Gade is to create a dense, diverse urban environment, reconnecting the surrounding neighbourhoods and creating an accessible and attractive district  for the pedestrians and many bicyclists of the city.

The final winning proposal will be announced in November 2011.

The 7 selected teams are:

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, (DK)
Kristine Jensens Tegnestue, Landscape Architects (DK)
Ecosistema Urbano Architects, (ES)
Tyréns AB (SE)
WS Green Technologies (D)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Henning Larsen Architects (DK)
Polyform (DK)
Jonathan Speirs + Major (UK)
Dress & Sommer (DK)
WTM Engineers International (D)
Argus (D)

3XN Architects (DK)
NORD Architects (DK)
Jeppe Aagaard Andersen Landscape Architects (DK)
Ove Arup and Partners International Ltd (UK)
Søren Jensen Rådgivende Ingeniørfirma (DK)

Entasis (DK)
SWECO Architects (SE)
Grontmij | Carl Bro (DK)
sbs rådgivning (DK)
MOMENTUM Research & Development

Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects (DK)
Kragh&Berglund Landscape Architecture & Urban Design (DK)
Lemming & Eriksson Rådgivende Ingeniører (DK)
Reinertsen Sverige AB – Stefan Krii
Gielstrup Therkelsen Aps

Sleth (DK)
Schul + Okra Landscaping Architects (NL/DK)
Christensen & Co architects (DK)

Peter Brett Associates LLP (GB)
Colliers Hans Vestergaard (DK)

ADEPT (DK)
MVRDV (NL)
Thing & Wainø Landscape Architects (DK)
U:R:D Urban:design:research (DK)
Slot Møller Rådgivende Ingeniører (DK)
Esbensen Consulting Engineers (DK)
Via Trafik (DK)
EMCON AS
ACT
Capacent Management Consulting (DK)

More information about the competition in the competition brief here.

KONKURRENCE- PROGRAM SÆRLIGE FORUDSÆTNINGER COMPETITION BRIEF SPECIAL CONSTRAINTS

Bellow is the project description from the Architects:

MetaBoulevard: democratizing the Chicago boulevard network
[Noa Peer, Flore Raimbault and Clélie Protière]

When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, the motto ‘Urbs in Hort’ or ‘city in garden’ was adopted to portray the city as a beautiful gateway to the fertile lands of the west. Deploying this 19th romantic vision was the European concept of the Boulevard. However, with its American application, the Boulevard system precipitated a suburban exodus to the periphery, laying the seeds of future urban self-destruction of many post-industrial cities. Rather than a problem, this project catalyzes the rupture between the urban fragments as a potential stimulus. This project reconceives simultaneously the urban park and boulevards systems, by making a series strategic distinctions: 1. Opening Barriers, 2. Initiating Commonwealth, 3. Absorbing Influences, 4. Calorification of the Necklace, 5. Reactivating the Boulevards, 6. Reinforcing the Green Archipelago.

Architecturizing strips
The urban strips host diverse ephemeral events dispersed with the linear momentum along the promenade, ‘designed’ by the enclosed communities. Each neighborhood governs its adjacent promenade, fostering new programs, giving Chicagoans agency in their city’s design, while highlighting every neighborhoods’ unique identity.
The urban strips adapt themselves to Chicago and its diverse neighborhoods– unpredictable, exciting and experimental, transformed according to unique metropolitan situations, creating innovative public spaces.
The promenade can inhabit farmer’s markets, fairs, Luna-Parks, wireless tree houses, bars and cafés, hubs, watchtowers, greenhouses or just stay as they are now. These architectural events are flexible and can be modified in time according to the neighborhood’s evolution.

Lush_scapes
Initially designed as rest and relax spaces, presently, Chicago’s ten parks are used as prosperous recreational areas absorbed within the artificial 19th century landscape. Reinforcing this green archipelago – each island identifies with a different system of modified nature – they become a catalogue of green interstitial scenes: wilderness, agriculture, picturesque gardens, allotment gardening, open space or sunbathing lawns. These islands, surrounded by the city’s distinct neighborhoods, become the antitheses of the private urban context, the vanishing point of the calorifying strips.

For more information about the project.
Form about the competition.