Yangon Bus Station Urban and landcsape design in city context Workshop 2017 Yangon Myanmar Raphaël Monnier
Empowering citizens to take back control of public space is Yangon essencial for it’s harmonious development. The city was designed exclusively for cars and completely ommited the presence of pedestrians. this initiative will try to raise questioning and suggest a possibility of upgrading and highering the quality of these forgotten spaces. In a complete ecological way, the structure will provide different kinds of public services that are today very often privately owned. The “Yangon urban Tree” initiative could be the starting point of a discussion regarding public space regeneration. The idea started from the assement of the gentrification problem inflected by localized urban parcs. Such economic “eco-system services” have an impact on the rent increase of neighboring buildings. Low-income family who cannot afford this inflation are pushed away from the newly created high quality lifestyle intended by the parc. The idea of creating “de-localized” parc as a network in the city would higher all citizens life conditions without the desastrous consequences of gentrification. Using existing public transportation network infrastructure as a basis for this project could be a way to tackle with both of these issues. Therefore, this presentation will try to provide an alternative form to Yangon bus stops.
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