Designers can design some public areas and facilities like chairs or cafe bar…
Gentrification: Cardiff
The MA Urban Design Autumn Studio is designed to with two purposes in mind: to introduce students to some basic aspects of the field of urban design, while simultaneously critiquing the field in order to move it forward by exploring more effective forms of practice.
The studio addressed the following critical questions through collective inquiry and interactive investigation:
• How do we understand the basic elements and skills of the field of urban design?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of conventional urban design elements and skills? While conventional urban design deals with well-defined buildings, open spaces and infrastructures, in reality the city is filled with ambiguity and complexity [which, in fact, makes the city far more interesting than conventional thinking suggests].
• How is urban design practiced? We studied the effectiveness of conventional urban design approaches, more recent cutting-edge techniques and truly radical and inventive approaches.
• What is the relationship between urban design, housing and gentrification? We examined this relationship in the area of Grangetown in the city of Cardiff with a view to reframe the issue through deeper understanding, such that it can lead to transformative outcomes.
Through these questions and exercises, we continued to build upon the previous module, Urban Design Foundation, by gaining a better understanding of the field of urban design and its future potential.
Module Leader: Prof. Aseem Inam
“The community of Grangetown will feel included, respected and empowered”
To solve the problem of gentrification, three groups focus on different aspects. Group…
MITIGATING GENTRIFICATION BY DESIGNING AN AFFORDABLE AND EQUITABLE GRANGETOWN FOR ALL
What is Gentrification? As a group we discussed in detail what gentrification is,…