Adaptive Urban Renewal and Public Housing:Re-stitching the Urban Fabric
It has been almost a half a decadesince the effects of Moses have became outwardly apparent on our cities, andcritic’s like Jacobs have opened our eyes to them. There is no question thatPublic Housing and Urban Renewal have failed in America. As our populationgrows exponentially and we look for new methods of housing, we need to askourselves this: Is it possible for Architect and planners to rework thefundamentals of public housing and urban renewal to benefit the future? Bylooking at their failures we will be able to adaptively reuse the ideas of thepast to work for us, in conjunction with cutting edge techniques on theforefront of our profession.
Adapting the ideas of urban renewaland public housing are of the utmost importance to us as architects andplanners today. This year we will see our population reach 7 billion,stretching our resources and our planet to its limits. Turing our attention tohousing these people and integrating this new population boom into our citiesseamlessly is going to be critical. We will not only need to find new andinnovative ways of doing this but we will also have to examine the past. Urbanrenewal and public housing failed in the earlier part of the century, we cannotafford to fail again. Seeing where our failures lie will inform where we can gofrom here.
By examining the policy of Moses andwhat his best intentions were, and supplementing these ideas with those ofJacobs, we can form a foundation for tomorrows urban renewal and public housinginitiatives. Using these ideas as a base, we can adapt them with ideas ofsustainability, critical regionalism and urban planning to give them a strongfoundation to prove useful far into the future, unlike their predecessors. Ifwe are able to adapt areas of our city far removed from the urban fabricbecause of these policies, we will have a chance of keeping our population comfortableand content as we continue to grow.
Abstract Site Model, renewing interventions and forces within the site
Abstract Site Model, Using existing green spaces and new green spaces to inform a block structure
Model at the building scale, reworking connections of scale to the street, occupant and facade
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