City as archive: a dialogue between theory and practice

Sheringham, Michael; Wentworth, Richard

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“…In actionable terms, this may prompt suggestions and interventions to unlock silenced futures, to further 'dramatise' the future through the use of techniques of story-telling, performance or even 'dreaming' and to radically enhance 'anticipatory competences', 'styles of anticipation' and our engagement with the geographical-environment unconscious. As argued by Sheringham and Wentworth (2016), the 'city as archive' helps to cruise rather than use the urban. As part of planning, such cruising entails a collective and confrontational activity, rather than a leisurely drive.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’

van Driessche,

Ache,

Lagendijk

2023

Planning Theory

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For more than two decades, critical planning scholars have called for strategic spatial planning to cut its rational roots stemming from the 1960s–70s, and counter its tendency towards more incremental approaches of the 1980s–2000s. To truly address the core challenges of cities and regions in our times, spatial planning should plan for discontinuity. This paper explores how planning may embrace futuring practices to do so. Drawing on three materially oriented futuring approaches, ‘Critical Future Studies’, ‘Sociology of Expectations’, and ‘Sociology of the Future’, futuring practices may serve a threefold aim. First, exposing the power of ‘normalisation’, unlocking silenced futures. Second, providing a stage to exhibit and dramatise ‘future expectations’ (stories, images, artefacts) and their stakeholder connections. Third, letting urban materiality and corporeality truly speak for themselves to the present and the future, opening experiences of, and confrontations with, the technological, environmental and geographical unconscious. Consequently, we show how such futuring can take shape through the creation of an ‘Archive of the Future’, which we illustrate through Rotterdam as a case.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’

van Driessche,

Ache,

Lagendijk

2023

Planning Theory

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“…Walking enables an engagement with the urban materialities that order the functions and actions of different urban groups. The archive may be an instrument to order territories, as much as a mechanism to generate new and unexpected histories, for which moving through the city is essential (Sheringham and Wentworth, 2016). Paraphrasing Roberts (2015), urban dwellers themselves become the curators of the giant, contingent archive that is the city.…”

Section: Walking Urban Infrastructure Landscapesmentioning

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WALK THE PIPELINE: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru's Long Twentieth Century

Broto¹,

Sudhira²,

Unnikrishnan³

2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Walking reveals how urban infrastructure lends identity to the urban landscape. This article focuses on the oldest water pipeline in the city of Bengaluru, India. A series of vignettes trace the linear trajectory of the walk both in terms of the spatial orientation of the pipeline, and its trajectory through time. Through space, the pipeline connects the centre of the city with its suburbs, tracking differential and sometimes invisible patterns of urbanization that follow the city's sprawl. Through time, the pipeline connects water narratives, from nostalgic notions of precolonial management to the contemporary construction of scarcity. The use of walking as a methodological tool draws attention to the subsumed and often invisible experiences of inequity in various parts of the city. The pipeline is a maker of urban stories alongside routine practices and larger strategic projects of urban development. While the pipeline enables the provision of water, the neighbourhoods it passes through are sometimes excluded from the service it provides. Strategic projects have attempted to control water resources following different ways of imagining the city. Still, such urban imaginations coexist with a more extensive set of everyday practices that engage with the pipeline in the urban landscape.'Walking has created paths, roads, trade routes; generated local and crosscontinental senses of place; shaped cities, parks; generated maps, guidebooks, gear, and, further afield, a vast library of walking stories and poems, of pilgrimages, mountaineering expeditions, meanders, and summer picnics. The landscapes, urban and rural, gestate the stories, and the stories bring us back to the sites of this history. ' Solnit (2001: 4)

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“…It also evokes and records space and communicates the connection between materials and urban practice. At the same time, materials and relations are compacted layer upon layer [74], such as the octagonal building changes from the casino during the concession period to the Workers' Cultural Palace.…”

Section: Archivementioning

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Oriental Marco Polo Plaza Encounter: Choreographing Place and Placelessness from a Phenomenological Perspective

Gao

Zhou

2021

Sustainability

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The notion of place has raised great concern within weaving tourism studies in recent decades. Nevertheless, dialectical indigenous considerations of Edward Relph’s phenomenological concepts of place and placelessness are still insufficient, particularly in non-Western countries. Phenomenology, as an immersive approach, provides an open and descriptive examination of the diverse perceptions and constitutive meanings of a place. From a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to explore the dynamic grasping of place and placelessness in tourism experiences. Twenty-four tourists participated in the research in Marco Polo Plaza in Italian Style Town, a concession for a particular historical period, in Tianjin, China. The findings suggest that tourists’ experiences could be ordered into three themes: (1) encountering a place labelled recreation and entertainment, (2) encountering an exotic heterogeneous place, and (3) encountering a lived place in the lifeworld. These results emphasize that place and placelessness are intertwined paradoxically beyond the binary, and such a nonlinear, dialectical, and subtle dimension is the possible inspiration that the phenomenological perspective brings to tourism research. Drawing on the inevitability of tourists’ diverse perceptions, we advance that an open multi-sensuous engagement and inclusive geographic practices offer an insight into the understanding of sustainability.

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City as archive: a dialogue between theory and practice

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How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’

How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’

WALK THE PIPELINE: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru's Long Twentieth Century

Oriental Marco Polo Plaza Encounter: Choreographing Place and Placelessness from a Phenomenological Perspective

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