Asian Urban Places

Ed. C.K.Heng, O. Carracedo, Y. Zhang

“ASIAN URBAN PLACES” aims to enhance the understanding of urbanity of Asian streets and public spaces. This volume is organized in five chapters responding to five relevant themes of the contemporary Asian streets: Community Spaces; Street Form and Morphology; Heritage, Conservation and Urban Regeneration; Streets Networks and Urban Nature. The final result is the compilation of a series of articles that resulted from The Great Asian Streets Symposium (GASS2014) focusing on the five themes.

The collection of essays presented here aspire to investigate underlying urban transformation processes, discuss contemporary professional experiences and best practices, and explore future visions, design ideas, and planning strategies for Asian streets in a new era.

Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba is Assistant Professor and member of the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

Zhang Ye is Assistant Professor and member of the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

ASIAN URBAN PLACES

Heng Chye Kiang is Dean of the School of Design and Environment and Professor of the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

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ASIAN URBAN PLACES GASS2014 GREAT ASIAN STREETS SYMPOSIUM

EDITED BY: Heng Chye Kiang, Oscar Carracedo GarcĂ­a-Villalba & Zhang Ye CO-EDITED BY: &KR ΖP 6LN -RKDQQHV :LGRGR /HH .DK :HH 5DÎ?DHOOD 6LQL PUBLISHED BY: CASA Centre of Advanced Studies in Architecture Department of Architecture School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore. NUS 4 Architecture Drive Singapore 117566 DESIGN: PLUS Collaboratives COVER PHOTO: PLUS Collaboratives COPYRIGHT Š 2014 Heng Chye Kiang, Oscar Carracedo GarcĂ­a-Villalba, Zhang Ye (ed.)

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CONTENTS ABOUT ASIAN URBAN PLACES

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ABOUT GREAT ASIAN STREET SYMPOSIUM

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COMMUNITY SPACES

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Social role of urban parks in global cities: a case study of Cheonggyecheon

What Social Marker are the Streets of Seoul? Echo Chamber of Social Ecology

Restoration, Seoul and Diagonal Mar Park, Barcelona

Planning.

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MANNISI, Alban

A Study on the Townscape Creation and the Utilization of the Alley Space

Spaces and Spatial Qualities of Traditional Urban Marketplace: A Case Study of Pasar

through the Site Enclosure Transition Leaded by Residents in OGUSUKU District,

Payang

KITANAKAGUSUKU County, Okinawa

Siti Zulaikha MOHD, Khalilah ZAKARIYA, Zumahiran KAMARUDIN

Chihiro TERADA, Hikaru KINOSHITA, WEE Yih Chian From Flexible Use of POPS to “Green” Community Planning: The Practical Path of Rethinking Community Participation in Neighbourhood Planning: A case study of

Taipei ‘s “Open Green” Policy

Singapore’s public housing estates

Chen-Yu LIEN, Pei-Yin SHIH, Yu-Fang CHAN

CHO Im Sik, Ivan Kurniawan NASUTION, Chelsea ZHENG Chenxi A Comparative Study on Old Public Sector Housing in China: Focus on Two Cases Participatory Community Design Action Research: The Case of Phu Xuan Commune,

Lei SHAO, Yiti WANG

Ho Chi Minh City CHONG Keng Hua, Jezamine CHUA Zihui, Zheng Jia, LEE Wei Ji Desmond, NG Zi Kai,

The Role of Riverbank Area as Community Space in Surabaya City, Case Study:

NGUYEN Minh Chau, TAN Yen Lin, TAN Yen Ping Janice, TO Kien, VO Le Hoang Long,

Kampung Jambangan and Kampung Keputran

WONG Kai Qi Sharlene

R. Dimas Widya PUTRA , Setyo NUGROHO, Endang Titi Sunarti DARJOSANJOTO

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STREET FORM MORPHOLOGY Mighty Modern Icon, Sewoon Complex: 10 Realization Factors of Sewoon complex

Investigating the impact of urban rules – A comparative study of three arterial streets

projects in Seoul, South Korea

in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau

Joonwoo KIM, Bruno De MEULDER

Hendrik TIEBEN, Joanna CHU, Chungyim YIU, Nuno SOARES

Western Street Form Transplanted: From Imperial Canal to Boulevard in Legation

Traditional Shopping Streets in Tokyo: Physical and Social Dimensions of Creative

Quarter in the Early Twentieth Century, Beijing

Place Making by the Elderly

Xusheng HUANG

Kien TO, Keng Hua CHONG

Gwanghwamun Square: Balancing Image & Interaction

Spatial form and microclimate in pedestrian street in Nanjin, China

Jason Andrew HOULISTON

Jingjin LI, Jianguo WANG

A Study On the Historical Process of the Elevated Walkway Network Around Central

The Form Behind the Informal. Spatial Patterns and Street-based Upgrading in

District in Hong Kong

Revitalizing Informal and Low-Income Areas

Hikaru KINOSHITA , Yoichi NISHIIE

Oscar CARRACEDO GARCIA-VILLALBA

The Imageability as a tool in Disaster Risk Reduction for cities

Accessibility of play spaces in Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka

Malik TIGZIRI

Md Rashed BHUYAN, Ye ZHANG

A discussion on the key elements of street scale and functional layout: street sight and fragmented space form in Kaifeng of Northern Song China RONG Qingwen, WANG Jianguo

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HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND URBAN REGENERATION

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A Comparative Study of the Sanxia and Daxi Historic Districts: Community,

Ordinary place identity. “Conservation” of identity in Tokyo

Profession, and Policy Practice

Milica MUMINOVIC

Huei-chen LEE, Chih-ming SHIH Cultural networking for planning the history The conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement in Taipei, Taiwan

Federico GIGLI, Bruno De MEULDER

Yu-wen LIN Research on the population displacement phenomenon of Chinese historical Protecting the Authenticity of Physical Environment Characteristics by Controlling

and cultural blocks under the background of Tourism Commercialization, taking

Land Use Changes on Main Street Corridors, A Heritage Conservation Strategy.

Kulangsu as an example

Case: Kebayoran Baru Conservation Area, Jakarta

ZHANG Ruoxi, YIN Qiuyi, LIU Xuting, ZHANG Yunyi, YANG Luxia

Hadi PRABOWO *HGXQJ .XQLQJ $ &DVH 6WXG\ RI &RPPRGLȴFDWLRQ RI +LVWRULFDO $UFKLWHFWXUH LQ Urban Regeneration in Shanghai’s Small Towns and Xinchang as a Case Study

Singapore

SHA Yongjie, CHAN Wan Ting Pristine, PAN Liyuan

Fauzy ISMAIL , Hidayah AMIN

Urban Regeneration of Ageing Neighbourhoods in High-density Asian Cities: A

Reconstructing spatial narratives as a mode of urban regeneration. Local actions

Comparative Study of Jangsu Neighbourhood (Seoul, South Korea) and Redhill

and community initiatives in the neighborhoods of Gara, Taipei

Neighbourhood (Singapore)

Min Jay KANG, Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier

Zheng JIA , Keng Hua CHONG , Mihye CHO Framing Sejong Maeul: The Pursuit of Global Competitiveness in the Cultural District of Seochon, Seoul Paul D. MULLINS

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STREET NETWORKS Encouraging Walkability Around Rail Station Area

Carriedo Street and Its Environs: A Study On the Commercial District of Quiapo,

Dyah Titisari WIDYASTUTI, Bambang Hari WIBISONO, Danang PARIKESIT, Ikaputra

Manila -RVHȴQD 6DQWRV GH ASIS

Ecosystem of a Transport Hub: Analysis on the Urban Development of Cubao, Metro Manila Glenn T. ORBON

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URBAN NATURE Investigation on the Application of Ecological Footprint Development Trend in the

Streetscape Character As Representation of Urban Identity. Case Study : Bogor

Sustainable Development of Urban Land Use: Case Study of the Tianjin City in China

Nurhikmah Budi HARTANTI, Widjaja Martokusumo

Xiwei XU, Tim HEATH, Yan ZHU, Peng ZHANG, Xue Bai Assessment of Physical Tourism Carrying Capacity A Case of Sabang, Baler Aurora, In search of biodiversity in a domesticated landscape

Philippines

CHANG Huaiyan

De Vera, Merant B

Singapore Public Parks’ Narratives: Design Strategies to build Identity 5D΍DHOOD SINI

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ABOUT ASIAN URBAN PLACES

In the last four decades, the world urban population has increased by more than double.

According to UN-Habitat estimates, this tendency will continue during the next four decades, and urban areas of the world are expected to absorb a population growth of 75 percent by 2050. In Asia, this urbanization process is increasing rapidly; it is expected that half of its population will live in urban areas by 2020. This population growth, coupled with general issues such as globalization or economic growth, has accelerated unprecedented change in WKH SURFHVVHV RI XUEDQL]DWLRQ DQG GHQVLČ´FDWLRQ RI $VLDQ FLWLHV SRVLQJ VRPH FKDOOHQJHV DQG threats to our urban spaces.

We understand urban spaces as all those public spaces, squares, streets, or privately-owned public spaces where civic, community, cultural, and social activities take place. In many cases, excessive densities do not seem to be turning our urban spaces into those dreamed-of places that we want them to be. Instead of becoming places of interesting and attractive urban life, sometimes this uncontrolled growth has resulted in the proliferation of suburban and mono-functional dormitory neighborhoods and unstructured urban spaces with no life or activity and devoid of identity; in the appearance of gated communities with inaccessible and not-inclusive urban spaces; in the rise of slums, informal areas and shanties with a lack of infrastructural and ecological qualities in their urban spaces; or in the increase of deserted, WKHPDWL]HG DQG JHQWULČ´HG FLW\ FHQWHUV However, our urban spaces, our streets, and public spaces, are still essential parts of our FLWLHV DQG WKHLU VSDWLDO TXDOLW\ KDV D VLJQLČ´FDQW LPSDFW RQ RXU GDLO\ OLYHV SOD\LQJ D YLWDO UROH LQ the livability of our neighborhoods and cities.

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ABOUT

GREAT ASIAN STREET SYMPOSIUM

The Great Asian Streets Symposium (GASS) was initiated in 2001 at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (NUS). In response to the long-standing and dire lack of truly Asian perspectives in the literature and research of Asian cities, GASS aimed to establish an Asian-rooted center of excellence to foster, both regionally and internationally, exchange and communication of ideas and studies ZLWKLQ WKLV Č´HOG Over the past decade, GASS has successfully shared and integrated cutting-edge debates and discussions on many problems and challenges that confronts Asian cities, such as WUDÉ?F FRQJHVWLRQ DLU SROOXWLRQ VRFLDO VHJUHJDWLRQ HQYLURQPHQWDO GHJUDGDWLRQ DQG VOXP SUROLIHUDWLRQ 2Q WKLV EDVLV WKH *$66 FRPPXQLW\ KDV DOVR FUHDWHG D VLJQLČ´FDQW NQRZOHGJH EDVH ZLWK H[HPSODU\ SROLFLHV DQG GHVLJQ SUDFWLFHV WKDW KDYH HÎ?HFWLYHO\ DGGUHVVHG WKHVH issues for resilient, sustainable, and livable cities.

7KH Č´UVW V\PSRVLXP KHOG RQ DQG -DQXDU\ SURYLGHG DQ HQJDJLQJ GLVFXVVLRQ platform for urban researchers and professionals committed to the study of streets and public spaces in Asia. In the following year, the 2nd GASS brought together an even greater number of participants, with high-quality papers and cutting-edge discussion. By then, the Great Asian Streets Symposium had become popular as a veritable public space and forum for studies RI $VLDQ FLWLHV 6HOHFWHG SDSHUV IURP WKH Č´UVW DQG VHFRQG V\PSRVLXPV ZHUH SXEOLVKHG DV DQ edited volume.

The 3rd GASS took place in December 2004. The expanded theme was, “Street, Urban Space and Representation�. In this third gathering, the GASS hosted more than 100 participants from all over of the world, including both academics and practitioners, to share and exchange their works and ideas. While researchers and scholars presented a variety of historical, social, and morphological investigations into Asian streets and the associated manifestations of life, renowned practitioners focused on cutting-edge planning, urban design, and architecture practice of streets and public spaces in Asia.

The 4th edition of the symposium, held in December 2006, addressed a broader theme, “Reclaiming the City.� The focus was on reshaping the built environments, re-appropriating of public spaces in our cities, and regaining vitality of urban life.

7KH WK *$66 WRRN SODFH LQ 'HFHPEHU DW WKH XVXDO ORFDWLRQČƒ'HSDUWPHQW RI $UFKLWHFWXUH National University of Singapore. This gathering proposed a provocative string of themes, “FUTURE | ASIAN | SPACEâ€?, and was highly successful. It played an important role as a catalyst for constructive and creative thinking about Asian cities in the 21st century.

GASS 2014, themed “ASIAN URBAN PLACES�, aims to enhance the understanding of urbanity of Asian streets and public spaces. This sixth reunion aspires to investigate underlying urban transformation processes, discuss contemporary professional experiences and best practices, and explore future visions, design ideas, and planning strategies for Asian cities in a new era.

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COMMUNITY SPACES Social sustainability, Community bonding, Participatory planning, Ground-up initiatives The importance of community is increasingly acknowledged in the current discourse of urban sustainability, which puts a strong emphasis on the social aspect of sustainability.

At the same time contemporary cities have seen tremendous societal transformation, which leads one to question how to build communities in such complex social and spatial context. Community should be viewed as a process that needs to be built collectively by all its stakeholders, rather than an end result. The potential of engaging the communities in the spatial process that can nurture social relationships and sense of community has to be further explored. In recent years community participation in planning has found expression in various IRUPV DQG LQ GL΍HUHQW VHFWRUV RI XUEDQ GHYHORSPHQW LQ PDQ\ $VLDQ FLWLHV 7KH ULVLQJ SRZHU of community action and engagement in shaping the environment has become increasingly evident and many bottom-up initiatives have sprung up to encourage alternative approaches that seek to restore the connection between city dwellers and the built environment. This chapter explores ways in which new spatial practices for community bonding are taking place in Asia’s urban spaces. It also includes contributions that prompt us to rethink the “making” of urban community spaces in Asia, with a focus on innovative practices and theories of community participation in urban space planning, ground-up initiatives and collaborative planning processes.

Social role of urban parks in global cities: a case study of Cheonggyecheon

What Social Marker are the Streets of Seoul? Echo Chamber of Social Ecology

Restoration, Seoul and Diagonal Mar Park, Barcelona

Planning.

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MANNISI, Alban

A Study on the Townscape Creation and the Utilization of the Alley Space

Spaces and Spatial Qualities of Traditional Urban Marketplace: A Case Study of Pasar

through the Site Enclosure Transition Leaded by Residents in OGUSUKU District,

Payang

KITANAKAGUSUKU County, Okinawa

Siti Zulaikha MOHD, Khalilah ZAKARIYA, Zumahiran KAMARUDIN

Chihiro TERADA, Hikaru KINOSHITA, WEE Yih Chian From Flexible Use of POPS to “Green” Community Planning: The Practical Path of Rethinking Community Participation in Neighbourhood Planning: A case study of

Taipei ‘s “Open Green” Policy

Singapore’s public housing estates

Chen-Yu LIEN, Pei-Yin SHIH, Yu-Fang CHAN

CHO Im Sik, Ivan Kurniawan NASUTION, Chelsea ZHENG Chenxi A Comparative Study on Old Public Sector Housing in China: Focus on Two Cases Participatory Community Design Action Research: The Case of Phu Xuan Commune,

Lei SHAO, Yiti WANG

Ho Chi Minh City CHONG Keng Hua, Jezamine CHUA Zihui, Zheng Jia, LEE Wei Ji Desmond, NG Zi Kai,

The Role of Riverbank Area as Community Space in Surabaya City, Case Study:

NGUYEN Minh Chau, TAN Yen Lin, TAN Yen Ping Janice, TO Kien, VO Le Hoang Long,

Kampung Jambangan and Kampung Keputran

WONG Kai Qi Sharlene

R. Dimas Widya PUTRA , Setyo NUGROHO, Endang Titi Sunarti DARJOSANJOTO

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SOCIAL ROLE OF URBAN PARKS IN GLOBAL CITIES: A CASE STUDY OF CHEONGGYECHEON RESTORATION, SEOUL AND DIAGONAL MAR PARK, BARCELONA BODĹ€ KRIÄżNIK Hanyang University, Graduate School of Urban Studies blaz.kriznik@guest.arnes.si Keywords: BARCELONA, COMMUNAL SPACE, SEOUL, URBAN COMMONS, URBAN PARKS

Abstract Provision of urban parks is considered to be an important instrument, which helps addressing social and territorial cohesion in global cities. Yet local governments strive to create new investment opportunities for global capital and provide spectacle for expanding tourism and cultural industries, which often makes urban parks into an instrument of competition between global cities rather than an HÎ?HFWLYH DSSURDFK GHDOLQJ ZLWK WKHLU VRFLDO DQG HQYLURQPHQWDO problems. Speculative urban development considers urban parks PHUHO\ DV DQ HFRQRPLF DVVHW ZKLFK FDQ EH VWULSSHG RÎ? WKHLU social meanings, and turned into a commodity that can easily be marketed and consumed. The paper compares Cheonggyecheon Restoration in Seoul and Diagonal Mar Park in Barcelona to explore the changing social role of urban parks as urban commons and meaningful communal space in global cities. Cheonggyecheon is a large urban park in the downtown Seoul, constructed after the Cheonggye Expressway was demolished and an ancient stream was recovered on its place. It quickly became a popular public space and a new tourist attraction in Seoul. Diagonal Mar Park, constructed on a former industrial site in Barcelona, is less centrally located and is one among many urban parks in the city. Although the two SDUNV VHHP WR KDYH OLWWOH LQ FRPPRQ DW Č´UVW VLJKW WKH SDSHU DUJXHV that the instrumentalisation of Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park, in order to improve economic competitiveness and global DSSHDO LQ 6HRXO DQG %DUFHORQD KDV QHJDWLYHO\ DÎ?HFWHG WKHLU VRFLDO role in a similar way.

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of urban commons, which citizens can appropriate, transform and reconstruct as meaningful communal space beyond the PDUNHW ORJLF RU LQWHUYHQWLRQLVW VWDWH +DUYH\ 3URYLVLRQ RI urban parks can, therefore, help in addressing declining social and territorial cohesion in cities. Yet they are at the same time seen as economic, social and environmental assets, which can improve economic competitiveness and global appeal RI WKH LQFUHDVLQJO\ FRPSHWLWLYH JOREDO FLWLHV 7DQ HW DO

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development, and improve the quality of everyday life. There is little evidence, however, that successful competition inevitably results in economic growth or urban development equally EHQHČ´FLDO WR DOO FLWL]HQV 7KH DFWXDO EHQHČ´WV RI FRPSHWLWLRQ among global cities are on the contrary unevenly distributed DFURVV GLÎ?HUHQW VRFLDO JURXSV 7KH JURZLQJ VRFLDO DQG HFRQRPLF inequalities, decline of communal life or diminishing civic and political rights are believed to be a consequence of a neoliberal urban policy, which prioritizes unrestricted economic JURZWK SURČ´WV DQG HÉ?FLHQF\ VSHFXODWLYH XUEDQ GHYHORSPHQW privatisation, welfare cuts, uneven taxes, and individualisation over balanced economic and urban development, common goods, even distribution of public resources, and shared UHVSRQVLELOLW\ 6PLWK %RUMD .ULĹ€QLN &KR +DUYH\

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3. Comparing urban parks in Seoul and Barcelona 3.1 Urban parks in wannabe global cities Seoul and Barcelona are the capitals of South Korea and

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7DEOH *UHHQ DUHDV DQG XUEDQ SDUNV LQ VHOHFWHG JOREDO FLWLHV 2012.

Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona (2013); Amt fĂźr Statistik BerlinBrandenburg (2013); Magistrat der Stadt Wien (2013); Seoul Metropolitan Government (2013); Tan et al. (2013).

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democratically elected local government started construction of numerous local parks with participation of civic associations.

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Figure 1: Location of Cheonggyecheon in Seoul and Diagonal Mar in Barcelona. Source: Authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawing.

3.2 Cheonggyecheon Restoration

Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona (2013); parks.seoul.go.kr (10 October 2014).

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&KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ LV DQ HOHYHQ NLORPHWUH VWUHDP UXQQLQJ through downtown Seoul. It played an important environmental DQG V\PEROLF UROH ZKHQ WKH FLW\ ZDV HVWDEOLVKHG LQ Although Cheonggyecheon was often transformed throughout WKH KLVWRU\ LWV PHDQLQJ GLG QRW VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ FKDQJH XQWLO WKH rapid industrialization of Seoul. During that period, the stream became an obstacle to the economic growth and urban development of the city. At the same time, the environmental and living conditions deteriorated enormously as the stream became a home to numerous migrants to Seoul. As a result, most of the stream was covered with road and the elevated Cheonggye Expressway in order to assist the growth of industrial DQG UHVLGHQWLDO DUHDV LQ (DVWHUQ 6HRXO :KHQ WKH XUEDQ development in Seoul shifted to the south of the city after the eighties, many places along Cheonggyecheon fell into economic and social decline. Yet at the same time the area remained a place of bustling wholesale markets, small workshops, stores, and restaurants, stretching beneath and along the expressway to the nearby alleys. Due to good accessibility the area along the stream daily attracted thousands of workers, merchants, street vendors and customers, who created numerous distinct places DQG FXOWXUHV RYHU WKH GHFDGHV .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN

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wanted to improve environmental and living conditions in the downtown Seoul, resolve disparities in development between the northern and southern part of the city, recover natural and FXOWXUDO KHULWDJH FUHDWH QHZ SXEOLF VSDFHV DGGUHVV WUDÉ?F VDIHW\ and boost tourism in the area. The restoration was successfully completed in 2005, only two years and three months after it started. Many of the goals of the Cheonggyecheon Restoration have already been achieved. Environmental and living conditions LQ WKH DUHD KDYH LPSURYHG FRQVLGHUDEO\ ZKLOH WKH UHVLGHQWV HQMR\ new public spaces and attend a variety of cultural venues and bustling commercial activities. The restoration also created new investment opportunities in the northern Seoul and played an important role in strengthening the economic competitiveness and global appeal of the city. The former Seoul Mayor Lee left QR GRXEW DERXW WKH VWUDWHJLF UROH RI WKH SURMHFW Once the stream is restored, we want this area to stand out as a centre of foreign investment. The ultimate goal is to make Seoul a great city, one that can compete as an attractive centre of business with Shanghai, Tokyo and %HLMLQJ /HH TXRWHG LQ .DQH

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$OWKRXJK WKH SURMHFW UHFRYHUHG D SDUW RI WKH QDWXUDO and cultural heritage it was also used to rewrite the meaning of the city following the interests of the local government. In order to legitimise particular economic and political interests and to retain the unconditional public support, the Seoul Metropolitan *RYHUQPHQW SUHVHQWHG WKH UHVWRUDWLRQ DV WKH VR FDOOHG Č&#x2020;KRSH IRU WKH 6HRXO FLWL]HQVČ&#x2021; DQG Č&#x2020;DV D V\PEROLF SURMHFW to revive an important part of Koreaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical and natural heritage at the start of the 21st century.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3.3 Diagonal Mar Park Diagonal Mar Park is a part of a large transformation of Eastern Barcelona. Urban development of the area dates back to the mid 19th century, when it became an industrial centre of Barcelona and Catalonia with rapidly growing industry. At that time, it was not only a distinct industrial appearance that set Eastern Barcelona apart from the rest of the city, but also ZRUNLQJ FODVV OLIH WKDW KDG PRUH LQ FRPPRQ ZLWK LQGXVWULDO FLWLHV elsewhere in Europe than with Barcelona. Poblenou, which was the heart of the area, was unsurprisingly referred to as the &DWDODQ 0DQFKHVWHU $U[LX +LVW´ULF GHO 3REOHQRX $SDUW from the expanding industry, the area was also known for poor quality of the living environment, lacking social amenities and infrastructure. At the same time the everyday life was marked by D VWURQJ ZRUNLQJ FODVV VROLGDULW\ ZKLFK JDYH ULVH WR SURJUHVVLYH labour and political social movements. In 1897 Sant MartĂ­ de

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Provençals became part of Barcelona. During that time Eastern Barcelona started to be perceived as the poor periphery of the city with the vast industry, but also with numerous shantytowns along the coast. Due to the growing number of economic migrants and gradual deindustrialisation of the area, the living environment and working conditions deteriorated further in the coming decades, which left only a handful of smaller industries and plentiful of underused industrial land in Eastern Barcelona .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN

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&KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN 6LPLODUO\ WR :DQJVLPQL one third of respondents in Poblenou have visited Diagonal 0DU 3DUN IUHTXHQWO\ RU YHU\ IUHTXHQWO\ ZKLOH RI WKHP KDYH claimed that they have seldom or never visited Diagonal Mar Park in the past. One wonders why more than one third of UHVSRQGHQWV LQ :DQJVLPQL DQG 3REOHQRX ZKR KDYH RWKHUZLVH frequently spent most of their free time in the neighbourhood for which they have largely agreed to be lacking public space, did not visit or, perhaps, did not want to visit the new urban parks, once these were opened right next to their living place?

Some have claimed that they did not perceive Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park as what they referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;their spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, mostly because the new urban parks were planned and constructed by the local government without considering residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests or needs. In the case of Cheonggyecheon Restoration the local government initially aimed to involve residents, street vendors, merchants and other civic groups into GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ SURFHVV \HW WKH FLYLF VRFLHW\ ZDV HYHQWXDOO\ OHIW with no power over the local governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions. Diagonal Mar Park on the other hand was planned completely without FLYLF SDUWLFLSDWLRQ &KR 2Q WKH RWKHU KDQG LW LV SRVVLEOH WR DVVXPH WKDW VRPH UHVSRQGHQWV SDUWLFXODUO\ LQ :DQJVLPQL would have never visited new urban park regardless of whether it was constructed with or without civic participation. They were simply not accustomed to visit and use urban parks like Cheonggyecheon in their everyday life.

2WKHU UHVSRQGHQWV DOVR PHQWLRQHG GLÉ?FXOWLHV UHODWHG WR DFFHVV or complained about strong surveillance, present in the park, as the reason for not visiting Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park in the past. Cheonggyecheon is separated from the QHLJKERXUKRRG E\ D EXV\ URDG ZKLFK KDV WR EH FURVVHG Č´UVW LQ order to access the stream. Afterwards one has to use one of the IHZ DYDLODEOH VWDLUV RU UDPSV WR Č´QDOO\ UHDFK &KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ which is located several meters lower than the neighbourhood.

Everyday activities are restricted in the park, which is also controlled by the Cheonggyecheon maintenance personnel and &&79V .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN &RQWUDU\ WR &KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ 'LDJRQDO Mar Park could have been easily integrated with the nearby residential areas, yet it is surrounded by a high metal fence, which has only a limited number of gates to access the park.

Here too, possible everyday use is limited by the landscape design itself as well as by surveillance of the park, which also JHWV FORVHG IRU SXEOLF GXULQJ WKH QLJKW 0X[ÂŻ LQ %RUMD 0DMRRU

5. Conclusion: decreasing social role of urban parks 7KH VXUYH\ LWVHOI GRHV QRW SURYLGH D GHČ´QLWH DQVZHU ZK\ VRPH UHVLGHQWV LQ :DQJVLPQL DQG 3REOHQRX GLG QRW YLVLW RU did not want to visit Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park, since many respondents did not explain their reasons for not YLVLWLQJ WKH QHZO\ FRQVWUXFWHG SDUN 7KH VXUYH\ LQ :DQJVLPQL

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was also conducted less than a year after the opening of Cheonggyecheon and some respondents might simply had no opportunity to visit the stream. The survey does, however, reveal that some residents have seldom or never visited &KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ DQG 'LDJRQDO 0DU 3DUN GXH WR WKH GLÉ?FXOWLHV in accessing the park, restrictions imposed over its everyday use, limited possibilities of interaction with the new environment, and strong surveillance, present in both parks. It seems that the transformation and loss of their old living environment, resulting not only from the construction of new urban parks, but also from larger urban redevelopment of their neighbourhood, created a sense of alienation, which might have in result QHJDWLYHO\ DÎ?HFWHG UHVLGHQWVČ&#x2021; SHUFHSWLRQ RI &KHRQJJ\HFKHRQ and Diagonal Mar Park. Moreover, in both cases the park was to a large degree planned and constructed without considering residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests, which might have further increased their sense of alienation. In this way it is clearer why some residents did not visit Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park.

One may, hence, question the social role of Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park as public space, which the residents can temporarily or permanently appropriate, transform and reconstruct as communal space. If they are daily faced with GLÉ?FXOWLHV DQG UHVWULFWLRQV RYHU LWV XVH DQG PHDQLQJV LW VHHPV XQOLNHO\ WKDW WKH VR FDOOHG VRFLDO SUDFWLFH RI FRPPRQLQJ ZLOO WDNH SODFH LQ WKH QHZO\ FRQVWUXFWHG SDUNV :KHQ SURPRWLQJ and marketing them as apparent improvement of everyday life in Seoul and Barcelona, the local government and private developer have also intentionally ignored a part of the history, related to Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park, which had on the other hand an important symbolic meaning for the residents. Symbolic reconstruction of Cheonggyecheon and Diagonal Mar Park, resulting from dominant narratives OHJLWLPLVLQJ WKHLU FRQVWUXFWLRQ DQG SURPRWLQJ WKHP DV SURMHFWV of strategic importance for each city, seems to have further GHFUHDVHG WKH VRFLDO UROH RI ERWK XUEDQ SDUNV LQ :DQJVLPQL DQG Poblenou.

6HRXO DQG %DUFHORQD DUH FLWLHV ZLWK GLÎ?HUHQW KLVWRU\ VRFLDO DQG economic organisation, urban development and institutional FRQWH[WV :KLOH %DUFHORQD KDV D ORQJ KLVWRU\ RI FRQVWUXFWLQJ XUEDQ SDUNV RQ GLÎ?HUHQW VFDOHV RIWHQ ZLWK DQ DFWLYH LQYROYHPHQW of civic society, the history of urban parks in Seoul is comparably short. In Seoul, the local government has until recently focused on provision of metropolitan scale urban parks, with a rather limited civic participation. However, their recent instrumentalisation, aimed to improve economic competitiveness and global appeal in each city, had rather similar consequences on the social role of urban parks in global Seoul and Barcelona. Although the strategic importance of Diagonal Mar Park was less central compared to that of Cheonggyecheon Restoration, both urban SDUNV ZHUH SULPDULO\ FRQVWUXFWHG ZLWK DQ DLP WR PRELOLVH UHDO estate markets, boost tourism and cultural industries, and strengthen political position of local government in Seoul and

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A STUDY ON THE TOWNSCAPE CREATION AND THE UTILIZATION OF THE ALLEY SPACE THROUGH THE SITE ENCLOSURE TRANSITION LEADED BY RESIDENTS IN OGUSUKU DISTRICT, KITANAKAGUSUKU COUNTY, OKINAWA Chihiro TERADA Graduate Student Graduate School of Kansai University XD #\DKRR FR MS Hikaru KINOSHITA Assoc.Prof Kansai University .LQRVLWD#NDQVDL X DF MS WEE Yih Chian Keywords: SITE ENCLOSURE, GREENING ACTIVITY, TOWNSCAPE, OGUSUKU DISTRICT, OKINAWA

Abstract World War II caused enormous damage to Okinawa, and Okinawa KDG EHHQ LQČľXHQFHG E\ 86 *RYHUQDQFH PRUH WKDQ -DSDQČ&#x2021;V PDLQODQG XQWLO LW ZDV UHWXUQHG WR -DSDQ LQ 2JXVXNX ZKLFK EHORQJV WR .LWDQDNDJXVXNX &RXQW\ LQ WKH PLGGOH HDVWHUQ SDUW RI 2NLQDZDČ&#x2021;V mainland. Î&#x2013;Q 2JXVXNX WKH VKDSH RI HYHU\ VLWHV DQG WKH FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ RI WKH alley network have been preserved. But, the width of main roads has been expanded and houses have been rebuilt from wooden to RC. Therefore the site enclosure has changed from the composition of the limestone wall or the embankment with the windbreak to the concrete block wall because originally the windbreak was necessary for wooden houses with tiled roof against the typhoon. Î&#x2013;Q WKHVH \HDUV 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; ZKLFK LV WKH voluntary organization consisted of men aged 55 and over, has FRRSHUDWHG ZLWK WKH UHVLGHQWVČ&#x2021; DVVRFLDWLRQ 7KH\ KDYH PDQDJHG QRW only trees and plants of each private garden as well as public space, but community festivals and events. Therefore, the purposes of this study make clear to how to revitalize the townscape and utilize the alley space for community bonding spontaneously. )LUVWO\ WKH UHVLGHQWVČ&#x2021; DVVRFLDWLRQ DQG 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; have done the greening and cleaning activities everyday since 2000.

They have planted regional trees in front of concrete blocks at the VLWH ERXQGDU\ JXDUGUDLOV RI URDGV DV SXEOLF VSDFH DQG ČľRZHUV DW the less green site of private houses. They have carried out 30 places totally and established the green method according to the material DQG FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ RI WKH VLWH HQFORVXUH 7KH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLWLHV WUHQG to be concentrated in the area where originally the private site was transferred to the public and have an important role to revitalize the townscape based on the trees without the function of windbreak.

Secondly, they have started the alley museum in 2003 for two days in autumn temporarily and used all of alley and public space in

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2JXVXNX LQ SODFH RI RSHQ DLU PXVHXP EHFDXVH LW LV GLÉ?FXOW IRU the small village like Ogusuku to own the museum building. They have three types of exhibitions, private gardens tended by residents, UHVLGHQWČ&#x2021;V ZRUNV DQG VFXOSWXUHV PDGH IURP WHUUD FRWWD E\ 2NLQDZD Prefectural University of Arts as the collaborator for community building. Therefore the alley space in Ogusuku has changed dramatically and encouraged various activities on public space.

1. Introduction 1-1. Background and purpose :RUOG :DU Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; KDG FDXVHG HQRUPRXV GDPDJH WR 2NLQDZD DQG KDG EHHQ LQČľXHQFHG E\ 8 6 JRYHUQPHQW PRUH WKDQ -DSDQČ&#x2021;V mainland until it was returned to Japan in 1972. Ogusuku district, which belongs to Kitanakagusuku County in the PLGGOH HDVWHUQ SDUW RI 2NLQDZDČ&#x2021;V PDLQODQG LV ORFDWHG LQ WKH PRXQWDLQWRS VXUURXQGHG E\ JUHHQ DQG LV DGMDFHQW WR 1DNDJXVXNX &DVWOH 5XLQV RI WKH :RUOG +HULWDJH 7KH 1DNDPXUD House of the national important cultural Asset represents the characteristic of the traditional house and has an important role RI VSDFH FRQVWLWXWLRQ RI 2JXVXNX GLVWULFW )LJXUH Î&#x2013;Q WKHVH \HDUV 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; ZKLFK LV WKH YROXQWDU\ organization consisted of males aged 55 and over, has managed trees and plants of each private garden as well as public space in Ogusuku district.

Therefore, the purposes of this study is to clarify the following three things.

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site and the tomb had increased, but the area had not been H[SDQGHG :KLOH WKH ZDVWHODQG KDG LQFUHDVHG WKHUH ZDV DOPRVW QR LQFUHDVH RU GHFUHDVH LQ WKH RWKHU ODQG XVH As a result of the analysis above, it is obvious that in overall, WKHUH ZDV QR ELJ FKDQJH RI ODQG XVH LQ 2JXVXNX GLVWULFW

Figure 1: Location of Ogusuku district and Object area of this study.

1-2. DeÈ´nition of the townscape in this study Î&#x2013;Q WKLV VWXG\ Î&#x2013; GHÈ´QH WKDW WKH WRZQVFDSH LV FRPSRVHG E\ IRXU HOHPHQWV ZKLFK DUH WKH VKDSH RI WKH VLWHV WKH FRQÈ´JXUDWLRQ RI the alley network, the house, and the site enclosure. Figure 2 is the cross section of the road faced by Nakamura House which had remained since prewar. This study analyzes the transition RI HDFK HOHPHQW DQG KRZ WKH WRZQVFDSH FUHDWLRQ RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; FRQWULEXWHV WR EH E\ IURP WKH YLHZ SRLQW of the site enclosure.

Table 1: Land-use statistics of each period.

2-2. Transition of the site boundary 1) Transition of the site boundary administration and residents Since Ryukyu government period, in order to adapt to the automobile society, and to improve the living environment in Ogusuku district, the widening and paving of the road was necessary.

7KH SUHIHFWXUDO URDG ZKLFK SDVVHV WKURXJK WKH 2JXVXNX district, was approved as the prefectural road in 1951, and has carried out road widening from 1963. The road widening was carried out intensively in 1967 and 1971, during the Ryukyu government period.

Besides, Administration had not only widen the road along the prefecture road, but also the alley in Ogusuku district. Figure 3 shows the place of road widening in Ogusuku district.

Figure 2: Place which has been composed of the limestone wall and the windbreak from prewar.

2. Transition of the shape of the site and the conÈ´guration of the alley network 2-1. Transition of the land-use The subdivision and sales in lots had caused the total sites in LQFUHDVHG E\ VLWHV FRPSDUHG WR 7DEOH 7KH most common site is the residence. The residential sites in 1972 GHFUHDVH E\ VLWHV FRPSDUHG WR ZKLFK ZDV VLWHV DQG the wasteland had increased by 25 sites. The reason was that the residents died in the war and the houses became empty.

After that, the residential sites increased by 52 sites and the total VLWHV LQFUHDVHG E\ VLWHV WR GDWH 7KH GHFUHDVH RI WKH È´HOGV LV caused by the decrease of the farmers. The tomb increased by 16 sites compared to 1972, but there was no expansion of area due to the increase by subdivision. Therefore, we can say that in Ogusuku district, by subdivision and sale in lots, the residential

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Figure 3: Place in which road widening were carried out in Ogusuku district.

2) Transition of the site boundary among residents At the alley in Ogusuku district, which the car cannot pass, the VLWH HQFORVXUH ZDV UHEXLOW IURP WKH È´UVW KDOI RI WKH È&#x2021;V VR WKDW WKH HPHUJHQF\ YHKLFOHV FDQ FRPH LQ 7KH DGMXVWPHQW DERXW the setback of the site boundary was carried out among the residents only and without administration. The residents got the

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materials for the site enclosure from the village or procured the materials by themselves. These agreements by the residents do not exist in data and drawings. Therefore it was impossible WR FRQÈ´UP WKH ZKROH SLFWXUH DERXW WKH VHWEDFN RI WKH VLWH boundary, but it was obvious that the road widening was carried out at the alley which is illustrated in Figure 3.

6LWH VKDSH DQG FRQÈ´JXUDWLRQ RI WKH DOOH\ QHWZRUN In Ogusuku district, there were the sites carried out subdivision IURP SRVW ZDU WR GDWH ZKLFK ZHUH FDUULHG RXW VDOHV LQ ORWV LQWR residential land, forest, wasteland, tomb, or were condemned for road widening. Since there was no change of the road SRVLWLRQ DORQJ WKH WRSRJUDSK\ WKH FDUGLQDO FRQÈ´JXUDWLRQ RI WKH alley network has been maintained except for some road width.

Therefore, there was no substantial change of the site shapes.

Based on these, when examining the sites one by one, small changes of the site shapes due to road widening and changes of the site number due to the subdivision within the lot can be seen. However when examining sites in the entire district, it is obvious that the site shapes and the road framework had UHPDLQHG VLQFH SRVW ZDU WR GDWH

GXH WR WKH ELJ W\SKRRQ LQ WKH VWDQGDUGL]HG KRXVH ZDV almost destroyed completely. From 1950, due to the beginning RI WUDGLQJ ZLWK PDLQODQG MDSDQ IXOO ȵHGJHG ZRRGHQ DUFKLWHFWXUH started to popularize, whilst the concrete skill from US army DQG WKH ȴQDQFLQJ IDFLOLW\ RI FRQVWUXFWLRQ IXQGV VLQFH ZKLFK WRRN SUHIHUHQWLDO WUHDWPHQW IRU QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH KDG FDXVHG WKH LQFUHDVH LQ QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH

Figure 5: Standardized house.

Table 2: Transition of the house to Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reversion to Japan in the whole island of Okinawa.

2. Ryukyu government period (1952~1972)

3. Transition of the house and the site enclosure 3-1. Transition of the house

The school building was changed to RC since 1955, and became WKH LQLWLDWLYH RI WKH VSUHDG RI WKH QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH 6LQFH the concrete block house of US army was not destroyed by the three big typhoons in 1959, there was a growing tendency for WKH QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH LQ 2NLQDZD $FFRUGLQJ WR WKH QXPEHU RI WKH HDFK VWUXFWXUH W\SH LQ EXLOGLQJ FHUWLÈ´FDWLRQ DSSOLFDWLRQ WKH QXPEHU RI ZRRGHQ DQG QRQ ZRRGHQ VWUXFWXUH ZDV DOPRVW WKH VDPH LQ DQG WKH QRQ ZRRGHQ VWUXFWXUH H[FHHGHG LQ 1970.

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Figure 4: Place in which subdivision and road widening were carried out.

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2. Ryukyu government period (1952~1972) :KLOH DOO WKH KRXVHV ZHUH ZRRGHQ KRXVH LQ WKH 5& houses occupied 39 houses out of all 71 houses in 1970, which exceeded the number of wooden houses which was 32. Thus it FDQ EH VDLG WKDW WKH QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH VWDUWHG WR SRSXODUL]H during Ryukyu government period, and the RC houses became the main current replacing the wooden house before Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UHYHUVLRQ WR -DSDQ 7DEOH

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As a result, Ogusuku district, which was composed of a lot of alley had much greenery existed and shaded within it.

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3. After Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reversion to Japan (1972~) 7KH QRQ ZRRGHQ KRXVH NHSW LQFUHDVLQJ IURP 5\XN\X government period to date, and houses in Ogusuku district LV DOPRVW QRQ ZRRGHQ QRZDGD\V Î&#x2013;Q RXW RI KRXVHV within Ogusuku district, there were only 6 houses which were PDGH RI ZRRGHQ )LJXUH )XUWKHUPRUH WKHUH ZHUH VODE roof RC houses and there are hardly wooden house with red WLOHG URRI VXFK DV 1DNDPXUD +RXVH ZKLFK KDG UHPDLQHG IURP prewar in Ogusuku district. Therefore, in Ogusuku district, it is obvious that the house was greatly changed in materials, structures, and forms.

Figure 7: Distribution map of the site enclosure in Ogusuku district during post-war chaos period.

Figure 6: Distribution map of the house construction in Ogusuku district in 2012.

3-2. Transition of the site enclosure 1. Post-war chaos period (1945~1952) In Ogusuku district, the windbreak was distributed generally GXULQJ SRVW ZDU FKDRV SHULRG DQG ZDV SODQWHG DV LI WKH\ ZHUH HQFORVLQJ WKH KRXVH )LJXUH 7KH ZLQGEUHDN ZDV FRPSRVHG

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Picture 1 (top): Composition of windbreak and limestone wall Picture 2 (bottom): Composition of windbreak and embankment

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During Ryukyu government period, the windbreak had decreased FRPSDUHG WR SRVW ZDU FKDRV SHULRG )LJXUH 7KH GLVSRVLWLRQ of the windbreak enclosing the house had decreased, especially DORQJ WKH SUHIHFWXUDO URXWH ZKLFK FURVVHV WKH HDVW DQG west in Ogusuku district. That was caused by the road widening RI WKH SUHIHFWXUDO URXWH $V D UHVXOW WKH VLWH HQFORVXUHÈ&#x2021;V material changed to concrete retaining wall, the concrete block wall, and had caused the townscape to change drastically.

Figure 9: Distribution map of the site enclosure in Ogusuku district after Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reservation to Japan.

Figure 8: Distribution map of the site enclosure in Ogusuku district during Ryukyu government period.

3. After Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reversion to Japan (1972~) 7KH VLWH HQFORVXUH FDQ EH FODVVLÈ´HG LQWR WKH FRQFUHWH EORFN wall, the concrete retaining wall, the limestone wall, and the hedge. The ratio of the 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site enclosure states that the concrete block wall and the concrete retaining wall occupied 72%, in which most of the site enclosure in Ogusuku district is composed of inorganic material. On the other hand, the OLPHVWRQH ZDOO RFFXSLHG ZKLOH WKH KHGJH RFFXSLHG 7KXV WKH VLWH HQFORVXUH RI RUJDQLF PDWHULDO LV DERXW RI WKH whole. In 2012, the concrete block wall increased even more than the 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, causing the windbreak to decrease, especially in SODFHV ZKHUH WKH KRXVHV DUH FOXVWHUHG FORVH WRJHWKHU )LJXUH

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Picture3 (top): Road in Ogusuku district in Post-war chaos period.

Picture4 (bottom): Road in Ogusuku district in present

3-3. Relation of transition of the site enclosure and road widening :KHQ H[DPLQLQJ ZKHWKHU WKH OLPHVWRQH ZDOO ZDV UHEXLOW WR WKH concrete block wall, in lots where subdivision were carried out because of the road widening, we found out that the windbreak decreased greatly, and many were rebuilt as the concrete block wall there. However, there were also a slight parts where the

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limestone wall without the windbreak had remained, and parts ZKHUH WKH OLPHVWRQH ZDOO ZDV UHEXLOW )LJXUH +RZHYHU LW is obvious that road widening promoted the increase of the concrete block wall and the decrease of the windbreak.

5000 orchids now, and their target to plant 20000 Orchids in total had gave them the purpose to keep on the greening activity. As an example of an energetic resident in greening activity, while exceeding 80years old, one of the member of the FOXE SODQWV WKH ČľRZHU DOPRVW HYHU\ GD\ UHJDUGOHVV RI VHDVRQV +H FDUULHV RQ WKH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ QRW RQO\ E\ SODQWLQJ ČľRZHUV VKDUHG E\ 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; EXW DOVR WKH ČľRZHUV which he bring from his seedbed, thinking the whole district to be his yard. Besides, there is also certain member who cleans up the garbage before sunrise and thus it is obvious that +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; LV NHHSLQJ RQ WKH JUHHQLQJ DQG FOHDQLQJ activity sustainably and independently.

2. Establishment of art works

Figure 10: Condition of the site enclosure in place road widening was carried out in Ryukyu government period.

4.Greening activity by Ogusuku-HANASAKAJIJII-NO-KAI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; Since there are many cultural assets remained in Ogusuku district, Kitanakagusuku county carried out town planning remaining historical culture to unite Ogusuku district with the 1DNDJXVXNX &DVWOH 5XLQ 3DUN ZKLFK ORFDWHV DGMDFHQWO\ WR HDFK RWKHU IURP $V D UHVXOW WKDW DGPLQLVWUDWLRQ KDG FDUULHG RXW VXUYH\V DQG ZRUNVKRSV LQ WKLV SURMHFW WKH DZDUHQHVV for the townscape had raised among residents. In 1999, 1DNDJXVXNX &DVWOH 5XLQV ZDV QRPLQDWHG DV WKH :RUOG +HULWDJH DQG 2JXVXNX GLVWULFW ZDV SRVLWLRQHG DV WKH EXÎ?HU ]RQH IRU protecting the landscape of ruins. Owing to it, the common view in residents occurred in hoping the tourist to take a walk DQG HQMR\ QRW RQO\ FXOWXUDO DVVHWV OLNH WKH 1DNDJXVXNX &DVWOH Ruins and the Nakamura House but also the townscape in this GLVWULFW Č&#x2020;+$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013;Č&#x2021; ZDV HVWDEOLVKHG IRU WKH SXUSRVH of beautifying the townscape of Ogusuku district in the same year. They are consisted of males aged 55 and over, and have carried out the greening activity from the establishment to date. It became a voluntary organization which was approved

by Ogusuku residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; association, and carrying out greening DFWLYLW\ MXVWO\ DFURVV WKH GLVWULFW KDG EHFDPH SRVVLEOH 3HRSOH who live outside of Ogusuku district and deeply impressed by WKH ZRUN RI +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; LV QDPHG Č&#x2020;2JXVXNX FKHHU groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. And they back up various community activities indirectly.

In Ogusuku district, there are many sculptures and terra cotta being established. The sculpture was donated by the artist, who is one of the member of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ogusuku cheer groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The establishment RI WKH VFXOSWXUH ZDV FRQGXFWHG E\ 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; DQG WKH\ DOVR ZRUN RQ SODQWLQJ ČľRZHUV DURXQG WKH DUW ZRUNV SLFWXUH 7KH VFXOSWXUH LV DOVR HVWDEOLVKHG LQ SULYDWH JDUGHQV LQ UHFHQW \HDUV 2NLQDZD 3UHIHFWXUDO 8QLYHUVLW\ RI $UWV DÉ?UPHG WKH UHTXHVW RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; DQG KDV EHHQ GRQDWLQJ WKH WHUUD FRWWD PDGH E\ WKH VWXGHQW HYHU\ \HDU SLFWXUH

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The alley museum is held in mid November. It is an event in which the whole Ogusuku district is made to an art museum.

The characteristic is that not only the public space but also the private space is made into the exhibition space. The alley is also used as the exhibition space, in which terra cotta is established and the ceramic market is held. Private garden is opened freely as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Open gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. In the community center, the exhibition made E\ WKH UHVLGHQWV LV DOVR KHOG )LJXUH Î&#x2013;Q WKHVH FRPPXQLW\ activities, gathering is held with visitors from outside Ogusuku district, with intention to increase the participation of Ogusuku cheer group.

Figure 11: Site composition of the alley museum in 2011.

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Table 4: Record of recognitions and use of their received funds.

4-4. Place of the greening activity 7KH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; KDV EHHQ FDUULHG RXW DW SODFHV IURP WKH Č´UVW \HDU WR GDWH )LJXUH

7KH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ ZDV DOUHDG\ FDUULHG RXW LQ ZLGH UDQJH VLQFH WKH Č´UVW \HDUVČ&#x2021; DFWLYLWLHV ZKLFK ZDV SODFHV WRWDO RI DERXW 800m2 )LJXUH 7KHUH DUH SODFHV LQ ZKLFK WKH JUHHQLQJ activity have been interrupted, and the remaining 11 places keep on the activity and has been expanded to 30places now )LJXUH

The greening activities are divided into horizontal greening type RQ WKH JURXQG SODFHV DQG HOHYDWHG JUHHQLQJ W\SH IRU WKH ZDOO SODFHV 7KH DFWLYLWLHV RI HOHYDWHG JUHHQLQJ W\SH LV FDUULHG RXW RQ FRQFUHWH EORFN ZDOO SODFHV FRQFUHWH UHWDLQLQJ ZDOO SODFHV JXDUGUDLO SODFHV DQG WKHUH DUH QR DFWLYLWLHV FDUULHG out along the limestone wall in elevated greening type.

Î&#x2013;Q WKHVH \HDUV WKH DFWLYLW\ RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; has received high evaluation from the inside and outside of Okinawa. They received many recognitions and funds from the DÉ?OLDWH ZKLFK ZDV LPSUHVVHG E\ DFWLYLWLHV FDUULHG RXW RI WKHP The only rules of their club is two times regular activity per month.

However, the greening activities keep on sustainably in spite of being no other rules and independency is greatly valuable. Their funds are used not only for sustainable greening activity but also holding the symposium for information transmission and management of new community activities of Ogusuku district 7DEOH

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DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH VHDVRQ DQG PDNLQJ WKH ČľRZHU EHG ERUGHUHG with the red tiles. They carried out the greening activities using Okinawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original material and according to the climate of Ogusuku district, and they have also changed the way of JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH ZDOO PDWHULDO )LJXUH

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Figure 15: Method of greening activity of Ogusuku-HANASAKAJIJIINO-KAI.

2. The elevated greening type The elevated greening type is mainly focusing on wasteland and WKH OHVV JUHHQ SODFHV 7KH\ FDUU\ RXW WKH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ XVLQJ GLÎ?HUHQW ZD\V DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH SODFH )RU H[DPSOH LQ WKH SDWK which is narrow, they plant low tree while in places with large DUHD WKH\ SODQW WKH ČľRZHU RQ WKH JURXQG PDNLQJ ČľRZHU EHG )LJXUH 3ODFH LQ ZKLFK JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ ZDV FDUULHG RXW LQ Č´UVW year.

5. Spatial characteristic of greening activity and inČľuence on townscape &ODVVLČ´FDWLRQ RI JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ DFFRUGLQJ WR ODQG RZQHUVKLS In the current 30 greening places, 10 is carried out in private VLWHV ZKLOH WKH RWKHU LV FDUULHG RXW LQ WKH SXEOLF URDG )LJXUH

Figure 14: Place in which greening activity was carried out in 2013.

4-5. Way of the greening activity 1. The horizontal greening type 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; XVHV PRVW RUFKLGV LQ WKHLU activities. The orchids are moveable by planting on old wood, and have become possible to evacuate them inside when the W\SKRRQ LV ODQGLQJ Î&#x2013;Q DGGLWLRQ WKH\ DOVR FKDQJH WKH ČľRZHU

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5-2. Greening activity in the site &ODVVLÈ´FDWLRQ RI JUHHQLQJ SODFHV LQ WKH VLWH E\ WKH RZQHU DUH WKH SULYDWH VLWH W\SH SODFHV DQG WKH SXEOLF VLWH W\SH SODFHV

DQG WKH VLWH WHQDQF\ W\SH SODFHV 7KH SULYDWH VLWH W\SH LV RZQHG E\ 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; WKH SXEOLF VLWH W\SH is the park, the fountain, or the reservoir, while the site tenancy type is that the member rents a part of the private site and carries out the greening activity.

Figure 18: Areas where the public and the private become ambiguous at the public road.

Figure 17: Distribution drawing of each types in the site.

5-3. Greening activity in the public road As mentioned above, in Ogusuku district, road extension was carried out among administration and residents, or among the residents only. And by the road widening, there are places where the site boundary shifted in Ogusuku district. Places where it was originally a private site but have become a public site have caused the areas where the public and the private EHFRPH DPELJXRXV )LJXUH

:KHQ H[DPLQLQJ WKH SODFH ZKHUH WKH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ DW WKH public road were carried out from the view point of the transition of the site boundary, the number of the type of the boundary changing is 19 places. The type of the boundary changing is the place where the greening activity is carried out in the area where WKH VLWH ERXQGDU\ FKDQJHG Î&#x2013;W FDQ EH FODVVLÈ´HG LQWR WKH W\SH RI the boundary changing among administration and residents or DPRQJ UHVLGHQWV %HVLGHV WKHUH LV D W\SH RI WKH QRQ FKDQJLQJ boundary. The site boundary remains unchanged and has been a public place since then. The number of this type is 1 place )LJXUH

As shown in Figure 20, it is obvious that the type of the boundary changing has been carried out the greening activity in the areas where the public and the private are ambiguous, while the type RI WKH QRQ FKDQJLQJ ERXQGDU\ KDV EHHQ FDUULHG RXW DORQJ WKH concrete block wall.

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Figure 19: Distribution drawing of greening activity at the public road.

Figure 20: cross section drawing of the 3 types at the public road.

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SODFHV RI WKH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ LQ WKH SXEOLF URDG RQ WKH Č´UVW year, have been carried out along the private site, in which it LV RZQHG E\ HLWKHU WKH PHPEHU RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 KAIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, or the relative of the member, or the resident who is close with the member. Based on these factors, in the beginning of WKH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLW\ 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; KDG carried out the greening activity in places where approval had been obtained and have been increasing their activity zone by carrying out the greening activity in the areas where the public and the private are ambiguous.

Figure 21: Transition of the place in which greening activity carried out

6. Conclusion 6-1. Changing of the townscape in Ogusuku district and its factor Î&#x2013;Q 2JXVXNX GLVWULFW WKH VKDSH RI HYHU\ VLWHV DQG WKH FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ of the alley network have been preserved but the width of the main roads have been expanded and houses have been rebuilt from wooden to RC. Therefore the site enclosure has changed from the composition of the limestone wall or the embankment with the windbreak to the concrete block wall.

The factors of the changing of the townscape in Ogusuku district are the following two.

Firstly is that the rebuilding of the site enclosure has been promoted by the changing of wooden to RC houses. The windbreak was necessary in order to protect the house from the typhoon, but since the house changed from wooden to the RC, and did not collapse during the typhoon, there is no necessity for the windbreak. Therefore, it had become easier for the site enclosure to change.

Secondly, the road widening has caused the greenery to decrease drastically. As a result of transition of wooden to RC houses, windbreak had became unnecessary causing the road widening to be carried out easier. &RPPXQLW\ DFWLYLW\ RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; 7KH UHVLGHQWVČ&#x2021; DVVRFLDWLRQ DQG 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; have done the greening and cleaning activities everyday since 1999. They have planted regional trees in front of concrete EORFNV DW WKH VLWH ERXQGDU\ JXDUGUDLOV RI URDGV DV SXEOLF VSDFH DQG ČľRZHUV DW WKH OHVV JUHHQ VLWH RI SULYDWH KRXVHV 7KH\ have been doing the activities in a total of 30 places and had established the greening method according to the material

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DQG FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ RI WKH VLWH HQFORVXUH 7KH JUHHQLQJ DFWLYLWLHV tend to be concentrated in the area where private site was transferred to the public and have an important role to revitalize the townscape based on the trees without the function of windbreak.

2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; KDV EHHQ GHYHORSLQJ WKH greening activity sustainably for 15 years. The factors of that are as following. )LUVWO\ LV WKDW 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; KDV QR UXOHV and does not bind the members instead they value the independency of each of them. Secondly is that the members FDQ FDUU\ RXW WKH DFWLYLW\ UHDVRQDEO\ GXH WR XVLQJ WKH ORZ EXGJHW DQG UHJLRQDO WUHHV DQG ČľRZHUV 7KLUGO\ LV WKDW WKHLU DFWLYLW\ KDV been evaluated externally, and they have turned over the support fund for the greening activity and event management of Ogusuku district. Fourthly is that they have established the greening method in which every residents can use in the public VSDFH VXFK DV WKH DOOH\ E\ XVLQJ WKH QHZ HOHPHQW RI SRVW ZDU which is the concrete block wall, the concrete retaining wall, and the guardrail.

7KH\ KDYH VWDUWHG WKH RSHQ DLU DOOH\ PXVHXP LQ IRU two days in autumn temporarily using all the alley and public VSDFH LQ 2JXVXNX EHFDXVH LW LV GLÉ?FXOW IRU WKH VPDOO YLOODJH OLNH Ogusuku to own the museum building. They have three types of exhibitions, private gardens tended by residents, residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art works and sculptures made from terra cotta by Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts as the collaborator of community building. Therefore the alley space in Ogusuku has changed dramatically and have encouraged various activities in public space.

6-3. Characteristic and background of greening activity of Ogusuku+$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; Most of the greening activities tend to be concentrated in the area where the private site was transferred to the public as historically it is easier to reach a consensus thus causing the PHPEHUV RI 2JXVXNX +$1$6$.$-Î&#x2013;-Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 12 .$Î&#x2013; WR FDUU\ RXW WKH greening activities in these places unconsciously.

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composition of the space and accepting the new element of the WRZQVFDSH VLQFH SRVW ZDU WKH\ KDYH FDUULHG RXW WKH DFWLYLW\ LQ order to create the future townscape of Okinawa.

The changing townscape in Ogusuku district was caused by the external factor which is the war and US Government, however the greening activity leaded by residents, by volunteering and participating in the activities should be evaluated.

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RETHINKING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF SINGAPOREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES CHO Im Sik akicis@nus.edu.sg Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore $UFKLWHFWXUH 'ULYH 6LQJDSRUH 7HO

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Abstract This paper investigates the concepts, theories, and praxes of community participation in the neighbourhood planning of public housing estates in Singapore, which are gradually shifting from top-down planning approaches to incorporate greater participation and stakeholdership. This paper analyses the various forms of community participation in neighbourhood planning as a consequence of the prevailing socio-political conditions in 6LQJDSRUH E\ FRQVLGHULQJ VLJQLČ´FDQW PLOHVWRQHV DQG SURMHFWV regarding public housing estates. In order to move towards a more inclusive and improved participation process, a deeper understanding of the forms and levels of engagement are needed.

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neighbourhood planning in Singapore, which is moving towards increased community participation.

1. Introduction This paper investigates the concepts, theories, and praxes of community participation in neighbourhood planning, VSHFLČ´FDOO\ LQ WKH FRQWH[W RI 6LQJDSRUHČ&#x2021;V SXEOLF KRXVLQJ HVWDWHV Recent case studies in Singapore are discussed to illustrate WKH SURFHVV RI FRPPXQLW\ DQG VWDNHKROGHU H J JRYHUQPHQW SURIHVVLRQDOV DQG FLWL]HQV LQYROYHPHQW LQ WKH SODQQLQJ DQG design stages of neighbourhoods and the various attempts to develop a participatory mechanism to encourage deeper social interaction and community bonding. Hitherto, the planning model used by the Singapore government has utilised D WRS GRZQ DSSURDFK ZKHUH GHFLVLRQV DUH PDGH ZLWK WKH populationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best interests in mind. This model has worked well RYHU WKH ODVW KDOI FHQWXU\ HÎ?HFWLYHO\ WUDQVIRUPLQJ 6LQJDSRUH IURP D VTXDWWHU WRZQ LQWR D PRGHUQ PHWURSROLV +HH DQG .KRR +RZHYHU ZLWK LQFUHDVLQJ DGYRFDF\ IRU JUHDWHU participation and stakeholdership in the planning process, the challenge ahead for planners and architects is to design and plan neighbourhoods that foster social cohesion and engage communities and stakeholders throughout the process in order to accommodate the aspirations of contemporary Singapore society.

Public housing plays an important role in the development of communities in Singapore. In particular, the extensiveness of public housing throughout the nation enables members of Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse society to share common experiences DQG IRUJH D FRPPRQ LGHQWLW\ &/& +'% 6LQJDSRUH LV essentially an immigrant nation and hence, the composition of LWV SRSXODWLRQ LV PXOWL UDFLDO DQG PXOWL UHOLJLRXV $ YHU\ LPSRUWDQW REMHFWLYH RI QDWLRQ EXLOGLQJ ZKHQ 6LQJDSRUH Č´UVW DWWDLQHG its independence was to achieve social cohesion in order for SHRSOH RI GLÎ?HUHQW UDFHV WR OLYH WRJHWKHU LQ SHDFH DQG KDUPRQ\ LELG DQG WKHUHIRUH FXOWLYDWLRQ RI DQ Č&#x2020;LGHQWLW\Č&#x2021; DQG D Č&#x2020;VHQVH RI belongingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have been some of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important DJHQGDV HYHU VLQFH 1RK DQG 7XPLQ

In addition to these agendas, since 1999 there has been an increasing demand among citizens for greater democracy and citizen participation in policy planning (see: Singapore 21 Report

in order to cater to the special concerns of residents who are not commonly considered in the planning process. As a result, the current political atmosphere in Singapore exhibits greater support of community participation, especially in QHLJKERXUKRRG GHVLJQ DQG SODQQLQJ ZKLFK LV UHČľHFWHG LQ WKH JUHDWHU QXPEHU RI UHFHQW SURMHFWV LQYROYLQJ SDUWLFLSDWLRQ DQG

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stakeholdership in public housing design and planning as well as in the policy planning process. The aim of this paper is to RÎ?HU LQVLJKWV LQWR WKH IXWXUH RI 6LQJDSRUHČ&#x2021;V QHLJKERXUKRRG SODQQLQJ ZKLFK LV PRYLQJ WRZDUGV LQFUHDVHG FRPPXQLW\ driven development that includes participatory planning and community engagement in the design and planning of public housing estates.

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responds to the failures of the synoptic planning model and the unequal distributions of power, political structure, and money in VRFLHW\ +DUYH\ 0D]]LRWWL 'DYLHV E\ IRFXVLQJ RQ PXWXDO OHDUQLQJ )ULHGPDQQ DQG HPSRZHULQJ SHRSOH WR GLUHFW DQG FRQWURO WKH VRFLDO SURFHVV L H WUDQVDFWLYH SODQQLQJ

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will be used in the next steps of the process. Moreover, the PRGHO VHHPV WR ODFN FR FUHDWLRQ VWUDWHJLHV DQG LV ODUJHO\ XVHG for land use planning purposes.

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3. Community participation and neighbourhood planning in Singapore In 1999, the Singapore government released the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Singapore 21â&#x20AC;&#x2122; document that aimed to forge a new relationship between the government and Singapore citizens as well as identify the identity and core values of society. Among the key values LGHQWLČ´HG ZHUH Č&#x2020;7KH 6LQJDSRUH +HDUWEHDWČ&#x2021; DQG Č&#x2020;$FWLYH &LWL]HQVKLSČ&#x2021; which refer to the emotional bonds and attachment of citizens to Singapore and active involvement and leadership in civic DQG FRPPXQLW\ DÎ?DLUV UHVSHFWLYHO\ 7KH GRFXPHQW RXWOLQHG the need for Singaporeans to become â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;participants, not mere REVHUYHUV DQG WR OHDUQ QRW RQO\ WR H[SUHVV WKHLU YLHZV RU suggest alternative solutions, but also to put suggestions into DFWLRQČ&#x2021; see: Singapore 21, Note 14 7KH 5HPDNLQJ RI 6LQJDSRUH Committee emphasised in its report the need for Singapore â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to change, to adapt, and to renewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; while predicting that the new Singapore â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;will be anchored on common spaces and shared values ... a society that will be able to embrace a variety of views and preferences â&#x20AC;Ś Singaporeans who are proactive in deciding what they want to achieve, how they want to live their lives, and KRZ WKH\ ZDQW WR FRQWULEXWH WR WKH FRPPXQLW\Č&#x2021; see: Singapore 21, Note 15 7KH GRFXPHQW DOVR UHLWHUDWHG WKH SRLQW WKDW DFWLYH involvement enhances ownership, passion, and commitment 1RK DQG 7XPLQ

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Table 1: Timeline of Citizen Participation in Neighbourhood Planning and Design in Public Housing Developments in Singapore.

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The cases are presented with background information and analyses in a table form below for ease of comparison and distillation of learning points and principles. A cross comparison is done with both case studies so that important principles and emerging trends in current community participatory QHLJKERXUKRRG GHVLJQ DQG SODQQLQJ SURMHFWV FDQ EH TXLFNO\

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Table 2: Summary of Design and Planning Stages of Local Case Studies.

Source: adapted from interviews with HDB and various secondary sources (e.g. Lee 2013; Tampinestownhub 2012).

In Stage 1 of neighbourhood design and planning, understanding and responding to community needs as well as capitalising on existing neighbourhood resources and opportunities are the key engagement stages. Building relationships with neighbours is crucial in encouraging more citizens to participate in community GHYHORSPHQW ZKLFK LV D FKDOOHQJH DV DFFRUGLQJ WR NH\ Č´QGLQJV from interviews, many do not even know their neighbours.

Stages 2 and 3 are the stages where the community is most actively engaged in discussions and where most of the neighbourhood design and planning is done through design workshops, which are used to decide upon what kind of space residents will collectively want or need in their communities. The methods used for communication and conducting workshops are crucial to the success of this stage.

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Stage 5 is the maintenance and sustainability stage where community assets and resources are grown. However, the community is not actively engaged at this stage in Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, and engaging residents and ensuring sustainability is a challenge.

The aforementioned case studies demonstrate that growing community assets and resources and making sure they DUH GLVFRYHUHG DQG VKDUHG DUH FUXFLDO LQ HQVXULQJ SURMHFW sustainability. A set of tools and guides in neighbourhood design and planning for easy community maintenance can be made available to tackle this challenge. The development of trust, production of local design statements as well as new laws and regulations can also be established. These methods not only allow for better community management, but also XSGDWH SDVW UHJXODWLRQV WR UHČľHFW FKDQJLQJ VRFLHWDO QHHGV DQG

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wants, and eventually can even form new sets of laws for other communities to refer to. The case studies also demonstrate WKDW LQVSLULQJ UHVLGHQWV WR SDUWLFLSDWH LQ FR FUHDWLRQ HÎ?RUWV and engaging them in the planning process is challenging, DV FRPPXQLW\ SDUWLFLSDWLRQ LV UHODWLYHO\ QHZ LQ WKLV FLW\ VWDWH and most of Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public housing residents have not experienced nor been exposed to participatory planning.

5. Conclusions Although community participation is generally desirable in SODQQLQJ DQG GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ SURFHVVHV PDQ\ FKDOOHQJHV H[LVW for both the government and citizens. Some challenges faced by the government were caused by the common practice employed by the government itself of facilitating proper planning for residents, which may cause them to feel apathetic in taking on ODUJHU UROHV EH\RQG WKHLU GDLO\ PDWWHUV +ROOQVWHLQHU 7KXV UHGHČ´QLQJ WKH UROHV RI FLWL]HQV LQ SXEOLF OLIH LV RIWHQ UHTXLUHG WR UHGLUHFW SDUWLFLSDQWVČ&#x2021; HÎ?RUWV WR WKH OHYHO RI SDUWLFLSDWLRQ QHHGHG 0RUHRYHU WKH GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ SURFHVV UHTXLUHV KHDY\ WLPH FRPPLWPHQWV /DZUHQFH DQG 'HDJHQ DQG DV (FKHYHUULD LQ Î&#x2013;UYLQ DQG 6WDQVEXU\ DUJXHG WKH FROODERUDWLYH SURFHVV VORZV GRZQ GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ WR IDYRXU WKH VWDWXV TXR Building trust and friendships may take time, and the idea of community should be viewed as a process that needs to be built collectively by all of its stakeholders, rather than an end result.

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Despite these challenges, participatory planning advocates and scholars have argued that community participation can FRQWULEXWH WR GLÎ?HUHQW DVSHFWV RI D FRKHVLYH FRPPXQLW\ VXFK DV social capital, social network, attachment to a place, and sense of ownership. Participation in local community organisations creates social capital and social cohesion among neighbours, which results in a positive resource for participants and the QHLJKERXUKRRG 3XWQDP )XUWKHUPRUH VWXGLHV KDYH found that people who participate in groups concerned with neighbourhood problems reported higher levels of attachment WR WKHLU QHLJKERXUKRRGV 7D\ORU $OO RI WKHVH Č´QGLQJV RÎ?HU VXSSRUW IRU JUHDWHU SDUWLFLSDWRU\ DQG FRPPXQLW\ EDVHG processes in the design and development of neighbourhoods, which in turn enhances local ownership and the sense of belonging.

Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent move towards a more inclusive and participatory style of leadership shows a sharp contrast to the authoritarian posture seen during the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early years after independence. However, the case of Singapore underlines the point that participation cannot be divorced from societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inherent authority structures. It might prove inevitable that the government will have to look at more sophisticated ways of DFFRPPRGDWLQJ VRFLHW\Č&#x2021;V JUHDWHU DSSHWLWH IRU SDUWLFLSDWLRQ 1RK DQG 7XPLQ

Community participation in neighbourhood planning in Singapore as of yet has been mostly guided by the existing authoritarian structures and prevailing societal norms shaped E\ WKH JRYHUQPHQW LELG +RZHYHU SDUWLFLSDWLRQ VKRXOG EH D FHQWUDO SDUW RI KRZ WKH SODQ LV SURGXFHG DQG QRW DQ DVLGH DGG RQ RU GLYHUVLRQ %DNHU HW DO 6WXGLHV KDYH VKRZQ WKDW residents have become more actively engaged in the planning SURFHVV LQ 6LQJDSRUH 6RK DQG <XHQ JLYLQJ KRSH WKDW WKHUH LV WKH SRWHQWLDO IRU ORFDO UHVLGHQWV WR SOD\ D PRUH VLJQLČ´FDQW role and have a greater say about their neighbourhoods.

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PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY DESIGN ACTION RESEARCH: 7KH &DVH RI 3KX ;XDQ &RPPXQH +R &KL 0LQK &LW\

CHONG Keng Hua, Jezamine CHUA Zihui, Zheng Jia, LEE Wei Ji Desmond, NG Zi Kai, NGUYEN Minh Chau, TAN Yen Lin, TAN Yen Ping Janice, TO Kien, VO Le Hoang Long, WONG Kai Qi Sharlene Singapore University of Technology and Design Î&#x2013;QWHUQDWLRQDO 'HVLJQ &HQWHU 2SSRUWXQLW\ /DE Keywords: PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, COMMUNITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, HO CHI MINH CITY, SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract Recently, there is a rise of civic participation across the world that enable the communities to participate more directly and actively LQ QHHG GHČ´QLQJ DQG GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ SURFHVVHV WKHUHE\ LPSURYH their lives and living environment. The roles of design and designers have also started to shift from â&#x20AC;&#x153;design for communityâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;design with communityâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;design by communityâ&#x20AC;?. This research strives to understand and explore the participatory community design process in the Phu Xuan Commune, a suburban district in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Having undergone rapid development in the past few years, Phu Xuan now faces multi-faceted urban and community issues, such as inadequate amenities, lack of waste management system and shortage of housing. Participatory community design approach is new and emerging in many Asian developing countries like Vietnam; Phu Xuan as a choice site of investigation has allowed for unique opportunities to work closely with local activists and universities.

Our research framework and methodology consists of three phases.

7KH Č´UVW SKDVH &RPPXQLW\ IRFXVHV RQ SUHOLPLQDU\ VLWH DQG community analysis. A series of techniques, including community asset mapping, data and system analysis and a community workshop with the locals, was used to understand and identify Phu ;XDQČ&#x2021;V VWUHQJWKV FKDOOHQJHV WKUHDWV DQG RSSRUWXQLWLHV 7KH VHFRQG phase, Co-Creation, is focused on deeper examination of issues and potential design approaches, leading to collaborative design with community to solicit stories, feedbacks, ideas and designs.

Fieldwork encompasses innovative and participatory data collection methods, including interviews with important stakeholders and documentation of the community through multiple lens such as time-lapse of public spaces, geo-tagging sounds and photos, and VHWWLQJ XS SKRWR ERRWKV WR UHYHDO WKH FRPPXQLW\Č&#x2021;V VRFLDO QHWZRUN The third phase, Continuity, is concerned with reframing of design LQWR VXVWDLQDEOH PRGHO DFKLHYDEOH E\ WKH FRPPXQLW\ ZKLOH UHČ´QLQJ the design continually through multiple iterations of Community and Co-Creation processes. A participatory exhibition and a post-

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exhibition community dinner will be held in Phu Xuan in September 2014 to bring together the community to proactively envision and pursue self-sustaining ideas that would in turn empower them to overcome their challenges in the long run.

The research ultimately aims to break ground in participatory community planning in Vietnam and examines how it can be carried RXW LQ WKH VSHFLČ´F FRQWH[W RI 3KX ;XDQ &RPPXQH Î&#x2013;W LV D SURSRQHQW for active community participation in the planning process, and studies how to empower the people of Phu Xuan to take ownership of the community development process toward a better future.

1. Introduction &RPPXQLW\ %DVHG 3DUWLFLSDWRU\ 5HVHDUFK &%35 LV D collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognises the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community, has the aim of combining knowledge with action and achieving social change to improve KHDOWK DQG TXDOLW\ RI OLIH RI FRPPXQLW\ PHPEHUV 0LQNOHU DQG :DOOHUVWHLQ 7UDFLQJ LWV URRW EDFN WR 3DUWLFLSDWRU\ $FWLRQ 5HVHDUFK 3$5 &%35 KDV EHHQ D JURZLQJ DSSURDFK LQ GHDOLQJ not only with health but also larger urban issues where every stakeholder from people to planners are involved in studying and solving these issues together. This approach aims to oppose the unspoken perspective that researchers are superior to those studied and empower the people to do something for themselves. This trend is gaining ground in developing countries ZKHUH PDQ\ QRQ JRYHUQPHQWDO RUJDQLVDWLRQV 1*2V DQG governments are experimenting with alternative approaches in tackling pressing urban issues amid rapid urbanisation. From WKH XVXDO PHWKRG RI Č&#x160;GHVLJQ IRU FRPPXQLW\Č&#x2039; WR Č&#x160;GHVLJQ ZLWK by communityâ&#x20AC;?, this cultural shift poses a new area to research with CBPR approach. +R &KL 0LQK &LW\ +&0& LV WKH ODUJHVW FLW\ DQG WKH FHQWHU RI HFRQRPLF DFWLYLW\ RI 9LHWQDP D IDVW GHYHORSLQJ QDWLRQ LQ 6RXWK East Asia. The city recorded a population of 7.5 million in 2011 and HCMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population is expected to grow to 13.9 million in 2025 , with suburbanization occurring concurrently. Such rapid development brings about various challenges for urban dwellers and planners, such as competition for limited urban space, lack of amenities, sanitation and housing. Î&#x2013;Q WKLV UHVHDUFK SURMHFW ZH ZHUH ZRUNLQJ ZLWK 3KX ;XDQ &RPPXQH RI +X\HQ 1KD %H 1KD %H 'LVWULFW LQ +&0& EXLOGLQJ on the relationships established with the community by our 9LHWQDPHVH SDUWQHUV Č&#x201A; +R &KL 0LQK 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 7HFKQRORJ\ +R Chi Minh City University of Transport and Van Lang University.

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3KX ;XDQ &RPPXQH LV ORFDWHG LQ WKH HDVW VLGH RI +X\HQ 1KD %H with a size of 101 hectares and a population of more than 16,000.

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DSSURDFK RI WDSSLQJ RQ H[SHUWLVH DFURVV GLÎ?HUHQW XQLYHUVLWLHV GLÎ?HUHQW GLVFLSOLQHV DUFKLWHFWXUH DQG SODQQLQJ LQIRUPDWLRQ WHFKQRORJ\ HQYLURQPHQWDO DQG V\VWHP HQJLQHHULQJ GLÎ?HUHQW FXOWXUHV 9LHWQDP DQG 6LQJDSRUH DV ZHOO DV NQRZOHGJH DQG experience of the community would provide us multiple SHUVSHFWLYHV LQ XQGHUVWDQGLQJ 3KX ;XDQČ&#x2021;V XUEDQ LVVXHV Î&#x2013;Q WKH following sections, we will describe the participatory research methodology, planning and implementation process, outcomes DQG UHČľHFWLRQV RI HDFK RI WKH UHVHDUFK SKDVHV

2. COMMUNITY - Community Design Workshop 7KH Č´UVW SKDVH &RPPXQLW\ IRFXVHV RQ SUHOLPLQDU\ VLWH DQG community analysis. A series of techniques, including community asset mapping, data and system analysis and a community dialogue with the local residents, was used to understand and identify community strengths, challenges, threats and opportunities.

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Figure 1: Location of Nha Be.

A community design workshop was organized to provide D VWUXFWXUHG SODWIRUP IRU VWXGHQWV IURP GLÎ?HUHQW FXOWXUDO backgrounds and disciplines including architecture, civil engineering, systems engineering, environmental engineering, information technology from three participating universities, to identify issues and opportunities together. The three participating universities were Singapore University of Technology and Design 687' +R &KL 0LQK 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 7HFKQRORJ\ +&087 DQG 9DQ Lang University. The workshop consisted of a rigorous and iterative process of community analysis, mapping, interviews, design, development and presentations over 10 days, exposing participants to the various approaches of addressing community issues through a series of exercises and site studies. The aim was to understand the community and the underlying forces at ZRUN WR VFRSH WKH UHDO LVVXHV IDFHG E\ WKH SHRSOH LQ 3KX ;XDQ Participants were given opportunities to develop potentially VHOI VXVWDLQLQJ LGHDV WR HPSRZHU WKH FRPPXQLW\ WR HYHQWXDOO\ overcome their own challenges.

Figure 2: Location of Phu Xuan.

The participatory research was conducted in three phases over D SHULRG RI QLQH PRQWKV QDPHO\ &RPPXQLW\ &R &UHDWLRQ DQG &RQWLQXLW\ LQ RUGHU WR VWXG\ WKH XUEDQ LVVXHV WKDW 3KX ;XDQ UHVLGHQWV DUH H[SHULHQFLQJ :H KRSH WKDW VXFK PXOWLGLPHQVLRQDO

)LJXUH 'LÎ?HUHQW VHWV RI WHFKQLTXHV LQWURGXFHG LQ WKH &RPPXQLW\ Design Workshop including site analysis and Community Asset Mapping.

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Figure 4: The Community Design Workshop in progress.

Figure 5: Site visit and interview with residents at Phu Xuan.

Phu Xuan Community Dialogue The community dialogue was held in the commune headquarters LQ 3KX ;XDQ 7KH ZRUNVKRS EHJXQ ZLWK WKH ORFDOV EHLQJ LQYLWHG to identify places where they live, work, learn and play on the map of their own neighbourhood. A sharing session followed, where locals were given the chance to share their stories and YLHZV WRZDUGV 3KX ;XDQ 7HDPV WKHQ SUHVHQWHG WKHLU VWXG\ RI 3KX ;XDQ DQG WKHLU SURSRVDOV WR WKH ORFDOV

her land. One woman shared that she was very contented with KHU OLIH DQG WKDW VKH YDOXHG WKH FRPPXQLW\ VSLULW RI 3KX ;XDQ very much. A few shared about the lack of entertainment and communal space. In response to the proposals, a young girl also shared about her love for sports, learning musical instruments, reading and her wish for a better library.

Figure 6: Phu Xuan resident voicing out their opinions during the Community Dialogue.

7KH IHHGEDFN WRZDUGV WKH SURSRVDOV ZDV VLPLODU :H UHDOLVHG it was due to the narrow scope of the ideas that were mainly architecturally focused on solving the lack of entertainment and public gathering space. Some comments were regarding the aesthetic design of the libraries and parks, which steered away from the holistic and functional goals that would help the community. Others commented on the proposals in terms RI WKHLU IHDVLELOLW\ DQG SRWHQWLDO EXW IHZ RÎ?HUHG RZQ LGHDV RU constructive feedback. These design proposals seemed to have EHHQ LQWHUSUHWHG DV Č&#x2020;SURMHFWV E\ VWXGHQWVČ&#x2021; UDWKHU WKDQ SRLQWV RI references for the residents to inspire them to come up with WKHLU RZQ LGHDV %HVLGHV WKH REMHFWLYH RI RXU GLDORJXH DV DQ educational and exchange platform was not made clear, which resulted in a misunderstanding of our proposals as solutions to be implemented by the government.

The turnout for the workshop was good, and it saw many locals, including youths, standing up to express their stories and opinions regarding the proposals. There were several LQWHUHVWLQJ DV ZHOO DV KHDUW EUHDNLQJ VWRULHV $Q HOGHUO\ ZRPDQ broke down while sharing her life struggles. Another elderly woman was angry at the government for forcefully taking away

Nevertheless, the workshop succeeded in bringing people together, and provided an excellent platform for the locals to share stories, and an opportunity to be heard by their own community. Albeit generic, the feedback provided by the locals prompted us to go back and question the feasibility and relevance of our proposals to their lives.

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Figure 7: Presentation to invited panel during the workshop review.

Evaluation and Review %DVHG RQ WKH IHHGEDFN WKH WHDP EHJDQ UHČ´QLQJ DQG GLYHUVLI\LQJ RXU LGHDV ZKLOH UHYLVLWLQJ LVVXHV LGHQWLČ´HG HDUOLHU :KLOH engineering students had previously seen this as an architectural exercise, they began to see the multidisciplinary nature of the workshop and ways in which they could contribute, coming up with refreshing solutions such as video games, alternate cartographies and energy harvesting. :LWK WKHVH QHZ LGHDV WKH WHDP HYDOXDWHG WKHLU IHDVLELOLW\ E\ DQDO\]LQJ :LOOLQJQHVV 7R 3D\ :73 9DOXH DQG &DSDELOLW\ $ mode of assessment was Capability of the community, in which the team, had to refer back to site mapping to identify relevant community assets. This made the team appreciate the existing implementations, infrastructures, resources, and even the FRPPXQLW\ VSLULW DQG DWWLWXGHV RI WKH ORFDOV 7KH WHDP UHČľHFWHG WKDW LW ZDV D XVHIXO VNLOO WR D ZRUOG RI IDFWRUV DQG WUDGH RÎ?V VXFK DV WKH IDOO EDFNV RI WRXULVP LQ 3KX ;XDQ 7KHVH PHWKRGV SXVKHG the team towards greater sensitivity, and to settle the proposals upon more realistic and feasible grounds.

The workshop culminated in a review by a panel of professors, NGO representatives, investors, researchers and lecturers.

Teams presented their understanding of the community, followed by design proposals. Comments given brought out perspectives from professional and experienced point of view, and towards implementing a solution that could be sustained by the community themselves in the long run. The panel ended RÎ? VWURQJO\ HPSKDVL]LQJ WKH QHHG IRU UDLVLQJ HQYLURQPHQWDO awareness, and collaborating with unions, agencies and local authorities to make such ideas a reality.

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Î&#x2013;QLWLDOO\ LW ZDV HYLGHQW LQ WKH DUFKLWHFWXUDOO\ IRFXVHG LGHDV proposed that participants were very focused in their own Č´HOGV +RZHYHU WKH HQG RI WKH ZRUNVKRS VDZ WKH EUDQFKLQJ of proposals into novel directions, seen in their variety and LQWHJUDWLRQ DFURVV GLÎ?HUHQW Č´HOGV %HVLGHV SLFNLQJ XS QHZ ZD\V and skills of understanding a community and evaluating ideas, WKH KXPDQ FHQWUHG DQG PXOWLGLVFLSOLQDU\ FRPPXQLW\ GHVLJQ process made the participants rethink the notion of design. The process of working closely with the locals, and students from GLÎ?HUHQW GLVFLSOLQHV DQG EDFNJURXQGV UHLQIRUFHG WKDW GHVLJQ LV not about the product, but about people and the process.

Despite attempts to comprehend the community through site visits and interviews, we were still unable to ground the ideas created during the workshop upon the deeper understanding and sensitivity of the issues faced by the community. The main reason was due to the participants needed to spend the more time in the classroom to learn many basic skills and techniques than on the actual site itself. During this time, the participants focused more on analyzing site observations, ideating, producing deliverables over a short period of 10 days. At the end, the reviews by the community made us realize that the site visits DQG LQWHUYLHZV ZLWK ORFDOV ZHUH LQVXÉ?FLHQW WR IRUPXODWH PRUH rounded and sustainable solutions for the entire community, ZKLFK WKHUHIRUH SURPSWHG XV WR DGMXVW RXU GLUHFWLRQ IRU WKH next phase.

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Figure 8: Potential issue for research and design: waste management in Phu Xuan

Î&#x2013;QLWLDOO\ ZH ZDQWHG WR IRFXV WKH SURMHFW RQ WDFNOLQJ WKH LVVXH RI waste management as we observed that all four partial sites of 3KX ;XDQ ZHUH KHDYLO\ DÎ?HFWHG E\ D ODFN RI ZDVWH PDQDJHPHQW ZKLFK LV OLQNHG WR PDQ\ RWKHU LVVXHV IDFHG E\ 3KX ;XDQ 6WXG\LQJ waste management would also be an indirect and less intrusive way to understand the community. However, a community representative feedback that such approach was too externally LPSRVHG 7KXV ZH UHGHČ´QHG WKH QH[W SKDVH RI WKH UHVHDUFK to continue understanding the community through collecting PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ DERXW 3KX ;XDQ WRJHWKHU ZLWK WKH UHVLGHQWV instead, while at the same time raising awareness and interest in this initiative.

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Figure 9: Design of data collection.

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Figure 11: Conducting a home survey in Phu Xuan.

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Figure 13: Taking group photos to reveal social connection and neighbourliness.

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Figure 12: Geotagging sound maps and photos.

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Our overall exhibition aim was to motivate and empower residents for change in the community, which is not an easy concept to express clearly to residents. Brochures explaining this were given out, but a personal guide tour will relay the message in a clearer manner. However, we were constantly shorthanded on Vietnamese volunteers to explain to participants. There could KDYH EHHQ WHQ PLQXWH LQWHUYDO WRXUV RI JXLGH YLVLWRU UDWLR so that the Vietnamese volunteers can explain the exhibition to more people at the same time.

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Figure 14: Aims of the exhibition.

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Figure 15 : Objectives of the 3 themes: Stories, Treasures and Future and the Community Tea.

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Abstract If we inquire about a relativism wishing that appropriate measures correspond to every type of societies, then every street must have a located urban policy. Protocol barely bearable if we consider that each communication streets today is composed of residents in transition, strengthening and deconstructing communities at the whim of the economy.

Although new governmentalities enlighten us on the new sociabilities, the researchers anticipating societal change are incapable of producing more than the current environmental narrative of a Green Humanism. It is, however, the issue of Urban Planning / Anticipation that can engage from echoes of the street, in researches shaping our future spaces. Also, we wonder in what these theoretical paths along the lines of communications are to teach us about these new DVVRFLDWLRQV RI Č&#x2020;E\VWDQGHUVČ&#x2021; The methodological exclusion of social resistances in the process of SODQQLQJ SURMHFWV IURP H[SHUWV LVVXHG IURP WKH PRGHUQLW\ H[SODLQV the lack of Theory/Pratice of these approaches. The emergence of social engineering through various forms of citizen empowerment in the countries rewriting their modernity demonstrates the obsolescence of these mechanisms of expertise.

We will approach the new regime of historicity of social resistance in urbanity matters that hatch in the world, especially in a country with dazzling transitions such as South Korea. And how today the careful listening of the alerts ventured by these underground movements in Seoul, helps to improve the environmental prospective of the country.

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Introduction Globalisation from the Grassroots Society in transition, South Korea works with the globalization to resolve plural readings of its societal practices. It is to decipher WKH KLGGHQ HPHUJHQFLHV DQG WKH PRVW SURIRXQG U HYROXWLRQV For this, the new generation of design experts are working to revitalize old traditions of Korean living together. Pursuing what WKH 5LR &RQYHQWLRQ RI DUW - DQG WKH 1DJR\D 3URWRFRO LQ DUW FDOOHG IRU UHDFWLYDWLQJ Č&#x160;WKH DXWRFKWKRQRXV knowledge and practicesâ&#x20AC;?. Also, through the international H[FKDQJH RI ORFDO NQRZOHGJHV DQG PRUDOV WKH JOREDOL]DWLRQ RI HWKLFV 6XOOLYDQ DOORZV XV WR VSHFLI\ WKH VLWXDWHG FRQČľLFWV of interest and understand the mechanism of societal echoes of WKH HQYLURQPHQWDO SKLORVRSKLHV 6DUNDU

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DGHH\QDB #\DKRR FRP Khalilah Zakariya Asst. Prof., Dept. of Landscape Architecture khalilah@iium.edu.my Zumahiran Kamarudin $VVW 3URI 'HSW RI $SSOLHG $UWV 'HVLJQ zumahiran@iium.edu.my .XOOL\\DK RI $UFKLWHFWXUH (QYLURQPHQWDO 'HVLJQ Î&#x2013;QWHUQDWLRQDO Islamic University, P.O. Box 10, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Keywords: CULTURE, MARKETS, SPACES, URBAN

Abstract The rich qualities of the traditional marketplace are attributed to its components, such as the products, people and spaces. There is a VLJQLČ´FDQW QHHG WR H[DPLQH WKH FKDUDFWHULVWLFV RI WKH PDUNHWSODFH and how they contribute to the setting of the market, as these VKDSH SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V H[SHULHQFHV 7KLV LV LPSRUWDQW WR HQVXUH WKDW WKH development of traditional urban marketplace can continue to ČľRXULVK LQ WKH IXWXUH DORQJVLGH WKHLU FXOWXUDO DQG KHULWDJH YDOXHV This paper aims to illustrate the characteristics of a traditional urban marketplace through its spaces and spatial qualities, based on a case study of Pasar Payang, a market located in the city of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The study was conducted through site inventory, observation and photographic documentation on WKH VSDFHV DQG VHWWLQJ LQVLGH WKH PDUNHWSODFH 7KH Č´QGLQJV UHYHDO WKDW WKHUH DUH GLÎ?HUHQW FDWHJRULHV RI VSDFHV WKDW PDNH XS WKH marketplace. Vendors adapt and alter their spaces in diverse ways, DQG WKLV LQČľXHQFHV WKH VSDWLDO TXDOLWLHV RI WKH PDUNHW 7KLV VWXG\ concludes that spaces and activities at the market compose the spatial qualities of the marketplace, which make the market unique in its own way. Therefore, it is essential that designers and planners take into account these aspects in the development of the traditional urban marketplace in the future to ensure that the market can sustain its culture.

1.0 Introduction The market is a place where people conduct trading activities that involve buying and selling of goods between vendors

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and customers. Over the course of urban development, the marketplace evolves into a place where the communities grow economically, socially, and culturally. Some traditional urban markets are iconic because of their unique products and setting. Eventually, markets like these become a tourist attraction. Traditional marketplace is one of the attractions LQ XUEDQ KHULWDJH DQG FXOWXUDO WRXULVP Î&#x2013;QVWHDG RI MXVW VHUYLQJ the local community, the traditional marketplace is often visited by tourists when they come to a city. The market can be considered as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the heart of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; because it serves as a VLJQLČ´FDQW SXEOLF VSDFH /HH DQG 6DLG 0LWFKHOO :HLVV 7KH WRXULVWVČ&#x2021; GHVLUH WR ORRN IRU ORFDO GHOLFDFLHV and crafts, and to experience the local lifestyle, attract them WR WUDYHO WR ORFDO PDUNHWV DQG ED]DDU %URZOH\ IXUWKHU describe the specialties of marketplace where is acting as a place for meeting friends and community which normally they get socialized by exchange news and updates. Contrasting with the more modern shopping environment, the places usually not designed with a mutual connection to the community. The modern environment is likely to be designed without relation ZLWK WKH ORFDO FXOWXUH KLVWRU\ DQG UHDOLW\ RI WKH SODFH $SLFKRNH

7KH PDUNHWSODFH SURYLGHV VSDFH IRU VRFLDOL]DWLRQ DQG mingling around as its nature of buying and selling within the market community context.

For markets that have evolved to become a tourist attraction, EHQHČ´WV IURP WKH WRXULVP DFWLYLWLHV DOVR FRQWULEXWH WR LWV economic and cultural sustainability. The local identity and culture of the marketplace is comprised of the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SURGXFWV ZD\V RI PDUNHWLQJ DQG DUFKLWHFWXUH %LURO

These aspects contribute to the character of the market as the value of the environment still maintain until now. In the process of urbanization and tourism development, marketplace will undergo changes. However, at times, some of the rich qualities of the marketplace are lost in this process. Also, the consideration of the traditional marketplace to become one of the urban tourism criteria can create more developed infrastructure, increase the production of products and expand the economy of the country. This is of the essence as to guarantee that the development of sustainable urban marketplace can continue to expand in the future, alongside their rich heritage values.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss about the site inventory which had been done in the Pasar Payang in Kuala Terengganu, 7HUHQJJDQX ZKHUHE\ WKH Č´QGLQJV DUH WR GLVFXVV PRUH DERXW the spaces and spatial qualities of the marketplace. The literature review are divided into two parts which explain about traditional marketplace and spaces of the marketplace. Later RQ WKH Č´QGLQJV DUH DLPHG WR GLVFXVV PRUH RQ WKH VSDFHV LQ WKH PDUNHWSODFH DQG KRZ LW UHODWHV EDFN WR WKH VLJQLČ´FDQFH RI WKH marketplace.

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2.0 Literature Review 2.1 Traditional Marketplace The marketplace has an important role in the city and its community. It is where people go to buy goods that the vendors sell, such as food, spices, fresh produce and other products.

In their daily or weekly visit to the market, people interact and exchange news with each other as part of their socializing activities. These encounters create a closer relationship among PHPEHUV RI WKH FRPPXQLW\ 6X]L\DQD 7KH PDUNHWSODFH is where the communities grow economically, socially, and culturally. For the vendors, it is where they gain a source of income, whereas for the visitors, it is a place where they can get what they need.

Markets are important centre of trade, commerce, exchange, entertainment and social interaction that have survived since ancient times in diverse courses. They are the focal points for the community and help enhance civic communication and VRFLDOL]DWLRQ $O 0DLPDQL 7KH SXEOLF PDUNHW LV D SODFH where a variety of goods are sold regularly by many small, private YHQGRUV 3ODWWQHU FLWHG LQ 6RPPHU 7DQJLUHV

stated that the marketplace commonly serves as a commercial place, while at the same time acting as a public or communal space. As such, the market becomes the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the city and DFW DV DQ LPSRUWDQW SXEOLF VSDFH /HH DQG 6DLG 0LWFKHOO :HLVV

:HLVV ZULWHV WKDW WKH PDUNHWSODFH LV Č&#x2020;D FLW\ ZLWKLQ D FLW\ with its own economy and a way of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. It is not only a place where trading occurs, but where a sense of community is built between the market vendors and the local community. Markets KDYH XQLTXH FKDUDFWHULVWLFV WKDW SRVLWLRQ WKHP GLÎ?HUHQWO\ IURP VXSHUPDUNHWV DQG VKRSSLQJ PDOOV 7KH\ RÎ?HU D Č&#x2020;VHQVH of experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; through the physical characteristics, the spaces, WKH SURGXFWV DQG VHUYLFHV ZKLFK UHČľHFW WKH ORFDO FRPPXQLW\Č&#x2021;V ZD\ RI OLIH 75$; DQG 6WHDG :HLVV )RU LQVWDQFH D WUDGLWLRQDO ED]DDU IURP GLÎ?HUHQW KLVWRULFDO SHULRGV PD\ UHČľHFW the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social and economic progress or backwardness 0RKDPPDGUH]D 3RXUMDIDU 7KLV PDNHV WKH PDUNHWSODFH an important aspect in the human settlements, community growth and development of cities.

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VLJQLČ´FDQFH RI WKH SODFH ZKHUH LW LQYROYHV WKH SXEOLF FRPPXQLW\ and the atmosphere involved.

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7UDF\ :KLWH IXUWKHU H[SODLQV WKDW DPRXQW RI VWDOOV depends on the scale of the market. The types of market can range from a small suburban street market to the main urban covered markets. The distribution of the stall needs to be appropriate to the scale of production. Likewise, the distribution of spaces should also be able to accommodate open air stalls DQG SXUSRVH EXLOW VSDFHV LQVLGH PDUNHW EXLOGLQJV 7KH EDVLF design of any market is generally based on the individual market VWDOO $ W\SLFDO Č´[HG VWDOOV IRU D FRYHUHG PDUNHW LV GLÎ?HUHQW IURP WHPSRUDU\ VWDOOV EHFDXVH WKH\ VHOO GLÎ?HUHQW SURGXFWV DQG KDYH GLÎ?HUHQW VSDWLDO UHTXLUHPHQWV 7KH IDFLOLWLHV WKDW WKH PDUNHW RÎ?HUV WR WKH YHQGRUV DUH OLNHO\ WR Č´W WKHLU UHTXLUHPHQWV DV GLÎ?HUHQW YHQGRUV ZLOO QHHG GLÎ?HUHQW types of facilities. As such, vendors will pay rent or fees to utilize the spaces and facilities at the market for their businesses.

The sizes and amenity of the space provided vary according to the categories of the space. For example, some traders might only need a small space if the types of products that they sell come in small quantities. On the other hand, vendors that sell a wider range of products would normally require a bigger space.

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explains that certain markets have low platform structures where the vendors sit on it so that the products are displayed by customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye level.

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WKH SURGXFWV 6RPH SURGXFWV PLJKW QHHG GLÎ?HUHQW W\SHV RI arrangement, where the shelves need to be tiered or have counter. Other products might need stacking racks at the side of the stall. There are also some vendors who sit in the stall DQG KDYH WKH SURGXFWV VXUURXQG WKHP :KLFKHYHU ZD\ WKH\ DUH these various display techniques often depend on the vendorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creativity and ingenuity.

3.0 Methodology

was conducted, due to the increasing number of the business SUHPLVHV DQG WR EHDXWLI\ 3DVDU 3D\DQJ 7KH Č´VK SUHPLVHV ZHUH XSJUDGHG LQ IROORZHG E\ WKH IUXLW SUHPLVHV LQ 7KLV was done to improve the conditions of the market to create more comfortable spaces for the vendors and visitors. According to the economic plan by Terengganu State Economic Planning Unit 83(1 3DVDU 3D\DQJ ZLOO RQFH DJDLQ EH UHSDLUHG DQG XSJUDGHG involving all parts of the building to be expanded.

Timeline of the Development of Pasar Payang.

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Pasar Payang is a traditional urban marketplace located in Kuala Terengganu, in the east coast of Malaysia. This marketplace was selected as a case study because of the symbolic identity to the Kuala Terengganu. Pasar Payang function as a townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s node where people meet and shopped for their own choices of SURGXFWV 6X]L\DQD

The criteria for selecting the Pasar Payang involved the following DVSHFWV 1. The setting of the marketplace is in the middle of the city.

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(Source: Majlis Bandaraya Kuala Terengganu).

Table 1: Pasar Payang image in past and present time.

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Pasar Payang (1960s). Source: Selamatkan Pasar Payang Warisan Kita.(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Selamatkan-PasarPayang-Warisan-Kita)

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5.0 Analysis of Space 7KH Č´QGLQJV IURP WKLV VWXG\ DUH GLYLGHG LQWR WKUHH DVSHFWV layout, market spaces and display arrangement.

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From the observation, the daily product are sold more than the local products as the daily product is based on daily needs.

People usually come to buy vegetables and fresh sea products.

The fresh sea product is normally sold out at afternoon. The local products are based on demand basis where the visitors want to get souvenirs or memorable products and it is seasonal.

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Local fruits and vegetable stalls (beside the wet stalls area).

Figure 9 (left) Local food area. Figure 10 (right) Dry food area.

Local foods area (keropok, asam, snacks, honey, sambal, etc.).

Figure 11 (left) Grocery shop. Figure 12 (right) Home appliances.

Groceries products area.

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Figure 13 (left )Gold premises near to the parking area. Figure 14 (right) Gold premise in front of the entrance.

Gold and jewelry premises alongside Pasar Payang building.

Figure 15 Fruit stall.

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Figure 16 Fruit stall near to Pasar Payang.

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Figure 17 (left) Batik premise. Figure 18 (right) Daily outwear premise.

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Figure 19 (left) Brassware premise. Figure 20 (right) Example of products.

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5.3 Display arrangement 7KH YHQGRUV DW WKH PDUNHW GLVSOD\ WKHLU SURGXFWV LQ GLÎ?HUHQW ways. Most of the products are noticeable from a distance.

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A) Dry area i) Staggered arrangement The dry product is displayed in staggered arrangement which the product is organized according to their types. The price also being displayed near to the goods. The vendors will sit near to the product displayed to help visitors to choose the best to buy.

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In some part of the market, the display area is quite low near WR WKH ČľRRU DQG QRUPDOO\ WKH SURGXFW RÎ?HU LV ORFDO IUXLWV DQG vegetables.

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6.0 Findings The varied ways of products display give a welcome environment where the buyers get the chance to interact with the buyers.

From a certain distance, buyers get an overview of products RÎ?HU WKHUH )XUWKHUPRUH WKH GLVSOD\HG SURGXFW JLYHV D ZDUP environment in the market. The community get interact with HDFK RWKHU DQG VRPHWLPHV EX\HUV JHW D FKDQFH WR KDYH RQH WR RQH LQWHUDFWLRQ ZLWK WKH VHOOHU 7KH GLÎ?HUHQW GLVSOD\ PHWKRGV RÎ?HU DW WKH PDUNHWSODFH JLYH D GLÎ?HUHQW H[SHULHQFH WR WKH buyers. It creates a sense of informality to some extend where WKH FXVWRPHUV FDQ WDNH D ORRN DW WKH SURGXFW ZKLOH HQMR\LQJ the view. The display of products also introduces people to the localness of the culture in Kuala Terengganu. The variety of local products and the availability of local craft at Pasar Payang gives space for people to feel the local lifestyle.

7.0 Discussion and Recommendations Spaces and spatial qualities are necessary aspects of a marketplace that must be carefully considered in its design and SODQQLQJ $V SUHVHQWHG LQ WKH Č´QGLQJV WKH VSDFHV FRQWULEXWHV directly to the setting and atmosphere of the market, and the activities of the market users. The site inventory and observation of the spatial qualities of Pasar Payang demonstrate certain characteristics. The spatial environment suits the context of the market and the users of the market. It considers the continuity of trading throughout the day. The variety of products sold at the market attracts the locals and tourists. For the locals, they can do their daily grocery shopping at the market, and in return, this helps the market to sustain as a commercial space that serves the local community. For tourists, the marketplace is where they can buy local food, crafts, clothes and other unique items that may not be found in other cities. Essentially, tourists visit Pasar Payang for its localness.

In the current situation of Pasar Payang, the local authority has been involved in upgrading of facilities in the marketplace in order to keep on track with the development. Pasar Payang KDV EHHQ D VLJQLČ´FDQW IHDWXUH LQ 7HUHQJJDQXČ&#x2021;V WRXULVP LQGXVWU\ and it becomes one of the most visited place. It is a place for economic activities, as well as for social activities. The demand for tourism has stimulated the marketplace to be redeveloped, in order to accommodate the tourist and the market community.

Throughout the process, it is expected that some of the market spaces and infrastructure will be replaced with newer and more PRGHUQ IDFLOLWLHV :KLOH WKLV LV LQHYLWDEOH KRZHYHU LW LV FUXFLDO WKDW ZH Č´UVW XQGHUVWDQG ZKDW JLYHV WKH PDUNHW LWV FKDUDFWHULVWLFV LQ WKH Č´UVW SODFH )DLOLQJ WR PHHW WKHVH QHHGV QHZ SODQV ZLOO lead to the loss of the local culture and decrease the economic income for the market community.

8.0 Conclusion The government has the responsibility to improve the marketplace to meet the global standard and improve the qualities of the place. Nevertheless, at the same time, the richness of the marketplace to the community and how it is important to the identity of the city must be taken into account. The local authority needs to play role in preserving the rich qualities of this traditional urban marketplace in its process of redevelopment.

A balance between development and conservation can be seen as a key to maintaining the localness of the marketplace.

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FROM FLEXIBLE USE OF POPS TO â&#x20AC;&#x153;GREENâ&#x20AC;? COMMUNITY PLANNING: THE PRACTICAL PATH OF TAIPEI â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;S â&#x20AC;&#x153;OPEN GREENâ&#x20AC;? POLICY 8UEDQ 5HJHQHUDWLRQ 2É?FH 852 7DLSHL &LW\ *RYHUQPHQW

Background: Temporary POPS and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Life Rooseveltâ&#x20AC;?

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WHPSRUDU\ JUHHQHU\ SXEOLF VSDFHV ZHUH FUHDWHG LQ 7DLSHL City in preparation for the City Beautiful Movement of Taipei International Flora Exposition in 2010. It was a tough period of pushing urban renewal forward, and despite this, the government WRRN WKH HÎ?RUW WR XWLOL]H WKH H[KLELWLRQ WR VWUDWHJLFDOO\ SURPRWH XUEDQ EHDXWLČ´FDWLRQ DQG WR JDLQ FLWL]HQVČ&#x2021; UHFRJQLWLRQ RI XUEDQ regeneration. Among those policies, the 2nd Taipei Beautiful Series created the most remarkable achievement by granting landowners additional FAR incentives, which resulted in an agreement to tear down old buildings and temporarily open the land as green space for citizens. As the government is granting D )$5 LQFHQWLYH WR RSHQ WKHVH EURZQ Č´HOGV WR WKH SXEOLF DQG as 58 of them remain in private property, we call these spaces Č&#x2020;WHPSRUDU\ 3236Č&#x2021; WHPSRUDU\ SULYDWHO\ RZQHG SXEOLF VSDFHV LQ this article.

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Abstract There have been dozens of temporary POPS(Privately Owned Public 6SDFHV DURXQG 7DLSHL &LW\ VLQFH ZKLFK FRXOG EH VHHQ DV WKH consequences of City Beautiful movement of Taipei International )ORUD ([SRVLWLRQ LQ 'LÎ?HUHQW IURP WKH XQLWDU\ JUHHQ VSRWV â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green life Rooseveltâ&#x20AC;? adopted the advocating green strategy.

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Presently, some of those temporary green spaces have been GHYHORSHG LQWR KLJK ULVH EXLOGLQJV KRZHYHU WKH UHVW DUH VWLOO being used daily by communities. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Life Rooseveltâ&#x20AC;? generated diverse green spots, including Rainwater Garden, +DSS\ )DUP DQG 5HDGLQJ *DUGHQ HWF 7KHVH SURMHFWV KHOSHG us examine the procedure of this movement and the absence of social relations of blueprint planning. Furthermore, the ideas produced from the temporary POPS need to be sustained into general community spaces.

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evidences strongly suggest that the past traditional process of urban planning needs to be revised in order to match the current demands of the residents.

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The Urban Plan, Urban Design Review system and Community Empowerment policies and other laws are many of the progressions that Taipei has developed in its path. In the -DSDQHVH JRYHUQDQFH SHULRG WKH Č´UVW XUEDQ SODQ GRFXPHQW ZDV introduced to Taipei. As time passed and the society became modernized, the original urban plan eventually became obsolete and green areas have been changed due to both political and commercial interest.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Greenâ&#x20AC;? Project Was Proposed to Make Better Community Strategy In order to bring out the practical approaches of making sustainable communities in Taipei, community planers should be pioneers in initiate stage of community developments.

They should explore possibilities and existing problems, make experiments, and prioritize community issues before any other GHYHORSPHQWV Î&#x2013;Q HDUO\ VWDJH RI 5RRVHYHOW *UHHQ /LIH SURMHFW LW ZDV TXLWH SRSXODU LQ PLGGOH FODVV FRPPXQLWLHV EXW *UHHQ /LIHČ&#x2021;V HDUO\ FRQFHSW RI QHLJKERUKRRG EHDXWLČ´FDWLRQ EHFDPH VRPHKRZ LQHÎ?HFWLYH WR ROG FRPPXQLWLHV 7KHUHIRUH 7DLSHL &LW\

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that are more accessible, which encourages people to participate those fun community activities naturally.

In general, people in Taiwan have unique interpretation of the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;publicâ&#x20AC;?. Public space is considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;controlling by SXEOLF VHFWRUV JRYHUQPHQW Č&#x2039; DQG 7DLZDQHVH FXOWXUH GRHV QRW HQFRXUDJH SXEOLF WR DFWLYHO\ LQYROYHG LQ SXEOLF DÎ?DLUV %RXQGDU\ is considered rigid and strict in Taiwan. Private vacant lots are usually fenced up to claim their authorities. Public sectors usually cannot intervene. To change peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values and understanding of â&#x20AC;&#x153;public spaceâ&#x20AC;?, lots of activities were hosted to create residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; positive relationships with their neighborhoods. :KHQ SODQQLQJ FRPPXQLWLHV DFFHVVLELOLW\ VXVWDLQDELOLW\ sensibility ,and aesthetics should be considered carefully.

Community spaces like corner, vertical space, garden, and roof are tiny but could make big change for residents. The transformations of these ordinary spaces are essential to the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;living communityâ&#x20AC;?. Transformations are usually easier to operate, experiment and communicate with the users in such IXQGDPHQWDO DUHD EHFDXVH WKH\ DUH IDFH WR IDFH EXLOW DQG DUH realized. There are at least 31 types of spaces that need to be UHFRQVLGHUHG LQ UHVSRQVH WR QHZ W\SHV RI PL[HG XVHUV

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3URFHGXUH Î&#x2013;Q WKH SDVW FRPPXQLW\ UHVRXUFHV VXUYH\ headmen interviews, vision workshop, comprehensive planning, detail design and then construction, were the necessary procedures for community planners. Although in recent years participatory design process was introduced WR PRVW SURMHFWV LQ 7DLZDQ SDUWLFLSDQWV FRXOG VWLOO KDYH FRPPXQLFDWLRQ GLÉ?FXOWLHV LQ GHVLJQ SURFHVV 7KHUHIRUH WKH method of making scenarios can be good alternatives for communications between professionals, governors, social groups, residents, and other people.

Open Green Strategy 1: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello! Green Life!â&#x20AC;? as Branding Strategy To simplify the concepts mentioned above, we choose to conceptualize them as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello! Green Lifeâ&#x20AC;?. Logo we made was implemented in the public events. The team selects locations

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accessible area, we identify there usually take 2 administrative neighborhoods to make one living area, and in some places if there public transport system works well, it could have a bigger UDQJH RI DFURVV QHLJKERUKRRGV There is one more thing that it used to be neglected by the community planners. The distinction of the administrative boundaries have brought serious problems in political dimension. It is known that how important it is to value those people who really live around, and some other potential users.

In the experiments of "Green" community planning, political issues and social conditions are considered along with space plans. Community planners should take all these varieties into their comprehensive considerations, and to prioritize the sequences of each variation in the level of operative strategies.

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in Open Green Strategy. It needs to be generalized and understood by local people. And community planners should prioritize properly based on each communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characteristics.

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In such a complex background, the community planners should response to these issues occurred in livelihood. The issues are usually detailed but complicated. Thus, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Greenâ&#x20AC;? policy is QRW MXVW DQ H[WHQVLRQ RI WUDGLWLRQDO FRPPXQLW\ SODQQLQJ Î&#x2013;W LV SURSRVHG WR EHFRPH WKH DOWHUQDWLYH RI FRPPXQLW\ SODQQHUV

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experiments in undeveloped neighborhoods, local business and social issues are prior to the ecological environmental problems. The spatial professionals implement community actions to bond up the lost social ties.

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Explore An Alternative Method to Participatory Design: Draw People into the Scenario Community planners used to make design models and use them as tools for general public to understand the space plans.

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ah neighborhoods become only the memories in the elderly SHRSOH OLNH DURXQG \HDUV ROG DJH $IWHUZDUG VRPH RI MDVPLQH IDUPHUV OHDUQHG KRZ WR PDNH EHDQ VSURXWV EDVHG RQ the good water quality in this area. As the time changes, all this historical contexts were lost gradually, it is a great challenge for FRPPXQLW\ SODQQHUV WR KHOS UHYLWDOL]H *DOD DK QHLJKERUKRRGV The action of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jasmine Garden Cornerâ&#x20AC;? took place in the clustered VSRW RI %DR 'H FRPPXQLW\ %HFDXVH RI WKH QHLJKERUKRRG magistrate deliver the eldersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meals there, and it makes the VSDFH PRUH OLNH D PHHWLQJ SODFH :H VDZ WKH HOGHUV JR WKHUH to have classes, like singing, painting, and even exercising. Since it is a place constantly in use, but during lunch time the elders MXVW JR WKHUH WR SLFN WKHLU OXQFK ER[ DQG WKHQ OHDYH 2XWVLGH RI WKH %DR 'H FRPPXQLW\ FHQWHU WKHUH DOZD\V RFFXSLHG with motorcycles and obstacles, which makes the elders feel insecure while their staying. Community planners sought to create a friendly use corner become more comfortable and safe and used recycled pallets to create the scenario. In this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jasmine Garden Cornerâ&#x20AC;?, there were put some recycled pallets DV EHQFK DQG SODQWHG VRPH KHUEV DQG ČľRZHUV 7KH SXUSRVH WR KHOS WKH HOGHUV WR NQRZ LW FRXOG EH D ELJ GLÎ?HUHQFH ZLWK D VDIH and comfortable corner. The elders started to stay longer time, and while their staying they talk to each other and share food together. Î&#x2013;Q WKH QDPH RI

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AN COMPARATIVE STUDY ON OLD PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSING IN CHINA: Focus on Two Cases Lei Shao Associate Professor Ph.D., School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China Yiti Wang Ph.D. Urban and Rural Planning Administration Center, Ministry of +RXVLQJ DQG 8UEDQ 5XUDO 'HYHORSPHQW &KLQD &RQWDFW $XWKRU <LWL :DQJ Sanlihe Road No.9, Urban and Rural Planning Administration &HQWHU 02+85' %HLMLQJ &KLQD

wangyitiyiti@163.com Keywords: OLD PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSING, COMPARATIVE STUDY, CASE STUDY, CHINA

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old public rental housing sector at the beginning of the 1980s +XDQJ DQG WKH UDWLR FRXOG EH HYHQ KLJKHU LQ VRPH ODUJH DQG LQODQG LQGXVWULDO FLWLHV /RJDQ HW DO +RXVLQJ SURYLVLRQ began to change when China embarked on the economic reform programme in the 1980s. Housing privatization and commercialization were introduced gradually in all cities during WKH V :DQJ 1HZ KRXVHV ZHUH EXLOW DQG PDUNHWHG E\ FRPPHUFLDO SURSHUW\ GHYHORSHUV /RJDQ HW DO

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reform policies were introduced by the national government in 1988. Large scale privatization of public housing was carried out in all cities and towns. Housing reform aimed to change all aspects of the housing system including investment, provision, allocation and management. Apart from privatization of existing public housing, reform policies introduced several QHZ DUUDQJHPHQWV WR Č´QDQFH WKH KRXVLQJ V\VWHP DQG VXSSO\ low income housing. This includes the Housing Provident Fund VDYLQJV DQG $Î?RUGDEOH +RXVLQJ MLQJML VKL\RQJ IDQJ

Housing reform had brought substantial public and private investments into housing development and had eased the shortage problem to some extent, but other problems remained. As there was no control on the standard of housing to be privatized, some substandard public housing was sold to the sitting residents. Furthermore, most residents of this poor TXDOLW\ SXEOLF KRXVLQJ XVHG WR EH ZRUNHUV LQ WKH 62(V WKH\ ZHUH either retired or unemployed, whose income were sometimes EHORZ WKH QDWLRQDO EDVLF JXDUDQWHH OLQH SRYHUW\ OLQH 0DQ\ RI WKHP FRXOG QRW DÎ?RUG WR PDLQWDLQ RU GHFRUDWH WKHLU KRXVLQJ DQG UHOLHG RQ WKH IRUPHU 62(V WR Č´QDQFH WKH UHIXUELVKPHQW of the old housing estates. Accordingly, their living conditions depended on SOEsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; economic performance. Some workers in SRRUO\ PDQDJHG 62(V VRPH RI WKHP KDG WR EH FORVHG GRZQ

could not obtain proper maintenance and management on their housing estates.

Fieldwork and data collection was carried out in 2009.

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Table 1 Characteristics of Case Study Housing Estates

4 Estate design and tenure 4.1 Estate planning and architecture design $OWKRXJK LQČľXHQFHG E\ VRPH KRXVLQJ WKHRULHV IURP ZHVWHUQ countries, the planning and design of residential community from 1950s to 1980s changed gradually in the aspects of planning principle, spatial structure, as well as design standard.

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Figure 2. Distribution of the case study cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region

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Construction in Pengpu started in the late 1950s and lasted XQWLO 7KH Č´UVW SDUW RI WKH HVWDWH ZDV EXLOW DW WKH HQG RI Č&#x160; VW Č´YH \HDU SHULRG Č&#x2021; ZKLFK IROORZHG WKH WKHQ popular former Soviet Union style, with very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;standardized GHVLJQČ&#x2021; XQGHU WKH FRPPDQG HFRQRP\ $OO WR VWRU\ EXLOGLQJV were arranged compactly into blocks aiming to have a high building density at about 1.5 of FAR . Each community block was equipped with public facilities as primary school and grocers to meet the basic needs of residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daily life, while open space ZDV EDUHO\ FRQVLGHUHG 7KLV DSSURDFK FRXOG EH LQČľXHQFHG E\ a State Council document issued in 1956, which required a SULQFLSOH RI RUGHU IRU FRQVLGHUDWLRQ RQ FRPPXQLW\ SODQQLQJ â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Utility, Economical and Beauty if possibleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. This means to cut possible construction costs. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;economicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; principal also led to a low design standard, especially unit size. Most of these HDUO\ ČľDWV GLGQČ&#x2021;W KDYH OLYLQJ URRPV DQG VHYHUDO KRXVHKROGV had to share a kitchen and toilet. In the third stage of Pengpu, all the 55 buildings were not equipped with elevators. Among these buildings, only 15 of them were built as independent IDPLO\ ČľDWV DQG KRXVHKROGV LQ WKH RWKHU EXLOGLQJV KDG WR VKDUH IDFLOLWLHV IRU H[DPSOH RQH NLWFKHQ ZDV VKDUHG E\ households and two toilets shared by 10 families. The average ČľRRU DUHD IRU HDFK XQLW ZDV DERXW P Almost all public sector housing built during this period was EULFN FRQFUHWH VWUXFWXUHV 7KLV FKHDS DQG TXLFN FRQVWUXFWLRQ method resulted in many problems for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents. The structural problems and poor living condition came out very strongly during the interview. One old resident who lived in the HVWDWH IRU PRUH WKDQ \HDUV VXPPDUL]HG WKH SUREOHPV YHU\ ZHOO â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole building is under a bad situation. All the walls and ceilings DUH VXÎ?HULQJ IURP ZDWHU VHHSDJH EHFDXVH RI WKH GHWHULRUDWHG ZDWHUSURRČ´QJ RQ ČľRRU VODEV 7KHUH DUH DOVR VRPH SUREOHPV ZLWK the water supply and drainage pipe systems, which results serious ČľRRGLQJ LQ VXPPHU 0DQ\ UHVLGHQWVČ&#x2021; IXUQLWXUH DQG HOHFWULFDO HTXLSPHQWV DUH GHVWUR\HG GXULQJ WKH ČľRRGLQJ 7KH VWUXFWXUH RI WKH building is not as stable as before, and the foundation has begun to sink in some places. It made not very safe to live here.â&#x20AC;?

Caixiang in Suzhou, on the other hand, was built in 1982 and 1983 during the housing boom period after China is embarked on economical reform programme. The estate was planned and constructed at a relatively high standard. The estate also moved away from the previous practice in which most new public houses were built in small scale and allocated by local SOEs rather than the municipal government, though the allocation standard and eligibility conditions were set by the housing department of local authority, who also regulated and supervised the SOEsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; housing departments. Caixiang was developed under a new V\VWHP Î&#x2013;QČľXHQFHG E\ WKH Č&#x2020;1HLJKERXUKRRG 8QLWČ&#x2021; GHVLJQ WKHRU\ the spatial structure of the residential area was made much clearer in Caixiang estate. The neighbourhood was designed to

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consist of three blocks with 12 agglomerations, each including 6 to 8 buildings. An open space of 1,300 m2 was designed for each agglomeration, formed a system of open space totaling 123,680 m2.

Table 2 economic and technical indexes of Caixiang(1982)

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Descriptions and analysis are based on the household survey we FRQGXFWHG LQ WKH HVWDWHV 7DEOH VXPPDUL]HV WKH PDLQ VRFLDO and economic compositions of residents in the two estates.

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* The respondents should be the household heads or their dependences. In this form, education level, employment status, and occupation category are about the conditions of the UHVSRQGHQWV KRXVHKROG W\SH DQG KRXVHKROG LQFRPH DUH DERXW the conditions of their family.

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college and university degrees varies. In comparison with 7 per cent of population in Jiangsu Province have college or above education, Caixiang showed a much high ratio of respondents with higher education, 25 per cent respectively. In Shanghai, about 22.7 per cent of population has had college or university HGXFDWLRQ ZKLOH WKH HTXLYDOHQW UDWLR LQ 3HQJSX ZDV MXVW SHU cent.

rate among the two residents was very low. Among the large number of retired residents, a high proportion of them used to work in SOEs. 72.7 per cent of inhabitants in Caixiang and SHU FHQW LQ 3HQJSX DUH RU XVHG WR EH 62( ZRUNHUV ZKLFK is much higher than the proportion in other common estates.

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THE ROLE OF RIVERBANK AREA AS COMMUNITY SPACE IN SURABAYA CITY, CASE STUDY: KAMPUNG JAMBANGAN AND KAMPUNG KEPUTRAN R. Dimas Widya PUTRA

Graduate Students of Urban Design Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember r.dimasp@yahoo.com

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Graduate Students of Urban Design Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember nugrosetyo@gmail.com

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Professor in Architecture and Morphology, Department of Architecture Insititut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember endar@arch.its.ac.id Keywords: COMMUNITY SPACE, KAMPUNG JAMBANGAN, KAMPUNG KEPUTRAN, OPEN SPACE, RIVERBANK.

Abstract 8UEDQ GHYHORSPHQW SURFHVV RI 6XUDED\D ZDV LQČľXHQFHG E\ WKH presence of Kalimas River and its branches. For hundred years, many settlements were established on riverbank area for a reason: close to commercial or industrial area as working place. The river also played important role to supply and support daily activities IRU LQKDELWDQWV 7ZR GLÎ?HUHQW ORFDWLRQ DV FDVH VWXGLHV ZHUH WDNHQ WR H[DPLQH WKH UROH RI ULYHUEDQN DV FRPPXQLW\ VSDFH 7KH Č´UVW one is located on downtown (Kampung Keputran), and another RQH LV ORFDWHG RQ VXEXUELD .DPSXQJ -DPEDQJDQ $V D UHVXOW RI urbanization, urban settlements are getting denser than before. The quality of open space and riverbank area for community space are less attention. This paper aims to identify the role of riverbank area ZKLFK LV REVHUYHG LQ WZR GLÎ?HUHQW NDPSRQJV LQ GLÎ?HUHQW ORFDWLRQ and environment.

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1. Introduction The City of Surabaya as the capital of East Java has a rapid economic growth. Because of this issue, there is an impact of population explosion. People migrate to Surabaya looking for MREV RSSRUWXQLW\ DQG SODFH WR OLYH +RXVLQJ QHHGV DUH RQH RI WKH PDMRU IDFWRUV LQ WKH LQFUHDVLQJ SRSXODWLRQ +LVWRU\ UHFRUGHG that a settlement was built along the Kalimas River and made it as starting point of population growth. Riverbank area was chosen in order to be guaranteed of water needs. River also played role as transportation infrastructure and meeting place 1RUEHUJ 6FKXO] Î&#x2013;Q WKH FLW\ GHYHORSPHQW VRPH UHDVRQV such as riverbank close to commercial, trade, and industrial district being the dominant factors in choosing riverbank as a place to live.

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Figure 1: Kampung Keputran and Jambangan as Case Studies

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2. Case Studies: Kampung Keputran and Kampung Jambangan

described if it is related to inhabitants and able to accommodate the dynamic of human life.

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Figure 2: Buildings on the riverbank in Kampung Keputran.

Meanwhile kampung Jambangan is located in surburbia area and close to industrial district. Kampong is constrained by .DUDK GLVWULFW QRUWKHUQ VLGH -DODQ -DPEDQJDQ HDVWHUQ VLGH

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Figure 3: Buildings on the riverbank in Kampung Jambangan.

3. Theoretical Review

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infrastructure of transition space. Result of analysis presented LQ GHVFULSWLYH HYDOXDWLYH IRUP DV VKRZQ EHORZ 5.1 Physical Aspect Č? 6RIWVFDSH (OHPHQWV Softscape elements which are discussed and analyzed in this two kampong includes vegetations as aesthetic value and or as shading. This vegetation and greenery facilitate local community WR LQWHUDFW HDFK RWKHU 7KH UHVXOWV DV VKRZQ EHORZ

4. Methodology In order to achieve the aims of this paper, character appraisal is applied as analysis technique. This technique aims to identify the pattern of typical development describing urban HQYLURQPHQW SKHQRPHQRQ 8UEDQ 'HVLJQ 7RRONLW Î&#x2013;Q this paper, character appraisal is important in observing and analyzing characteristic of space in riverbank area. There are VRPH VWDJHV WKDW DUH DQDO\]HG Č? 3K\VLFDO DVSHFW FRQWDLQV LGHQWLČ´FDWLRQ RI VRIWVFDSH DQG hardscape in the transition space of riverbank area. Č? 1RQ SK\VLFDO DVSHFW FRQWDLQV LGHQWLČ´FDWLRQ RI SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V DFWLYLW\ in the riverbank area, and the role of riverbank as community space.

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6. Conclusion Kampung Keputran located in downtown area has a park with lots of vegetation as shading devices. Those vegetations serve to beautify the surrounding environment and give an impression RI &LW\ 3DUN FLW\ ZLWK SDUN %HVLGHV NDPSXQJ -DPEDQJDQ ORFDWHG LQ VXEXUELD DUHD KDV QR SDUNV ZLWK VHOI VXSSRUWHG E\ local inhabitants. Inhabitants facilitate the transition space by providing benches and gazebos. Î&#x2013;W FDQ EH DVVXPHG WKDW WKHUH DUH VLPLODULW\ DQG GLÎ?HUHQFHV LQ both Kampongs. Similarity can be perceived by its transition space in playing a role as community space. Transition space can nurture social relationship and sense of community. Meanwhile, GLÎ?HUHQFHV FDQ EH REWDLQHG IURP WKH &LW\ *RYHUQPHQWČ&#x2021;V attention in improving environment quality. Kampung Keputran UHFHLYHV PRUH DWWHQWLRQ WKDQ .DPSXQJ -DPEDQJDQ DV DÎ?HFWHG by its location in downtown area.

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Joonwoo KIM PhD Researcher Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium Kasteelpark Arenberg 1 / bus 2431, BE-3001 Heverlee, Belgium joonwoo.kim@asro.kuleuven.be Bruno De MEULDER Professor Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium Kasteelpark Arenberg 1 / bus 2431, BE-3001 Heverlee, Belgium bruno.demeulder@isro.kuleuven.be Keywords: URBAN REGENERATION, INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, STREETBASED UPGRADING, ON-SITE UPGRADING, URBAN DESIGN, PLACEMAKING

Abstract This paper examines the Sewoon complex which has been the icon of modern development in Seoul, South Korea. The Sewoon complex was built in the late 1960s under the Military Government with new propaganda â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Life revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that forced fast development of economy and breaking away from the tradition. This mighty modern icon, 1 kilometer long and 50 meter wide, showed a modern utopia that was expressed by mega structure, complex functions, roads system only for vehicles, and elevated pedestrian deck. This paper describes the backgrounds of the Sewoon complex through UHDOL]DWLRQ IDFWRUV ZKLFK LQČľXHQFHG WKH ELUWK RI WKLV FRPSOH[ both directly and indirectly; new propaganda for development, GLFWDWRUVKLS DQG SHUVRQDOLWLHV LQYHVWHG ZLWK SRZHU WKH VLWH WKH Č´UVW ideas to redevelopment, aiming mega structure, attractive design as XUEDQ LQIUDVWUXFWXUH VOXP FOHDUDQFH UHORFDWLRQ XQRÉ?FLDO SURFHVV construction by private capital, and extended new modern vision.

These 10 realization factors show a coincidence and an inevitability of development that came from social, economic, political and spatial aspects. The architectural ideas which were connected with international trends of modern architectures and inspirations from an architect were partly realized by private capital and the Military JRYHUQPHQW 7KH Č´UVW SODQ RI WKH 6HZRRQ FRPSOH[ LQFOXGHG PRGHUQ idealism to change radically old inner area and transform Seoul to a modern city, but it have been functioning reversely to protect inner city from the huge development pressure. The transplant of mega VWUXFWXUH XQGHU WKH SURSDJDQGD Č&#x2020;/LIH UHYROXWLRQČ&#x2021; KDV PDGH GLÎ?HUHQW rules and relationships with neighborhood area that implies limitations of modern idealism and possibilities of self-organization with neighborhood.

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Introduction There were many mega structure projects after World War II which were proposed to solve urban problems by mighty buildings as urban structure under modern idealism. Its vision was to build new ideal city with mega structure and add to new modern life as new logic of urbanism by architecture. However, most of them have not been realized as physical form with their original ideas. It has showed their modern ideals by the DUFKLWHFWXUH GHVLJQ DQG LQČľXHQFHG WKH FLW\ WR REVHVV RYHU taking modern ideas till now.

Here is an exceptional existent case that followed modern ideals faithfully and realized in the late 1960s, the Sewoon Complex. This project was one of main pilot projects that redeveloped a slum area by a modern iconic building that of 1 kilometer long and 200,000 square meters areas with mixed functions, such as housing, and various commercial and public IXQFWLRQV 7KLV ČľDJVKLS SURMHFW HQWLUHO\ IXOČ´OOHG SURSDJDQGD services in the iciest years of the cold war. It was an emblem RI IDVW GHYHORSPHQW HFRQRP\ Č´UVW SROLF\ ZLWK DQWLFRPPXQLVP and the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Life Revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; . The initiation of mighty modern complex had special backgrounds of Korean city that were linked with social, political, and economical aspects after the military coup of President Park from 1961 to 1979. Firstly, this paper describes the background of the Sewoon Complex by 10 realization factors to see this mega structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideals and opportunities.

In addition, it could be interested in seeing the Sewoon Complex as urban infrastructure. There were several new ideas to improve inner city by this mega complex with urban infrastructure. However, its plan had a gap between ideals of modern city and urban condition of Seoul at that time and less considering neighbourhood, and it was also not fully realized as planned by opposing opinions of private capital. So this paper deals also with the unrealized ideas of the Sewoon Complex and its limitation as urban infrastructure. It could show more physical characteristic of the Sewoon Complex and see the limitation of plan as urban infrastructure of the inner city of Seoul.

The Sewoon Complex has been faced development pressure many times till now. Its radical ideas are unappreciated by citizen today and the private capital which supported this project in the past completely denounce the Sewoon complex nowadays as an illusion of modern development for pushing forward redevelopment projects. This mighty icon could nevertheless be a good basis to see the rules of the modern development and urbanism in developing stage. The 10 realization factors were included common thinking of modern society at that time, and this distinct project was started under common

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desire for modern ideals in a developing country. Its physical form as unban infrastructure also clearly shows the radical ideas for developing modern society, and its opportunities and limitations give a chance to look again the mighty modern icon as urban infrastructure and a meaning of mega structure with neighbourhood.

10 Realization Factors of Sewoon Complex 1. New propaganda for development The military government of President Park propagated the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Life Revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which emphasized new modern life and development that was divided from traditional elements. The fast, radical, and massive development would be one of the important aspects that were expected to legitimize the junta.

They tried to show its ambition to develop modern society with extremely fast development on a massive scale. Its propaganda for this radical modernization was strongly accepted by citizens.

People had been adapted on fast development and new vision of modernization that included modern desire with economic growth.

The Sewoon complex is one of main projects that demonstrated their propaganda for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Life revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Its huge scale was an icon of modern development, and they believed fast GHYHORSPHQW HTXDOOHG HÉ?FLHQF\ /HH ' + &LWL]HQV FRXOG be captivated by its structure, space and new modern life that help to trust â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;modern idealismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the military government.

Radical developments could be the virtue of the military government, and it made the public agreed with the propaganda of the military government.

Figure 1: Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye view of the Sewoon Complex, 1979 (Source: Korean Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2014)

Hyeun-Ok, Kim Swoo-Geun. President Park Chung-Hee had enormous power. He controlled administration, legislation, DQG MXGLFDWXUH +H GLG SULRULWL]H HFRQRPLF GHYHORSPHQW Č´UVW together with anticommunism before other aspects. Add to this, Mayor Kim Hyeun-Ok had a strong drive with initiative. +H OHDGHG RÉ?FHUV DV PLOLWDU\ PHQ +H RQO\ ZRUNHG IRXU \HDUV 1966 to 1970 as mayor of Seoul, but he completed a lot of projects such as Sewoon Complex, Han River and Yeouido development, a lot of roads, the bridge over the Han River, and citizen apartments. These projects were supported politically by 3UHVLGHQW 3DUN EXW Č´QDQFLDO VXSSRUW KHDOHG WR EH HQJDJHG E\ the Seoul Metropolitan Government itself. However, Mayor Kim could realize these projects with blindness initiative by using SULYDWH FDSLWDO RU HQWHUSULVH EXVLQHVV *HOH]HDX 9

In addition, Architect Kim Swoo-Geun was one of the main strategists of the Military Government. His ideas based on modernism could fascinate President Park and Mayor Kim. The Sewoon Complex could be a revolutionary architecture that the Military Government wanted to show their legitimacy to citizens.

The three mentioned radical persons could make co-operative HÎ?HFW WR UHDOL]H WKH PRGHUQ LFRQ WKH 6HZRRQ &RPSOH[ DQG push to change the city of Seoul with modern idealism. This cooperative relative made strong power with authority, initiative and ideas that realized this mega structure in two years.

3. The site The site of Sewoon Complex was an urban evacuation corridor made during Japanese colonial rule from April to August 1945, just before the end of World War II and independence from Japan. These urban evacuation corridors were designed WR UHGXFLQJ Č´UH GDPDJHV IURP ERPELQJ WKDW FDPH IURP ELJ damage by bombing of Tokyo in March 1945. The site of Sewoon Complex was made as 50 meter width and 1180 meter length .DQJ : : 7KH ZDU ZDV RQH RI WKH UHDVRQV WR make long empty space in the center area. Japanese colonial authorities could avoid general money on compensation during the Second World War. After independence and ending the Korean War, this evacuated DUHD ZDV Č´UVW UHJLVWHUHG WR EHFRPH D ERXOHYDUG EXW LQ UHDOLW\ LW ZDV LQVWDQWO\ Č´OOHG E\ UHIXJHHV HQGLQJ WKH .RUHDQ :DU 7KLV KDOI informal area soon became famous area as red light district, and it was labelled as slum area in the inner city of Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government soon realized the necessity to improve this area by slum clearance and redevelopment project.

2. Dictatorship and personalities invested with power That there were three important persons who pushed to realize this mega project at the moment not enough capital, construction materials and technique: Park Chung-Hee, Kim

1 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Life Revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is one of propaganda that made by the Military Government. It was show new vision with modern life and emerges from old tradition. It was linked with apartment development with modern life style.

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$LPLQJ 0HJD VWUXFWXUH When Architect Kim Swoo-Geun met Mayor Kim, he immediately gave some ideas to Major Kim directly about the advantage of pedestrian malls, the double deck system and a multidimensional city. Finally, when he was just 35 years old, he took the project RI WKH 6HZRRQ &RPSOH[ <RRQ 6 - +H VWXGLHG LQ -DSDQ and was well aware of international trends from America and Europe. Architect Kim was good to adopt modern ideas and tried to apply in the contexts of Seoul.

Figure 2: Urban evacuation corridor in the late of 1940s and occupation by refugees in 1958 (Sources: (up) The street map of Seoul, the late 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, (scale 1:6000) (Map of Seoul, Seoul History, 2006: 79)/ (bottom) Kang, N. H., 2011: 54)

7KH Č´UVW LGHDV WR UHGHYHORSPHQW 7KH Č´UVW LGHDV PDGH DQ RÉ?FHU ZKR ZRUNHG DW WKH GLVWULFW RÉ?FH Joong-gu. They proposed a plan to Mayor Kim that designed to clear slum area and made new road 20 meters width and assign the rest of the site to two rows of housing. This plan attracted concern from President Park. This project was forwarded by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Mayor Kim looked from his role for better ideas to solve the problems that the previous plan could not solve; new road system to be directly faced to the surrounding area and increasing width of road for high density development. $Q DOWHUQDWLYH SODQ ZDV GHYHORSHG E\ +853Î&#x2013; +RXVLQJ DQG 8UEDQ 'HYHORSPHQW 3ODQQLQJ Î&#x2013;QVWLWXWH WKDW ZDV OHDGHG E\ WKH American architect, Oswald Nagler and operates under the central government. They proposed two roads on either side of the site and new buildings in the centre area between two roads. However, it had too much open space. That seemed not HÉ?FLHQW HQRXJK IRU 0D\RU .LP )LQDOO\ 0D\RU .LP ORRNHG IRU WKH DGYLFH RI WKH \RXQJ DUFKLWHFW .LP 6ZRR *HXQ 6RQ - 0

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The Sewoon complex was planned with a redevelopment plan on neighbourhood area by Architect Kim and his young architects of assistants [Fig. 4]. This plan tried to redevelop inner city with the Sewoon complex. It was included new buildings, infrastructure, and public facilities to change neighbourhood area physically. Every block beside the Sewoon complex was planned with inner garden and connects by elevated pedestrian.

However, this plan was not considered by the Seoul metropolitan government, developers and local residents. Finally, the Sewoon complex just built in the gap of blocks which was 50 meters wide LQFOXGH URDGV DQG SHGHVWULDQ ZLWKRXW EXÎ?HU VSDFH EHWZHHQ WKH Sewoon complex and neighbourhood area.

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Figure 3: Two ideas of redevelopment (1966) (Sources: (left) Seoul Museum of History 2010 / (right) Son, J.M. 1997:141)

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ZDV SODQHG DW PHWHUV KLJK QG OHYHO PHWHUV ZLGWK DQG 1 kilometers long, was an important design feature for the Sewoon Complex. It was rarely for pedestrian as shopping mall that was separated from ground for vehicles only. This plan DOVR H[SHFWHG WR LQFUHDVH HÉ?FLHQF\ RI VWUHHWV ERWK JURXQG DQG elevated pedestrian way.

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But soon enough, people realized commercial supremacy of the Sewoon Complex and started to invest in this project. Finally, eight developers were selected by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, six of construction companies and two unions of merchants. First completion was in 1967 and other buildings gradually completed by 1968. After completion, the Sewoon Complex became the icon of modern life as commercial space and living space for the moment, even though original plan was PRGLČ´HG E\ SULYDWH FDSLWDO

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([WHQGHG QHZ PRGHUQ YLVLRQ After the Sewoon Complex, Mayor Kim asked new plan of highspeed elevated motorways to Architect Kim. This idea was criticised by many researchers who insisted subway is more urgent than elevated motorways, but Mayor Kim pushed again this plan to realize in the inner city of Seoul. The plan of elevated motorways that proposed by Architect Kim were designed to pass through inner city without crossing and extended to outside of inner city. This plan also tried to show their modern idealism like the Sewoon Complex. One of longest elevated motorways, Cheonggye motorway that completed in 1969 was crossing over the Sewoon Complex. These two radical projects would cram new modern vision to citizens of Seoul and South Korea.

The modern ideas by two projects had been extended to society and urban space. Elevated motorways had been constructed during 1970s to 1990s and Korean cities were operated for

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Limitation of Sewoon Complex as urban infrastructure It is possible to say the ideal plan could not care the city and its neighbourhood. There were too many limitations to design the mega structure with careful concerning about the city of Seoul and the future of Seoul. The design followed modern ideals and trusted its positive future. They did have a time to research about neighbourhood and the modern lifestyle, and peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; behaviour. Many citizens include politicians and researchers have criticized radical development of the Sewoon Complex and its impractical plan.

The Sewoon Complex had attracted great attention from citizens, but it was not a long lasting interest. Capital for investment moved to the South area of Han River that was promoted as area for new development by the government. The North area of Han River was prohibited new building and increasing the scale of any business functions. The Sewoon Complex was in other words deprived of economic dynamism to the South and delayed to rehabilitate with area of the surroundings. The leading function of The Sewoon Complex, electric equipments and machine equipments, also was competed with new development of mega commercial complex. The Sewoon Complex had been reduced commercial supremacy and declined commercial activity in 20 years. The mighty modern icon has receded into the dim past.

The Sewoon Complex did not care of the neighbourhood VXÉ?FLHQWO\ $UFKLWHFWV DQG SROLWLFLDQV WKRXJKW WKH QHLJKERXUKRRG of the Sewoon Complex should be changed and improved. So, the plan was too passive to connect with outside and related with neighbourhood. It built for higher class then previous residents and neighbourhood. The elevated pedestrian would be make new ordered trail that separated from the disorder street of the ground. It did not showed openness to neighbourhood as spatially and psychologically. So the elevated pedestrian has been empty without people and meaningless space for the Sewoon Complex and its neighbourhood.

In addition, the Cheonggye elevated motorways could be seen as other separated space like the Sewoon Complex. It tried to emphasize fast development and speed of modern life, but the WZR PHJD SURMHFWV ZHUH LQ FRQČľLFW HDFK RWKHU )DVW PRYHPHQW of car was linked with the Sewoon Complex, and its elevated motorway taken a vitality of inner city to other area of Seoul.

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However, the Sewoon Complex was staunchly realized by modern ideals that were proposed in modern projects, especially Unite dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Habitation and the Plan for Tokyo. Many modern projects were not realized in reality, but the Sewoon Complex completed with mighty scale as 1km long and 200,000 square meters areas in the end of 1960s. This paper arranges 10 realization factors of Sewoon Complex to see the background of the Sewoon Complex; new propaganda for development, dictatorship and personalities invested with power, the site, the Č´UVW LGHDV WR UHGHYHORSPHQW DLPLQJ PHJD VWUXFWXUH DWWUDFWLYH GHVLJQ DV XUEDQ LQIUDVWUXFWXUH VOXP FOHDUDQFH UHORFDWLRQ XQRÉ?FLDO SURFHVV FRQVWUXFWLRQ E\ SULYDWH FDSLWDO DQG H[WHQGHG new modern vision. It would help to understand its possibilities, limitations, and the start of modern urbanism in Seoul.

The Sewoon Complex contained many new ideas at that time in .RUHD EXW VRPH RI QHZ LGHDV FRXOG QRW EH UHDOL]HG E\ FRQČľLFW with private capital. Its modern idealism was adopted selectively by developers, and it could arouse curiosities about results DIWHU IXOO\ DSSOLFDWLRQ +RZHYHU LW FDQ EH DUJXDEOH WKDW WKH Č´UVW ideas of the Sewoon Complex were not enough to concern the neighbourhood and networks as urban infrastructure. It focused the modern ideals that aimed to control the urbanism by one mega structure for fast development. It disregarded existing urban contexts and tissues in area of the surroundings.

They believed that new inserted mighty structure would make new logic of inner city and change the citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pattern of life.

Ironically, its vision of modern development with capitalism has restricted development reversely that help to protect small and medium size industry and local community in the inner city.

The neighbourhood of the Sewoon Complex has been XQGHYHORSHG SK\VLFDOO\ ZLWK LQVXÉ?FLHQW LQIUDVWUXFWXUH DQG decrepit buildings. The Sewoon Complex planed with less FRQQHFWLYLW\ ZLWK QHLJKERXUKRRG DV SK\VLFDOO\ DQG LWV Č´UVW programs also targeted higher class than neighbourhood. In contrast, the surrounding area of the Sewoon Complex has EHHQ Č´OOHG E\ VPDOO VFDOH VWRUHV DQG IDFWRULHV DQG WKHVH VPDOO points of functions have linked and made huge and balanced

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networks. This linkage extended reversely to the Sewoon Complex that helped to be known name as Sewoon electronic market in the late 1970s and 1980s. The Sewoon Complex was the sale store of electric equipments that made or handled by QHLJKERXUKRRG $OWHU IURP WKH È´UVW SODQ WKH 6HZRRQ FRPSOH[ KDV EHHQ È´[HG E\ QHLJKERXUKRRG DQG LW KDV PDGH VWURQJ symbiotic relationship together. This relationship is not easy to EUHDN E\ FDSLWDOLVP WKDW DLPV PRUH SURÈ´WV E\ GHYHORSPHQW

Seoul: Archilife.

It is possible to say that this tough platform of development is the legacy of mighty modern icon, the Sewoon Complex. There was several tries to redevelop the Sewoon Complex even collecting new master plan from superstar architects, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, and Fred Koetter. However, the Sewoon Complex is too complicate and too strongly rooted in the neighbourhood.

It was possible to delete Cheonggye elevated motorway with painted name of stream restoration and big public budget, but the Sewoon Complex does not get a support from the appropriateness of redevelopment and unconditional capital.

Fortunately, the citizen of Seoul has a time to re-look slowly the Sewoon Complex with balanced view even though it inserted in the city drastically with a radical modern illusion.

Seoul Museum of History. 2014. Goodbye, Elevated Motorways.

Seoul: Seoul Museum of History.

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From Imperial Canal to Boulevard

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Figure 5 The transformation of Beijing and the water system

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in Yuan Dynasty, became the sewer main for small ditches of east city nowadaysâ&#x20AC;?. In Republican Beijing, the Imperial Canal was never been seen as the poetic landscape anymore, but an open drainage. In a government report, it was mentioned that Č&#x160;$OO WKH VXE GUDLQDJHV FDQ QRW ČľRZ WR WKH FLW\ PRDW H[FHSW WKLV GUDLQDJH Î&#x2013;PSHULDO &DQDO GXH WR WKH UHQRYDWLRQ ODVW \HDUČ&#x2039; 7DQJ S LQ VSHFLDO LVVXH

of banks. The Canal was also narrowed in order to increase the width of the streets. The new pattern of the streets was to set the sidewalks on two sides, the asphalt pavement street for vehicles in the middle. The lined-up trees were planted not only on the sidewalk along the canal, but also on the sidewalk next to the buildings. The green trees, the clear water and the clean streets, represented the new order, which distinguished from the old organic drainage. From the viewpoint of the street façade, the building form had transformed. The onelevel Chinese traditional buildings with the slope roof were removed, replaced by the large Western type buildings mainly EHWZHHQ WZR DQG Č´YH OHYHOV 7KLV WUDQVIRUPDWLRQ RI EXLOGLQJ models also broke the continuity façade along the streets. The alternately appearances of the embassiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; closed walls and the scattered Western buildings failed to make a consistent façade of the streets.

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Figure 8 Imperial Canal.

Figure 7 Imperial Canal, around 1902.

After the Boxer Rebellion, the Administrative Commission attempted to improve the poor conditions of Imperial Canal through a series of renovation works. It repaired the road and the fences along the canal, replanted the trees on the banks as well. From Figure 8 and Figure 9, these works dramatically changed the landscape of Imperial Canal. There were two phases of Imperial Canal renovation. Before it changed into the sub drainage in 1924, it was deigned as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the tree-lined canal streetâ&#x20AC;?, using the similar approach that Dutch applied in the invention of the early 17th century Amsterdam. The southern part of Imperial Canal was the most representative case of this design. The curved canal was changed into a straight line with the regular fences standing on the both side

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But, the problem of the terrible smell of the canal still existed. %HFDXVH RI Č&#x160;LWV IRXO VPHOO ORQJ D VRXUFH RI FRPSODLQWČ&#x2039; 0RVHU DQG 0RVHU S Î&#x2013;PSHULDO &DQDO DQG WKH WZR VWUHHWV along it were renovated again in 1924. The canal, from the Water Gate at the city moat to East Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an Avenue, built the sub drainages and created the linear parks at the center of the streets instead. Figure 10 displayed the transformation from 1924 to 1928, clearly demonstrated the vanishing process of this part of Imperial Canal. According to the reports by Provisional Government of the Republic of China, the detailed information DERXW WKH GXUDWLRQ HQJLQHHU Č´QDQFH DQG FRQVWUXFWLRQ RI WKH project was as follows: $FFRUGLQJ WR )XMLL DW WKH 4XDUWHUČ&#x2021;V $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ Č&#x160;7KH construction of the ditch was between September to 'HFHPEHU EXW DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH ZLWQHVV E\ Î&#x2013;VKLEDVKL from Tourism Department of Municipal Council, the project ZDV Č´QLVKHG DW WKH ODWHU $SULO *HUPDQ URDG HQJLQHHU $ 7KLHOH RI WKH 4XDUWHUČ&#x2021;V $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ VXSHUYLVHG WKH construction. The expenses was also in the charge of the 4XDUWHUČ&#x2021;V $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ 7KH GLWFK ZDV FRQVWUXFWHG E\ WKH bricks on the two sides, covered by the concrete on the top, and designed the parks above.â&#x20AC;? At the Southern City Gate, the ditch outlet, which directly connected to the city moat, LV DERXW IRXU WR VL[ PHWHUV GHHS Č´YH PHWHUV ZLGH $OO RI WKH subsurface drains are depending on this ditch currently. .Ä?DLQ .DKRNX 5HQUDNXEX 6HLPXN\RNX &KÄ?VDMR DQG 6KXQMX SS

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Urban improvement and Europeanization The impression of Europeans on Beijing had experienced dramatic changes during the past centuries. The memory of the city as a holy city had gone, instead, Beijing at the early twenties century was seen as the city of dreadful night. What the western colonialists demanded, was that Beijing, as a pre-industrial city, should inevitably transfer into a modern city, following the path which the western cities had experienced during the nineteenth century. Therefore, in order to improve the â&#x20AC;&#x153;poorâ&#x20AC;? urban environment in the isolated Legation District, the strategy that the colonialists used was directly â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śreplicating the urbane EHDXW\ RI FLWLHV LQ WKHLU KRPHODQGČ&#x2039; :ULJKW S %RWK WKH hundred-year colonial experiences, and the practices and the discussions of city reform movements in western cities during the nineteenth century, provided the practical and theoretical references for the regeneration projects in Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old cities.

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limited the development of the modern transport facilities.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;a current of thought which made circulation the key to spatial organization.â&#x20AC;? The â&#x20AC;&#x153;functionalistâ&#x20AC;? model of planning has been set up in Western world in the nineteenth century, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;especially LQ WHUPV RI FLUFXODWLRQ DQG HÉ?FLHQW PRYHPHQW DV ZHOO DV LQ WKH RUGHU KHDOWK DQG VHFXULW\ RI WKH PRGHUQ FLW\Č&#x2039; 3DSD\DQLV S 7KLV PRGHO IXUWKHU FDVWHG JUHDW LPSDFWV RQ %HLMLQJČ&#x2021;V renewal process.

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Boulevard as a spatial model and colonial power The meaning of boulevard, produced in the context of European techniques, functions and aesthetics, had experienced a transformation as a transplanted model of Western urban space in Beijing. It became a spatial model representing the colonial power. Except of the bourgeois recreation culture, Beijingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boulevard was planned as a symbolic means of the power expression. The original meaning of the boulevard was mainly deprived. On the one hand, the boulevard in the Western context, was usually part of a broader boulevard system and integrated with their citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; street networks, and enhanced the development of urban peripheries. However, this boulevard, like the whole Legation District, was an urban enclave isolated from the other urban parts in Beijing. Chinese entering the district was under strict restrictions. The boulevard UHČľHFWHG WKH VRFLDO LVRODWLRQ IURP WKH FLW\ UDWKHU WKDQ WKH EHWWHU connections to the street network. One the other hand, the construction of the boulevards as urban spatial regeneration LQ :HVWHUQ FLWLHV KDG WKH VLJQLČ´FDQW VRFLRHFRQRPLF PHDQLQJ As David Harvey revealed, Haussmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paris reconstruction should be understand as the production of space for solving the serious economic problems of Paris - a crisis of capitalist RYHU DFFXPXODWLRQ %\ FRQVWUXFWLQJ WKH ERXOHYDUGV LQ 3DULV Č&#x201A; WKH Avenue des Champs-Elysees, the Grands Boulevards and Rue 5DPEXWHDX WKH XUEDQ VSDFH EHFDPH D IRUP RI Č´FWLWLRXV FDSLWDO not only â&#x20AC;&#x153;disrupting the integrity and social structure of the old

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$OHPDQ 7KH KLVWRULFDO D[LV DQG KHDUW RI 6HRXO OHDGLQJ up to the palace of the king, had lost its prominence and been overcome by Sejong-ro multilane roadway. The axisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; historical public square, a setting for communication between the citizens and monarchs, had been erased and replaced by multiple lanes of speeding vehicles, toxic exhaust fumes, and colonial Japanese *LQJNR WUHHV /HH 7KH *ZDQJKZDPXQ SUHFLQFW RI WKH HDUO\ WZHQW\ Č´UVW FHQWXU\ KDG GHWHULRUDWHG LQWR DQ XQUHFHSWLYH vehicle-oriented environment, with the only public occupation of the precinct being the habitual citizen protests that blocked 6HMRQJ URČ&#x2021;V PDQ\ ODQHV RI WUDÉ?F +DXEHQ 7KXV 6HRXOČ&#x2021;V need for a strategy to positively replace the precinctâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harmful image and intimidating environment became increasingly evident.

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image and interaction in Gwanghwamun Square and Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public places.

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Figure 1 Yi Sunshin statue.

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Figure 5: Children play in the 12:23 Fountain.

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This vast portion of space has no seating, shade, nor resting places, purposefully left bare to accommodate the installations and crowds expected during special events. At the foot of the King Sejong statue are four permanent installations commemorating the main inventions of the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign. Meanwhile, behind the colossal statue of King Sejong are six stone pillars, each with a relief that depicts an important moment from the life of the King. At the rear of the statueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavy stone base, is the entrance to an underground exhibition hall celebrating the achievements of King Sejong and Admiral Yi Sunshin.

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The central region of the square has no seating, except for the VWRQH VWHSV ČľDQNLQJ WKH ZHVW HGJH RI WKH 6XQNHQ 6TXDUH 7KHVH steps are scarcely occupied, perhaps owing to the blank stone wall visitors face when seated there, or the long row of concrete ČľRZHUEHGV REVWUXFWLQJ PRYHPHQW WR WKH VWHSV *ZDQJKZDPXQ 6TXDUHČ&#x2021;V QRUWKHUQ UHJLRQ Č&#x160;5HHQDFWLQJ <XNMR 6WUHHW 3OD]DČ&#x2039; 9LVLWNRUHD IRUPV WKH penultimate section of the square, intended to reestablish WKH RSHQ VSDFH WKDW <XNMR 6WUHHW RQFH RÎ?HUHG WR WKH SXEOLF To symbolically reenact this historical space where monarchs DQG FLWL]HQV UHSRUWHGO\ FRPPXQLFDWHG LGHDV .LP D PHWHU ZLGH E\ PHWHU ORQJ VWULS RI JUDVV )LJXUH OLHV within the northern region of Gwanghwamun Square.

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The nearby landmark of Gwanghwamun gate generates a distinct historical image throughout the northern region of Gwanghwamun Square. Despite being outside the bounds of the square, Gwanghwamun gate serves as the core physical feature generating activity in the squareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern area.

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concentration of adults taking photos in a northward direction, with Gwanghwamun gate as the backdrop of their pictures.

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Based on the survey results, the urban design project of Gwanghwamun Square has successfully improved the negative political and colonial image that the precinct previously held.

Despite the reputation gained by the precinct as a place of political unrest, no survey candidates perceived the area to carry a predominantly political and civic image anymore. An overwhelming percentage of the surveyed visitors perceived Gwanghwamun Square and its surroundings to evoke a sense of Korean tradition and royalty, contrasting the colonial image that Sejong-roâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japanese ginkgo trees once carried. Thus, *ZDQJKZDPXQ 6TXDUH FDQ EH FRQVLGHUHG WR KDYH HÎ?HFWLYHO\ lived up to its â&#x20AC;&#x153;landmark national squareâ&#x20AC;? description, as given by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its somewhat cluttered array of historically-themed statues, sculptures, stands, and installations, the physical reality of Gwanghwamun 6TXDUH DFKLHYHV DQ HÎ?HFWLYH LPDJH UHEUDQGLQJ RI WKH VSDFH WR serve as a landmark national square.

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the considerable number of visitors frequenting the square and the positive comfort and accessibility ratings received, the survey results showed that zero candidates were attracted to WKH VLWH IRU LWV DELOLW\ WR RÎ?HU WKHP D SODFH WR UHVW DQG VRFLDOL]H in the precinct. To reveal why Gwanghwamun Square is not able to attract visitors for such purposes, it is important to consider the surveyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfort and accessibility ratings in relation to the demographic group that contributed to those ratings, and why they intended to visit the square.

The most positive comfort and accessibility ratings were given E\ WRXULVWV ZKR DFFRXQWHG IRU QHDUO\ Č´IW\ VL[ SHUFHQW RI WKH candidates. Based on the direct observations made on site, the typical activity and behavior trend of tourists was to wander around the statues of the square, taking pictures in front of its physical features, before leaving the site via one of its exits. The tourists in all probability gave their positive ratings in relation to the comfort levels expected when touring a national landmark, and not a public space in which to rest and socialize. At the same time, the touristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; accessibility ratings may have been based on how easy it was to navigate the square within the entire city of Seoul, as opposed to its accessibility in relation to the surrounding city blocks.

The lowest comfort and accessibility ratings were given by the demographic group of guardians who accompanied children to the 12:23 Fountain, while displaying activity and behavior trends most expected to be seen in a public space intended for rest and socializing. During the direct observations made on site, most of these guardians sat on the rows of oval benches placed on the west and east borders of the square. These benches, providing the only shade within the site, are positioned far closer to the EXVWOLQJ DQG QRLV\ WUDÉ?F RI 6HMRQJ UR WKDQ WR WKH FKLOGUHQ WKH seated guardians are watching over. Since the playing children regularly veered dangerously near to the southern edge of the square, a large number of guardians chose to stand in close proximity to their children.

comfortable and accessible outdoor public spaces nearby, such as Sejong-ro Park to the west, or Gwanghwamun Citizen Square to the north-east. Nevertheless, Gwanghwamun Squareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KLVWRULFDOO\ DQG V\PEROLFDOO\ LPSRUWDQW SRVLWLRQ LQ WKH FLW\ RÎ?HUV it a unique advantage over other sites, and survey results show that citizens are willing to travel to the site for the leisure RSSRUWXQLWLHV IRXQWDLQ DQG ZDWHU IHDWXUHV LW RÎ?HUV Recommendations for balancing image and interaction in Gwanghwamun Square Despite its current physical weaknesses, Gwanghwamun Square holds the potential to serve as a public space for Seoulites and even tourists to rest and socialize in. In the search for strategies to unlock the squareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential, the Seoul Metropolitan Government may look toward three of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prevailing successes. In doing so, the project-driven composition of the square may be amended to embrace and implement unplanned features that respond to the naturally emerging trends in visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; behavior.

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A STUDY ON THE HISTORICAL PROCESS OF THE ELEVATED WALKWAY NETWORK AROUND CENTRAL DISTRICT IN HONG KONG Hikaru KINOSHITA Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Engineering, Kansai University, Dr. Eng. 3-3-35, Yamatecho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-8680 kinosita@kansai-u.ac.jp Yoichi NISHIIE Okayama Prefecture, M. Eng. 8FKLVDQJH .LWD NX 2ND\DPD VKL 2ND\DPD delpiero45752580@hotmail.co.jp Keywords : +21* .21* (/(9$7(' :$/.:$< $57Î&#x2013;)Î&#x2013;&Î&#x2013;$/ /$1' 38%/Î&#x2013;& SPACE, PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVE

Abstract Central District of Hong Kong is composed of the high-rise buildings DQG GHČ´QHG DV KLJK GHQVLW\ RI &%' GLVWULFW EHFDXVH PRUH WKDQ WKUHH hundred thousand people work in about 3 km2. Mandarin Oriental +RWHO ZDV FRQQHFWHG ZLWK WKH VKRSSLQJ PDOO LQ 3ULQFHČ&#x2021;V %XLOGLQJ E\ WKH Č´UVW HOHYDWHG ZDONZD\ RI +RQJ .RQJ LQ %XW WKLV ZDV not for public use, but convenient for the guests of the hotel by the private developer.

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Therefore the space of this network has gradually become the privately owned public space as it was developed. The retail business has a strong relationship between every routes of this walkway, and then Hong Kong had these elevated and characteristic public spaces for citizen successfully.

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which is most high density of urbanization. There has been the FRPSOLFDWHG SXEOLF WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ V\VWHP VXEZD\ 075 EXV and tram on the underground and ground of CBD of Central District composed of a lot of skyscrapers. Then the pedestrian ČľRZ LV FRQVWDQWO\ JXVKLQJ IURP RÉ?FHV LQ &%' Î&#x2013; XVH WKH ZRUNLQJ SRSXODWLRQ LQGH[ RI &HQWUDO :HVWHUQ $UHD LQFOXGHG LQ WKH district of this research because there is no daytime population index in Hong Kong, its working population is 345 thousands SHRSOH DUHD LV NP %XW WKH DUHD RI &HQWUDO &%' LV approximately 1.6km2 by the data of TPU ,in other words, the UHVLGHQWLDO DUHD FDOOHG 3HDN DQG 0LG OHYHO RI &HQWUDO :HVWHUQ Area is 9.59km2 , therefore the area of Central CBD is about 3 km2 at most. As a result, most of 345 thousands working population concentrated in 3 km2 or less limited area in Central district.

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pedestrian bridge and played the important role of open space in high-density urban area in Hong Kong. Therefore, the citizen can have various routes at the ground, elevated walkway and park level.

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walkway network encouraged various people activities based on the multi and mixed land use composed and complicated of WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ 075 VWDWLRQ DQG EXV WHUPLQDO RSHQ VSDFH SDUN DQG SOD]D DQG FRPPHUFLDO IXQFWLRQ KRWHO RÉ?FH DQG VKRSV

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The elevated walkway network in Hong Kong has been updated and extended without master plan. It is complicated and organic generated urban space connected with various functions like FRPPHUFLDO RÉ?FH VSDFH SXEOLF WUDQVSRUW DQG H[LVWLQJ SDUNV SOD]DV 7KLV QHWZRUN HQDEOHV KLJKHVW GHQVLW\ RI &%' DOO RYHU WKH ZRUOG WR IRUP DQG GHYHORS LQ +RQJ .RQJ Î&#x2013;VODQG 7KH ČľRRU inside buildings connected with rooftop, pedestrian bridge, or WKH DUWLČ´FLDO ODQG DW XQGHUJURXQG JURXQG DQG HOHYDWHG OHYHO And the pedestrian can choose several alternative routes and use the elevated walkway network most of the day because the ownership and management system by the collaboration between the government and private sectors never closed continuous open space. Therefore, this network has been appreciated highly because the citizen moves freely the elevated walkway network as the unique public space with ČľRRUV RI QHLJKERULQJ EXLOGLQJV KRUL]RQWDOO\ ZKLFK KDV WKH close relationship between all urban facilities at several levels vertically. And this characteristic open space is for the citizen as public space mixed with retail shops located along the elevated walkways.

The historical process of this network indicated it is very important how to collaborate the government with the private sectors in order to promote the citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban life in Hong Kong.

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0RVW RI DUWLČ´FLDO ODQG RU SHGHVWULDQ EULGJH KDYH HQGHG LQ IDLOXUH in the 20th century of urban planning, but case study of Hong Kong has been a great success to form the active public space in the air over 40 years. That is why legislation or incentives of the ordinance had been constituted under the many trials by the private sectors in Hong Kong as the reverse way of ordinary urban design method.

There is the issue I should work on the analysis of this method in detail. Generally the architect can negotiate with the building RÉ?FHU EDVHG RQ WKH GHWDLO GHYHORSPHQW FRQGLWLRQV RI D FDVH by-case site. Then consultation between the architect and the EXLOGLQJ RÉ?FHU LQČľXHQFHV HDFK VSHFLČ´F SXEOLF GHVLJQ DFFRUGLQJ to incentives. In other words, these Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cases can indicate important suggestions so as to realize the variety of public space for urban design method in Asian Cities of high density.

Acknowledgments Dr. Tung-Yiu Stan Lai, Associate Professor of CHU HAI COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and Mr. Edward Y.W.Leung, Aedas Ltd and HKU SPACE gave me important advices in case of previous studies and case studies. I would like to express my gratitude for them.

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THE IMAGEABILITY AS A TOOL IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION FOR CITIES Malik Tigziri 3K'

Architect - EnviPro International 6W -RVHSK (DVW 0RQWUHDO 4& + + & &$1$'$ Email: maliktarchitecture@gmail.com

Abstract The strategies of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in urban spaces and cities need to investigate and work on the manner and the capacity of the people to understand their city and to memorize WKH GLÎ?HUHQW HOHPHQWV WKDW FRPSRVH WKHLU XUEDQ VSDFH 7KLV PHQWDO construction of the city by citizens will have an important role at various levels and phases of DRR strategies that we set up and produce.

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places can be small in area, but they serve as a known spot of transportation mode changes or changes in direction.

Paths are the channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or potentially moves. They are also the areas where people move through a city. Lynch states that â&#x20AC;&#x153;paths were the predominate city elements, although their importance varied according to the degree of familiarity with the city.â&#x20AC;?

People who knew the city well often had detailed descriptions and understanding of their daily path.

Districts are the medium or large sections of the city which hold a certain characteristic which someone could enter and exit.

Figure1: Illustration of the 5 elements of city (source - The Image of City)

The concept of Imagibility Introduction 7KH Č´YH HOHPHQWV RI WKH FLW\ We have to give a short understanding and remembering of .HYLQ /\QFK WKHRU\ GHČ´QLWLRQ DQG GHČ´QH WKH WRROV WKDW KH VHW up thanks to his work. Kevin Lynch has established 5 elements that allow and permit to citizen to orientate their self in the city.

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The main essence of the work of K. Lynch was to examine the visual quality of the environment, as he investigates the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mental imagesâ&#x20AC;? held by its citizens. He achieves his research by focusing on the most focal and central areas within three American Cities; Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles. His objective was to expand upon, as well as assess his idea of Č&#x160;LPDJHDELOLW\Č&#x2039; WKDW KH GHČ´QHG DV D Č&#x160;FKDUDFWHU RU TXDOLW\ KHOG E\ D SK\VLFDO REMHFWČ&#x2039; WR Č´QG RXW ZKDW IRUPV WULJJHU OXFLG LPDJHV LQ the observer.

Landmarks are simple physical elements that vary widely in scale. These places are often unique, and provide a spatial reference point for locals and visitors alike. Citizen may often provide directions in reference to these places.

Edges are the linear elements not used or considered between two phases, linear breaks in continuity: shores, railroad edges.

These places can be physical or mental. These edges serve as a constant reminder of the city, and help one organize place spatially in their mind.

Nodes are a strategic focus typically where paths cross. These

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and to have access to temporary health treatment centers and to refugee camps. They are also an element for rapid capacity of orientation in the city. The Paths must be designed with a large and long dimensions to be able to receive and to drain an important number of people to safe places, and thanks to its large dimension it can play a role of Firebreak in case of gas explosion after an earthquake. Paths must be equipped with signals that will show the way and direction to follow during an event to rich refuge zones. These signals can be color lines on ground or suspended panels; it can be also in form of light during night time. The paths should resist during an event and be functional.

Figure2: The Boston image as derived from verbal interviews (Source - The image of City)

+RZ WR ΖQWHJUDWH ULVN GLVDVWHUV UHGXFWLRQ '55 LQ WKH FLW\" Most of the cities in ours countries are designed and organized without taken in consideration the problematic of risk disasters and large natural events. Today, after many cases of disasters in various cities, and the fast repetition of these events that became stronger, some states start to take in consideration the DRR in the urban design and planning of their cities, and work on solutions. Unfortunately the actual strategies of DRR stay at the level of logistics, materials, plans of evacuation and intervention, and did not focus on the design of the city itself WKDW LV WKH ȴUVW VWHS WR GHYHORS WR UHGXFH WKH LPSDFW RI WKH phenomena on the city. The capacity of ours urban tissues to be resistant and resilient during and after an event is low. So, what are the urban solutions that we can provide as architects and urban planners? How can we give this capacity for the city to become resilient and durable?

The concept of K. Lynch that he develop in his book “The Image of City” published in 1960, where he explain the idea of Imagibility can be an important solution and tool that we can apply to WKH YDULRXV SKDVHV RI '55 7KH ȴYH HOHPHQWV DQG ΖPDJLELOLW\ concept can be the gears that will help to give the ability to the city to become resilient and can provide a safe urban planning and design to the population to protect them and save life.

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The 5 elements of city in DRR We begin this part of the article by developing our vision and the relation that can be built between the 5 elements and the DRR, and this by explaining how each element of city can play an important role in reducing the risk in the urban space of city: Paths: Paths are the most important element of the city for DRR. They permit the evacuation of the citizens and the intervention of the rescue services. They allow people to move to the safes zones

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Nodes: These large intersections and places can regroup a large number of people where they can be safe and secure. The nodes can have various roles in DRR, they can be simply regrouping safe place for citizen, and they can be transformed to refugee camps ZKHUH FLWL]HQV FDQ Č´QG KHDOWK WUHDWPHQWV DQG DFFHVV WR ZDWHU food, and temporary house. For this, we have to design these nodes at the beginning with an access to water supply, electricity, wastewater draining, and container of waste recycling. These nodes must have also predesigned plans of the transformation from intersection to refugee camp, to permit a quick response.

We can see an example of a situation of transformation of a square Place Saint Pierre in Port au Prince in Haiti to a refugee camp by the population after the earthquake of 2010.

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Figure 7: Landmark in Barcelona, Agbar tower during day and night time (Personal photo editing) January 2010.

Figure 8: Land mark in Hanoi (Vietnam), Keangnam tower during day and night time (Personal photo editing).

Figure 5: Saint Pierre square in Haiti after the earthquake of 12 January 2010.

Figure 6: Plaza EspaĂąa in Barcelona that is an important node in city.

Landmarks: Landmarks must be these elements that we can see from various sides of the city. These elements will help people to orientate their self during the event in situation of panic. Landmarks are visible during the day but must be also seen during night time, this is why it must be independent in electric energy. Landmarks can have various missions either than orientation, it can be transformed to a communication and disaster management center for decision making, it can also be transformed to health center for emergency treatment, refugee camp. This is why these landmarks must be resistant to the kind of risk that they

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Districts: 7KH GLVWULFW LV GHČ´QHG E\ UHODWLYHO\ ODUJH VHFWLRQV RI WKH FLW\ distinguished by some identity or character. In the case of DRR the character that we can give to a destrict is a speed back to normal life and high resistance to the event. This means that we think that the district can play an important role in the resilience of the city when we permit to people to back to normal situation after a large event with access to various sources of energy and communication, access to transport and infrastructures, access WR KRVSLWDOV DQG VFKRROV DQG Č´QDOO\ WKH FRQWLQXLW\ RI ZRUNLQJ of various institutions and industries. For example in case of earthquake, a district can back to normal life as we describe if it is totally build with earthquake resistance structures and techniques at the level of the urban and infrastructures and EXLOGLQJV 2I FRXUVH LW LV GLÉ?FXOW WR EXLOG DQ HQWLUH FLW\ IROORZLQJ this high standard of technology that resist to seismic events IRU Č´QDQFLDO UHDVRQV EXW ZH WKLQN WKDW ZH FDQ LQYHVW LQ DW OLVW one district of the city to guaranties a back to normal life after an event. This kind of district must contain the most important institutions such as government ones, hospitals, schools and university and others.

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Edges: Edges are the contrast between two kinds of areas, they are linear elements not considered as paths. They can be a wall, change of topography, large water surface like lake, river or seaâ&#x20AC;Ś.etc. These Edges can be used in DRR during an event as elements of orientation, evacuation and intervention in city, they FDQ EH DOVR VRXUFHV RI ZDWHU VXSSO\LQJ FDVH RI ZDWHU VXUIDFHV

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Figure 11: Champ de Mars occupied by refugees after the earthquake of 2010 in Port au Prince (Personal picture)

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The Imagibility in DRR The aim of this concept of imagibility in DRR is to pull and help the citizen to build a mental DRR map of his city, this means that through the 5 elements that we develop people can during an event or a disaster orientate them self in city to know the safe ZD\ IRU HYDFXDWLRQ DQG WR Č´QG KHOS UHVFXHV DQG UHIXJH :KHQ D FLWL]HQ NQRZV KRZ WR UHDFW LQ KLV FLW\ DQG KRZ WR Č´QG WKH Č´UVW necessary things to survive during a disaster, we are saving a lot of time that is very important during these situation and can save life. This concept of imagibility in DRR pushes the citizen to be active during an event and avoid staying passive.

It is essential to understand that the mental mapping that each FLWL]HQ FUHDWHV LQ KLV EUDLQ LV GLÎ?HUHQW IURP RQH WR WKH RWKHU even if we live in the same city. The person that live in the East RI WKH FLW\ ZLOO NHHS LQ PLQG GLÎ?HUHQW ODQGPDUNV RU SDWKV DQG nodes that the person that lives in the West part of the city.

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understand and look to their city. This is why we have to think WKH FLW\ LQ ]RQHV (DVW :HVW 1RUWK DQG 6RXWK DQG SURYLGH IRU each zone with the 5 elements that will assist the population during an event, with the aim to reduce the distance between citizen and safes places.

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The bellow graphic explain us that the same 5 elements of city can allow citizen to create a mental map of city and a mental DRR map of the same one. This means that if we give to each of 5 elements of city a function in case of large event and disaster, and if we rethink and redesign each one regarding the natural risks, we can give a new and strong resilience capacity to a city that has been not designed regarding risks.

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Conclusion All cities are composed by the 5 elements that Kevin Lynch set up through his work, and we can use and transform these ones during strong natural events to elements and tools of resilience and DRR in the urban space to save citizens and back to normal life.

This transformation of spaces must be thinking during the step of conception of the urban planning and design, this will give the ability to local citizens to rebuild and transform their original mental map of the city to a mental DRR or risk map.

We can say thanks to this perception, all actual cities can be transformed to improve them capacity of resistance and resilience after a strong event.

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A DISCUSSION ON THE KEY ELEMENTS OF STREET SCALE AND FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT: STREET SIGHT AND FRAGMENTED SPACE FORM IN KAIFENG OF NORTHERN SONG CHINA RONG Qingwen, WANG Jianguo 1, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China Postal Address: Sipailou 2#, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 210096 rongqingwen88@126.com, 101002359@seu.edu.cn Keywords: 675((7 6&$/( )81&7Î&#x2013;21$/ /$<287 .$Î&#x2013;)(1* 1257+(51 621*

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1. Background Nowadays, architects and planners draw widespread attention to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfortâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;reasonabilityâ&#x20AC;? of street scale and function layout. This wide discussion has focused on the comparison of two design methods: the top-down design result oriented planning mode, and the down-top progressive generating scheme. This paper will illustrate one forming method of

â&#x20AC;&#x153;reasonableâ&#x20AC;? Chinese traditional street by taking Kaifeng City, the HDVWHUQ FDSLWDO 'RQJMLQJ RI WKH 1RUWKHUQ 6RQJ '\QDVW\ DV DQ example: the constraint of street scale and architectural form by the governor and manager as well as the spontaneous attempt and constant adjustment of residents jointly decided the street pattern. The fragmented space presented through partial mixing was also full of vitality and creativity. For convenience of study, this paper adopts the urban structure maps of Kaifeng city in Song Dynasty to make analysis.

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2 Fence walls constructed in the Tang Dynasty determined the rudiment of the Kaifeng city, and in the Later Zhou Dynasty the city scale was enlarged with streets expanded, and in the same period street-locations were determined and clear stipulations were made on the road widths and structure-backways from the roads.

3 There are many other records in the historical data.

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guaranteed and controlled through the â&#x20AC;&#x153;top-downâ&#x20AC;? constraint on the one hand, and the neighborhood relationships and public spaces occured through the â&#x20AC;&#x153;down-topâ&#x20AC;? growth process on the other hand, and in this process changes and diversity were fully recognized.

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and the rationality of system had never been separated from the awareness and implication. If the spiritual space molding of streets in the revolution from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty was a transition from the orderly spatial norm to the GLYHUVLČ´HG QHZ IRUP WKHQ LW UHDOO\ H[SHULHQFHG D ]LJ]DJ DQG long cognition process. The above analysis reveals that this slow and progressive process is to be exact continuous harmony instead of fractured and dramatic.

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The possible spaces at both sides of the streets occupied by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;street embezzlementâ&#x20AC;? as shown from the above two data have approximately already accounted for 1/5-1/4 of the whole street width. If the streets in the Northern Song Dynasty illustrated according to the historical data and related studies were shallower than those in the Tang Dynasty and the range and extent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;street embezzlementâ&#x20AC;? behaviors highly possibly exceeded those in the Tang Dynasty and Later Zhou Dynasty, then it was obvious that the changes to the urban street scale and landscape due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;street embezzlementâ&#x20AC;? in the Song Dynasty could not be underestimated.

3.2 Changes of area and service range of commercial space The area, distribution zone and service range of the commercial space had occurred huge changes from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. In addition to part of commercial points distributed in the residential â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fangâ&#x20AC;? in Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an City of the Tang Dynasty, the east and west market areas which were the main commercial concentration spaces were totally 1.88km2, only accounting for 2.2% of the total area of the capital city, and the VHUYLFH UDGLXV RI WKHP H[FHHGHG NP /L 5> @ ZKLOH WKH VWDWLVWLFDO UHVXOW RI ODQG XVH DUHDV )LJ LQ .DLIHQJ &LW\ RI WKH Song Dynasty14 VKRZHG WKDW WKH FRPPHUFLDO ODQG LQFOXGLQJ WKH ODQG RI LQWHUPL[LQJ IXQFWLRQV RI ERWK FRPPHUFH DQG UHVLGHQFH

was about 2.70km2, accounting for about 5.02% of the total area of the capital city, and the maximum service radius did not exceed 1.5km due to the changes of distribution mode comparing with that in the Tang Dynasty.

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one hand, and was also because of the mixing of commercial and residential functions in the spatial layout. This could be UHČľHFWHG ERWK LQ WKH VLGHV RI ODQG OD\RXW DQG DUFKLWHFWXUDO IRUP 3.3 Changes of functional layout Related data showed that the areas of the imperial palace FHQWUDO JRYHUQPHQW RÉ?FH DUHD DQG LPSHULDO FLW\ LQ &KDQJČ&#x2021;DQ of the Tang Dynasty accounted for approximately 1/8 of the WRWDO FLW\ DUHD 1LQJ ZKLOH WKH LPSHULDO FLW\ DUHD RI .DLIHQJ City in the Song Dynasty accounted for less than 1/14 of the WRWDO FLW\ DUHD /L 5> @ S 15. This was because that the functional division of Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an City in the Tang Dynasty was FOHDU DQG FRQFHQWUDWHG DQG WKH JRYHUQPHQW RÉ?FH DUHD ZDV centralized, while all other administrative areas in Kaifeng City of the Song Dynasty16 were located outsides of the imperial palace HVSHFLDOO\ DW ERWK VLGHV RI WKH 6RXWK Î&#x2013;PSHULDO 6WUHHW H[FHSW IRU SDUWV RI JRYHUQPHQW RÉ?FH RUJDQL]DWLRQV FRQFHQWUDWHG LQ WKH imperial city, and the administrative areas outsides the imperial palace were spatially linked close with the religious lands and commercial lands. In addition, the statistical result of land use DUHD )LJ LQ .DLIHQJ &LW\ RI WKH 6RQJ '\QDVW\ VKRZHG WKDW WKH ODQGV IRU WKH SDODFH UR\DO JDUGHQV DQG JRYHUQPHQW RÉ?FHV LQ the inner city occupied about 1/6 ~ 1/5 of the total area of the inner city.

that the residential function and other functions of Kaifeng City in the Song Dynasty showed the mixed and fragmented OD\RXW FKDUDFWHULVWLFV RQ WKH SODQH ZKLFK ZDV GLÎ?HUHQW IURP the clear and orderly residential pattern of Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an City in the 7DQJ '\QDVW\ EXW WKH 5LYHUVLGH 6FHQH DW 4LQJPLQJ )HVWLYDO DQG other picture scrolls showed us a kind of continuous spatial pattern and uniform style and features on such mixed layout.

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The authors believe that this phenomenon is at least because of the following several reasons: Firstly, some apparent â&#x20AC;&#x153;isolation elementsâ&#x20AC;? were not completely isolated, for example, the temples in Kaifeng City of the Song Dynasty didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t not occur absolute spatial and functional isolations with residential area by fence walls, and parts of the temples were even combined with the citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recreations and market activities to become the commercial and cultural activity centers18, while the royal JDUGHQV ZHUH DOVR RSHQHG WR WKH XUEDQ FLWL]HQV DW Č´[HG WLPH &KDQJ S DQG XVHG IRU KROGLQJ ODUJH SXEOLF DFWLYLWLHV In addition, all spaces of the Imperial Streets were used jointly with the citizens except for a section of the South Imperial 6WUHHW UHVHUYHG IRU WKH HPSHURU /L +4 S 6HFRQGO\ the scattered-distributed Buddha towers and pavilions were relatively high, which formed the landmark landscapes of the city and occurred visual links with the residents on the streets /L +4 S 7KLUGO\ WKH PDWHULDOV KHLJKWV GHFRUDWLRQV and appearance styles of buildings in the city were maintained uniform, so that the street space showed the continuous characteristics; Finally, the formation of general mixed residing RI GLÎ?HUHQW KLHUDUFKLHV /L +4 S ZDV RI JUHDW importance to the street vitality.

Fig.7 Land Usage in Dongjing City in the Last Years of the Northern Song Dynasty

4. Mixed and fragmented functional pattern In combination with the Fig.7 and Fig.817 , it could be shown

15 The imperial city in Kaifeng of Song Dynasty is about 3.9km2 while the outer city area is about 57.58km2.

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5. Conclusion and discussion

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Then the following problems will be caused: Top-down or downtop? Progressive planning or targeted planning?

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apologize for these and hope that correction comments can be proposed.

Acknowledge Doctoral student Li Jingjin from the Southeast University undertook most of the restoration work of the models in Fig.3 and Fig.4, and sincere gratitude is hereby expressed to him for KLV XQVHOČ´VK KHOS Figure 1: Locations of the Four Imperial Streets in the Urban Structure of Kaifeng City in the Northern Song Dynasty Figure 2: Locations of Parts of the Landscape Sites described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daliang Ten Relicsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Biancheng Eight Landscapesâ&#x20AC;? in the %LDQ -LQJ <L -L =KL %LDQMLQJ 5HOLFV 5HFRUGV LQ WKH 8UEDQ 6WUXFWXUH of Kaifeng City in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty and Their Relationships with the Main Streets Figure 3: Reproducing Model of Part of the Street Spaces in the 5LYHUVLGH 6FHQH DW 4LQJPLQJ )HVWLYDO

Figure 4: Reproducing Model of Part of the Street Spaces in the 5LYHUVLGH 6FHQH DW 4LQJPLQJ )HVWLYDO

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INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF URBAN RULES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THREE ARTERIAL STREETS IN GUANGZHOU, HONG KONG, AND MACAU Hendrik Tieben, Joanna CHU, Chungyim YIU 7KH &KLQHVH 8QLYHUVLW\ RI +RQJ .RQJ &8+.

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Formation During the early 20th century, the three selected streets with their colonnaded shophouses and bustling commercial life looked very similar, despite having their own histories and XQGHUJRLQJ GLÎ?HUHQW SURFHVVHV GXULQJ WKHLU GHYHORSPHQW (DFK RI WKHVH VWUHHWV ZDV EXLOW DW D GLÎ?HUHQW WLPH =KRQJVKDQ Road is the oldest of the three streets. A street at its location existed since the foundation of the provincial capital Canton.

It acted as the main connector between the West and East gate of the historical walled city and had been one of Cantonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative spaces and a center of its urban life. In the early years of the Chinese republic, the new Municipal Government, as part of a fundamental modernization and extension of the city, ordered the dismantling of the old city gates together with most parts of the city walls. In this process, the street was widened and extended. Along the widened street new public spaces and buildings were erected and on the remaining parts FRORQQDGHG VKRSKRXVHV ZHUH EXLOW )LJ :LWK WKHLU VLPLODU dimensions, materials and art-deco details the shophouses gave Guangzhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main street a modern façade. Following the DPELWLRQV RI WKLV WUDQVIRUPDWLRQ WKH VWUHHW ZDV UHQDPHG Č´UVW to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wai-Oi Roadâ&#x20AC;?, and later â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zhongshan Roadâ&#x20AC;? in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Republic.

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In Hong Kong, the colonnaded shophouses developed from the early type of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tong Lauâ&#x20AC;?, a Chinese version of shop-tenement house. Throughout the second half of the 19th century there had been various attempts to improve the often hazardous living conditions within the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tong Lauâ&#x20AC;?. At their street facades, these earlier types often had wooden balconies cantilevering over the sidewalks. As an immediate response to a devastating Č´UH WKH Č&#x160; 2UGLQDQFHČ&#x2039; ZDV LPSOHPHQWHG Î&#x2013;W GHFODUHG wooden verandas illegal and henceforth all verandas had to be built as masonry constructions and supported at ground level E\ FRORQQDGHV DORQJ WKH VLGHZDON )LJ Î&#x2013;Q WKH IROORZLQJ \HDUV DORQJ 4XHHQV 5RDG DQG RWKHU SDUWV RI +RQJ .RQJ KRXVHV were constructed according to this rule, creating continuous covered walkways with masonry columns, which supported the EDOFRQLHV RI XSSHU ČľRRUV 7KH PRWLYDWLRQ RI WKH JRYHUQPHQW WR UHJXODWH WKH GHVLJQ RI SULYDWH KRXVHV DORQJ 4XHHQV 5RDG DQG RWKHU VWUHHWV ZDV WR UHGXFH WKH ODWHQW ULVN RI Č´UHV DQG collapses. The Building Ordinance of 1878 in addition allowed built volume to be extended legally at all but ground level to the edge of the street, thus giving private owners an incentive to make the requested changes.

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The aesthetic aspects of Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent street space werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t considered in these regulations. Change of the street space in Hong Kong happened incrementally, on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;one building at a timeâ&#x20AC;? basis. Proposed safety and health regulations .2 were implemented only after catastrophes had happened, instead of a proactive approach which would timely address latent threats or consider the design of coherent urban spaces. +RZHYHU WKLV GLG QRW KLQGHU 4XHHQČ&#x2021;V 5RDG LQ LWV HYROXWLRQ LQWR an impressive and vibrant street space.3 The formation processes leading in Macau and Guangzhou WR WKH FRORQQDGHG VKRSKRXVH &KLQHVH 4L /RX VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ GLÎ?HUHG IURP +RQJ .RQJ In Macau, the Av. Almeida Ribeiro was built in the early 20th century, following a comprehensive plan, approved in 1910 until its completion in 1922. It aimed to connect two important parts of the city, emulating the new western urban planning standards that promoted the construction of broad new avenues that ZRXOG IDFLOLWDWH PRYHPHQW RI YHKLFOHV DQG JRRGV LPSURYH Č´UH safety while modernizing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban character.4 The opening of Av. Almeida Ribeiro, built up on the experience of the Inner Harbor waterfront, a plan commissioned by the JRYHUQPHQW WR 0LJXHO $\UHV GD 6LOYD WR ODQGČ´OO WKH 6RXWK SDUW of the Inner Harbor waterfront and to build on the reclaimed land. Built between 1877 and 1881 the plan standardized the waterline with a long and uniform waterfront façade made of two to three storeys shop-houses with arcades, which limited the traditionally organic growth of the Chinese Bazaar urban fabric. Typologically similar to those found in other Southeast Asian cities such as Malacca, George Town or Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chinatown, the continuous covered walkway created a powerful precedent for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Avenueâ&#x20AC;?. $OWKRXJK GLÎ?HUHQW LQ DUFKLWHFWXUDO VW\OH DQG GLVSHQVLQJ ZLWK WKH round arch, the arcades in the Av. Almeida Ribeiro followed the spatial solution initially adopted for the Inner Harbour waterfront in the 1870s, but this time both the plan and implementation were managed directly by local authorities.

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provisional Regulation of 29th July 1901 with an overall plan to improve the city of Macau, establishing rules for the construction on new buildings and streets with hygienist principles as well as rules for land expropriation in case of public utility needed to implement the government plans.

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of Macau as a Portuguese colony in the second half of 19th century, subsequent to the Opium War, a great emphasis was put on the expansion and modernization of the city and with new regulations and plans.

Av. Almeida Ribeiroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening was a strong demonstration of political determination and power cutting trough physical urban fabric and tangible interests. Its urban process and architecture was supported by rules observed during the course of the 20th century. Protection rules were implemented in early eighties, and then relaxed during the instable period of sovereignty transition and reinforced again thirteen years after the handover with new GLSORPDV '/

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TRADITIONAL SHOPPING STREETS IN TOKYO: PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVE PLACE MAKING BY THE ELDERLY Dr. Kien TO Senior Research Scientist and Senior Teaching Fellow, Singapore University of Technology and Design 20 Dover Drive, Singapore 138682 Email: tokien@sutd.edu.sg Dr. Keng Hua CHONG Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design Singapore University of Technology and Design Email: chongkenghua@sutd.edu.sg Keywords: 3/$&( 0$.Î&#x2013;1* 675((7 3$77(51 (/'(5 )5Î&#x2013;(1'/< &20081Î&#x2013;7< SHOTENGAI

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dining places and labyrinth-like back lane morphology. The social VXUYH\ UHYHDOV WKH VLJQLČ´FDQFHV DQG YDOXHV RI WKH WZR VKRWHQJDL social networks and interactions among residents, stakeholder participation and negotiation in place-making processes, etc. From these case studies, the paper shows that elderly are creative in their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;contextualizedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place making, and suggests that Asian cities can derive their own ways to become compact, culturally sensitive and socially sustainable cities.

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concurrently. For example, according to WHO, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an age-friendly city emphasizes enablement rather than disablement; it is IULHQGO\ IRU DOO DJHV DQG QRW MXVW Č&#x2020;HOGHU IULHQGO\Č&#x2021;Č&#x2039; :+2 S 7KHUHIRUH WR PDNH LW OHVV DPELJXRXV WKLV SDSHU XVHV WKH term â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elder-friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to refer to something that is friendly to the elderly primarily. Making â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elder-friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; living environments is a great trend. In many cases, being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elder-friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can become friendly for everyone. For example, when a place or a building or a pedestrianized street is easily accessible or barrier-free Č&#x201A; ZKLFK DUH SDUW RI Č&#x2020;HOGHU IULHQGO\Č&#x2021; IHDWXUHV Č&#x201A; WKH\ DUH HDVLO\ accessible or barrier-free, and thus friendly, to all other age groups as well.

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Figure 1: Shotengai in central Tsuyama City in Meiji era (ca. the turn of 20th century) (Source: See end note)

Shotengai are often for pedestrian-only, catering almost everything local people need for daily life. It is not customary in Japan to stock up on provisions, so most people buy their groceries every day. A typical shotengai may include: butcheries, supermarkets and grocery shops, restaurants, cafes, izakaya -DSDQHVH SXEV EDNHULHV FORWKHV VKRSV ODXQGU\ VKRSV ERRN VKRSV SDFKLQNR JDPEOLQJ SDUORUV SKDUPDFLHV PHGLFDO FOLQLFV PDVVDJH SDUORUV EDUEHU VKRSV JDPH FHQWHUV SRVW RÉ?FHV FRQYHQLHQFH VWRUHV DQG NREDQ SROLFH ER[HV 6KRWHQJDL QRW only provide people with daily necessaries and services, but also RIWHQ KRVW QXPHURXV FRPPXQLW\ DFWLYLWLHV QRWDEO\ VHDVRQDO IHVWLYDOV DQG VDOHV WKURXJKRXW WKH \HDU 0RVW LQWHUHVWLQJO\ and importantly, the shotengai has come to play many other important roles in the community, such as welfare and security, and help to create and support a sense of community. In short, shotengai are great place to visit to catch a snapshot of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;authenticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ordinary life in Japan in a cozy and distinct atmosphere.

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Although well known as a society of rich and well-maintained traditional culture, peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifestyle in post-war Japan has changed vastly, particularly with regards to shopping culture, causing serious threats to the future of the shotengai. Like in many industrialized countries, people have become ever busier and often prefer to make purchase economically in bulk at one-stop large supermarkets and shopping centers particularly during weekends. Fewer shoppers make daily trips to their local small groceries shops, which can be found in shotengai.

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Research interests and methodology This paper takes two shotengai in Tokyo as the case studies to investigate elder-friendly urban environments, particularly creative place-making initiatives with ground-up approach and at the local community level. It aims to clarify, in the highly developed, high-dense, high-rise, large-scale urban context of Tokyo, how can traditional, low-rise and compact shotengai be sustainable over centuries? Furthermore, how does creative place making take shape by individual or collective residents, particularly the elderly in such constrained urban context?

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which evolved over generations around a temple called Koganji that honors the goddess of good health. With its nearly 200 shops, it draws some 20,000 visitors daily.

Figure 2: Sugamo shotengai with 3 nearby train stations (left) and an administrative map showing street morphology (right) (Source: Authors)

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only those who visited Koganji temple but also other shotengai YLVLWRUV XVH WKH VLWWLQJ VSDFHV LQ .RJDQML 7HPSOH DQG WKH visitors who sat in the sitting spaces of Koganji Temple tend to drop by at many shops, and the sitting spaces of Koganji Temple is helpful to keep the shotengai active. Kakinuma and 6KRVKLURGD UHVHDUFKHG RQ EHKDYLRUDO FKDUDFWHULVWLFV RI temporary staying of elderly visitors, with the aim to clarify actual behaviors of elderly visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; temporary staying and resting and the maintenance of the resting spaces in Sugamo shotengai.

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Figure 5: Open space at the gateway (left) and along the main street (right) of Sugamo shotengai (Source: Authors)

When we entered the main street and conducted temporal observation sessions, we witnessed and documented in photographs large number of visitors from many places in Japan coming to the shotengai. Koganji Temple is a popular visitor spot, where the famous Togenuji Jizo statue is claimed to cure illness and extend life. There are two main areas within Koganji templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territory that attract the public: the goddess of good healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place where many people gather and queue up to pray for good health and longevity, and the resting benches which are set up in circle form in the front yard, making the space OLNH D OLWWOH SXEOLF VTXDUH )LJXUH ULJKW )URP WKH JDWHZD\ LQZDUGV WKLV SODFH LV WKH VHFRQG SODFH WR RÎ?HU YLVLWRUV UHVWLQJ RSSRUWXQLWLHV DIWHU VRPH VFUROOLQJ UHIHU WR WKH Č´QGLQJV RI 2VKLPD HW DO

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)LJXUH ULJKW 7KH GLVWDQFHV EHWZHHQ DOOH\V DUH UHODWLYH VPDOO so if one takes a stroll along the main road of the shotengai, he or she will get frequent opportunities to turn right or left into the alleys and further to the back lanes. A number of shops in the main streets also expanded their guest serving spaces along either side of the alleys next to their shops.

Figure 6: Public spaces in KoganjiTemple where people gather to pray, rest and socialize (Source: Authors)

Another impression we had was that the shotengai is primarily lived in, run and served by the elderly for the elderly. There are few other clusters of resting benches and/or chairs along the shotengai where people can sit down and rest along their stroll.

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Social survey Semi-structured interviews were conducted at Sugamo shotengai. One of the interviewees was a ticket salesman of the Koganji temple. According to him, the temple is a regional attraction with visitors coming from various parts of the country. Î&#x2013;W LV ZHOO NQRZQ DV D KRO\ WHPSOH DQG WKHUH DUH SHRSOH PRVWO\ HOGHUO\ ZKR YLVLW LW GDLO\ WR SUD\ IRU KHDOWK and prosperity.

During the weekends or holidays, there are many more visitors.

Another interviewee was a rice cake trader cum shopkeeper, who has been working there for three years. He lives far from the shotengai and it takes him about 1 hour to commute there.

According to him, the attractiveness of Sugamo lies in the elder-friendly places such as Koganji temple and many familyrun shops that make the atmosphere friendly, intimate and nostalgic. There are chairs in front of many shops, which facilitate the elderly to rest and chat while eating or drinking. Customers Č&#x201A; PRVWO\ VLJKWVHHLQJ YLVLWRUV Č&#x201A; DUH DOVR IULHQGO\ DQG HDV\ WR KDYH FRQYHUVDWLRQ ZLWK 7KHLU EHKDYLRUV DUH GLÎ?HUHQW IURP WKRVH ZKR shop in big shopping malls such as Aeon. However, Sugamo also SUHVHQWV GLÉ?FXOWLHV IRU RXWVLGH WUDGHUV OLNH KLP WR UXQ EXVLQHVV and integrate with the native community. Another interviewee, a real estate agent, shared that the elderly people who visited her shop are from the nearby area, some of whom are lonely seniors. Her business is getting slightly better recently. Many more were interviewed and most of the respondents replied that there were good public places in the shotengai especially the Koganji temple, which was mentioned the most.

Result analysis Based on the physical and social survey, Sugamo is clearly an elder-friendly and communication-friendly neighborhood with UHODWLYHO\ JRRG DXWRQRP\ 6DFUHG SODFHV PRVW LPSRUWDQWO\ WKH .RJDQML WHPSOH DQG SRFNHWV RI RSHQ VSDFHV ZLWK UHVWLQJ benches along the main street certainly play an important role as anchor points in form of resting and communication-inducing public spaces. The self-governed â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elderly serving elderlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; model LV XQLTXHO\ VLJQLČ´FDQW LQ 6XJDPR $V WKH QXPEHU RI HOGHUO\ in Japan and their life expectancy continue to rise, there will EH PRUH HOGHUO\ ZLWK ORQJHU Č&#x2020;VHFRQG VWDJHČ&#x2021; RI OLIH OLIH DIWHU UHWLUHPHQW 7KXV WKLV NLQG RI LQQRYDWLYH EXVLQHVV PRGHO WR JHW the retirees re-entered the workforce at local service sectors could be a creative, relevant and resilient approach.

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also helps to invite visitors to walk in the alleys and discover more areas in the shotengai, thereby strengthening the physical and social connection between the main street and the back lanes. However, the neighborhood is also a relatively â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;closedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and conservative community, which may not be welcoming to businessmen from other places when it comes to social and business cohesion. Such exclusivity could be a double-edge sword. While it prevents the community from building diversity; on the other hand, it reinforces the inherent and established solidarity and cohesion among long-time, trans-generational households and individuals who have built and sustained a strong community over centuries.

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Figure 12: Traditional foods are sold and enjoyed on the roadside (left) or creatively sold in a mobile van for take away by a young man (right) (Source: Authors)

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more private areas for relaxation as well as living. The rojiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complex network can be explained from the land management viewpoint. According to Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s law, these lands are usually private. This means that the roji owner has the full right to organize circulation path within their private lands the way they like or even exclude it from public access. Therefore, the entire roji system is organic and complicated, which in fact, has created interesting small-scale places of distinctive characteristics.

The quality and pace of life in these areas are usually tranquil and slow throughout the whole day. The organic roji network actually shapes up smaller communities of a few neighboring households who share common inner yards or passageways, creating a settlement of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;communities within communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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shows that feature them Č? &UHDWLYH XWLOL]DWLRQ RI JDSV EHWZHHQ EXLOGLQJV DV D IRUP RI micro place making Č? 2UJDQLF URML QHWZRUN WKDW VKDSHV XS Č&#x2020;PLQL QHLJKERUKRRGČ&#x2021; RU â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mini-communitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Č? 0DQ\ VKRSV WKDW DUH FDWHUHG IRU WKH HOGHUO\ DV ZHOO DV RWKHU age groups 7KURXJK WKLV VWXG\ RXU Č´UVW UHVHDUFK TXHVWLRQ RQ KRZ WUDGLWLRQDO low-rise and spatially compact shotengai can be sustainable over centuries has been addressed properly. In terms of economical sustainability, both shotengai have successfully GHYHORSHG WKHLU RZQ PDUNHW Č&#x2020;QLFKHČ&#x2021; IRU VSHFLČ´F WDUJHW FXVWRPHUV the elderly and the public transport users. And together with the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;community businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; model that strategically markets the entire solidary shotengai as one venue, the two shotengai have strengthened their competitiveness against large-scale modern shopping malls, where their retails are in competition and where younger and car-user customers frequent. In addition to numerous sales and festivals throughout the year, both shotengai business associations deploy various creative strategies to keep their shotengai remain active, lively, bustling and popular. For instance, some sell original sake and snacks under their own unique shotengai brand, while other groups organize recycling schemes where customers receive â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gift pointsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for returning empty cans and plastic bottles and these points can be claimed for purchases. As a result, there have been positive signs that customers are beginning to rediscover the value of this community business model. Features such as sacred place, rare traditional merchandise, traditional fairs or IHVWLYDOV DQG WUDGLWLRQDO IRRG VKRSV VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ DGGUHVV WKH cultural sustainability of the two shotengai. In addition, the VRFLDO VXVWDLQDELOLW\ LV UHČľHFWHG LQ SDUWLFXODU IHDWXUHV VXFK DV elder-friendliness, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elderly-serve-elderlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; model, friendly and communication-active people, and many shops and services WKDW DUH FDWHUHG IRU GLÎ?HUHQW DJH JURXSV Our second research question on how creative place making WDNHV VKDSH E\ LQGLYLGXDO RU FROOHFWLYH UHVLGHQWV LQ VSHFLČ´F XUEDQ FRQWH[WV KDV DOVR EHHQ ZHOO UHČľHFWHG WKURXJK YDULRXV ways of place making and place quality enrichment, including human-scale intimate streetscapes, barrier-free street designs and pedestrian zones during designated hours, distributed pockets of open spaces as resting and communication-inducing places, special outdoor dining settings, creative utilization of gaps between buildings, and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mini-neighborhoodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in organic roji network. The case studies have shown that the elderly themselves are indeed creative in various ways and levels in making their living and working environments more elderIULHQGO\ JLYHQ WKHLU VSHFLČ´F FRQWH[WV DQG FRQVWUDLQWV From this study, it can also be concluded that shotengai in Japan, as in the case of Sugamo and Togoshiginza, represent an important form of urban core areas in most of the towns and

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cities - the traditional â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;central business districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cum residential neighborhood with distinct atmosphere - which play essential roles in providing innovative â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;community businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; model, welfare, security, sense of community as well as local authentic FXOWXUDO FKDUDFWHULVWLFV $OO RI WKHVH VLJQLČ´FDQW IHDWXUHV KDYH been making the two shotengai sustainable and remain vibrant for centuries, resilient to ever-increasing modernization threats from other high-rise, high-dense, large-scale urban development around them. Thus, despite the falling numbers of WUDGLWLRQDO VKRWHQJDL WKH\ VWLOO FRQWLQXH WR VXVWDLQ DQG ČľRXULVK due to strong community spirit and collaboration, individual and collective creativity and initiatives, nourished by local pride and mutual support.

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SPATIAL FORM AND MICROCLIMATE IN PEDESTRIAN STREET IN NANJIN, CHINA Jingjin LI, Jianguo WANG Keywords: MICROCLIMATE, STREET FORM, ENVI-MET

Abstract The microclimate of the pedestrian street which is an important public space for citizens has important impact on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience.

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due to psychological and behaviour factors [3,4e5].

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2 Backgroud 2.1 Related research In 1970s, with the proposed concept of sustainable development, western scholars launched studies of the relationship between urban form and urban microclimate, The book <Sunshine , ventilation and lighting - architectural design Strategies >which was written by American scholar Mark Derkay and GZ Brown made a comprehensive study on the relationship of city form and micro-climate, Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book<climate-sensitive urban design >in the tropical areas of the city for the design of how the layout of the building to reduce urban heat island HÎ?HFWV SURPRWH WKH LPSURYHPHQW RI EXLOGLQJ PLFUR FOLPDWH DQG other issues carried out in-depth research, the Massachusetts College of Sports CFD technology to expand the urban wind HQYLURQPHQW VWXGLHV Î&#x2013;Q FKLQD :DQJ -LDQJXR RI 6RXWKHDVW University, Ding Wowo of Nanjing University, Liang Jiang of Dalian University of Technology, Bai chun and other scholars have theory research of the city morphology, urban design and other aspects of climate systems, Wu enrong, Ren Chao of Chinese University of Hong Kong study on Hong Kong ventilation from the perspective of urban climate map, Li Baofeng, Wang zheng of Hua zhong University of Science and Technology analyze the thermal environment if streets in Wuhan. Overall, these research on urban mico-climate focused on the theoretical framework and the level of large-scale studies , existing research often consider a single centralized climate elements. Software used in this article researching the micro-climate of the pedestrian street, intended to consider the thermal, wind , humility ,solar radiation.

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environmental impact factors of urban micro-climate on WKH EDVLV RI FRQVLGHULQJ WKH UHOHYDQW IDFWRUV ČľRZ G\QDPLFV thermodynamics, and urban meteorology. For this research, (QYL PHW VRIWZDUH KDV WKH IROORZLQJ DGYDQWDJHV Č´UVW LW FDQ VLPXOWDQHRXVO\ VLPXODWH DLU ČľRZ KHDW ČľRZ UDGLDWLRQ DQG RWKHU parameters of the exchange process, second, minimum grid resolution of 0.5 meters is suitable for small-scale research such as Nanbuting pedestrian street, third in the model not only wind and solar radiation can penetrate the green vegetation Green , the process of evaporation of water and photosynthesis in the calculation, which can simulate the urban microclimate more accurately.

3 Method 3.1 Study area Nanjing is located at downstream of the Yangtze River, in the VRXWKZHVW RI -LDQJVX SURYLQFH ODWLWXGH ( r WR r ORQJLWXGH 1 r WR r 1DQMLQJ KDV D VXEWURSLFDO monsoon climate, abundant rainfall, annual precipitation is 1,200 mm, the annual average temperature of 15.4C, annual maximum temperature of 39.7C, the lowest temperature of -13.1 degrees. In the four seasons of Nanjing, spring and autumn are short, summer and winter are long , Nanjing is a famous hot city in china .

7KLV SDSHU FKRRVH WKUHH GLÎ?HUHQW FRPPHUFLDO SHGHVWULDQ streets in Nanjing, Shiziqiao pedestrian street is adapted from the original urban space, Nanbuting pedestrian Street is located in the historic district counterfeit Chinese traditional commercial street built with low-rise buildings and Hexi pedestrian street is a large-scale commercial pedestrian street created as modern business model: 6KL]LTLDR FRPPHUFLDO SHGHVWULDQ VWUHHW Shiziqiao commercial pedestrian street is located in the middle of the old city of Nanjing, about 1.5 km west of Xuanwu Lake, an important part of Hunan Road shopping district, which has been rapid development from 1997.The Street is about 15 degrees south east, total length is approximately 270 meters and width of 20 meters. The main entrance is a 1,000 square meters square on the south side of commercial Street. Both sides of the pedestrian street are multi-storey commercial buildings and UHVLGHQWLDO EXLOGLQJ WKHV WUHHW ČľRRU LV PDLQ PDGH RI VWRQH 2 Nanbuting commercial pedestrian Street Nanbuting pedestrian Street is located in the south of the ancient city of Nanjing, near the Ganxi historic buildings. It is constructed in 2006, the main buildings of the street are traditional style, surrounded by traditional houses, overall building height are under 12 meters. The street is 15 degrees south west, length about 150 meters and 3-9 meters wide.

3 Hexi pedestrian street Hexi pedestrian street is located in Nanjing Hexi New Town Center, east side of the Nanjing Olympic center, began construction in 2000. The pedestrian street is 25 degrees south west, 255 meters long from north to south, east-west width of 80 m. Both sides of the large public buildings. Landscape elements setting in internal pedestrian street are Grass ,trees and pool.

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3.2 Calculation Method The research start simulating the micro-climate of the three streets from 10:00 am to 16:00 pm in June 23,2014based on Envi-met , setting the same initial simulation parameters according to Meteorological data, the initial wind speed 2.5 m / s, wind direction southeast , the initial temperature 293K, initial humidity of 50%.

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UHDFKHG N PD[LPXP WHPSHUDWXUH GLÎ?HUHQFH RI 6KL]LTLDR Commercial Street the at 14:00 reached 0.9k, south of the entrance plaza lowest temperature 290.8k, commercial Street on the north side temperature up to 291.7k, which is the lowest of the three streets. Hexi Street with highest temperature, but WKH WHPSHUDWXUH GLÎ?HUHQFH LV VPDOO WKH WHPSHUDWXUH FKDQJHV between 298.5K to 298.9K. 2 Vertical Temperature distribution

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From the view of wind speed horizontal distribution, Hexi street has the lowest wind speed of the three streets between 0.34m / s to 0.68m / s, and he wind speed of 80% of the street is less than 0.5m / s, which is just 20 percent of the initial wind speed.

Wind speed in Nanbuting changes between 0.34m / s to 2.47m / s, wind speed in the interior Shiziqiao street between 0.59m / s to 2.37m / s. High speed wind appear in the zone of the southern entrance plaza of Shiziqiao pedestrian street where and the east entrance plaza Nanbuting pedestrian, while high speed wind of Hexi pedestrian street is outside the pedestrian area on the roads near by, there are two high-speed wind vortex area on the south side of the two iconic tower, wind speed UHDFKHV PRUH WKDQ P V RU PRUH WKH GLÎ?HUHQFH RI WKH ORFDO ZLQG VSHHG LV PRUH WKDQ Č´YH WLPHV 7KH ZLQG VLPXODWLRQ VWXGLHV FRQČ´UPHG ZKDW KDG EHHQ PHDVXUHG LQ RWKHU FLWLHV :LQGV KHUH are only 25 percent to 50 percent as strong as winds in the open countryside [6].

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On the view of the moisture distribution, Shiziqiao pedestrain street has the higher humidity variations between 61-71% in the three streets, humidity in nanbuting is between 59-63%, humidity in Hexi pedestrian is lower than the other two between 39% to 41%.

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Judging from the site plan, Nanbuting pedestrian streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maximum L/W ratio is about 15-30, which is closer to channel , spatial orientation is direct, in contrast Hexi pedestrian streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s L/W ratio is 3.2, which is closer to a square space with unclear GLUHFWLRQ / : UDWLR SURGXFHV D FOHDU HÎ?HFW RQ WKH WHPSHUDWXUH distribution inside the streets. For example, east of Nanbuting is the Zhongshan South Road main road of the city with the west is the traditional lane , the temperature the east side of the Nanbuting pedestrian street is higher than the west side, pedestrian street became a heat transfer path, the smoothness RI WKH LQQHU ZDOO RI WKH FKDQQHO SOD\ D FHUWDLQ LQČľXHQFH RQ temperature transmission. Nanbuting pedestrian street at 14 R FORFN WKH WHPSHUDWXUH GLÎ?HUHQFH EHWZHHQ HDVW DQG ZHVW VLGHV reached 1.5K, while at the same time the maximum temperature GLÎ?HUHQFH EHWZHHQ WKH QRUWK DQG VRXWK RI 6KL]LTLDR RQO\ N WKH LQWHUQDO WHPSHUDWXUH RI WKH WHPSHUDWXUH GLÎ?HUHQFH between west pedestrian street in 0.2k. Street L/W ratio has a VLJQLČ´FDQW LQČľXHQFH IRU WHPSHUDWXUH WUDQVPLVVLRQ EXW IXUWKHU UHVHDUFK LV UHTXLUHG IRU VSHFLČ´F LPSDFW WKUHVKROG :LGWK RI WKH street appear no directly impact on the distribution of wind speed, Hexi pedestrian street with the larger width but did not bring greater wind speed distribution.

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P V ZKLOH WKH JURXQG ČľRRU RI WKH VWUHHWV ZLQG LV DURXQG 0.35m / s. Ground wind speed of Shiziqiao pedestrian street is 1.05m/ s, the wind speed at the top of the street 1.5m / s, WKH YHUWLFDO GLUHFWLRQ FKDQJHV LV OHVV WKDQ 1DQEXWLQJ 9HUWLFDO temperature and wind speed inside Hexi pedestrian street almost did not change much. Larger H/W ratio of the street cause bigger micro-climate vertical distribution variation. *UHHQ YHJHWDWLRQ LQČľXHQFH Through simulation studies , this article had found that the GLVWULEXWLRQ RI YHJHWDWLRQ LQWHUQDO VWUHHWV HÎ?HFW KXPLGLW\ DQG temperature distributions ,which have made some adjustments to optimize the enviroment. two streets involved in this study, Nanbuting pedestrian Street and Hexi pedestrian street set up some green vegetation. Trees on the northeast side of the 1DQEXWLQJ VWUHHW HÎ?HFWLYHO\ SUHYHQW WKH transmission of the high temperature, while the southeast side of the street because of the lack of green vegetation, high temperature zone extended to the internal pedestrian street.

Some green vegetation was planted in the northwest of the Hexi pedestrian street which cause the local temperature dropped about 0.3k.

5 Pedestrian Street microclimate optimization strategy Based on the above simulation analysis and summary, in order to design pedestrian with better micro-climate, this article made four space optimization strategies: 5.1 Good direction choice 6WUHHW GLUHFWLRQ SOD\ D VLJQLČ´FDQW LQČľXHQFH RQ FKDQJLQJ WKH LQWHUQDO PLFURFOLPDWH 'XH WR GLÎ?HUHQW XUEDQ GLPHQVLRQ GLVWULEXWLRQ DQG WKH VXUURXQGLQJ WHUUDLQ GLVWULEXWLRQ 'LÎ?HUHQW FLWLHV KDYH GLÎ?HUHQW GLUHFWLRQV RI WKH WKHUPDO D[LV ZKHQ WKH street direction is close to the thermal axis will cause high temperature internal the streets. Street direction towards the city prevailing wind direction is in favor of ventilation. For example the Shiziqiao pedestrian street facing south east 15 degrees, avoiding the city of Nanjing southwest thermal axis and IDFLQJ WKH VXPPHU SUHYDLOLQJ ZLQGV DOWKRXJK VN\ YLVLEOH Č´HOG H/w ratio and other indicators of Shiziqiao pedestrian is higher than Nanbuting, but Shiziqiao pedestrian street has the lower temperature and higher average wind speed distribution than the other two streets. The possible pedestrian street direction choices in Nanjing should be the southeast which will get better microclimate.

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street should adopt a large L/W ratio to ensure the internal microclimate quality. And when the pedestrian street requires JRRG PLFUR FOLPDWH IRU WKH VHFRQG ČľRRU RU KDYLQJ VHW XS DFWLYH space on the roof ,we need to consider to optimize pedestrian vertical temperature distribution and wind speed distribution by adjusting the ratio of H/W. 5.3 Space node optimization Spatial nodes such as street entrance plaza, street central node through reasonable interface adjustment scale and spatial regulation, can also optimize the micro-climate inside the pedestrian street. Shiziqiao pedestrian Street in This study enlarged South entrance plaza and internal square ZKLFK HÎ?HFWLYHO\ UHJXODWH WHPSHUDWXUH GLVWULEXWLRQ DQG ZLQG speed distribution in the pedestrian street Comparing the two entrances on the east side of the Nanbuting pedestrian street, the north side of the inlet opening of scale by reducing the internal temperature to reduce street. Therefore, the spatial node adjustment should be combined with an external temperature distribution.

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MOVING BETWEEN THE TERRAINS OF TWO PATTERNS: A STUDY ON URBAN MODERNIZATION OF TAINAN CITY STREETS Cheng An-YU Ph D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Corresponding author, Email: yuzu40@gmail.com Wu Ping-Sheng Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Keywords: 85%$1 )$%5Î&#x2013;& 7$Î&#x2013;:$1(6( 6(77/(0(17 (&2120Î&#x2013;& $&7Î&#x2013;9Î&#x2013;7< HISTORICAL GIS

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In the second part, this article turns to focus on the traditional texture WR SRLQW RXW WKH VXEMHFWLYLW\ VKRZQ E\ WKH FRORQL]HG :H LQYHVWLJDWH the changes of economic activities in an anonymous street. This street once named as Mi Street in Qing Dynasty ruling period, which PHDQV WKH SODFH ZKHUH WKH ULFH ZDV FROOHFWHG IRU GLVWULEXWLRQ %\ the analysis, we indicate that the ordinary people had change their way of earning life since the urban plan had changed the locations of Mi Street. That means simultaneously these two spatial layers would be gradually integrated with each other by the daily practice of the citizens. And it is the very performance that the modernity LQWURGXFHG E\ -DSDQHVH FRORQLDO JRYHUQPHQW ZDV SURJUHVVLYHO\ merged into Taiwanese society.

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in the city. Here we can claim a discourse to be the theoretical foundation of practice that the modernity could be a dynamic conception in the society with colonial experience. Where there are interactions between the historical architecture and space and the contemporary practice, there are necessary to rethink the modernity in the social context, historical background and socio-economic condition.

Introduction Purposes There are two purposes of this paper. First we interpret the urban spatial transformations by narrating a two-layer urban spatial fabric of Tainan city. One layer of these two layers is the haussmannized urban plan put into practice by colonial government. The other is the naturally developed traditional settlement texture before 1895. Here we compare the main VWUHHWV RI WKHVH WZR OD\HUV 7KH Č&#x160;6XHKLURFKR 6WUHHW áľ&#x203A;á&#x2019;łâ­Şä&#x2122;&#x160; Č&#x2039; RI WKH IRUPHU DQG WKH Č&#x160;+RQPRDFKL 6WUHHW áľ&#x153;â­Şä&#x2122;&#x160; Č&#x2039; RI WKH ODWWHU The second purpose is to interpret the spatial transformation from a bottom-up perspective. By investigating the history of another anonymous street which was gradually formed during 4LQJ '\QDVW\ SHULRG ZH GLVFRXUVH WKH XUEDQ spatial transformation again. Here the history is about how ordinary people react to the macro urban spatial and socioeconomic transformations. Ultimately we rethink the meaning of modernization of ordinary people. And it could be one step to clarify the modernity of Taiwan. %DFNJURXQG We turn to investigate the performance of ordinary people after the previous research which we proposed the inherent and coherent logic of the historical narrative of Tainan Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s XUEDQ VSDWLDO WUDQVIRUPDWLRQV &+(1* $Q <X HW DO 1. The transformations of Tainan City at that time are oriented to the modern economy. Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban plan and economic constructions renew the locations of the city. And subsequently, the local headmen responsively utilized the new urban locations by modern economic activities. But immediately we found out that history is just about the governance of the colonizer and WKH SURČ´W VHHNLQJ DFWLYLWLHV RI ORFDO KHDGPHQ 7KHUHIRUH ZH turn to see how ordinary people make themselves adaptive to the urban spatial and socio-economic transformations. And the focus on the essential livelihood-earning is just the basic researching dimension of the architectural tradition of Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s settlement study. We care more about material live than economic world or economic live, put in Braudelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words.

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As soon as Suehirocho Street had been opened, the administrative department subsequently arranged to build dwelling-cum-shops funded by the private sector. In 1932, the city met the climax of its spatial-socioeconomic modernization since the inauguration of Hayashi Department Store located in the Suehiro Cho. In early 20 century, department stores in -DSDQ KDG EHFRPH D ZLQGRZ GLVSOD\LQJ WKH ZHVWHUQ FXOWXUH ੲă?Šâ¨ś 6R IDU DV WKH GHSDUWPHQW VWRUHV LQ 7DLZDQ ZHUH concerned, the Hayashi Department Store just represented the modernity introduced by colonizers.

There are two kind of important urban spaces appeared in the haussmannized urban plan, the broad, strait streets and the blocks surrounded by these streets. Honmachi Street was broadened to be integrated with the urban plan. However, DOPRVW DOO RI +DQČ&#x2021;V VWUHHWV ZHUH FXW RÎ? DQG WKHQ EHFDPH ODQHV inside the blocks. Then we would take the Mi Street as example, to see how ordinary people response to the urban spatialsocioeconomic transformations.4 The socio-economic background of Mi Street

Figure 5: The new axis in an economy-oriented urban plan

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Email: oscar_carracedo@nus.edu.sg / omc@coac.net Keywords: URBAN REGENERATION, INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, STREET-BASED UPGRADING, ON-SITE UPGRADING, PLACEMAKING

Abstract The street constitutes the main public space in informal areas. While they usually emerge spontaneously, and in an unplanned way, their examination allows us to understand that there are spatial patterns of organization. Physical and spatial aspects that make WKHVH XUEDQ VSDFHV EHFRPH GLÎ?HUHQW W\SHV RI XUEDQ SODFHV 7KURXJK the understanding of these patterns of organization and by streetbased upgrading strategies, urban places can be formally set, making the streets not only spaces for mobility, for accessibility or for the pipelines, but also productive spaces where local economies and social and cultural activities can be promoted, and where the sense of community is enhanced.

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Urbanization is a transformative process and as the cities grow and develop, slums, informal settlements and low-income areas arise. These urbanization outcomes are mainly taking place in the developing world, where the informal city is a growing phenomenon and is becoming the norm. According to the United Nations estimates, 32 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population lives in slums, and the number will reach 50 percent by 2030.

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2. Understanding the existing spatial and organization patterns of informal settlements. A morpho-typological approach.

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It is noteworthy that, in general, the extensive occupation of these settlements due to the need for land for housing construction, makes public spaces a scarce or absent commodity, confering to streets the leading role of public spaces. However, we observe KRZ PXOWLSOH FRQČ´JXUDWLRQV DQG JHRPHWULHV RI WKH VWUHHWV HQG up creating a network of small widenings, dilatations or streetEHQGV )LJXUH $OWKRXJK WKHVH GLÎ?HUHQW IRUPV RI VPDOO RSHQ spaces constitute in many cases opportunity sites to build new housing, the community respects them, since they provide LW ZLWK GLÎ?HUHQW IXQFWLRQV DQG WKH\ FRQVWLWXWH VSDFHV ZKHUH neighbors can socialize, meet and interact.

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Finally, the third form of organization is the cluster. This pattern is formed around small-scale spaces or pocket spaces, for

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neighborhoods, thereby maintaining the spatial organization of communities, as discussed later in other cases studied in this paper.

3. On-site strategies. A shift in the urban regeneration policies for informal neighborhoods.

As discussed in the introduction, there is a remarkable a change in the recent approaches of urban policies regarding the regeneration of informal settlements. These approaches are evolving towards strategies characterized by improving their existing conditions, minimizing relocations and displacements, and keeping the attachment of their inhabitants to the site as well as the proximity to their places of work and their vital resources. As we will see in this chapter, these on-site strategies EDVHG RQ VWUHHW XSJUDGLQJ FRQVWLWXWH DQ HÎ?HFWLYH DOWHUQDWLYH WR eviction that facilitates regeneration.

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community or collective use. Controlled entry points do the access to the common space, which is bordered by a limited number of buildings. It is noteworthy that although these spaces tend to be delimited by the construction of gates and fences, members from outside the cluster may use them, since the sole purpose of delimitation is the social control of space, but in no case their private appropriation or their use restriction. Î&#x2013;Q WKLV FDWHJRU\ ZH Č´QG WKUHH GLÎ?HUHQW VXEW\SHV UDGLDO FOXVWHUV linear clusters and precincts. The radial clusters are small organizations around cul-de-sac or street widenings, which form small squares. The linear clusters are organizations formed along alleys or streets that have restricted their access in order WR EHFRPH ORFDO FRPPRQ VSDFHV Î&#x2013;Q WKHVH Č´UVW WZR W\SHV RI clusters, buildings locate their access and their main façades in relation to the common space. The third and last pattern is the precint. In this case, unlike the previous two, buildings are located within a fenced space, while others are located on the perimeter. Thus some of the buildings are isolated and surrounded by passageways and open spaces, allowing them JUHDWHU ČľH[LELOLW\ LQ ORFDWLQJ WKHLU DFFHVVHV As a result of this analysis we can conclude that, despite its apparent chaotic picture, informal settlements have, indeed, patterns of spatial organization. The understanding of these patterns can be used as a basis for the project of new

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One of the evidences of this change can be found in the types of development proposed by the Community Organizations 'HYHORSPHQW Î&#x2013;QVWLWXWH &2'Î&#x2013; LQ 7KDLODQG WKDW ZH XVH DV WKH WKHRUHWLFDO EDVLV IRU WKH GHČ´QLWLRQ RI WKH RQ VLWH VWUDWHJLHV According to CODI there are three on-site development VWUDWHJLHV WKDW KDYH EHHQ WHVWHG LQ GLÎ?HUHQW FRPPXQLWLHV which deal with the layouts and physical conditions of streets and open spaces in order to improve the living environments and to address land tenure security. These three strategies are: UHEORFNLQJ RQ VLWH UHORFDWLRQ DQG RQ VLWH XSJUDGLQJ 7DEOH

The strategy of reblocking consists in the improvement of the physical conditions and infrastructure in existing communities, making adjustments to the layout of streets in order to install sewers, drains and walkways, and to establish a balanced plot division. The implementation of this strategy needs a detailed site analysis of the existing settlement in order to propose a new street layout that keeps the largest number of existing houses, RSWLPL]HV WKH ODQG GLYLVLRQ DQG PD[LPL]HV WKH HÎ?HFWLYHQHVV RI infrastructure.

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Finally, the On-site upgrading strategy consists in the improvement of the physical environment and basic services in existing communities, while preserving their location, character and social structures. This type of development, which constitutes the less agressive strategy towards the community and the most site-adapted strategy for upgrading, needs also a detailed site analysis of the existing spatial patterns of the neighborhood, since the aims are to reinforce the ties

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Table 1. Comparative analysis of study cases. Strategies, spatial site plans, urban models and production of outdoor space. Authorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own table

established in the community, and improve the houses, streets and open spaces without changing the general layout of the neighborhood or even the plot sizes and its distribution.

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4. Planning street layouts as a physical and spatial system for street-based upgrading The analysis of existing street layouts in informal settlements, as well as in their projects, allows us to classify their physical and spatial organizations in four basic types according to their site plans: Homogeneous grid plan, Linear plan, Cluster plan and +\EULG JULG SODQ 7DEOH

The homogenous grid plan establishes a pattern of regularly spaced streets, which divide the land and delimit the blocks.

Although the grid can be hierarchical, it usually aims to democratize the land division and optimize the infrastructure layout.

The linear plan organizes the neighborhood in a predominant direction along a main axis, around which most of the buildings are located. This axis usually constitutes the main open space, and the main infrastructural and circulation system.

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communities around â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cul-de-sacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; streets and open spaces, which play the role of common spaces. This layout also allows each cluster to have their own infrastructure, services and septic and rainwater tanks.

Finally, the hybrid grid plan is the common type of organization of the original informal communities, which are usually developed incrementally. In this case the street layout becomes the public and open space that adapts to each local situation, resulting in a heterogeneous grid with no clear hierarchy that covers the whole neighborhood.

Based on these types of physical and spatial site plans, and on the on-site strategies previously explained, this chapter shows the relationship between strategy, implemented spatial VLWH SODQ DQG UHVXOWLQJ RXWGRRU VSDFH VWUHHW VSDFH RSHQ VSDFH 7KURXJK WKH FRPSDUDWLYH DQDO\VLV RI Č´YH XSJUDGHG neighborhoods, and through quantitative analysis of parameters such as outdoor space ratio and its percenatage, and the housing density, we can draw conclusions about the success DQG UHSOLFDELOLW\ RI WKH GLÎ?HUHQW VLWH SODQV DSSOLHG 7DEOH

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and Habitat for Humanity Philippines, two Non-Governmental Organization, started the on-site reconstruction of the new street layout and the houses without participation of the FRPPXQLW\ )LJXUH 7KH VROXWLRQ DGRSWHG LQ RUGHU WR PD[LPL]H the number of households and optimize infrastructure was a heterogeneous grid mainly formed by access streets to housing PHWHUV ZLGH DQG VHFRQGDU\ VHUYLFH DOOH\V PHWHUV ZLGH

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The analysis of GK Baseco shows that 26% of the area is used for outdoor space, corresponding to the streets and public spaces.

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Since the site was an uninhabited and an entirely new reclaimed area, no buildings were demolished in order to implement the new project. However, some nearby communities were demolished and relocated in the new site. The proposed physical environment and street layout follows the cluster plan scheme. Each cluster consists of two alleys of 3 meters wide leading to a community space. All alleys connect with the main street, a space 11 meters wide that links to the city. Thirteen

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The comparative analysis between the cluster layout and the spatial organization of the original communities shows that the total amount of outdoor spaces increases by 12,7%, while the UDWLR SHU LQKDELWDQW LQFUHDVHG E\ D VLJQLČ´FDQW LQFUHDVH LQ ERWK FDVHV )LJXUH 7DEOH

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Figure 13. Main street, common spaces and alleys in Navagampura.

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However, it is remarkable to note that the plans suggested that buildings should be built at 60 cm from the alignment to the RSHQ VSDFH VHWEDFN OHDYLQJ D XQEXLOW VSDFH ZLWKLQ WKH SORW DV DQ H[WHQVLRQ RI WKH VWUHHW VSDFH )LJXUH 7KLV VSDFH KDV been generally respected although each family has attributed a GLÎ?HUHQW IXQFWLRQ WR LW Î&#x2013;Q DQ\ FDVH DV RSSRVHG WR *. %DVHFR ZH QRWH WKDW GXH WR WKH GLYHUVLW\ RI W\SHV RI VSDFHV VWUHHWV FRPPRQ VSDFHV VHWEDFNV WKHUH LV QR QHHG WR DSSURSULDWH WKH common areas or even those not occupied in the plot itself.

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The neighborhood of Ruam Samakkee occupies 0.8 hectares of ODQG RI WKH &URZQ 3URSHUW\ %XUHDX &3% LQ 5DPNKDPKDHQJ 6RL DUHD LQ %DQJNRN )LJXUH 2ULJLQDOO\ LW ZDV DQ LQWHUVWLFLDO space that started to be occupied by rural migrants in the early 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. As the location was an access point to many job

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opportunities, the informal settlement grew rapidly through social connections becoming an over dense and over populated community with 124 families. In 1998, the CPB planned to develop the area and decided to lease the land to a private developer who should deal with the eviction of existing slums.

The community rapidly started to organize in order to regularize their tenure status, and after registering as a cooperative, the community negotiated a 30 years lease with the CPB on the land they had already occupied, giving them the security of tenure required in order to further invest in the demolition and UHFRQVWUXFWLRQ RI WKHLU KRXVHV 6LP Î&#x2013;Q WKH 7KDL government adopted the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baan Mankong Housing Programâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Secure Housing Programâ&#x20AC;?, an ambitious policy that channels infrastructure subsidies and soft housing loans directly to existing poor communities so they can upgrade their housing, infrastructure, services and community environment. Ruam Samakkee Community was selected as one of the ten pilot SURMHFWV WKDW EHFDPH WKH Č´UVW PRGHO WR RWKHU FRPPXQLWLHV for future housing development, and in May 2003, the people began working with young architects from the Community 2UJDQL]DWLRQV 'HYHORSPHQW Î&#x2013;QVWLWXWH &2'Î&#x2013; WR GHYHORS WKH new layout plan for the neighborhood. In the three months that followed, they demolished all the old houses, raised the OHYHO RI WKH ODQG WR SUHYHQW ČľRRGLQJ DQG ODLG WKH QHZ VWUHHWV and infrastructure. By the end of 2004, the construction of 82 housing units was completed, and by 2008, they had completed the construction of the 124 units, which increased the SHUFHSWLRQ RI VHFXULW\ RI WHQXUH DPRQJ UHVLGHQWV 81 +DELWDW $UFKHU Î&#x2013;W VKRXOG EH PHQWLRQHG WKDW DFFRUGLQJ WR the residents, the community participation in the design process was limited to the consultation and consensus by voting on their preference from options provided. This fact suggests that there was minimal dialogue in the decision-making, and that the process was done from a top-down perspective, except for the construction phase, when the residents participated in the building labours.

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Some basic principles such as no evictions and no expropriations, but with no new families settling in the territory were agreed between the community and the Municipality before starting the project. One of the main challenges faced was to implement the on-site upgrading strategy and resettling, which meant to deal with the existing community reducing demolitions as much DV SRVVLEOH )LJXUH 7R DFKLHYH WKLV REMHFWLYH DQG ZLWK WKH KHOS RI WKH FRPPXQLW\ DQ LQČ´OO VWUDWHJ\ ZDV XVHG 7KLV VWUDWHJ\ consisted in the construction of buildings to relocate in the same DUHD WKH DÎ?HFWHG SRSXODWLRQ DQG WR HVWDEOLVK LQWHUYHQWLRQV VXFK as improvements to buildings worth to preserve, the provision of public services, and improvements to environmental and SXEOLF VSDFHV )LJXUH

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square meters of open spaces related to environmental LPSURYHPHQWV RI WKH QHLJKERUKRRG 7DEOH 3. This increase in public and open spaces, together with the 15% decrease of the building footprint, carried out residential improvements such as the decrease of the housing density, the relocation of dwellings located in risk areas, the increase by 31% of the average housing living area, or the improvement and legalization of 100% of households. In the case of Juan Bobo, no appropriations of the public spaces have been detected due to the diversity of ZHOO GHČ´QHG SXEOLF VSDFHV HDFK ZLWK D VWURQJO\ GLÎ?HUHQWLDWHG FKDUDFWHU )LJXUH

that seek to rationalize evenly the land division and the LQIUDVWUXFWXUHV $QG RQ WKH RWKHU KDQG WKRVH WKDW ZH GHČ´QH DV based on site reading, which rely on a rigurous site analysis to understand the spatial organization patterns of the community with the aim of replicating them, give them continuity or adapt to them.

Finding the strategy to apply in each community is not an easy task. With the selection of the strategy we are determining a physical and spatial pattern that will condition the lives of people living in the neighborhood. In order to facilitate the adaptation of the communities to their new environments, it is recommended that, whatever the strategy we choose, the proposed street layout should be based on the reading of the physical and spatial organization patterns of the original community.

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As Somsook Boonyabancha states, on-site upgrading is by far the best, cheapest and esiest way to preserve community systems and to maintain development from the past to link with future.

With the proper assistance, simple, culturally appropriate, creatively-built, diverse forms of housing will automatically appear, forming communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own physical identity in the city.

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On the one hand, those we might call planned models, which after the implementation of on-site reconstruction strategies translate into spatial plans with entirely new street layouts

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quantity, but also a qualitative matter about how spatial site plans distribute the outdoor spaces, as well as which type of spaces are produced. As we have seen, layouts with more geometric GHVLJQ DQG QRW EDVHG RQ VLWH UHDGLQJ SODQQHG KRPRJHQHRXV OLQHDU JULGV DQG SODQV VXÎ?HU PDMRU PRGLČ´FDWLRQV DQG adaptations of open spaces by residents. These pre-formalized layouts, although they rationalize the infrastructure and establish equitable land division systems, diminish community spirit due to the lack of positive interelationship between indoor and outdoor spaces. In these cases the street loses part of its function as a public space to become a functional space informally occupied with activities that extend from the LQWHULRU RI WKH KRXVHV )LJXUH Î&#x2013;Q WKLV VHQVH SODQQLQJ ZLWK KRPRJHQHRXV JULGV DOWKRXJK HDV\ WR SODQ DQG HÉ?FLHQW IRU infrastructures, circulation, and services lines, should be more concerned about sense of community and common spaces, incorporating the diversity and multiplicity of spaces of the original communities.

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We can say, therefore, that the physical form of the streets and their layout is a relevant issue for the upgrading of informal settlements. The physical space of the street not only provides support for the division of land or for setting the infrastructure, essential aspects in the regeneration of informal settlements, EXW DOVR GHČ´QHV WKH SK\VLFDO HQYLURQPHQW RI WKH QHLJKERUKRRG which helps to develop the sense of community and promotes social relationships and local economies. It is not the physical space in itself, but what that physical space can create.

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ACCESSIBILITY OF PLAY SPACES IN DHANMONDI RESIDENTIAL AREA, DHAKA Md Rashed BHUYAN PhD Researcher Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore Address: 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore.

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characterized as a result of dual processes: a foreground and a background. Foreground and background form a deformed wheel pattern. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;emergentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;foregroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; represents the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;generativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; micro-economic forces; and the agent-based â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;backgroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, which is a functional derivative of the emergent foreground, is linked to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;conservativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; socio-cultural forces. Put VLPSO\ WKH IRUHJURXQG FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ IRUPV WKH FRPPHUFLDO centers and public movement networks in a city; and the EDFNJURXQG FRQČ´JXUDWLRQ IRUPV WKH UHVLGHQWLDO TXDUWHUV DORQJ ZLWK UHODWHG FRPPXQDO IDFLOLWLHV LQ WKH FLW\ +LOOLHU )URP movement economy perspective, space syntax asserts that people move in least-lines, people interact in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;convex spacesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; +LOOLHU DQG 9DXJKDQ

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3.1 Spatial accessibility pattern of street networks 3.1.1 Integration accessibility (R400, R800, R1200, R2000): Pedestrian and vehicular paths Syntactically, integration index measures the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to-movement potential of a segment as a destinationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; i.e. the ease of access WR JHW WR D VHJPHQW IURP DOO RWKHU VHJPHQWV +LOOLHU

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Figure 5: Catchment area and attraction size of the play spaces in DRA. Visualized based on the data from interviews and observation. Number within the dark circles shows users during peak hours.

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The above discussion points to the fact that although a great variety of models to measure accessibility exist, each has their own limitations and strengths considering their conceptual basis, aggregation potential and accuracy. Considering childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accessibility to opportunities, existing models can be grouped into three types of matrixes: place-based matrix, path-based matrix and people based matrix, with three types of policy and planning implications.

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These three matrixes of namely â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, with VSHFLČ´F HPSKDVLV RQ SDUWLFXODU DVSHFWV RI EXLOW HQYLURQPHQW DWWUDFWLRQ LPSHGDQFHV DQG Č&#x2020;SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V SUHIHUHQFHVČ&#x2021; UHVSHFWLYHO\

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In the Qing dynasty, Sanxia produced large quantities of woad, camphor, and tea, and Sanxia Historic District (see Fig. 1) became a collection and distribution center for agricultural produce and daily necessities. During the Japanese colonial period, the introduction of suits and kimonos resulted in the decline of the traditional dyeing industry in the area and the dyeing shops were converted into area-serving stores that VROG VXLWV JRIXNX DQG FORWK DQG JURFHU\ VWRUHV DQG KRVSLWDOV After the war, watercourse siltation and river transportation ceased and transporting goods on highways became the major transportation approach. The center of local development shifted and numerous residents of the district moved. In the 1960s, the mining industry in Sanxia peaked, resulting in the development RI FRÉ?Q VKRSV PHGLFDO FHQWHUV DQG GDLO\ FRQVXPHU VHUYLFHV 6DQ[LD +LVWRULF 'LVWULFW KDG HLJKW RU QLQH FRÉ?Q VKRSV GXULQJ

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RI &XOWXUDO $Î?DLUV &RQVWUXFWLRQ DQG 3ODQQLQJ $JHQF\ 7RXULVP %XUHDX :DWHU 5HVRXUFH $JHQF\ DQG UHSUHVHQWDWLYHV RI WKH residents. All problems generated during district preservation and restoration were solved through cross-departmental and ministerial integration.

In 2002, the Taipei County government entrusted architects to promote Sanxia Historic District reconstruction and planning.

The architects established a Sanjiaoyong District planning RQ VLWH ZRUNVWDWLRQ WR PDLQWDLQ WKH Č´UVW KDOO EXLOGLQJV UHSDLU arcades, and conduct restoration based on actual user needs.

The repair of traditional Sanxia shophouses included the renovation of interior structures, bathroom facilities, and kitchen pipes. In addition to historic building repair, relevant landscape improvements for surrounding alleys and connecting alleys were conducted, which included installing underground pipelines for sewage, telecommunication, gas, electricity, and cable TV. These procedures resulted in a completely repaired and integrated landscape.

In summary, the conservation of Sanxia Historic District was GHSHQGHQW RQ WKH FURVV LQWHJUDWLRQ RI WKH EXUHDXV DQG RÉ?FHV of the central and local governments and the communication between on-site professionals and local residents.

7KH HQKDQFHPHQWV DQG KRPRJHQL]DWLRQ JHQHUDWHG E\ KLVWRULF DUHD tourism In 2004, shophouse restoration started in Sanxia Historic District and lasted for 3 years. In 2013, shophouse operation statistics before and after the restoration were studied, revealing that EXVLQHVV W\SHV KDG EHHQ JUHDWO\ DOWHUHG %DVHG RQ DQ DQDO\VLV of the stores, the business opportunities brought by district preservation planning decreased the number of home- and community-based retail stores, which transformed the district into a tourism-centered district (see Fig. 3).

Figure 3: The current situation in Sanxia Historic District.

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and one in 2013 by the author of this study (see Table 1), it was discovered that only 4% of the original shops remained and the UHVW KDG DOWHUHG RSHUDWLRQV %HIRUH UHVWRUDWLRQ UHVLGHQFHV DQG stores selling necessities accounted for 65% of the shophouses on Minquan Street. In addition, before restoration, 14 folk art shops were located on Minquan Street and the development of the cultural tourism industry had already started. After restoration, multiple shops that had been repurposed into housing because of declining business opportunities had become stores again, but shops that sold necessities such as groceries, hardware, and oil disappeared.

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typical developments that are similar to those of other olddistrict tourism areas.

The preservation process of Daxi Historic District During the Qing dynasty, Daxi Historic District (see Fig. 4) was located at the end of the Dahan River transportation route and functioned as a distribution point for economic resources such as wood, rattan, camphor, and herbs from mountains. With the opening of a trading port, mountain industries of products such DV WHD DQG FDPSKRU JUHDWO\ ČľRXULVKHG Î&#x2013;Q WKH HDUO\ -DSDQHVH colonial period, Japanese trading companies developed the 'D[L PRXQWDLQ DUHD EHFDXVH RI WKH JUHDW EHQHČ´WV RI FDPSKRU therefore, Daxi Historic District remained a crucial distribution center for agricultural products. At the end of the Japanese colonial period, the completion of Taoyuan Canal intercepted the Dahan River and decreased the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water level, and the river lost its function as a river harbor and a cargo distribution center. Consequently, business gradually declined.

Figure 4: Daxi Historic District plan (Huang, 2009).

At the beginning of restoration completion in 2007, the rent in Sanxia Historic District increased two to four times from the original amount of NT$20 thousand (Pan, 2011). In 2013, the UHQW IRU WKH Č´UVW KDOO VWRUHV ZDV EHWZHHQ 17 Č&#x201A; WKRXVDQG Since the historic district preservation revitalized the area, landlords rarely live there because renting out their properties became a source of high income, with nearly 90% of shophouses being rented out.

After Sanxia Historic District was restored and the stores had been in operation for 7 years since 2007, the operation revenue exhibited a decreasing trend, but the rent increased persistently, causing the stores to face operational crises.

Overall, after the decline of the local mining industry, residents started to move away. Currently, Sanxia Historic District does not have a major distinguishing industry and the stores are SULPDULO\ WRXULVP RULHQWHG VWRUHV WKDW RÎ?HU ZDUHV VXFK DV antique furniture, ceramics, toys, and souvenirs. The increasing rent prices rendered specialized industries that require a long time to operate unable to survive. The problems that Sanxia Historic District has encountered are enhancements and other

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When the wood industry on Heping Road began, business RZQHUV SULPDULO\ UHFHLYHG DQG GHOLYHUHG RUGHUV LW ZDV QRW XQWLO later that stores were stocked with merchandise for customers to browse. The buildings located in the historic district were primarily factories and a majority of the current stores were not established until the 1960s. In the 1970s, with the economic WDNH RÎ? LQ 7DLZDQ DOWDUV ZHUH YDOXHG E\ PRVW KRXVHKROGV and became a crucial industry on Heping Road. In 1990, the Taiwanese government allowed wood importation and cheap DOWDUV IURP &KLQD JUHDWO\ LQČľXHQFHG WKH ZRRG LQGXVWU\ LQ 'D[L The development of the dried tofu industry in Daxi began in LQ WKH &LKX 0DXVROHXP RI /DWH 3UHVLGHQW /RUG &KLDQJ (Huang, 2009). The preservation of historic districts started in 1996, which was also the beginning of the decline of the wood industry.

Professionals adopted the mode of community development to enter historic districts In Daxi Historic District, preservation was initiated by community development and façade preservation incentives.

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resources for community development to cultivate local organizations. In August 1996, residents organized and established the Taoyuan Tashi District Redevelopment Society (TTOSRS). During this process, professionals operated district preservation with the approach of community development to empower local residents and assist residents in establishing local organizations. Through the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; involvement in local DÎ?DLUV WKH RUJDQL]DWLRQV ZHUH HTXLSSHG ZLWK WKH FDSDFLW\ WR mitigate problems regarding district preservation.

operation status in 2013 as they did in 2003, whereas the rest RI WKH VWRUHV KDG DOWHUHG RSHUDWLRQV %HFDXVH RI WKH EHQHČ´WV RI the tourism generated by historic district preservation, buildings used for housing were converted into stores. In addition, the WRXULVP EHQHČ´WV DQG DJHLQJ RI EXVLQHVV RZQHUV UHVXOWHG LQ WKH gradual disappearance of dry cleaning and grocery stores.

Table 2:Statistics of store numbers in Heping District, Daxi in 2003 and 2013

A locally operated community organization In 1997, the TTOSRS applied for funding from the government WR SHUIRUP D OLYLQJ VSDFH EHDXWLČ´FDWLRQ SURMHFW RQ +HSLQJ 5RDG 7KH RUJDQL]DWLRQ IRUPXODWHG Č´YH ZRUNLQJ GLUHFWLRQV EDVHG on the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; consensus: façade archway protection and restoration, underground pipeline installation, lighting system XSJUDGHV DUFDGH FHLOLQJ DQG ČľRRU WLOH OD\LQJ DQG VWUHHW IXUQLWXUH acquisition. For coordinating the façades throughout the district, the organization also planned to renovate the modernlooking façades of 60 buildings into antique-style façades. The organization actively worked to preserve Daxi Historic District and prompted the government to repair façade archways and spaces that exhibited local characteristics.

The organization not only worked for the improvement of tangible structures, but also for the operation of local cultural activities by releasing auxiliary programs from the Taiwanese central government to local organizations. For example, funding from a business circle image counseling project developed by WKH 'HSDUWPHQW RI &RPPHUFH 0LQLVWU\ RI (FRQRPLF $Î?DLUV was used in the Daxi Food Fair and Wood and Arts Exhibition to conduct store surveys and organize cultural festivals.

Community organizations operated by locals maintained the local characteristics of historic districts.

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Approximately 30 wood stores are still operated in Daxi Historic District and most are self-owned shophouses, where the business owners live and work. The development of the dried tofu industry resulted in 7 dried tofu stores located on Heping Road. The wood and dried tofu industries are crucial industries WKDW VWLOO H[LVW RQ +HSLQJ 5RDG WKHVH LQGXVWULHV KHOS PDLQWDLQ the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial characteristics.

The people in Daxi Historic District possessed great energy for local industry transformation. During the preservation process and the operation of the community organization, VRPH SKHQRPHQD ZHUH REVHUYHG LQ 'D[L %DVHG RQ LQWHUYLHZV and discussions on domestic and international historic district preservation by community organizations and the self-learning process of TTOSRS operation, most business owners shared a common vision for district operation and were certain that they must develop local industries to be distinguishable. The TTOSRS also assisted local store owners to have a clear vision regarding the district landscape, the usage of arcades and streets, and VSDFH TXDOLW\ KRZHYHU WKH DUFDGHV DQG VWUHHWV ZHUH PRVWO\ occupied by store owners from other localities.

Some crucial characteristics can be observed from the preservation situation in Daxi, the operation of district organization, and the current business system. The Caodianwei Studio and the TTOSRS shared the same vision for district preservation. The vision was to develop industries with local features, value the existing tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Daxi (see Fig. 5), and preserve archway façades and DUFDGH VSDFH ȾXHQF\

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communities, professionals, and the government regarding the preservation process and current situations of Sanxia Historic District and Daxi Historic District (see Table 3), the following goals were observed: to demonstrate the distinct local features and uniqueness of historic districts, to maintain local characteristics, and to operate a tourism industry based on novel methods instead of general tourism-oriented historic street preservation.

Table 3: Comparing the development of Sanxia Historic District and Daxi Historic District

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7KH UHVLGHQWV RZQ PRVW RI WKH SURSHUW\ RQ +HSLQJ 5RDG therefore, a high proportion of owners live on Heping Road and run their own shops. Young adults in Daxi also devote themselves to participating in the local tourism industry. Regarding store operation, Town Tofu Pudding located at No. 34-2 Heping Road and Japanese Style Handmade Tofu located at No. 54 Heping Road produce distinct products that represent the Daxi dried tofu industry. Yao Teahouse located at No 91 Heping Road integrates the wood industry and food. The young generation also participates in the conceptualization and execution of new family businesses. Earlier, Caodianwei Studio was established in 1996, and the TTOSRS held activities for local children during winter and summer vacation and also assisted children to SDUWLFLSDWH LQ SXEOLF DÎ?DLUV UHJDUGLQJ GLVWULFW SUHVHUYDWLRQ 7KHVH FRQQHFWLRQV GHYHORSHG GLÎ?HUHQW LGHDV UHJDUGLQJ GLVWULFW preservation development among the young generation. The *X IDPLO\ RI 1R DQG 1R +HSLQJ 5RDG IRXQGHG WKH Taiwan Old House Regeneration Association with the core value of preserving the heritage of traditional techniques and reusing old houses in the process of integrating the operation and repair of their own old house. The association cooperated with various professionals and scholars to prove the authenticity of WKH DJHV RI WKH KRXVHV ORFDWHG RQ 1R 1R DQG 1R +HSLQJ 5RDG 7KH KRXVH ORFDWHG RQ 1R +HSLQJ 5RDG QRZ functions as a local cultural museum.

Interviews with business owners from Daxi Historic District showed that local residents had their own ideas and were willing to devote themselves to operating and modeling the district and producing products with local characteristics after participating in the TTOSRS. Consequently, a community organization comprising local business owners assisted in enhancing the store owners, self-improvement skills for store operation and IRUPLQJ DHVWKHWLFDOO\ XQLČ´HG GLVWULFW FKDUDFWHULVWLFV Comparing the preservation processes of Sanxia Historic District and Daxi Historic District When comparing the implementation processes between

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Community practice In the data regarding whether property owners lived or operated stores in Daxi Historic District after preservation, nearly 60% of the property owners still operated their own stores and DSSUR[LPDWHO\ RI WKHP VWLOO OLYHG LQ 'D[L +LVWRULF 'LVWULFW The data showed that after preservation, the original district network of Daxi was maintained and the original residents did not move away because of tourists attracted by the historic district atmosphere.

The presence of the original district network facilitated the operation of historic district preservation organizations. The operation of historic district preservation organizations in Daxi showed that local organizations were largely devoted to local environment improvement projects regarding building maintenance, district repairs, and industry promotion to obtain government funding, actual environmental improvements, and the revitalization of the local tourism industry. Thus, community organizations devoted to district preservation were necessary in every locality to prepare communities for the integration of external resources in the preservation and revitalization of historic districts.

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In the early stage of preservation, two groups existed in Sanxia Historic District, the Sanxia Minquan District Selfhelp Association that supported demolition and the Sanxia Historic District Redevelopment Committee that supported maintenance. However, by the late stage of preservation, both organizations were no longer active. In 2007, after Improvement Works of Traditional Feature Preservation, 2ULJLQDO /RRN 5HVWRUDWLRQ DQG 6FHQLF 5RDG RI 7DLSHL &RXQW\ Sanxia Historic District Sanjiaoyong was completed, the Taipei County government allocated retention funds for Sanxia Historic District. The government expected the landlords to establish a management committee and to be responsible for the subsequent maintenance and management of the district.

However, this committee was not established and the retention IXQGV ZHUH UHWXUQHG %HFDXVH WKH SURSHUW\ RZQHUV PRYHG WR other localities, most stores were leased by business owners from other localities, typically leasing stores for a short time.

Thus, although the government provided funding to support the establishment of a management committee, a committee was not created because no participants were available. %DVHG RQ WKHVH WZR FDVHV LW FDQ EH FRQFOXGHG WKDW WKH preservation of historic districts requires community organizations led by local residents. Through the process of self-empowerment, community organizations were capable of establishing and executing district preservation and revitalization programs to maintain the local characteristics and specialties of historic districts.

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Professional practice During the initial stage of the preservation of Sanxia Historic District, local residents either supported preservation or GHPROLWLRQ *UHDW FRQČľLFW H[LVWHG EHWZHHQ WKH UHVLGHQWV ZKR supported demolition and the professionals and scholars who supported preservation. The professionals and scholars did not interact much with the community in the late stage. In 2003, the repair of the whole area was conducted and a Sanjiaoyong District Planning onsite workstation established by Hsu Yu-Jian Architects was responsible for responding to the local residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house repair demands. Therefore, the studio reduced a large amount of internal resistance and the repair results and professional communication persuaded the shophouse owners, including those who initially planned partial repairs, to agree to FRPSOHWH UHSDLUV WKLV UHVXOWHG LQ FRPSOHWH GLVWULFW UHVWRUDWLRQ During the preservation process of Daxi Historic District, Tseng Tse-Fong established a professional team, Caodianwei Studio, which provoked the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vision of district preservation by conducting extensive discussions with the residents.

Simultaneously, the studio also assisted the residents in establishing the TTOSRS by introducing resources and programs for community development provided by the government.

The community organizations established by local residents empowered themselves by implementing district preservation and community development programs. Subsequently, numerous professionals, scholars, and groups cooperated with the community organization in Daxi.

Dynamic professional practice is extremely crucial in altering the status quo. In the prospect of professionally assisting residents, the keys lay in empowering community organization and facilitating residents to mobilize the community. The continual support of professionals assisted the residents in operating community organizations and was crucial in district preservation. Cooperation between community residents and professionals produced touching district preservation stories.

Government policy The preservation of Daxi Historic District was supported by the community development policy, business circle redevelopment policy, and regional cultural heritage promotion proposed by the central government, and the dedication of the Taoyuan &RXQW\ JRYHUQPHQW DQG 'D[L 7RZQVKLS RÉ?FH WRZDUG 'D[L Historic District historic district reconstruction. The normality input of funding from the government can be observed in Daxi +LVWRULF 'LVWULFW KLVWRULF GLVWULFWV FDQ EH SUHVHUYHG E\ SURYLGLQJ districts with timely resources.

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of residents in the early stages. In the late stages, the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unwillingness to preserve the district was altered by the urban SODQQLQJ ODZ PRGLČ´FDWLRQV UHJDUGLQJ DUHDV ZLWK KLVWRULF IHDWXUHV ČľRRU DUHD UDWLR WUDQVIHUV DQG IXQGLQJ IRU UHSDLULQJ EXLOGLQJV DQG surrounding environments. The preservation of urban historic districts is complex because it involves the integration of private property, public infrastructure, and industrial development. Thus, the vice mayor of Taipei County hosted the cross-departmental DQG PLQLVWHULDO 6DQ[LD &XOWXUDO DQG /DQGVFDSH 'HYHORSPHQW Coordination and Promotion Committee to integrate the implementation of multiple governmental departments involved in the preservation process and facilitated district restoration.

In the government policy regarding Sanxia Historic District, we observed that the participation of a governmental executive WHDP ZDV EHQHČ´FLDO IRU FRQGXFWLQJ DGPLQLVWUDWLYH LQWHJUDWLRQ and integrating regulations and resources from the central and local departments. Thus, the preservation and redevelopment of the district still can be fostered even when the opposition of local residents is encountered.

Conclusion The two historic district preservation cases of Sanxia Minquan 'LVWULFW DQG 'D[L +HSLQJ 'LVWULFW H[KLELWHG GLÎ?HUHQW UHVXOWV DIWHU contrasting preservation processes. In Daxi, old industries and district networks still exist, but in Sanxia, the old businesses have disappeared and it has become a newly developed business community focused on district tourism. The results ZHUH LQČľXHQFHG E\ WKH LQWHUDFWLRQV EHWZHHQ WKH SURPRWLRQ and preservation of government policy, the movement of urban planning professionals, and the formation and development of district preservation organizations.

In the process of Sanxia and Daxi historic district preservation, we observed that districts where community organizations were prosperous, such as Daxi Historic District, developed into districts with rich local characteristics that manufacture SURGXFWV ZLWK ORFDO FKDUDFWHULVWLFV %\ DQDO\]LQJ WKH YDULDWLRQV in the industrial structures that comprise the regional space of the historic districts, constant alterations were observed.

The preservation of historic districts transformed the districts because industries that integrate culture and business were developed. However, the transformation of a cultural tourism industry that lacks the further development of the local industry and directed transformation promoted by local community organizations easily results in excessive tourism development lacking local characteristics, such as what occurred in the Sanxia Historic District.

In the preservation of Sanxia, the government implemented strong integration and persuaded residents and landlords who strongly opposed preservation through clear policy guidance and resource input. In addition, the operation of a professional restoration team in the community successfully preserved

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street spaces. In Daxi, the government consistently provided policy execution programs. Historic district preservation was conducted by gradual execution of relevant programs by the central and local governments, professionals, and community residents. This showed the importance of the consistent input of government policy and resources regarding historic district preservation. Therefore, policy and professional development must be highly community-based because civil society supported by professionals was a powerful factor of cultural heritage preservation development and systematization in both Sanxia and Daxi. For example, in Daxi Historic District, professionals facilitated the formation of community organizations, which supported and facilitated historic district preservation. Thus, not only were the community networks preserved, but also the spaces and layouts.

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settlement which combines Huan-Min military dependent village and informal (self-help) settlement in the margin of 7DLSHL 7DLZDQ %HFDXVH RI WKH HQYLURQPHQWDO SURWHFWLRQ ]RQLQJ and the hill-shape landform, Toad Hill settlement remains the pre-modern life style, architecture form, and multi-culture in the daily life. The conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement erupted when the land management authority tend to implement the demolish plan on the settlement, not only litigated several households, but also planned to bulldoze Huan-Min military dependent village, in order to introduce new campus development plan. Hence, a group of citizen formed a group called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Toad Clubâ&#x20AC;?. The team initiated a series of action and aimed to conserve the military dependent village, WKH LQIRUPDO VHWWOHPHQW DQG WR Č´JKW DJDLQVW WKH IRUFHG HYLFWLRQ Up to the present, Toad Hill settlement has been formally designated as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;culture landscapeâ&#x20AC;? by the Department of &XOWXUDO $Î?DLUV RI 7DLSHL FLW\ How did the conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement DFKLHYH WKH JRDO" :KDW JRDO RU YDOXH GLG WKH PRYHPHQW Č´JKW IRU" $OVR KRZ GLG WKH KHULWDJH FRQVHUYLQJ SURFHVV LQČľXHQFH WKH social relation in Toad Hill settlement? Moreover, when facing urban regeneration, what would be the progressive possibilities of urban settlements? In this paper, with the method of qualitative research and action research, researcher would not only record and analyzed the happenings, but also participate in the conservation movement, trying to point out the specialty of it. Ultimately, there are two temporary conclusions in the research. First, Toad Hill settlement could regard as a citizen participatory social movement which had the autonomy of citizen. From community building, art intervention to political RSHUDWLRQ WKH *RRG 7RDG &OXE ZDONHG RXW D GLÎ?HUHQW FDPSDLJQ path. Second, the transformation of the existing social network in the community and the response of the government suggest that a progressive city has already appeared.

Figure 1: Toad Hill settlement (photo by Zhe-wei Xu)

Introduction

Toad Hill settlement as an urban settlement

From downtown Kungkuan turned into Roosevelt Road, section 4, lane 119, a radio station greeted on the huge hill, groups of hillside settlement quietly appeared. In the settlement, small bungalows crawled up along winding stairs. It was hard to imagine the place as a part of Taipei city. However, the tranquil life was forced to change. Toad Hill settlement is an urban

Toad Hill settlement locats at the south mountain ring of Taipei basin, besides the vibrant shopping district. While wandering in the road toward Toad Hill, it is as if entering another secluded area of the city. The research regards Toad Hill settlement as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;urban settlementâ&#x20AC;?, in other words, a settlement that located in the urban area. While, it specialty lies in the contradiction

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among urban and settlement. Settlement is the organism of KXPDQ FROOHFWLYH OLIH Î&#x2013;W FRXOG DOVR PHDQ D YLOODJH WKDW GHČ´QHG by a particular life scale, pattern, or territory (ă&#x153;&#x2018;áĽ&#x;â?˘, 1977).

While, from the scope of culture landscape, settlement may indicate some kind of pre-modernized rustic lifestyle. In addition, settlement is a meaningful collective living unit, which relates to the developing of local culture and identity building (ä&#x153;?ă&#x161;ˇă&#x192;ť $V IRU XUEDQ WKH UHDVRQ ZK\ XUEDQ LV XQLTXH LV EHFDXVH RI WKH DJJUHJDWLRQ RI GLÎ?HUHQFHV 3LOH Î&#x2013;W LV possible to open up new form of social relation, interaction, and opportunities. In other words, urban is an open intensive status. :LWK PRELOLW\ ČľXLGLW\ DQG K\EULGLW\ XUEDQ LV WKH SODFH WKDW ZLWK openness and interactive connectivity. Through trade, politics, and immigration, the city would able to become a place where culture mix and multiple narratives gather (Massey, 1995).

In the discussion of places like urban and settlement, especially WKH FRQWUDGLFWLRQV DQG GLÎ?HUHQFHV DPRQJ WKH WZR WKH VHQVH RI place and identity are always the critical issue. Massey (1993) pointed out that Harveyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital logic was inadequate. She proposed the power-geometry and the progressive sense of place. The place is not an actual space with actual boundary, but D SURFHVV :KDW JLYHV D SODFH LWV LGHQWLW\ DQG VSHFLČ´F FKDUDFWHU is not only the local history but also the social relations that met DQG LQWHUDFW LQ VRPH VSHFLČ´F SODFH 0DVVH\ )ROORZLQJ Massey, Castree (2009) mentioned that the meaning of a place had already changed from boundary and essence to network and linkage. He also used node as the analogy of place.

However, it is important to know that a place would not always be in the status of changing, because the traditional of â&#x20AC;&#x153;placeâ&#x20AC;? was to discuss the boundary and territory. That is, only when Č&#x160;Č´[HG WR SODFHVČ&#x2039; FDQ SHRSOH JHQHUDWH WKH VHQVH RI SODFH HYHQ the identity, because people always live in place, in which people live daily and link to outside (Wills, 2013).

The clear social composition provides Toad Hill settlement an obvious boundary, whether the architecture form (visually boundary) or the strong sense of place (abstract boundary). It is said that, the closed relation of pre-modern settlement would usually perform in the social structure which dominated by the local headmen. In Toad Hill settlement, the Chief of Village, Ms. /HH KDV EHHQ WKH PRVW LQČľXHQWLDO KHDGZRPDQ 6KH WDNHV FRQWURO of all the matters in the community. Residents rely on her to KDQGOH GLÉ?FXOWLHV LQ GDLO\ OLIH ZKLOH WKLV VLWXDWLRQ PD\ ZHDNHQ WKH opportunity of forming any community organization. Therefore, when the conservation movement commenced, the power of civil society somehow collided with the historical settlement.

So as Haesbaert (2013) mentioned, the neighborhood would not simply open to the diversity and cultural hybrid. Once undergoing the process of re-territorializtion, it would indicate that the place has entered a game with multiple powers. Î&#x2013;QIRUPDO VHWWOHPHQW Č´JKWLQJ IRU WKH ULJKW WR WKH FLW\

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The research based on the conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement. To call these series action as â&#x20AC;&#x153;social movementâ&#x20AC;? is because it involves changing of the status quo, as well as the intermediary of political and institutional status.

Social movements, through history, are the producers of new values and goals around which the institutions of society are transformed to represent these values by creating new norms to organize social life (Castells, 2012). The research viewed the anti-eviction and conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement as the process that an informal urban settlement calling for the right to the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The right to the cityâ&#x20AC;? slogan was SRSXODUL]HG E\ +HQUL /HIHEYUH LQ WKH ULJKW WR WKH FLW\ LV OLNH D FU\ DQG D GHPDQG RI OLYLQJ LQ WKH FLW\ /HIHEYUH

Moreover, the right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access to urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the process RI XUEDQLVP +DUYH\ +RZHYHU ZKRVH ULJKW LV DERXW ZKDW right is it, and to what city? Form a view of critical urban theory, Marcuse (2012) reminded that the notion â&#x20AC;&#x153;rightâ&#x20AC;? has multiple meanings, which are incorporated by a right to public space, a right to information and transparency in government, a right WR DFFHVV WR WKH FHQWHU D ULJKW WR WKLV VHUYLFHV RU WKDW LQ VXP it is the right to a totality, a complexity. In the essay, researcher VKRXOG GLVWLQJXLVK WKH GLÎ?HUHQFHV RI YDULHV DFWRUV GHPDQGV DW GLÎ?HUHQW OHYHOV DQG WKURXJK ZKDW NLQG RI DFWLRQ GLG WKH DFWRUV achieve their demands. All in all, through the case of Toad Hill settlement conservation movement, it could be possible to form a dialectical relation between the critical theory and the radical practice.

5HYLHZ WKH DQWL HYLFWLRQ PRYHPHQW LQ 7DLSHL FRQWH[W /RFDWHG in the south of Taipei basin, Toad Hill has similar historical background to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Treasure Hillâ&#x20AC;?. Artist Marco Casagrande once described Treasure Hill as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Attic of Taipeiâ&#x20AC;?, just as every house might have an attic, Treasure Hill was the existing subconscious of Taipei city. In the decade-long conservation movement, Treasure Hill had eventually designated as â&#x20AC;&#x153;historical settlementâ&#x20AC;?

RI WKH KHULWDJH FRQVHUYDWLRQ /RRNLQJ EDFN DW WKH FRQVHUYDWLRQ planning, the endeavors of the conservation movement triggered a rezoning process of dynamic preservation which eventually DFTXLUHG RÉ?FLDO GHFODUDWLRQV RI 7UHDVXUH +LOO DV D KHULWDJH DQG legal residency of the original squatters. However, Min-jay Kang (2013) indicated that though the ongoing program continues to manage Treasure Hill as a social lab, everyday life has somehow become a gazed spectacle of a symbolic place.2 Whether from the urban settlement landscape, history, Ecological value, the arrival-city character, or the art intervene in the conservation movement, there was a high similarity between Treasure Hill and Toad Hill. At the moment when conservation movement is VWLOO RQJRLQJ 7UHDVXUH +LOO H[SHULPHQW LV OLNH D PLUURU UHČľHFWLQJ all the controversy. How could the experiment of Treasure Hill, which kept residents and made it a legal residency, become a

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;general principleâ&#x20AC;? for other urban settlement? When facing the zoning and planning rationale, how could the progressive principle break through the law source dilemma? These questions are left in every settlement conservation cases, and to the conservation group of Treasure Hill, this is the serious issue must face.

The evolution of Toad Hill settlement Since Qing dynasty, Toad hill settlement had already served as an important transportation position. Toad hill settlement locats beside the major road connected Jingmei area and Taipei city. It was because of the location that Toad hill settlement became the earliest developed village in Kungkuan area. Then, LQ HLJKWHHQ FHQWXU\ WKH /LXJRQJ FDQDO SURMHFW FRPSOHWHG 7KH system of crisscrossed canals and irrigation ditches served as the crucial water source for the agriculture industry in the SODLQ DUHD RI 7DLSHL $W WKH WLPH WKH /LXJRQJ FDQDO ČľRZLQJ through Toad hill settlement became the important daily water source for households.3 WKH -DSDQHVH FRORQL]HG WLPH began, the strategic position of Taiwan was to become the DJULFXOWXUH NLQJGRP ZKLFK FRXOG SURYLGH VXÉ?FLHQW IRRG IRU Japan. Consequently, Japanese government established the â&#x20AC;&#x153;agricultural research instituteâ&#x20AC;? in the foot of Toad hill, due to the abundant water source and the terrain. The agricultural research institute then became the origin of the modernization of agricultural in Taiwan. Due to the establishment of agricultural research institute, the dormitories for the Taiwanese employees DOVR EXLOW EHVLGH 7RDG +LOO 7LOO QRZ VRPH RI WKH HOGHUO\ VWDÎ? VWLOO OLYH LQ WKRVH GRUPLWRULHV EHFRPH RQH RI WKH KLVWRULFDO OD\HUV LQ Toad hill settlement.

In the time of Republic of China, Toad Hill had become a military landscape. 1949, HuanMin Tang4 lose Chinese Civil War and withdraw to Taiwan, therefore about two million political-forced refugees came to Taiwan with the military.

Situated at the south mountain ring of Taipei basin, facing north to Tamsui River estuary, Toad Hill provided an excellent defensive position for the air force. Moreover, it is said that in the Japanese colonized time, Japanese were already tunneling under Toad Hill for military purpose. Therefore, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Air Force Combatant Command of R.O.C.â&#x20AC;? chose Toad Hill as the locale of the military camp. Moreover, the time when the Korea War began, America government provided economic aid for R.O.C. military, establishing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taipei Air Stationâ&#x20AC;? beside the Air Force Combatant Command around Toad Hill settlement. Once the military shown up, the military dependent village would also sprout up around the military camp in order to house the VROGLHUV %XLOW LQ Č&#x160;+XDQ 0LQ PLOLWDU\ GHSHQGHQW YLOODJHČ&#x2039; served as one of the dormitories for the soldiers in the Air Force Combatant Command. Nevertheless, there were still many lower-rank soldiers who could not share the quota of WKH RÉ?FLDO GRUPLWRULHV 7KHVH ZRUNLQJ FODVV ODERUHUV VXFK DV FRRNV GULYHUV DQG FOHDQLQJ VWDÎ? OLYHG LQ WKH VHOI EXLOW

housing around Huan-Min military dependent village. This was how the informal (self-help) settlement of Toad Hill started.

An interesting case of resident Mr. Chen illustrated the close interdependence of the residents of Toad Hill settlement and the military. Mr. Chen served as a military driver in the air force. %HFDXVH RI WKH HFRQRPLF GLÉ?FXOWLHV KH QRW RQO\ EXLOW KLV KRXVH with the hollow bricks which collected from Taipei Air Station, but also recycled some beautiful wood-framed windows from the military. In conclusion, the reason why Toad Hill settlement shown up was because of the establishment of the post-war garrison. In order words, it was because of the laborers living in the informal settlement around the air force that maintained the daily function of a formal city.

The housing issue under the political reason as well as rapid urbanization continuing contributed to the multiple resident layers in Toad Hill settlement. In 1950s, KuoMin Tang government still held the ambition of counterattack, so there were no comprehensive urban planning projects, even though in the Taipei, therefore, about two million political-forced refugees WULJJHUHG RÎ? WKH KRXVLQJ LVVXH LQ 7DLSHL ä Ąŕś&#x201D;áż&#x17E; SRLQWHG out that those who did not assigned to houses squatted in public and private land, waterfront, and streets, therefore, formed the informal (illegal) settlements. During the urbanization of Taipei city in 1960 to 1970s, lots of rural-urban migrants moved from country area to city. According to the Census in 1963, one third of the households in Taipei lived in informal settlement, in other words, the informal settlements were the â&#x20AC;&#x153;general landscape of Taipeiâ&#x20AC;? (ਢá&#x2021;&#x192;, 2000). Toad Hill settlement accommodated those urban poor, becoming as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;arrival cityâ&#x20AC;? in Taipei context, because of the un-planned situation of and the cheap house price in Toad Hill. As Saunders (2011) mentioned about arrival city that this kind of community would not simply attach to the urban fringe, but tend to encourage the resident transit to urban life, becoming the city itself. Therefore, it is a critical issue to rethink the meaning of urban settlements in the context of housing demands. Today, the reason why Toad Hill settlement is special is because of its diverse composition, from the dormitory of agricultural research institute, military dependence village, UXUDO XUEDQ PLJUDQWV WR XUEDQ SRRU RI GLÎ?HUHQW WLPHV ZKLFK demonstrated the historical layers and the value of plebeian life of Taipei.

The conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement The conservation movement of Toad Hill settlement began when the land management authority decided to demolish Huan-Min military dependent in the settlement, at the same time sued two of the households, in order to introduce new campus GHYHORSPHQW SODQ 7KH FRQČľLFW FRXOG WUDFH EDFN WR ZKHQ the government allotted parts of Toad Hill settlement to the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST).

In order to obtain the land ownership without a hitch, NTUST signed a â&#x20AC;&#x153;relocation commitmentâ&#x20AC;?, in which NTUST promised

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that all the residents would be properly relocated before new development projects. In the level of urban planning act, even today, the relocation commitment could be considered as a progressive approach to deal with illegal households.

Paradoxically, after 14years, it was because NTUST failed to IXOČ´O WKH UHORFDWLRQ FRPPLWPHQW WKDW WKH VHWWOHPHQW ZRXOG EH able to maintain the current appearance and historical fabrics.

May 2013, the removal works on the vacant Huan-Min military dependent village was going to start. Fearing that the fabric of the historical settlement would disappear, documentary Č´OPPDNHU /LQ 7LQJ FKLHK D WHQDQW ZKR OLYHG LQ 7RDG +LOO settlement for six years, initiated the conservation movement. *UDGXDOO\ ZLWK 7LQJ FKLHKČ&#x2021;V HÎ?RUW WKH LVVXH DWWUDFWHG PRUH DQG more attention. August 2013, a group of residents, university students, artists, and professors formed a group called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Toad Clubâ&#x20AC;?, initiating a series of action, in order to conserve the PLOLWDU\ GHSHQGHQW YLOODJH WKH LQIRUPDO VHWWOHPHQW DQG WR Č´JKW DJDLQVW WKH IRUFHG HYLFWLRQ Î&#x2013;Q WKH Č´UVW \HDU RI WKH FRQVHUYDWLRQ movement, Good Toad Club had three main focuses: gathering support from the society, community building5 and taking political actions.

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Original Filmmakers Union (TOFU), some artist friends and Good Toad Club (later called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the teamâ&#x20AC;?) together initiated the event. In the week, the team explored creative ways to use the vacant Huan-Min military dependent village and to interact with residents. The team launched series events, including cleaning XS YDFDQW KRXVHV Č´[LQJ ROG IXUQLWXUH JXLGHG WRXU PXVLF SHUIRUPDQFHV VLWH VKRRWLQJ Č´OP IHVWLYDO DQG SRWOXFN SDUW\ Î&#x2013;W LV ZRUWK PHQWLRQLQJ DERXW WKH VLWH VKRRWLQJ Č´OP IHVWLYDO DQG SRWOXFN SDUW\ Î&#x2013;Q WKH VLWH VKRRWLQJ Č´OP IHVWLYDO WKH WHDP LPLWDWHG Golden Sugarcane Film Festival, in which participants would VKRRW WKH Č´OP LQ WKH VHWWOHPHQW ZLWKLQ D ZHHN DQG WKHQ PDNH LW D UHDG\ Č´OP Î&#x2013;Q WKH ODVW GD\ WKRVH Č´OPV ZHUH SURMHFWHG RQ to the big screen with the background of settlement scenery.

In other words, through the so-called art intervening process, residents saw themselves representing on the screen, providing WKH SRVVLELOLW\ RI VHOI UHČľH[LYLW\ $OVR LQ WKH SRWOXFN SDUW\ HDFK family prepared one best dish and shared together. On that occasion, Sichuan cuisine, Indian cuisine ZKHDW IRRGVWXÎ? DQG Hakka cuisine were on the table. The inclusive multi-cultural feast demonstrated the diverse components, the history, as well as the modern components of Toad Hill settlement. Addition to the above activities, Good Toad Club also held several small scale community activities not only to reach a better understanding of the settlement but also to win the support of grassroots.

Figure2: Ink painting of Toad Hill ( Ho-Tsung painted)

Then the most important event, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toad Hill Neighborhood Action Art Festivalâ&#x20AC;? Ç&#x2039;㸎㴽㚟ŕ¤&#x2026;Ë&#x2030;ä? ä&#x;źä&#x17D;§ŕŤ´Ç&#x152;ă°?ăş&#x192;ă&#x2021;° was carried out in September 2013. As a leader of the conservation PRYHPHQW Č´OPPDNHU /LQ 7LQJ FKLHK FRQQHFWHG IULHQGV RI WKH Č´OP LQGXVWU\ QHWZRUN 7KHUHIRUH 0V :DQJ IRUP 7DLZDQ

Figure 3 (top): watching movie (photo by Good Toad Club) Figure 4 (bottom): art work in Huan-Min military dependent village (photo by Good Toad Club)

5 Community building included interviewing residents and holding community activities. Good Toad Club thought that the purpose of â&#x20AC;&#x153;interviewing residentsâ&#x20AC;? were not only to understand the history and daily life in the settlement, but also could be the interface to build connection between residents and Good Toad Club members.

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creative conservation actions, if any change should happen, it is essential to face the institutionalized system. In the status that the land management authority NTUST could not stand the pressure from Good Toad Club, mass media, the public, and the FRQVHUYDWLRQ JURXS WKH FRPPXQLFDWLRQ SODWIRUP Č´QDOO\ IRUPHG Good Toad Club initiated several coordination meetings, that is, through the so-called political action and informal relations, the citizen and planners pushed the conservation movement from bottom up. I think in this case, comparing to the traditional topdown planning, all the conservation practice could consider to be a citizen participatory planning process.

Figure 5 (top): potluck party (photo by Good Toad Club) Figure 6 (bottom): guided tour (photo by Good Toad Club)

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There were several political consultation meetings. In the beginning, the core members of Good Toad Club took the initiative to lobby the city councilor, in order to postpone the removal works on the vacant Huan-Min military dependent village in 2013 summer. However, with the limited political power, the city councilor could only postpone the removal for about a month. Then, the second stage of negotiation started at September, following the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toad Hill Neighborhood Action Art Festivalâ&#x20AC;?. In order to in traduce more possible government resources to Huan-Min military dependent village, Good Toad &OXE VRXJKW WKH KHOS IURP WKH /HJLVODWRU 8QGHU WKH KHOS RI WKH /HJLVODWRU DQG WKH HÎ?RUWV RI *RRG 7RDG &OXE WKH FRRUGLQDWLRQ PHHWLQJ LQYLWHG WKH FKLHI RI 'HSDUWPHQW RI &XOWXUDO $Î?DLUV WKH FKLHI RI XUEDQ UHJHQHUDWLRQ RÉ?FH WKH PHPEHU RI DLU IRUFH and the administrator of NTUST. In other words, almost all the related sectors were put together to discuss about the future projects. A total of four meetings were held in 2013 Autumn, however, the land management authority NTUST still held D FRQVHUYDWLYH DWWLWXGH Č´UPO\ UHMHFWHG WR DFFHSW WKH +XDQ Min building, and refused to start the reusing plan. Moreover, 17867 HYHQ UHMHFWHG D IDPRXV Č´OPPDNHU +RX +VLDR KVLHQČ&#x2021;V SURSRVDO WR XVH +XDQ 0LQ DV WKH Č´OP VFHQH RI WKH XSFRPLQJ Golden horse festival.

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support of the conservation by her political position. To win the support of the Chief of Village was a crucial change on the SURPRWLQJ RI FRQVHUYDWLRQ :LWK 0V /HHČ&#x2021;V VWURQJ VWDWHPHQW and the support of the committee members, after the council, Toad Hill settlement has been formally designated as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;culture ODQGVFDSHČ&#x2039; E\ WKH 'HSDUWPHQW RI &XOWXUDO $Î?DLUV RI 7DLSHL FLW\ It could be viewed as one of the achievements of the conservation PRYHPHQW +RZHYHU WKHUH ZHUH VWLOO ELJ GLÎ?HUHQFHV EHWZHHQ â&#x20AC;&#x153;historical buildingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;culture landscapeâ&#x20AC;? in the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;historical buildingâ&#x20AC;?, stricter rules would regulate on the future usage of the buildings. While in â&#x20AC;&#x153;culture landscapeâ&#x20AC;?, if facing any development planning, the authorities only could require the developer to meet the original landscape and relevant principles. Hence, so far the Good Toad Club members were still considering initiating another heritage application also seeking more political aid. Each coin has two sides. To Good Toad Club, the application of the Cultural Heritage was a bet. Though the building or settlement would gain legitimacy, once entered the institutionalized process, the settlement would destine to be led to a planned status, even become a gazed spectacle. To the conservation of Toad Hill settlement, there is a dialectical relation between conserving the landscape and maintaining the residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daily life.

The possibility to a progressive city Through the conservation movement, the possibility to a progressive city had gradually appeared. It could be viewed IURP WZR DVSHFWV )LUVW WKHUH DUH VRPH UHČľHFWLRQV RQ WKH transformation of the local relations. The so-called outsiders in WKH FRQVHUYDWLRQ PRYHPHQW SUDFWLFDOO\ DÎ?HFWHG WKH IXWXUH RI Toad Hill settlement. While to the residents, the intervening of the campaigners did make some disturbance about the daily OLIH Î&#x2013;Q 7RDG +LOO VHWWOHPHQW WKRXJK WKHUH ZHUH LQQHU GLÎ?HUHQFHV of the local network and relation, most of the residents still held a collective identity of the place, for instance, women in WKH VHWWOHPHQW KDG D Č&#x160;IRON GDQFHČ&#x2039; WUDGLWLRQDO IRU DERXW \HDUV RWKHU UHVLGHQWV DOVR VKDUHG WKH PHPRU\ RI WKH /LXJRQJ FDQDO in front of the settlement, in which children swam and parents ZDVKHG FORWKHV DQG WKH SURFHVV RI EXLOGLQJ WKHLU RZQ KRXVH along the hillside and renovating stairs with neighbors. The sense of place deeply rooted in the process of participatory construction of the environment. :KHQ IDFLQJ WKH VWLPXODWLRQ RI WKH RXWVLGHUV DW Č´UVW WKH innovative activities and historical discourses do attract the attention of the residents, especially the elderly. They actively participated in the process and deepened the identity of the place they life for almost a decade. However, the frequent entering of the outsiders did cause a lot of distress to the residents. In addition, when the Good Toad Club tried to initiate WKH VHOI KHOS RUJDQL]DWLRQ LQ RUGHU WR Č´JKW DJDLQVW WKH IRUFHG eviction, some residents even thought that â&#x20AC;&#x153;naĂŻve students

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should not interfere with our lifeâ&#x20AC;?. It took more than half a year for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;conservativeâ&#x20AC;? local headmen to rethink about cultural KHULWDJH FRQVHUYDWLRQ DOVR IRU *RRG 7RDG &OXE WR Č´QG RXW D slower pace when getting along with the community. Then the existing social network gradually added a new joint cooperative relation, which composed of the campaigners and local headmen. The new network symbolized that the territory of the settlement became porous. The progressive power had merged ZLWK WKH SUH PRGHUQL]HG UXVWLF VHWWOHPHQW 7RDG +LOO VHWWOHPHQW was on the way to a new formation of urban settlement.

Ultimately, an urban settlement should face the urban regeneration, but how could historical settlements like Toad Hill survived if it were not to be demolished because of the illegality? How to reach the goal of heritage conservation and renovation when maintaining the original living texture? The answer would be gradually evident in the further practice in the upcoming future. It is crucial for the conservation movement actors to look back the process, clarify issues in each stage, and most important, dialectically debate on what right and for whom WR Č´JKW IRU :KLOH LQ WKH FXUUHQW VWDJH 7RDG +LOO VHWWOHPHQW LV designated as â&#x20AC;&#x153;cultural heritageâ&#x20AC;?. It is the initial achievement to the conservation movement. It could be expected that under the control of Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, it would be much PRUH ČľH[LEOH LQ WKH IXWXUH UHQHZDO DQG EXLOGLQJ FRGHV WKDQ WKH implementation of a development master plan. Furthermore, on the positive side, through the conservation movement, a bottom-up planning urged by the grassroots autonomy would determine the possible future of the historical site. The relation between the governance of city, which meant the response of JRYHUQPHQW DQG WKH JUDVVURRWV ZRXOG LQČľXHQFH WKH SODQQLQJ route and the action strategies of conservation group. In conclusion, through the reaction of society and government, and the transformation of the existing social structure, the conservation process may lay the foundation for the progressive city.

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SK\VLFDO HQYLURQPHQWDO FKDUDFWHULVWLFV PDSV INTRODUCTION Urban land use patterns formed by elements that interact with each other. These elements are activity, people and location.

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The policy encourages land use change along the arterial and collector roads and cause changes of building and physical environment characteristics along these roads (Prabowo, 2013).

In this paper we will discuss the control of land use change on the main road to protect the physical environment characteristics and what factors can protect it. Analysis was performed with morphological approaches and analytical techniques superimpose a map of land use change with a map of physical environment characteristic condition.

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CHANGE OF BUILDING AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS In the land use maps published by the Department of Spatial Planning in 1972, there has been a change in land use or physical environmental characteristics from the original function of the JDUGHQ LQWR WKH RÉ?FH IXQFWLRQV RQ WKH 0DLQ 5RDG /DQG XVH changes from green open spaces into housing both along the .UXNXW ULYHU DQG *URJRO ULYHU Î&#x2013;Q D FKDQJH WRRN SODFH QRW only in parks and open green spaces alone but began to change the use of buildings or building characteristics from housing into a commercial on secondary arterial roads and primary collector URDGV %HFDXVH WKHUH KDV EHHQ D ODQG XVH FKDQJH VR WKH ODQG XVH SODQ LQ WKH 'LVWULFW RI .HED\RUDQ %DUX 'HWDLO 6SDWLDO 3ODQ 2005 set a building use change on the primary arterial roads, VHFRQGDU\ DUWHULDO URDGV DQG SULPDU\ FROOHFWRU URDGV /DQG XVH Changes these followed by changes in building characteristic.

After 60 years there has been a change in the building characteristics. From about 4 thousand units of the building is only about 4% which is still visible building characteristics in accordance with the early time of development or has undergone minor changes to the building characteristics, the rest are no longer visible at the building characteristics such as early development. Architectural style that still remains LV $UWGHFR IXQFWLRQDOLVP HDUO\ 1LHXZH %RXZHQ 1LHXZH Zakelijkheid, Delft style, and Jenki. Massive changes in the function of the building occurred on primary arterial roads, secondary arterial roads and primary collector roads. Physical environment characteristics such as land use and street pattern LV DOVR FKDQJLQJ /DQG XVH FKDQJHV RFFXU LQ RSHQ JUHHQ VSDFHV and parks. Especially open space on both banks rivers of Krukut river and Grogol river. Roads pattern Changes occurs several roads but overall changes in roads patterns that occur is very small.

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DISCUSSION 'HYHORSPHQW RI WKH FLW\ WR WKH VRXWK WKHQ .HED\RUDQ %DUX location became a strategic area because it is close to the city centers. The emergence of commercial centers in the area GULYHV WKH GHYHORSPHQW RI .HED\RUDQ %DUX 7KH GHYHORSPHQW of that area made a pressure on the authenticity and integrity of the building characteristics and the physical environment characteristics. Changes in the building characteristics has EHHQ WDNLQJ SODFH WKURXJKRXW WKH .HED\RUDQ %DUX RQO\ D small portion of the building that experienced a minor change.

The buildings were built in the early development has been changed to new buildings, although the function of the building remain residential. Changes in the building function occurred at the primary arterial road corridors, secondary arterial road corridors and primary collector road corridors. These changes OHDG WR VLJQLČ´FDQW FKDQJHV LQ WKH FKDUDFWHULVWLFV RI WKH EXLOGLQJ In early development, the riverbanks Grogol and riverbanks .UXNXW DUH JUHHQ RSHQ VSDFH Î&#x2013;Q .HED\RUDQ %DUX 0DVWHU 3ODQ the banks of the river become catchment area used when the volume of water increases and as part of the drainage system of the area. During its development, the physical environment characteristics along the river has changed. These changes include changes in the function of the green open spaces into UHVLGHQWLDO +RZHYHU WKH SDWWHUQ RI URDGV LQ .HED\RUDQ %DUX relatively small changes. In general, the authenticity and integrity of the characteristic pattern of the road is still awake.

The factors that cause changes in the physical environment characteristics and building characteristics is pressure area

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development that is driven by the increased accessibility to WKH .HED\RUDQ %DUX 'HYHORSPHQW RI %ORN 0 EXV WHUPLQDO cause increased range of transportation services. Increased accessibility have encouraged the growth of the area, especially commercial activities. Determination of road function policy also led to changes in the building characteristics and the physical environment characteristics. Road corridors that are designated as primary arterial roads, secondary arterial roads and primary collector roads since 2005, continuously change the use of buildings.

The determination road function policy and then followed by a change in the distribution function of the building or just give 'relief valve' to cope with the demands of the development of commercial activities. These changes linearly along the arterial and collector roads corridors, causing the authenticity and integrity of physical environment characteristics on local road corridors remain protected. In addition, the land price factor also contributes to protecting the changing physical environment characteristics. Development is still in a small volume, because development can only be done on a relatively small parcel.

Therefore, the development of commercial activities on small ORWV DUH QRW ZRUWK WKH LQYHVWPHQW RI FDSLWDO ZLWK SURÈ´W JHQHUDWHG Î&#x2013;Q RUGHU WR REWDLQ DGHTXDWH SURÈ´W UHTXLUHG WKH GHYHORSPHQW of large-scale commercial activities that require merging plots.

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CONCLUSION Determination of road function and land use policy on the main road corridors can be relief valves for pressure changes in land use development needs. Control of land use change on the main road corridors to protect the authenticity and integrity physical environment characteristics, but it can not protect the building characteristic changes.

Development of the area should continue to protect Kebayoran %DUX DV D UHVLGHQWLDO DUHD E\ SURYLGLQJ RSSRUWXQLWLHV IRU KLJK intensity residential development as meeting the housing needs while maintaining the authenticity and integrity physical environment characteristics as well as protecting the characteristics of the old building to retain the identity of .HED\RUDQ %DUX

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URBAN REGENERATION IN SHANGHAIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SMALL TOWNS AND XINCHANG AS A CASE STUDY SHA Yongjie Associate Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China CHAN Wan Ting Pristine MArch Student, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore PAN Liyuan MArch student, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China Keywords: URBAN REGENERATION, SHANGHAI, SMALL TOWN, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION, CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT PATTERN, XINCHANG TOWN

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1 Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urbanization from 1991 to Present: the Central City and Suburb Areas 4XDQWLW\ DQG 6SHHG %DVHG &LW\ 'HYHORSPHQW )RFXVLQJ RQ WKH &HQWUDO &LW\ RYHU WKH 3DVW <HDUV In 1990 the Chinese Central Government assigned Shanghai as the dragon head of China economy as a national development strategy. Starting from opening and developing Shanghai Pudong New District as the spur, Shanghai entered an era of rapid urbanization. Examining the Shanghai Comprehensive 3ODQ DQG WKH &RPSUHKHQVLYH 3ODQ RI 3XGRQJ 1HZ 'LVWULFW in 1991, it is clear that the main focus of development lies within the Central City. The objective of the two plans is to expand the scale and the capacity of the city to support the expansion of

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Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP volume, to develop Shanghai comparable in that term to Hong Kong, Tokyo and other key Asian cities. The city focused on a fast paced, high quantity urban development strategy on the Central City throughout the last decade of the WK FHQWXU\ %HVLGHV WKH EXLOGLQJ RI LQIUDVWUXFWXUH VXFK DV highways in the suburbs, which connects Shanghai with other important cities in Yangtze River Delta, there were few actions done for suburbs development during these ten years. In 1999, the third version of Shanghai master plan after the China Open Door Policy, the Shanghai Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 ZDV ODXQFKHG 7KLV SODQ Č´JXUHG RXW D QHZ VWUXFWXUH RI FLW\ town system for Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development in both of urban and rural areas. A clearer and more comprehensive plan based on the structure strategy was further formulated in 2006 simply UHIHUUHG DV WKH 3ODQ )LJXUH 7KH SODQ FOHDUO\ GHČ´QHG 6KDQJKDL IXOO WHUULWRU\Č&#x2021;V FLW\Č&#x201A;WRZQ V\VWHP LQWR IRXU KLHUDUFKLHV - namely 1 Central City, 9 Satellites Cities, about 60 Central Towns and about 600 Central Villages (Figure 2). With this clearly GHČ´QHG KLHUDUFK\ DOO DGPLQLVWUDWLYH DUHDV DUH FRYHUHG ZLWK WKH role of Satellite Cities as an anchor in the respective suburb area. This clear distribution of settlement approach allows for the systematic management in such vast suburb areas that is crucial in the planning of other aspects such as industry type, HQYLURQPHQW WUDÉ?F DQG SRSXODWLRQ 'XH WR LQČľXHQFH RI PDQ\ DVSHFWV WKH LPSOHPHQWDWLRQ RI WKH Shanghai Comprehensive Plan 2000-2020 was not ideal. From 2000 to 2010, the emphasis on urban development remained on the Central City especially with the attention placed on the 6KDQJKDL (;32 SUHSDUDWLRQ Î&#x2013;QGHHG WKHUH DUH HÎ?RUWV by the respective government authorities in developing the suburbs area such as the building of expressways and roads to create an integrated road network within the whole of Shanghai.

However, Satellite Cities and New Towns development faces challenges as the private markets are concerned only with the residential and manufacturing zones, neglecting other aspects like the provision of education, and medical facilities which are relevant to the daily life of people. Furthermore, the plans made for these Satellites Cities and towns are overly ambitious, in terms of physical forms. Too much attention and public resources have been paid for super large scale and high costs projects, with intention to attract investors, but have little relevance in improving the livability of the town for normal residents. This made the start-up of a new settlement as a live body even harder.

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6KLIWLQJ IURP 8UEDQ $UHD WR 6XEXUE $UHDV DQG D .H\ &KDOOHQJH In 2012, the Chinese Central Government released the new policy, National New-Type Urbanization Plan 2014-2020.

Although the title of the new urban plan sounds seemingly similar to the previous one, there are some important issues that are brought up in this new plan.

Urbanization has been a powerful engine for the economic GHYHORSPHQW LQ &KLQD HVSHFLDOO\ WKH Č´UVW WLHU FLWLHV 7KH RYHU UHOLDQFH RQ ODQG VDOHV DQG ODQG PRUWJDJH Č´QDQFLQJ WR SURPRWH urban construction has exacerbated the extensive land use.

This raises an important point of concern, as large-scale developments are major contributor of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP and the city developing pattern based on large land area available for ODUJH VFDOH GHYHORSPHQWV LV DSSURDFKLQJ DQ HQG IRU PRVW Č´UVW tier cities. Taking a leading urbanization role in China, Shanghai ZRXOG EH Č´UVW LQ HQFRXQWHULQJ WKLV SUHVVXUH 5HJDUGLQJ WKLV issue, two key concerns could be read through the National New-Type Urbanization Plan.

Figure 1: Shanghai Comprehensive Plans published in the 1980s and 1990s. Shanghai Comprehensive Plan, 1986 (Top left); The Comprehensive Plan of Pudong New District (Top right); Shanghai Comprehensive Plan 1999-2020, 1999 (Bottom right). Source: Shanghai Planning and Land Resources Administration Bureau

Figure 2: Diagram of Shanghai 1-9-6-6 city-town planning system; the grey shaded area represents the Central City, the orange squares and green dots denotes the 9 Satellite Towns and 60 Central Towns respectively (the about 600 Central Villages not indicated); an indicative location of Xinchang can be found on map.

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Firstly, there should be greater emphasis placed on town developments for more economic possibilities. To ensure continuous economy growth, the shift in developing urban area to the suburb areas is essential. This shift in focus would accelerate the economic and social development in rural areas, and both the government and the private sectors will play a more active role in the near future. With such conditions, it ZRXOG EH WKH EHVW RSSRUWXQLW\ WR FDUU\ RXW WKH XQČ´QLVKHG WRZQ urbanization process highlighted in the 1-9-6-6 Plan earlier.

Secondly, with the saturation of large-scale developments, it creates an opportunity for smaller scale city regeneration to occur. Due to the high quantity and fast paced urbanization in the Shanghai Central City over the last 20 years, managing the quality of the city has a challenge. In other words, Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP DQG Č´QDQFLDO UROH WRGD\ LV FRPSDUDEOH WR RWKHU NH\ $VLDQ FLWLHV but the gap with other cities on average quality and functioning of the city is obvious. As such, the current circumstances calls for a need to look at this issue and to come up with solutions in solving problems regarding the users and functions of a city.

This would then give rise to a new model of urban renewal. %HVLGHV WKH LGHDV PHQWLRQHG WKHUH LV D NH\ LVVXH LQYROYHG LQ the shifting from urban areas to suburb areas. Throughout the history of China, cities have been deemed more superior WKDQ WKH VXEXUEV VXEXUEV DUH DOZD\V VHFRQGDU\ LQ WKH FRXQWU\ Resources in terms of capital, and population invested in the cities have always surpassed the suburbs greatly. Due to the GLÎ?HUHQFH LQ WKH DOORFDWLRQ RI UHVRXUFHV FLWLHV DUH RÎ?HUHG ZLWK greater opportunities causing a challenge in attracting people to stay in a town. The great disparity between the suburbs and cities has existed since history and it is not merely in terms of city development. Rather, it is a cultural issue that a villager is

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of a lower class than a city dweller and it has been a traditional mentality that leaving the suburb for the city is the most ideal pave one can achieve. This is one aspect that is not experienced in the context of a developed country. The ability to retain people in their hometowns and villages is not just physical considerations but also a culture issue in the social level.

2 Towns in Changing in Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Suburb Areas 6KDQJKDLČ&#x2021;V 8UEDQL]DWLRQ LQ 5XUDO $UHDV Č&#x201A; 0RYHPHQW RI 3HRSOH from Village to Town According to a statistical report by Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, in 2014, the total number of villages in Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suburbs has exceeded 36,000. That is the settlements accommodating Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rural population. More than 60% of the rural population in the villages is made up of outsiders or migrants, with 70% of these outsiders residing in the suburb areas nearer to the Central City and the remaining 30% residing in suburb areas that are much further away from the &HQWUDO &LW\ /HVV WKDQ RI WKH ZRUNLQJ SRSXODWLRQ UHVLGLQJ LQ the suburbs is actually involved in agricultural activities. Also, the ageing population residing in the suburb is currently more than /RRNLQJ DW WKHVH Č´JXUHV WKHUH DUH VLJQLČ´FDQW FRQFHUQV arising in the urbanization of rural areas in Shanghai.

Firstly, the largely scattered low density villages. Due to the small population size dispersed over a large area, the average land use index in the rural villages is very high. With a total agriculture population not more than 2 million in Shanghai, the total built area for villages, excluding farming land, exceeds 550 km2. As a result of the largely scattered low density living, the provision of basic needs and public amenities for everyone becomes a challenge. Secondly, with such scattered low-density population, the job opportunities within the rural areas are very limited, resulting in the movement of rural population into the cities or towns in search of employment. In view of these circumstances, one of the primary objectives highlighted in the policy for Shanghaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rural areas development is to move and concentrate population in the villages towards the new cities and new towns. With the gradual shift of rural population to urban areas, the corresponding capital in terms of resources per famer increases, which can contribute to the scale and mechanization of agricultural production. This will raise the level of modernization of agriculture and thus farmers' living standards. On the other hand, the town's economic strength will be further enhanced to promote economy in the rural areas.

However, new cities are more crucial in undertaking the complementary role for the secondary industries from Central City. Hence, the role of urbanizing rural population would be mainly undertaken by New Towns.

the administrative system and established the 60 Central Towns EDVHG RQ WKH QHZ V\VWHP 7KH FOHDU GHČ´QLWLRQ RI WKHVH WRZQV LV FXUUHQWO\ FKDOOHQJLQJ DV WKH GLÎ?HUHQW DVSHFWV RI D WRZQ LQ terms of its location, history, economic structure and status quo conditions vary widely. Hence, in the midst of transformation, WKHUH DUH D ORW RI XQFHUWDLQWLHV LQ WKH IXWXUH RI WRZQ %DVHG RQ observations, the general phenomena in towns are categorized as followed.

Physical Conditions in the Historic Core of Town - Due to its long history, the historic core of the town is made up of old traditional buildings, which generally provides poor living conditions such DV WKH ODFN RI SURSHU VDQLWDWLRQ DQG Č´UH VDIHW\ 7KLV LV HVSHFLDOO\ apparent at the areas further away from the main commercial street of the historic core. At the same time, it is also apparent that most historic cores are undergoing repairing works such as the paving of roads, and the renewing of drainage system which contributes to a highly disorganized outlook of the town. Also, intervention works such the additional of shelter with the use of scrapped materials in the old houses are commonly seen within the area. This results in the change of the spatial pattern of the houses, losing the original qualities of the traditional house (Figure 3).

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left); dilapidated old houses (Top right); typical example of an altered house with addition of scrapped materials and temporary shelters (Bottom right). Source: Photos by author, June 2014

Large Scale Developing Zones - The new zones in town are formed in the recent years. This newly built up areas are characterized by large-scale developments with wide roads, KLJK YHKLFXODU WUDÉ?F DQG D FRQFHQWUDWLRQ RI KLJK ULVH EXLOGLQJV The developments are large in scale, and the amenities are generally further apart explaining the need for high car usage.

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Heritage and Cultural Value of Towns - Even though the living conditions within the town are seemingly poor, the town has a strong sense of historical heritage and culture. Through a clearer examination of the elements of town, such as the waterways, bridges and buildings preserved, the essence of the old heritage could be experienced. Every town has its own unique sets of culture and heritage values, which is uncommon LQ FLWLHV WKH FKDUDFWHU RI WKH WRZQ LV DQ DFFXPXODWHG VHULHV RI events and historic values. Through the traditional architecture, LW LV UHČľHFWV WKH ULFKQHVV LQ DUWV DQG FXOWXUH SHRSOH LQ DQFLHQW time were immersed in. Also, certain way of life is still evident for instance its system of collectivization in the habits of life and agriculture as well as the traditional usage of the river such as the washing of clothes (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Shanghai Traditional Water Towns. Fengjing Town (Left); Liantang Town (Right). Source: Photos by author, June 2014.

Figure 4: New Developments outside the old historic core. High rise residential and commercial buildings by private developers observed in Luxu Town, which is another typical water town sharing the similar situation as Xinchang Town (left); roads are furnished with greenery, street trees and lamps (right). Source: Photos by author, June 2014.

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Tourism and Conservation Aspects of Town - Generally the main street in the historic core of the town is the most well preserved area within the town. In recent years, towns are increasingly popular, as a tourist spot, and the demand RI WRXULVP KDYH EURXJKW DERXW JUHDWHU HÎ?RUW LQ FRQVHUYDWLRQ works especially along the main commercial street. The

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relationship between tourism and conservation has always been a controversial issue. As marketing strategy for tourism, the retail services found in the historic town are often serving the modern needs and ideas such as themed restaurants in the traditional buildings. As a result, the conservation plans often focus on facades preservation. Furthermore, the attraction of WRZQV DV D WRXULVW VSRW LV D UHFHQW WUHQG WKLV LV D VLJQLČ´FDQW contributing factor for the highly similar looking towns. On the RWKHU KDQG WRXULVP KDV RÎ?HUHG PRUH HFRQRPLF RSSRUWXQLWLHV which allows for greater developments for the town.

3 Spatial Organization of Traditional Water Town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Case Study of Xinchang /RFDWHG DW WKH VRXWK RI 6KDQJKDL 1HZ 3XGRQJ DUHD Xinchang Town is a traditional water town still present. With D IXOO DGPLQLVWUDWLYH WRZQ WHUULWRU\ RI NP DQG D WRWDO population of approximately 110,000 people, this traditional water town possesses elements of a typical town. Hence, the XVH RI ;LQFKDQJ 7RZQ DV D FDVH VWXGLHV WR UHČľHFW D JHQHUDO situation of towns in Shanghai in current stage. )RUPDWLRQ RI WKH 7RZQ DORQJ +LVWRU\ DQG LWV .H\ =RQHV %HVLGHV WKH DJULFXOWXUDO ODQG WKH WRZQ FRXOG EH YLHZHG DV D FROODJH RI WKUHH NH\ ]RQHV IRUPHG LQ WKH GLÎ?HUHQW GHYHORSLQJ stages of the town. And currently, there is a large area of interface zone, which is appearing as a neither urban nor rural situation, with uncertain future in terms of its physical spatial structure.

New Developments after the 1990s - The new developments done after the Chinese economic reform till date could be divided into two key components. First, the developments done in the 1990s that is mainly to develop the rural agricultural area into residences for the farmers. The construction consists of some multi storey residential estate and linear rows of farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; villa. This new villages built for the farmers are primary concentrated in the west of the town. This is also the interface zone mentioned earlier, where the situation of the area looks seemingly urbanized yet it possesses qualities of a rural.

Second, the new developments done till date since the 21st century. This period of developments involve the construction of road infrastructures as well as the commercial projects done by the private developers. The road infrastructure is the building of major roads within the town, allowing greater access for vehicles into the town, forming a more apparent boundary of a centric town within the full administrative town territory. At the same time, the private developers begin commercial real estate constructions focus mainly on the residential sector.

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Historic Core of Town Č&#x201A; 7KH DUHD ;LQFKDQJ ORFDWHG ZDV VKDSHG into land during the middle age of the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1300 years. With large amount of slit brought about by wave and tide of the East China Sea to Yangtze River, the accumulation of slit at the estuary eventually formed into land.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasty, the area was designated as a salt boiler and named Xinchang. As a salt boiler, Xinchang grew into a vibrant town of residences and market, forming the historic core seen in the town today. However, the salt industry declined during the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Hence, the historical buildings preserved in the historic core of the town today are mainly built since the Ming and Qing Dynasty.

Development during the Socialist Time - The period after the founding of New China in 1949 till the China Economic Reform was half a century characterized by rapid development of the Chinese Socialist. During this period, developments in Xinchang begun at the fringe of the historic core, moving in an outwards direction from the core. This development consists mainly of low-rise socialist housing, schools and some small-scale factories. Even though there were some new constructions, the expansion of the town is relatively small.

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In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s context, the primary structure within the historic core of the town is relatively apparent, with the clear distinction of the how the main street and plot have developed along with the river adaptations. However, on a micro examination, the original OD\RXW RI WKH GZHOOLQJ KDG EHHQ YHU\ PXFK PRGLČ´HG VLQFH 1HZ China was founded and after which the rise of a new societal structure and this has changed the way houses are being lived in. Instead of a unit of large family, the house is being split into several units of occupants during the socialist time. Thus the layout of the houses is often altered to accommodate more occupants. Currently, it is already a challenge to identity the original elements, furthermore its original spatial arrangements.

In addition, with the transformation of town, developments are sprawling outside the historic core of the town. These GHYHORSPHQWV KDYH GHČ´QLWHO\ DÎ?HFWHG WKH KLVWRULF IDEULF resulting in a blurred structure especially along the boundary of the historic core of the town.

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Firstly, the traditional focus of the economy of a town is the agriculture industry. With the changing nature of the society, less people are less willing to be involved in this industry and naturally the reduction in this industry. However, as a main contributor of the economy of towns, the reduction in agriculture questions the economic role of towns in Shanghai. Secondly, the inability to provide the cost advantage of manufacturing industry towns used to have resulted in the loss of economic opportunities.

7KH FRPPRQ VLJKWV RI DEDQGRQHG IDFWRULHV DQG HPSW\ RÉ?FH buildings in the town are recent phenomenon observed in town. These factories used to locate in towns due to its low cost of production. However, in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s situation, towns are unable to provide such comparative cost advantage, and industries would easily relocate in areas that could provide much lower cost of production. As such, the working population in towns is losing their jobs and this questions the economic sustainability of towns. /DVWO\ LW LV REVHUYHG WKDW PRVW ZDWHU WRZQV DUH SXWWLQJ LQ JUHDWHU HÎ?RUW LQWR GHYHORSLQJ WRXULVP DV D IRUP RI HFRQRP\ 7KH UROH RI WRXULVP LQ ZDWHU WRZQ LV LQGHHG VLJQLČ´FDQW HVSHFLDOO\ with the changing nature of the economy. However, it is hard to decipher the role and direction of tourism in such water town developments. The concern is with an increasing number of water towns moving towards tourism, following the same approach of heritage conservations, all these towns are evolving to look the same, even though they were not previously developed the same way. This results in the loss of unique characteristics of water towns, which are valuable assets they have over the city.

Also, to what extent should tourism be included in the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development? The consideration of adopting a pro-tourist scheme or a pro-users scheme is highly essential in determining the future of the water town as its controversial nature. )UDJPHQWHG 6SDWLDO 6WUXFWXUH DW WKH +LVWRULF &RUH DQG 7RZQ Scales At the scale of the historic core, it is hard to conclude whether WKH VSDWLDO VWUXFWXUH RI WKH WRZQ LV FOHDU /RRNLQJ DW WKH RYHUDOO structure of the historic core of town, the major streets and URDGV DUH YHU\ PXFK NHSW LQ LWV RULJLQDO VWDWH KHQFH WKHUH LV D FOHDU GHČ´QLWLRQ RI WKH VWUHHW QHWZRUN DQG WKH LQGLYLGXDO SORW However, zooming in at micro scale, within each plot of land, it is almost impossible to identity the original spatial pattern

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individually. This is due to the alterations done by the population that moved into the town at a later stage. To accommodate more occupants, these buildings are greatly altered and it changes the original logic spatial organization for the people at that point of time. Therefore, it is inappropriate to regard the structure clear. Simply put, the town is clearly outlined but with individual plots that are fragmented spatially.

Moving on to a bigger scale, a fragmented spatial structure of the town has resulted due to a series of mono zones developed over time. As mentioned earlier, there are a few key zones in WKH WRZQ +RZHYHU DV WKH WRZQ H[SHULHQFH GLÎ?HUHQW UDWHV RI GHYHORSPHQW DW GLÎ?HUHQW WLPHV WKHVH ]RQHV KDYH OLWWOH integration. Often, these zones are planned independently and they are very much segregated in terms of the physical environment as well as the functionality as a town.

In summary, there are many uncertainties in the future of towns and it is currently not possible to draw a conclusion for the issues faced and the spatial model. There needs to be detail exploration of the past, current and future situation in order for a deeper understanding of the town and thus town development planning. The regeneration of Shanghai small WRZQV ZRXOG GHČ´QLWHO\ EH D ORQJ SURFHVV IURP QRZ (This paper is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China)

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Consequently, urban environment and social lives in Seoul and Singapore changed enormously in the past several decades of rapid development (Watson, 2011).

Nowadays, modern and prosperous metropolises such as Seoul and Singapore are facing unprecedented challenges from their ageing populations. One of the global challenges for the 21st century is the rapidly ageing populations in Asia. The number of elders in Asia will nearly triple from 447 million in 2012 to 1,253 PLOOLRQ LQ 81)3$ +HOS$JH Î&#x2013;QWHUQDWLRQDO $JHLQJ phenomena in South Korea and Singapore have been mainly resulted from falling fertility rate and increasing longevity1 %\ WKH \HDU RI LW LV H[SHFWHG WKDW DURXQG RI WKH population in South Korea and 21% of residents in Singapore ZLOO EH HOGHUV DJHG \HDUV DQG DERYH .267$7 137' 2013).

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In South Korea, rapid industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s and 1970s was accompanied by a surge of ruralurban migration, which resulted in widespread squatter dwellings in large cities (Ha, 2001, 2007). The government primarily responded by supporting slum clearance and urban redevelopment projects, largely driven by private developers and property speculators that created high-rise buildings rather than renovating older neighbourhoods5. As a result, these projects RIWHQ FDXVHG GLVSODFHPHQW RI ORZ LQFRPH GZHOOHUV +D 6KLQ :DWVRQ +RZHYHU UHFHQWO\ WKH SDUDGLJP IRU redevelopment has begun to change in South Korea. There have EHHQ LQFUHDVLQJ UHČľHFWLRQV RQ WKH SURČ´W GULYHQ UHGHYHORSPHQW and resulting inequities, as well as a growing awareness of the social and cultural assets in old urban neighbourhoods (Ha, 6HRQJEXNJX :LWKLQ VXFK D FRQWH[W D VR FDOOHG â&#x20AC;&#x153;village makingâ&#x20AC;? movement has recently become a new trend in Korean cities which encourages renovating neighbourhoods without massive redevelopment or eviction6. Since late 1990s, the municipality of Seoul has gradually expanded supports for â&#x20AC;&#x153;village makingâ&#x20AC;? projects7.

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7KLV SDSHU SUHVHQWV D FURVV FXOWXUDO FRPSDUDWLYH UHVHDUFK DQG explores the nexus between urban regeneration and ageing population in high-density Asian cities through two case studies - Jangsu Village in Seoul and Redhill in Singapore. The two sites share contextual similarities, and at the same time represent VLJQLČ´FDQW GLÎ?HUHQFHV LQ WKH DSSURDFK WRZDUGV UHJHQHUDWLRQ RI mature urban neighbourhoods with a large ageing population.

This paper begins by introducing issues of ageing populations, ageing policies and urban regenerations in Seoul and Singapore, followed by illustrating key debates in existing literature that relate elderly people with changing environment.

Then the two cases, Jangsu Village and Redhill, are examined separately through urban historical review and urban analysis. )XUWKHU Č´YH PHDQLQJIXO DVSHFWV DUH WKHQ LGHQWLČ´HG WR DQDO\VH the two cases comparatively: 1) drivers of urban regeneration, 2) models of urban regeneration, 3) ageing in place, 4) Roles of heritage in urban regeneration, and 5) social sustainability of neighbourhood development. Finally, concluding remarks SURYLGH UHČľHFWLRQV DQG UHFRPPHQGDWLRQV IRU SODQQLQJ DQG policy-making.

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by Robert Atchley. His book Continuity and Adaptation in Ageing (1999) comprehensively examines how people evolve continuity

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during ageing processes and how they adapt to change, which is crucial for old peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical, psychological and social wellbeing in later life. Change is constant. Continuity and change are not opposite. Rather, â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuity and change are themes that usually exist simultaneously in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s livesâ&#x20AC;? (p.3). Continuity is embedded in a type of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;evolutionary changeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that connects â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the SDVW SUHVHQW DQG DQWLFLSDWHG IXWXUHČ&#x2021; S *RODQW DOVR suggested that a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;trajectory of changeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; should be incorporated into evaluating the person-place relationship. Regarding FRQWLQXLW\ LQ XUEDQ HQYLURQPHQWV /\QFK DGYRFDWHG IRU â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;imageable placesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;could be apprehended over time as a pattern of high continuity with many distinctive parts clearly interconnected, that familiar observers could absorb new sensuous impacts without disruption of his basic image, and each new impact would touch upon many previous elementsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (p.10).

While continuity is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a consistency in general patterns of thought, behaviour, relationships, and living circumstancesâ&#x20AC;?, discontinuity or disruption, in contrast, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a relatively serious and potentially disruptive level of changeâ&#x20AC;? (Atchley, 1999). Some scholars paid attention to involuntary relocation and found â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;disruptionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; DQG Č&#x2020;VHQVH RI ORVVČ&#x2021; DV FRPPRQ UHDFWLRQV %DVHG RQ UHVHDUFK RI WKH XUEDQ UHQHZDO RI :HVW (QG QHLJKERXUKRRG LQ %RVWRQ )ULHG LGHQWLČ´HG WZR PDMRU GLVUXSWLRQV RI LGHQWLW\ DPRQJ relocated residents: disruptions of spatial identity and collective LGHQWLW\ %URZQ DQG 3HUNLQV LQ WKHLU UHVHDUFK DERXW WKH LPSDFW RI WKH %XÎ?DOR &UHHN ČľRRG LQ :HVW 9LUJLQLD IRXQG WKDW many relocated residents experienced long-term psychological loss, loss of social ties, and loss of meaningful behaviours tied to ZRUN OHLVXUH DQG FHOHEUDWLRQ %HFNHU EDVHG RQ KLV year study of over 200 ethnic minority elders in an urban area in Northern California, summarized that displacement could make people feel vulnerable, unstable, stressed, and even under threat. Cook and colleagues (2007) studied the loss of familiar physical environment, community and also familiar retailers among ageing adults in changed communities in Iowa, and highlighted the importance of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;continuityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in ageing experience.

The concept of â&#x20AC;&#x153;ageing in placeâ&#x20AC;? connects population ageing with their living environment. Maintaining continuity and reducing disruptions contribute to successful ageing experiences. Though this topic has been discussed in the western world for over 20 years, it has not been widely studied in Asian context. Yet it is a meaningful topic for many Asian cities as their populations are rapidly ageing and meanwhile their urban environments are undergoing tremendous changes.

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Figure 1. Location of Jangsu Village in Seoul (Source: Google Earth)

Jangsu Village is a neighbourhood of 2 ha in Seongbukgu District. Despite being located near the central area of Seoul, for more than half a century Jangsu Village has been mostly untouched by the massive urban redevelopment. Jangsu Village is situated on sloping lands adjacent to the historic Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910) city wall. Thus, Jangsu Village has been administered by spatial regulations and restrictions. Given the steep topography, the strict heritage regulations around the protected city wall, and as a result of complicated patterns of land ownership in the area, private developers have been SUHYHQWHG IURP UHGHYHORSLQJ -DQJVX 9LOODJH Č&#x201A; HYHQ GHVSLWH the redevelopment plan announced by the city government in 2004. Instead, since the Japanese colonial period the area has GHYHORSHG DV D VOXP OLNH Č&#x160;YLOODJHČ&#x2039; Č&#x201A; ZLWK XQSODQQHG XUEDQL]DWLRQ and massive rural-urban migration taking place at that time.

As a result, throughout the years Jangsu has remained mostly underdeveloped, characterized by a large number of elderly residents, a high percentage of low-income households, and the ubiquity of informal settlements (Seo et al., 2011).

Figure 2. Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye view Map of Jangsu Village (Source: Guga Urban Architecture)

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rapid population growth in Seoul. Many people ended up illegally squatting in any spaces available the city, when the basic form RI -DQJVX 9LOODJH WRGD\ ZDV HVWDEOLVKHG +D 6HRQJEXNJX 2014). In the late 1970s, government agencies started to register unauthorized houses built on public land, including those in Jangsu Village. Since the 1990s onwards, Jangsu Village has been designated by the government for redevelopment. %XW UHGHYHORSPHQW SURMHFWV FRXOG QRW EH UHDOL]HG PDLQO\ GXH WR ORZ HFRQRPLF HÎ?HFWLYHQHVV 6HRQJEXNJX

Jangsu Village is predominantly a residential neighbourhood built mostly on public land9. Migrants settled in Jangsu Village without any permission. In the 1960s and 1970s some public land was sold to residents10 1HYHUWKHOHVV DERXW RI WKH land in Jangsu Village today is public. Many rental households in Jangsu Village owe the government 10 to 30 million won11 IURP XVLQJ SXEOLF ODQG RYHU WKH \HDUV EXW WKH\ FDQQRW DÎ?RUG WR SD\ EDFN 6HR HW DO 6HRQJEXNJX 6XFK PL[HG ownership and accumulated arrearage prevented the village from redevelopment.

Proposed redevelopment of Jangsu Village is also constrained due to its adjacency to heritage sites. The village is located next to Seoul City Wall and Chongmudang Hall12. To protect cultural SURSHUWLHV WKH KHLJKW ČľRRU DUHD UDWLR DQG VW\OH RI VXUURXQGLQJ buildings are constrained by several regulations13, which limited WKH SRWHQWLDO SURČ´W IURP W\SLFDO UHGHYHORSPHQW 6HRQJEXNJX 2014).

Jangsu Village is located next to the peak of Naksan Hill. It is surrounded by two parks, one university, and near a subway station14. Although the location is central and convenient, the topography and lane pattern make Jangsu Village not easily accessible. The steep topography15, as well as the unplanned and incremental growth of the village resulted in a complex and disorganized system of lanes16. The spatial layout also leaves LQVXÉ?FLHQW URRP IRU FRPPXQDO VSDFH RU GLVDVWHU SUHYHQWLRQ

Figure 3. Jangsu Village adjacent to the city wall on Naksan Hill (Source: Seongbukgu, 2014)

The infrastructure is poor and the built environment is GHWHULRUDWHG LQ WKH YLOODJH %HIRUH WKHUH ZDV QR JDV supplied for heating. The sewage and drainage pipes were combined. Pavements of lanes were deteriorated. Houses in Jangsu Village are one or two stories, some with traditional architecture features. Almost all buildings were constructed over 20 years ago and were deteriorated before the recent renovation.

Demographically, Jangsu Village is featured with a high concentration of elderly and poor residents who have lived in the neighbourhood for long. The average age of residents is \HDUV ROG DQG RI UHVLGHQWV DUH RYHU \HDUV ROG Among the 299 households in total, 55% of are single or twoperson households. About 40% households are low-income17, and 21% of households live on support of the government. The DYHUDJH SHULRG RI UHVLGHQFH LQ -DQJVX 9LOODJH LV DERXW \HDUV relatively long compared to other neighbourhoods in Seoul.

The Alternative Urban Regeneration Plan in Jangsu Village In 2012, Seoul City Wall was nominated as a World Heritage Site

by UNESCO. The nomination took several years of preparation OHG E\ WKH FLW\ JRYHUQPHQW 7R IXOČ´O WKH :+6 DSSOLFDWLRQ WKH FLW\ government of Seoul launched a comprehensive Seoul City Wall programme . This programme promoted tourism around the city wall sections, including Naksan Park, and also acknowledged the historical, cultural, and scenic values of those village-like neighbourhoods adjacent to city wall.

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9 Public land in Seoul is owned by the government.

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15 Slopes in Jangsu Village range from 20 to 50 degrees.

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of the community, dozens of various community workshops and UHVLGHQWV PHHWLQJV RYHU Č´YH \HDUV 6HRQJEXNJX

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Redhill is a residential neighbourhood near the downtown area of Singapore. Administratively, Redhill is a sub-zone RI %XNLW 0HUDK 8UEDQ 3ODQQLQJ $UHD GHČ´QHG E\ WKH 8UEDQ Redevelopment Authority. As a mature neighbourhood, Redhill is featured with a high concentration of public housing estates and also a large number of elderly people who have lived in the neighbourhood for long time. Mainly due to its proximity to downtown and convenient transportation, Redhill has gone through several rounds of redevelopment projects over the past 60 years. Higher and newer housing blocks have gradually dominated the urban landscape of Redhill.

Figure 4: Community Park at the entrance of the village (Photo credit: authors)

Figure 7. Map of Redhill (Source: Street Directory Singapore)

Figure 5: Community Centre and Museum (Photo credit: authors)

Figure 8. Seven-storey Redhill Close estate after the upgrading programme

Figure 6. Location of Redhill in Singapore (Source: Google Earth)

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Publications, 1996). It was the housing development projects conducted by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) under the %ULWLVK FRORQLDO JRYHUQPHQW WKDW VWDUWHG WR XUEDQL]H 5HGKLOO DQG VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ FKDQJHG LWV XUEDQ ODQGVFDSH Î&#x2013;Q HDUO\ V DQ A-shape ring road Redhill Close was planned and constructed

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19 The hill used to be called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rubbish Hillâ&#x20AC;? as it was the rubbish dumping area.

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1960s and 70s for its concentration of low-income housing and high crime rate, Redhill today has the newest condominiums DQG VRPH RI WKH PRVW H[SHQVLYH +'% ČľDWV LQ WKH ODUJH %XNLW 0HUDK UHJLRQ 7KH WUHPHQGRXV FKDQJHV LQ 5HGKLOO UHČľHFW WKH growth of the economy and improvement to the quality of life in Singapore over the decades. The recent redevelopment projects in Redhill also represent the increasing economic value of the land near the central city and the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response in optimizing this value.

Moreover, throughout the decades, residents have not been involved in the decision-making process of redevelopment, which have been decided by the government. Although the homeowner residents receive compensation of selling their ČľDWV DW WKH PDUNHW DQG FKDQFHV RI EX\LQJ QHZ ČľDWV QHDUE\ WKH\ have to accept the relocation packages even if they do not want to move out26.

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%RWK ZHUH HVWDEOLVKHG DURXQG VLPLODU SHULRG ZKHQ PDVVLYH urbanization and rapid population growth took place in their UHVSHFWLYH FRXQWULHV %RWK DUH FXUUHQWO\ KRPHV WR ODUJH numbers of elderly residents most of whom have been living in these neighbourhoods for decades. And recently, both neighbourhoods are undergoing urban regenerations. /LNHZLVH WKHUH DUH PDQ\ GLÎ?HUHQFHV WKDW FDQ EH LQYHVWLJDWHG between the two cases27. The focus of this research however lies on the nexus between urban regeneration and ageing LVVXHV 7KLV FURVV FXOWXUDO DQG FRPSDUDWLYH VWXG\ LGHQWLČ´HV Č´YH DVSHFWV WKDW DUH YDOXDEOH WR EH FRQVLGHUHG LQ SODQQLQJ DQG policy-making. Each of these is discussed below.

1) Drivers of Urban Regeneration Since the late 1970s, large-scale urban redevelopment has been the dominant urban renewal strategy of improving substandard settlements in Seoul (Ha, 2001). Redevelopment projects have usually been driven by private developers under the government redevelopment plans. Mainly driven by PD[LPL]LQJ WKH SURČ´WV WKH UHGHYHORSPHQW W\SLFDOO\ DOLJQV ZLWK the interests of the government on macroeconomic concerns and overall housing improvement in the city, with interests of landowners to increase property values, and with the interests of middle-class people who look for housing around the central city. Such redevelopment has often resulted in displacement RI SRRU SHRSOH DQG KDV LQDGYHUWHQWO\ FRQWULEXWHG WR ZLGHQLQJ social inequity, polarizing the quality of housing of the wealthy and the poor, and breaking community ties among the evicted GZHOOHUV +D 6KLQ

+RZHYHU ZLWK LQFUHDVLQJ UHČľHFWLRQV RQ UHGHYHORSPHQW and growing awareness of social and cultural capitals in old communities, recently the paradigm of redevelopment has started to change in South Korea (Ha, 2007). The recent regeneration of Jangsu Village is a pilot project of this peoplecentric movement of â&#x20AC;&#x153;village makingâ&#x20AC;?. The project aims to SULRULWL]H EHQHČ´WV RI UHVLGHQWV WR HPSRZHU UHVLGHQWV WR JHQHUDWH win-win model through multi-stakeholder collaboration, and to encourage incremental improvement. Yet, the improvement is limited due to constraints of the steep topography and existing building situation.

Figure 10. Rendering of 48-storey City Vue estate in Henderson (Source: HDB, 2013)

5. Comparative Analysis Jangsu Village in Seoul and Redhill in Singapore are contextually VLPLODU LQ VHYHUDO ZD\V %RWK DUH QHLJKERXUKRRGV ORFDWHG near central city areas in developed Asian metropolises.

In Singapore, urban planning and development have been led by the government, within the context of â&#x20AC;&#x153;state capitalismâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;state dominance of land, property and the economyâ&#x20AC;? (Shatkin, 2014). Under this mechanism, the state has a direct stake in revenues from real estate development which eventually IDFLOLWDWH RYHUDOO HFRQRPLF JURZWK &DVWHOO 6KDWNLQ

$ORQJ ZLWK D JURZLQJ HFRQRP\ DQG D FKDQJLQJ VRFLHW\ +'%Č&#x2021;V goals have evolved over the years from solving a severe housing shortage in the 1960s, to optimizing scarce land resources and providing a total living environment with community facilities in

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5HGKLOO KDV JRQH WKURXJK FRQVWDQW XUEDQ FKDQJHV ZKLFK UHČľHFWHG the evolution of government-led housing development at each period. The latest redevelopment of the oldest cluster of housing in Redhill demonstrates the current drivers of redevelopment in Singapore29 7KH UHGHYHORSPHQW ZLOO VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ LQFUHDVH WKH QXPEHU RI ČľDWV DQG SRSXODWLRQ GHQVLW\ LQ WKH DUHD ZKLFK ZLOO not only maximize land values and increase property value, but also meet the needs of middle-class and upper-middle class buyers of owning properties near the city centre. The recent UHGHYHORSPHQWV DOVR EULQJ LQ D ODUJH LQČľX[ RI \RXQJHU IDPLOLHV to the mature neighbourhood.

In sum, the regeneration of Jangsu Village is recently driven by multiple stakeholders aiming to improve the quality of life for residents without relocation or commercialization, which represents an alternative paradigm of urban regeneration in Seoul. The redevelopment of Redhill Close is mainly driven by the government aiming to redevelop the centrallylocated, mature neighbourhood to optimize land value and cater for latest aspirations, which follows the evolving urban regeneration paradigm in Singapore. While economic growth and revenue from land are crucial drivers in the development and redevelopment in both Seoul and Singapore, the changes of global economy and emerging challenges such as ageing have called for a balance between economic-driven and socially or culturally driven development.

2) Models of urban regeneration The Alternative Development Plan of Jangsu Village is a pilot project that involves multiple stakeholders including both public and private sectors. Initiated by Seongbuk-gu District Government and the social enterprise Dongnemoksu, and supported by the FLW\ JRYHUQPHQW ERWK Č´QDQFLDOO\ DQG SROLWLFDOO\ WKH UHJHQHUDWLRQ model has actively involved primary stakeholders including residents, the social enterprise, the district government, the city government, the public architects30 and the researchers, each SOD\LQJ D VLJQLČ´FDQW UROH LQ WKH SURFHVV 7KH UHJHQHUDWLRQ KDV also other secondary stakeholders such as activists, tourists, university students, new residents, etc.

Figure 11. Stakeholder mapping of the Alternative Regeneration Plan, Jangsu Village (Illustrated by authors)

The regeneration of Jangsu Village is realized through a participatory approach. Community participation is incorporated at each stage of the regeneration project such as community organization, planning preparation, action plans, implementation, and management. The participation has been realized through forming community associations and small community groups, organizing multi-stakeholder meetings and community workshops, etc. Residents play active roles in decision making, in contrast to passively following the government-led plan. Moreover, the regeneration model of Jangsu Village integrate the social, economic, and cultural revitalization into the improvement of the physical environment, ZKLFK HQVXUHV WKH UHVLGHQWV EHLQJ WKH SULPDU\ EHQHČ´FLDULHV through regeneration.

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In South Korea, national policies on ageing focus on crucial IDFWRUV VXFK DV Č´QDQFLDO VHFXULW\ DQG KHDOWK FDUH LQ ROG DJH The government supports community services for elderly and sponsors care services for the poorest elderly. There is no elaborate policy on housing for elderly except assisting the poorest37 &KRL +RZH HW DO 7KH QDWLRQDO SROLF\ does not include concerns on â&#x20AC;&#x153;ageing in placeâ&#x20AC;? . The typical redevelopment model sometimes displaces low-income elderly residents to far-away places, which is not conducive for continuity at old age. Most low-income elderly residents in Jangsu Village have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;stuck in placeâ&#x20AC;? for decades even if WKH\ ZDQW WR PRYH RXW EHFDXVH WKH\ FDQQRW DÎ?RUG :LWKLQ WKLV context, the Alternative Development Plan facilitates the elderly residents to age in a better place through integrated measures that improves the physical environment and the socio-economic wellbeing39.

The government of Singapore has encouraged â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ageing in placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; under the comprehensive inter-ministerial ageing policy framework. Housing policies include building Studio Apartments to encourage ageing in place or near family members. Elderly KRPHRZQHUV DOVR KDYH WKH RSWLRQV RI PRQHWL]LQJ WKHLU +'% properties40 (CAI, 2006). Programmes such as Main Upgrading 3URJUDPPH DQG /LIW 8SJUDGLQJ 3URJUDPPH KDG LQFRUSRUDWHG PRUH DJH IULHQGO\ IHDWXUHV LQ +'% HVWDWHV (OGHUFDUH SODQV KDYH developed a strong network of community-based eldercare VHUYLFHV DQG VHQLRU DFWLYLW\ FHQWUHV LQ +'% HVWDWHV &KRQJ HW al., 2014).

Ageing issues in Redhill drew attention of the local government back in 1970s41. Today, there are convenient public transportation, community amenities, barrier-free environment, exercise corners, senior activity centres, etc. in Redhill. Ageing in SODFH KDV DOVR EHHQ FRQVLGHUHG E\ +'% LQ 6(56 SURMHFWV WKRXJK residents have to â&#x20AC;&#x153;move in placeâ&#x20AC;? during the constant urban redevelopment. On one hand, elders get a chance to still live in a familiar area. Most residents will be relocated to the same estates so they can still see their old friends in the new estate.

They will also be provided with new age-friendly facilities and eldercare services. On the other hand, elders have to leave from the place that they have built emotional attachment with, that they have accumulated memories over decades. Elders have to experience a sense of loss, and adapt to the newest-generation spatial paradigm, new orientation in the neighbourhood, new navigation paths42 D ODUJH LQČľX[ RI QHZ UHVLGHQWV QHZ socio-economic activities, etc. Some of these changes can be challenging for certain elderly residents.

In both regeneration cases, elderly residents have almost no FKRLFH Č&#x201A; KDYLQJ WR Č&#x160;VWXFN LQ SODFHČ&#x2039; LQ -DQJVX 9LOODJH RU KDYLQJ WR â&#x20AC;&#x153;move in placeâ&#x20AC;? in Redhill. In Jangsu Village, residents can age in a familiar environment, but the public infrastructure and housing situation are still challenging for some elders even with the incremental improvements from the regeneration programme.

They have to stay even if some want to move out. Compared to Jangsu Village, housing, accessibility, infrastructure and services in Redhill are more age-friendly. For most elders this could have been a convenient and decent environment to age in place.

However, elderly residents have to experience disruption to certain extent at an old age. They have to move out even if some want to stay.

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37 Other sectors are actively involved in ageing issues. NGOs work actively in providing eldercare services for the larger group of low-income elders. The private sector is actively involved in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;silver industryâ&#x20AC;?.

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In sum, it is important to maintain the continuity during neighbourhood regeneration to facilitate successful ageing in place. Though changes are constant, negative disruptions in ageing experience should be reduced. It is also important for the government and all the sectors to make both the â&#x20AC;&#x153;hardwareâ&#x20AC;? (i.e. the physical environment) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;softwareâ&#x20AC;? (i.e. the socioeconomic and cultural assets, services) age-friendly. Moreover, it is conducive in ageing experience if a range of choices can be RÎ?HUHG WR PHHW GLÎ?HUHQW QHHGV RI HOGHUV 4) Roles of heritage in urban regeneration The historic heritage of the city wall has played a crucial role in the development and regeneration of Jangsu Village. It was the spatial regulation of the heritage site that prevented Jangsu Village from being redeveloped by private developers over the decades. On one hand, being neglected by mainstream redevelopment resulted in little improvement of the quality of life in Jangsu Village for long time, leaving the community GHWHULRUDWHG KRXVHV LQVXÉ?FLHQW LQIUDVWUXFWXUH DQG ORZ LQFRPH and elderly residents. On the other hand, it has also preserved the harmony between human and nature, the traditional buildings, and the friendly social ties among residents.

The recent nomination of the Seoul City Wall as a World Heritage Site has brought opportunities and at the same time challenges to Jangsu Village. Walking trails along Seoul City Wall has been promoted as a touristic attraction in Seoul. Thus, Naksan Park as a part of the city wall was enlarged and renovated during 2007 to 2010 (Seongbokgu Govt, 2014). The project provided residents better accessibility to the rest of the city, large recreational green spaces, and economic opportunities. However, the construction of the park also removed around one third of houses in Jangsu Village, including several shops.

Except the city wall as a heritage site, Jangsu Village itself DOVR KDV XQLTXH KHULWDJH YDOXHV WKDW SOD\HG D VLJQLČ´FDQW UROH in the regeneration. At the beginning stage of regeneration proposal, Dongnemoksu highlighted the cultural heritage values43 RI -DQJVX 9LOODJH WR DSSO\ IRU Č´QDQFLDO VXSSRUW IURP DQG partnership with the government44. Jangsu Village got a chance to be preserved and renovated with supports from the city and district governments. Nevertheless, the village itself has not yet EHFRPH D SRSXODU WRXULVWLF GHVWLQDWLRQ RU EHHQ JHQWULČ´HG ZKLFK has been purposely avoided in the Alternative Development 3ODQ WR HQVXUH WKH YLOODJH DQ DÎ?RUGDEOH DQG SHDFHIXO KRPH IRU WKH ORZ LQFRPH DQG HOGHUO\ UHVLGHQWV ZLWKRXW VXGGHQ LQČľX[ RI investment or tourism which might drive current residents out or disturb residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; everyday lives.

5HGKLOO &ORVH KDV QRW EHHQ RÉ?FLDOO\ LGHQWLČ´HG DV DQ\ IRUP RI heritage. Nevertheless, the estate contains heritage features that are valuable to the residents and the society. First, as one of the early public housing projects built by SIT during colonial period, the estate is representative of the housing planning and architecture design concepts of SIT, which established the IRXQGDWLRQ IRU ODWHU KRXVLQJ GHYHORSPHQW E\ +'% 6HFRQG Redhill Close estate is historically valuable as one of the only two existing large-scale and seven-story SIT estates45. After both estates to be demolished in a few yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time, three to IRXU VWRUH\ 7LRQJ %DKUX HVWDWH ZRXOG EHFRPH WKH RQO\ ODUJH scale and multi-story SIT estate that has been preserved which cannot fully represent the variety of SIT housing history. Third, Redhill Close estate, locally called chek lau in Hokkien meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;seven storiesâ&#x20AC;? by elders, has been a local landmark for about 60 years. They are the oldest housing estate that has not been redeveloped in the area. The estate is important in the collective memory and identity of the community. Fourth, located in densely populated central area that has gone through constant urban redevelopment, Redhill Close as an old landmark that exists not only in the memory of current residents, but also related to a large number of people who used to live, study, or work in the area47. Î&#x2013;Q VXP KHULWDJH SOD\V D VLJQLČ´FDQW UROH WKDW DGGV YDOXHV WR WKH regeneration of Jangsu Village, whereas the historic or heritage value has not been addressed in the redevelopment plan of 5HGKLOO &ORVH 7KHUH VKRXOG EH EURDGHU GHČ´QLWLRQ RI KHULWDJH with recognition of the historical, social and cultural values of old neighbourhoods to local residents. Urban regeneration should also consider these values.

5) Social sustainability of neighbourhood development A socially sustainable community can continually adapt to the changing needs of its residents while also preserving the FDSDFLW\ RI WKH HQYLURQPHQW WR VXSSRUW WKH FKDQJH %ULGJHU /XORÎ?

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44 Such as the modern history of urban settlement in Seoul, traditional housing types, the harmony with hilly landscape, strong social ties, etc.

45 Since the village has not experience any major urban redevelopment since 1960s as most other parts of Seoul, some living heritages have been continuously preserved. Regarding tangible value, some of the buildings have preserved building materials and styles, interior design features, old furniture and items, etc. that tell the stories of the past. Regarding intangible value, some old residents have continuously lived there for a long time and have witness the process of migration, urbanization, PRGHUQL]DWLRQ DQG VLJQLČ´FDQW VRFLDO FKDQJHV LQ 6HRXO 7KH UHVLGHQWV WKHPVHOYHV DUH SDUW RI Č&#x160;WKH RWKHU VWRU\Č&#x2039; RI WKH KLVWRU\ 7KH RWKHU VHYHQ VWRUH\ 6Î&#x2013;7 HVWDWH LV 'DNRWD &UHVFHQW WKDW DUH URRP UHQWDO ČľDWV Î&#x2013;W KDV DOVR EHHQ DQQRXQFHG E\ +'% WR EH UHGHYHORSHG XQGHU 6(56 LQ D IHZ \HDUVČ&#x2021; WLPH 47 The famous market, food centre, schools, shops, shopping and employment centres are all located around Redhill Close

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so they can easily adapt to the incremental changes in the neighbourhood. Speculative investment, rampant growth of WRXULVP DQG UDSLG LQČľX[ RI QHZ UHVLGHQW KDYH EHHQ SXUSRVHO\ avoided to ensure the continuous experience of ageing in place.

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The ageing experience in Redhill has been periodically disrupted due to constant urban redevelopment and relocation. Although most residents have been relocated in the nearby area with fair compensation, every time they have to experience a sense of loss and adapt to new environments. They were also out of the decision-making process and given no choice but moving RXW +RZHYHU WKH SURJUHVVLYH DQG HÉ?FLHQW UHGHYHORSPHQW DOVR meets the growing needs of the ageing population through making age-friendly built environment and providing social and eldercare services in the estates. The changes introduce QHZ JHQHUDWLRQ KRXVLQJ PRGHOV DQG LQČľX[ RI ODUJH QXPEHU RI younger people to the prime location, along with new socioHFRQRPLF DFWLYLWLHV 7KLV UHČľHFWV RQH RI WKH UHVSRQVHV WR DJHLQJ issues from the government: bringing in younger families through redevelopment of old estates, so as to sustain the vibrancy of the neighbourhood.

In sum, the regeneration model in Jangsu Village facilitates the continuity and social sustainability through the participatory process, incremental improvement and slow change of demographics and land value. Even so, the improvement is still OLPLWHG DQG VORZ DQG WKH ORQJ WHUP Č´QDQFLDO RU GHPRJUDSKLF sustainability is uncertain. The redevelopment model in Redhill has promoted the social sustainability at a macro scale through progressively changing the demographics, density, and physical environment. Although this model is economically fair, socially FRQVLGHUDWH DQG UHČľHFWLQJ ORQJ WHUP YLVLRQ RI HFRQRPLF growth, it may miss some in-depth considerations at the micro scale regarding the continuity of ageing experiences and the impact of relocation on each individual or family.

6. Concluding Remarks This cross-cultural comparative study investigates the nexus between rapidly ageing population and practices of urban regeneration in developed and high-density Asian metropolises.

Although many Asian cities are facing challenges from ageing issues and at the same time also undergoing rapid urban UHJHQHUDWLRQV WKHUH LV FXUUHQWO\ LQVXÉ?FLHQW UHVHDUFK WKDW connects ageing policies and urban regeneration planning. This research contributes to this nexus by demonstrating two urban UHJHQHUDWLRQ FDVHV DQG XQIROGLQJ Č´YH DVSHFWV WKDW DUH YDOXDEOH for policy makers, planners, practitioners, researchers, etc. to consider in policy making and planning.

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processes. It is also common that most old residents have lived in these mature neighbourhoods for relatively long time. On one hand, urban regeneration is necessary as many old neighbourhoods cannot meet basic needs of elders and evolving aspirations of people any more. On the other hand, urban regeneration of mature neighbourhoods should be carefully planned as many elderly residents have developed physical, social, and psychological attachment to their familiar neighbourhoods over the years. The historical, cultural, and social assets of old communities should also be considered in urban regenerations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ageing in placeâ&#x20AC;? has long been an important topic in academia and policy making in the western world. It should play a more important role in rapidly-ageing and fast-changing Asian cities.

On one hand, the government and all sectors in the society VKRXOG PDNH HÎ?RUWV WR HQFRXUDJH Č&#x160;DJHLQJ LQ SODFHČ&#x2039; WKURXJK measures such as age-friendly environments, housing options IRU HOGHUV Č´QDQFLDO RSWLRQV DW ROG DJH SURYLVLRQ RI HOGHUFDUH services, activities and wellbeing, etc. On the other hand, while regenerating old urban neighbourhoods is necessary, needs and rights of elderly residents to age continuously in their familiar environments should be integrated in regeneration plans. A balance is needed to improve the living environment to facilitate successful ageing in place, and at the same time to minimize the negative disruptions to ensure continuity in ageing experiences.

Moreover, developed and emerging Asian economies have enjoyed rapid economic growth for decades. Economic growth and revenue from land are crucial drivers in the development and redevelopment in Seoul and Singapore. The changes of global economy and emerging challenges such as ageing call for a balance between economic-driven development and additional, multi-dimensional drivers of development such as needs of ageing population, civic participation, place attachment, social and cultural assets of community, etc. /DVW EXW QRW OHDVW WKLV UHVHDUFK LV MXVW D VWDUW RI FRQQHFWLQJ ageing issues with urban regeneration in rapidly-ageing, fastchanging, and high-density Asian cities. Facing the global challenges and opportunities from population ageing, more HÎ?RUWV RQ WKLV WRSLF QHHG WR EH GRQH :LWK XQGHUVWDQGLQJ WKDW HDFK FLW\ KDV GLÎ?HUHQW FRQWH[W OHVVRQV OHDUQHG IURP RWKHU FLWLHV are valuable to be innovatively incorporated to local context to sustain urban changes for elders and all citizens.

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Figure 1: Drying Peppers in Hwaechon-Gun and Tongin-Dong (2014).

Cultural images that the Korean tourist board most often promote include picturesque palaces, integrated technological features and the bustling shopping districts of Seoul. More GLÉ?FXOW WR Č´QG DUH SLFWXUHV RI HYHU\GD\ ORFDO SHRSOH HQJDJHG LQ traditional Korean tasks such as the seasonal group-orientated task of kimchi-making or drying peppers. Tasks such as these, which are still commonplace in the countryside, have been forced to adapt to the urban milieu (as seen in Figures 1.).

However, one area within Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ancient city walls where such scenes may still be glimpsed is Seochon, a village to the west of *\HRQJERN 3DODFH :KLOH WKH VXUURXQGLQJ DUHDV %XFKRQ GRQJ and Samchung-dong -- have become unrecognisable in their GHPRJUDSKLF WUDQVIRUPDWLRQ WKURXJK D SURFHVV RI JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ Seochon remains populated by modest-to-moderate income families and small local businesses rather than the multinational conglomerates that line up the skyscrapers of City Hall. In this neighbourhood, village people may still be found engaged in the seasonal tasks of food preparation. However, the diverse traditional activities that currently exist in this neighbourhood are at threat of being sanitized or even erased in favour of the HFRQRPLF EHQHČ´WV RI KHULWDJH WRXULVP Î&#x2013;Q UHFHQW GHFDGHV 6HRXO KDV EHQHČ´WWHG HFRQRPLFDOO\ IURP LWV global elevation through the hosting of mega events such as WKH 2O\PSLFV DQG )Î&#x2013;)$ :RUOG &XS .DQJ

Within this timeframe a fundamental shift in approach was XQGHUWDNHQ DW DQ DGPLQLVWUDWLYH OHYHO DUWLFXODWHG E\ WKH FLWLHV ever evolving motto â&#x20AC;?Seoul to the Worldâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Global Seoul.â&#x20AC;? Thus the Seoul Metropolitan Government (hereafter SMG) no longer viewed the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;globalâ&#x20AC;? as separate entities, as the city began the process of globalization.1 Furthermore, in 2006, Seoul was promoted, autonomous of any scheduled mega event, as the singular focus of a major government-funded national and global positioning strategy campaign. The administration charged with this responsibility was the Global Marketing Division of the SMG.2 What propelled this strategy was Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability, at a city scale, to compete with other cities within the Asian region, such as Singapore and Hong Kong. In comparison with these competing cities, the SMG had LGHQWLČ´HG WKDW IURP DQ LQWHUQDWLRQDO VWDQGSRLQW 6HRXO ODFNHG a distinctive cultural identity. This was perhaps inevitable given the speed of Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapid economic growth and transition from a manufacturing-centred export economy to a service-based one.

In 2010, to highlight the importance of Seoul global competiveness, the SMG hosted an international forum.3 Rolf Jensen, a keynote speaker asserted that, for Seoul to reach the fourth or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dream cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phase, it needed to become a city based on

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aspiration, culture and new technologies.4 This was also echoed

by Major Ohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech at the beginning of the conference.5 %RWK VSHDNHUV LGHQWLČ´HG WKDW LQ RUGHU IRU 6HRXO WR VHFXUH LWV SODFH DV a future leading world city, it needed to develop and integrate creative cultural foci into the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developmental programme.

7KLV SDSHU ZLOO FRQVLGHU 60*Č&#x2021;V HÎ?RUWV WR UH VKDSH 6HRXOČ&#x2021;V identity in its pursuit to become a more globally competitive capital city. In particular, the case study of Seochon -- an area west of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul will be assessed in terms of the SMGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy of establishing Cultural Districts for tourism.

It will examine how Seochon is being shaped by metropolitan cultural policies as pÂŹart of the larger agenda of city branding DQG VHHN WR XQGHUVWDQG WKH HÎ?HFW RI WKLV KDUPRQLRXV cultural â&#x20AC;&#x153;realizationâ&#x20AC;? -- implemented in the name of global competitiveness -- on local citizens. This paper aims to unravel how such policies relate to the needs and character of the local community or if they exist autonomously without consideration of the impact on local people. This paper argues that policies, which focus on heritage issues (such as those relating to the preservation hanoks) without considerations of their impact on local people, are divisive.6 7R WKLV HQG WKLV SDSHU ZLOO Č´UVWO\ GHČ´QH ZKDW LV PHDQW E\ D cultural district and then explore two main issues regarding the LPSRVLWLRQ RI FXOWXUH DQG KHULWDJH SROLFLHV RQ 6HRFKRQ Č´UVWO\ the proposed renaming of the area from Seochon to Sejong Maeul and secondly, the question of whether to replace or preserve the house of the Korean Modern poet Yi Sang. Due to the scope of this paper, the research will be drawn mainly from SMG literature and published statistics, primary sourced local accounts, such as newspaper articles, neighbourhood blogs and TV debates, as well as secondary scholarly literature.

Cultural districts In order for Seoul to achieve its goal of becoming a leading â&#x20AC;&#x153;globalâ&#x20AC;? city, the SMG has embarked on a process of introducing cultural policies into the Seoul Metropolitan Area. These polices have been largely presented as components of wider visions of the city such as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Major of Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Masterplan 2020â&#x20AC;? (Seoul metropolitan government. Department of urban planning.

2009:1-77). A major part of this process has been thematically prescribing districts as focal areas for traditional Korean cultural production. After being designated a cultural district, an area EHFRPHV VXEMHFW WR WKH SROLFLHV RI WKDW GLVWULFWČ&#x2021;V FODVVLČ´FDWLRQ DV GHČ´QHG E\ WKH 0D\RUČ&#x2021;V RÉ?FH DQG OHJLVODWLRQ The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cultural Districtâ&#x20AC;? is not a Korean invention, and, as :RQ %DH .LP QRWHV Č&#x160;FLWLHV KDYH DOZD\V KDG VSDFHV that have formed clusters of entertainment, arts and cultural consumption, whether as scattered venues across the city or in clusters of entrepreneurial activity.â&#x20AC;? In spatial terms, cultural districts, according to Allen J. Scott (2000) should not be considered uniform in their distribution throughout a city, as

they tend to gravitate to particular areas of the city. This may EH H[SODLQHG VLPSO\ E\ WKH UHODWLRQVKLS RU QHHGV RI WKH VSHFLČ´F cultural production process.

7KH SULPDU\ OHJDO GHČ´QLWLRQ UHJDUGLQJ ZKDW FRQVWLWXWHV D cultural district in Korea may be found in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seoul Metropolitan Government Framework Ordinance On Cultural Cityâ&#x20AC;? (2006). $OWKRXJK QR RÉ?FLDO GHČ´QLWLRQ IRU D GLVWULFW LV SURYLGHG WKH GRFXPHQW VSHFLČ´HV WKDW D FXOWXUDO FLW\ LV FKDUDFWHUL]HG DV RQH where â&#x20AC;&#x153;citizens may feel a sense of cultural identity in their daily lives based on the realization of culture and art in which life becomes cultureâ&#x20AC;? Scott, (2000). This is to be realized by the promotion of cultural industries based on knowledge and originality through the creation of people-oriented comfortable urban space and the realization of cultural welfare. Intriguingly, this document makes constant reference to improving citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; welfare and daily lives, whilst simultaneously enhancing Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global competiveness.

Despite a commendable claim to be a people-orientated policy, the social narrative and impact has to date been omitted not only in relation to Seochon, but also throughout the Jongno district. This also extends to academic literature, as Noha Nasser

DQG %ODĹ&#x20AC; .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN KDYH QRWHG $FFRUGLQJ WR .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN (2011), â&#x20AC;&#x153;urban policy as well as on everyday life in Seoul remains rather unacknowledged so far.â&#x20AC;? Although there has been a rise in scholarly interest, the impact of heritage tourism and urban policy on the local community has been less abundant. In relation to heritage policies, academic literature has tendened to focus on the physical rather than social narratives. For example, Nasserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work -- on reconciling conservation, tourism, and sustainable development (2003)-- elucidates the negative consequences of tourist-led development strategies that create what Healey (1992) calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;enclave tourismâ&#x20AC;? as it is not geared towards the local community.

As Cultural Districts in Seoul become prevalent and their polices become more extensive and indeed dictatorial, by examining the impact of heritage policies in Seochon in terms of social and physical narratives is both timely and necessary. As mentioned there is also a gap in the academic literature where this paper can add value.

Seochon Vs. Sejong Maeul: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a name?

Seochon is one of the few remaining areas in Seoul that acts as a link for citizens and tourists alike to Koreaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ancient and modern past. Here, a cross-section of the Korean architectural landscape FDQ EH ZLWQHVVHG Č´UVW KDQG EXLOGLQJV DQG DOOH\ZD\V WKDW GDWH back to the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Seochon consists of 15 small neighbourhoods and has a long history of artistic production from famous Korean painters such as Jeon Seon (1676-1759) to Modernist literary poets such as Yi Sang (19101937). What is unique in this regard is that Seochon has always

4 Rolf Jensen of the Dream Company Denmark, discussed his 4-phase â&#x20AC;&#x153;dream cityâ&#x20AC;? concept, and suggested that Seoul was in the third phase (the technological and information-centredÂŹÂŹÂŹ stage).

5 â&#x20AC;&#x153;As many scholars emphasize, cities that harmoniously integrate creativity, culture, sensitivity, storytelling, dreams, hope, creative talent and cutting edge technology will be the leading cities in this new chapter of our history.â&#x20AC;? Mayor Oh, 2010, forum, Č&#x160;7KH )XWXUH RI *OREDO 0HWURSROLV 6HRXO )URP /LPLWOHVV &RPSHWLWLRQ WR %RXQGOHVV &RRSHUDWLRQ Č&#x2039; 6 Hanok: traditional Korean wooden house

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been a place of artistic endeavour. Since the Joseon period, it has been a place where technical professionals, doctors, translators, artists and poets lived.7 After Japanese colonization, these areas changed considerably as the generous parcels of land occupied by the noble classes were broken down into smaller densely packed layouts. Under the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Joseon Planning Actâ&#x20AC;? (1934) passed under Japanese colonial rule, a major land readjustment process in Seoul was initiated, and a new hanok typology -- the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Urban Hanokâ&#x20AC;? emerged.

In contrast to the many neighbourhoods in Seoul, which experienced dramatic changes or were erased altogether, the spatial layout of Seochon has remained largely unchanged.

Despite the covering-up of the water and sewage ways in 6HRFKRQ WKH URDG QHWZRUNV DERYH JURXQG VWLOO UHČľHFW WKHLU historical location and, correspondingly, the residential layout reveals an arrangement that is over 600 years ago. Despite its location in Jongno, a district which has become the domain of high commerce, retail and tourism, Seochon remains a living community that has retained its traditional resident groups, including artists. This condition of Seochon as a living community is supported by Jongno district statistics from 2012. For instance LQ FRPSDULVRQ WR %XFKRQ GRQJ ZKLFK KDV WKH ORZHVW ELUWK UDWH Seochon has the largest number of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nurseries in the district.9 More recently, comparable areas within the Jongno district, VXFK DV %XFKRQ GRQJ DQG 6DPFKXQJ GRQJ KDYH VHHQ WKHLU FRPPXQLWLHV JUHDWO\ DÎ?HFWHG E\ JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ 'HVSLWH Seochonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close proximity to a major national heritage place, it has remained largely unknown to visitors, Koreans and internationals alike until fairly recently. The majority of tourist literature, especially for the Asian market, has focused mainly RQ 6DPFKXQJ GRQJ DQG %XFKRQ GRQJ 7KLV KDV LQ SDUW EHHQ driven by the export and popularity of Korean television dramas that often use these areas for the backdrop of their productions.

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Figure 2: Adapted location Map of Seochon (2013).

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Seochon has since become a place of (re)discovery for Koreans DQG WRXULVWV DOLNH 2ZLQJ WR WKH QHZIRXQG DWWHQWLRQ SRVW D SURSRUWLRQ RI WKH ORFDO FRPPXQLW\ Č&#x201A; PDLQO\ ORFDO PHUFKDQWV DQG longstanding residents of the area -- formed a support group to promote the neighbourhood. Shortly afterward its formation, this appellation was dropped in favour of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sejong Maeulâ&#x20AC;? (Sejong Village) to capitalize on the fact that the location is the birthplace of King Sejong (Fouser, 2013). In 2011, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sejong Maeulâ&#x20AC;? began to EH XVHG LQ DQ RÉ?FLDO FDSDFLW\ E\ WKH 0DMRU RI -RQJQR *X DQG DIWHUZDUGV LQ RÉ?FLDO GRFXPHQWDWLRQ $FFRUGLQJ WR 5REHUW - Fouser (2013) in both instances, the use of this name â&#x20AC;&#x153;actively discouraged the use of Seochon.â&#x20AC;?

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6SHFLČ´FDOO\ D ODUJH SURSRUWLRQ RI WKH UHVLGHQWV KDYH EHHQ particularly unhappy that the name change was not part of a democratic process, but rather centrally exposed (Fouser, 2013). This contestation was recently played out on a live TV debate on 27th November 2013, which demonstrated the divisory feelings between residents for and against the change (Tbs TV. Seochon, Sejong Maeul Naming Controversy 2013). In this debate, the host and producers of the show polemicized the occasion by framing it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seochon Vs. Sejong Maeul.â&#x20AC;? Two ORFDO UHVLGHQWV UHSUHVHQWLQJ WKH WZR VLGHV RI WKH DUJXPHQW /HH Hong-Hwan (for the name change) and Kim Han-Neul (against) -- were each given time to make their case before an open TXHVWLRQ DQG DQVZHU GHEDWH VHVVLRQ /HH 9LFH 0D\RU RI WKH area and a local resident-- proposed the name change mainly arguing that the area lacks a clear identity and that the strategy of name changing has worked before, such as in the renaming of Sejong-Dae-Ro in Gwanghwamun to sever associations with the period of Japanese colonialism.12 He was also extremely enthusiastic about the tourist possibilities of using the Sejong name, and argued that this would help local businesses and reinvigorate the area which he said is currently â&#x20AC;&#x153;lacking in LGHQWLW\ Č&#x2039; Î&#x2013;Q FRQWUDVW KLV RSSRQHQW UHVSRQGHG ZLWK GLÎ?HUHQW perspectives on the points raised. Kim Han-Neul, who is involved in researching the residential space of the area and a leading member of the recently formed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seochon Neighbourhood 6RFLHW\ Č&#x2039; LV YHKHPHQWO\ RSSRVHG WR WKH QDPH FKDQJH .LP Č´UVW argued that the name Seochon has been used to refer to the area as far back as the Joseon Dynastic period, so predating the Japanese Colonial period, renaming would not be comparable with the case of Sejong-dae-ro. He went on to argue that the ODFN RI DQ LGHQWLW\ IURP D GHČ´QLQJ QDPH LV OHVV WKUHDWHQLQJ WR the area compared to the constant threat of redevelopment. He also questioned, if a central purpose of changing the name is to LQFUHDVH WRXULVP ZK\ KDG FRPSDUDEOH DUHDV VXFK DV %XFKRQ dong and Insa-dong not changed their names? He further voiced the concern that the very name Sejong Maeul may promote kitsch tourism, which would damage the uniqueness of the neighbourhood. Finally, he concluded by stating that, as the name Sejong Maeul has never been used in the history

of the area, and is â&#x20AC;&#x153;alienâ&#x20AC;? to the district, a more appropriate proposed name should be â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Sejong Maeul.â&#x20AC;? An underlying LVVXH WKDW .LP UDLVHG LV WKH FRPPRGLČ´FDWLRQ RI WKH 6HMRQJ EUDQG on Seochon, and the threat it poses in overpowering the unique character of an area that has developed over 600 years.

This recent debate highlights the growing internal division regarding how the community views its own identity. The community is split between those who identify their neighbourhood with the proud tradition and heritage of the Joseon dynasty, and those who see no need to associate the DUHD ZLWK MXVW RQH DVSHFW RI LWV ULFK KLVWRU\ IRU LQVWDQFH WKH area is also of cultural importance in terms as a place of artistic experimentation during the Modern period of early-twentiethFHQWXU\ -DSDQHVH RFFXSDWLRQ %\ QDPLQJ DQG SURPRWLQJ WKH DUHD RÉ?FLDOO\ DV Č&#x160;6HMRQJ 0DHXO Č&#x2039; WKH QHLJKERXUKRRG KDV ORVW LWV autonomy as a place of multiple authentic narratives in favour of a singular identity driven by the reclamation of an idealized history which enables brand construction.

The renaming of Seochon to Sejong Maeul reveals the actors involved in driving this change, and in this instance can be thought of as both â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bottom-upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;top-downâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in its conception and implementation. However, both forms of governance are being shaped by external economic motives. These changes FDQ DOVR EH FRQVLGHUHG DW GLÎ?HUHQW VFDOHV RQH RI WKH ORFDO businesses and then the larger SMG tourist economy and associated global competiveness ambitions. Indeed, it is SRVVLEOH WR UHFRJQLVH WKDW WKH SURFHVV DV LGHQWLČ´HG E\ .ULĹ&#x20AC;QLN (2011) in his article â&#x20AC;&#x153;Selling Global Seoulâ&#x20AC;?, where the image or meaning of a particular place is being intentionally changed in order to attract new investments, events and tourists to the city, is going on in Seochon.

The case of Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house 2QH HVSHFLDOO\ VLJQLČ´FDQW LVVXH UHJDUGLQJ WKH GHYHORSPHQW of cultural districts in Seoul is the contentious issue of hanok preservation. Since the 1960s, the rate of decline in the number of hanoks in Seoul has been exacerbated through the easing of planning regulations and high cost of repair. The easing of planning regulations, until recently, was largely attributed to the economic pressures of maximizing land revenues and satisfying rapid population growth (increasing density). As a result of a ODFN RI HQIRUFHG OHJDO SURWHFWLRQ VLJQLČ´FDQW QXPEHUV RI KDQRNV were lost in favour of multi-level housing. Another issue for existing hanok residents was the huge cost in repairs that could only be carried out by specialist hanok builders, which often exceeded the price of a new property.13 It is estimated that, between 1960 and 2006, the number of hanoks in Seoul declined from 220,627 to 100,000, and, between 2006 and WKLV QXPEHU UHGXFHG E\ D IXUWKHU Î&#x2013;&2026 3DULV

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:RUOG &XS ZKHQ FXOWXUDO VLJQLČ´HUV RI GLVWLQFWO\ .RUHDQ LGHQWLW\ were becoming of upmost importance, the SMG announced the Hanok Restoration Policy and Hanok Regeneration Project (ICOMOS. Paris. 2011).

In 2009 the SMG announced the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seoul Hanok Declarationâ&#x20AC;? in 2009.14 This declaration included an expansion of the hanok conservation areas by extending the areas allocated as hanok districts. In 2010, the hanok conservation area was extended to Seochon, as part of its designation as a Historical and Cultural District by the SMG. Part of this policy initially relied on the encouragement of hanok residents to register their hanok with the SMG. In doing so, the owner was then legally obliged to maintain the dwelling as a hanok. In this case, partial or full GHPROLWLRQ LQ RUGHU WR GHYHORS D QHZ RU GLÎ?HUHQW SURSHUW\ W\SH was forbidden. Therefore, the owners were no longer in their full control over their property rights. In return for this partial transfer in governance, the owner would receive government subsidies under the SMG â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hanok Aid Ordinance.â&#x20AC;?15 The nature of repairs also had to be approved by and satisfy Korean heritage guidelines, which often meant that the costs exceeded the amounts of the loan or grant provided, as the repairs could only be carried out by designated specialized hanok carpenters.

7RGD\ LQ %XFKRQ GRQJ WKH KRPRJHQHRXV DSSHDUDQFH DQG character of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;savedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hanoks contributes to the imagined historical reclamation, and, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Disneyizationâ&#x20AC;? on traditional Korean neighbourhood architecture.16 In stark contrast, the hanoks in 6HRFKRQ UHWDLQ DQ REVHUYDEOH ULFK XQLTXHQHVV RI FKDUDFWHU HDFK KDQRN LV GLVWLQFWO\ GLÎ?HUHQW GXH WR WKH LQGLYLGXDO HYROXWLRQ of repairs and adaptions to modern lifestyles over the last century.

Seochon has a reported 600 registered hanoks and a further 50 which are abandoned or in a condemned state owing to concerns about structural safety. Part of the reason for the number of empty houses has been inhabitantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inability to payback loans, as well as the spiralling costs of repair that exceed the loan (subsidy) designated for the repairs. The neighbourhood impact of these empty houses according to one Jongno district police RÉ?FHU /HH ZDV D ULVH LQ ORZ OHYHO FULPH UDWHV DURXQG these areas where gangs use these buildings for illegal activities (i.e. drug use).

Part of the SMGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision for Seochon as a Historical and Cultural district was â&#x20AC;&#x153;to construct museums and memorial places dedicated to the intelligentsiaâ&#x20AC;?(Sung, 2013). As previously stated, Seochon has a rich history in relation to Joseon Dynasty and Modern Korean artistic production. In the Joseon period, notable artistic residents included the landscape painter Jeong 6HRQ DQG VFKRODU .LP -HRQJ KXL Î&#x2013;Q WKH Modern Korean period, which for the purpose of this paper is regarded as 1910 and the beginning of Japanese colonization, notable residents included No Cheon-Myeong (1912-57) and Yi Sang (1910-37). The latter, the writer known by his pen name â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yi

Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (born Kim Hae-gyeong) lived in Seochon for 20 years. His works in Korean literature and poetry written during the time of Japanese colonization have, since the 1970s, been highly UHJDUGHG E\ VFKRODUV DV WKH Č&#x160;.RUHDQ UHVSRQVH WR WKH LQČľX[ RI modernist culture, both high and lowâ&#x20AC;? (Chang et al., 2005) 5HFHQWO\ <L 6DQJ KDV EHHQ UHDVVHVVHG DV D EULGJLQJ Č´JXUH between old and modern Korea. His former property, framed by the SMGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical reclamation and cultural agendas, has become a site of contestation between local groups in opposition about the neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity. The house of Yi Sang, as it is commonly known, is located in Tongin-dong ZKHUH WKH 6HRFKRQ DUHD XQRÉ?FLDOO\ EHJLQV )URP WKH RXWVLGH this house looks quite unremarkable as it is typical of the urban hanoks in the area (as seen in Figure 3.).

Figure 3: The house of Yi Sang before and after purchase by the (2009/2010)

%HIRUH Č´QDOO\ OHDYLQJ 6HRFKRQ DW WKH DJH RI IRU 7RN\R ZKHUH he died a year later in a Japanese prison in 1937, Yi Sang spent WZR GHFDGHV LQ WKLV SURSHUW\ 6LJQLČ´FDQWO\ LW LV ZKHUH KH LV thought to have written most of the works he is famed for.

In 2009, the National Trust for Cultural Heritage (hereafter NTCH) RÉ?FLDOO\ SXUFKDVHG WKH SURSHUW\ ZLWK WKH VXSSRUW RI .RRNPLQ %DQN DQG WKH $UXPMLJL )RXQGDWLRQ 7KURXJK WKHVH DGGLWLRQDO funding sources, the NTCH was able to secure the funds necessary for the demolition of the current hanok property, in favour of a modern 2-storey multi-use building, which will also act as a dedicated memorial space for the poet. Due to the sensitivity of preserving traditional Korean architecture locally and administratively, the NTCHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial plan to demolish the eighty-year-old hanok was unsurprisingly opposed.

Fouser one of the very few non-Korean local residents of Seochon, who is the chairman of the Hanok Preservation Society in Seochon, is vehemently opposed to the NTCHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to redevelop the site. Along with other residents who are against the demolition, Fouser sees the property primarily as an eighty-year-old hanok. According to Fouser, the fact the house LV D K\EULG RI HLJKW\ \HDUV RI PRGLČ´FDWLRQV SHUIHFWO\ UHSUHVHQWV Yi Sang on a personal and artistic level as: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a kind of mixed identity. You can think about Yi Sang in that environment because the environment is also mixed upâ&#x20AC;? ((Sung, 2013). Moreover, he observes that the hanok represents the changes that the area has undergone from Japanese colonization to post-colonization

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and the changes in Korean society and the way people live: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KDQRN EXW LWČ&#x2021;V QRW UHDOO\ KDQRN Î&#x2013;W UHČľHFWV WKH ZD\ SHRSOH KDYH lived here and still live here. It has a sense of history and time.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organic to this place. In that sense, the building is perfectâ&#x20AC;?

(Sung, 2013). Roh Eun-joo, another local resident and architect shares Fouserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns, but additionally asks, if the purpose is to create a dedicated memorial space, then why can it not be built in an alternative location? He argues that Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works were not directly related to the building, and that, regardless of his connection, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The building itself is meaningful because it has EHHQ WKHUH IRU DERXW \HDUV ZLWQHVVLQJ DOO WKH XSV DQG GRZQV of Korean modern historyâ&#x20AC;? (Sung, 2013). +RZHYHU WKH 17&+ LQ MXVWLČ´FDWLRQ RI WKHLU SODQV LQVLVWHG WKDW WKH FXUUHQW KDQRN KDG OLWWOH DUFKLWHFWXUDO VLJQLČ´FDQFH DV WKH KRXVH LWVHOI ZKLFK KDV XQGHUJRQH HLJKW\ \HDUV RI PRGLČ´FDWLRQV is in a poor state of repair. Adding that the overall costs of UHSDLU ZRXOG RXWZHLJK WKDW RI D QHZ HÉ?FLHQW EXLOGLQJ WKDW FRXOG better serve the community. They were equally dismissive of WKH KDQRNČ&#x2021;V LQČľXHQFH RQ <L 6DQJČ&#x2021;V ZULWLQJV EHFDXVH PRVW FULWLFV until recently, have only referred to the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Modernist 'DGD DQG (XURSHDQ LQČľXHQFHV 7KH\ UHFDOO IRU LQVWDQFH WKH fact that he deeply desired to go to Paris, but was trapped under Japanese colonization, and suggest that this was the SUHGRPLQDQW LQČľXHQFH RQ KLV ZRUN DQG WKH PRWLYDWLRQ EHKLQG his notable works, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wings.â&#x20AC;? Proponents of the argument that the house bears no relevance to Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art also point out that, after his death, his wife sold all his possessions (including the property), so that there are almost no physical traces of him left.17 $FFRUGLQJ WR WKH 17&+ Č&#x160;7KH VLWH >ZKHUH WKH +RXVH RI <L 6DQJ LV ORFDWHG@ LV WKH RQO\ WKLQJ ZH KDYH DERXW himâ&#x20AC;? (Sung, 2013). In further support of the relevance of the site, opposed to the actual building, is the fact that, in 2004, the Korean Government designated Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house a cultural asset but later rescinded its decision on the grounds that although this was, indeed, Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property, the degree to which he lived inside the house was negligible. The former Minister of Culture, /HH 2 <RXQJ FRPPHQWHG WKDW <L 6DQJ Č&#x160;ZURWH LQ D VPDOO and dark room. He had no concept of a house. All he needed was a small room and the sky.â&#x20AC;? Therefore, suggesting that the hanok of Yi Sang as physical cultural asset has little value in relation to his work.

Whereas the majority of the hanoks in the area tend to only EHQHČ´W WKH SULYDWH RZQHUV DQG RQO\ LQ D YHU\ LQGLUHFW ZD\ WKH local neighbourhood, this new building, according to Mr Shin $UXPMLJL )RXQGDWLRQ RÉ?FLDO LV LQWHQGHG WR EHQHČ´W WKH ZKROH community. (Sung, 2013). This is because the building is LQWHQGHG WR EH D PXOWL XVH VSDFH ZKHUH WKH JURXQG ČľRRU ZLOO be open to artists and local community groups while the upper ČľRRU LV XVHG DV D Č´[HG PHPRULDO VSDFH $GGLWLRQDOO\ WKH 17&+ stated that they do not intend to ignore the idiosyncratic nature RI WKH 6HRFKRQ QHLJKERXUKRRG LWV UHSUHVHQWDWLYH 0U 6KLQ KDV RÎ?HUHG DVVXUDQFHV WKDW WKH\ LQWHQG WR FUHDWH Č&#x160;D JRRG H[DPSOH

of new buildings that can go well with this neighbourhood and preserve the spirit of Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;? (Sung, 2013).

The issue of the preservation of Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house is also intricately tied up with the cultural identity of Seochon. In terms of adopting the new name, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sejong Maeul,â&#x20AC;? the development of a memorial space, which pertains to a Modernist writer, appears to challenge the re-branding strategy of focusing on the more palatable distant past of Joseon period compared to the more GLÉ?FXOW DQG SHUKDSV DZNZDUG UHFHQW SDVW RI HDUO\ WZHQWLHWK century.

Conclusion This paper has assessed the impact of heritage policies on Seochon, and the matters arising at a neighbourhood scale.

Through examining the cases of the (re)naming of Seochon, the issue of hanok preservation and Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, it has been revealed that the power dynamics involved in the implementation of SMGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning policies is intricate and complex going far beyond a two-way tussle between the Government and community members. In the case of Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, the actors involved are not simply the SMG and local UHVLGHQWV EXW DOVR WKH 17&+ .RRNPLQ %DQN ZKR DUH SURYLGLQJ part of the funding, the Hanok Heritage Association, Yi Sang enthusiasts, as well as local residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; groups. This web of actors -- each possessing their own agenda -- does not necessarily have the interests of the local community. It, therefore, seems clear that the future shaping of contested spaces in Seochon will depend on these groupsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; economic and cultural motivations DV ZHOO DV WKHLU Č´QDQFLDO DELOLWLHV Regarding the renaming of Seochon to Sejong Maeul, it has been revealed that the nature of the actors involved in driving this change can be thought of as both â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bottom-upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;topdown.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; What is striking, here, is that both forms of governance are being shaped by external economic drives even when WKHVH FKDQJHV DUH FRQVLGHUHG DW GLÎ?HUHQW VFDOHV In both FDVHV WKH DLP LV WR UHDS WKH HFRQRPLF EHQHČ´WV RI V\PEROLFDOO\ UHFRQVWUXFWLQJ WKH DUHD %\ FRQVWUXFWLQJ 6HRFKRQ WR KDYH D more streamlined identity, and reducing its character and history there is a genuine danger of loosing the multifarious unrelated yet unique aspects of the locale, which have evolved organically over the past 600 years. As discussed above, the call for name change initially came from within the community itself. +RZHYHU E\ XVLQJ WKH QDPH LQ RÉ?FLDO FRQWH[WV WKH 60* LV arguably creating the conditions that justify, and even legitimize, future cultural developments that can be made in the name of reclaiming â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joseonâ&#x20AC;? heritage.

The issue of the preservation of Yi Sangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house is also intricately tied up with debates about Seochonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural identity. In relation to the new name, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sejong Maeul,â&#x20AC;? the development of a memorial space to celebrate the achievements of a Modernist writer is

17 In 1937, shortly after Yi Sang went to Tokyo he died of tuberculosis in a Japanese prison after he was arrested and charged with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;thought crimeâ&#x20AC;?

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Furthermore, in this case, the seemingly contradictory issue of what cultural factor is most important is raised: hanok SUHVHUYDWLRQ RU ZKDW WKH 60* GHČ´QHV DV RQH RI WKH NH\ IDFWRUV of its Cultural District criteria: â&#x20AC;&#x153;a people-oriented cultural city.â&#x20AC;? As Kim (2011) incisively questioned in the conclusion to his paper, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what do we want to preserve and promote: cultural activity or place?â&#x20AC;? In Seochon, a dynamic residential community, unusually for the district now associated with commerce, tourism and business, continues going about life infused by the rich layers RI .RUHDQ KLVWRU\ DQFLHQW DQG PRGHUQ %\ HPSKDVL]LQJ RQH particular strand of its history over another, the balance of the QHLJKERXUKRRG KDV EHFRPH GLVUXSWHG FUHDWLQJ D GLYLVLYH HÎ?HFW on community cohesion.

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Introduction Increasing changes in urban settings in Asia are raising questions of place identity, strongly tight with indigenous characteristics of built environments. Place identity represents important aspect of any city that allows people to identify, belong, promote and EH SDUW RI JOREDO ČľRZV RI SHRSOH FDSLWDO NQRZOHGJH DQG VR IRUWK 3ODFH LGHQWLW\ LV GHČ´QLQJ WKH FRQWLQXRXV PRUSKRORJ\ RI build environment that links past and present ways of building.

It is interconnected with the practices of preservation and conservation of iconic buildings. Often when we speak about place identity we are referring to well-known places that attract numerous tourists from various parts of the world. Cities like 5RPH %DUFHORQD /RQGRQ 1HZ <RUN DQG VR IRUWK DOO KDYH WKHLU distinctive identity and all have their unique places recognizable throughout famous and iconic buildings. Ordinary, everyday and non-famous- architecture is often overlooked for contribution or having the potential to create places with strong and well developed identity.

This paper aims to explore an unusual urban situation of a place that manages to build its identity on ordinary architecture.

The case study is used in order to illustrate the discussion on dialectics between extraordinary and ordinary and to further question the notions of identity its elements and the ways in which conservation and place identity could approached. The paper suggests alternative ways of preserving the place identity, which are not based on conservation of iconic buildings.

7KLV SDSHU LV GLYLGHG LQ WZR VHFWLRQV )LUVW WKH GHČ´QLWLRQV RI place identity and their relationships with ordinary architecture are exposed. Secondly, those relationships are further explored through the case study of Yanesen, its place identity and historical concept of Shitamachi. The paper concludes with the discussion on the relationship between ordinary architecture in Yanesen and historical character of Shitamachi and its implications on conservation and maintenance of identity.

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The location becomes a place from the moment we build, and thus create a relationship with that location through our own being, and therefore dwelling. Once we start analysing all those concepts we realise complex (not complicated) and interdependent relationships between them (see Norberg6FKXOW] &UHVVZHOO

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Every place has an identity. Whenever we reach consensus on location to be a place, in addition, we consequently assign to WKDW SODFH D SDUWLFXODU LGHQWLW\ %HFRPLQJ SODFH DQG KDYLQJ DQ LGHQWLW\ DUH LQVHSDUDEOH SURFHVVHV GHČ´QHG WKURXJKRXW SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V experiences of a location. That identity is constructed based RQ SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V FRQVHQVXDO XQGHUVWDQGLQJ RI D SODFH Î&#x2013;W GHČ´QHV what the place is, or what the place is becoming (Dovey, 2010).

Identity and place are indivisible characteristics of any location for which people agree to be more than just a location.

Identity emerges from the place observed as a whole. Place identity is phenomenological category, developing as an idea based on the relationship between a person and outside world.

However, that very personal idea of a place is strongly rooted on the built environment and the activities conducted within that location. Thus, place identity emerges from the interaction of three spheres: built environment, activities and meanings 5HOSK DQG WKRVH DVSHFWV DUH LQWHUGHSHQGHQW FUHDWLQJ D FRPSOH[ UHODWLRQVKLSV LQ GHČ´QLWLRQ RI WKH SODFH LGHQWLW\ It takes time for place identity to emerge. Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences RI ORFDWLRQ WDNH WLPH DQG LW FRXOG EH VDLG WKH\ DUH HYHQ UHČľHFWHG LQ SHUVRQČ&#x2021;V PXVFOHV DQG ERQHV 7XDQ 'HVSLWH the fact that place identity is product of personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual experiences and time spent in a location, it also represents a shared phenomenon among all those diverse experiences. Place LGHQWLW\ LV GHČ´QHG WKURXJKRXW LQWHUVHFWLRQ EHWZHHQ YDULRXV actors in a place. It is not only based upon the experiences of people who spend long time knowing the location. There are numerous shades between those who spend their whole lives knowing the place (insiders) and those who can have only a JOLPSVH XSRQ LW RXWVLGHUV 5HOSK $OO RI WKHP DUH actively involved in constant re-production of the place identity, creating a consensus upon which identity emerges. Î&#x2013;GHQWLW\ GHČ´QHV GLÎ?HUHQFH RI WKH SODFH WR DQ\ RWKHU SODFH DV ZHOO DV LWV FRKHUHQFH Î&#x2013;W VLJQLČ´HV LWV XQLTXHQHVV 7KDW uniqueness is based on its distinctive and indigenous elements.

Often that distinctiveness is based on famous building, its shape, construction, materials, and as such identity is directly interrelated with visual aspects of built environment. Thus in many cases place identity is equal with the place image, image of the city and so forth. We could agree that in many cases SODFH LGHQWLW\ LV FRQVWUXFWHG LQ WHUPV RI LWV YLVXDO FKDUDFWHULVWLFV KRZHYHU WKDW LV RQO\ RQH SDUW RI WKH GHČ´QLWLRQ RI SODFH LGHQWLW\ 1DUURZQHVV RI WKDW GHČ´QLWLRQ EHFRPHV FOHDU ZKHQ ZH GHDO ZLWK change and persistence of built environment and place identity.

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of identity is related to time, durability and persistence, thus questions of conservation of built environment. Identity (particularly of the place that has change as part of its nature) is element that allows us to evaluate the level of persistence of place character. It allows us to comprehend the place as the same in two instants in time. Place identity and persistence are related characteristics of a place and can be associated with very long periods of time, where place is described to have a historic character or very short lifespan in which identity is related with modern, new, fashionable and so forth.

Since place identity emerges when the location is observed as a whole, it is a complex system. The complexity depends on the place itself and the processes within it. However, it is important to mention here, that since place is complex system the relationship between change of its elements and identity do not exhibit characteristics of linearity. For example, if the building is replaced with another building that does not necessarily means that its place identity will be altered. That will depend on the level of complexity of the place and its identity, as well as on element(s) that constitute place identity.

Place identity and ordinary architecture In his writings about space and ordinary (infra-ordinary) Georges 3HUHF QRWHV LPSRUWDQW FKDUDFWHULVWLFV RI WKH RUGLQDU\ WKDW LW WDNHV PRVW RI RXU WLPH DQG WKDW LW LV GLÉ?FXOW WR FDSWXUH and describe. Perec notes â&#x20AC;&#x153;What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinaryâ&#x20AC;ŚWhatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going on, what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re experiencing, the rest, all the rest, ZKHUH LV LW"Č&#x2039; 3HUHF

Ordinary places are places where we spend most of our time.

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of the cases, personal experiences of insiders and consensual H[SHULHQFHV RI RXWVLGHUV ZLOO EH FRPSOHWHO\ GLÎ?HUHQW It could be argued that in order to create a consensus or place identity, there has to be an element based on the location itself (within its built environment, activities, meanings or their various FRPELQDWLRQV WKDW ZLOO KDYH VWURQJ LQČľXHQFH RQ H[SHULHQFH RI both outsiders and insiders. That element is usually an iconic building, extraordinary architecture, material, decorative elements etc. that needs to be conserved. If the place is ordinary, that means that there is no distinctive or extraordinary element which will allow for the emergence of place identity, in words of Perec it will not â&#x20AC;&#x153;speak to usâ&#x20AC;?. This seemingly paradoxical characteristic of place identity raises the question: how can we conserve and preserve ordinary place identity?

This paper is determined to discuss an urban situation in which RUGLQDU\ DQG HYHU\GD\ KDYH PDQDJHG WR Č´QG WKHPVHOYHV DV PDLQ HOHPHQWV RI SODFH LGHQWLW\ %\ H[SRVLQJ LWV LGHQWLW\ ZH will then discuss which elements of built environment are maintained from the past.

Methods In order to analyse the persistence of place identity based on the ordinary architecture paper uses a case study approach. The selected case study has place identity that is persistent-based RQ WKH SDVW KRZHYHU LWV EXLOW HQYLURQPHQW FDQ EH GHČ´QHG DV ordinary and there are no buildings conserved from the past (Muminovic, 2013).

To examine which elements of built environment are maintained ZLWKLQ WKH FKDQJH Č´UVWO\ ZH ZLOO EH DQDO\VLQJ WKH GLVFRXUVH RQ place identity. The approach is based on content analysis of two place identities: one related to present and descriptions of the case study (Yanesen) and the second describing the place character that is found on the past (Shitamachi). Comparison of these two characters will be used in order to identify the similarities. The hypothesis is that those similarities are bases for persistent place identity and that there are persistent aspects of built environment linked with those similarities.

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The case study: Yanesen and its character 7RN\R LV WKH FLW\ WKDW KDV VXÎ?HUHG QXPHURXV GHVWUXFWLRQV GXH to the natural hazards as well as Second World War. Thus, there are few locations that have monuments or any reminiscent from the times before the Second World War. However, there DUH SODFHV ZKLFK DUH ODUJHO\ GHČ´QHG DV KLVWRULFDO GHVSLWH WKH IDFW of not preserving the historic buildings. One of such places in Tokyo, which nurses its identity based on the past, is located

within eastern part of its central areas, called Yanesen.

Yanesen is located within 23 wards in Tokyo and it consists of three neighbourhoods, Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi. The area was largely spread during the two massive destructions in 20th century, however it does not preserve any buildings from the past (Muminovic et al, 2013). Yanesen consists of hilly part with its temples and shrines and area in the valley with dominantly residential and commercial spaces. It is foremost low rise high density area with ordinary single family houses and low rise apartments. Small local shops and galleries are located in VKRWHQJDL DUHDV FKDUDFWHULVWLF RI DQ\ QHLJKERXUKRRG LQ 7RN\R VHH IRU H[DPSOH %HVWRU

Place identity of this area is characterised as historic town, nursing its traditional sense of place and Edo (former Tokyo) residential atmosphere as well as sense of closeness, smallness, modest and neighbourhood. The area contains no traditional or historic buildings and more importantly, there are no iconic buildings that can be associated with that Shitamachi identity1.

Shitamachi is a concept that represents part of the place identity in contemporary Yanesen. It links the character of this place to traditional neighbourhoods and Edo, as well as to indigenous character and in the same time represents part of ordinary, everyday life of lower classes of society in Edo period.

Shitamachi- identity based on everyday Shitamachi is a complex concept that has various meanings and it is changing over time. Mapping this heterogeneous idea involves outlining its geographical boundaries as well as GLVWLQJXLVKLQJ WKH VWDQG SRLQW DQG WLPH IURP ZKLFK LW LV GHČ´QHG That is due to the fact that meanings of Shitamachi have been changing over time (Waley, 2002). In broadest terms, Shitamachi can be related with the way of living and particular patterns of participation in urban life (Smith, 1960: 249) as well as certain VRFLDO VWUXFWXUH RI LWV LQKDELWDQWV 'RUH $OWKRXJK usually related with Edo-Tokyo, Shitamachi can also be found in other cities (e.g. Osaka, see Cybriwsky, 1997: 130-1). The very complexity and change over time gives the hint on how adaptable this concept is.

Despite its broad applications and meanings, Shitamachi has in recent years largely been associated with particular character of the place which maintains the qualities and spaces from the past. As such, this character has become part of place identity in certain areas in Tokyo.

There are two elements that need to be addressed in order to focus on the relationship between contemporary Yanesen and its place identity. Those are: (1) Shitamachi as place character and (2) kind of architecture and spaces that produce Shitamachi character.

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Shitamachi as place character The old city of Tokyo (Edo) was, from its beginning, divided in two regions: Yamanote (the hilly parts of the city or the high city) and Shitamachi (alluvial areas or low city). Yamanote was place of aristocratic dwellings, shrines and temples and Shitamachi was home of townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people, merchants and artisans. The SUHFLVH ERXQGDULHV EHWZHHQ WKH WZR DUHDV DUH KDUG WR GHČ´QH 6HLGHQVWLFNHU KRZHYHU GXULQJ WKH 7RNXJDZD SHULRG low city comprised areas east from the castle. At the beginning of 20th century, Shitamachi areas were expanding northwards.

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The way of life in Shitamachi was developing in densely populated areas. It is characterised throughout communal life, wide open HYHU\GD\ OLIH ZLWKRXW VHFUHWV 'RUH KLJK OHYHOV of urbanity with mixed functions of downtown (Smith, 1960), SOHDVXUH TXDUWHUV DQG SXEOLF EDWKV 6HLGHQVWLFNHU

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terms of scale (because of their interdependence).

Figure 3: Semi private streets. Shitamachi and traditional roji (left) and contemporary Yanesen (right).

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Those similarities are related to ways in which public and private spaces are structured. Due to the higher density as well as low rise of the buildings, public and private spheres of the houses are largely overlapping and creating various zones and shades of semi-public and semi-private spaces. It is evident that due to the sizes of houses and streets, there is a close relationship between private sphere of domestic everyday life and public sphere of the city. The private spaces are highly exposed to the public. Outsiders, although cannot see private spaces inside the houses, can very often hear and smell and thus experience that domestic, everyday private lives. In that sense, it could be argued that streets become semi private spaces, where that privateness is extended due to both smallness of the house and smallness of the street.

7KRVH VHPL SULYDWH VSDFHV LQ WKH VWUHHWV DUH GLÎ?HUHQW IURP the alleys (roji) that could be found in Shitamachi. The alleys in Shitamachi were closed and used as domestic spaces which streets in Yanesen do not exhibit today. However, the fact that there is a sense of privatness of the streets in Yanesen can be linked with the sense of privateness in Shitamachi. The space is not preserved, but its character remains the same: semi-private (Figure 3).

All the buildings in the area are dominantly residential, thus ordinary and everyday buildings. Exceptions are more than hundred temples and shrines which are scattered around Yanaka. Although, dominantly in wood and following the traditional patterns of building, they are not preserved or conserved and thus have no historical value. Majority of the buildings belong to the residential buildings and are conceived as ordinary.

Shitamachiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings were constructed from light and LQH[SHQVLYH PDWHULDO 7KH UHDVRQ IRU WKDW ZHUH QXPHURXV Č´UHV and earthquakes. In that sense it was never important how the building looks like. That is why, contemporary buildings in Yanesen could be still considered to follow that tradition. They are modest and functional. They can be found anywhere in Japan. Those are ordinary buildings.

Summary There are characteristics of built environment in Yanesen that are maintained and thus allowing for place identity to be preserved. Those are related with scale, public-private relationships and modest architectural expressions. None of those elements has its particular characteristics and shapes that need to be conserved. Each one of them is based on the complex relationships between various elements. The same FKDUDFWHU FDQ EH DFKLHYHG E\ DVVHPEOLQJ GLÎ?HUHQW HOHPHQWV 7KH EXLOW HQYLURQPHQW LV WKXV ČľH[LEOH DQG FKDQJHDEOH This example shows important characteristic of ordinary: it is amorphous. There is no iconic building that preserves or FRQVHUYHV SODFH LGHQWLW\ RI 6KLWDPDFKL %HFDXVH RUGLQDU\ FDQ take various shapes and it is not directly linked to our visual experiences. They are evoked through other senses: smell and sound were noted as important for public-private relationships in Yanesen. The closeness, community and neighbourhood are perceived through sound of the plates during the lunchtime or water from the shower that someone is taking. That proximity and exposure is very subtle but present and perceived by outsiders.

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dominant- iconic building, plaza, street and other elements of build environment. Those elements are recognized and place identity is conserved through outsidersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences. In the case of Yanesen there are no iconic buildings, plazas or streets.

There are however, familiar home feelings, evoked by sounds, smells and space that can be recognised by outsiders. They are ordinary and familiar and in that sense Shitamachi becomes universal and easy to grasp.

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CULTURAL NETWORKING FOR PLANNING THE HISTORY

Federico GIGLI Arch PhD â&#x20AC;&#x153;SAPIENZAâ&#x20AC;? UniversitĂ di Roma 'Î&#x2013;378 'LSDUWLPHQWR Î&#x2013;QWHUDWHQHR GL 3LDQLČ´FD]LRQH 7HUULWRULDOH e Urbana Via Flamina 70 Roma giglif@tin.it, federico.gigli@uniroma1.it Bruno De MEULDER Professor 'HSDUWPHQW RI $UFKLWHFWXUH .8 /HXYHQ %HOJLXP .DVWHHOSDUN $UHQEHUJ EXV %( +HYHUOHH %HOJLXP bruno.demeulder@isro.kuleuven.be Keywords: PLANNING HISTORY, PLANNING THEORIES

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particularly in planning. )LUVW RI DOO ZH KDYH SHUKDSV WR GHČ´QH WKH FRQFHSW RI KLVWRU\ as well as the one of theory before connecting them with the discipline of planning. $W Č´UVW VLJKW DV ZH VDLG ZH PLJKW GHČ´QH +LVWRU\ DV WKH GLVFLSOLQH of Memory, as well as Theory as the one of Project. In fact we usually think to History as a way to study and understand our past, as well as we always look for framing our new projects in the context of strong theoretical structures, able to give us a UHVSRQVH DQG D MXVWLČ´FDWLRQ WR RXU GHVLJQ FKRLFHV WKDW PLJKW otherwise appear arbitrary.

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All the things that have just been referred to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historyâ&#x20AC;? in general can be applied to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planning Historyâ&#x20AC;? and to â&#x20AC;&#x153;History of the Cityâ&#x20AC;? as particular branch of the historic disciplines.

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So History can become (but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather say â&#x20AC;&#x153;shouldâ&#x20AC;? become!) the more important to our present as far as our society is willing to remembering its past.

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We must also note that, while â&#x20AC;&#x153;western cityâ&#x20AC;? has almost totally ended its growing process, it has, on the other side, begun a WUDQVIRUPDWLRQ SURFHVV WKDW DÎ?HFWV SDUWLFXODUO\ WKH H[LVWLQJ urban fabric. In this context history is the most useful tool to understand the structure and the growing rules of the existing city in order to plan its improvement.

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RELEVANCE: The real point to remark is the meaning of the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historyâ&#x20AC;? itself. It was not by chance, in fact, that in the preceding lines the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historyâ&#x20AC;? has not been used always, being often replaced E\ WKH ZRUG Č&#x160;(YROXWLRQČ&#x2039; :H KDYH LQ IDFW WR GHČ´QH ZKDW ZH exactly mean with the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historyâ&#x20AC;?. Is it a mere reconstruction RI IDFWV" 2U LV LW LQVWHDG DQ HÎ?RUW WR XQGHUVWDQG ZK\ WKLQJV happened in the past in a certain way? Is it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chronicleâ&#x20AC;? or an â&#x20AC;&#x153;interpretationâ&#x20AC;??

It is obvious, by all that has been said until now, that we incline to the last.

As we can see, also on this side we come to another strong point of connection between History and Planning Theory.

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This attitude towards History can be extended also to Planning History and perhaps, by extension, to the History of the City, in an attempt to read our past trying to get some suggestions to design cities for the future. :KDW ZH VKRXOG LQ DQ\ FDVH DYRLG WKRXJK LV Č´QGLQJ LQ KLVWRU\ D sort of shelter to escape from real problems: history has to be considered as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;methodâ&#x20AC;? and not at all as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;formâ&#x20AC;?. We have to study it to understand its structures, its mechanisms, being

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aware that we cannot anymore simply reproduce old schemes and models. :H DOVR KDYH WR Č&#x201A;DQG SHUKDSV WKLV LV HYHQ PRUH LPSRUWDQW understand all the mistakes that have been done in the past, in order to avoid doing them again.

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APPROACH: Starting from its title, this Symposium is focused on â&#x20AC;&#x153;great Asian streetsâ&#x20AC;?.

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I cannot avoid to remember another fundamental protagonist of the cultural exchange between western and eastern culture, another Italian, again, the Jesuit Priest padre Matteo Ricci who DUULYHG LQ 0DFDX LQ DQG VLQFH WKHQ VWDUWHG KLV Č&#x160;FKLQHVH DGYHQWXUHČ&#x2039; WKDW OHDG KLP WR EHFRPH RQH RI WKH PRVW VLJQLČ´FDQW scholars in the cultural exchange between western and eastern world, in particular with China and not only for his times, the XVI Century, but until now.

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The idea is again that of an exchange of ideas among our cultures, trying to make each one learn from the otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences, both the good ones and the bad ones.

The image we have at the moment of China is one of a great country undergoing a crucial process of evolution and transformation that. starting from an economic and social point of view, is involving other aspects of the life of the nation, particularly, in our case, the image of the city, with the caveat that urban shape is not only a matter of outward appearance but -in the XXth Centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rationalist idea that â&#x20AC;&#x153;form follows IXQFWLRQČ&#x2039; WKH UHVXOW RI D GHVLJQ LGHD DQG RU WKH FRQVHTXHQFH RI FKRLFHV RU QRW FKRLFHV LQ WKH Č´HOG RI WKH Č&#x160;VFLHQFH RI SODQQLQJČ&#x2039; Far away from suggesting to stop the present development process of the cities, what we would like to propose here, is a GHHS UHČľHFWLRQ RQ ZKDW KDV KDSSHQHG WR RWKHU FLWLHV WKDW KDYH undergone a similar development process in the past. This UHČľHFWLRQ LV Č´QDOL]HG WR WKH SXUSRVH RI EHFRPLQJ DV EHVW DV we can, aware of the consequences that particular planning FKRLFHV KDYH EURXJKW RXW LQ RUGHU WR EH DEOH WR IXOO\ Č´JXUH RXW what might be very likely to happen to ours.

This paper was inspired by my visit to Shanghai some years ago.

What I have seen was a gigantic city, strongly rooted in its history and in that of the ancient Chinese city type, that was undergoing a radical transformation, apparently orienting it, rather than WRZDUGV DQ LQQRYDWLRQ LQ WKH WUDFN RI LWV WUDGLWLRQ 1 % WKDW KDV not to be confused with the traditional architectural style, that paradoxally tended to be kept very well â&#x20AC;&#x153;preservedâ&#x20AC;?!), in the direction of an anonym â&#x20AC;&#x153;world cityâ&#x20AC;?, concerned with heavy car WUDÉ?F KLJK ULVH EXLOGLQJV KLJK GHQVLW\ RI LWV LQKDELWDQWV JOREDO brands â&#x20AC;&#x153;colonizingâ&#x20AC;? its main streetsâ&#x20AC;Ś Is this the future that such an important city deserves?

Is this the â&#x20AC;&#x153;wayâ&#x20AC;?, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;routeâ&#x20AC;?, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;streetâ&#x20AC;?, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pathâ&#x20AC;?, it has to follow?

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Our western culture is very much concerned not only by the form, the appearance of something but also by its materialâ&#x20AC;Ś It is not important that much to preserve the image of something, particularly that of an ancient building or, in our case, an old urban fabric, if we do not maintain the originality that lies in the truthfulness of its materials. Romeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Colosseo is of inestimable value not only because of its shape and proportions but because its stones, its bricks are still the original ones that were implemented 2000 years ago and that have still resisted to the passage of time. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why at the moment we keep it as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;ruinâ&#x20AC;?, while being fully technically able to restore it and to rebuild its lacking parts.

We feel crucial then that it has to be to maintained not only the path of an historic street, but also that original atmosphere that may only come out from the ancient urban fabric originated by the preservation of all the historical environment that surrounds it.

This a great challenge though because it often happens that the ancient environment does not bear the impact with modern society.

Here it comes the opportunity to make a comparison with what is going on in western cities too, particularly in Rome, where old shops, old jobs, old enterprises are undergoing the strong risk to be canceled by the new trends of the economy.

At least in Rome we have quite strong rules that preserve old buildings and the historic district of the city. Thus we can be quite sure that one of the oldest and better preserved ancient city centers in western world will be kept safe from strong â&#x20AC;&#x153;urban renewalâ&#x20AC;? operations. On the other side nevertheless -as we have just observed that a city is not just its urban fabric, its monuments, its historic buildings, but also the life that happens in it-, we have to take note that despite its physical preservation, a strong transformation is anyway strongly modifying the life of our historic districts (particularly in Rome) through the heavy substitution of old and traditional economic activities with new RQHV XVXDOO\ VOLJKWO\ GLÎ?HUHQW Particularly in Rome the historic districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets are seeing a progressive growth in the economic (but non only) weight of low quality food shops for tourists that spread all over outdoor dining tables, thus transforming our streets in open air dining rooms for what we in Italian call â&#x20AC;&#x153;mordi e fuggiâ&#x20AC;? (literally â&#x20AC;&#x153;bite and escapeâ&#x20AC;?) tourists.

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RI KRZ IXOO RI OLIH WKH 1DQMLQJ /X ZDV DQG KRZ VWURQJ ZDV WKH contrast between new super-modern (and in some cases, super-tall) buildings and the palpable strength of the traditional chines culture. While the traditional appearance, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;imageâ&#x20AC;? of WKLV YHU\ ROG VWUHHW Č&#x201A;D ODQGPDUN LQ WKH XUEDQ IDEULF RI WKH FLW\ of Shanghai!- was leaving its place to modernity, to globalized brands, still it was quite clear that such a strong change in its morphological aspect was yet far to â&#x20AC;&#x153;scratchâ&#x20AC;? its life, the life of its inhabitants, their traditionsâ&#x20AC;Ś So coming to an end of this speech, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope we can manage to exchange again our ideas and ways of thinking in order to mutuate the best practices of each other.

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RESEARCH ON THE POPULATION DISPLACEMENT PHENOMENON OF CHINESE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BLOCKS UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF TOURISM COMMERCIALIZATION, TAKING KULANGSU AS AN EXAMPLE ZHANG Ruoxi Assistant Professor YIN Qiuyi, LIU Xuting, ZHANG Yunyi, YANG Luxia Undergraduate Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University $GGUHVV 5RRP 'D[XH 5RDG 6LPLQJ 'LVWULFW ;LDPHQ Fujian, China, 361005 E-mail: zhangruoxi@xmu.edu.cn Keywords: POPULATION DISPLACEMENT; INDIGENOUS CULTURE; HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BLOCKS; KULANGSU

with an increasing and uncontrolled growth trend. Kulangsu becomes lonelier and lonelier with massive losses of primitive residents. Population displacement has become an internal injury of Kulangsu.

7KHRUHWLFDO EDVLV Social Exchange Theory is a social theory emerged and prevailed in 1960s, which advocates all humanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities related to social relations should be oriented by reward and remuneration EDVHG RQ WKH DVVXPSWLRQ RI VHOČ´VK KXPDQLW\ 0DLQO\ WKHUH DUH two schools of social exchange theory: Table 1 Brief analysis of the two schools of social exchange theory

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Chapter 1 Exploration and planning in the early stage 5HVHDUFK EDFNJURXQG In recent years, the rise of commercial tourism in historical and cultural blocks has vitalized the previously declining blocks with new look. However, the development of historical and cultural blocks is worrying due to its deep commercial atmosphere and scarcity of primitive ecological life. The scenery in the historical and cultural blocks has become a false outlook because of the emigration of primitive residents and the immigration of migrant ZRUNHUV HVSHFLDOO\ DÎ?HFWHG E\ WKLV UHDVRQ FXOWXUH LQ KLVWRULFDO blocks has lost its original appearance directly.

Kulangsu is a typical epitome of historical and cultural blocks in our country. Due to multiple factors, most primitive residents in the island have moved out to other places while many immigrated population have come for commercial activities

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'HČ´QLWLRQ RI WKH FRQFHSW Č&#x160;3RSXODWLRQ GLVSODFHPHQWČ&#x2039; The population displacement studied in this paper refers to a phenomenon that the emigration of primitive residents who have lived for over ten years, as well as the immigration of external population who have lived for one year to ten years in a particular historical area.

In order to study the root reasons for population displacement as well as its development and optimization of status quo, â&#x20AC;&#x153;displacement reactionâ&#x20AC;?, which in chemistry is used as carrier with Social Exchange Theory as basis in this paper, is going to be used as an analogy and build the equation for population displacement by principles of displacement reaction and the deep principle of this reaction.

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According to Homanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social exchange theory, all humanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social interactive behaviors are exchanges based on interest.

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Figure 3 Illustrations for main research areas and interview spots

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Chapter 3 Process and analysis for the investigation 3.1. The emergence for population displacement The planning and development of Kulangsu as well as migration within the island can be traced back as shown in the following WDEOH /LQ

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Therefore, â&#x20AC;&#x153;population displacementâ&#x20AC;? today can contribute to WKH Č&#x160;SXVK SXOO HÎ?HFWČ&#x2039; 7KDW LV FDWDO\VW DQG KHDWLQJ FRQGLWLRQV Table 6 Analysis on the contributing factors to population displacement

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And further analysis is given addressing partial problems with the analysis results shown as follows.

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3)The two kinds of residents have no special inclination towards family relationships and neighborhood relationships which are varying from people to people.

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old buildings being transformed to stores for business. %RWK DERULJLQHV DQG LPPLJUDWHG SHRSOH SHUPLW WKH LOOHJDO constructions and transformation of old buildings into stores or hotels.

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Although impacted by tourism commercialization and LPPLJUDWHG SHRSOH % SULPLWLYH UHVLGHQWV VWLOO DWWDFK JUHDW importance to traditional festivals and participate in religious activities actively while most A (newly immigrated people) have no religious belief with less attention to traditional festivals and less participation in religious activities due to their living environment and conditions.

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1) Analysis of factor evaluation Addressing questions designed in the questionnaire, 5-point assignment method will be adopted in this investigation with the basic elements of architecture, life, religion and characteristic culture as evaluation factors and then give evaluation scores and weight conversions to each question by 5-point assignment method. The statistical results are shown below:

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1) Attraction In the beginning, some migrant workers came to Kulangsu under governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vigorous promotion of tourism development.

At that time, Kulangsu had a large demand for labors since tourism development was in the primary stage and culture at that moment also remained its primitive condition.

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displacement reaction. Due to the incompatible proportion between traditional culture protection and commercial development, many problems have been resulted such as environment deterioration and deep commercial atmosphere with a declining development activity for Kulangsu on the whole, which is also the status quo of Kulangsu we are researching.

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celebrities, buildings, religions and music by inviting primitive residents who understand Kulangsu culture deeply, so as to REWDLQ MRE RSSRUWXQLWLHV DQG HFRQRPLF EHQHÈ´WV ZLWK FXOWXUH regression.

and harmonious relationship between primitive residents and immigrated population.

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RECONSTRUCTING SPATIAL NARRATIVES AS A MODE OF URBAN REGENERATION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; LOCAL ACTIONS AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF GARA, TAIPEI

Min Jay KANG Min Jay KANG is an associate professor of Graduate Institute of %XLOGLQJ DQG 3ODQQLQJ 1DWLRQDO Taiwan University, corresponding author, kminjay@ntu.edu.tw, kminjay@gmail.com Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier is a dynamic group of 5 -10 active members, all of whom are graduate students ofGraduate Institute of %XLOGLQJ DQG 3ODQQLQJ 178 7KH WLWOH +DR -LD =DL ŕž­ŕŁ?ŕľ&#x2DC;) in Mandarin means A Good Home at Gara (or, in wordplay, Good 3OXV /RFDWLRQ \HW LQ GLDOHFWLF SURQXQFLDWLRQ PHDQV /XFNLO\

1. Introduction Gara (ŕŁ?㲝Ô&#x201E;) is a relatively unknown historical area located at the southwest end of Taipeiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wanhua(ăŠ&#x153;ă¨&#x;) district and originally constituted of six farming settlements surrounding a small market street. These settlements were later incorporated into the colonial Capital City and slowly evolved into â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;villages in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; back when their adjoining farmlands were abundant ZLWK Č´HOG SURGXFHV 7KH SRVW :DU GHYHORSPHQW RI 7DLSHL further propelled the expansion of Gara into a patchwork of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;urban settlementsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as a spatial blend of modern housing, public facilities and infrastructures, and organic villages.

The juxtaposition of the pre-modern fabric and the modern settings, densely dotted with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;family-as-factoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; type of light industries, imprinted a chaotic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;third-worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; image of Gara which labelled its associated neighborhoods with a marginalized and deteriorating outlook till today.

Fig 1 The urban settlements and urban fabric of Gara

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These neighborhoods of Gara have undergone Taipeiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uneven geographic development which prioritizes eastward expansion SDUWLFXODUO\ VLQFH WKH V 7KRXJK VORJDQV RI Č&#x2020;UHYHUVLQJ WKH axis of developmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; often propagated as a hope of reclaiming the faded glory of the West City during the heated periods of municipal elections, the large part of the west-side story resumes its blighted chapter and stigmatized setting. The FXOWXUDOO\ VLJQLČ´FDQW XUEDQ VHWWOHPHQWV DQG RQFH WKULYLQJ shop-houses of Dong-yuan(ᜥŕľ&#x201A;) Street of Gara gradually become signs of retrogression and clusters of disfranchised citizens. A few corporation-led renewal projects popped up randomly in the past few years and dominated over Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s XUEDQ ODQGVFDSH \HW WKH\ RQO\ PDJQLČ´HG WKH JDS EHWZHHQ the decontextualized and gated communities and the original settlements. Urban regeneration of Gara, if optimistically conceived, may have to reroute a community-driven and participatory process to avoid an imposed planning operation of wishful thinking and irretrievable replacement.

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Urban regeneration via conservation and the FRQVHTXHQWLDO JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ The recent hype of creative-industry based urban regeneration LQ 7DLSHL KDV HÎ?HFWLYHO\ SURPRWHG DOWHUQDWLYH DSSURDFKHV RI urban conservation in contrast to their counterpart of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;razedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; urban renewal in the historical areas. Yet the consequential JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ FDWHULQJ IRU WKH WDVWH RI WKH QHZ PLGGOH FODVV has drastically made over the original spatial and social fabrics of such neighborhoods. The resurgence of Taipeiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical 'L KXD 6WUHHW EORFNV VWUDWHJLFDOO\ QXUWXUHG E\ WKH EHQHČ´WV of Transfer of Development Right (TDR) and the top-down â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acupuncturalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; implants of Urban Regeneration Station (URS), is D SULPH H[DPSOH RI UHJHQHUDWLRQ FXP JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ DQG VXEWOH transformation of traditional shop-house environment into a creative cluster.

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regeneration may be.

In Zukin's potent argument (2010) against the aesthetics economy of urban regeneration, the outcome of Jane Jacob's contention on guarding neighborhood identity and vibrant street life is eventually twisted by neo-liberalism's 'acculturation DQG FRPPRGLČ´FDWLRQ RI HYHU\WKLQJ %DUHQERLP DQG 6DLG

into neighborhood branding and yuppie lifestyle. The 'revanchist FLW\ Č´UVW LGHQWLČ´HG E\ 1HLO 6PLWK 6PLWK /HHV

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On the other hand, the relentless measures of wholesale renewal projects continue to tramp down existing urban fabrics and QHLJKERUKRRGV DV WKH PRVW HÎ?HFWLYH PRGH RI UHGHYHORSPHQW To expedite the neighborhood revitalization process, the Urban Renewal Department of Taipei City demarcates 'urban renewal zones' superimposed on a general urban plan to give extra incentives for self- mobilized renewal projects or redevelopment initiatives. The label of urban renewal zone is an implication of urban blight both in terms of physical and social degradation.

Urban regeneration thus enhances certain image reinventing to give new identities to stigmatized neighborhoods and reverse their downturn deterioration. Some of the urban renewal zones, due to historical and social encumbrance or intentional tagging, even beget the reputation of a perceived and conceived â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sin cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Kang 2013).

3. Reconstructing narratives of a place In many rapidly urbanizing and compactly populated Asian cities, the historic neighborhoods are often regarded as a liability rather than an asset of the contemporary city. Historic preservation, if it ever prevails over modern development and political struggles, can only declare token heritage and landmark monuments based on the grand narrative of authorized history.

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theories break down narrative into the dimensions of story and GLVFRXUVH 0F4XLOODQ ZKLOH VRPH GLÎ?HUHQWLDWH WKH FRQWHQW RI QDUUDWLYH VWRU\ IURP LWV H[SUHVVLRQ WHOOLQJ &KDWPDQ

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3RWWHLJHU DQG 3XULWRQ LQYHVWLJDWH ODQGVFDSH QDUUDWLYHV and pay special attentions to the practices of designing place and story which also include cultural practices of daily life, rituals and interpretation. They further look into the practices of naming, sequencing, revealing and concealing, gathering, and opening (among many others) which are considered to be the most fundamental of narrative. These practices signify alternative planning-and-design methodology outside the rational and functional realms and have strong implications on action planning and reconstructing spatial narratives for the area of impending urban regeneration. The spatial practices of narrative heighten the intangible quality of a place while consolidating the planning and design of the tangible forms.

Without the knowledge and understanding of local narratives, hasty implementation of renewal or regeneration strategies PLJKW EH GHWULPHQWDO WR WKH DÎ?HFWHG FRPPXQLW\ 7KURXJK WKH grassroots practices of reconstructing narratives, the power geometry (Massey

RI WKH JOREDO ORFDO UHODWLRQVKLS FRXOG DOVR EH UHFRQČ´JXUHG 4. Hao-Jia-Zaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action planning and practices of narrative in Gara The conundrum of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;upgrading neighborhood qualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; via high-end FRQVXPSWLRQ RI FUHDWLYLW\ DQG FUHDWLYH PLOLHX WULJJHUV UHČľHFWLRQV on the impact of neo-liberalist economy, even though current Gara is far from being ready to plunge into the regeneration competition of creative industry. Instead, reconstructing the spatial narratives of Gara is consciously activated as a series of collaborative endeavors of Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier and local participants to confront the issues of the encroachment of large-scale urban renewal projects as well as the disintegration of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place identity and daily-life patterns. Activists and planners of Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier attempt to break new grounds by adopting various modes of narrative practices to reinforce place identity and initiate bottom-up projects of community empowerment. The following accounts highlight Gara as a contested site of meaning and retrospect the on-going process of Hao-Jia-Zaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action planning since the fall of 2013: Î&#x2013; 7KH 0DJLF &DUSHW SURMHFW DQG WKH Č´OPLF QDUUDWLYHV $V D SDUW RI WKH FROODERUDWLYH 0DJLF &DUSHW SURMHFW WKH Č´UVW \HDU VWXGHQWV RI WKH *UDGXDWH Î&#x2013;QVWLWXWH RI %XLOGLQJ DQG 3ODQQLQJ

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explored the urban scenes and the rarely told stories of south :DQKXD YLD H[SHULPHQWDO Č´OPLQJ 0RUH WKDQ WKLUW\ PLQXWH XQFXW Č´OPV DQG VL[ PLQXWH HGLWHG Č´OPV SURYLGHG D ZLGH range of fresh perspectives on the mundane livelihood of the historical yet marginalized neighborhoods (vis-Ă -vis Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sai Ying Pun neighborhood). Entitled Re- envisioning Wanhua, WKH FROOHFWLYH Č´OPLQJ SURMHFW UHSUHVHQWV RXWVLGHUVČ&#x2021; REVHUYDWLRQV and interpretations of Wanhuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social spaces and discloses a few hidden issues of urban regeneration of the local. The SDUWLFXODU VOLFH RI WKH FRPPXQLW\ LQ Č´OPV FRQQRWHV D UDQJH RI VSDWLDO QDUUDWLYH EH\RQG KLVWRULFDO DQG RÉ?FLDO XUEDQ GLVFRXUVHV From a short Gara residential alley with a high concentration RI EHDQ VSURXW SURGXFWLRQ WR DQ XQJODPRURXV ZDON XS ČľDW IRU ex-homeless tenants, from a Gara shop-house operated by a 93-year-old â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;grandmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; who has been retailing rice business in the community for more than 70 years to a Nintendo store which almost serves as an after-school â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;daycareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the public housing cluster, these new revealing of community episodes embody daily-life tactics as well as social and spatial struggles. More importantly, the students established a closer and continuous relationship with the inquired neighborhoods and community PHPEHUV YLD Č´OPLQJ DQG WKH IRXQGDWLRQ RI WUXVW OHG IXUWKHU into the later development of action planning and community HPSRZHUPHQW SURMHFWV EDVHG RQ WKH LGHQWLČ´HG LVVXHV DQG WKHLU related socio-spatial analyses.

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6FUHHQLQJ HYHQWV RI WKH 0DJLF &DUSHW Č´OPV WRRN SODFH LQ PDQ\ semi-public spaces and unlikely corners, including a curvilinear temple plaza adjacent to the residential row-houses, the roofWRS RSHQLQJ RI WKH ZDON XS ČľDW IRU H[ KRPHOHVV D VHW EDFN corridor of a resettlement housing, a former private kitchen, a defunct public-market open space, the rice shop, the Dong-yuan street arcade, and many other semi-private semi-public venues.

The screening events are generally a celebration of traditional community life echoing an outdoor cinema or how local people QLFNQDPH DV D PRVTXLWR FLQHPD \HW WKH VFUHHQHG Č´OPV DUH directly shot in Wanhua with real community characters, the Magic Carpet approach understatedly sutures the gap between representation and reality and invites the audience to gaze at WKHPVHOYHV IURP D FULWLFDO DQG UHČľHFWLYH GLVWDQFH 7KH VFUHHQLQJ events also turn the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;taken-for- grantedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; locales into narrative spaces or potential community spaces. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;negotiated SXEOLFQHVVČ&#x2021; LQ WKHVH VSDFHV LV VRPHZKDW GLÎ?HUHQW IURP WKH legal publicness of the designated public spaces. It challenges the dominant paradigm of public space planning and design based on a strict separation between public and private and counteracts spatial exclusion by zoning. Accordingly, urban regeneration strategies in these â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;developmentally deferredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; neighborhoods may adapt to their everyday rhythm and cultural milieu, and reconstruct local narrative to re-envision the social imagination for a more inclusive public. Î&#x2013;Î&#x2013; 5HDÉ?UPLQJ RULJLQDO SODFH QDPHV DQG WKH QDUUDWLYH power of naming

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One of the direct impacts of Magic Carpet on the community is the launch of a facebook site in the name of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a Wanhua localâ&#x20AC;?(ᥠáą&#x;ăŠ&#x153;ă¨&#x;ÓŞ) established by a young woman who happened to take part in the screening event in front of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GuangZhao Temple(á&#x201D;&#x201C;â&#x17E;&#x2014;á&#x2021;&#x17E;). She was called up to give comment on WKH Č´OPV DERXW WKH SODFH ZKHUH VKH JUHZ XS DQG VKH ZDV curious why young outsiders would be interested in telling their stories while most local folks of her generation chose to look away and were hardly present at public events or discourses.

6KH GHFLGHG WR VHW XS WKH IDFHERRN SODWIRUP WR UHDÉ?UP WKH subjectivity of Wanhua and reconnect the concerned people via virtual network. In less than a year, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a Wanhua localâ&#x20AC;? links up more than 600 members to engage in daily dialogues about Wanhua and events sharing. Sometimes serious and at times trivial, these conversations and exchanges nonetheless reveal earnest craving for a shared community-based identity.

Wanhua is a more encompassing scope for place identity, yet it also subsumes many sub-districts of distinct identities. Gara, for instance, is often recognized as a part of Wanhua, but its place name can be traced back to even earlier stage of cultivation in the city of Taipei than Wanhuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original title of Monga. While â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a Wanhua localâ&#x20AC;? intends to enhance the Wanhua identity as a tool to overturn its stereotyped and stigmatized image, Gara IRONV XQGHUVWDWHGO\ PDQHXYHU D GLÎ?HUHQW DJHQGD WR UHFODLP the place title when a new proposed MRT line is underway.

There will be two new stations in Wanhua district and one of them is located at the heart of contemporary Gara, and many community members believe that the naming of Gara station ZRXOG EH PRUH PHDQLQJIXO WKDQ WKH RÉ?FLDOO\ VXJJHVWHG WLWOH RI Wanda station which represents a controversial post-War urban renewal project (Wanda Project) and a street name. To name a MRT station with the original place title is a gesture to connect the future with its history and as Potteiger and Puriton (ibid.) rightly argue, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śthe name creates a continuity with the past, the family line, or cultural memory while projecting future hopes and aspirations of who the individual will become. Naming both situates things within narratives and marks the beginning of narratives.â&#x20AC;? To recover the title and image of Gara for the potential new centrality around the MRT station, the Gara community is embarking on a cultural imagination of urban regeneration.

Gara is an indigenous expression for a marsh land of abundance.

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yuan elementary school all graduate with an emblem of the agricultural bygone. The landscape of Yuan no longer persists, yet the place name carries the collective memory.

When the jasmine industry declined during the War, bamboo VKRRW UHSODFHG WKH ČľRZHU SHWDO DQG EHFDPH WKH QH[W DJULFXOWXUDO LFRQ RI *DUD %DPERR IRUHVW VSUHDG IURP WKH ULYHUVLGH WR WKH IDUP Č´HOG DQG HYROYHG LQWR WKH GRPLQDQW ODQGVFDSH WKHQ during the period of post-War administration, the dialectic pronunciation of bamboo were inconspicuously embedded into many re-demarcated neighborhood units. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curious to compare the naming of Gara streets with those of the other administrative districts of Taipei which were deliberately named according to their orientations with, based on an overlay of a conceived territorial map of Mainland China, the positions of &KLQHVH FLWLHV LQ GLÎ?HUHQW SURYLQFHV 2Q RQH KDQG VSDULQJ *DUD from the street naming system which discloses the Nationalist governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideological infusion of national identity coincides ZLWK LWV SHULSKHUDO VWDWXV LQ WKH &DSLWDO FLW\ EXW RQ WKH RWKHU such a slip from the ideological control allows the development of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spatial identity grounded on local characteristics and resources.

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of Gara. One of the most infamous gangster heads of the city was known as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gara-kiangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (ŕŁ?㲝á&#x17E;Ś)associated with the turf of his root and underground maneuver, yet such a title left Gara a bad name. Taipeiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history is hardly immune from feuds EHWZHHQ GLÎ?HUHQW FODQV JHRJUDSKLF RULJLQV DQG VHWWOHPHQWV and Wanhua and Gara epitomize the culture of an immigrant society as well as its concomitant internal struggles. The 2010 Č´OP 0RQJD 㥝㥪 is a cinematic text interpreting the historical Wanhua as a hotbed of gangster and prostitution culture, but the consequential disputes against such stereotyping from local historians and cultural activists revealed strong resistance to the sin-city label and urge to reconstruct spatial narrative for alternative urban regeneration.

III. Inheriting Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farming tradition and landscape narratives The exploration of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story often leads to the knowledge of its agricultural past, though the practice of farming is ironically restricted to the domestic production of bean sprout. As a regeneration strategy, Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier and their SDUWQHUV RI &ODVVLF /DQGVFDSH 'HVLJQ DQG (QYLURQPHQWDO 3ODQQLQJ Č´UP LQLWLDWHG 2SHQ Green program and guerilla urban farming at various corners and left-over spaces to pay tribute to Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farming tradition.

The intention of the action planning was not to fully recover the DJULFXOWXUDO ODQGVFDSH DPLGVW WKH H[WDQW XUEDQ GHYHORSPHQW rather, in the face of urban reality, the guerilla farming H[SHULPHQW ZDV WR VXWXUH WKH Č´VVXUHV EHWZHHQ GLÎ?HUHQW XUEDQ layers with historic agricultural elements that Gara people still LGHQWLI\ ZLWK Č&#x201A; HVSHFLDOO\ MDVPLQH EDPERR DQG RWKHU HGLEOH or herbal plants. From bland rooftop to campus ground, from intersection alcoves to street arcades and sideways, small-scale greenery were planted in vacant lots and plank boxes made with recycled materials by ex-homeless carpenters. Each plant FKRVHQ ZDV LPEXHG ZLWK VSHFLČ´F VWRULHV RU KLVWRULFDO FRQWH[W and urban farming became a medium of story-telling.

This approach was welcomed by local elementary schools and incorporated into a special vernacular education program. HaoJia-Zai members curated an exhibition of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural landscapes in Wanda Elementary School hallway and trained a few 4th-6th graders to serve as exhibition guides for visitors and other students. Prior to the training, these young guides did not know much about the history of their home turf besides regular education materials for exams, but in the process of guiding and telling agricultural stories they were able to argue WKH VLJQLČ´FDQFH RI ORFDO SURGXFHV DQG PDS RXW WKH UHODWHG landscapes and locations of meaning. They can now represent WKH VFKRRO WR HÎ?HFWLYHO\ SUHVHQW WKH FRQWHQW RI WKH SDQHO exhibition in front of the general public. Interestingly, some of the students came from families of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;new immigrantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (or families with foreign spouses) and hardly paid attentions to *DUDČ&#x2021;V IDGHG JORU\ WKURXJK WKH UROH RI D VWRU\ WHOOHU WKH\ PLJKW be able to share Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity with other students of local

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background. The inclusive and shared identity of Gara, though GLÉ?FXOW WR GHČ´QH DW FXUUHQW PRPHQW LV FULWLFDO WR IRVWHULQJ D progressive sense of place and deepening the social dimension of urban regeneration.

IV. Planners in residency and the reprogrammed narrative spaces 7KH SUDFWLFHV RI Č&#x2020;JUHHQ Č´QJHUVČ&#x2021; DUH OLQNHG WR WKH FRPPXQLW\Č&#x2021;V concern for historic continuity as well as for healthy food and sustainable wellbeing. The Community Health and Service Center of Wanhua District is a public facility which has been promoting the concept of holistic living and community wellbeing, and the administrators of the Center strongly support Hao-Jia-Zaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community outreach and urban farming experiment and give the Atelier special permission to the daily use of a two-story building adjacent to the Center. Dearly renamed as Dong-yuan Good Nest (Dong-yuan Hao-Wo ᜥŕľ&#x201A;ŕž­ă&#x192;&#x2122;), the underused building use to be the oldest public health clinic of Taipei and is now accommodating the periodic needs of a volunteer organization and a rehabilitation program on certain days. Hao-Jia-Zai proposed the Good Nest to further integrate art therapy and KHDOLQJ JDUGHQ LQWR IXWXUH SURJUDP DQG DGRSW GLÎ?HUHQW PRGHV of narrative to weave the interior and outdoor spaces into a semi story house. Dong-yuan Good Nest would also be a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sharingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place of a variety of expertise including farming, horticulture, carpentry, cooking, theatre, physical and mental therapy, history, cartography, photography, painting, editing, and many other professions found in the community or along the streets, and through the exchange of knowledge and expertise the Good-Nest network can even expand into a model of community economy and social innovation.

The Healing Table project is accordingly derived out of such spatial reprogramming. Each healing table includes a hexagonal wooden surface whose removable central piece can be easily transformed into a planting container for healing garden courses, and the basic unit of one table and two chairs stands for a mode of communication but can be further connected ZLWK HDFK RWKHU DQG H[WHQGHG LQGHČ´QLWHO\ LQWR D URZ RI WDEOHV and chairs along the arcade. The healing table surface can also be detached from its pedestal and used as a wall panel for exhibitions and story-telling, or Taoist families can use the table for the setting of ritual worship. The design of the healing table followed the collective concept of collaborative planning teams and its manufacture was hand-made with recycled planks by a carpenter who joined the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; event. He then passed down his know-how to ex-homeless people who might make a living out of the production of healing tables.

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The title of the newsletter Hao-Jia-Yo-Nie-Zai (ŕž­ŕŁ?á´šÖ?ŕľ&#x2DC;) play with dialectical pronunciation and Mandarin writing to connote the meaning of â&#x20AC;&#x153;good to have you aroundâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;a good home is where you are at.â&#x20AC;? Each issue is a chorographic rewriting with D VSHFLČ´F WKHPH RU IRFXV SULQWHG E\ D ORFDO SULQWLQJ VKRS WR accord with an unwritten principle of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;employing resources within 500-meter radius.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The distribution of Hao-Jia-Yo-Nie-Zai was again through a doorto-door visit to make sure that most households of the direct QHLJKERUKRRGV FRXOG DFTXLUH FRSLHV EXW PRUH LPSRUWDQWO\ +DR -LD =DL VDZ LW DV DQ RSSRUWXQLW\ WR PDNH WKH EHVW HÎ?HFW RI person-to-person contact to reinforce the impression of the planning team. Whenever a senior or an illiterate could not understand the text, the distributor had to orally explicate the content to the reader. It is always heart-warming to witness the expressions of those who are written into the stories, especially when their images are shown in pictures. The re-envisioning of WKH UHSUHVHQWHG VHOI KDV D VXEWOH HÎ?HFW RQ LQGLYLGXDOV ZKR DUH rarely the focus of media gaze, and the reassured subjectivity may be crucial for their self-empowerment. The newsletter is therefore not only an information provider, but also a platform of community encountering and interactions.

7KH Č´UVW IHZ LVVXHV RI WKH QHZVOHWWHU FRQFHQWUDWHG RQ WKH ordinary stories of common people, however, the editorial workshops in the Good Nest often brainstormed with local participants to further address the environmental issues and encouraged them to write or argue for what they stand for. On one particular workshop, two childhood friends had opposite views on a recycle dump which has been a resourceful site for the disfranchised people yet also an environmental eyesore for the past thirty years. Their arguments were written in narrative forms and presented face-to-face in the newsletter guestedited by another Gara resident. The recycle dump happened to be located around an open irrigation channel built in Châ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ing '\QDVW\ Č&#x201A; SRVVLEO\ WKH ODVW RQH RI LWV NLQG LQ 7DLSHL \HW KDUGO\ ever been noticed by the community. The written debate and the mapping of the controversial site called the public attention and became an integral part of a later landscape conservation DFWLRQ WR NHHS WKH ČľRZLQJ ZDWHU IURP EHLQJ FRYHUHG XS DV D sewage line. The conservation action catalyzed the alliance of various planning and cultural groups which is now advocating the preservation of a run-down settlement nestled by the channel, against the imminent threat of mega urban renewal

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project. These unexpected turns of action planning lead to a city-wide petition for the designation of Ku-la-tau Settlement as a cultural heritage, and though its future is uncertain in the face of rapid urban renewal, a preservation-based plan is now proposed by collective endeavor of the alliance as an alternative urban regeneration project.

V. The Fun-fun House and the culinary stories %HVLGHV WKH *RRG 1HVW +DR -LD =DL HVWDEOLVKHG D Č&#x2020;VSXWQLNČ&#x2021; residency inside a small house of less than 3 x 3m - in fact a separate defunct kitchen outside a row-house. The owner of the house granted the permission of temporary public use of the kitchen to Hao-Jia-Zai as a matter of trust, and the catchy name came from the play of Mandarin pronunciation of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;squareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in English. The Fun-fun House(ᯊᯊá&#x2030;ť) is indeed a square-square house.

Fig 3 Hao-Jia-Zai Atelier at the Fun-fun House

The open space adjacent to the Fun-fun House used to house the public Dong- yuan Market which, after demolition, morphed into a linear street market around the original site. In another word, the Fun-fun House could be contextualized along the culture of food and cooking. Hao-Jia-Zai optimized the Fun-fun FRQWH[W DQG H[SHULPHQWHG ORFDO ČľDYRUV ZLWK WKH QHLJKERULQJ residents, and turned the small house into a community kitchen project. The renovation of the Fun-fun House was a self-help hands-on process, but many required materials and technical details such as glass works and furniture repair still relied on the resources of local shops and craftsmen. The call for community help grew into a network of possible community economy, and Hao-Jia-Zai got to know a few skill-and-craft masters and young playful children through the creative collaboration of renovation. Eventually the House is embraced by warm colorful mapping of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fabric on the walls and a new trellis where loofa vines serpentine.

The opening event of the Fun-fun House was also a celebration of the community kitchen lab. Hao-Jia-Zai invited a wheel pie PDVWHU WR H[SHULPHQW WKH Č´OOLQJ ZLWK WKH WKUHH LFRQLF SURGXFHV of Gara and invent the delicious bean-sprout pie, bambooshoot pie, and jasmine-butter pie. The famous traditional baker

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Fig 4 The stall of the wheel-pie master near the Fun-fun House

VI. Reiterating and reinventing the narrative routes +DR -LD =DL REVHUYHG WKDW IURP WKH H[SHULHQFHV RI Č´OPLQJ WKH Rice Shop, the arcade spaces along both sides of Dong-yuan Street were indispensable to the entirety of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social life. As a semi-public space with private ownership and a transitional space from individual shops to public streets, arcade marks the daily routines of most community members and inevitable encounters between neighbors. The pedestrian-only path is resounded with internal gossips and anecdotes, yet it is also a portal to meet strangers and to hear stories of the outside world. Walking through the weather-proof corridor of the Dongyuan arcade, a pedestrian can pace with a spatial rhythm scored by the regular subdivision of shop- houses and a good variety of idiosyncratic stores. The place ballet of the Dong-yuan arcade is choreographed by individuals who are entrenched in its place identity or embark on a narrative journey. %XW WKH DUFDGH LV DOVR D PXFK WDNHQ IRU JUDQWHG VSDFH WKDW LV vulnerable when a large-scale urban renewal project takes its place and replaces its street life with a setting of a gated high-rise FRPPXQLW\ Î&#x2013;Q WKH SDVW Č´YH \HDUV QHZ UHQHZDO GHYHORSPHQWV broke down the scale of Dong-yuan Street and interrupt the rhythm of its arcade experiences. Hao-Jia-Zai activated a series of arcade project to remind the neighbors and the passersby what an arcade space could be socially imagined and lived, DQG WKHUHE\ LQWHQVLČ´HG LWV IXQFWLRQ DV D SODFH WR KDQJ RXW ZLWK

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families and friends other than simply a path to go through.

Many participants enjoyed an afternoon tea, a massage session, or a beauty-parlor type of treatment in the arcade, then wrote down what they wished to do if they were allowed to in it. The wish list covered a large scope of activities which were analyzed and prioritized for the design of the next arcade project, but altogether it embodied a desire for a shared public space which might feel like an extended living room and a narrative route where stories abound.

On one of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; events along the Dong-yuan arcade, Hao-Jia-Zai exchanged a box of plants with the stories of individual shop-houses, and asked an artist to collaborate with the shop-owners to turn the stories into sign boards.

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5. Conclusion Reconstructing the spatial narratives of Gara is an alternative action planning to intervene the process of local regeneration.

Through a series of practices of narrative, the Gara community is motivated to participate in a variety of programmed events and initiate grassroots actions of urban conservation. If cultural and social sustainability based on shared and cooperative community economy is the core value of Garaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban regeneration, the tactics of reconstructing spatial narratives not only intend to envision the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future on the cornerstone of its meaningful present and past, but also to plot for an inclusive and a progressive sense of place.

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Gedung Kuning in Kampong Glam historic district *HGXQJ .XQLQJ LV ORFDWHG DW 6XOWDQ *DWH 6LQJDSRUH in the historic district of Kampong Glam in Singapore. Kampong Glam was gazetted and given a conservation status on 7th July 7KH FRQVHUYDWLRQ DUHD LV ERXQGHG E\ 9LFWRULD 6WUHHW -DODQ 6XOWDQ %HDFK 5RDG DQG 2SKLU 5RDG Î&#x2013;W IHDWXUHV PRVWO\ WZR storey shophouses of the Early and Transitional Shophouse architectural styles . There are a few major landmarks in the DUHD Č&#x201A; 6XOWDQ 0RVTXH 6LQJDSRUHČ&#x2021;V VHFRQG ROGHVW DQG ELJJHVW mosque), Istana Kampung Gelam (the former Royal palace), Gedung Kuning (the former residence of the family of Haji <XVRÎ? $OVDJRÎ? $UDE 6FKRRO RQH RI WKH ROGHVW PDGUDVDKV RU Islamic schools in Singapore) and Hajjah Fatimah Mosque (one of the oldest mosques in Singapore). As such, the area became an important beacon and the spiritual centre for Muslims in Singapore. Kampong Glam was named after the gelam (kayu putih or Melaleuca cajuputi) tree that grew in the area, which ZDV XVHG IRU VKLSEXLOGLQJ DQG PHGLFLQH Î&#x2013;Q Î&#x2013;QGLDQ FRQYLFWV IURP %ULWLVK Î&#x2013;QGLD GHYHORSHG .DPSRQJ *ODP IRU D period of eight months and with a total cost of $500 .

The architecture of Gedung Kuning Architectural analysis of Gedung Kuning Gedung Kuning was made for the colonial lifestyle in the tropics. It had vernacular features to adapt to the tropical climate such as adjustable window louvers, vernacular roof, a sizeable verandah, forecourt compound and natural ventilation.

Those features resembled those of a shophouse in the area.

According to Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the key elements of a shophouse are roofs, foundation, party walls, timber beams and joist, air wells, rear court, windows, doors, staircase, façade and the forecourtsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wall, and gate. A section of the house contained extended housing for ZRUNHUV DQG VODYHV 7KRXJK ORFDO EXLOGHUV XVHG %ULWLVK WLPEHU and frame construction methods in classical architecture style, they adapted the local methods of construction and materials.

The houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main structure consists of a mixture of timber framing for the roof and load-bearing walls. Gedung Kuning is made mostly of wood and bricks clad with plaster for a smooth Č´QLVK $V ZRRG LV DQ HFRQRPLFDO EXLOGLQJ PDWHULDO DEXQGDQW LQ Singapore, all the carvings, cornices, balusters of the stairs, the EHDPV ČľRRU MRLVWV DQG URRČ´QJ V\VWHPV DUH ZRRGZRUN Gedung Kuning as a Malay house Several features of Gedung Kuning are similar to early single storey bungalow constructed of brick and wood. Adaptations were made to increase ventilation such as adding a protection verandah, broad eaves overhangs, ventilation grilles in the walls, large windows and doors, and rooms with high ceilings. These features replicate to some degree indigenous Malay building traditions . Notwithstanding Gedung Kuning having housed

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Malay families, it had limited reference to a Malay house.

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7KH IDPLO\ RI +DML <XVRÎ? KDG VXFFHVVIXOO\ DGMXVWHG WKHPVHOYHV into the house (Figure 6).

In a typical Malay house, guests are received in the serambi (reception verandah). Guests to Gedung Kuning who enter from Sultan Gate will be greeted in the verandah or the daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;yoh (guests) room. If guests were to enter from Kandahar Street, they will be greeted in though the indoor ambin (a long raised wooden platform for sitting) room but this space was probably used by close friends and family members as it is a semi-private space as compared to the daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;yoh room, a semi-public space.

In modern context, a daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;yoh room is a sitting room or a living room.

The kitchen in a Malay house is usually found in separate building that is linked by a saloran (verandah). As Gedung Kuning housed a multi-generational family, there are separate kitchens for separate families. The kitchen is housed in the additional space outside of Gedung Kuning and it is accessible by a verandah. One of the kitchens is inside the main house FRPSRXQG SHUKDSV EHFDXVH RI LQVXÉ?FLHQW NLWFKHQ VSDFH IRU the various families.

Architect Christopher Alexander emphasizes that the design of space, private dwelling is as important as communal SDUWLFLSDWLRQ 7KH XSSHU ȾRRUV RI *HGXQJ .XQLQJ LOOXVWUDWH WKLV SRLQW 7KH XSSHU ȾRRU LV UHJDUGHG DV LQWLPDWH IDPLO\ DUHD ZKHUH guests were not admitted. There is a private sitting room for family members, and there are removable partitions so that more rooms could be created for the growing family. The living space is located closer to the centre of the house and on the XSSHU ȾRRU Gedung Kuning as a Peranakan house There are several architectural elements in Gedung Kuning that suggest that it had housed a Peranakan family such as GHFRUDWHG ȾRRU WLOHV )LJXUH WLPEHU GLYLGHU LQ WKH PDLQ KDOO (Figure 2), green glazed ceramic bamboo mullions in a square aperture on the sidewalls as a vent (Figure 3), and the colour of the house façade (Figure 4). These elements existed because Gedung Kuning had probably gone through at least one addition and alteration phase.

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There is a carved timber divider in the main interior front hall (Figure 2). In a Peranakan House, the front hall or parlour is usually separated from the rest of the house by an elaborate carved wooden screen . The timber divider together with the wooden screen facing the main door acts as a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Spirit Wallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to prevent evil spirits from entering the house by obstructing their path. Interestingly, there is another Spirit Wall on the second ČľRRU RI *HGXQJ .XQLQJ )LJXUH 7KH ZRRGHQ VFUHHQ KDG D Č´OLJUHH SDQHO WKDW DOORZHG ZRPHQIRON WR SHHN DW YLVLWRUV LQ traditional households, male guests rarely venture beyond the front hall. The timber divider acts as a transition space from the public space to semi-public space.

Architect Christian Norberg-Schulz described architecture as a public act as they commemorate the celebration of place and culture. He stated that when faced with an unknown task, builders returned to prototypes to obtain an environment FRUUHVSRQGLQJ WR WKHLU SXUSRVHV WKH\ GLG QRW VWDUW IURP ]HUR but reinterpreted known forms . As such, Gedung Kuning was designed as a vernacular architecture with classical architecture IRUP DQG Î&#x2013;QGLDQ LQČľXHQFHV 1RUEHUJ 6FKXO] H[SODLQHG WKDW when such transplantation occurs, a certain â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fragmentation and relativisationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; occurs but it does not â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;disintegrate and devalueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the architecture. Today, the architecture style of Gedung Kuning is described as the classical architecture style of Palladian .

Fearing that any other label would devalue the building, the architectural descriptions remain with the original classical archetype. As Gedung Kuning had evolved over time with additions and alterations, it is therefore more apt to describe the typology of Gedung Kuning as a soft typology (changeable) RI D 6LQJDSRUH $QJOR Î&#x2013;QGLDQ %XQJDORZ

Other Chinese elements present in Gedung Kuning include additional carved timber dividers that included carved and gilded pintu pagar that created a detached kitchen and servant quarters . A Peranakan Chinese residence usually shows a wealth of ornamentation for fengshui and harmony. However, Chinese characters and images were removed when Gedung Kuning became a Muslim home.

Although Gedung Kuning was built for the Malaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; traditional way of living, it appealed to the Peranakan as they were able to apply the basic principles of planning as prescribed by their traditions. The Peranakan house is abled to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;emergeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with time, place, environment and economic circumstances . As Gedung Kuning had already a very strong symmetry, the Peranakans just had to alter and add on to turn Gedung Kuning into a Peranakan House. A typical Peranakan House is usually â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;inwards lookingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as it is surrounded by solidly built boundary walls, symmetrical and planned as a progression of spaces because privacy of the family is important. Air wells and courtyards are also found in a 3HUDQDNDQ +RXVH SURYLGHG WKH KRXVH LV VXÉ?FLHQWO\ ZLGH Typology of Gedung Kuning 6XOWDQ $OL ZDV NQRZQ DV WKH Č´UVW $VLDQ LQ 6LQJDSRUH WR GZHOO LQ D house of colonial architecture. His house has been described as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a house constructed after the style of the European residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; . It is comparable to a colonial bungalow in a villa compound because it had a mix of structure. The only other existing building with similar typology in Singapore is the neighbouring Istana Kampong Glam.

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Perhaps the spirit of inventiveness of the Asian builder that created the rich ornamentation with playful reinterpretation of classical elements such as French windows and Ionic columns.

These hotchpotch of elements did not follow any architectural theory or principles . Possibly, the Asian builders who made an untutored application of classical features appropriated them from colonial architecture, creating a spontaneous, unsophisticated hybrid .

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Despite the modern form of the architecture barely resembling a kampong, the architecture of Gedung Kuning is still considered traditional because instead of just copying a form directly forcing a transplantation, Gedung Kuning includes or rather follows the spirit of the kampong making it a Malay House. Kampong spirit refers to neighbours sharing and helping out one another based on trust and friendship, forging bonds and strong ties within the community . Akin to a human body, Gedung Kuning has a spirit and a body as the structure. The house is a living machine. As such, the house has achieved the highest level in WKH PRGHUQLVDWLRQ SURFHVV Č&#x201A; LQGLJHQLVDWLRQ 0RUHRYHU *HGXQJ Kuning is a good piece of architecture because it is simple, HÉ?FLHQW GXUDEOH DQG UHTXLUHV ORZ PDLQWHQDQFH 6LQJDSRUHČ&#x2021;V YHUQDFXODU DUFKLWHFWXUH DV D PRGHUQ $VLDQ DUFKLWHFWXUH The vernacular architecture of Singapore should be seen as a modern Asian architecture. As Singapore was built by a nation of immigrants, mobility was a factor in building up Singapore because they needed to build a nation fast. Gedung Kuning was surviving well into the twentieth century but it was not open to the general community as it was a private estate. During the conquest of nation building, Singapore adopted the need for urbanisation as it needs to continuously sustain its developed economy. The government opened up Gedung Kuning together with its tradition, heritage and architecture to the open market.

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Adaptive reuse of Gedung Kuning In 1999, the Singapore government forcefully acquired Gedung .XQLQJ XQGHU WKH /DQG $FTXLVLWLRQ $FW 7KLV JRYHUQPHQW OHG initiative has turned the residential settlement of Kampong Glam into a full commercial zone. The government forced Gedung Kuning to undergo adaptive reuse to serve contemporary IXQFWLRQ DQG WUDQVIRUPHG LW LQWR D SURČ´W GULYHQ FRPPHUFLDO HQWLW\ in the form of a restaurant . The primary aim of conservation through adaptive reuse is to consolidate and enhance the ethnic-based activities that contribute to the overall identity, character and charm of Kampong Glam. The continued usage of Gedung Kuning would ensure that the original identity would be maintained and its useful lifespan extended while maintaining the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current architectural integrity and contributing to the overall identity of the area. The Singapore government views this commoditisation as supporting Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy and ensuring that Gedung Kuning has a place in Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IXWXUH Č´OOHG ZLWK PRGHUQ DUFKLWHFWXUH 7KLV UHEUDQGLQJ DSSHDUV exotic to tourist but lacks the authenticity to citizens who had experienced the traditional architecture of Gedung Kuning.

A disparity between the function and the genius loci of the place generates architecture similar to an empty soulless shell.

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Not understanding the genius loci is detrimental to heritage conservation as well. Signage (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mamandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the entrance) is a new addition to Gedung Kuning as Gedung Kuning had always been a family home. It does not need a sign due to the unique colour of the building that serves as a sign. Even the neighbouring shophouses with forecourt rarely feature a shop front as they were built for residence. The government usually emphasised on appropriate building signage and colour but there had been generally no control on the choice of colour or appropriate signage size except Gedung Kuning that has to remain yellow (Figure 7).

The economic value of the prime land of Gedung Kuning made it irresistible for the government to acquire it for commercial prosperity . Gedung Kuning was eventually promoted as a tourist attraction. The area is met with moderate success as it

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LV LQWHQGHG IRU WRXULVWV /RFDOV EDUHO\ SDWURQLVH WKH DUHD Î&#x2013;I ZH create a tradition that is shared with locals and tourists alike, the tradition will lose its value as it cheapens the price of access to the tradition. Although the architecture of Gedung Kuning is still there, the spirit of place is gone. The place is like an empty shell.

Due to economic greed, the government does not mind cultural amnesia or commoditisation of heritage. This causes Gedung Kuning to have a tragic ending by displacing its residents and turning the place into a mediocre restaurant.

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Colonies are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;museumised to be repositioned as regalia for secular colonial stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; so the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;prestige of colonial state is linked to the homeland superiorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; . The Singapore government â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;museumisedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gedung Kuning and Kampong Glam as Malay heritage. The purpose is to create a link that Malay is part of Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity, a state construct ethnicity. Writer Guy Debord in Society of Spectacle he traced the development of modern society that has replaced authentic social life with its representation : Gedung Kuning and Kampong Glam as representative of the Malay identity. This is part of the overall national identity of Singapore used in the nation-building agenda.

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ENCOURAGING WALKABILITY AROUND RAIL STATION AREA CASE: INDONEDIA RAIL-STATION AREA Dyah Titisari WIDYASTUTI Doctoral Candidate Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, dyahtitisariw@ugm.ac.id Bambang Hari WIBISONO Professor Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada wibisono@ugm.ac.id Danang PARIKESIT Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, dparikesit@ugm.ac.id Ikaputra Associate Professor Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, ikaputra@ugm.ac.id Keywords: RAIL STATION AREA, RAIL-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, MOBILITY, PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY

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The Implementation of Transit-Oriented Development on Rail-Station Area Development (Rail-Oriented Development) Looking at many cases of rail-station area development in several countries, there are various concepts on creating rail-station as public transit node that can bring good impact to rail-station surrounding area (Kido, 2005), such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Station Renaissanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Europe countries), â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Context Sensitive Designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (United States), and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Context Sensitive Design for Railwaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Japan). RIC (RailIntegrated Community), as Calimente (2012) explained, is one of the development concepts of rail-station area in Japan

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through encouraging high density and mixed use development surrounding rail-station with pedestrian-friendly design supported by government policy on public transportation. All of those concepts are ended on the enhancement of rail-station area quality. Moreover, Cervero (1993) in Zhao and Deng (2013) stated that through the quality improvement of rail-station area, SHRSOH VSHFLČ´FDOO\ UHVLGHQW FRXOG EH HQFRXUDJHG WR XVH UDLO transit. He also added that based on his previous study, the residents in the area surrounding rail-station are 5-7 times prefer to travel by train compared to people far from rail-station.

safety walking on pedestrian space throughout the network that is shaped by built environment. Walking trip has two components, i.e. origin-destination and path as said by Sallis et al (2004) and Hanson (1984) in Yin (2013). On the way from origin to destination, walking trip passes through spaces that accommodated by path through street connectivity and integration. Both path variables could be indicators of built HQYLURQPHQW LQ DÎ?HFWLQJ OHYHOV RI ZDONDELOLW\ %HVLGHV VDIHW\ KDV become the third variables of path component in encouraging walkability.

Similar to RIC, originally, Calthorpe (1993) described TOD as mixed use community in walkable distance from public transit node (see Fig. 1). Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a kind of concept that integrate compact rail-station area (mixed-use high and density development) and public transit interchange in order to increase accessibility to public transport as well as increase people mobility. This research is based on the context of rail-station area development in Indonesia which is railway asset and infrastructure as well as passenger service have been available but did not integrate in line with rail-station area development. The adapted concept of TOD would be elaborated focusing on encouraging pedestrian friendly environment surrounding station.

Meanwhile, according to Jaskiewicz (2001) in Southworth (2005), key factor in walkability is the quality of pedestrian path network.

In encouraging walkability, pedestrian needs good quality of environment that can be represented by a. Connectivity of path network (high density of intersections, small blocks sizes); b. Linkage with various modes (pedestrian path that link modes of transport/transit intermodal to residential as well as commercial zones in walking distance); c. Fine grained land use patterns (land use intensity and diversity in walking distance from transit node/rail-station); d. Safety (availability of crosswalks, pedestrian pathway condition, night lighting, surveillance as well as handicapped supports); e. Quality of path (width, paving, landscaping, signing, lighting), f. Path context (street design, visual attraction, transparency, VSDWLDO GHČ´QLWLRQ ODQGVFDSH

Figure 1: Concept of Transit-Oriented Development Source: Re-drawing from Calthorpe, 1993

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Regarding to pedestrian-friendly environment, Shastry (2010) said that as a place, TOD/ROD represents diversity in mixed used development, density in housing and working place, as well as street network connectivity that accommodate pedestrianfriendly design. The importance of TOD/ROD in shaping node and place, as illustrated in Fig. 2, also accommodated by Dittmar and Ohland (2004), Greenberg (2004) in Dittmar and Ohland (2004), Ewing and Cervero (2001) and Ewing et al (2009) in Ewing and Cervero (2010) as well as Chen (2010). According to them, basically, TOD/ROD plan and design concept leads to walkable community with 5 D strategies: (i) density (high density concentrates on center of area/transit node/rail-station in order to ease pedestrian accessibility); (ii) diversity (proportional mixed land use that can encourage people to walk in meeting daily need); (iii) distance (walkable distance between home and rail-station/transit node); (iv) destination accessibility (good accessibility from transit node/rail-station to activities centers, intermodal connectivity in walking distance); (v) design (urban form that creates amenity, safety, security, spatial and visual comfort for walkability).

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Figure 2: ROD Strategies for Walkable Communities Source: Calthorpe (1993), Dittmar and Ohland (2004), Greenberg (2004) in Dittmar and Ohland (2004), Ewing and Cervero (2001) and Ewing et al (2009) in Ewing and Cervero (2010), Chen (2010).

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Through the above strategies, TOD/ROD would decrease distance and increase community accessibility in their daily activities. Furthermore, it can change people choice on modal share for daily mobility, i.e. motorized vehicle modal share in mobility will decrease and walking as well as cycling will increase.

Hence, pedestrian-friendly design is needed in walkable distance area from rail-station/transit node.

Case Study Cervero (2012) said that TOD cannot be transformed optimally at well-to-do communities. However it will reach good result if transformed into area with function and activity degradation or DUHD ZLWK VWDJQDQW FRQGLWLRQ DV ZHOO DV JUHHQ Č´HOG DUHD ZLWK WKH focus of transit-accessible location. Moreover, he argued that when private motorized vehicles still dominate access to transit node, green concept in TOD that represents pedestrian-friendly environment cannot be happened.

Nowadays, commuter mobility between the city of Yogyakarta and Solo is supported by intercity bus as well as commuter train in balance modal share. Unfortunately, commuter train is only stop on 6 (six) stations from 13 (thirteen) stations along Yogyakarta â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Solo commuter line (see Fig.3). Many stations no longer serve commuter mobility. This condition makes commuter train lost in competition with intercity bus and private motorized vehicle.

Figure 4: Walkable Distance Area from Srowot Rail-Station

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pattern centered on public node activity adjacent to station and supported by organic pattern on each housing cluster as illustrated on Fig. 6. The average block size surrounding station is around 100 meters with 4 intersection/ha. Hence, along walking distance from station there are 5 blocks in average.

However, it has not been supported by pedestrian access.

There is no pedestrian pathway as well as pedestrian amenities (see Table 1).

up space that has land use composition of housing and nonhousing 2:1. Today, Klaten station is operationally serving passenger mobility for both of commuter and regional line.

Figure 7: Walkable Distance Area from Srowot Rail-Station

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Figure 6: Street Network in Srowot Rail-Station Area

With this condition, walking as modal share in daily mobility pattern is discouraged by private motorized vehicle even for internal mobility. Nevertheless, with the average daily mobility pattern 6.16 trip/house hold/day, it shows balanced proportion between external and internal mobility.

Table 1: Quality of Street Network in Srowot Station Area

Figure 8: Nodes of Activities in Klaten Rail-Station Area

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The main street network in North part of rail-station represents radial pattern centered on rail-station supported by typically grid pattern in each housing cluster as can be seen on Fig 9.

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on walking, bicycle and public transport transit system. Multiple UHJUHVVLRQ DQDO\VLV KDV EHHQ XVHG WR Č´QG VLJQLČ´FDQW IDFWRUV (including design feature) that potentially encourage pedestrian mobility (see Fig. 10).

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Pedestrian sidewalk is available but the quality, connectivity, and amenity is not good enough (see Table 2). Nevertheless, modal share in daily mobility pattern is dominated by walking and cycling on internal mobility, meanwhile private motorized vehicle strongly dominates modal share on external mobility.

This modal share pattern generates 7.89 trip/house hold for daily mobility. It shows proportion of 3:2 between external and internal mobility.

Table 2: Quality of Street Network in Klaten Station Area

The area coverage in the case of rail station area is limited on walkable distance from rail station (around 500 m or 5-10 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; walk). In the case of Srowot Rail-Station Area, daily mobility pattern of people who lives there was balanced between internal (50%) and external mobility (50%) from the average 6.16 trips/house hold/day. On internal mobility (all daily trips at the walkable distance from rail-station), people tend to walk or cycling from home to work, home to school, shop or public transport interchange, and from place to place on the area of walking distance from station (62%) compared to the use of private motorized vehicle/motorcycle (38%). Meanwhile, on external mobility (all daily trips to outside of the walkable distance area from rail-station or more than walkable distance), people tend to use private motorized vehicle (87%) for daily mobility compared to people use non-motorized vehicle and public transport (13%).

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encouraged by character of district that contributes to RailOriented Development, i.e. density, diversity, design, distance to transit and destination accessibility? In other words, how far the density, diversity, design, distance to transit and destination accessibility encourage pedestrian mobility surrounding station? This research question has been answered through trip generation study overlaid with layer of street pattern due to identify the pattern of existing mobility surrounding station in the radius of 500 m as well as its modal share concerning

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context of external mobility, the use of private motorized vehicle is more popular than mass public transportation (minibus) due to the reason of bad service on public transportation schedule.

of transport in short distance. On the other hand, public facilities (traditional market, commercial facilities, government service, school) can be easily accessed in walking distance because they are spread evenly on the whole area. Interestingly in the context of external mobility for the destination Yogyakarta or Solo, people on the Northern part of the area tend to take train for daily mobility mode of transport, meanwhile people on the Southern part of the area tend to take intercity bus. Although rail-station is located adjacent to bus station, there is no direct connectivity between them, they get separated by high-speed road.

Figure 11: ROD Concept Analysis on Srowot Rail-Station Area Daily Mobility Pattern

Klaten Rail-Station Area Daily mobility pattern of people who live in range of 500 m from Klaten rail-station tend to be more on external mobility (60%) rather than internal mobility (40%) with the average of 7.89 trips/house hold/day. Similar to Srowot rail-station area, internal mobility (all daily trips at the walkable distance from rail-station) in this case shows people tend to walk or cycling from home to work, home to school, shop or public transport interchange, and from place to place on the area of walking distance from station (65%) compared to the use of private motorized vehicle/ motorcycle (35%). Meanwhile, on external mobility (all daily trips to outside of the walkable distance area from rail-station or more than walkable distance), people tend to use private motorized vehicle (79%) for daily mobility compared to people use non-motorized vehicle and public transport (21%).

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The large size of household size, the high level of diversity of land use, the shorter distance from station to intermodal change, the large number of intersection density and better pedestrian connectivity as well as large number of private motorized vehicle ownership generates large number of daily mobility. Distance from rail-station in this case does not have VSHFLČ´F LPSDFW LQ HQFRXUDJLQJ PRELOLW\ EHFDXVH RQO\ IHZ SHRSOH surrounding station take train for their daily mobility transport mode.

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Figure 12: ROD Concept Analysis on Klaten Rail-Station Area Daily Mobility Pattern

Lesson Learned /RRNLQJ DW WKH DERYH FDVH VWXGLHV LW FDQ EH VHHQ GLÎ?HUHQW condition between underutilized and active rail-station, as ZHOO DV GLÎ?HUHQFHV EHWZHHQ UXUDO DUHD UDLO VWDWLRQ DQG JHQHUDO urban rail-station. In underutilized rail-station, proximity to railstation for dwelling is not as important as proximity to public facilities in generate mobility on foot. Moreover, the service of public transport concentrates only on location of public facilities (traditional market). The physical characteristic of rural area that is dominated by green open space and agriculture land bring into lack of connectivity and amenities of pedestrian network.

The rural area character that divided into several housing cluster with public facilities concentrated on center generate highest mobility located on adjacent area from center. Location of housing on periphery area tends to push mobility outside away from center because the distance of similar public facilities is shorter than to the center. Meanwhile, physical character of general urban that is more compact with public facilities spread over the area evenly make the distance to station do not LQČľXHQFH OHYHO RI PRELOLW\ Similarly, in both cases, the aspect of density and ownership RI SULYDWH PRWRUL]HG YHKLFOH KDYH VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ HQFRXUDJHG higher mobility. However, regarding to pedestrian-friendly environment, although generate higher mobility even for

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walking distance, the large number of private motorized vehicle could bring negative impact. Meanwhile, aspects of diversity, distance, destination accessibility and design only have impact on one case in generating pedestrian friendly environment surrounding station.

To conclude, in adapting ROD concept on Indonesia rail-station area, there are the preliminary ideas: Reactivate underutilized station with good service of intermodal interchange adjacent to station; Promoting higher population density in walking distance from station in order to providing accessibility to use public transport rather than private motorized vehicle in daily mobility; Fitting out public daily needs through locating public facilities such as all level education school and traditional market or commercial facilities spread over the area in walking distance from home; Providing good pedestrian network for pedestrian comfort that connect dwelling into public facilities and railstation in walking distance

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ECOSYSTEM OF A TRANSPORT HUB: ANALYSIS ON THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF CUBAO, METRO MANILA Glenn T. ORBON Architect, University Research Associate, Graduate Student College of Architecture, University of the Philippines Diliman E. delos Santos Street, UP Diliman Campus, Quezon City, Philippines 1101 glenn_gensai@yahoo.com, gtorbon@upd.edu.ph Keywords: CUBAO, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, SOCIO-ECONOMIC LINKAGES

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The Cubao district in Quezon City, Philippines is geographically located at the heart of the Metropolitan Manila and is situated at the crossroad of 2 major metropolitan access corridors: Epifaniodelos Santos Avenue (a circumferential road popularly known as EDSA) traversing North-South direction and Aurora Boulevard (a radial road) passing through the East-West axis.

These major roads are used by thousands of private and public utility vehicles going from one direction to another within and RXWVLGH WKH PHWUR :LWK WKH KLJK YROXPHV RI YHKLFXODU WUDÉ?F passing through Cubao every day, this area became a transport hub â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bothfor private and public utility vehicles. As a result, the development in the area is transport-oriented, that is, the JURZWK RI &XEDR DV WR ZKDW LW LV WRGD\ LV JUHDWO\ DÎ?HFWHG E\ the transportation system in the city and metro. As stated in the Quezon City website (2014), Cubao was in the middle of nowhere and was considered a dead spot when businessman J. Amado Araneta bought a 35-hectare land here in 1952 to put up a recreational venue just like theones he saw abroad.

But as the years passed, the stature of the Cubao district had totally changed towards what Araneta had envisioned for his land, with the development eventually spreading to the nearby communities.

Aside from the tons of private-owned vehicles passing through Cubao, various types of public utility transport systems are also present in the area: the elevated mass transit railway systems (MRT-3 along EDSA & LRT-2 along Aurora Boulevard), provincial and metropolitan buses with terminals, public utility jeepneys, FX or megataxis, taxis and tricycles within the residential areas. Of these transport systems, buses and jeepneys are the predominant modes of public transportation in the metro and environs, which according to Bayan (2005) serve the needs and demands in mobility of people from all walks of life. A huge volume of pedestrians and commuters transfer from one type of public transport to another within Cubao, making it a major transfer or interchange node not only for vehicles but for people as well. This lead to the emergence of various commercial, recreational and leisure facilities and services in the area, pioneered by the rapid development of Araneta Center and spreading towards the residential communities adjacent or near this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Entertainment and Shopping District of Cubaoâ&#x20AC;?.

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goal which is achieving balanced physical development, sustained economic growth and enhanced quality of life for the citizenry" by transforming it and its immediate environs into a "premier commercial/business center where work, living, shopping and recreation are well integrated" (City Planning DQG 'HYHORSPHQW 2É?FH +RZHYHU WKH LQGHSHQGHQFH LQ growth of Araneta Center through the private sector makes it GLÉ?FXOW IRU WKH JRYHUQPHQW WR GHYHORS WKH VXUURXQGLQJ DUHDV in accordance with the original vision for the area, thus opting WKH ORFDO JRYHUQPHQW WR VKLIW WKHLU HÎ?RUWV RI HVWDEOLVKLQJ D IXWXUH &%' RI WKH FLW\ WR D GLÎ?HUHQW DUHD $V IRU &XEDR LW LV QRZ envisioned as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;growth centerâ&#x20AC;?, together with other areas in Quezon City surrounding the new proposed Central Business District (CBD) Knowledge Community.

Figure 1: Map of Metropolitan Manila showing the location of Cubao and other districts and zones within the region.(Source: Metro Centro QC-CBD Development Program, 2001) Figure 3: Map of Cubao area showing the extent of the originally proposed Central Business District of Quezon City, with the Araneta Center (red) serving as the core of the development.

(Source: Metro Centro QC-CBD Development Program, 2001)

Figure 2: Cubao is situated at the crossroad of two major metropolitan thoroughfares, with various types of private and public utility vehicles passing through the area every day.

Cubao has, or had, the potentials to become a Central Business District (CBD) as envisioned more than a decade ago during the term of former Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte.

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Figure 4: Map of Quezon City showing the locations of the proposed Central Business District and various Growth Centers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including Cubao area.(Source: Quezon City Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2011-2030)

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This paper focuses on the impacts of the urban development of Cubao as an important transport hub of Metropolitan Manila and its environs. For this study, the author attempted to point out the positive and negative manifestations of these impacts through Cubaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban form. Sustaining the transport-oriented GHYHORSPHQW RI &XEDR ZRXOG DÎ?HFW KRSHIXOO\ LQ D SRVLWLYH ZD\ not only the community living and working within the area but DOVR RWKHU SHRSOH SODFHV DQG LQVWLWXWLRQV WKDW DUH DOVR EHQHČ´WLQJ from the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functions and services.

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Figure 5: An old panoramic photo of Araneta Coliseum prior to the construction of Gateway Mall.

(Source:http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread. php?p=41141864)

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In answering these sub-problems, several objectives have been set for this study: to verify the existing socio-economic linkages in Cubao area; to identify the manifestations in urban form of these linkages; to analyze the positive and negative HÎ?HFWV RI XUEDQ GHYHORSPHQW RI &XEDR DV D WUDQVSRUW KXE WR the community within the area and to the city as a whole; and WR UHFRPPHQG SRVVLEOH VROXWLRQV WR DGGUHVV VSHFLČ´F XUEDQ problems that cause negative impact not only to Cubao itself but also to other areas within the metro. &XEDR DW WKH VWDUW RI WKH FHQWXU\ During the period of inception of the Metro Centro QC-CBD Development Program at the start of the 21st century, Cubao was already at the center of transport system in Metropolitan Manila. A decade ago, the Light Rail Transit - Line 2 (LRT-2) running East-West along Aurora Boulevard from Santolan station in Pasig to Recto station in Manila was yet to be constructed. Araneta Center was also undergoing major redevelopment during that time with the construction of Gateway Mall in 2003 and improvement of other existing malls and facilities. There were lesser provincial and metro buses along the major thoroughfares, particularly along EDSA, as compared today and restrictions on loading and unloading of passengers and commuters were not strict yet. With the limited number of pedestrian overpass before, the intersection of EDSA

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Figure 6: Satellite image of a portion of the Cubao area showing the Araneta Center (red) and Barangay E. Rodriguez (orange) as part of the scope for this study.

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access for vehicles and pedestrians through construction of elevated walkways and bridges, wide sidewalks with plant strips RU EXÎ?HUV SDUNLQJ EXLOGLQJV DQG EDVHPHQWV IRU SULYDWH YHKLFOHV relocation of terminals of public utility vehicles (PUV) near the RXWVNLUWV RI $UDQHWD &HQWHU WR DYRLG WUDÉ?F FRQJHVWLRQ ZLWKLQ SURYLVLRQV IRU WD[L ED\V DQG GURS RÎ? FXUEV DQG HVWDEOLVKPHQW of a centralized or integrated provincial bus terminal.

strip of open space above the utility water pipe lines running under the ground. The presence of these settlements, coupled with the absence of clear and concrete policy that addresses the issue of informal settlers in the area, are just some of the negative impacts of the urban development in Cubao.

Figure 9: Informal settlements are existent within Barangay E. Rodriguez. These informal settlers occupy not only the open spaces but the sidewalks as well.For some areas that are not traversed

Figure 7: View of the integrated provincial bus terminal within Araneta Center, with the condominium towers of Manhattan Garden City at the background.

The development of Araneta Center sprawled towards the residential community adjacent to it, particularly towards Barangay E. Rodriguez at the north. This area consists of mixeduse structures and establishments, mostly caused by the urbanization and emergence of Cubao as a major transport and pedestrian node. The huge concentration of public and private YHKLFOHV LQ WKH DUHD KDV JUHDWO\ DÎ?HFWHG WKH ZD\ RI OLIH RI WKH residents and community.

by public utility transportation routes, the more socially active communitiesare usually present where the informal settlements are located, with regular dwellers staying only within their houses or premises.

To easily identify the socio-economic linkages of Cubao's urban growth, the author analyzed the positive and negative development impacts of the area as a transport hub to the community and surroundings. Photographs of the existing conditions served as aid in pinpointing the linkages and their manifestations in urban form. Results of the photo documentation and analysis were used to determine the development of Cubao as a transport hub and the positive and negative socio-economic linkages extending up to residential areas.

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Araneta Center implemented strategies to address these issues as stated in its present conditions. In general, most areas within Araneta Center can be considered as walkable spaces for pedestrians, considering the large volume of vehicles passing through this area. However, the separation between vehicular DQG SHGHVWULDQ WUDÉ?F EHFRPH EOXU DW WLPHV ZKHQ ORWV RI SHRSOH gather in Araneta Center during major events or happenings in the Araneta Coliseum, sales at malls, or special occasions such as Yuletide season, etc. On the other hand, several parts of Cubao outside Araneta Center seem to have failed in providing D VPRRWK DQG HÉ?FLHQW FLUFXODWLRQ SDWWHUQV IRU ERWK YHKLFOHV DQG pedestrians. The lack or absence of delineation or separation between the spaces allotted for vehicles and pedestrians poses danger to the walking people. Sidewalks occupied by informal vendors, parked vehicles, and even extensions or protrusions from the houses cause inconvenience for the pedestrians and the drivers as well.

Revitalization of the Cubao residential sector In a tropical landscape architecture graduate thesis at the UP College of Architecture, Tenza-Lava (2009) discussed the transformation of the residential community in Barangay E. Rodriguez as a result of the rapid and rabid changes from external forces, in this case the urban development of Araneta Center and its environs, as manifested by the state of its natural and built environment. She emphasized the environmental degradation and breakdown of urban life in the area as part of its continuous urban deterioration. The order, visual quality, peacefulness, air quality and the like of the streets environs RI &XEDR KDYH EHHQ DGYHUVHO\ DÎ?HFWHG E\ WKH XUEDQ JURZWK occurring in the area. Changes in zoning towards commercial FODVVLČ´FDWLRQ DQG HQWU\ RI XSSHU DQG PLGGOH FODVV LQYHVWPHQWV UHVXOWHG WR JHQWULČ´FDWLRQ FRQJHVWLRQ DQG SROOXWLRQ WKDW UDSLGO\ GHČ´QHG WKH QDWXUDO DQG EXLOW HQYLURQPHQW

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(Source: The P.R.A.: An Approach to Revitalization of the Cubao Residential Sector Towards Reclaiming Quality of Life for Pioneer Urban Residential Neighborhoods, 2009)

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social, and environmental impacts of transportation system performance on urban quality in the metro. Despite signs of urban deterioration, Metropolitan Manila is still at the forefront of economic, social, political, and cultural activities in the country.

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Figure 15: The sidewalks of Cubao are usually lined up with formal and informal commercial establishments and stalls. Their existence along the sidewalks, however, also causes inconvenience to the pedestrians.

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RSSRUWXQLWLHV UHO\ RQ WKH PRELOLW\ RI WKH SHRSOH RQ DQG RÎ? WKH YHKLFOHV DQ\ WUDÉ?F FRQJHVWLRQ UHVXOWV WR QHJDWLYH HÎ?HFW RQ productivity and huge losses on aggregate output to work of DQ LQGLYLGXDO 7KH LQHÉ?FLHQF\ RI WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ VHUYLFHV XVXDOO\ results to wastage of resources. With this, the local government DQG DJHQFLHV UHVSRQVLEOH LQ DGGUHVVLQJ WKH LVVXH RQ WUDÉ?F congestion implement various approaches to ease, if not prevent, the occurrence of these problems on the roads and transport nodes such as Cubao.

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Unlike Araneta Center, which is privately-owned and relies on its own pace of development, the adjacent residential areas usually have a hard time keeping up with the rapid growth of the commercial center. One possible reason for this is the small parcels of land distributed among residences at Barangay ( 5RGULJXH] PDNLQJ LW GLÉ?FXOW WR EXLOG D ODUJH VWUXFWXUH RU development in the area. The increased value of land assets due to urban development is not utilized to the maximum. However, several establishments near Araneta Center are now starting WR FRQVWUXFW YHUWLFDOO\ WR LQFUHDVH WKH ČľRRU DUHD IRU FRPPHUFLDO purposes.

Figures 19 to 21: Transport-related businesses such as gas stations, automotive shops, and motor hotels emerged within the residential community of Cubao.

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Î&#x2013;PSDFWV RQ VRFLHW\ SXEOLF KHDOWK DQG VDIHW\ According to Ramirez-Villoria (1998), inequity in mobility as part RI XUEDQ OLYLQJ LV UHVXOWHG E\ GLÎ?HUHQW WUDQVSRUW QHHGV RI HDFK individual, especially those with disability or have special needs VXFK DV FKLOGUHQ DQG HOGHUO\ Î&#x2013;W LV WKHUHIRUH LPSRUWDQW WKDW WUDÉ?F services be reliable and safe as well for all types of vehicle users and pedestrians. Provision of exclusive lanes for other modes of transport, including walking, must be encouraged. A livable FRPPXQLW\ LV SRVVLEOH ZKHQ WKH YHKLFXODU WUDÉ?F LV NHSW WR D PLQLPXP SUHVHQFH RI DHVWKHWLFV SURWHFWLRQ IURP KHDY\ WUDÉ?F peace and quiet, and active street life.

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The emergence of informal settlements resulted not only to the breakdown of community life for regular dwellers but also to the exposure of residents, drivers and passers-by to crime and road accidents. Exposure to accident risks is greatest for pedestrians as well as non-motorized road users. The regular dwellers in the residential area opted to provide gates around their premises for the safety and security of their property. Some establishments below the elevated mass transit railways turned into blighted areas. Air and noise pollutions generated from the YHKLFOHV DOVR KDYH QHJDWLYH HÎ?HFW RQ WKH SHRSOH FUHDWLQJ VWUHVV in the process.

Figure 23: With the streets occupied mostly by vehicles, several portions of Barangay E. Rodriguez have little or no community life outdoors.

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causing inconvenience and danger to the passers-by.

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Figure 26: Several establishments along major thoroughfares below mass railway transits turned blight and gloomy. Air and noise pollutions are also easily collected under the stations.

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Figure 27: Trees are lined up along the roads and street aisles within Araneta Center.

mall structures and high-rise residential towers of Araneta Center to single-storey to medium-rise developments within WKH UHVLGHQWLDO DUHD &XEDR KDV HYROYHG ZLWK GLÎ?HUHQW IDFHV DQG facades to its architecture. The residential sector is gradually shifting to medium-rise and medium-density buildings and land usage to maximize the value of land in the area. With WKH H[FHSWLRQ RI $UDQHWD &HQWHU KDYLQJ GLÎ?HUHQW RZQHUV DQG stakeholders undertaking various developments towards GLÎ?HUHQW GLUHFWLRQV UHVXOWHG WR WKH ODFN RU DEVHQFH RI D XQLI\LQJ factor or element in the residential areas. Also, the imbalance between developments in Cubao is more evident in the visual appearance of structures and spaces.

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Figure 29: A modern commercial tower within Araneta Center is shown at the background of an old residential dwelling within Barangay E. Rodriguez.

Conclusions and recommendations There is a need to change the automobile-centered culture of the Filipinos towards pedestrian-friendly and public transportoriented living. Sustaining the development of Cubao area DV D WUDQVSRUW KXE KDV PDMRU LPSDFWV DQG EHQHČ´WV QRW RQO\ to Quezon City but also to other cities in the metro as well, thus the importance of addressing the issues pertaining to transport system on metropolitan level or scale. Cooperation between public institutions and private stakeholders is of XWPRVW LPSRUWDQFH WR SUHVHUYH WKH EHQHČ´WV RI WKH GHYHORSPHQW DQG UHSODFLQJ WKH QHJDWLYH HÎ?HFWV WR JRRG RQHV 7KH ORFDO government â&#x20AC;&#x201C; city, metropolitan, and even national level â&#x20AC;&#x201C; must have strong political will to implement rules and regulations to ensure public health and safety in road systems.

Figure 28: Thematic map of Cubao showing the extent and degree of transport-oriented development at Araneta Center and its environs. Darker shades signify strong links or connections of development to transport usage. From the Araneta Center, the development sprawls mostly towards major thoroughfares (especially along EDSA towards north where provincial bus WHUPLQDOV DUH ORFDWHG 7KH UHVLGHQWLDO DUHD KDV DOVR EHHQ DÎ?HFWHG by the development.

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the community: improvement of blighted areas, removal of poor urban attributes, and addressing the issue of informal or illegal occupants, among others. These steps must be done while preserving the existing good indicators to help the local government in addressing the issues and problems on the public and private transportation systems not only in Quezon City but in the entire Metropolitan Manila as well.

The following are some of the recommendations, among other possible solutions, in addressing the negative impacts of the automobile-oriented development of Cubao, particularly within the residential area of Barangay E. Rodriguez that is mostly DÎ?HFWHG E\ WKH JURZWK RI &XEDR DV D WUDQVSRUW KXE Č? 5HFRQČ´JXUH WKH FXUUHQW ODQG XVH SDWWHUQ LQ WKH DUHD E\ decentralizing the commercial establishments along the main roads, especially the removal of informal and/or ambulant vendors, and strengthening the community through provision of facilities and spaces for social and recreational uses (community parks, green spaces, mixed-use centers, etc.);

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Figure 31: Proposed Community Park to be located on the vacant lot at the corner of EDSA and Aurora Boulevard.(Illustration by Jeremy Jade Balagat and Claudia Isabelle Montero, 2014)

Č? /LPLW DQG SURSHUO\ VHJUHJDWH WKH DFFHVV RI YDULRXV SXEOLF transportation systems (buses, jeepneys, tricycles, FXs, taxis) within the residential area towards the outskirts of the community; and Č? Î&#x2013;QWURGXFH PRUH JUHHQ IHDWXUHV DQG ODQGVFDSHV LQ WKH community to provide pleasing visual corridors and promote healthy living for the people.

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Figures 32 and 33: Possible schemes for the strip of linear park above the utility line traversing the residential community of Barangay E. Rodriguez.(Illustrations by Jeremy Jade Balagat and Claudia Isabelle Montero, 2014)

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CARRIEDO STREET AND ITS ENVIRONS: A STUDY ON THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF QUIAPO, MANILA -RVHČ´QD 6DQWRV GH ASIS Chair, Department of Architecture and Drafting Technology Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila 363 P. Casal St. Quiapo, Manila, Philippines 117 Brisbane St. Green Park Village Pasig City, Philippines jsantosdeasis@yahoo.com Keywords: COMMERCIAL STRIP, DOWNTOWN, CARRIEDO, QUIAPO, MANILA

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Pre-1800 maps of Manila show Quiapo being surrounded by canals leading to the Pasig River. During rainy season, WKHVH FDQDOV RYHUČľRZ Č´OOLQJ WKH DUHD ZLWK VZDPS\ ODQG 7KLV condition became the perfect breeding place for the Kiyapo (Pistia Stratiotes) plant - a specie with thick, light green leaves, similar to a tiny cabbage â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which then became the name of the place. (Andrade:2006 in Zialcita) When Manila was taken over by the Spaniards, the name was changed to Quiapo since the Spanish alphabet did not contain the letter K. (Rico:1999) The formal opening of the Port of Manila to world trade in 1834 DOVR RSHQHG WKH ČľRRGJDWHV RI QDWLYH FRPPHUFLDO WDOHQW Î&#x2013;Q WKH mainstream of trade, the Indio and Mestizo Filipinos marshalled industry and resources and went into export, sent their sons to schools in Europe, and quickly built-up large fortunes. These QHZ ULFK ZHUH Č´UVW FRQFHQWUDWHG LQ %LQRQGR ODWHU PRYLQJ HDVW to the green countryside of Quiapo, eventually making Quiapo an Ilustrado territory â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the enclave of the rich and powerful. (Ira and Medina:1983) During all the years that followed, bringing with it rebellions, change of colonizers (from Spaniards to Americans), and the advent of World War II, Quiapo has undergone several cycles of growth, destruction, and rehabilitation. (Andrade:2006 in Zialcita) After WWII, Quiapo once again became a commercial district because of the Quiapo Church, through which Quezon Boulevard passed, leading to the new Quezon City. (ibid)

1.0 Introduction: The history of Quiapo Č&#x160;4XLDSR EHDUV PDQ\ LGHQWLWLHV Č&#x2020;SXOVH RI WKH QDWLRQČ&#x2021; Č&#x2020;KHDUW RI 0DQLODČ&#x2021; Č&#x2020;KXE RI WKH FLW\Č&#x2021; Č&#x2020;0DQLODČ&#x2021;V GRZQWRZQČ&#x2021; Č&#x2020;FURVVURDGV RI WKH QDWLRQČ&#x2021; Č&#x2020;VWDWH RI PLQGČ&#x2021; DPRQJ PDQ\ RWKHUV 7KH GLVWULFW KDV JURZQ WR EH D YLEUDQWO\ SXOVDWLQJ FHQWHU RI HYHU\WKLQJ Č&#x201A; FRPPHUFH ZRUVKLS SROLWLFV IRONORUH SRSXODU FXOWXUH PXVLF Č&#x2039; 0D 3DWULFLD %ULOLDQWHV 6LOYHVWUH 0XVLF LQ WKH +HDUW RI 0DQLOD 4XLDSR IURP WKH &RORQLDO 3HULRG WR &RQWHPSRU\ 7LPHV 7UDGLWLRQ &KDQJH &RQWLQXLW\ The description of Quiapo, quoted above, is indeed a very apt description for the district. Its core alone, where the 4XLDSR &KXUFK RÉ?FLDOO\ FDOOHG DV WKH 0LQRU %DVLOLFD RI WKH Black Nazarene), the Plaza Miranda, the Quinta Market, and the streets of Carriedo, Hidalgo, and Evangelista are located, presents an unusual blend of activities where religiosity, occult, commerce, and politics coexist in one place. To understand this mix, one must go back to the history of the place to trace how it developed to its current form.

Figure 1. Central Market District of Quiapo

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3.0 The commercial district of Quiapo: Carriedo and its environs The central market district of Quiapo is composed of an indoor market, a church (shaded in pink in Figure 1), four (4) main streets, and a plaza (shaded in green). Plaza Miranda is the physical and symbolic heart of Quiapoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market district. It anchors the main FRPPHUFLDO VWUHHWV DQG DEVRUEV RYHUČľRZ IURP WKH DFWLYLWLHV RI the neighborhood. The four (4) main streets, on the other hand, namely Carriedo, Evangelista, R. Hidalgo, and Villalobos, create the primary commercial area. (Cristobal:2010). This central market district is the area indicated at the beginning of this paper where an unusual blend of activities such as religiosity, occult, commerce, and politics coexist in one place.

Religiosity and the occult The Quiapo Church, formally known as the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, is the home of the dark brown life-size statue of Christ known as Nuestro Padre SeĂąor Jesus de Nazareno where devotees come sometimes daily, but mostly on Fridays, as its special day of devotion; and most especially on January 9, where they join the procession of the Black Nazarene. (Figure 2)

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*LYHQ WKLV OHYHO RI UHOLJLRVLW\ LW LV WKHQ QRW XQFRPPRQ WR Č´QG vendors of candles, statues and images of the Nazarene, and other similar items at the periphery of the church. (Figure 3) The uncommon or surprising fact about this phenomenon is that almost next to these vendors are vendors whose products RU VHUYLFHV VRPHKRZ FRQČľLFWV ZLWK WKLV UHOLJLRVLW\ 7KHVH products or services, that are manifestations of the belief in the occult, are comprised mostly of amulets, folk medicine (some even claiming to induce menstruation), fortune tellers delving in tarot reading and palmistry. (Figure 4)

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Figure 4. Products sold at the periphery of the church manifesting belief in the occult

Commerce and politics Plaza Miranda, a venue for local politics, protesters, and debates until the 1970s continue to be associated with politics, long after the last political rally held there has ended. But apart from its historic political role and its yearly religious role as that starting point of the Black Nazarene parade, Plaza Miranda continuously plays a social role to the residents, especially the urban poor, of Quiapo and its daily passers-by. The plaza itself becomes a big open space where kids run around, not minding the National Road beside it (Quezon Boulevard) while its periphery holds ambulant vendors. (Figure 5)

of Manilaâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carriedo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on both sides a jungle of shoestores and sidewalk stalls selling every conceivable item is the main artery RI 0DQLODČ&#x2021;V SHGHVWULDQ SRSXODWLRQ ČľRZLQJ WR DQG IURP 3OD]D 0LUDQGD 6WRSSHG E\ WUDÉ?F OLJKW DW WKH FRUQHU RI 5L]DO $YHQXH (location of LRT) and Carriedo, the stream of people spills out OLNH D PLJKW GDP ZKHQ WKH JUHHQ OLJKW ČľDVKHV D Č´WWLQJ WULEXWH to Don Francisco Carriedo, the galleon trade tycoon whose bequest to the city funded Manilaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waterworks system.â&#x20AC;?

Establishments along Carriedo street are mostly for retail or wholesale shopping. Several buildings contain within them multiple stalls selling almost anything one can imagine, from apparels, to school supplies, to household items, to trinkets, to beauty products, to toys, to gadgets, and so much more. One notable shopping center within the street is the SM Carriedo branch, now more commonly known as SM Clearance Outlet.

This is one of the oldest, local commercial establishment in the DUHD DQG EHOLHYHG WR EH WKH Č´UVW 60 LQ WKH 3KLOLSSLQHV VLQFH WKH owner, Henry Sy, once resided in the area. The shopping center is true to the old SM style (department store layout) where goods are marketed equally unlike the shopping mall model where signature brands have their own stalls or kiosks.

Outside these establishments, directly along the streets, is an open street market, which sells an even wider variety of goods than may be found within the establishments. Cooked and uncooked food, pets, brand imitations, medicinal herbs, even audio and video discs, are only some of the items that may be found here. Product variety are not permanent since most vendors change their wares in accordance with the needs of times and in accordance with the needs of the buyers. (Yu: 1981) Include in the mix of ever changing goods the sight of multicolored umbrellas or tarpaulins that these street vendors set up individually to protect themselves and their products from sun and rain, the jeepneys that cross through one of the streets intersecting Carriedo, the pedicabs and tricycles that weave through the stalls and the pedestrians, shouting or honking their horns to announce their presence, as well as the sound of vendors hawking their wares, and music blasting from loudspeakers, to complete the picture of Carriedo that is both chaotic and lively. (Figures 6 and 7)

Figure 5. Plaza Miranda as a space for political, religious, social, and commercial activities

But this buzz of activity in Plaza Miranda is nothing in comparison with that in Carriedo street. Carriedo, is the most direct line of travel from Quiapo church and Lacson underpass, where people from the other side of Quezon boulevard cross, to LRT Carriedo station â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a characteristic which helps in continuously ensuring its character as a main commercial thoroughfare of the district. As described by Ira and Medina in the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Streets

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Figure 6. Carriedo street corner Rizal Avenue (Avenida) before (previous) and after (current) the construction of LRT 1 Carriedo station

Immediately beyond this area (orange), products sold are mostly apparel and home related products and the sound of mass slowly begins to be indistinct, especially when mixed with the sound of hawkers in the area. As one gets closer to the middle portion of the street (beginning of red area) you will now encounter the occasional vendor of movie and audio discs testing their products or simply playing it out loud to get the attention of the passersby. As one moves closer to the other end of Carriedo (LRT station), the noise continues to escalate and navigation becomes a bit more of a challenge. The vendors selling movie or audio discs increase, so much so, that there is a continuous stream of music as one walks along this portion of the street. What is noteworthy about this is that the vendors have seemed to reach a tacit agreement regarding the use of loudspeakers that after passing the range of a stall using one, you would have a few seconds silence before entering the range of the next. And since Christmas season is approaching, the playlist for all stalls are Christmas-related songs which gives an air of festivity to the area especially when you reach the end stalls selling Christmas ornaments. This change in product types to be able to sell what is in demand for that particular period is very common in the area.

In terms of navigation, the layout of the stalls vary almost the same way as the level of noise. At the area closest to the church, there is no particular layout of stalls since these are mostly 1 sqm. foldable tables or small wheeled carts. But once RQH HQWHUV &DUULHGR D GLÎ?HUHQW OD\RXW XQIROGV

Figure 7. Present-day state of Carriedo street as seen from LRT 1 Carriedo station

To the common observer, this street can easily be described and GLVPLVVHG DV DQ Č&#x160;DUHD Č´OOHG ZLWK FKDRWLF EXVWOHČ&#x2039; EXW LQ UHDOLW\ there is organization in this chaos. (Figure 8) At the farther end of the picture is a portion of Plaza Miranda and the side of the Quiapo church. And since this photo was taken on a Friday, a special day of devotion to the Black Nazarene, a day when spillover of churchgoers attend mass at the plaza, listening to the mass as broadcasted via loudspeakers placed outside the church aimed at the Plaza and its environs, the immediate areas surrounding the church and the plaza (yellow) maintain their silence out of respect for the mass. Some vendors, even while watching over their wares, participate in reciting the response usually given in mass. However, it is also in this area that beggars, fortune tellers, vendors of folk medicine and amulets, proliferate together with those selling religious paraphernalia.

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7KURXJKRXW WKH VWUHHW LWV VLGHV ZHUH ČľDQNHG E\ EXLOGLQJV ZLWK stalls inside selling a wide variety of goods, with a few dining establishments (e.g. Jollibee, Greenwich, Chowking, KFC, etc) and major chain department stores (e.g. Isetann and SM Clearance Outlet) mixed in. Directly outside these buildings is a narrow arcaded sidewalk, about 0.6m-1.0m in width (depending on whether the stall owners closest to the sidewalk decides to bring out some of their products). Beyond this sidewalk, at the farthest edge of the street (closest to gutter), stalls that are approximately 2.0m x 2.0m in size, are lined throughout the entire length of the street. At the exact center of the street, vendors either carry carts or trays that are about 1 sqm. in size, or set it up on foldable tables. This leaves a width of about 1.0m - 1.5m on both sides of the central stall for people to walk in.

Near the end closest to LRT, the path widens a bit since the bigger stalls (4sqm) on the right were moved slightly away from the sidewalk and the central stalls were eliminated. However, what makes walking in this area more challenging, is the presence of fruits sold on wheeled carts that are continuously passing through this area.

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Figure 8. Delineation of noise and activities along Carriedo street

4.0 Government plans for Carriedo Back in January 2003, to provide order to the place, the then Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, discussed to the public a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carriedo redevelopment planâ&#x20AC;?, wherein concave overhead panels PDGH RI SRO\FDUERQDWH URRČ´QJ VKHHWV RU VLPLODU WUDQVOXFHQW materials will be installed between the buildings to protect middle portion (street) from the elements. The plan is for the street to be air-conditioned eventually and for the buildings to be interconnected at the second level via elevated walkways.

Similar treatment was planned for the other commercial hubs within the area which would then convert the whole block into a shopping area where one could buy quality consumer goods DW YHU\ DÎ?RUGDEOH SULFHV Î&#x2013;I WKLV SODQ SXVKHG WKURXJK &DUULHGR ZRXOG EH FORVHG WR YHKLFXODU WUDÉ?F DQG EH WUDQVIRUPHG LQWR D covered pedestrian shopping strip similar to Bugis Junction in Singapore. (Felipe:2003) As with most government plans to revive the old grandiose glamour of the city, the implementation of this plan was sorely lacking that the outcome was very far from the image painted by the proposal. Change of leadership, lack of funds, and many other factors, made a project â&#x20AC;&#x201C; initially advertised as something that the property owners are very enthusiastic about â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that was VXSSRVHG WR EH VWDUWHG PRQWKV IURP WKDW Č´UVW DQQRXQFHPHQW LQWR VRPHWKLQJ WKDW LV VWLOO XQČ´QLVKHG WRGD\ DOPRVW \HDUV after. The overhead panels that was supposed to span from building to building so as to protect the street can only be found along the periphery of Plaza Miranda.

7KURXJK D GLÎ?HUHQW PD\RUDO WHUP WKH VWUHHW YHQGRUV ZHUH moved into standard-sized and uniform-looking stalls (i.e. the P [ P VWDOOV ČľDQNLQJ WKH VLGHV RI WKH VWUHHW 7KLV WR D point, provide a bit of organization to the set up. However, ZKHQ WKH 3ODQQLQJ 2É?FH RI WKH &LW\ *RYHUQPHQW RI 0DQLOD was asked for a copy of said proposals or plans, during the conduct of this research, they stated that they do not have a copy of said proposals since some of the developments (e.g. the standardized stalls) did not have a plan or study per se but was directly implemented as per order of the Mayor. The reason given out for not having a plan or study prior to the

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In the Manila CLUP and Zoning Ordinance 2005-2020, in their Five (5) Item Plan Hi-Lights, under the Promotion of Mix of Uses (Plan No. 2), they mentioned two (2) objectives for the area, namely (1) to create an organized and pedestrianized commercial district with emphasis on the religious and cultural aspects; and (2) to develop the area into a safe, well-lit, walkable, bikeable, and pleasant themed destination for the tourists and the local patrons. Almost 10 years after the indicated starting period of the MCLUPZO, Carriedo street is now a pedestrianized commercial street that may be viewed as having an emphasis on the religious and cultural aspects, but it being organized (or pleasantly organized in the traditional sense since it was shown earlier that there is a semblance of order in its chaos) or a pleasant themed destination, is still as far from reality as when it was envisioned as an air-conditioned shopping center back in 2003.

6.0 Conclusions In the end, Carriedo street and its environs, evolved into its current form, not much because of the planned interventions of the government, but because of its location and the presence of core establishments/structures in the area. Its location as the connector of Quiapo and Sta. Cruz (area beyond Rizal Avenue/ LRT), both a commercial area, ensured that people would always go through this area, which, in the end makes the street very marketable. The presence of Quezon Boulevard and the LRT station further ensured that there will always be a stream of people walking through this street. Also, the presence of Quiapo church and Plaza Miranda, ensured that the area remains embedded in the religious, political, and social life of the people in the area.

7KH VWUHHW LWVHOI WKRXJK PD\ VHHP FKDRWLF DW Č´UVW KDV DQ embedded order, as was discussed earlier. Also, it may be YLHZHG DV D UHČľHFWLRQ RI WKH )LOLSLQR FXOWXUH DQG FKDUDFWHU Č&#x201A; D melting pot of sorts, peacefully co-existing and working out a silent agreement for compromise, adaptive, and always has a URRP IRU D OLWWOH Č&#x160;Č´HVWD DWPRVSKHUHČ&#x2039; Judging from what has transpired from the past, as well as its condition now, Carriedo street and its environs will continue to exist as it has done before â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a part of the daily life of the people in the area. Needless to say, it needs improvement from its current state, but these improvements should not be so far removed from what is transpiring now, because Carriedo (including its environs) without its unusual blend of activities and without its organized chaos is not Carriedo anymore.

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INVESTIGATION ON THE APPLICATION OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT DEVELOPMENT TREND IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN LAND USE: CASE STUDY OF THE TIANJIN CITY IN CHINA Xiwei XU Lecturer in Urban design, School of Architecture, Tianjin University, No.92 Weijin Road, Tianjin China xuxiwei@tju.edu.cn Tim HEATH Professor in Urban design, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Paton House, University Park, Nottingham UK, NG7 2RD Tim.Heath@nottingham.ac.uk Yan ZHU Professor in Urban design, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Paton House, University Park, Nottingham UK, NG7 2RD Yan.Zhu@nottingham.ac.uk Peng ZHANG Engineer in Urban design, No.192 Anshanxi Road, Tianjin China 464061079@qq.com Xue Bai Master student in Urban design, School of Architecture, Tianjin University, No.92 Weijin Road, Tianjin China 783863296@qq.com Keywords: ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT, DEVELOPMENT TREND, URBAN LAND USE, TIANJIN CITY IN CHINA

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1. Introduction At present, along with the rapid urbanization and industrialization in China, the population gathers toward cities.

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Coastal areas in East China are pioneers of economic development, and also forthgoers in population concentration and land expansion. However, along with the rapid development, many problems appear and aggravate, such as out-of-order GHYHORSPHQW RI XUEDQ VSDFH LQVXÉ?FLHQW FDSDFLW\ RI XUEDQ pollutant disposal, environmental pollution, and so on. As shown by the investigations made by the State Ocean Administration from 2004 to 2012[2]: about 90% of coastal cities are short of water; the area of coastal wetlands is 57% less than 60 years ago, and the area of mangrove forest is reduced by 73%; 48 estuaries are polluted by heavy metal and other pollutants.

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1 This paper is supported by Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51208345), the Major Teacher of Beiyang Programâ&#x20AC;? Research on city ecological evaluation of coastal city space in urbanization period â&#x20AC;&#x153; (Grant No. 2014XRG-0113)

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model. From Figure2 and Figure3 below, it can be seen that the period from 1990 to present is a period of rapid growth of per-capita energy consumption and per-capita GDP in Tianjin, so this paper tries to analyse the relation between ecological footprint and land use by means of the quantitative study on the ecological footprint development trend of Tianjin from 1990 to present.

Table 1: Annual average increment of construction land area in Tianjin in the 600 years since its establishment as a town.

Figure 1: Population change of Tianjin in the last 600 years after establishment as a town (Source: drawn by the author)

Tianjin is an economic center and important harbor city in North China, and also a comprehensive industrial base. Along with the economic and social development and the urbanization, a series of ecological problems occurred here, such as water resource shortage, lower water quality, water and soil loss, worsened air pollution, vegetation degradation, wetland reduction, sharpened contradiction between population and land, and so on. These problems adversely impact the sustainable development of Tianjin. To realize harmonious and sustainable economic, social and natural development, we should know clearly the status TXR RI WKLV FLW\ ȴUVW )LJXUH VKRZV WKH SRSXODWLRQ FKDQJH LQ the last 600 years after establishment of Tianjin as a town, and IURP WKLV ȴJXUH ZH FDQ VHH WKH UDSLG SRSXODWLRQ LQFDVH LQ WKH last 100 years. And the related statistical data[4] show that the permanent resident population of Tianjin had a rapid growth in the 21st century, setting new highs in both increment and growth rate. From 1980 to 2010, the permanent resident population of Tianjin respectively increased 1.1734 million, 1.3465 million and 2.9838 million[5] in each decade; the urban construction land also had rapid growth from 2000 to present (Table 1). Changes in urban land use mainly impact ecological footprint model and ecological environment through land use transfer, population increasing and resource consumption. Ecological footprint model can be used to judge whether a land use manner conforms to sustainable development by calculating the change trend of indexes toward the state of sustainable development.

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Figure 2: Per-capita end consumption of energy in Tianjin from 1980 to 2010 (10,000 tons of standard coal per capita) (source: drawn by the author)

Figure 3: Per-capita GDP of Tianjin from 1950 to 2010 (RMB 10,000 per capita) (source: drawn by the author)

2. Analysis on the status quo and trend of ecological footprint of Tianjin 3URȴOH RI 7LDQMLQ Tianjin is located in the north of North China Plain, from 116°43'

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primary industry was RMB 18.845 billion, taking 1.3% of the total GDP; GDP of the secondary industry was RMB 727.668 billion, taking 50.6% of the total GDP; GDP of the tertiary industry was RMB 690.503 billion, taking 48.1% of the total GDP. Agriculture of Tianjin is of suburb type, and industry of Tianjin is developed and complete in sorts. Eight emerging industries, such as aviation and aerospace, electronics and IT, biological medicine, new energy and new materials, have become new industrial pillars. The tertiary industry of Tianjin is developing rapidly, and Binhai New Area has become a pilot and demonstration area of Č´QDQFLDO LQGXVWU\ LQ &KLQD

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Tianjin became prosperous by virtue of river and sea. In this city there are many rivers and wetlands, respectively falling within the Haihe water system and the Ji Canal water system.

Haihe River not only provides water resource for the city, but also plays an important role in forming and development of urban spatial layout of this city. In addition, Tianjin has a rich ground water reserve, with good water quality. To mitigate the contradiction between supply and demand of water resource, a water diversion project from Luanhe River to Tianjin City was completed, which can supply about 1 billion tons of water to Tianjin.

Tianjin is high in northwest and low in southeast. The landform of the city is mainly plain and depression, although the landform of the north part is low mountain and hill and the landform of Binhai New Area is saline. The total land area of the whole city is 11,916.85km2. According to the statistical data of 2013, the area of agricultural land is 7,079.65km2ÂŹ, including cultivated land of 4,407.46km2 and woodland of 558.17km2; the area of construction land is 3,946.13km2; the area of unused land is 873.07km2.

The sustainable development analysis indicators used in the ecological footprint model in this paper include: per-capita ecological footprint, ecological footprint per GDP of RMB 10,000, ecological bearing capacity, ecological surplus and GHČ´FLW DQG GLYHUVLW\ RI HFRORJLFDO IRRWSULQWV %DVHG RQ WKH data in the Statistical Yearbooks of Tianjin 1991 to 2013, the accounts chosen (biological account and energy account) are adjusted in consideration of the features of Tianjin as a coastal city, and then the data of ecological footprints, ecological EHDULQJ FDSDFLW\ HFRORJLFDO VXUSOXV DQG GHČ´FLW DQG GLYHUVLW\ RI ecological footprints are obtained as follows.

Table 2: Per-capita ecological footprints of Tianjin from 1990 to 2012

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Source: Statistical Yearbooks of Tianjin 1991 to 2013 Table 4: Per-capita ecological footprints of water resource of Tianjin from 1990 to 2012

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Table 5: Proportions of ecological bearing capacities of various lands in total ecological bearing capacity of Tianjin(1990 to 2012)

Figure 4: Changes in various ecological footprints of Tianjin from 1990 to 2012 (source: drawn by the author)

Table 5: Proportions of ecological bearing capacities of various lands in total ecological bearing capacity of Tianjin(1990 to 2012)

From the changes in ecological footprint and bearing capacity from 1990 to 2012, it can be seen that the ecological footprint data of Tianjin in the last 30 years have the following characteristics: (1) Biological resource account footprint of Tianjin is mainly cultivated land resource footprint, indicating the importance of cultivated land resource for ecological safety of Tianjin; There are less biological footprints of woodland, grassland and waters, indicating the low demand of Tianjin for these biological resources.

Source: Areas of various lands in 1990 are derived from the Ecological Risk Evaluation on Land Use in Tianjin written by Xiao Lin in 2014. Due to the change in statistical caliber, the land for LUULJDWLRQ ZRUNV LQ FRQVWUXFWLRQ ODQG LV Č´UVW VHHQ LQ WKH VWDWLVWLFDO yearbook of 2002, and the data of 2002 are used for the areas of previous years.

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Figure 5: Curve of changes in ecological footprints per GDP of RMB 10,000 of Tianjin from 1990 to 2012 (source: drawn by the author)

(2) Energy account footprint of Tianjin takes over 63% of the total ecological footprint, and during the period analyzed it increases at an annual rate of 9.85%, indicating that Tianjin needs to strengthen energy saving and reduce energy consumption in order to mitigate the threat against the ecological environment of the city.

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function of woodland and waters is more embodied in pollutant assimilating and absorption.

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(6) The city is expanding, the area of construction land is increasing, and the proportion of the ecological bearing capacity of construction land in the total capacity is increasing quickly.

Construction land invades other lands, and the total population is increasing, resulting in reduced per-capita ecological bearing capacity. $QDO\VLV RQ WKH WUHQG RI HFRORJLFDO IRRWSULQWV RI 7LDQMLQ LQ WKH ODVW \HDUV (FRORJLFDO IRRWSULQW SHU *'3 RI 50% UHČľHFWV WKH HÉ?FLHQF\ RI HFRORJLFDO UHVRXUFH XWLOL]DWLRQ GXULQJ HFRQRPLF development. The calculation results show that the ecological footprint per GDP of RMB 10,000 of Tianjin during the period DQDO\]HG KDV D WUHQG RI ČľXFWXDWLQJ UHGXFWLRQ DQG WKH YDOXH of 2012 is just 20.93% of that of 1990. This indicates that the HFRORJLFDO UHVRXUFH XWLOL]DWLRQ HÉ?FLHQF\ LV LPSURYLQJ JUHDWO\ in the last 30 years, the function of advanced science and technology in economic development is increasingly strong, and the reliance on ecological resource is lowering. This is both the requirement for and fruit of ecological environment building in Tianjin.

2.3.2 Ecological environment of Tianjin was always unsafe, and the pressure index was increasing year by year. Especially, such index had a sharp increase from 2010 to 2012, which was mainly caused by increased fossil fuel consumption, and was related to the former industrial development mode of Tianjin. It can be seen that development of emerging industries that have lower reliance on fossil fuel can greatly mitigate the ecological pressure of Tianjin.

2.3.3 The ecological footprint diversity of Tianjin had a drop from 1990 to 2012, indicating a lower stability of the ecological system. However, as the increase rate of ecological footprints is much higher than the drop rate of the diversity, the index of development ability of the ecological economic system is increasing, and the ecological development ability of Tianjin is increasing.

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study the ecological bearing capacity of various lands per unit area within the city. In land system, wetland is an important organic carbon storage, and Tianjin has large area of wetland, so wetland is also considered in this paper. Social and economic development comes with expansion of urban space, and the total ecological footprints increase sharply. From Table9 and Table10 it can be seen that the ranking of ecological bearing capacity of various lands per unit area is: cultivated land > waters > wetland > woodland; From Table4 and Table5 it can EH VHHQ WKDW WKH HFRORJLFDO IRRWSULQWV DQG HFRORJLFDO GHČ´FLWV RI fossil fuel respectively take the most part of the total ecological IRRWSULQWV DQG WRWDO HFRORJLFDO GHČ´FLWV 3URGXFWLRQ RI HFRORJLFDO footprints of fossil fuel land is mainly due to CO2 emission of fossil fuel combustion. CO2 absorbing lands include wetland and fossil fuel land, in which the carbon storing capacity of wetland is much higher than fossil fuel land. Thus, it is vital to protect and expand wetland and avoid wetland degradation and loss caused by excessive utilization for reducing ecological IRRWSULQWV DQG PLWLJDWLQJ JUHHQKRXVH HÎ?HFW Table 9:Ecoloigcal bearing capacity per unit area of various lands of Tianjin

Note: The high ecological bearing capacity per unit area of grassland is mainly caused by the amortization using the animal product proportions brought forward by Wang Hongbo in 2013.

As the area of grassland in Tianjin is 6km2 only, to avoid the underestimation of the bearing capacity of cultivated land caused by such calculation, here grassland is ignored and the bearing capacity of cultivated land is re-calculated as follows.

Table 10: Ecological bearing capacity per unit area of cultivated land of Tianjin

Urban land layout changes along with land use transfer, increase of construction land, increase urbanization rate, population growth, industrial structure change, GDP change, technological advance, and so on. The relation between these factors and the PRGLČ´HG HFRORJLFDO IRRWSULQW PRGHO LV DV IROORZV (1) Land use transfer and change of various productive ecological lands directly cause change in ecological footprints and ecological bearing capacity, and impact other indicators.

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by random expansion of construction land may cause decrease of productive capacity of ecological lands and thus decrease of total ecological bearing capacity; Drying of wetland or suburb land desolation may cause change in corresponding ecological footprints in consumption account and pollutant account, and WKXV FDXVH FKDQJH LQ YDULRXV HFRORJLFDO VXUSOXV DQG GHČ´FLW> @ (2) Increased urbanization brings increase in construction land and urban population. Change of rural population to urban population causes increase in per-capita and total ecological footprint in biological resource account[7].

(3) Population growth causes increase in total ecological footprints and drop in per-capita ecological bearing capacity, and makes other indicators change towards unsustainable development.

(4) Transfer of the primary industry to the secondary industry causes increase in consumption of fossil fuel, increase in ecological footprints of energy account and pollutant account, and worsening of ecological environment.

4. Conclusion In this paper, the ecological footprints, ecological bearing FDSDFLW\ DQG HFRORJLFDO VXUSOXV DQG GHČ´FLW RI 7LDQMLQ IURP 1990 to 2012 are calculated and analyzed, and the potential of sustainable development in future is estimated based on the general land use planning and other data. Then, the following improvement suggestions and conclusions are made:

as follows: a. From 1990 to 2012, the per-capita ecological footprints increased, the per-capita ecological bearing capacity dropped, DQG WKH HFRORJLFDO GHČ´FLW ZDV FRQWLQXRXVO\ ZRUVHQHG 7KH SHU capita ecological footprints increased by 432% from 1.03hm2 in 1990 to 5.48 hm2 in 2012; The per-capita ecological bearing capacity dropped by 24% from 0.31 hm2 in 1990 to 0.24 hm2 in 7KH HFRORJLFDO GHČ´FLW LQFUHDVHG E\ IURP KP LQ WR KP LQ Î&#x2013;Q WKH HFRORJLFDO GHČ´FLW WKH GHČ´FLW of fossil fuel land takes the largest proportion, which is mainly caused by the increased demand for fossil fuel and increased emission of CO2 as a result of extensive economic growth. Thus, Tianjin should pay close attention to improvement of fossil fuel XWLOL]DWLRQ HÉ?FLHQF\ DQG FRQWURO RI WKH GHPDQG IRU IRVVLO IXHO E Î&#x2013;Q WHUP RI UHVRXUFH XWLOL]DWLRQ HÉ?FLHQF\ WKH HFRORJLFDO footprints per GDP of RMB 10,000 reduced by 79.1% from 2.87ha./RMB 10,000 in 1990 to 0.61 ha./RMB 10,000 in 2012, indicating the improvement in land production capacity and UHVRXUFH XWLOL]DWLRQ HÉ?FLHQF\ DQG FRQVLGHUDEOH DFKLHYHPHQWV made in energy saving and consumption reducing. c. In term of ecological safety, the ecological pressure index of 7LDQMLQ LQFUHDVHG ZLWK ČľXFWXDWLRQ IURP LQ WR in 2012. The ecological demands exceeded the supply, and the gap was increasing, indicating that this area was always in an extremely unsafe state. Fossil fuel land had the greatest ecological pressure, as a result of the great consumption of fossil fuel. Then, fossil fuel land is followed by woodland in ecological pressure, which is caused by the high ecological footprint arising from absorption of atmosphere pollutants. Thus, to reduce the ecological pressure index of Tianjin and improve ecological safety, the key point is to control the use of fossil fuel. d. The diversity index of ecological footprints of Tianjin dropped from 0.95 in 1990 to 0.25 in 2012, indicating poorer and poorer ecological stability. However, although the diversity index is decreasing, the development ability of the ecological economic system of Tianjin increased from 0.98 in 1990 to 1.35 in 2012 due to the sharp increase of ecological footprints. This indicates that the development ability of Tianjin is increasing, but with excessive occupation of ecological resources.

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(1) Generally Tianjin is in a condition of unsustainable development. The increased ecological footprints, the ČľXFWXDWLQJ GURS RI HFRORJLFDO EHDULQJ FDSDFLW\ DQG WKH LQFUHDVH LQ ELRORJLFDO GHČ´FLW LQ UHFHQW \HDUV LQGLFDWH WKDW WKH HFRORJLFDO resource use in Tianjin has exceeded the bearing capacity of the ecological system, and the current resource use mode is unsustainable. Thus, it is necessary to take appropriate actions.

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(2) Urban space expansion, invasion of construction land against productive land, quick population growth, and increased consumption of fossil fuel along with the economic growth cause increased resource consumption and pollutant emission, and thus increase in total ecological footprints. Meanwhile, due to the decrease of productive land, the total ecological bearing capacity is decreasing. In addition, the per-capita ecological bearing capacity is further decreased due to population growth.

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takes a large proportion of land area in Tianjin, and plays an important role for the ecological system. Compared with other land types, wetland in Tianjin has high ecological bearing capacity per unit area and total ecological bearing capacity.

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IN SEARCH OF BIODIVERSITY IN A DOMESTICATED LANDSCAPE

CHANG Huaiyan Landscape architect director of Salad Dressing 12 Prince Edward Road, #01-01/02, Bestway Building Annex D, Singapore 079212 huaiyanc@yahoo.com Keywords: BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEM, COMMODITY, KEYSTONE SPECIES, BIOPHILIC NATURE

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low light levels. They are covered with leaf litter for insects and organisms to break down into nutrients for the trees. The trees develop rootlets just beneath the ground level to be able to DEVRUE DQG UHFHLYH WKHVH QXWULHQWV HÉ?FLHQWO\ In addition, evolution has designed epiphytes (a.k.a. Jewels of nature) that spend most of their lives accessorizing branches of trees and stout shrubs; similar to earrings and necklaces on humans. These plants grow non-parasitically upon another plant (usually a tree) in order to get moisture and nutrients from the air. In return, they behave like a recycling machine, trapping GXVW DQG GHFD\HG OHDYHV IURP WKH DLU WR SURGXFH ČľHVK\ IUXLWV for the birds, bats and primates in a rainforest. There are more than 29 000 epiphytic plant species found in the wet tropics, accounting for up to 35-63 percent of all plant species in some wet forest and contributes more than 45 percent of the total leaf biomass (Myers, 1993). Certain types of epiphytes like the ant plant, resembles hanging apartments within the trees, housing countless number of ants within its interconnecting FDYLWLHV 7KH\ EHQHČ´W IURP WKLV DVVRFLDWLRQ EHLQJ DEOH WR DEVRUE nutrients from the debris collected and stored by the ants.

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From the time Singapore was founded in 1819 till now, more than 95 percent (Koh, 2006) of the original forest has been cleared to make way for developments. The urgency for housing increased exponentially after the Second World War, when many people were left homeless and resorted to living in slums. Nature had not been given priority and was cleared to make way for housing developments. To make space for a Č&#x2020;EHWWHUČ&#x2021; TXDOLW\ RI OLIH DQG HFRQRPLF EHQHČ´W PRUH DQG PRUH land area is cleared for high rise buildings and institutions. Now that Singapore is left with 4 percent (Tan, Chou, Yeo and Ng, 2009) of remaining forestry, there is growing awareness of the irreplaceable loss of habitats, ecosystems and organisms that mankind once lived in harmony with.

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are learning to appreciate and enjoy the nature that remains, creating new green spaces within the city. However, for various developed nations, the aim of protecting and conserving is RQO\ PHDVXUHG E\ KRZ KXPDQV DUH DEOH WR EHQHČ´W IURP LW For Singapore, nature is seen as being important because it is part of our natural heritage (N-Parks, 2009) whereas in Australia (Australian Government, 2014) and Japan (Ministry of (QYLURQPHQW -DSDQ WKH EHQHČ´WV DUH PHDVXUHG LQ KHDOWK of its people and for its aesthetic value. As Kellert, Heerwagen and Mador (2008) Biophilic Design point the way towards creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans.

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streams, rivers and lakes with postcard community spaces for the people, it has also presented itself as a political statement that has brought a small extent of spontaneous nature, which we start to experience within our urban landscape. An example would be the more recent sightings of sea otters in the City of 6LQJDSRUH Č&#x201A; DW 0DULQD %D\ 3DVLU 5LV 3DUN 3XQJJRO :DWHUZD\ and even the Botanical Gardens. According to researchers, if the ZDWHUV DUH FOHDQ DQG Č´VKHV DUH SUHVHQW DV IRRG VRXUFH RWWHUV would remain and start to raise their family (Abu Baker 2014). It is clear that Singapore has made progress in the transformation of the urban environment from one that is lacking in greenery to one that starts to accommodate wildlife. The appreciation of people for their natural environment is a long and audacious process where each step towards a greener environment cannot be missed.

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of poetry and art bonded with the environment mirrors the symbiotic relationship between species and their habitat, creating diversity on an immaterial level. Reminiscence of the rose that the little prince has tamed, is it possible that nature is DEOH WR IHHO WKH GLVDSSHDUDQFH RI RXU ORYH DQG DÎ?HFWLRQ DQG LV looking forward for us to take care of them again? Human has forgotten that feeling in the last era and need to be reminded.

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Projects that serve to enhance our existence with nature are already underway. Ecological bridges like the Eco-Link@BKE by NParks in Singapore connects two fragmented nature reserves in the city (N-Parks, 2014). In a renovation project for SG Enable, the main idea is to bring bio-ponds into peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everyday life.

Bio-ponds serve to cleanse waters and in turn create aquatic habitats that are rich in biodiversity. Here, the landscape architect designs nature to run by itself, with an educational bonus of promoting the understanding of ecosystems, hence diversifying the human mind.

Current urban conditions reveal a domesticated environment that lacks character, dominated by a society of mass culture.

Invisible Cities (Calvino, 1972) eloquently expresses the beauty and wonders of diverse cities and its inhabitants, and stresses the importance of their co-existence in literature. In bio diversifying cities, we can anticipate the beginning of something GLÎ?HUHQW

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tigerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gardenâ&#x20AC;? conceived by OCULUS Landscape looks at the possibility of establishing a new ecosystem by reconstructing a tropical rainforest environment that runs through the very heart of urbanized Singapore (OCULUS, 2012). It suggests that if nature is allowed to work undisturbed, plants and animal species including the tiger, once a native species of Singapore, would be naturally re-introduced in 50 years. This provides a fantastical insight into the potential of humanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position as both NH\VWRQH VSHFLHV DQG SROOLQDWRUV Č&#x201A; WR VHW XS WKH IXQGDPHQWDO environment required for nature to take its course. Only upon understanding natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rules would humans be able to adapt and co-exist with the ecosystem in a domesticated landscape.

Conclusion Č&#x160;7KH EULGJH LV QRW VXSSRUWHG E\ RQH VWRQH RU DQRWKHUČ? EXW E\ WKH OLQH RI WKH DUFK WKDW WKH\ IRUP Č&#x2039;Č? Č&#x160;:K\ GR \RX VSHDN WR PH RI WKH stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without stones there is no arch.â&#x20AC;? (Calvino, 1972, p.82) Human pride and increasing urbanism has interrupted the relationship of mankind with nature, and this explains why there is always a conscious longing in humans for experiences with the natural world. Humans, like all living things, are not detached from the environment. The ultimate aspiration is to balance both. Expand the human mind and the environment will thus provoke a response. If every landscape project is bio GLYHUVLČ´HG QDWXUH ZHOO DV KXPDQ EHLQJV ZLOO WKULYH As how 12 year old Cosimo has made the decision to spend the UHVW RI KLV OLIH RQ WUHHV DQG VXEVHTXHQWO\ DGDSWV HÉ?FLHQWO\ WR his arboreal kingdom (Calvino, 1957), we too have the ability to adapt as he did to nature. Sou Fujimotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept of â&#x20AC;&#x153;caveâ&#x20AC;? versus â&#x20AC;&#x153;nestâ&#x20AC;? (Fujimoto, 2011) echoes the polarity in the two notions RI DGDSWLRQ Č&#x201A; KXPDQČ&#x2021;V DGDSWDWLRQ WR QDWXUH YHUVXV QDWXUHČ&#x2021;V adaptation to humans. While the latter involves the preparation of a space for habitation, the former implies a natural space WKDW PRXOGV KXPDQ EHKDYLRXU RÎ?HULQJ IUHH LQWHUSUHWDWLRQV DV to how to use the space, drawing on our creativity and ingenuity to minimise intrusion on nature. Adapting ourselves to a natural environment allows other living things to survive, and would

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*LOOHV &OÂŤPHQWČ&#x2021;V LGHD RI *DUGHQ LQ 0RWLRQ Č´UVW FRQFHLYHG LQ 1984, is a garden allowed to run by itself, where gardeners RQO\ UHJXODWH WKH ČľRZ RI ZLOGOLIH Î&#x2013;WV SULQFLSOH REMHFWLYH LV WR â&#x20AC;&#x153;maintain and increase biological diversity, a source of wonder, a guarantee for the futureâ&#x20AC;? (ClĂŠment, 1984). But this can only be done with human involvement. His concept probes one obvious question: do we choose to be parasites on Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resources? Or do we choose to be good gardeners? (Lanzoni, 2006) Since conception 30 years ago, people are now beginning to understand its relevance.

A rise in the establishment of wetland habitats in cities including the Hong Kong Wetland Park and Punggol Waterway LQ 6LQJDSRUH DUH WHVWDPHQWV WR HÎ?RUWV PDGH WR HQFRXUDJH biodiversity in urban landscapes. More can be done to not only introduce replications of certain habitats around the city, but to introduce the wide variety of habitats that can be found in the tropical rainforests of the region as described in the beginning of this essay. These fragmented habitats can then spontaneously interact as a metapopulation which creates opportunities for new evolution to occur in the urban landscape. In pushing for biodiversity in urban areas, there is a chance that we might upset the balance between humans and biodiversity, leading to the other end of the extreme where biodiversity overwhelms mankind. While that seems like a cause for worry, humanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s habit for adaptation would eventually bring the balance back to equilibrium.

After years of being parasitic on the land, Singapore has recently started to repair the harm it has done. Finally, it has decided to be a gardener. Introducing aquatic habitats, reconnecting fragmented forests, and allowing fauna to proliferate are now her pastimes. The recent sightings of otters at Punggol and Botanical Gardens (Abu Baker, 2014) prompt the imagination that maybe someday, with intelligence in technology and wisdom acquired over the years, tigers can live here again.

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1. Singapore Urban Greening Singapore urban greening has been orchestrated by the master plans which have shaped the city state, beginning with the Concept Master Plan of 1958. *UHHQLQJ KDV LQLWLDOO\ EHHQ VHHQ DV D EHDXWLČ´FDWLRQ H[HUFLVH DV well as the avoidance of Singapore as concrete jungle given its rapid urban development (Yeoh 2004) From the 1960s the government has kept a campaign labelled the Clean and Green Week which has become a goal that has driven the physical development of the city.

In 1963 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew launched a Tree Planting Campaign.

In 1965 the Garden City concept was adopted (Yeoh 2004).

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in Singapore. These statutory authorities plan and implement the development of their own parks and open spaces (Ooi and Wong 1989).

The Singapore Botanic Gardens was the lead organization in providing the expertise and plant materials for the greening programs (NParks 2014a) In 1976 the Parks and Recreation Department (PRD) was set under the Ministry of National Development, responsible for the remaining green areas in the city-state.

By the 1980s the policy to keep Singapore green and clean is a publicly supported policy. More than 500,000 trees and 2,800,000 shrubs had been planted in public places and residential estates. In addition 20 mayor parks had been or ZHUH EHLQJ GHYHORSHG VLQFH WKH V 7KH FLW\ EHDXWLČ´FDWLRQ was planned to continue, along with a major programme to develop parks for recreation, especially along and near the coasts. Objective of the 1980 master plan was to achieve an open space standard (including the recreational areas) of 0,8 ha per 1000 population (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1980) In 1996 the PRD was renamed National Parks Board (NParks 2014a).

2. A vision of Nature and the role of public parks Nature in Singapore is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a socially constructed reality constituted in the image of a society concerned with economic development DQG SURJUHVV ZKHUH WKH REMHFWLČ´FDWLRQ RI QDWXUH HPERGLHV D VHW of social values that endorse economic imperativesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Kong and <HRK 2É?FLDOO\ 6LQJDSRUH Č&#x2020;OXVK ODQGVFDSHČ&#x2021; LV DFFODLPHG DV the State â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;important facet of our identityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Tan 2013) In Singapore every external space, from natural to built-up areas, is man-made and planned. The material forms in which nature is constructed are engineered (Teo 2004).

Kong and Yeoh (1996) list consistent themes in the construction RI QDWXUH DQ HFRORJLFDO VFLHQWLČ´F VDQFWXDU\ IRU REVHUYLQJ DQG studying nature; an aesthetic setting for recreational activities; an economic resource exploited in colonial periods (plantations) or tourist commodity.

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by political and nation building agendas and commitment to economic growth. Public Parks in Singapore are regarded as economic, social and environmental assets which contribute to national identity, destination image, the health and welfare of the population, prosperity and sustainability (Henderson 2013).

In this context Singapore Public Parks are an iconographic representation set up by a state, consciously meant to deliver a message, induce a certain attitude and lifestyle. They are a representation of values expressed in the physical fabric of the DUWHIDFWV WKURXJK GLÎ?HUHQW GHVLJQ VWUDWHJLHV Today parks and open spaces in Singapore are targeted at a broad set of objectives so do not have a single homogeneous IXQFWLRQ SULPDULO\ VHUYLQJ DV UHFUHDWLRQDO JURXQGV DQG DV EXÎ?HU zones to break the monotony of built up areas. Considering LWV VPDOO VL]H WKH LVODQG RÎ?HUV D ZLGH YDULHW\ RI SDUNV 7KLV LV deliberate, for the idea is to cater to the diverse recreational QHHGV RI WKH SRSXODWLRQ 3DUNV HQYLVLRQHG ZLWK VSHFLČ´F WKHPHV are purposely designed to answer to a number of necessities, and are arranged in a network to form a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Total Playgroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Lee & Chua 1992).

Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority states: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Singaporeans ZLOO EH DEOH WR HQMR\ SDUNV RI GLÎ?HUHQW WKHPHV DQG VL]HV WKDW RÎ?HU D GLYHUVLW\ RI UHFUHDWLRQDO H[SHULHQFHV 7KH WKHPHV LQFOXGH art and heritage, nature, coastal, learning and discovery. Parks of varying size, from community to town and regional parks, will mostly be close to homes for easy accessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (MND 2013) 3. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Functionalâ&#x20AC;? phase: parks as a response to the 1958 Master Plan 7KH Č´UVW PDVWHU SODQ RI 6LQJDSRUH LQ GHYLVHG WR FRQWURO development and guide the planning for an orderly growth, was prepared by the Singapore Improvement Trust between 1952 and 1955 (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1955) and approved by the Government in 1958 (URA 1958).

Singapore in 1963 counts an estimated population of 1,004,000 for a land surface of 224.5 square miles (Singapore Master Plan Review 1965).

The 1958 Master Plan, conceived during the colonial era, generally followed the British town practice of the time. The plan aimed at regulating land development through land use zonings, density and plot ratio control and reserving lands for schools, open spaces, infrastructural facilities and other essential community uses (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1985). It proposed to contain the expansion of the city by means of a Green Belt to overcome congestion in the downtown area; envisaged self-contained new towns in the Rural Planning Area, built under a decentralization policy to absorb the future urban growth, connected with one another and with the Central Area by major arterial roads; lastly proposed to develop and

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expand key villages and settlements to serve as centres for the agricultural and rural communities (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1985) The Housing and Development Board (HDB) was established in the 1960s (Ooi and Wong, 1989) to plan and implement the new towns public housing.

The 1958 Master Plan, envisioned in the 1955 Report of Survey, divides the island in 3 planning areas, according to the existing use of the land, further subdivided into planning districts: a) The Central Planning Area. This area covers the part of the LVODQG LPSOHPHQWHG IURP WKH FRORQLDO 5DÉ&#x17E;HV 3ODQ DQG LW stands today as the historic area of the city. b) The Urban Planning Area, which surrounds the central area.

Here are the S.I.T. projects for the new housing districts, such as WKH RQHV IRU 4XHHQVWRZQ DQG 7RD 3D\RK c) The Rural Planning Area and islands. It is divided into 11 rural planning districts where existing settlements are mainly DJULFXOWXUDO RU Č´VKLQJ YLOODJHV DORQJ ZLWK ODUJH DUHDV RI IDUPODQG 7KH SODQ FRQWDLQV D JHQHUDO FODVVLČ´FDWLRQ RI SURSRVHG DQG existing open spaces, according to the functions they perform:

The proposed system employs a western structural planning model, which had been amply tested in the UK such as the Green Belt, to be used for parks, recreational and agriculture, which was intended to limit the urban sprawl by surrounding the existing urbanized area and separate it from the proposed new towns.

To respond to increasing water demands of the growing population and the shortage of fresh water due to physical characteristics of the island and its climate, an area of 7,500 acres (1/20 of the island) at its centre had already been developed for the supply of water, by creating 3 impounding reservoirs in the main valley draining the watershed. Thirty years previously the City Council had developed the Catchment Area on the main land which was completed before World War II. The public had access to the Central Water Catchment Area in the areas of MacRitchie and Pierce Reservoirs, which were used as parkland (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1955).

Under the Nature Reserves Ordinance in 1951 a number of nature reserves were designated and a board was set up to administrate them. The designated primary function of the UHVHUYHV ZDV VFLHQWLČ´F DQG WKHUHIRUH SXEOLF ULJKW RI DFFHVV ZDV UHVWULFWHG LQ RUGHU WR SUHVHUYH WKH ČľRUD DQG IDXQD ZLWKLQ WKHP (Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1955).

Green Belt Nature Reserves Town Open Spaces District Open Spaces School Playing Fields Cemeteries Beaches Incidental Open Spaces

The Singapore Master Plan Report of Survey 1955, noting a grave GHČ´FLHQF\ LQ RSHQ VSDFH UHFRPPHQGV WKH LPSOHPHQWDWLRQ RI town open spaces (larger parks to serve the urban population in general) and district open spaces (small open spaces of 2-4 acres in size, to be established in planning districts). The plan VXJJHVWHG WKDW WKH\ VKRXOG IXOČ´O PDLQ IXQFWLRQV WKH YHQWLODWLRQ of built up areas and the need for recreation. Incidental to this function, for the larger parks, it was noted that of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;varying and beautifying the urban sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

It then attempts to organize them into a system of open spaces, designed to satisfy the need and convenience of the population.

4. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Identityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phase: parks as a response to the 1971Concept Plan and the 1980 Master Plan The 1971 Concept Plan strengthens the 1958 Master Plan proposal for the new towns and adopts a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ring Conceptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which envisaged the development of a ring of new high-density satellite towns around the central water catchment area, with each town separated by green spaces and a system of parks and open spaces. (URA 1971) Since 1985, 85% of the Singapore resident population lives in +'% ČľDWV ZLWK WKH PDMRULW\ RZQLQJ WKH ČľDW WKH\ RFFXS\ (Yuen 2007)

Figure 1. Singapore 1958 Masterplan. Highlighted are the Green Belt, Central Catchment Area, Nature Reserves, the Botanic Gardens, the major existing and proposed public parks.

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The Master Plan and Concept Plan are therefore the two instruments guiding the planning and development of public housing estates new town in Singapore, since the HDB was established in the 1960s.

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Each new town was devised as an independent unit, equipped with its own hierarchical set of green spaces. The land use for a new town is guided by HDBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structural model, an integrated and comprehensive plan showing the distribution of land uses including green spaces which serves as reference point and is meant to be adapted to suit each new townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s topography, size, VKDSH VSHFLČ´F FRQGLWLRQV DQG FRQVWUDLQWV 6HLN

of residential and 36 Ha of parks and gardens therefore making 6.5% of the residential usage (20 Ha for the town park and 16 for the neighborhood parks). Similarly the 1996 URA Development Guide Plan for Yishun Planning District proposes a land use of 468 Ha of residential and 53 Ha of parks and gardens (35 Ha for the town park and reservoir park and 18 for the neighborhood parks). This makes 6.4% of the residential usage if the overall count for town park and neighborhood park is reduced to 32 Ha, excluding the reservoir park and considering 14Ha for Yishun Town Park (Nparks 2014b)

The emergence of New Towns in the mid-1960s marked a policy shift, in which the Housing and Development Board (HDB) went WKURXJK D UHČ´QHPHQW SKDVH LQ WKH GHVLJQ RI WKH SXEOLF KRXVLQJ From late 1970s onwards this gave way to what may be termed as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;identityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phase, which witnessed the search of uniqueness among new towns, in which HDB experimented with various planning and design elements to give new towns â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;character and identityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Eng 1996) )LJXUH 'LÎ?HUHQW K\SRWKHVLV RI PDVWHU SODQ FRQWDLQHG LQ WKH 1965 Singapore Master Plan Review 1965, with proposal of a Green %HOW $ % & DQG &RQFHSW 3ODQ ' ZKLFK SURSRVHV D GLÎ?HUHQW distribution of the open spaces Source: Author

Parks, gardens and open spaces of varying size, while providing recreational space for residents, are also exploited WR GLÎ?HUHQWLDWH RQH QHZ WRZQ IURP DQRWKHU DPRQJ SODQQLQJ elements and features employed to bring about the evolution of character are topography and parks.

The planning and design of open spaces in HDB new towns is initially regulated with the introduction of the precinct concept in the 1980s which recommends the provision in each new town of a town park, several neighbourhood parks and precinct gardens to provide recreational amenities for the community and the character and identity of the new town (Yeh 1989).

These parks and open spaces from the 1970s/1980s were systematically introduced as integral spaces of new township development (Yuen, 1996).

Along with providing recreation and building community cohesion though expanding on the quality, size and number of provision of equipment functional to active community HQJDJHPHQW VXFK SOD\JURXQGV Č´WQHVV DQG H[HUFLVH amphitheatres, event lawns, etc.) parks have been designed using a thematic approach coherent to the district`s design, manipulating physical attributes, historical and cultural notions to enhance the identity of the district. This strategy is implemented in a number of New Towns from the 1970s, and UHČ´QHG WKURXJK WKH V DQG V DV +'% GHFLGHV ZKLFK design/themes it wants for each housing estate and by doing so HDB forms the image that it desires to project for each estate (Teo and Huang 1996).

In the HDBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-1982 prototype new towns of 625 hectares close to 4% of the land is set aside for open spaces. In each new town there is a town park of 5-10 hectares, several neighborhood parks of 1-1.5 hectares, and many more precinct gardens each of approximately 0,2 hectares. The purpose of these parks is to demarcate a territory in relatively close physical proximity to housing for the residents to identify with and use. The town park often serves also as a regional park for a number of new towns (Yeh, 1989) 7KLV ODQG GLVWULEXWLRQ LV UHČľHFWHG LQ WKH SUHVHQW SODQQLQJ districts. With the completion of the 1991 Concept Plan, URA proceeded to prepare detailed plans called Development Guide Plans (DGPs) for each of the 55 Planning Districts included in the plan. In the DGP the broad vision of the concept plan is detailed (URA 1990s). The 1996 URA Development Guide Plan for Ang Mo Kio Planning District proposes a land use of 513 Ha

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Dismissed as resurrection of Asia aesthetics, mere decoration RI WKH XUEDQ PDFKLQH .RROKDDV 3RVW 0RGHUQ LQČľXHQFH LQ Singapore has given shape to a unique experimentation in the HDB estates and in the parks within them.

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Following this trend, in the 1990s HDB initiated the upgrading programme with the objective of giving the older estates greater

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self-identity, with the shift from using style as a guideline to exploring themes in new town planning (Teo and Huang 1996).

In the HDBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upgrading projects of the 1990s, there has been a marked attempt to depart from the anonymous standardization of the 1980s Modernist style. In 1991 the HDBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Design and Buildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scheme began allowing private architectural and construction Č´UPV WR ELG IRU FRQWUDFWV WR EXLOG DSDUWPHQW EORFNV WKH JRDO being to achieve a higher degree or architectural sophistication (Goh 2001). This involved the newer housing estates of Pasir Ris and Sengkang, the second generation estate of Ang Mo Kio (built in the 1980s but undergoing upgrading in mid-1990s) and the newer estate of Hougang built in the 1990s (Goh 2001)

4. 1 Cultural Constructions Parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; design emphasis is placed on the representation of local culture, so built elements re-interpret or reconstruct cultural instances and features related to the site, its past or present inhabitants, or some ethnic symbols or belief.

Toa Payoh Town Park, built in 1973 (Nparks 2014c) is a Chinese-style garden which features rocks, a landscaped lake with willowing trees, an arch stone bridge with the purpose to enhance the identity of the district by appealing to its former and present Chinese community.

Woodlands Town Garden, built in 1983 in Woodlands incorporates elements that refer to both the Malay and Chinese architectural tradition such as pavilions and bridges, and a playground reinterprets Sang Kanchil folk tale (a popular children story in Malay culture) and retains part of Sungei mandai Kechil wich is enlarged into a landscaped lake and an existing mangrove swamp (HDB 1982) Sun Plaza in Tampines, provided as the new town park by the 1995 URA Planning Report uses the sun motif Chinese cultural symbols in designed features such as pavilions, railings, seats.

Bukit Batok Town Park built in 1984 (HDB 1984) is also known as Little Guilin or Xiao Guilin among the locals, because its design, taking advantage from a disused quarry which embeds a water basin, recalls the Guilin in China - a granite rock sitting within a lake. The design takes reference from the Chinese garden using rocks, willowing trees and a scenic walk that frames the view of the rocky hill and the lake. Î&#x2013;Q D VXUYH\ WKLV WRZQ SDUN ZDV SHUFHLYHG DV DQ HÎ?HFWLYH contributor to district character and the most outstanding IHDWXUH RI WKH WRZQ V LGHQWLW\ (QJ 7KH SDUN LV GHČ´QHG LQ the URA Concept Plan 2001, as a unique features and landmark that can give residents a sense of identity, history and continuity (URA 2001) As well as in the planning districts town parks, the use of cultural elements is implemented at a regional scale in 1975 (JTC 2014) with the building of the Chinese and Japanese Gardens in Jurong East by the Jurong Town Corporation. These works transform the existing water features to build a tourism attraction.

Figure 3. Yishun New Town residential estate (Masterplan 2014) At its centre the Town Park. Scattered the smaller neighbourhood parks each serving the adjacent housing units Sculptures depicting local fruits in Tampines Central Park and Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East Source: Author

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4. 2 Constructions of Nature Parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; design emphasis is placed on the representation of nature. This strategy thus uses nature as primary expressive and functional vehicle. Existing landscape features and more generally the idea of tropical nature are manipulated, reinterpreted or retained from the former site.

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RYHUDOO GHVLJQ (QJ 7KLV LV UHČľHFWHG LQ WKH FRDVWDO 3DVLU 5LV Park, which, during the reclamation process, retains part of the pre-existing mangrove forest and is conceived with the theme Merry Holidays, implemented by a number of facilities such as front beach barbeque areas, spaces for camping and holiday bungalows; Sea-Shell Park has an amphitheater, rest areas, Č´WQHVV FRUQHUV DQG IRXQWDLQV LPSOHPHQWHG LQ FRQFUHWH VKDSH shells; Park Atlantis exhibits a water-playground with sea-stars.

A number of parks re-interpret the vernacular referring to the old Kampong settings, or to the agricultural vocation that Singapore had in the period of the English Colony. In 1984, over 3,500 fruit trees were planted on HDB estates. By 1996, the cumulative total was 44,000. This was part of the 1970s and 1980s campaigns for the planting of fruits, which had the educational purpose to teach children to recognise those â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;old Styleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fruits (Auger 2013).

The experiment afterwards stopped because the trees required too much maintenance, although trees like durian and jackfruit can still be seen around neighbourhoods Parks.

Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East built in 1983 (HDB 1982) displays rubber trees as well as other economically important trees such as nutmeg and cinnamon. Sculptures of rubber seeds and nutmegs installed enhance the trees found on site.

Choa Chu Kang Park (NParks 2014d) retains remnants of fruit trees as part of its secondary forest related to its rural area ZKHUH NDPSRQJ YLOODJHV DQG FURS SODQWDWLRQV ČľRXULVKHG Î&#x2013;Q DQRWKHU QHZ WRZQ <LVKXQ D UXEEHU WUHH SDUN UHČľHFWV WKH previous land use of the area. The rural character of Yishun is preserved in the Yishun Town Park, where sculptures that act as signage are used to depict local fruits (Auger 2013) secondary forest as well as and old kampong orchard trees such as durian, rambutan, jackfruit, star fruit, coconut and breadfruit are preserved and replanted (NParks 2014e). A similar intention is GLVSOD\HG E\ SODQQHUV LQWHQGLQJ WR UHČľHFW WKH ODQGVFDSH RI D vegetable farm' in line with the kampong setting of Yishun area before development in Yishun Town Garden vegetable farm implemented since the 1980s (Waller 2001) Tampines Central Park reinterprets old plantations and kampong orchards with large scale fruit-shaped playgrounds in the form of pineapple (demolished), nutmeg and watermelon designed by artist Khor Ean Ghee for HDB. They are two of a number of playgrounds which were scattered in town estates from the 1970s to the 1990s to inject character and identity to the residential public spaces (Zhuang 2012) At a regional scale, in 1971 the Jurong Bird Park is built as a Č´UVW WRXULVP GHVWLQDWLRQ FRQVWUXFWLQJ WKH KLJKHVW PDQ PDGH ZDWHUIDOO DV DQ DUWLČ´FLDO WURSLFDO VHWWLQJ GLVSOD\LQJ OLYH DQLPDOV (WRSCF 2014)

5. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ecologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phase: parks as a response to the 1991 Blue and Green Plan The vision of the 1991 Concept Plan, released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;an island with an increased sense of â&#x20AC;&#x153;island-nessâ&#x20AC;? - more beaches, marinasâ&#x20AC;Ś an attractive coastline and a city that embraces the waterline more closely as a signal of its island heritage. Singapore will be cloaked in greenery, both manicured by man and protected tracks of natural growth, and with waterbodies woven into the landscapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (URA 1991 Living the next Lap).

The plan envisions a system of open spaces that complements existing waterways as the new paradigm, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;safeguarding Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural heritage and enhancing the ecology of its urban environmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (URA 1991).

The following Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Master Plan 2003 incorporates a new island-wide Parks and Water Bodies, with the aim to increase accessibility and connectivity by incrementing the park connectorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; network, develop a number of new parks while enlarging existing parks. The 2001 Identity Plan focus meant to enhance Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural and built identity so as to create a distinctive city with rich heritage, character and diversity (URA 2001).

From 2003 onwards the production of parks increases. The new typologies of parks are varied, and often the design SURMHFW SUHYLRXVO\ JHQHUDOO\ H[HFXWHG E\ JRYHUQPHQW RÉ?FHUV LV JLYHQ WR H[WHUQDO Č´UPV VRPH UHQHZHG ZRUOG ZLGH ZLWK WKH intent to increase park`s diversity and appeal. Prime Minister announced plans in 2012 to turn three public parks into themed Destination Parks with unusual recreational elements to attract Singaporeans from around the island. This new impetus springs also from the consideration that while Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total population is projected to increase, its park provision ratio (PPR) and park area as a percentage of city area are at a low to moderate level if compared to other cities (Tan, Wang, Sia 2013).

From 2006 Singapore National Water Agency launches the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme to â&#x20AC;&#x153;improve the quality of water and lifeâ&#x20AC;? with a number of projects which renaturalize the extensive network of waterways and reservoirs developed over the years for Singapore water supply, including existing water bodies within parks. The idea of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of Gardens and Waterâ&#x20AC;? embraces a pervasive network of about 8,000km of waterways and 17 reservoirs (PUB 2014a) This strategy of reconstructing nature gives space to a unifying image for the city which tends towards a predominant â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; narrative: a comprehensive, functional and ecological infrastructure. The parks are linked by a connecting network that functions also as ecological corridor.

The hydrological system of concrete canals is therefore broken

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by new typologies of parks such as Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park, built in 1988 and redeveloped in 2012 (PUB 2014b) by demolishing the concrete drain that divides the park into two parts and re-shaping it into a meandering stream, to enhance ecological value and bring community closer to nature.

New parks build on the theme of Nature and Water as the new paradigm, implementing the vision of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;water-bodies woven into the landscapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the 1991 plan. Admiralty Park built in 2008 (NParks 2008) proposes as central design feature the meandering Sungei China River with its rich habitats and biodiversity, including a secondary forest, freshwater swamp, mangrove and grassland.

In Punggol Waterway Park built in 2011, nature is reconstructed along the canal, while a Kelong-shaped bridge is named after DQG LQVSLUHG E\ 6LQJDSRUHCV WUDGLWLRQDO Č´VKLQJ YLOODJHV RQ VWLOWV and the old Punggol road is retained as historic evidence (HDB 2012) The parks implemented after 2003 have been built along the canals, re-structuring the whole water system by incorporating the waters inside the park as predominant narrative feature, with an emphasis on ecology and the preservation of biodiversity linked to secondary forests, mangroves, constructed wetlands.

7KRVH DUH GHČ´QHG E\ 13DUNV ZHEVLWH DV 5LYHULQH 3DUNV 7KLV strategy provides also an educational function expressed within the parks by structures such a viewing decks and signage.

Some old town parks (such as Toa Payoh Town Park) have been partially re-structured to accommodate the ecology theme and its educational possibilities.

6. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Singapore Playgroundâ&#x20AC;?: parks in the 2014 Master Plan Today Singapore has a complex network of more than 350 parks, designed for an average 0.8ha of parks per 1,000 residents. These parks are located in close proximity to the public housing estates, and linked by a 200km network of park connectors (MND 2013).

HDB plans and manages the designs for new Neighbourhood Parks, once these parks are constructed they are usually handed over to the relevant Town Council to manage. All other existing Neighbourhood Parks, Common Greens and local parks are managed by the respective Town Councils (HDB 2014)

(NParks facts and Figures 2013) In addition this governing body oversees the roadside greenery and an island-wide Park Connector Network (approved in 1991 within the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue and Greenâ&#x20AC;? Plan), which counts 63 park connectors. A Park Connector, usually linear in shape, is built over unutilized strips of land, usually on drainage reserves (DR) and road reserves, to link regional parks (NParks facts and Figures 2013) The 330 parks are subdivided in 6 categories (NParks 2014) as such: 1. Coastal Parks: parks located along coastlines 2. Arts & Heritage Parks: parks in the civic district focused in promoting arts, cultural and heritage 3. HortPark & Southern Ridges: 5 parks linked by bridges to EULQJ FORVHU WR QDWXUH ZLWKRXW WKH LQWHUIHUHQFH RI YHKLFOH WUDÉ?F Labrador Nature Reserve was linked to this via Labrador Nature and coastal walk in 2012 by the Alexander trail 4. Community Parks: parks and playgrounds in the heartlands 5. Riverine Parks - parks near water bodies e.g reservoirs/rivers 6. Nature Reserves and parks surrounding nature reserves The division in categories clearly emphasizes the importance given to the parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; function and main theme.

Figure 4. List of Parks managed by NParks in 2014 Source: Author, elaboration of NParks data

7. Conclusions The research highlights the changing conceptualization of the public parks as Singapore transforms from a colony into an independent city state. Borrowing western and eastern LQČľXHQFHV PHGLDWHG E\ WKH PDVWHU SODQ JXLGHOLQHV WKH SDUNV at a regional scale are part of a system and at the local scale functional to the needs of residents and distinct containers of local narratives.

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STREETSCAPE CHARACTER AS REPRESENTATION OF URBAN IDENTITY CASE STUDY : BOGOR Nurhikmah Budi HARTANTI Doctoral Student in Architecture; School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPD), ITB, Bandung; and Faculty Member of Architecture Department, FTSP, Trisakti University Jakarta.

School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPD), ITB. Labtek IXA, Jl. Ganesha, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Architecture Department, FTSP, Trisakti University Jakarta Gd.C Kampus A, Jl. Kyai Tapa, Grogol, West Jakarta, 11440 nurhart@gmail.com Widjaja Martokusumo $VVRFLDWH 3URÎ?HVRU 6FKRRO RI $UFKLWHFWXUH 3ODQQLQJ DQG 3ROLF\ Development (SAPPD); ITB, Bandung School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development (SAPPD), ITB. Labtek IXA, Jl. Ganesha, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Keywords: STREETSCAPE

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Introduction Street is the most important urban element because it serves as the main channel of circulation in the city where people moves and experiencing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment. Streets also regarded as major urban space with all its features and advantages compared to squares (Moughtin, 2003). Unlike squares that need something, object or event, to keep people coming, streets are necessary urban spaces (Gehl, 1987). People need to be on street before they reach a place and do what they have to do.

It is an unavoidable urban space, so that the streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character DQG DWPRVSKHUH ZLOO Č´OO XS SHRSOHČ&#x2021;V LPDJHV DERXW WKH FLW\ )RU YLVLWRUV VWUHHW LV D FLW\Č&#x2021;V VKRZFDVH ZKHUH WKH\ SXW RQ Č´UVW VLJKW and get an impression of the city. Just like Jane Jacob said that if we think of a city, its streets are what come to mind. If the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; and so if they look dull, the city looks dull (Jacob, 1961). Therefore, streetscape, which refers to the visual representation of street three-dimensional space, may represent the overall character of the city or we may say its identity.

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which composed from the observable information (Relph, 2007).

Moreover, some collective qualities exist because the majority of people experiencing a city street must have shared some experiences, and it is a result of similar interactions between the physical reality of the space and basic human physiology (Tucker, 2005). From this notions Kevin Lynch developed the concept of imageability, that is the ability of urban elements to evoke a strong image for an observer (Lynch, 1960). Imageability of streetscape character is concerned with the visual arrangement of elements within the street environment, and how those elements relate to each other and create a distinct character RU SHUFHLYDEOH GLÎ?HUHQFHV 5DSRSRUW WKDW LQGLFDWH WKH urban identity. Imageability is closely relate with distinctiveness, as human beings are more likely to recognize an environment with unique or distinct attributes because they are tend to be more imageable. Distinctiveness is an important process in recognizing place identity. As Nasar (1988) found that evaluative environment is related with distinctiveness of physical forms, YLVLELOLW\ VLJQLČ´FDQFH RI XVHV RU FRPELQDWLRQ RI WKRVH IDFWRUV Bogor is a City in West Java, only about 50 kilometers on the south from the capital city of Jakarta. It was built in the colonial era as a resort and developed as an agriculture and veterinary education place. The city has known for its botanical garden, presidential resort palace, and agriculture institute, and also known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rain cityâ&#x20AC;? for its high rainfall through the year. People who lives in or visits this city has an image of a cool, tranquil and comfortable place to stay or just stop by. However, in past few years those impressions began to change along with the growth of the city WKDW KHDYLO\ LQČľXHQFHG E\ WKH SRZHU RI JOREDO HFRQRPLF IRUFHV As part of the Jabodetabek Megapolitan area that consists of Č´YH FLWLHV L H -DNDUWD %RJRU 'HSRN 7DQJHUDQJ DQG %HNDVL the development of Bogor is integrated with the greater area. )XQFWLRQDOO\ %RJRU VHUYHV DV HQYLURQPHQWDO EXÎ?HU ]RQH residential and recreational area for Jakarta. Transportation becomes an important issue in the development of Bogor, and consequently, the development of road and streetscapes character. Meanwhile, the growth of housings also requires supporting facilities including commercial functions. Ironically, the growth of commercial functions that should only serve the surrounding area has grown into destinations of the greater region. Bogor tourism, which previously more oriented to the natural botanical and historic potential of the city, began to shift toward shopping, food and lifestyles. The trend is noticeable in the growth of commercial buildings including shop houses, malls, factory outlets, cafes and restaurants along the main streets of the city. As the consequences of the transportations and commercials development, the streetscapes character of Bogor has also changes.

settings, activities and meaning of the urban area (Relph, 2007; Garnham,1985; Carmona, 2007). To explore Bogor urban identity, the study begins with a historical analysis of the urban morphology with special attention on the street development.

It followed with two phases of surveys on both residents and visitors which represent inside view and outside view, just as VWDWHG E\ 6FKHÉ&#x17E;HU WKDW XUEDQ LGHQWLW\ KDV WR EH VHHQ from inside and outside. First phase of survey was to identify the most imageable streets and the most frequently traveled street in Bogor by asking 50 residents and 50 visitors in random. The UHVXOW ZDV VL[ VLJQLČ´FDQW VWUHHW RUULGRUV L H D -DODQ -XDQGD segment A, (1b) Jalan Juanda segment B, (2) Jalan Sudirman, (3) Jalan Suryakencana, (4) Jalan Jalak Harupat and (5) Jalan Pajajaran.

Interestingly, all that six corridors are close to each other DURXQG WKH %RWDQLFDO *DUGHQ VHH Č´JXUH Î&#x2013;W EHFRPH WKH EDVLV IRU REVHUYDWLRQ RQ SK\VLFDO FKDUDFWHU RI WKH VLJQLČ´FDQW FRUULGRUV to identify the dominant elements of the streetscape, which includes the street lane, public frontage and private frontage.

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Figure 1. Six most imageable street corridor.

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Result and Discussion 0RUSKRORJLFDO GHYHORSPHQW RI %RJRU VWUHHW QHWZRUN Bogor was built by Dutch colonial government at the middle of 18th century as a resort village "Buitenzorg", named after a villa EHORQJV WR *RYHUQRU JHQHUDO %DURQ 9DQ Î&#x2013;PKRÎ? LQ ZKLFK ODWHU EHFDPH WKH RÉ?FLDO SDODFH IRU WKH UXOLQJ JRYHUQRU JHQHUDO (Baihaqie, 2009). The construction of the Great Postal road in 1808 strengthen the city structure, and then, Bogor grows in semi-linear pattern, with the palace as center and Great Postal road as the main axis of the city that connects Buitenzorg (Bogor) with Batavia (Jakarta) at the north and Cianjur at the south. This main street consists of several segment (see Figure 2.a), from north to south, namely Bataviasche weg (now Jalan Ahmad Yani), Groote weg (now Jalan Sudirman and Jalan Juanda), and Handelstraat (now Jalan Suryakencana ). Those street considered as the historical corridors. The expansion of palace backyard into a botanical garden and an access road around it, promoting the city development on the east side of river Ciliwung (Figure 2.b). This structure remains until the early years after the independence of the nation. People who entering the city from Batavia (Jakarta) through the main street ZLOO Č´QG D VHULHV RI VWUHHWVFDSH FKDUDFWHU FRPSRVHG E\ ELJ FDQDU\ WUHHV ČľDQNLQJ WKH %DWDYLDVFKH ZHJ D ZKLWH REHOLVN DW WKH junction of Groote postweg; vista towards the palace followed by the curve of palace's fence and colonial buildings at Juanda street, and ended at Chinese shophouses along Handelstraat (Jalan Suryakencana). Those streetscapes character gave visual contribution in creating Bogor urban identity.

However, major changes occur after the construction of Jagorawi Highway in 1973, with an exit to Bogor at the east part of the city. Since then, the entrance of the city moved from the Groote postweg (named as Jalan Jakarta or Jalan Raya Bogor after independence) to the highway exit at Jalan Pajajaran, a new road that built to connect the highway to the main road (Groote Postweg). The new street networks development encourages the growth orientation at the east side of the city and stimulates new activities. New housing estates, restaurants, modern shophouses and shopping malls are springing up along Jalan Pajajaran, which become a new main street of the city beside the old Groote postweg. (Figure 2.c).

Source: Maps analysis from Kaart van Buitenzorg fromTopographisch Bureau, 1808 and 1914 (Archive of KITLV Netherland and National Library of Indonesia); and Regional Spatial Masterplan Document (RTRW) of Bogor City Area.2012).

The aim of exploring the morphological development of Bogor VWUHHW QHWZRUN LV WR GLVFRYHU KLVWRULFDO PHDQLQJ RI WKH VLJQLČ´FDQW corridors. The former Groote Postweg, which now Jl. Sudirman, Jl. Juanda, and Jl. Suryakencana, are corridors with strongest KLVWRULFDO VLJQLČ´FDQFH ZKLOH WKH PHDQLQJ RI -O 3DMDMDUDQ LV PRUH functional. This is become a background for the next phase to Č´QG LQ ZKDW H[WHQW WKRVH PHDQLQJV DÎ?HFW SHRSOH V SHUFHSWLRQ on Bogor urban identity.

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The next most imageable street shows imageability due to congruency. The next most imageable street for residents are Jl Suryakencana, and Jl. Kapten Muslihat, which are not the most frequently traveled but those streets has known as public center for decades, where the old market and legendary stores are located. Residents are attached to those streets because for generations that is where they used to go for daily necessities or amusement. Even when it prominence has outweighed by new shopping malls, some residents are still attached to it. Whereas for visitors, Jl. Tajur and Jl. Salak are more imageable because there are particular shopping destinations and restaurants, something that will only be found in Bogor, not just daily stores.

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with unique or distinct attributes because they are tend to be more imageable, and distinctiveness is an important process in recognizing place identity (Breakwell, 2010). It means that imageable streets might possess distinct attributes that determine urban identity. A place possesses sense of identity when fostered by distinctive artefacts and objects that are LPSRUWDQW WR LWV GHČ´QLWLRQ 7KH LGHQWLČ´FDWLRQ REMHFWV GHSLFW WKH uniqueness and individuality of a place and become its physical identity along with other spatial components (Saleh, 1998). The VXUYH\ Č´QGV RXW SHRSOH V SHUFHSWLRQ DERXW WKH PRVW GLVWLQFW corridors and the elements that determine its distinctiveness.

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The anova diagram shows that there are three corridors considered to have distinctiveness or unique quality, namely Jl. Juanda segment A (1a), Jl. Jalak Harupat (4) and Jl. Pajajaran (5), whereas three others are having less that quality or considered not unique. Interestingly, both residents and visitors agree with WKLV UHVXOW Î&#x2013;Q VRPH H[WHQW LW FRQČ´UPV ZLWK WKH SUHYLRXV VXUYH\ that the most imageable street is the most frequently passed through and having more distinctive quality, with an exception Jl. Sudirman for residents. It means, people tend to remember an environment that have distinctive quality, whether it is physical, or in the case of Jl. Sudirman is historical meaning.

Figure 4. Streetscape character of Jl. Juanda (left), Jl. Jalak Harupat (middle), and Jl. Pajajaran (right)

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element, especially vegetations and paving; and (5) Ambience, which is expressed in positive and negative impression. In Jl. Juanda, there are many monumental buildings built in colonial era that are beautifully preserved (especially the Bogor Palace), with big old trees along the street, which give a sense of romantic ambience, makes Jl. Juanda as the most distinctive corridor for most of respondents. The next distinctive corridor, Jl. Jalak Harupat is characterized with big trees along the street that make a shady ambience, and car free day public activities, while Jl. Pajajaran has the IPB building, the Kujang monument and Botani Shopping Mall as distinctive elements. Jl. Juanda is also considered to have the best vista and architectural quality, while Jl. Jalak Harupat is considered as the most comfortable environment. This result indicated that observable properties SK\VLFDO HOHPHQWV DFWLYLWLHV DQG DPELHQFH DUH PRUH LQČľXHQWLDO on people perception of streetscape distinctiveness than historical meanings. Just as Nasar (1998) found that evaluative environment is related with distinctiveness of physical forms, YLVLELOLW\ VLJQLČ´FDQFH RI XVHV RU FRPELQDWLRQ RI WKRVH IDFWRUV However, people can only apprehend the distinctiveness of an urban space if it is easily accessed and become imageable.

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impacts on the people's impression about urban space. The urban identity of Bogor has changed due to the recent urban development, which has been driven by both economic forces and globalization. As the result, (urban) identity of Bogor is some kind of combination between old and new. Big old trees, colonial buildings, and modern shopping malls characterize the distinctiveness of streetscapes in Bogor. The interesting functions and attractive activities in the city is built up by a combination tourism which oriented not only on botanical and historical potential of the city, but also on modern life style such as shopping malls, factory outlets and culinary. Likewise, Bogor has a meaningful history as colonial resort city, having a local symbol as a center for tourism and education, but also an emerging shopping destination. Diversity can be positive factors LQ FUHDWLQJ XUEDQ LGHQWLW\ DV ORQJ DV WKRVH GLÎ?HUHQW DVSHFWV have a mutual relationship or supporting each other in creating urban life and setting. But in some degree, they can also weaken each other. Bogor can be said to have a critical condition, where the historic or local elements has to be carefully maintained in order not to be vanished. One of which is by a proper, wellplanned infrastructure development.

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ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL TOURISM CARRYING CAPACITY A CASE OF SABANG, BALER AURORA, PHILIPPINES De Vera, Merant B Arch De La Salle College of St. Benilde School of Design and Arts, Architecture merant.devera@benilde. edu.ph ar.merant.devera@gmail.com Keywords: TOURISM, CARRYING CAPACITY, PHYSICAL CARRYING CAPACITY

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INTRODUCTION The hospitality of Filipinos and the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural wonders provide the Philippines with a natural lead in tourism, an

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area recognized as a key contributor to economic growth by generating vital investments, foreign exchange earnings and revenues as well as stimulating the growth of other industries such as construction and manufacturing.

7RXULVP DQG WKH (QYLURQPHQW The anticipated growth in international visitor arrivals and domestic travel movements is expected to bring about a corresponding increase in capacity requirements and demand for new products, facilities and services, thus paving the way for local and foreign investment opportunities. Corollary to this is the improvement and upgrading of quality, skills and competencies of the required front liners.

In response to worldwide demand for integrated tourism development, the Department of Tourism likewise encourages investments in tourism estates and ecozones, histo-cultural heritage projects as well as ecotourism, agri-tourism, and health and wellness projects.

To some, the tourism sector provides an incentive for the restoration of ancient monuments and archaeological treasures and for the conservation of natural resources as well as the economic means by which they can be achieved. To others, however, tourism means people, congestion, noise and litter. It means disruption of animal life cycles.

5HODWLRQVKLSV EHWZHHQ 7RXULVP DQG WKH (QYLURQPHQW There are three suggested relationships that can exist between promoting tourism and those advocating environmental conservation. These relationships are especially important because tourism is highly dependent upon values derived from nature.

1) Tourism and Environmental conservation can exist in a situation in which both can promote their respective positions, remains in isolation and establish little contact with each other.

Unlikely to exist for long periods because of the substantial changes in the environment that are apt to occur with the continued growth of mass tourism.

2) Tourism and conservation may enjoy a mutually supportive or symbiotic relationship where they are organized in such a ZD\ WKDW HDFK EHQHÈ´WV IURP HDFK RWKHU )URP WKH SHUVSHFWLYH of the conservationist, environmental features and conditions are left as close as possible to their original state but, at the VDPH WLPH WKH\ SURYLGH EHQHÈ´WV WR WKH WRXULVW ZKR YLHZ DQG experience them.

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7RXULVP DQG FRQVHUYDWLRQ FDQ EH LQ FRQČľLFW SDUWLFXODUO\ ZKHQ WRXULVP LQFOXGHV GHWULPHQWDO HÎ?HFWV WR WKH HQYLURQPHQW Most of the documented relationship between tourism and environment fall into this category. Î&#x2013;GHQWLI\LQJ 5HODWLRQVKLSV In order to deal with the main challenge of integrating sustainability in the development of tourism related policies, UNEP in partnership with UNWTO to set an agenda for policy making have developed a set of policy recommendations. These recommendations are in line with the list of 12 principles of sustainable tourism development includes Economic viability, /RFDO SURVSHULW\ (PSOR\PHQW TXDOLW\ 6RFLDO HTXLW\ 9LVLWRU IXOČ´OOPHQW /RFDO FRQWURO &RPPXQLW\ ZHOOEHLQJ &XOWXUDO ULFKQHVV 3K\VLFDO LQWHJULW\ %LRORJLFDO GLYHUVLW\ 5HVRXUFH HÉ?FLHQF\ DQG Environmental purity.

Knowing the nature of tourism impacts wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t automatically lead to solutions. It is equally important to identify the sources of these impacts (see table above) and how they LQČľXHQFH LQWHUDFWLRQV EHWZHHQ WRXULVWV DQG UHVLGHQWV WKH KRVW community, and the environment. These impact sources can be divided into two groups: tourist factors and destination factors.

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Table 1: Tourist Factors and Destination Factors (Source: Impact of Tourism by Glenn Kreag)

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PROBLEM STATEMENT Tourism, however, is recognized as a major economic activity WKDW FRQWULEXWHV VLJQLČ´FDQWO\ WR *13 DQG FUHDWHV WUHPHQGRXV employment and livelihood opportunities. Many sub-regions and LGUs have tourism as their main economic activity and many more have resources and potentials for major tourism development. Such LGUs or areas should pay more attention to planning their tourism development. Sustainability should be sought in all aspect of planning One of the main issues that arise in many of these municipalities is the uncontrolled tourism. Uncontrolled tourism can cause irreversible damage to the physical and environmental resources, the very resources on which tourism is based. With the formulation of tourism structure plan through eco-tourism and carrying capacity the study aims to answer the following statements:

STUDY AREA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BALER, AURORA As the capital and oldest municipality of Aurora Province, Baler is the seat of government and the core for trade and industry.

The most progressive town in Aurora, Baler commands the most resorts, public institutions and facilities, as well as business establishments.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY The development of an operational tool for tourism planning is a necessity. This need is expressed in the Manila Declaration

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(WTO, 1983): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tourism resources available in the various countries consist at the same time of space, facilities and values.

These are resources whose cannot be left uncontrolled without running the risk of their deterioration, or even their destruction.

The satisfaction of tourism requirements must be not prejudicial to the social and economic interest of the population in the tourist areas, to the environment or above all, to natural resources (which are the fundamental attraction of tourism), historical and cultural sitesâ&#x20AC;?. Accordingly, tourism development should not be planned in such a way and at such levels that it meets the physical and human carrying capacity requirements of the area under consideration. This study intends to stimulate further thoughts towards this end.

- The Study will establish a Standard Area per Tourist per Activity in the Philippine context -The Study will also provide baseline study on how to compute for Physical Tourism Carrying Capacity using Corrective Factors ASSUMPTIONS 1) That there will be No Future Developments along Sabang Beach within the Study period.

7KDW WKH &DUU\LQJ &DSDFLW\ LV Č´[HG DQG QRW ČľH[LEOH DQG Biocentric and Anthropometric 3) That the behavior pattern of the Tourist is Similar for all Sizes and Demography 4) That the Tourism Development Phase of Sabang are within the Growth to Maturity Phase GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The study aims at the elaboration of a comprehensive methodological framework which will contribute to an understanding of the concept of Tourism Carrying Capacity 7&& LWV SUDFWLFDO DQDO\VLV DQG PHDVXUHPHQW DQG LWV HÉ?FLHQW application in Baler, Aurora tourist destinations.

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SCOPE AND LIMITATION 7KH VWXG\ ZLOO PDLQO\ IRFXV RQ WKH GHČ´QLQJ 3K\VLFDO 7RXULVP Carrying Capacity of Baler, Aurora. The area of study is limited to the beach areas of Baler including the beaches of Sabang, Buhangin, Cemento and Dimadimalangat, Aniao and LuksoLukso only and will not cover the provinces of Casiguran, Maria and Dipaculao. It will focus on the Tourism development areas that are currently visited by tourist regardless of whether it is visited by local or foreign tourist.

CARRYING CAPACITY A variety of estimates carrying capacity shows in a general way the relationships among some of the major factors concerned.

Obviously, if consumptions levels per capita are higher, then a smaller population can be supported. If technologies increase RU GHFUHDVH RYHUDOO FRQVXPSWLRQ WKHQ WKH\ DOVR DÎ?HFW FDUU\LQJ capacity. Because the idea and methodology of carrying capacity were developed in the natural science of biology, they incorporate the notion of limits imposed by the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural systems. Species can overshoot these limits (as with the r-selected species), and when they do, they collapse and risk extinction.

Studies of various species provide us with some basic lessons to apply to the human condition, but new ideas and methodologies are needed to incorporate the added complexities of human technologies and culture. Carrying capacity tells us that the biophysical limits of our environment are the key in determining how many human can survive at what levels of consumption. Č?FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ LV GHWHUPLQHG MRLQWO\ E\ KXPDQ FKRLFHV DQG QDWXUDO FRQVWUDLQWV &RQVHTXHQWO\ WKH TXHVWLRQ KRZ PDQ\ SHRSOH FDQ WKH (DUWK VXSSRUW GRHV QRW KDYH D VLQJOH QXPHULFDO DQVZHU QRZ RU HYHU +XPDQ FKRLFHV DERXW WKH (DUWK V KXPDQ FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ DUH FRQVWUDLQHG E\ IDFWV RI QDWXUH ZKLFK ZH XQGHUVWDQG SRRUO\ 6R DQ\ HVWLPDWHV RI KXPDQ FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ DUH RQO\ FRQGLWLRQDO RQ IXWXUH KXPDQ FKRLFHV DQG QDWXUDO HYHQWV -Joel Cohen 7RXULVP &DUU\LQJ &DSDFLW\ LV GHČ´QHG E\ WKH :RUOG 7RXULVP Organization as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The maximum number of people that may visit a tourist destination at the same time, without causing destruction of the physical, economic, socio-cultural environment and an unacceptable decrease in the quality of visitors' satisfactionâ&#x20AC;?. :KHUHDV 0LGGOHWRQ DQG +DZNLQV &KDPEHUODLQ GHČ´QH it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the level of human activity an area can accommodate without the area deteriorating, the resident community being DGYHUVHO\ DÎ?HFWHG RU WKH TXDOLW\ RI YLVLWRUV H[SHULHQFH GHFOLQLQJČ&#x2039; ZKDW ERWK WKHVH GHČ´QLWLRQV SLFN XS RQ LV FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ LV WKH point at which a destination or attraction starts experiencing adverse as a result of the number of visitors.

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9DULRXV VFKRODUV RYHU WKH \HDUV KDYH GHYHORSHG VHYHUDO DUJXPHQWV GHYHORSHG DERXW WKH GHČ´QLWLRQ RI FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ 0LGGOHWRQ DQG +DZNLQV GHČ´QHG FDUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ DV D PHDVXUH of the tolerance of a site or building which is open to tourist DFWLYLWLHV DQG WKH OLPLW EH\RQG ZKLFK DQ DUHD PD\ VXÎ?HU IURP the adverse impacts of tourism (Middleton & Hawkins, 1998). &KDPEHUODLQ GHČ´QHG LW DV WKH OHYHO RI KXPDQ DFWLYLW\ ZKLFK an area can accommodate without either it deteriorating, the UHVLGHQW FRPPXQLW\ EHLQJ DGYHUVHO\ DÎ?HFWHG RU WKH TXDOLW\ RI YLVLWRUV H[SHULHQFH GHFOLQLQJ &KDPEHUODLQ &ODUN GHČ´QHG carrying capacity as a certain threshold (level) of tourism activity, beyond which there will be damage to the environment and its natural inhabitants (Clark, 1997). Č&#x160;&DUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ LV QRW MXVW D VFLHQWLČ´F FRQFHSW RU IRUPXOD RI REWDLQLQJ D QXPEHU EH\RQG ZKLFK GHYHORSPHQW VKRXOG FHDVH EXW D SURFHVV ZKHUH WKH HYHQWXDO OLPLWV PXVW EH FRQVLGHUHG DV JXLGDQFH 7KH\ VKRXOG EH FDUHIXOO\ DVVHVVHG DQG PRQLWRUHG FRPSOHPHQWHG ZLWK RWKHU VWDQGDUGV HWF &DUU\LQJ FDSDFLW\ LV QRW Č´[HG Î&#x2013;W GHYHORSV ZLWK WLPH DQG WKH JURZWK RI WRXULVP DQG FDQ EH DÎ?HFWHG E\ PDQDJHPHQW WHFKQLTXHV DQG FRQWUROVČ&#x2039; (Saveriades, 2000).

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Biophysical Carrying Capacity This deals with the extent to which the natural environment is able to tolerate interference from tourists. This is made more complicated by the fact that because it deals with ecology which is able to regenerate to some extent so in this case the carrying capacity is when the damage exceeds the habitat's ability to regenerate.

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Environmental carrying capacity is also used with reference to ecological and physical parameters, capacity of resources, ecosystems and infrastructure.

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Knowing the study area is important for the research, for it gives out the history of the place. History plays a big part in the tourism industry it not only the tourism potential of Baler it GHČ´QHV WKH WRXULVP VLWXDWLRQ RI %DOHU 2WKHU WKDQ NQRZLQJ WKH history of the area the tourism situation can be determine by getting the annual visitor population which can be obtain from the local government of Baler. The only problem is that most of the data available are only of those coming in out of Baler, the tourist that is within Aurora province is not accounted. This gives WKH UHODWLRQVKLS EHWZHHQ WRXULVP DQG WKH HQYLURQPHQW GLÉ?FXOW to establish. Identifying the existing tourism program is another method of establishing the current situation of the tourism in a VSHFLČ´F DUHD EHFDXVH LW GHVFULEHV KRZ WKH SURYLQFH LV HTXLSSHG in terms of policies and programs. Programs illustrate the level of preparedness of the province to tourist and development.

Physical tourism carrying capacity is the highest number of tourists that an area is actually able to support. In the case of an individual tourist attraction it is the highest number that can Č´W RQ WKH VLWH DW DQ\ JLYHQ WLPH DQG VWLOO DOORZ SHRSOH WR EH DEOH to move. This is usually assumed to be around 1m per person.

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The Second part of the framework is identifying the tourist development areas and destination. The tourist spots will be the VSHFLČ´F DUHD WKDW ZLOO EH JLYHQ DQDO\VLV DQG ZLOO EH WKH IRFXV RI the evaluation. These areas are the primary location for where the relationship between tourism and environment can initially be seen. This is important for the next part of the framework.

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AREA Tourism Planning in Baler should consider vital transport

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infrastructure, environmentally sensitive areas, existing and potential tourism sites, tourism service center, and their linkages. Based on these considerations, several Tourism 'HYHORSPHQW $UHDV 7'$V ZHUH LGHQWLČ´HG IRU %DOHU $XURUD A Tourism Development Area (TDA) is a cluster of Tourism Sites (TSs) that have geographical proximity and/or common thematic attributes. Tourism Sites (TSs) are more VSHFLČ´F SODFHV WKDW PD\ KDYH QDWXUDO DQG FXOWXUDO VLJQLČ´FDQFH attractive landscape, where activities take place, or are suitable for tourism development. Some of the themes that were believed to have unique selling qualities and became the bases for the delineation of some TDAs are the following:

6XUČ´QJ $UHDV 2) Facilities conducive to Rest and Health 3) Historical Landmarks and other well-known landmarks due historical events 4) Beach front and Potential Waterfront Development 5) Wildlife and Forested areas and Potential Ecotourism sites 6) Food Tourism- Baler caters a great variety of fresh seafood

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Table 6: Tourism Development Area Figure 8: Baler Monthly Tourist Arrival from February 2012 to A ugust 2014 August

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These factors are selected based on tourism activities and local conditions of the study area. In consideration of tourism activities in Baler, the following factors should be taken into account: environmental safety, conservation, natural resources managements, tourism activities, planning and local factors such as human resources, the contribution of tourism to local economic development, and social crimination.

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Figure 12: Graph indicating the hours that tourist would surf. This Initial Analysis shows a preferred starting time being 5:30AM and an ending time of 8:00PM with a break occurring at 12NOON to 2:00PM. The peak hours are 6:00AM to 11:00AM and 2:00PM to 6:00PM.

Figure 13: Graph indicating the hours that tourist would swim. This Initial Analysis shows a preferred starting time being 5:30AM and an ending time of 11:30PM with a break occurring at 12NOON to 2:00PM. The peak hours are 6:00AM to 12NOON and 2:00PM to 10:00PM.

Figure 14: Graph indicating the hours that tourist would take surf lessons. This Initial Analysis shows a preferred starting time being 7:30AM and an ending time of 6:30PM with a break occurring at 9:00AM to 3:30PM.

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Table 10: Initial Analysis on the Average Sun Bathing Hours and Required Space of Interviewed Respondents by Gender.

Figure 17: Initial Analysis of Respondents Monthly Trips

Table 11: Initial Analysis on the Average Sun Bathing Hours and Required Space of Interviewed Respondents by Gender

Figure 18: Initial Analysis of Respondents According to Gender

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Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba is Assistant Professor and member of the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

Zhang Ye is Assistant Professor and member of the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore.

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