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Title: City Vision


1
City Vision
  • Urban Design and Vision in
  • The City as a Text
  • The Music Garden
  • The Street that Got Mislaid
  • Architecture in Taipei

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2
Outline
  • Starting Questions
  • Metropolis The City as Text (1)
  • The Music Garden
  • The Street that Got Mislaid
  • Conclusion
  • Reference

3
Starting Questions
What have we learned so far?
  • Modern city vs. Postmodern city
  • Urbanism as a way of life (impersonal,
    transitory, segmental, and mostly utilitarian
    human contact)
  • Organic city vs. planned city (with utilitarian
    purposes Paris as an example)
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Taipei in (Taipei, Taipeilt??gt????),
  • Montreal (Canvas of Time, No and North),
  • Toronto (In the Skin of a Lion)

4
Starting Questions
What are we discussing today?
  • Different visions or interpretation of a city
    (religious divine order, naturalist body,
    Foucaultian grid, Marxist dynamic structure)
  • urban planning social welfare, landscaping and
    domicile registration (census)
  • Vision and reality landscaping, music film and
    nature
  • Garden and green bottle relevance to our
    cities?

5
Starting Questions on The City as Text
  • How do we describe/represent a city? Why is city
    an imagined environment (422)? Why can a city
    be a text (written with signs, to be
    interpreted)?
  • How do city planners imagine a city? With what
    metaphors and charts? What could be their
    limitations? What could be the limitations they
    place on city-dwellers? (e.g. pedestrian areas)
  • How about us? What metaphors or images do we
    have in mind about a city? Can we map a city?
    How do we walk in a city such as Taipei?

6
Metropolis The City as Text
  • Focus representations of cities from 19th
    century till now. (human body, machine, Paris,
    Vienna, labyrinth, modern city and mental life,
    flows p. 423)
  • 1.1 Prologue excerpts from Bleak House and The
    Asphalt Jungle
  • Similarities effect of the weather on the
    cities the city alien civilization
    sophisticated but fragile technologies and
    forces constituting the life of a city
  • Asphalt Jungle city as a machine and a strange
    and magical place with awareness of the class
    and ethnic differences
  • 1.2 The city as imagined environment organic
    and mechanical
  • 2.1 Capitalist City Police
  • 2.2 Concept vs. Experience

7
Metropolis The City as Text
  • A. Two paradigms in the 19th century (425-29)
  • The divine order the invisible hand of the
    market in giving order to a city ? like a body
    with the instincts of brute creation.
  • The medical paradigm ills attributed less to
    commercial systems than to urbanization.
  • Develop social welfare system through both
    investigation and administration systems.
  • Urban government . . . Includes surveillance and
    discipline. ? concrete, quantifiable and precise
    info. ? ???????.
  • E.g. lt??gt its view of the citysimilar or
    different?
  • The last SARS epidemic multiple systems of
    surveillance

8
The police City as a statistical grid of
investigation and surveillance
  • B. Grid (surveillance welfare)
  • (Michel Foucault) the police
  • 1. political, 2. pastoral
  • a technology of government which defined the
    domains, techniques and targets of state
    intervention. It involved
  • cataloguing the resources of a state, both
    material and human, in minute detail.
  • Identified a new object polulation (429-30)
  • e.g. District Offices (domicile registration)
    District Health Center

9
The City as Text (2) Dynamic structure
  • Engels Marxist view relations between the
    haves and have-nots as a complex, concrete
    totality, and whose parts have meanings that are
    only decipherable in relation to all its other
    parts. (432)
  • determined by modes of production
  • Summary pp. 433-34

10
The City as Text 2.2 Concept vs. Experience
  • Michel de Certeau p. 435
  • Concept city (435) in utopian or urbanistic
    discourse with a perspective both god-like and
    voyeuristic that can encompass all the diversity,
    randomness and dynamism of urban life in a single
    panorama (statistics). ? a proper space, a pure
    space, a space of rational organization. ? urban
    and human ills repressed

11
The City as Text 2.2 Concept vs. Experience (2)
  • Michel de Certeau p. 435
  • 2. Lived city beneath the discourses, the grids
    and combinations of powers or a fixed pattern of
    statistical relationships.
  • The people, who are unpredictable, inventive and
    devious.
  • Who have illegible improvisations of the spaces
    on the streets or at home. (435-34)

12
The City as Text 2.2 Concept vs. Experience (3)
  • Rational city vs. mythic experience Max Weber
    vs. Walter Benjamin (436)
  • Max Weber 18th, 19th centuries abstract,
    formal rationality as the organizing principle ?
    demythification and disenchantment of the social
    world
  • The new urban-industrial world fully
    re-enchanted. --in the new shopping arcades.

13
The City as Text 2.2 Concept vs. Experience (2)
  • Paris as an example
  • ?????
  • Houssmanns plans (boulevard, underground sewage,
    underground canal, street furniture)
  • improvement of Chamsee-lysee (quality control
    and
  • Park of Bercy
  • ????
  • Houssmann vs. Baudelaire (438-39)
  • Rational organization vs. flaneur
  • e.g. Taipei City Hall and Capitol Hill Washington
    DC

14
The Music Garden
  • What do you think?
  • General Intro.
  • Music Landscaping
  • Efforts Arts, Business and Politics
  • General Design

15
Toronto Music Garden
  • From Bostons City Hall Plaza
  • to Torontos Harbor Front

16
Music Landscaping Why and How?
  • Musical piece-- Ma A document that is visual,
    aural and spatial at the same time. it
    affects and animates people so much in different
    places and times.
  • The first suite of Bache Ma nature
  • Garden nature made simple and readable
  • Transferring audio language to spatial language
  • Lobbying (film 419900)
  • Note? both are 1) abstract art appealing to our
    senses 2) pervasive 3) rhythmic (rhythm made
    with beats, proportional shape and spatial
    arrangement)

17
Artistic Efforts Music ? Landscaping
  • 1. Landscaper
  • Drawing blue prints, making models
  • The choice of plants e.g. Ginko (??)
  • Understanding music (dancevertical sinking and
    rising
  • 2. Filmmaker
  • Filmic visions (900 from the room to Mas
    performance to garden scenes 1830 from a model,
    to concrete building to garden from the city
    hall front to a garden 3900 out in traffic ?
    plants growing)
  • Low point Sarabande
  • Visual messages e.g. Images fading, officials
    backs

18
Music, Film Landscaping and Nature
  • To use human languages to shape nature, or create
    order out of disorder
  • Mas intention to create a space for music, or a
    concert hall without walls. ? what about
    traffic? (e.g. 5100 5330)

19
The Practical Concerns
  • Privatize the space (1217) income from real
    estate ? improves the plaza
  • Security
  • Get corporate support (to massage the
    corporate power.) --naming (the movements, the
    flower beds) to get support of one movement/area
    after another.
  • Artists have a different vision.
  • Deadlines of filmmaking.

20
Bach Garden Plan
  • Suite1 I Prelude II Allemande III
    -Courante, IV Sarabande, V - Menuet I , VI -
    Gigue

21
Prelude An undulating riverscape with curves and
bends.
  • a seascape, a riverscape, a wavelike motion
    that carve out space

Response to the environment 343
22
Allemande (an ancient German dance) A forest
grove of wandering trails.
  • swirl

Original plan 1200 adjusted in the new plan
Bk 14
23
Courante A swirling path through a wildflower
meadow.
  • Spiral in and out, twisting and turning
  • The film camera pans away from Ma to
    butterflies, circles around Ma (- 2900-) ? the
    project falls through

2329
24
Sarabande A conifer grove (???) in the shape of
an arc
  • A glade(??????) in the forest

3000
25
Sarabande a poet's corner
  • the garden's centerpiece is a huge stone that
    acts as a stage for readings, and holds a small
    pool with water that reflects the sky.

Bk 13
26
Menuette A formal flower parterre (?????).
  • Formal garden, symmetrical

4144
27
Minuette formal dance
  • Julie Messervy (1st movement) To shape nature in
    simple forms
  • Hand-crafted with ornamental steel, a circular
    pavilion is designed to shelter small musical
    ensembles or dance groups.

28
Music and Nature The Gigue (5154)
  • Gigue Giant grass steps that dance you down to
    the outside world. (steps and exiting and leaving
    the piece)
  • or "jog" is an English dance, whose jaunty,
    rollicking music is interpreted here as a series
    of giant grass steps that offer views onto the
    harbor.

29
Administrative perspective "The Street That Got
Mislaid"
  • Is it possible for the story to happen in real
    life?
  • Is it possible for a missing person to remain
    incognito for all of his/her life?
  • identity checks employment and education,
    customs/immigration office, credit card, drivers
    license, ID cards, social security/insurance
    card, etc.
  • If you could choose, would you like to live there?

30
Administrative perspective "The Street That Got
Mislaid"
  • Marcs life at work vs. his life at home
  • total familiarity with and belief in the
    bureaucratic system he supports (e.g. his
    discussion with his friend re. the truth of his
    residence in Oven streetestablished by his
    files.)
  • loneliness neighbors noisy or even violent
  • Marcs choice too quick and too radical a
    change, accepted too quickly by the woman
  • Other possible problems of Green Bottle Street
    work and money? Procreation and family building?

31
Buildings Which of them have humane design?
  • ?????????? - ??????
  • ?????? ?????
  • More
  • (modernist 1)
  • (postmodernist 1, 2)

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Conclusion?
  • A city can be variously defined, imagined,
    desired for, and connected to the past.
  • Concept City does not just belong to the city
    planners. We also develop our concepts of the
    city in our use of signs, through our walking and
    living, desiring and recollections in a city.

33
Reference
  • ????? (Examining Architecture). ???. ???,
    ??????.
  • Toronto Music Garden Photo Gallery---Inspired by
    Bach Yo Yo Ma http//www.nakayoshi.org/musicgard
    en/
  • Loraine Hunter http//www.garden-time.com/magazine
    /03september/article_gotw.php
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