Lecture by guest lecture last week about Creating City Through New Technology...sound interesting right?? but before that she already told us to read about technology in urban design.. and what happen was i'm not manage to find so much info about that topic..
previously in sustainable class, there were 2 lectures to be deliver by the guest lecture.. 1st lecture is about Universal Design and 2nd lecture is about this topic..
for the 1st time me and my friend heard about urban gentrification..alright..what is it??!!.. never heard before.. (it is show how lack i was with knowledge.. -_- )
went through the lecture, it give new perspective and knowledge what is urban gentrification but there are many question to be ask.. the explanation interesting but in certain aspect i keep asking why it is like that.. so i went to explore what exactly urban gentrification is about..
from my reading, gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district's character and culture. this is quote by Benjamin Grant who is an urban designer, city planner and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
as what i understand gentrification is about an area which is establish been occupied by lower income people and suddenly the area received people from outside which is more wealthy or high income class than the common people and make the area growth; economic and lifestyle changes in order to cater for the needs of this wealthy group. However the changes gives bad implication toward the common people which come from lower class because they have to live in this pressure environment although they cannot afford it.. it shows from the increasing of rent price, land value and many more.. they been push to move if they cannot afford to pay for the price.. this is lead towards the urban sprawl..and the area is having urban renewal because of the influence of wealthy or high class people..
so gentrification is about changing the establish area into new area (URBAN RENEWAL) and give pressure to the existing community to live in this area and push them to move out if they cannot afford it (URBAN SPRAWL)
from the lecture, how does urban gentrification will affect the cities and people in aspect of transportation.. and what have been done by the cities who is facing urban gentrification to deal with this transportation issues.. if we refer back to the definition of gentrification, transportation is one of the aspect will be occur by this concept.. it is MOBILITY of the people in urban gentrification.. although the definition more emphasize into social and economic of people, mobility is one of the major problem will be arise due to this changes.. and the how we deal with MOBILITY issue?? what is the solution??
In lecture, solution for the mobility in urban gentrification are
- 'green city' electric vehicle by Randalph (2012)
- 'place shaping' active travel by Tranter & Sharpe (2012)
- 'Technology superhighway' digital society by Chien et al. (2011)
- 'healthy city' non-exploitative behaviour by Rydin et al (2012)
- 'archaic city' minimalization concept by Rogers (2013)
if we look at the solution that list in the lecture,it is all about MOBILITY of people in cities area... all the solution is about how to mobilize people without depending too much on vehicle but allow people to move or walk and at the same time to minimize the usage of natural resources such as oil.. it make sense right??..however if we go into details for each solution, it is not really a good solution because not all of the solution can be implement in all around the world but in certain places only.. more than that, the solution have advantages and disadvantages of it implementation.. not all the solution success only little of them for certain period of time and the same problem will happen again if we do not have a control or limitation of the development.. population of people in this world will increase from time to time and demand and supply of the resource that we have now will be disappear one day.. so as a thinkable community and we know what will happen in the future if we do not have limitation of it from today, new future generation will face a problem which cause by us today.. MOBILITY is part of the problem..
referring to the lecture itself, in order to solve the problem of mobility, using TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM is the best way.. why?? telecommunication system allow people to communicate without having to move.. telephone, hand phone, internet, 3G and many more is the trend of communicating nowadays.. people still connected although they do not meet each other. it is more fast and convenient for all.. that is the situation today.. no body will deny it.. most of the people around the world communicate to each other with telecommunication system.. each person will have cellphone with them no matter how they refuse to it for the first time.. although they do not know much about the advance technology as WIFI, Bluetooth and more, the basic usage of telecommunication system such as to make call, receive call and texting is enough to show how people really depending to the telecommunication system...
however the disadvantages of telecommunication system also will make the community weak in social interaction, less confident to meet people, plagiarism, cyber criminal and many more which make people more selfish, lonely and not socialize.. the issue of MOBILITY will be solve by telecommunication system but issue on SOCIAL INTERACTION will occur..
from URBAN GENTRIFICATION to TRANSPORTATION to MOBILITY to TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM to SOCIAL INTERACTION all this thing we need to bear in mind that if we do not have limitation of it from today, in the future it is not a big surprise if people not greet each other, the health issue increase and family relationship will weak as people only concern about themselves rather than others..
as planner, we have to think a best and practical way that give benefit to all, social, economic and environment of the people.. world is created for people to live on it with others not only for ourselves.. and it is called COMMUNITY.. people and nature is interact to each other to perform living..
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