TALES OF THREE CITIES
Learning through different layers of a city
Understanding the details of a city and how it evolved into how it is today. Analysing the different aspects of culture, social and economics of a city. To understand how to design architecture with the city and knowing the identity through the years of urbanisation. The relationship between the main street and alleys and the comparison between both.
How does a city work? Every city is shaped differently depending on it evolved from the past to present and how quality of livelihood is improved. This module strive to learn through cities of different backgrounds and learn on how to analyse cities on a secondary layer.
Analysis was done with the learning of psychogeographic mapping, zoning maps, relevant pictures and cited text from different resources.
CITY 1
Chinatown
The culture of Chinese immigrants influences the evolution of eateries in Flushing. The Chinatown along Main Street emerges into a successful commercial hub, while residential buildings are built with higher heights and saving land use to accommodate more occupants in Flushing.
Irregular Planning
Community shapes the city of Flushing and neighbouring districts
Surrounding neighbourhood are in organic (green spaces) or systematic order (residential buildings)
The unplanned situations or did not undergo rezoning areas are grown incrementally and organically, with minor amendments over the year
Gentrification
The change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents or businesses due to higher rents , mortgages and property taxes.Thus, gentrification became a housing , economics and health issue that affects a community’s history and culture in which reduces social capital.
CITY 2
HO CHI MINH, VIETNAM
Temporary Upgrading: How permanent are the results of urban housing resettlement project in Ho Chi Minh?
Growing with water
Buildings built are planned to strengthens the city’s extraordinary bond with the river and is a model for long-term sustainable growth in Ho Chi Minh City.
Lifestyle
Urban road capacity is not sufficient for inner community.
Roads are too narrow to allow residents to access their housing.
Lots of districts have grown with the influx of immigrants and informal self-built housing production since the late 1980s.
Redevelopment
Formalising the Informal:
In-situ upgrading
Peri-urbanised area is a fragmented development in District 2. There is no point in developing a city when a percentage of the citizens will be homeless, finding source of income, to provide a roof above their head.
Increasing Population
Urban housing resettlement project. The project is the overall picture of government’s endeavor to improve the canal water environment and to update the living standard quality for citizens.
Reflective Essay
Reflection
A CITY WITH IDENTITY
Identity grows with development, to protect the land of heritage and culture depends on how the community view the importance of the place. I personally think that to develop Kampung Baru and the other fragments of Kuala Lumpur takes efforts from the community and later for government to respond, to preserve or develop to benefit the city.