Urbanism Inventory 2012
10.11. 2012 (Saturday)
“How to Plan a City?
Trends, Methods, Approaches.”
An architect must prepare tools with the humility of a technician,
tools for an act that they can only imagine or sense,
while knowing that the tool can evoke and suggest the act.
(Aldo Rossi)
The Institute of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University organizes an annual working and program conference on current topics in the field of urbanism, planning, design, and construction of settlements. Last year's edition (“What is a City Anyway?”) focused mainly on questions about what the contemporary city is and what driving mechanisms shape it. In three thematic blocks: 1. Who builds the city? 2. For whom do we build the city? and 3. How to build the city? politicians, theorists, and practicing architects presented their positions, opinions, and projects. This year, the main theme is the key instrument for urban development: the spatial plan, its goals, and methods.
The problem with contemporary spatial plans is the increasingly growing emphasis on their formal aspect. Spatial plans are drafted based on general methodologies and common standards, often independently of the location, size, and context of municipalities, regardless of their intentions. Likewise, the standards for spatial plans have significantly remained unchanged over the last decades, despite significant changes in socio-political conditions, particularly those arising from general economic and technological transformations. Existing approaches inadequately address the relationship between the dynamism of spatial development and the static nature of plans, insufficiently reflecting the excessive instability of existing plans and the influence and position of real agents of settlement development. Additionally, excessive importance is placed on the functional use of space, while the significance of the "temporally layered" spatial structure of the settlement as a fundamentally stable element is overlooked. Furthermore, the natural need for resident participation in spatial development is not sufficiently reflected in the assignments. This is linked to the need for spatial plans to be documents that are generally understandable, accessible, and inspiring. Moreover, it is often forgotten that the spatial plan is only one of the instruments for territorial development. Its connections to strategic programs and long-term plans on one hand, and decision-making processes on the other hand, are crucial for the successful sustainable development of the municipality.
The format of this year's meeting will differ from previous editions; there will only be five speakers, each opening crucial topics based on a specific city case, and these topics will be further discussed through direct reactions to the lectures and within three discussion panels, which will focus on essential questions arising from previous contributions.
Date
November 10, 2012 (Saturday)
Morning lectures 9 AM - 1 PM
Afternoon discussion panels 2 PM - 6 PM
Venue
Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague
lecture room (300 people) and meeting room (“greenhouse” for 50 people)
Thesis
“We want to understand the concept of a spatial plan reflecting the real mechanisms of urban development.”
A. The city is planned, designed, and built
B. The plan is a basis for projects
C. Projects are the basis for the plan
Program Council
Jan Jehlík
Roman Koucký
Petr Hlaváček
Jiří Plos
Jakub Filip Novák
Speakers
Robert Votický - London
Ivan Nosek – Cologne
Jan Kasl – Strategic Plan for Prague
Pavel Hnilička – Regulatory Plans and OTP, Prague
Roman Koucký – Metropolitan Plan of the Capital City of Prague
www.inventuraurbanismu.cz
Trends, Methods, Approaches.”
An architect must prepare tools with the humility of a technician,
tools for an act that they can only imagine or sense,
while knowing that the tool can evoke and suggest the act.
(Aldo Rossi)
The Institute of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University organizes an annual working and program conference on current topics in the field of urbanism, planning, design, and construction of settlements. Last year's edition (“What is a City Anyway?”) focused mainly on questions about what the contemporary city is and what driving mechanisms shape it. In three thematic blocks: 1. Who builds the city? 2. For whom do we build the city? and 3. How to build the city? politicians, theorists, and practicing architects presented their positions, opinions, and projects. This year, the main theme is the key instrument for urban development: the spatial plan, its goals, and methods.
The problem with contemporary spatial plans is the increasingly growing emphasis on their formal aspect. Spatial plans are drafted based on general methodologies and common standards, often independently of the location, size, and context of municipalities, regardless of their intentions. Likewise, the standards for spatial plans have significantly remained unchanged over the last decades, despite significant changes in socio-political conditions, particularly those arising from general economic and technological transformations. Existing approaches inadequately address the relationship between the dynamism of spatial development and the static nature of plans, insufficiently reflecting the excessive instability of existing plans and the influence and position of real agents of settlement development. Additionally, excessive importance is placed on the functional use of space, while the significance of the "temporally layered" spatial structure of the settlement as a fundamentally stable element is overlooked. Furthermore, the natural need for resident participation in spatial development is not sufficiently reflected in the assignments. This is linked to the need for spatial plans to be documents that are generally understandable, accessible, and inspiring. Moreover, it is often forgotten that the spatial plan is only one of the instruments for territorial development. Its connections to strategic programs and long-term plans on one hand, and decision-making processes on the other hand, are crucial for the successful sustainable development of the municipality.
The format of this year's meeting will differ from previous editions; there will only be five speakers, each opening crucial topics based on a specific city case, and these topics will be further discussed through direct reactions to the lectures and within three discussion panels, which will focus on essential questions arising from previous contributions.
Date
November 10, 2012 (Saturday)
Morning lectures 9 AM - 1 PM
Afternoon discussion panels 2 PM - 6 PM
Venue
Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague
lecture room (300 people) and meeting room (“greenhouse” for 50 people)
Thesis
“We want to understand the concept of a spatial plan reflecting the real mechanisms of urban development.”
A. The city is planned, designed, and built
B. The plan is a basis for projects
C. Projects are the basis for the plan
Program Council
Jan Jehlík
Roman Koucký
Petr Hlaváček
Jiří Plos
Jakub Filip Novák
Speakers
Robert Votický - London
Ivan Nosek – Cologne
Jan Kasl – Strategic Plan for Prague
Pavel Hnilička – Regulatory Plans and OTP, Prague
Roman Koucký – Metropolitan Plan of the Capital City of Prague
www.inventuraurbanismu.cz
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