KAZAN (RUSSIA) STRIVE TO HAVE A CITY-SENSE ...
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An advanced control-infrastructure is demanded but the urban size converts its overall deployment and management into such a long lasting enterprise that it would question the municipality’s political stability.
Instead of suggesting an impossible “total city-sense”, the proposal divides the urban space of Kazan into various zones with different amounts of infrastructure and levels of control.
Kazan is a rich capital of the so-called Russian resources core. It aims to exit a Soviet past and to integrate in the Global world by hosting world scale sportive events, i.e. Universiads.
345.0 sqkm 1,190,250 inhabitants 23,805 administrators
+ 247 admin. municipal employees
6.7 years of infrastructural development
for a “total city-sense”
Does not the question of political stability ask us to avoid unifying the entire urban space under the umbrella of an unitarian controlinfrastructure?
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345.0 sqkm 1,190,250 inhabitants 23,805 administrators
+ 85 admin. municipal employees 2.5 years of infrastructural development for a “diversified city-sense”
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if not differently indicated, all the datas for managerial computing (employees, years of infrastrustructural development, etc...) come from the evaluation of the Kazan Universiads 2013 development plan
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SENSE OF SAFETY Preserved empty and autonomous in terms of water
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TRAFFIC SENSE Interactive control reduces the perceived density of cars
and electricity provision, urban “safe rooms” can host and protect a population in case of the state infrastructural system’s catastrophic disruption.
and avoids traffic by permitting its distribution in the road network. This offers to street and parking spaces the capacity to host a wider range of activities than just mobility.
Differing in the provision of control-infrastructure, a part of the Kazan urban spaces can have no additional infrastructure but rather to host a series of “safe rooms” for the citizens.
Differing in the provision of control-infrastructure, a part of the Kazan urban spaces can have the infrastructure needed for real-time surveilling and informing citizens and guests about traffic conditions.
LOW CONTROL
83.6 sqkm 288,420 inhabitants 5,768 administrators
+ 8 admin. municipal employees
0.2 years of infrastructural development
for a city “safe room”
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MODERATE CONTROL
124.4 sqkm 429,180 inhabitants 8,583 administrators
+ 25 admin. municipal employees
1.0 years of infrastructural development for a part sensing car traffic
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WE CANNOT FORGET THE CITY-SENSE HAS GOT A COST TO BE MANAGED AND MAINTAINED !
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(protocol developed by MIT Senseable City lab)
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traffic control infrastructural cablage when possible follow existing roads but in any case redefines roads hierarchy
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systemic road arteries adopting a traffic control infrastructure grant autonomy to the various city parts in terms of their accessibility
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human congestion control infrastructural cablage when possible follow existing roads but uses and redefines the mobiles network system
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CONGESTION SENSE The real-time tracing of people through their mobile
phones permits to control people in the urban space. This offers the capacity to insure that safety which world scale events require.
be autonomous to simplify their management and to ensure the independent supply of their services to the entire city. To preserve such autonomy, an urban system needs a space for further development too.
Differing in the provision of control-infrastructure, a part of the Kazan urban spaces can have the infrastructure needed for real-time surveilling and informing citizens and guests about traffic conditions as well as about the gathering of crowds in the city.
HIGH CONTROL
74.4 sqkm 256,680 inhabitants 5,133 administrators
+ 52 admin. municipal employees
1.3 years of infrastructural development
for a part sensing car traffic and human congestion
SENSE FOR MANAGEMENT All the different parts of an urban system must
Differing in the provision of control-infrastructure, all the parts of the Kazan urban space must have an independent accessibility and gather in hub of interchange. And an unprojected space must be left too...
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62.5 sqkm 215,625 inhabitants 4,312 administrators
+ 0 admin. municipal employees
0.0 years of infrastructural development for a city management space