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Postmodern Urbanism:

Postmodern Urbanism:. The Restless Urban Landscape. Postmodern Urbanism – Central City Issues. Economic & Social Polarization: Spatial Mismatch Economic & Social Polarization: Gentrification Landscape Features: Festival Setting. Gentrification.

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Postmodern Urbanism:

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  1. Postmodern Urbanism: The Restless Urban Landscape

  2. Postmodern Urbanism – Central City Issues • Economic & Social Polarization: Spatial Mismatch • Economic & Social Polarization: Gentrification • Landscape Features: Festival Setting

  3. Gentrification • A type of neighborhood change involving the replacement of lower income residents w/ middle or high income residents. • Most pronounced in world cities and regional centers that have evolved from older urban cores.

  4. Production side explanation • “Rent Gap” – difference between cost of land, improvements AND value associated with “highest and best use” • Gentrification fueled by developers (Neil Smith’s early work) • Displacement of moderate income population as city becomes new “bourgeoisie playground”

  5. SOHO NYC

  6. Claire Dane’s Loft in NYC

  7. “New Middle Class” – Consumption Side

  8. Gentrification – Consumption Driven • Ley’s argument – new culture of consumption • Qualities of community

  9. Assessing Gentrification • Production vs. Consumption -? • Merging of cultural & economic features in literature of gentrification • Postmodernism as “cultural clothing” of advanced capitalism

  10. Knox’s List of Postmodern Urban Features • Gentrification • Historic Preservation • Postmodern architecture • Mixed Use Development (MXD) • Multiple Use Development (MUD) • High-tech corridor • Master planned suburban development • Exurban development

  11. Festival Settings • In attempt to enhance cities as places of consumption, cities support development of festival marketplaces and other ‘tourist’ attractions. • Ex.: Faneuil Market, Boston

  12. Postmodern Urbanism – Postsuburban Development • What’s post-suburban about it? -- Suburban areas no longer primarily residential and, in fact, are creating new densities with functions competitive with central business district. • New vocabulary: “stealth” cities; Edge Cities; Technoburbs; High Tech Corridors; Asylum Suburbs

  13. Edge City – joel garreau (1988) • Has five million square feet or more of leasable office space – the workplace of the Information Age • Has 600,000 square feet or more of leasable retail space • Has more jobs than bedrooms • Is perceived by the population as one place • Was nothing like “city” as recently as thirty years ago

  14. Flex-space • This concept combines “designer” office frontages w/ rear access loading bays and interior space that can be used as office, industrial, or warehousing space in any proportion. Welton Enterprises, Inc. High Quality Office/Industrial FlexSpace

  15. Mixed Use Development • Harbor Square

  16. Master Planned Communities • Features: “a definable boundary; a consistent but not necessarily uniform character; overall control during the development process by a single development entity; private ownership of recreational amenities; and, enforcement of convenants & restrictions by a master community associations.”

  17. Prairie Crossing: “A Conservation Community”

  18. Responses to Postmodern Conditions: New Urbanism • For Community? • For Environment? • For Market Niche?

  19. Milwaukee Example • Beerline B – Ex. Trostel Square

  20. New Urbanism • Community – ‘Neo-traditionalism’; local references, increased interaction • Environmental Critique – Pedestrian & transit orientation; Anti-sprawl w/higher densities • Market Niche – expensive master planned communities; ‘gentrification’ or New ‘Sub’urbanism

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