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- | The cpuls (continuous productive urban landscapes) project is a research project on urban agriculture and urban space. | + | The cpuls (continuous productive urban landscapes) project is a research project on possible levels of sustainability of the future city. |
+ | More specific, it takes a closer look at models of urban gardening and urban agriculture and examines how communities occupy with these activities the (unused) public space. | ||
+ | How much 'green space' is still available in the city, and what is the best possible interpretation we can give to these liminal places? Can we come up with new models for building a more resilient, sustainable and ecological society? | ||
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+ | ** | ||
+ | Introducing | ||
+ | Due to social and economical developments, | ||
+ | Re-appropriation and reincorporation of these spaces is time-consuming. First of all our society doesn’t always have well-defined purposes for these places. But even if there is a clear plan, the realization of any spatial redevelopment project is always preceded by a (sometimes very lengthy) phase of conceptualization, | ||
+ | This is why there will always be a number of urban spaces that are temporarily ‘in transition’. These are the places we are focusing on: abandoned by their previous users and not adapted to the demands of the current society, these places seem unsuitable or undesirable in the mainstream economic cycle. Because of this, they often (temporarily) slip out of the main urban actors’ notice and are left behind with little or no use - we could therefore say that they are ‘temporary out of use’. They consist of large or small scale places, public or private and built or un-built, which are in some kind of in-between phase - a pause - in functionality. Therefore these spaces can be described as ‘pause-land/ | ||
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+ | Tactical urbanism and temporary use** | ||
+ | As mentioned earlier, quite recently we observed the emergence of a broad range of urban activism emerging worldwide. These civil initiatives oriented towards spatial planning and urban redevelopment, | ||
+ | An investigation into the approaches and methods employed by these actors, that we then could call ’tactical urbanists’, | ||
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+ | //excerpts from ' | ||
+ | a PhD project by Aurelie De Smet// | ||
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+ | full text for download here: {{:: |
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