Showing posts with label nycbioregion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nycbioregion. Show all posts
Friday, April 12, 2013
How To Manage a Constellation
Another great piece, with fantastic hyperlinks, from Thackera, this time on how to put together a participatory process that can move diverse groups towards creative inclusive socio-ecological sustainability. Really intrigued by the "boundary object" idea and what would it look like for NYC bioregion? what sort of artifact-scheme, diagram, image, desire?
Venice: from Gated Lagoon to Bioregion: Observatory: Design Observer
Absolutely fascinating piece. Not just on the amazing city that Venice is, and its problems (it's sinking!) but also on why it's having such a difficult time taking the imaginative leap: lack of creative democratic governance process.
"Humans, water, and nature are profoundly interrelated in the Venice lagoon — but they are profoundly dis-connected in its governance. While the Italian state deploys hard infrastructure to create a gated lagoon, Corila’s researchers work separately on a new morphological plan. While myriad heritage groups campaign to protect the built city from floods and tourists, artists and scientists dream up radical scenarios of their own. Native Venetian citizens, for their part, work in tourism, and dislike doing so — but hear little about these alternative projects and visions. The cruise ship industry, proclaiming that there is no alternative source of jobs and prosperity, is left to do its own, ecocidal, thing.
What’s missing is a shared vision around which all the stakeholders who are now separated from each other — municipalities, citizens, artists, mussel farmers, research institutes — could collaborate.
Bringing the lagoon as a bioregion back to life could surely be that issue."
"Humans, water, and nature are profoundly interrelated in the Venice lagoon — but they are profoundly dis-connected in its governance. While the Italian state deploys hard infrastructure to create a gated lagoon, Corila’s researchers work separately on a new morphological plan. While myriad heritage groups campaign to protect the built city from floods and tourists, artists and scientists dream up radical scenarios of their own. Native Venetian citizens, for their part, work in tourism, and dislike doing so — but hear little about these alternative projects and visions. The cruise ship industry, proclaiming that there is no alternative source of jobs and prosperity, is left to do its own, ecocidal, thing.
What’s missing is a shared vision around which all the stakeholders who are now separated from each other — municipalities, citizens, artists, mussel farmers, research institutes — could collaborate.
Bringing the lagoon as a bioregion back to life could surely be that issue."
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Amanda Burden, Planning Commissioner, Is Remaking New York City - NYTimes.com
The importance of this office could majorly increase re: Sandy redevelopment:
“I like to say that our ambitions are as broad and far-reaching as those of Robert Moses, but we judge ourselves by Jane Jacobs’s standards,” Ms. Burden said.
REALLY?
Her fans say that Ms. Burden is a visionary who will leave behind a much-improved city. “There is no question that under Amanda’s leadership, New York has experienced a renaissance,” said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society of New York, “with more development of parkland, waterfront and infrastructure over the last 10 years than in the 100 years before it.” But critics say that the sum total of Ms. Burden’s ambitions will be a gentrified city that no longer has a place for working-class New Yorkers. “The overall effect of the city’s rezonings has been incredibly dramatic in terms of the creation of expensive, market-rate housing and typically middling at best in terms of affordable housing,” said Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
“I like to say that our ambitions are as broad and far-reaching as those of Robert Moses, but we judge ourselves by Jane Jacobs’s standards,” Ms. Burden said.
REALLY?
Her fans say that Ms. Burden is a visionary who will leave behind a much-improved city. “There is no question that under Amanda’s leadership, New York has experienced a renaissance,” said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society of New York, “with more development of parkland, waterfront and infrastructure over the last 10 years than in the 100 years before it.” But critics say that the sum total of Ms. Burden’s ambitions will be a gentrified city that no longer has a place for working-class New Yorkers. “The overall effect of the city’s rezonings has been incredibly dramatic in terms of the creation of expensive, market-rate housing and typically middling at best in terms of affordable housing,” said Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
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