Re-Constructing Blackness: Appendix I
Euan Russell Rooms + Cities
“When people shape their own surroundings, they inflect the atmosphere of a place with character. This activity is the basis for creating attractiveness and exchange, it cannot be imitated by planning.” Mikoleit, A. “100 Lessons for Understanding the City” This booklet is an overview of Blackness, documenting it’s borders, institutions, vacant spaces, infrastructure and overall urban make-up.
Figure 1 Dundee: 2013
Figure 2 Dundee: Blackness and the new Waterfront proposal
Local
Adm
Technology Park
Cultura University of Dundee
West End
District Ten + Waterfront Phase Two
Blackness, 1 | 50
P
1
Government + ministration
City Centre + Retail High Street
City Waterfront Masterplan
al Quarter
, Dundee 000
Figure 3 Locating Blackness: The post-industrial enclave
Masterplan
1.2 x 124,000m2
Figure 4
n Scale Comparison , Blackness Masterplan Scale Comparison: Why build on new land when the 1 | 5000
masterplan quota fits into Blackness?
Scattered light industrial units
High Rise, low density residential
Residential Mill Intervention Blackness Conservation Area
Blackness, Dundee 1 | 2500
Blackness Conservation Area
New Build Residential
New Build + Intervention Leisure
Figure 5 Locating Blackness: Divisions
Retail Pubs + Restaurants Businesses + Industry + Storage Professional Services Residential Hotels Institutions + Cultural Sporting Unoccupied
Domina
ant Land Use , Blackness 1 | 2500
Figure 6 Dominant Land-Use
Dom Occu
minant upied Buildings, Land Use, Blackness Blackness 1 | 2500
Figure 7 Occupied Buildings
Cooling Pond Infr 1
rastructure , Blackness | 2500
Figure 8 Existing Infrastructure: Cooling Ponds
Institutions + 1
Markers , Blackness 1 | 2500
Figure 9 Blackness: Institutions + Markers
Figure 10 Pockets of incremental development: A new urban code
Dundee School of Architecture, University of Dundee