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Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genusWindapo, Bayonle Olanrewaju January 2015 (has links)
This research stems from reports of the interaction between the growing informal communities such as Makoko, the coastal plains of the degenerating Lagos contexts and their limited access to central infrastructure. The effects of climate change on the low-lying coastal plains further exacerbate the degeneration experienced in these contexts. Therefore this research examines how people live independently of central infrastructure in informal contexts such as Makoko and whether this autonomy can be embedded into interventions that are integrated within the socio-economic networks of these contexts in a bid to shift from defective central infrastructures to social infrastructures that transform the blighted Lagos contexts in a manner that builds resilience at a local level. By using Makoko as a site for exploration and communicating with the locals of the context, Lagos professionals and non-governmental organizations, it emerged that there is currently an unhealthy relationship between the state, its local governments and its informal communities such as Makoko, in that the city of Lagos is managed principally from the office of the governor. This central management results in infrastructures that are implemented without critical acknowledgement of the problems faced by individuals who live in the many informal contexts of Lagos thereby resulting in little or no observable transformation in its (Lagos) degenerating contexts. It was also observed that Makoko has a unique urbanity of soft infrastructures that lend themselves to different scales of functions in the context and diverge from the typical hard infrastructures employed by the Lagos state government. The observations and findings point to the fact that the relationship between the state and its people must be strengthened for delivered infrastructures to be of any consequence in realizing any positive social change and transform Lagos and settlements like Makoko from their states of human and environmental degeneration by acknowledging that these contexts have unique problems and urbanisms that must be fused into any interventions within their precincts in a sustainable, ecological and economical way. This move will go a long way in transforming and legitimizing Lagos's degenerating contexts as important facets of the city.
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A sense of place and belonging : creating good neighbourhoods through productive social infrastructureMahlangu, Siyabonga Lunga January 2016 (has links)
The township in the South African context is a unique consequence
of Apartheid spatial planning. Envisaged as settlements for black labourers
on the outskirts of the city, they have become home to many
South Africans. Mamelodi was established as an effectively designed
township for labourers working in Pretoria, and grew at an exponential
rate, leading to a sizeable demand for housing. A mass provision
of housing was implemented then and, post 1994 to meet this
demand. The same strategy of housing is still continuing through the
Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). This provision of
housing has not been complimented by a provision of public amenities
and has led to monotonous neighbourhoods filled with housing
and no public space.
The ever growing community of Lusaka, in the east of Mamelodi, is
a community with a landscape of housing without public amenities
and public spaces. This neighbourhood has large amounts of people
moving in and out, with some people seeing it as a place of permanence
and some as a temporary detour. This influx of people and
the duality of temporality and permanence creates a very dynamic
society, one that the current architecture cannot respond to. The new
architecture has to address the above mentioned issues, providing
the community with access to public amenities and public spaces
that add value to their environment. The solutions derived can be
discussed and used to address similar problems plaguing townships
around South Africa. / Informele nedersettings in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks is 'n unieke
gevolg van Apartheid se ruimtelike beplanning. Oorspronklik in die
vooruitsig gestel as nedersettings vir swart arbeiders het hulle 'n
tuiste vir baie Suid-Afrikaners geword. Mamelodi was gestig as 'n
effektief ontwerpde informele nedersetting vir arbeiders wat werk
in Pretoria en het teen 'n eksponensi?le koers gegroei wat gelei
het tot 'n groot aanvraag vir behuising. 'n Massa voorsiening van
behuising was toe en n? 1994 ge?mplementeer om hierdie aanvraag
te voorsien. Dieselfde strategie van behuising word steeds voortgesit
deur die Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). Hierdie
behuisingsvoorsiening was nog nie aangevul deur 'n voorsiening
van openbare geriewe nie en het gelei tot eentonige woonbuurte wat
gevul is met behuising en geen openbare ruimte.
Die steeds groeiende gemeenskap van Lusaka, in die ooste van
Mamelodi, is 'n gemeenskap met 'n landskap van behuising sonder
openbare geriewe en openbare ruimtes. Hierdie woonbuurt het groot
getalle mense wat in en uit beweeg, met sommige mense wat dit sien
as 'n plek van blywendheid en ander as 'n tydelike ompad. Hierdie
instroming van mense en die dualiteit van tydelikheid en blywendheid
skep 'n baie dinamiese samelewing, een wat die huidiglike
argitektuur nie op kan reageer nie. Die nuwe argitektuur moet die
bogenoemde kwessies aanspreek om die gemeenskap toegang te
bied tot openbare geriewe en openbare ruimtes wat waarde toevoeg
tot hulle omgewing . Deur dit te doen kan die oplossings wat afgelei
is bespreek en gebruik word om soortgelyke kwessies aan te spreek
wat informele nedersettings regoor Suid-Afrika teister.
Argitektuur is vir die mense / Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted
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Hybrid : a new interface between the City of Pretoria and Berea parkScholtz, Jeandri January 2016 (has links)
The modern day mechanical integration
and organisation of cities have disturbed
the natural systems and sequences of
the environment, as well as the social
fabric and collective notions of society
within cities (Mumford, 1938:17). Man's
progressive "liberation" from the natural
environment has desensitised him to
nature (Crowe, 1995:233) creating an
artifi cial realm where man is removed
from nature.
Pretoria's establishment was greatly
infl uenced by its landscape - aptly
called "the valley between the ridges
and the rivers" (Dippenaar, 2013:6).
Urban modernisation and infrastructure
development have however progressively
disregarded the river and the landscape
within the city, consequently detaching
the city from these natural elements,
which resulted in the loss of their
signifi cance.
As one of the last remaining
underdeveloped sites in the inner city
of Pretoria, Berea Park represents a
continuation of the landscape and the
Apies River channel into the city. Situated
at the southern gateway of the city,
Berea Park was Pretoria's fi rst offi cial
recreational, social and cultural venue,
hosting numerous sport, outdoor and
other events. Unfortunately Berea Park
is currently in a derelict and idle state.
Infrastructural developments have
gradually disconnected the site from the
surrounding city fabric and community.
The isolated and forgotten park, has
like the river, tragically lost its essential
signifi cance. The divide between the city fabric,
the Apies River channel and the
Berea Park landscape presents the
opportunity to explore architecture's
role in re-integrating and connecting
experiences of "nature" into the city to
enhance the quality of urban life.
This dissertation explores architecture
and the hybrid typology of "building as
a landscape", as a means to create a
new topography and interface between
the Berea Park landscape, river
channel and the city. The concept of
a hybrid architecture that merges the
typologies of urban park, landscape,
infrastructure, public amenity and
building is explored with the intention
to develop a new typology that can
respond to the contextual challenges.
The building becomes an extension
of the park, and the park becomes
an extension of the building. The new
interface, proposed programme and
activities are aimed at linking the
city, its inhabitants, communities, the
landscape and the river. / Die hedendaagse meganiese
integrasie en organisasie van stede
het die natuurlike sisteme en ritmes
van die omgewing, asook die sosiale
strukture en kollektiewe opvattings
van gemeenskappe in stede versteur
(Mumford, 1038:17). Die mens se
progressiewe "bevryding" van die
natuurlike omgewing het gelei tot 'n
skeiding tussen die mens en die natuur
(Crowe, 2013:6), wat der volglik ?
kunsmatige domein waarbinne die
mensdom uit die natuurverwyder is,
geskep het.
Die totstandkoming van Pretoria was
grootliks be?nvloed deur sy natuurlike
landskap - met die gepaste benaming
van " 'n vallei gele? tussen rante
en riviere" (Dippenaar, 2013:6).
Met stedelike modernisering en
infrastruktuur ontwikkeling is daar
stelselmatig minder ag geslaan op die
rivier en die omliggende stadslandskap,
wat daartoe gelei het dat die stad van
die natuurlike omgewing afgesonder
geraak het en uiteindelik het dit die
verlies van die essensi?le betekenis
en waarde van die natuurelemente
veroorsaak.
Berea Park, een van die laaste
oorblywende onderontwikkelde
terreine in die sentrale stadsgebied
van Pretoria, is gele? aan die suidelike
ingang van die stad en verteenwoordig
'n verlenging van die landskap en
die Apiesrivierkanaal na die stad.
Di? terrein was Pretoria se eerste
amptelike ontspannings-, sosiale en kulturele
byeenkomsplek, wat sport-, buitelugen
ander byeenkomste aangebied het.
Ongelukking is Bera Park tans 'n verlate,
verwaarloosde en onbenutte area.
Infrastruktuur ontwikkeling van di? gebied
het geleidelik die terrein afgesonder van
die omliggende stad en gemeenskap. Die
ge?soleerde en vergete park het, soos die
rivier, tragies geen betekenis of nut meer
nie.
Die skeiding tussen die stedelike
bouomgewing, die Apiesrivierkanaal en
die landskap van Berea Park bied die
geleentheid om argitektuur se rol met
betrekking tot die herintegrering en
verbinding van die "natuur" met die stad
te ondersoek derhalwe die gehalte van 'n
stedelike lewenswyse te verhoog.
Die skripsie ondersoek argitektuur en
die hibriede tipologie van 'n gebou as
'n landskap, wat deur die fasilitering
van 'n nuwe topografi e 'n interaktiewe
verbinding tussen die landskap van Berea
Park, die rivierkanaal en die stad tot
stand kan bring. Hibriede-argitektuur is
'n konsep wat die samesmelting van die
tipologie? van stedelike park, landskap,
infrastruktuur, openbare fasiliteit en
gebou ondersoek met die doel om
'n nuwe tipologie te ontwikkel wat
kontekstuele uitdagings kan aanspreek.
Die gebou word 'n uitbreiding van die
park en die park word 'n uitbreiding van
die gebou. Die doelwit van die gebou
as nuwe interaktiewe verbinding en die
voorgestelde program en aktiwiteite, is
om die stad se inwoners, gemeenskappe,
die landskap en die rivier te herverbind. / Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted
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“Bringing People Together Around Food”: The Social Life of Findlay MarketBeiswenger, Lisa Marie January 2019 (has links)
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The Food Hub as a Social Infrastructure Framework: Restitching Communities in Boston After the PandemicTiches, Connor J 09 August 2023 (has links) (PDF)
Food culture has long been a fundamental part of the city; as a culturally cohesive urban infrastructure, food culture creates integral shared experiences and is a generator of socioeconomic opportunity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, existing systemic issues of racial segregation and isolation have exacerbated growing concerns of food insecurity within prominent minority neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The instability created by the lockdown and consequential work-life culture shift reinforces the importance of establishing and maintaining equitable and sustainable pathways of access to food resources and the socioeconomic opportunities food culture can create.
To promote resilience in the post-COVID-19 lockdown city, urban environments will need to be reimagined to incorporate social and economic infrastructures that promote flexibility and maximize entrepreneurial equity, diversity, and opportunity. As a driving force of this equitable change in Jamaica Plain and the surrounding neighborhoods, this thesis proposes a new sustainable food system that is in tune with the regions storied ecological landscapes as well as the current need for mobility in post-COVID-19 urban life. To bridge the gap between historically fragmented regions of the urban fabric, this thesis will propose an infrastructural landmark designed to support the proliferation of food cultures, enhance housing, industrial, and ecological infrastructures, as well as bike and pedestrian mobility to restitch the greater urban fabric of the city of Boston.
This thesis explores the reorganization of a range of modalities of urban food culture into a comprehensive food hub. The Food Hub and associated program will serve as an incubator of socioeconomic opportunity as well as operate as a system of sustainable production and distribution aimed at creating food sovereignty amongst members of the community.
The resolution of these analyses will culminate in an architectonic framework for food culture programs that are primed to support the sustainable and equitable flow of resources, users, and ideas between disparate communities.
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[re]birthHocalar, Özge January 2023 (has links)
Gasverket used to be a very important part of the city’s industrial and infrastructural history. Now it is under development just like other several old industrial areas in the city center while new industries are constantly pushed outside the city center limits. Looking at Gasverket’s (The Gas Factory) history and importance for the city of Stockholm, this thesis questions how we can integrate abandoned infrastructures back into the urban texture while protecting not only the built structure but also the infrastructural character of the area and challenging the definition of what infrastructure can and should be in the 21st century. Inspired by the social working ideologies of churches and/or mosques as places for charity and community, Gasverket aims to create a secular people’s place that redefines the concept of charity by offering job opportunities and educational help to groups of people who are not always included in the labor market. The project contributes to creating inclusive economic growth and equal work opportunities to create sustainable societies. In doing so, it brings back the production of construction materials in the city by reusing several household wastes and creates spaces to strengthen the bonds between individuals and the community.The strategy for dealing with what is left after the old gas work activities is to bring back the dirtiness of the production industry in the city center while integrating it with the current social and economic situations to create a sustainable infrastructural model. As the title suggests, with this project the area will become a place for the “rebirth” of an individual’s role in society, a space for the rebirth of waste materials, a place for a metaphorical rebirth after death, and finally the rebirth of Gasverket.
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Создание объектов социальной инфраструктуры посредством редевелопмента : магистерская диссертация / Creation of social infrastructure facilities through redevelopmentЛопаткин, Д. С., Lopatkin, D. S. January 2019 (has links)
Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, трех глав, заключения, списка литературы и приложения. Рассматриваются теоретические основы редевелопмента и социальной инфраструктуры, приводятся основные понятия, виды редевелопмента, его преимущества и недостатки, выявлены актуальные практические проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются девелоперские компании при реализации таких проектов, а также рассмотрен отечественный и зарубежный опыт проектов редевелопмента, в частности объектов социальной инфраструктуры. Проводится маркетинговое исследование, которое включает в себя анализ территории размещения объекта, имиджа района, социальной инфраструктуры и транспортной доступности к объекту, а также анализируется конкурентная среда и стратегические направления деятельности. В третьей главе оценивается эффективность проекта создания объекта социальной инфраструктуры с целью создания коммерческого общежития. Представлено технико-экономическое обоснование и расчет показателей эффективности реализации предложенного проекта. / The master's thesis consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, a list of references and an Appendix. Examines the theoretical framework for redevelopment and social infrastructure provides the basic concepts, types of redevelopment, its advantages and shortcomings identified some practical problems faced by development companies in the implementation of such projects, and also considers domestic and foreign experience of redevelopment projects, particularly social infrastructure. Marketing research is carried out, which includes the analysis of the location of the object, the image of the district, social infrastructure and transport accessibility to the object, as well as analyzes the competitive environment and strategic activities. The third Chapter assesses the effectiveness of the project to create a social infrastructure facility in order to create a commercial hostel. The feasibility study and calculation of performance indicators of the proposed project are presented.
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Lietuvos kaimo socialinės infrastruktūros plėtros ypatumai / The peculiarity of development of Lithuania rural social infrastructureGrabauskas, Andrius 26 May 2005 (has links)
The object of research is Lithuania rural social infrastructure (RSI).
The goal of research – after investigation the condition of rural social infrastructure of Lithuanian regions to determinate the reasons that has an influence to the consistent pattern of development of rural social infrastructure.
The tasks of the work are the following:
1.To inspect the theoretical conception of the regional development and RSI.
2.To select and to systematize statistics about RSI in Lithuania regions.
3.To traverse and to determinate the consistent patterns of rural social infrastructure development in Lithuania.
4.To investigate and to determinate the causative factors that influence the condition of rural social infrastructure.
5.To mould the connection model of the condition of RSI and the causal – resultant factors.
On purpose to reach the goal of research it’s done the analysis and the synthesis of 5 year the first and the second information which characterize the condition of rural social infrastructure, it’s used the methods of induction and deduction, information filing and count analyze, distribution of lines, average and relative rating, comparison, grouping, correlation analysis, series collation, analytical grouping, ranking, analogy, graphical rendering and other scientific research methods.
In order to estimate the regional differences of rural social infrastructure it was evaluated the rates, characterizing RSI condition, also it was determinable the strength of the... [to full text]
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The junction: transcending sociotechnical divides through youth spaceDowlath, Rahul January 2018 (has links)
Infrastructure continues to perpetuate the effects of splintering urbanism in South African cities. Where apartheid planning policies such as the group areas act used infrastructure as a mechanism of social organisation, this design dissertation proposes using architecture as social infrastructure to transcend these sociotechnical divides. The concept of the sociotechnical denotes the synergy of a city's infrastructural systems and its social life. In this design dissertation this idea is explored at various scales: at the urban level, through a development strategy that spatialises unsafe public open land; at the architectural scale, through surface articulation and interfacing with urban infrastructure; and at the technical level, through building performance analysis and technical design development in support of architectural goals. The project uses a distributed programme that stretches across communities in order to socialise the existing urban infrastructure of a pedestrian bridge. By leveraging the social significance of a local football club, the project proposes a social programme around the idea of a football clubhouse as a programmatic anchor. In reacting to urban infrastructure, the idea of imageability and presence are important considerations. These concepts enable youth to positively engage with the architecture, and allows the building to convey its purpose and programmatic intent, thereby creating a strong social interface with its users. Sociotechnical architecture is considered as an urban armature that socialises and spatialises urban infrastructure. The architecture therefore seeks the minimal amount of fixity to support a variety of flexible events surrounding sports and recreation activities. This is achieved through a selection of robust materials used in horizontal surfaces of social purpose, and the combination of structure, materiality and geometry to create a series of vertical surfaces of social presence and architectural imageability. The result is a strategic arrangement of architectural interventions deployed across a large urban scheme. By distributing the architecture across urban infrastructure, the project connects two communities and presents an architectural response to splintering urbanism.
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"Who Plays Basketball and Who Sails?" : Exploring social infrastructure as a facilitator for sense of community and social capital among immigrants in Stockholm / "Vem spelar basket och vem seglar?" : En studie av social infrastruktur som verktyg för gemenskap och socialt kapital bland utrikes födda i StockholmMajkic, Sara January 2021 (has links)
Under de senaste årtiondena har ofrivillig ensamhet rapporterats i allt högre utsträckning runt om i världen, och inte minst bland stadsbor. I Sverige utgör utrikes födda en av de grupper som i högre grad än genomsnittet uppges erfara ofrivillig ensamhet i flertalet undersökningar. Den fysiska miljön spelar en viktig roll i denna fråga, eftersom faktorer såsom att bo i ett ‘underpriviligierat’ område har visat sig ha en starkare korrelation med ensamhet än vad individuella faktorer har. Det finns dessutom studier som påvisar en koppling mellan förekomsten av gemenskap, socialt kapital och ensamhet, samt den fysiska miljöns påverkan på dessa aspekter. I syfte om att studera dessa begrepp i relation till social infrastruktur och den fysiska miljön formulerades följande frågeställningar: (1) Vad finns det för social infrastruktur i Norra Djurgårdsstaden och Rinkeby, och hur upplevs och används den? Hur påverkar den fysiska miljön gemenskapen och det sociala kapitalet i områdena? (2) Hur kan den sociala infrastrukturen utvecklas för att kunna stärka gemenskapen och det sociala kapitalet bland utrikes födda i de två områdena? Semistrukturerade intervjuer, enkäter och fältobservationer utfördes i Stockholmsområdena Norra Djurgårdsstaden och Rinkeby i syfte om att svara på dessa frågor. Resultaten visar att fastän det finns ett starkt sammanlänkande socialt kapital och gemenskap i båda områdena, så finns det en brist på överbryggande socialt kapital och gemenskap i förhållande till närliggande områden. De offentliga platserna saknar mångfald beträffande användardemografi, och tillgången till arbetsplatser, fritidsaktiviteter och kulturinstitutioner ser olika ut för utrikes födda i områdena. En bättre inkludering av utrikes föddas perspektiv inom den svenska samhällsplaneringen är därför önskvärd för att kunna utveckla hälsofrämjande och inkluderande platser för olika kulturella, ekonomiska och sociala behov. / During the past decades, involuntary loneliness has been more frequently reported among urban dwellers around the world. In Sweden, immigrants constitute one of the groups that have been reporting loneliness to a greater extent than the average in various surveys. The physical environment is considered relevant in this cause, as factors such as living in a 'deprived' area have been found to have a higher correlation to loneliness than individual-level factors. Studies have additionally found an interconnection between the phenomena of sense of community, social capital and loneliness, and asserted their varying nature in different neighborhoods. With the aim of studying these concepts in relation to social infrastructure and the built environment, the following research questions were formulated: (1) What social infrastructure is there in Stockholm Royal Seaport and Rinkeby and how is it perceived and used? How does the physical environment affect the sense of community and social capital in the areas? (2) How can social infrastructure be (re)developed in order to strengthen the sense of community and social capital among foreign born people in the two areas? Semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and field observations were applied to the Stockholm neighborhoods of Rinkeby and Stockholm Royal Seaport in order to answer these questions. The key findings show that while bonding social capital and sense of community is deemed strong in both areas, there is a lack of bridging social capital and sense of community in relation to neighboring areas. The public spaces lack diversity in terms of user demographics and there are different levels of access to workplaces, leisure activities and cultural institutions for immigrants in the neighborhoods. This calls for greater exploration of the immigrant perspective in Swedish urban planning, in terms of building healthy and inclusive places for diverse cultural, economic and social needs.
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