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Som en landsby midt i byen
No full textDenne artikel tegner et antropologisk portræt af livet i Komponistkvarteret og Humleby anno 2015. To fredfyldte enklaver med hyggelige huse, blomstrende forhaver og børn, der leger i gaderne – og dog stadig midt i byen. Fra at være forslummede arbejderboliger med to eller tre familier per hus er kvartererne i dag blevet mondæne hjemsteder for drømmen om det gode liv i byen. Nu bebos husene i stigende grad af velstillede familier – typisk én per hus, hvor børnene kan få deres egen etage og bygge sæbekassebil i kælderen. Fællesskabet og traditionerne holdes i hævd, og her spiller de ældre beboere en vigtig rolle – de sætter fastelavnstønden op, udgiver beboerblade og værner om stedets særpræg gennem både skrevne og uskrevne regler. Man hjælper hinanden, understreger beboerne, men bor også så tæt, at man ikke kan tillade sig hvad som helst i de små for- og baghaver
Urban change. The western area of Naples (Italy), from agricultural villages to municipalities: plans, infrastructure and architecture from the “Risanamento” to the Second Post War
No full textStarting in 1927, Naples integrated the old villages of Chiaiano, Pianura, Soccavo, Marianella and Miano, which were included in the organic development of the city when the regulatory plan of 1939, coordinated by Luigi Piccinato, was made. This project projected these new suburban areas to be supported by a dense network of infrastructures that would contribute to the organic development of the city towards the west.
Through the analysis of unpublished documentary sources, anthropogenic characters and the peculiarities of the buildings concerned will be outlined in this paper, as well as the dynamics that led to the degeneration of the initial ideas of design through a succession of zoning. We will also discuss the fact that a significant part of that zoning was never approved, to some of which unapproved variations were subsequently applied, all of which resulting in districts characterized by alienation and social exclusion caused by a lack of social services, infrastructures and green areas.
Following the post-war reconstruction programs, major agreements were planned for housing, whose structures are now characterised as having great architectural qualities. These include great works by Marcello Canino, BBPR, Ignazio Gardella, Mario Ridolfi, Luigi Cosenza and Marcello Capobianco. Although this municipality, is one of the greatest examples of a modern Italian neighbourhood, it has yet to be fully studied and appreciated by historians. There has been no real comprehensive planning of these urban territories, however, no real integration of the housing in these new neighbourhoods with the city core. These particular cases are not only innovative in the design of the infrastructural system and with regard to building types, but also represent an important contribution to the study of Italian contemporary architecture. In fact, initial intentions were compromised in the clash between project and practice and so the infrastructure network was never realised as originally planned.
The issue of this unique and special type of housing is such a complex and extraordinary “architectural experience” that it provides us with exceptional results
Can Good Fences Make Good Neighbours?:Anthropological Explorations of Openness and Boundary-making in Architecture
No full text“There is no beauty in exclusion.” This statement was a key point in the design principles that came out from the UIA World Congress for Architects in Copenhagen, 2023. Yet, in this chapter, we argue that there is plenty of exclusion in beauty, as well as in architecture: Something or someone is usually left out. However, architectural boundaries do not just denote a line between an in- or outside/private or public, they are also porous and sites for social exchange. Based on ethnographic investigations of the use of architecture, we show that exclusion is at stake even in built environments aiming to be open and inclusive. We explore the ideals of transparent and open architecture as representing social openness and inclusion in both glass condominiums in Copenhagen’s new neighbourhoods and in temporary refugee housing. Across these examples, we ask: Are fences, walls, and borders not an essential element of cohabitation – do good fences not make good neighbours? This chapter argues that architecture mediates relations between people and their surroundings and that a key potential of combining architecture and anthropology could be to employ a more context-dependent understanding of contemporary processes of exclusion in the built environment.</p
Sr. Marie Smith: The Franciscan Spirit
Full text linkIn this paper, I will discuss my interview with Sister Marie Smith. Sister Marie is a member of a Franciscan order. She became sister in the late 1970’s and took her final vows in 1985. Sister Marie spent part of her career as high school teacher in theology and then in campus ministries. This paper focuses on her call to become a Sister
Public spaces' potential to prevent segregation in the suburbs
No full textDuring the 1960’s and 1970’s, big social housing areas were built in the surburbs from a welfare ideology providing accessible, healthy housing with and a focus on the green recreational areas. The suburbs were planned by a post war architecture where principles such as rationality and functionality dominated, resulting in physical zoning. Today, we find that the urban field is segregated into an archipelago of enclaves, where homogeneous groups of people live together in more or less isolated communities. This is the result of the both the physical structures as well as the societal changes such as globalization. The segregation within the suburbs weakens the social cohesion in society. Furthermore, marginalized groups risk being even more excluded. This is especially the case in social housing neighborhoods that experience a high concentration of social and physical challenges. Today these neighborhoods are not only segregated from the surrounding city, but also face stigmatizing from especially the political ghettoization. This thesis explores the social housing neighborhood Vangkvarteret in Holbæk. Due to classification as a so-called ghetto, Vangkvarteret faces a transformation process focused on bringing down the number of family apartments and integrating the neighborhood within the city.Building on Hajer and Reijndorp’s theoretical concept of public domains and cultural exchange, this thesis investigates how public spaces can contribute to social integration and prevent stigmatization. By mapping the diversity of amenities and especially social practices, the analysis identifies and discusses, which public spaces in Holbæk contains the potential to function as a public domain. The methodology is a case study combining a map-based survey between residents in Holbæk, follow-up interviews, registration of stationary activities in Vangkvarteret, and amenities data from Open Street Map. Data is processed through visual mapping tools that allow for spatial explorations of social practices reported primarily by survey participants.<br/
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