Renia Kagkou | Urban Design & Geo-spatial Analysis by Renia Kagkou

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RENIA KAGKOU PORTFOLIO Harvard University Graduate School of Design Master of Architecture in Urban Design Master in Design Studies, Urbanism , Landscape & Ecology

2017

93 Kirkland street, Cambridge, MA , 02138 Athens, Greece May 23, 1990 917 413 9497 nkagkou@gsd.harvard.edu

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URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN

SPATIAL ANALYSIS

recipro[city] | thesis design GSD STU | industrial machine

inequality in NYC | GSD 5407 integrative manhattan | GSD 1221 energy landscapes | CGA

RESEARCH agricultural geographies is pacific limitless[ed]? | UTL wood urbanism | Publication

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Barcelona

Block Comparison in three different cities

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The projectparcel envisions an innovative public realm parcel parcel parcel 440 ft 65 ft within metropolitan Athens. The transformation of parcel parcel 88 440 ft ft vacant spaces into an interstitial network that 120 ft 160 ft 120 ft 160 ft parcel mitigates the boundaries between public and 120 ft 160 ft Midtwown New York City L’ Exampie Barcelona and to Barcelona Midtwownprivate, New York Cityimplements an adaptive design L’ Exampie 120 ft 160 ft address the problems of City the contemporary city Midtwown New York L’ Exampie Barcelona caused by the economic, institutional and social Midtwown New York City crisis. Today’s perplexing problems of the Athenian center require a cross-disciplinary approach at an urban scale. The choice of Exarchia for the application of the thesis proposal was based on the district’s high numbers of store closures since the 2008 economic recession, the exacerbated drug and criminality issues as well as its unique social parameters of a very active community. The intervention empowers collectiveness, culture and sustainability while responding pragmatically to the conditions of the city and the challenges of austerity. It utilizes the city’s urban voids to implement a network of flexible, multifunctional spaces through bottom-up initiatives.

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Exarchia Athens

L’ Exampie Barcelona

thesis design proposal | recipro[city]

RECIPRO[CITY] Thesis Design Proposal for an expanded public paradigm in Exarchia, Athens 10th Semester, thesis | Michael Su, Philippe Baumann [instructors]

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2011 Population Athens: 664,046 Suburbs: 3,074,160

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Athens: 867,023 Suburbs: 1,673,218

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Past to Present During the 20th century, Athens went through a series of transformations that define today’s urban form. Unplanned erection of urban dwellings and the “system consideration” resulted in an unregulated, dense city grid. Private properties and the automobile dominated, while public areas were neglected. The resulting metropolitan environment was lacking quality of living while suburbanization competed for its population and commercial power.

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Photos from Exarchia & Kypseli abandoned spaces [top], sidewalk conditions [middle], NTUA campus & Exarchia square [bottom]

Current Conditions The final hit for the Athenian center was the outbreak of the 2008 economic crisis. Protesting, loss of commercial activity and the defacing of public spaces devastated the streetscape. Austerity and the socio-economic instability triggered poverty, homelessness, racism and criminality. Today’s public realm is left unclaimed by the citizens. Aging building stock, squares that lack function as well as marginalized people constitute the pedestrians experience. Vertical segregation is the result of the diverse conditions between the streets and the “retiré” apartments [penthouses]. Eventually, the unutilized spaces become urban voids within the city’s fabric and dominate the streetscape conditions.

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Topography & Green

Street Typology

Athens: 2.5 sqm / resident

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pilotis

Berlin: 13.0 sqm / resident

sidewalk

New York: 20.0 sqm / resident

Empty Lots

Abandoned Buildings

Vacant Ground Floors

Site Analysis Kypseli and Exarchia districts in relation to the Historical Triangle.

Exarchia by Numbers According to data collected from the NTUA School of Architecture for Exarchia, in 2013 there were 467 vacant ground floor stores, 86 abandoned buildings and 21 empty lots.

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Parks & Squares Courtyards Empty Lots Abandoned Buildings Vacant Ground Floor

Master Plan of Interconnected Urban Voids within Exarchia & Kypseli on site personal research conducted in January 2014

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Gestures of Penetration urban dwellings & neoclassical buildings

Exarchia Square

Conceptual Proposal Perspective [a-a] Interconnectivity of the public spaces formed by utilizing negative spaces

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Connecting the NTUA with Exarchia Square penetration of ground floor urban voids

National Technical University of Athens

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Negative Space

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Composing Strategies Axonometric Diagrams of the Negative Space perspective view of the interstitial network

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Circulation Play Use Work Use Live Use

Allocating Program Integrated Program & Collectiveness The interventions form a multifunctional urban system between the square of Exarchia and the enclosed NTUA School of Architecture campus. Programs from both academia and the plaza are integrated within the â&#x20AC;&#x153;networkâ&#x20AC;? and diverse social activities are established. Vacant stores and basement near the campus incorporate lectures, critiques and other academic events that will foster inspiration and dialogue between the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s users and its planners. At different times of the day, the same spaces transform into workshop areas, open cinemas, event venues and exhibition spaces. Near Exarchia square, the decaying neoclassical buildings are preserved but also deconstructed encouraging urban agriculture, farmers markets and public dining areas. Participation in the production, sale and consumption of food can create opportunities for income and provide affordability. Above the streetscape, the first floor residential apartments that have been used by small private practices although they are lacking proper layout for an efficient work environment. These units are redesigned into affordable, open plan work spaces where creativity, innovation and the local economy will be empowered.

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Plan ground floor public network

Urban Strategies: 1. Reprogramming of urban voids within the city that will reconnect them with the urban fabric. 2. Reactivating public spaces and improving the streetscape and ground floor conditions so that pedestrian circulation is prioritized. 3. Introducing a network of public platforms and communal work spaces that will allow ad hoc activities and will reinforce the multi-functionality of the urban dwelling and reduce vertical segregation 4. Redesigning courtyards and sidewalks with landscape elements that will enrich the respond to the challenges of pollution and bring nature within the concrete environment 5. Resolving the relation of the NTUA campus with the neighborhood through a new main entrance.

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Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ecosystem The public platforms create continuity between the interventions while a system of low and high planting cools the areas over the hot Athenian summer months, reduces air pollution caused by traffic and introduces soft textures to the intense concrete physical environment. Eventually, the blocks within the network diminish the boundaries between private and public use, encouraging a concept of sharing and offering resources. The Exarchia paradigm will create new initiatives for urban design and change the way Athenians interact with their city.

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Fabric & Circulation

Pedestrian Circulation Public Transportation Bus Stops Movement & Landscape Systems panels indicate interventions & planting cools the air and reduces C02

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Long Section cutting through the networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live, work, play spaces

Revitalizing Vacant Ground Floors urban dwelling near the NTUA campus

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Revitalizing Abandoned Neoclassical Buildings neoclassical buildings near the square of Exarchia

LAND USE augmented industrial zoning INDUSTRIAL [M] ZONING

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INDUSTRIAL USE as driver for

OPERATIONAL M ZONING

WORKSHOPS

COOPERATIVE HOUSIG

collective live-work

FLOOD PARK

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industrial use

POWER PLANT

FERRY PIER

flood mitigation

GSD STU | Industrial appliance

THE INDUSTRIAL APPLIANCE rezoning waterfront industrial [M] zone areas in Manhattan’s east waterfront GSD STU | Carles Muro, Felipe Correa [instructors]

BOATING PIERS

The project suggests changing [M1] industrial zoning of waterfront areas into “operational [M1] zoning”: an integration of flood mitigation and transportation infrastructure, collaborative live-work spaces and recreational areas with industrial land-use. The site is located between the ConEdison steam plant of New York (heating steam) and Stuyvesant town (an affordable housing development) in the east side of Alphabet City in Manhattan. The FDR highway is currently cutting the site from the waterfront. Based on our analysis of site in relation to the larger context of the Manhattan as well as its infrastructural importance for the city we propose an .the interweaving of relevant land uses. In terms of transportation we suggest a new subway stop on site for the L that runs between Union Square and Williamsburg as well as a new ferry stop to connect the site with the rest of the fabric. The highway is merged with mitigation infrastructure, light manufacturing work spaces and an elevated public pedestrian walk that connects the two blocks with a waterfront public space.

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ANALYSIS WATERFRONT ‘M’ ZONING

New York Metro [M] Zoning Waterfront Areas site ANALYSIS RESIDENTIAL DENSITY

Residential Density site ANALYSIS RETAIL DENSITY

Urban Contextual Analysis Sites of [M] zoning waterfronts overlape with areas of low residential and commectial land use density. The site, although gepgraphycally relevent, remains unconnected to transportation networks. The highway that surrounds the area has moderate traffic load. Retail Density site

GSD STU | Industrial appliance

ANALYSIS

FERRY ROUTES

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Traffic Load site

Connectivity to Subway site

Ferry Routes site

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Master Plan

Blocks The Manhattan block is tilted by 90 degrees and accommodates a variety of residential, collaborative livework spaces at the upper floors and retail spaces at the lower spaces.

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GSD STU | Industrial appliance

live/work + power plant + transit hub + flood mitigation system + Highway + industrial workspaces

RE-ZONED LAND

LAND USE + DEVELOPMENT MODEL

PIER

ConEd steam plant

‘public’ circulation + recreation

FDR highway shared light industry space flood wall

Territorial Calibration in Relation to Population territorial zones are redistributed to respond to

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transit hub [ferry + metro terminal]

additional management by: BUILDING COLLECTIVES

appropriated into: CITY LAND BANK

UNIT collective living + working spaces workshop spaces

co-developed with: COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

STRATEGY

appropriated into: DEVELOPMENT AGENTS CITY LAND BANK additionally managed by: BUILDING COLLECTIVES

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PIERS

OPERATIONAL WALL

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CITY

highway, promenade, workshops CITY + COMMUNITY TRUST [WORKSHOPS]

absorbs ﬂooding + ﬁlters runoff CITY

Section through flood mitigation wall, highway and blocks

GSD STU | Industrial appliance

HARD PARK

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BUILDING WORKSHOP

COMMERCIAL/WORKSPACE

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for storm water CITY

CITY + COMMUNITY TRUST

ferry + metro access CITY

shared workshops BUILDING COLLECTIVE

rentable units COMMUNITY TRUST + BUILDING COLLECTIVE

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Ground Level Plan public workshops., retail, subway transit station and ferry station, public park EA

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Wall Vignettes Highway, promenade, workshops

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GSD STU | Industrial appliance

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Upper Level Plan Collaborative live-work spaces, highway, promenade EA

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Live Work Building Collectives

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duplex community

Block Diagram Of unit combinations and collective communities

duplex community

live-work BUILDING COLLECTIVES

duplex community

TYPICAL PARCELS

OPERATIONAL ZONES FUNCTIONS CITY + + transit COMMUNITY TRUST + industrial + recreation + flood mitigation

PROMENADE ZONE + public pedestrian promenade + boating piers CITY

HIGHWAY ZONE + light industry workspaces + highway/raised pier + transit terminal + power plant CITY + COMMUNITY TRUST [WORKSHOPS]

‘GROUND’ ZONE + water sponges/’parks’ + flooding piers + ferry piers + ‘rec’ pier CITY + COMMUNITY TRUST [’PARKS’]

COMBINED CITY + COMMUNITY TRUST

Piers Exploded Diagram multi-functional infrastructure

GSD STU | Industrial appliance

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GSD 5407 | inequality in NYC

INEQUALITY IN NYC

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Research Questions 1. Who complaints, where and about what? 2. How differences in government response time vary across social groups and location in NYC?

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Constituents Block Group Residents statified into 4 income quartiles residential

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GSD Spatial Analysis for the Built Environment | Andres Sevtsuk [instructor] Arianna Salazar, Lindiwe Rennert, Lucy Perkins, Omar De La Riva, Rida Qadri [partners]

APPLIANCE Asbestos Blocked Drive way Boilers DOOR/W INDOW Drinking ELEC Water FLOO TRIC RING/ Found Pro STAIRS GE HE NERAL perty Ind AT/HO In oor A T WA Le door ir Qu TER Mo ad Sewag ality e O ld P UTS P AIN IDE S LU T/P BU S AF MBIN LAS ILD UN CRIEETY G TER ING W S W A AN W ateTER ITAR ind r L Y C ow Qua EAK OND ITIO Gu lity N ar d

Water System Tunnel Condition l Condition

APPLIANCE Asbestos Blocked Drive way Boilers DOOR Drinkin/WINDOW ELE g Water FLO CTRIC FounORING/ST AIRS GE d Pro HE NERAL perty IndoAT/HOT In or A WA Le door ir Qu TER M ad Sewag ality e OUold P TS P AIN IDE SA LUM T/PL BUIL S F BI AS D U CR ET NG TER ING W NS IE Y W AT ANIT W ate ER AR ind r L Y C ow Qua EAK OND ITI Gu lity ON ar d

Visualizing Complaints using 311 data

physiscal disrepair

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Amenity Studied 200+ Complains Grouped residential, physiscal disrepair, public disorder .

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GSD 5407 | inequality in NYC

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311 Number of Calls Increase in number of calls is negatively correlated with property value. This could be because properties of higher value are less likely to have absentee landlords and have higher exposure to other complaint solving avenues than those of lower market value. Additionally, there is a negative relationship between quantity of physical disrepair complaints and real-estate values. This is probably because issues of physical disrepair in high property value areas are handled quickly, before residents feel motivated to call in and complaint whereas disrepair in lower property values lingers, warranting a call.

GSD 5407 | inequality in NYC

Public Disorder Response

311 Response Time Response time statistics was expected to show a negative relationship between income and response time because government is more responsive to richer block groups. (Brown & Coulter,1983) There is a positive correlation between average response time and real-estate value for residential complaints. This may be caused by difference in the type of residential complaint made from high property value areas and low property value areas. Complaints from low value areas may be deemed more problematic and, as a result, placed above high value area complaints with respect to hierarchy of response urgency.

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INTEGRATIVE MANHATTAN Harvard GSD Eelements of Urban Design Pre-term Mapping Wortkshop GSD 1221 UPD Fall | Robert Gerard Pietrusko [instructor], Claudia Tomateo [partner]

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Annual Shading [1] low Shadow Analysis intensity of shading in Manhattan, NY

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GSD 1221 | integrative manhattan

Manhattan’s Two Surfaces The research focused on understanding Manhattan and its complexities through the visualization off its intangible surfaces as well as their methods of interaction. The assumption made is that outdoor comfort and urban microclimate conditions relates to the vibrancy of social interactions. The two main parameters are classified as “hardscape”; the preconditioned physical form of the city, and “softscape”; the social dynamics that include physical and virtual interaction between people. The two surfaces are overlapped and generate a new representation of Manhattan. The final diagram explores through sections the potential of a correlation between the two conditions of the city. In order to account for scale variations within the city one section is taken from Lower Manhattan and one from Midtown. Although in certain points there seems to be a strong correlation this cannot be generalized and lead to particular conclusions about the affects of urban microclimate and outdoor comfort on social vibrancy.

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Annual Solar Irradiance[2] <1000 kWh/m^2 Daylight Analysis sun power per unit area in Manhattan, NY

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Vegetation Desnity[6] low

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Additional Factors atrributes that were considered in the analysis

Building Age & Energy Use[4]

Population Density[5]

1765-1880 1881-1921 1922-1961 1962-2013

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Commercial Desnity[7]

Public Amenities[8]

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Annual Social Media Check-Ins[9] Social Activity Analysis check-ins for Manhattan by MIT’s Civic Data Lab

Urban Microclimate [Hardscape] | Social Dynamics [Softscape] For the definition of the “hardscape” a different conception of microclimate is generated by breaking it down to its primary parameters. A set of attributes that contribute to the conditions of Manhattan’s urban microclimates are identified and analyzed. Shading, solar irradiance, building heights, building’s energy consumption and vegetation density and population density all contribute to small temperature variations in the city and affect human’s outdoor comfort. The attributes were merged in order to generate an overall definition and classification if the urban microclimate. For the “softscape” surface that represents social dynamics diverse factors that seem to affect interaction levels are taken into account. Major parameters are agglomeration of commerce, public amenities and geo-located social media activities.

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Urban Microclimate[1,2,3,4,5,6] & Social Dynamics[7,8,9] Comparative Analysis an overlay of urban microclimate with social media activities

Lower Manhattan Section Sectional Analysis comparison of microclimate and social media activity

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GSD 1221 | integrative manhattan

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Midtown Manhattan Section Sectional Analysis comparison of microclimate and social media activity

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ENERGY LANDSCAPES Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis GIS Institute CGA | Scott Bell & Jeff Blossom [instructors],

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California's Energy Landscape A few years after the Western U.S. Energy Crisis, the State of California is in the midst of a clean energy rush with a goal for 33 percent renewable energy by 2020. This one week mapping exercise focuses on the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy landscape and efficiency. The projects analyses, at a county level, the production capacities of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power plants in relation to energy consumption levels (some of the counties will present a surplus of energy whereas others a deficit). Part of the overall energy production infrastructure constitutes of wind turbines, photo-voltaic parks and hydroelectric dams. The exercise investigates the spatial configuration of such renewable energy plants within the State of California, in an effort to study how these power plants are associated with previously analyzed conditions of surplus and shortage.

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Crop Distribution in the United States 57.73% Grazing & Pasture 37.04% Commodity Crops 5.23% Specialty Crops Synthetic Map of Agricultural Production overlay of grazing, commodity crops and specialty crops

agricultural geographies

AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES An exploration based on Spatial Analysis and Land Use Modeling Mapping 2: Geosimulation | Robert Gerard Pietrusko [instructors], Ashley Thompson [partner] Independent Study | Robert Gerard Pietrusko [instructors] [research still in process, context is not for use or distribution]

This project tries to investigate the territorial dimension of urban metabolic processes focusing on the structure of the broader landscapes of food systems within the United States. It offers a complementary way of understanding urban metabolism which is not reduced to flows and networks but is directly connected to the ground conditions of the cultivation processes of various crops. Through a series of cartographic representations, systems analysis and simulation models that benefit from the recent proliferation of data and modeling tools, the research explores how a series of regulatory, economic and environmental parameters affect the formal, spatial and material attributes of the geography of food production and the structure of its land use patterns.

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FOOD SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES REGULATIONS | POLICIES

MARKET | ECONOMICS

FEDERAL FARM PROGRAMS

DEMAND

GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS & SUBSIDIES

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LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION COMMODITY EXPORTS COMMODITY IMPORTS FOOD PROCESSING & ASSEMBLY

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PROCESSING

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WHOLESALERS

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CHAINS & RETAIL

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CONSUMPTION

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US Food Systems Diagram AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS WATER AVAILABILITY

TEMPERATURE

SOIL CONDITION

SOLAR RADIANCE

ELEVATION

LAND SUITABILITY

GRAZING & PASTURE

SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIMIZATION

COMMODITY CROPS

SPECIALTY CROPS

MARKET EFFICIENCY INDUSTRIES GLOBAL TRADE DEMAND

EFFICIENCY IN USE OF INPUTS RESILIENCE

The project grounds geographies of food systems not only by cataloging and representing the factors of agricultural production but also by comparing how different factors and their combinations are reflected upon variable patterns of the organization of agricultural land.

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EQUITY

LOCATION KEY INPUTS & LABOR PROXIMITY TO MARKETS CONCENTRATION OF BUYERS

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CORPORATION LOANS

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FUELS, OIL & GASOLINE FERTILIZERS & CHEMICALS

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Factors analyzed: Federal Funding, Credit Loans , Government Payments, Cost of Land and Buildings, Equipment and Machinery Expenses, Fuel and Gas Expenses, Cost of Fertilizers and Chemicals and Labor Costs,

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GOVERMENT COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION LOANS

37.04% COMMODITY 5.23% SPECIALTY

Federal Funding, Credit Loans & Government Payments Grazing & Pasture Commodity Crops Specialty Crops 28.3%

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Currently policies and regulations are focussed on global market efficiency and incentivize the production of commodity crops (wheat, corn, alfa-alfa, soy) that are used and traded as a primary commodities for larger manufacturing processes, such as food processing, livestock production, trade and biofuel . SUPPLY

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AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION & INTENSIFICATION CROP YIELD

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PROCESSING REVENUEFOOD INDUSTRY SUPPLY

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AVAILABILITY OF CAPITAL REVENUE

INVESTMENT IN AVAILABILITY OF FIXED COSTS CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN INVESTMENT IN REVENUE FOOD PROCESSING FIXED COSTS VARIABLE COSTS INVESTMENT IN AVAILABILITYFOOD OF PROCESSING INDUSTRYEXPORTS SUPPLY BIOFUEL INDUSTRY SUPPLY FIXED COSTS CAPITAL

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AVAILABILITY OF CAPITAL

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INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION VARIABLE COSTS & INTENSIFICATION

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Factors Comparison

Having spatialized the all the variables of agricultural production, the second part of the research aims to examine the dynamic interplay of the three variables (capital inputs, regulatons, environmental) and investigate if it corresponds to meaningful correlations. Indeed this investigation reveals a series of contradictions. The exploration of these contradictions could of course be attributed to a multitude of social technical and economic factors. Highlighting the spatiality of these contradictions could allow for further research on understanding and optimizing these factors.

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FACTORS COMPARISS

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ECONOMIES OF SCALE, AFTER AN INPUT LEVEL THE YIELD DOES NOT INCREASE ALTHOUGH THE INPUTS INCREASE. QUESTIONS RAISE: ARE LOW INPUTS/HIGH YIELDS ON HIGHLY SUITABLE LAND? OR ARE HIGH INPUTS LOW YIELD RETURNS ON VERY UNSUITABLE LAND?

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Urban Agglomerations urban areas in relation to water system

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Building on the basis of these observations, the second part of the research focuses on the Colorado River Basin and speculates three scenarios of policies and regulation of agricultural productivity.

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The investigation is developed through three simulation scenarios for crop subsidies where each produces different social, environmental and economic outputs. Overall, this research allows SPECIALTY COMMODITY notCROP only to make spatial senseCROPof the variables that affect agricultural production but also offers a platform for further research on understanding and optimizing these factors both socially and environmentally. 2015

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IS PACIFIC LIMITLESS[ED]? Investigating exploitations of oceanic ecological production in the Paciﬁc 58

RENIA KAGKOU | WORKSAMPLE

Renia Kagkou | Ashley Thompson

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Paciﬁc Ports

Exclusive Economic Zones

Fishing Density

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Synthetic Map of Pacific Processes of Urbanization overlay of vessel density, EEZs & Pacific ports

is pacific limitless[ed] | UTL

IS PACIFIC LIMITLESS[ED]? Investigating exploitations of oceanic ecological production in the Pacific Urban Theory Lab | Neil Brenner & Robert Gerard Pietrusko [instructors], Ashley Thompson [partner] The project uses AIS transmition vessel data provided by navama® project website: http://navama.com/?p=863

One of the only remaining ‘last frontiers’, the Pacific Ocean is a rare site in the 21st century still capable of supporting the exploration and appropriation of new territories and resources, what Moore terms ‘cheap nature’. Despite historic notions of a vast expanse of endless resource, the Pacific is in fact far from limitless. Analyzing the reorganization of the ocean as an operational landscape, we identify processes of neoliberal development and specifically, the exploitation of wild food-source by the commercial fishing industry driven by capitalist accumulation, commodification, and privatization. The investigation reveals the intensification and connectivities of the fishing industry to the agglomeration in relation to territorial rights and competitive access to open-seas, patterns of regional and international trade, and the role of states versus operations of transnational corporations to include considerations of labor and technology. The intensification of these practices demonstrates how commercial fishing has been rendered disassociated both with supply and demands of food systems, but also from the resource base, the marine biomass itself. Instead, fishing industries and the regulatory and governance frameworks within which they operate are dependent on achieving economies of scale to secure projected assurances to fish, synonymous with present and future profit. Furthermore, exploitative manipulation of these political and economic mechanisms are in fact jeopardizing access to and heath of wild fisheries with massive implications for the enduring stability of the Pacific Ocean as an enduring source of sustenance, livelihood, commerce, and culture.

RENIA KAGKOU | WORKSAMPLE

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IS PACIFIC LIMITLESS[ED]? Investigating exploitations of oceanic ecological production in the Paciﬁc Renia Kagkou | Ashley Thompson is pacific limitless[ed] | UTL

Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Delineating the bounds of an increasingly limitless[ed] ocean, the result of this diminutive dynamic will result in overcapitalization that sinks profits to satisfy endless capital investment as all other marine social and ecological resources are inversely depleted. Investing more and more for less and less, shoring up profit margins on speculation and intensification until the system collapses, long after all the wild fish are gone – the ultimate exhaustion of cheap nature.

RENIA KAGKOU | WORKSAMPLE

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is pacific limitless[ed] | UTL

Synthetic Map of Alter-Urbanization gradient oceanography of territorial and resource calibration

Major Fish Habitats Suitability Map mapping thermohaline circulation and fish ecosystems

Exclusive Economic Zones existing territorialization of the Pacific

Proposal for a new notional urban-oriented oceanography that incorporates spatial conditions deployed through gradient strategies of ocean surface, depth, and access parameters while accommodating the transient nature of a swimming biomass and the interdependent ecological systems that impact their lifecycle. We seek to disrupt this market-resource genocide by envisioning alternative processes of commercial fishing to redistribute territorial capital development through the intersection of national, commercial, and local privileges for biomass extraction across scale and function indicators predicated on the urban.

RENIA KAGKOU | WORKSAMPLE

WOOD URBANISM From the Molecular to the Territorial, Daniel Ibañez, Jane Hutton and Kiel Moe Visual Essay using Satterlite Data and Remote Sensing GSD | Daniel Ibañez [partner]

By using the so called Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), this visual-essay reveals the patterns of urban transformation across very diverse landscapes looking at wavelengths and intensity of visible and near-infrared light reflected by the land surface. Near-infrared light reflected provides a quantity that correlates with the capacity of the lands to absorb and synthetize solar energy. If the land surface reflects very low values it corresponds to barren areas of rock, sand or snow, but also typically urban infrastructures such as roads and buildings. Moderate values represent shrub and grassland, while high values indicate temperate and tropical rainforests. This is process enables to quantify the concentrations of green leaf and vegetation. It provides a gradient (from blue to red) that measures what is alive (red) from what is not (blue). But also, it identifies where plants are thriving and where they are under stress. The selected images bring together eight geographies of the earth’s surface, rendering a particular urbanization process within and beyond urban agglomerations. By freezing a particular moment in time, each of them depicts a unique pattern within a larger, dynamic and ongoing process of transformation – deforestation, logging, land-grabbing, formal and informal plantations, urban agglomerations, etc. The visual essay proposes a threefold reading: First, a comparative reading of the different sites by scale –all satellite images are at 1:250,000; Second, it enables a comparative reading of the imprints on the ground and the patterns of urban transformation –from areas of regional specialization to urban agglomerations; And third, a comparative reading of the NDV Indexes revealing the gradients and arrays of alive vegetation in contrast with lifeless surfaces.

wood urbanism

[Amazon 1.250000m.jpg]: The Amazon is being dramatically deforested in support of global urbanization. The connectivity infrastructures that enable the extraction of timber and the deployment of soy plantations and cattle are creating unprecedented patterns of deforestation in the ParĂĄ State, in Brazil.

[Barnapito 1.250000m.jpg]: The Amazon has become a site of land-grabbing providing economic surplus to international investment firms. Both the regulatory framework and the landscape has been subject of a radical transformation to enable massive agricultural crops of soy beans, in Bamapito region, State of Bahia in Brazil.

[Brunei 1.250000m.jpg]: Ancient rainforests in Indonesia are being massively plundered in support of global capitalism around the globe. These two areas of land-grabs located in the periphery of Brunei are three times the size of Paris and have been completely erased in support of paper industries.

[El Chaco 1.250000m.jpg]: El Chaco in Paraguay has been radically transformed in the last twenty years. Both the ecological and economical value of the area has been plundered though massive illegal logging, deployment of agricultural field and cattle farming.

[Irving 1.250000m.jpg]: Forest plantation by large timber corporation in the border between US and Canada. In the image we see Spruce-fir forest of J.D. Irving, Limited Sawmill Division.

[Kansas 1.250000m.jpg] Massive agricultural crops of corn, wheat and sorghum in Kansas State, USA. As many other areas of the mid-west, this huge center-pivot irrigation system enable the operationalization and intensification of land in support of food demand.

[NYC 1.250000m.jpg] New York City is the urban agglomeration and the landscape of consumption per excellence. In contrast to other urbanized areas of the earth, here the polarization between areas of biomass â&#x20AC;&#x201C;typically urban parks- and the areas characterized by the dense urban fabric is very distinct.

[Punchaw 1.250000m.jpg] Punchaw, in British Columbia, Canada is one of the most productive timber regions in North America. This region is easily recognizable by a scattered pattern of plantations and logging strategies.

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