Postmodern Urbanism:

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Postmodern Urbanism

• The Restless Urban Landscape

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Postmodern Urbanism Central City Issues

• Economic Social Polarization Spatial Mismatch
• Economic Social Polarization Gentrification
• Landscape Features Festival Setting

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Gentrification

• A type of neighborhood change involving the
  replacement of lower income residents w/ middle
  or high income residents.
• Most pronounced in world cities and regional
  centers that have evolved from older urban cores.

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Production side explanation

• Rent Gap difference between cost of land,
  improvements AND value associated with highest
  and best use
• Gentrification fueled by developers (Neil Smiths
  early work)
• Displacement of moderate income population as
  city becomes new bourgeoisie playground

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SOHO NYC
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Claire Danes Loft in NYC
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New Middle Class Consumption Side
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Gentrification Consumption Driven

• Leys argument new culture of consumption
• Qualities of community

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Assessing Gentrification

• Production vs. Consumption -?
• Merging of cultural economic features in
  literature of gentrification
• Postmodernism as cultural clothing of advanced
  capitalism

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Knoxs List of Postmodern Urban Features

• Gentrification
• Historic Preservation
• Postmodern architecture
• Mixed Use Development (MXD)
• Multiple Use Development (MUD)
• High-tech corridor
• Master planned suburban development
• Exurban development

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Festival Settings

• In attempt to enhance cities as places of
  consumption, cities support development of
  festival marketplaces and other tourist
  attractions.
• Ex. Faneuil Market, Boston

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Postmodern Urbanism Postsuburban Development

• Whats post-suburban about it? -- Suburban
  areas no longer primarily residential and, in
  fact, are creating new densities with functions
  competitive with central business district.
• New vocabulary stealth cities Edge Cities
  Technoburbs High Tech Corridors Asylum Suburbs

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Edge City joel garreau (1988)

• Has five million square feet or more of leasable
  office space the workplace of the Information
  Age
• Has 600,000 square feet or more of leasable
  retail space
• Has more jobs than bedrooms
• Is perceived by the population as one place
• Was nothing like city as recently as thirty
  years ago

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Flex-space

• This concept combines designer office frontages
  w/ rear access loading bays and interior space
  that can be used as office, industrial, or
  warehousing space in any proportion.

Welton Enterprises, Inc. High Quality
Office/Industrial FlexSpace
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Mixed Use Development

• Harbor Square

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Master Planned Communities

• Features a definable boundary a consistent
  but not necessarily uniform character overall
  control during the development process by a
  single development entity private ownership of
  recreational amenities and, enforcement of
  convenants restrictions by a master community
  associations.

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Prairie Crossing A Conservation Community
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Responses to Postmodern Conditions New Urbanism

• For Community?
• For Environment?
• For Market Niche?

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Milwaukee Example

• Beerline B Ex. Trostel Square

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New Urbanism

• Community Neo-traditionalism local
  references, increased interaction
• Environmental Critique Pedestrian transit
  orientation Anti-sprawl w/higher densities
• Market Niche expensive master planned
  communities gentrification or New
  Suburbanism