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Planting Angsana Tree: Cohesion and Resistance during Singapore’s Urbanization
Get PDFPlanting Angsana tree, integral to Singapore\u27s "Garden City" vision in the 1960s, provided immediate lushness, ample roadside shade, and transformed Singapore into desirable urban areas. However, as political and aesthetic visions evolved, the tree\u27s prominence waned due to misalignment with new urban ideals and recurring disease. This paper explores this rise and fall of Angsana tree’s history along the urbanization of Singapore, intersecting the domains of nature (with a focus on plants), politics (urban planning), and space (the physical realm), and questioning how urban studies can overlook the intricate relationships between human and more-than-humans as the formation of the city is not only purely led by human\u27s intentions but also plants\u27 story. This study advocates for a more mobile positioning analytical framework that acknowledges the agency of more-than-human subjects and their contributions to urban transformation. It first argues that planting is a joint practice, process and a close interaction between human and more-than-humans, which helps us to go beyond the universal and simply statement of urban greening. Second, this study embodies the botanical study with historical analysis of planting Angsana, by examining how the Angsana tree\u27s lifecycle—growth, adaptation, and eventual decay aligns with and resists human urbanization goals. This goes further shift from the traditional understanding of nature by either scientific or social constructed to contextualizing more-than-humans within the social and ecological fabric of the city
New Town planning in Hong Kong: The case of Sha Tin
Get PDFPrevious narratives suggested that Sha Tin New Town was the model New Town in Hong Kong. This study looks at its formation process from the perspective of planning politics, and unravels that how colonial power dynamic between multiple politico-economic interests exerted influence towards planning ideas and built environment of Sha Tin and its later New Town. After examining archival documents and other materials, it unmasks the shifting rationales of urbanising Sha Tin from socioeconomic-oriented to political-oriented. The drivers of landscape transformation evolved from local-led, ad-hoc government-led to mainly government-led. Based on various contextual and temporal constraints, planning officials skilfully shaped a high-density urban form of Sha Tin New Town and attempted to evolve the nature of New Town to achieve strategic objectives of colonial government. Meanwhile, exploring shifting priorities of land use within New Town could unmask official priorities of New Town development and urbanisation strategies. Additionally, this study based on declassified archival material could offer a historical and narrative-driven account to fill research gap of New Town formation in post-war Hong Kong
Urban Reform in Brasil (1960-1964)
Get PDFUrban reform can be understood as a Latin American political agenda that inspired (and still inspires) many of the continent’s countries to deal with their poor and segregated cities. Far from being a technical tool or a closed system of planning, it opens incisively a political dimension of struggle for the transformation of cities, particularly regarding urban land tenure and right to housing. In a very polarized geopolitical context, the Urban Reform Law was conceived in Cuba just after the 1959’ Revolution. Approved in 1960, it states that “every family has the right to a decent home”. Several measures were formulated to solve the problem, confronting real estate and land speculation, transforming tenants into owners, establishing strategies to produce social housing. In Brazil, in a short period of time (1960-1964), a field of Urban Reform was constructed, concomitant to huge urbanization, planning promises and an insurgent context. Through analysis of different sources, the study highlights progressive political perspectives on urban reform, mobilizing various political and professional alliances, as well as the disappearance of its problematization with the military coup of 1964. This agenda will re-emerge in the 1980s, within the process of democratization
Research on spatial characteristics and planning patterns of settlements in the Jingjiang River Flood Diversion Area, China
Get PDFIn the context of the shortage of land resources in China, there are some human settlements built in the flood diversion areas. These settlements are planned and constructed in conjunction with water conservancy projects arranged by the state, and assume the function of resettlement and flood control. Taking Jingjiang River Flood Diversion Area, an important large-scale water conservancy project constructed in China\u27s Changjiang River Basin in the 1950s, as the research area, this study aims to reveal the planning pattern of the settlement spaces built in this special area in the early period of New China. In this article, the development of its hydraulic environment and human settlements is sorted out. Based on this, the location, scale, form and layout of the 19 refuge areas are analysed, and their formation logic is explored. The results show that the refuge areas in the Jingjiang River Flood Diversion Area have developed unique spatial characteristics driven by flood diversion, resettlement and agricultural production needs. Their physical space is closely related to the water conservancy facilities, developing a specific pattern highly adapted to flood diversion, which has the effect of improving the security of residents\u27 life and production, and reflects the planning ideas of "coexisting with the water and integrating as a whole". The research findings contribute to the recognition of the value characteristics of settlements in flood diversion areas, and provide a reference for the understanding of the national governance during the early period of New China
Suburban Housing Planning History for Hanoi Capital Region 1980s-2020s: Market Economy Adaptation and High-Density Environment.
Get PDFSuburbs, defined as the areas bordering cities, play a crucial role in providing greenbelt spaces for agricultural production, cultural-recreational activities, and environmental protection. Over the past 40 years, urban planning in Ha Noi has focused on developing housing outside the city center to alleviate pressure on urban areas. Initially, there was a push for "building by people and the state," but this approach faced challenges due to limited resources. Subsequently, the state experimented with supply planning and housing management for employees, gradually integrating market economic mechanisms. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the state continued to play a dominant role in providing housing for priority groups. However, the early 21st century saw increased participation from various economic entities, leading to positive shifts in both quantity and quality of housing projects. Ha Noi is now committed to constructing modern, sustainable housing models with integrated social infrastructure and synchronized technological development, while preserving cultural heritage and historical sites. This approach aims to stimulate economic development, promote the knowledge economy, and ensure environmental protection and national security, while fostering regional, national, and international linkages. Through fieldwork and comparative assessment methods, this article explores and proposes policies for suburban housing development that integrate green spaces and technology, with the goal of creating an attractive and sustainable model for the future capital - Ha Noi
Investigation of the Wave Field around a Monopile due to Long Crested Irregular Waves in Moderate Steepness
Get PDFMonopile foundations are the most built foundations in the offshore wind industry. The diameter is also expected to increase in the near future to accomodate for larger wind turbines in deeper water depths. The large monopile diameter imposes additional challenge in planning the marine operations near the monopile, as the monopile can no longer be treated as a transparent monopile (i.e. the monopile gives negligible impact on the incident waves). Proper wave field estimation around the monopile that also accounts for the monopile existence is needed to assure the safety of the operations. Investigation of the wave field around a monopile due to long crested irregular incident waves is provided in the present study. Experimental study was performed with different irregular wave properties, varying the wave steepness and wave diffraction number. The present study explores further the available experimental studies that focus mostly on the runup of the monopile. Initially, Linear Transfer Function (LTF) of the wave field around a monopile from the experimental study is compared to the linear theory, which is found to match well in the high energy frequency range. The LTF differs with the linear theory in the low and high frequency ranges, indicating pronounced nonlinear effect in those frequency ranges. Further, time series analyis is also performed via exceedance probability analysis and significant value computation. It is found that the nonlinearity appears in the crest properties of the wave field around a monopile, while the wave height properties can still be predicted well with the linear theory. Moreover, Wave Type II, wave that travels in the clockwise/anti-clockwise direction around a monopile and not in radial direction, is seen to influence the crest properties
Lessons learned from Evacuation and Emergency Measures during the summer 2021 floods in the Netherlands.
Get PDFIn July 2021 catastrophic flooding has occurred in the south of the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. During this event various evacuation notices have been issued in the Netherlands. Over 50.000 inhabitants received the call to evacuate mainly along the Dutch parts of the River Meuse and tributary rivers as the Geul. In this paper, we will therefor chronicle the events related to evacuation and emergency measures, in order to draw lessons for future planning of emergency response related to flooding in the Netherlands. We have identified the relation with warning, different types of evacuation and discuss the role of forecasts.
 
Phantom Writing
Get PDFIn this visual essay I present a body of artistic work done within informal urban and suburban heritage sites in Kyoto. Through the media of text, photography, film and site-specific painting, my works from the cycle Spirit Grounds engage with these sites involving material physical aspects as well as beliefs, fictions, and more-than-human beings. Building upon this, I propose ‘phantom writing’ or ‘phantasmography’ as a situated, multidisciplinary and multisensory approach aimed at understanding and designing contemporary places, landscapes and environments, acknowledging and mediating the agency of diverse phantoms and phantasms
Walk Under the Midnight Sun: Mapping Capsicum Ecologies
Get PDFWalk Under the Midnight Sun is a large-scale carpet installation originally designed for the Hungarian Pavilion of the 2023 Venetian Architecture Biennale, part of an exhibition proposal by Fuzzy Earth design studio and BÜRO imaginaire curator collective. The project invites the public to explore the entangled historical, social and architectural relationships within greenhouse cultivation practices. The protagonist of the installation is a regionally unique capsicum cultivar, the Hungarian wax pepper, known in Hungary as the Cecei paprika. The themes of the exhibition were inspired by Fuzzy Earth’s ‘Not Quite a California Wonder’ research project