00 | ABSTRACT In the beginning was the city The Megacities phenomena is historically ascertain: The antic Greece’s polis were the Mega-cities of the Classicism, Rome was the first mega-city in the world history and if we look back through the cases like London and Paris, the population grew up remarkably with arrival of the industrial revolution, which can be compared with the Chinese system of megalopolis. The Megacities not only represent our past, but also our future. If the cities were in possession of a magnetic force on the territory, the Megacities instead are the melting pot of opportunities and challenges given by the high concentration of social, economical, political infrastructure and energetic potential. In fact, we are speaking about Global Cities, where the impact of the social process use to have a big influence on urban development, where the network is essential ingredient for a radical transformation up to come. The questions of local urbanism- immigration, job, social marginality,and sustainability - nowadays have global influence and they had to be studied by looking the Global Cities as complementary knot of the interconnected network. This case study is based to have an eye for the relationship between the visibly network (economic, society, governance) and invisibly one (territorial morphology and infrastructure) and how the first have the influence on the second considering multiplicity scale. This connection appears in the cities or part of them, that are physically separated but functionally connected, so that, they can make stronger connections between different Global Cities than within their very regional or interregional territories, which they belong.
If the existing network between society and urban structure can be visible on the regional scale, in the Europe it appears on the urban scale. The purpose is to demonstrate how these complex networks can be read in the case study of London 2012, the first Global City in Europe. It will investigate the central structure of Ilford, its socioeconomic set-up as public facilities distribution and population diversity, in order to understand the intrinsic potentials of this new London hub. The relation between spatial components and functional needs is the starting point for a strategic intervention in the opportunity area, in sight of the upcoming high-speed rail station. Through the elaboration of typological “working class” block and through spatial collective hybridization, the planning intervention attend to give birth to the new forms of urban quality able to conjugate global corridor together with local hierarchy in one urban catalyst.
Andrijana Sekulic Claudia M. M. Sinatra
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The Network Metropolis of Global London.
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UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA | FACOLTÁ DI ARCHITETTURA | RELATORE NICOLA MARZOT | CANDIDATI ANDRIJANA SEKULIC CLAUDIA M. M. SINATRA
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00 ABSTRACT 01 URBANIZATION OF THE WORLD 02 MEGACITIES METABOLISM 03 EUROPE OF CITY REGIONS 04 SOUTH EAST ENGLAND DNA 05 KEY LONDON 06 SPATIAL FRAMEWORK 07 STRATEGIES 08 HYBRID CLUSTER: THE PLINTH 09 HYBRID CLUSTER: THE INTERFACE 10 HYBRID CLUSTER: THE GRAFT 11 VERTICAL LIVING 12 HYBRID FEELING
COMPLEX(C)ITY | THE NETWORK METROPOLIS OF GLOBAL LONDON | OBSERVATIONS AND DESIGN SUGGESTIONS FOR A MULTIFUNCTIONAL CENTRALITY IN ILFORD