Tuesday, October 25, 2011
‘If there is a new orthodoxy in urban design, it is citizen participation. And Urbanized revels in this so-called “bottom up” approach. It depicts several cases of community engagement, from an energy measurement scheme in Brighton to a new pedestrian area in the South African township of Khayelitsha. It devotes a good chunk of time to the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, whose system of half-houses that residents complete themselves is often cited as a paragon of “participatory design”. The idea is that citizens, not god-like architects and planners, are the solution to the urban question.’ Urbanized: a documentary about city design that comes in the nick of time

‘If there is a new orthodoxy in urban design, it is citizen participation. And Urbanized revels in this so-called “bottom up” approach. It depicts several cases of community engagement, from an energy measurement scheme in Brighton to a new pedestrian area in the South African township of Khayelitsha. It devotes a good chunk of time to the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, whose system of half-houses that residents complete themselves is often cited as a paragon of “participatory design”. The idea is that citizens, not god-like architects and planners, are the solution to the urban question.’

Urbanized: a documentary about city design that comes in the nick of time

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