this project includes enabling complete comuunities through the introduction of on-site mixed use community services, usable open and recreation space, as well as new retail housing and employment opportunities following residents’ pattern of activity along with aging apartment towers narrating the history of the neighborhood
ST.JAMES TOWN|residents’
desire
Lessons from top-down approach to urban design
General approach - Bottom-Up planning
non preordained design
Social Cohesion
Reflect inhabitants Culture preordained design
Democracy
new raw material to invent new ideas for making cities better rather than finished solutions
Quality of life avoid assumptions
WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO DO
WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO DO - WIPE IT CLEAN
WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO DO - Add Towers as solution
WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO DO - going back to 19th
robert taylor homes - chicago
what went wrong?| looking into similars
pruitt-igoe - st. louis
what went wrong?| looking into similars
regent park - toronto
what went wrong?| looking into similars
what went wrong?| lessons from history
site selection
design
tenent selection
management
what went wrong?| lessons from history
site selection
design
tenent selection elevator service heating system
management obsession with cutting costs private/public suggesttion
what went wrong?| management suggestions
adequate maintenance ( heating system, elevator service,etc) security
management quality social housing integrated in the system as permanent new ‘non-profit ownership’ Democratic responsibility, collective self-organisation, localisation Reduce public funding and develop revolving housing funds Utilise alternative ‘in-kind’ funding sources Be responsive to changing life-styles and demography
Housing management and development is a long term business and requires strong balance sheets – without undercutting its charitable character
what can be done? what is wrong?
what is wrong?
Isolation
segregation uninviting Racial steering minority
DISINVESTMENT
LOW INCOME
gentrification SOCIAL GATHERING SPACE
quality of life
immigration
Security violence break-in
crime rate
child-friendly
neighborhood watch patrol
visibility
community
trust
1921 2015
security| road pattern
what went wrong?| St.James Town
security| road options
what went wrong?| St.James Town
what went wrong?| St.James Town
rosedale
isolation| physical barrier
isolation| scale comparison
7,652
Rosdale 14,666
St.Jamestown
4,474
Moore Park
5,100
Summerhill
what went wrong?| St.James Town
11,120
Cabbagetown
isolation| census review
what went wrong?| St.James Town
what went wrong?| St.James Town
white asian s.asian black other
isolation| ethnic background
edge condition
break the isolation| bring in people
edge condition
break the isolation| bring in people
heritage| listed and designated byildings
designated listed
st. jamestown
as a time-machine
apply the bottom-up approach| track the foor prints
forensic Urban Design
P: 9,748
Security|road configuration
P: 5,914
V: 16,848
V: 22,190
8HrPedVol= P 8HrVehVol= V P: 575
P: 5,071
V: 8,082 V: 24,804
P: 1,343
V: 7,378
V: 13,458
V:7,234
V:12,225
P: 3,393 P: 3,659 P: 4,285
Security|road configuration
Security|road configuration
Security|road configuration
Does not have sidewalks
staff report
Challenging and Dangerous Sidewalks provided both sides off-street midblock shortcuts
Security|road configuration
add pedestrian walk way
Security|road configuration
public street low speed-shared street
isolation|public spaces
isolation|public spaces
isolation|public spaces
isolation|public spaces
programmed open space| selective demolition
1 2
3 4
consept| find the identicals
consept| find the identicals
consept| find the identicals
active neighborhood| programmed open space
clear the surface parkings open space selective demolition
programmed open space| selective demolition
final design
final design|removed buildings
final design|OLD buildings
final design|podium infill
final design|tower infills
final design|all infills
final design|figur fround
final design|figur ground plan
final design|block structure
final design|vehicular movement
final design|pedestrian movement
final design|open space zoning
cultural
commercial
sport/recreation
community educational
final design|open space zoning
cultural
commercial
sport/recreation
community educational
final design|open space land-use
community/recreational play ground sport/recreation
final design|new land-uses
intensive, theatres and recreation retail, cafe, restaurants educational, schools buildings and instituitions local commercials sport/recreational sport/recreational
final design|overall land-uses
intensive, theatres and recreation retail, cafe, restaurants services educational, religious buildings and instituitions local commercials sport/recreational sport/recreational transportation public buildings
final design|3-dimension
N
final design|3-dimension
N