Projetos Urbanos

Muitos projetos e estudos já foram feitos para a Praça Roosevelt. Este trabalho de graduação da Gláucia Maia, USP São Carlos, mostra a história e os projetos da praça.
www.saplei.eesc.usp.br/tgi2007/…

Projeto de transformação da praça, feito por um grupo paulistano, para a mostra UIA Istanbul 2005.
www.vitruvius.com.br/institucional/inst98/inst98_08.asp

Novela Praça Roosevelt. Discussão sobre as intervenções e demolições propostas no local, no site do Fórum Centro Vivo.
www.centrovivo.org/node/760

Site de moradores e usuários da praça. Parece que a maioria é contra a demolição da laje pentagonal.
http://pracarooseveltsp.blogspot.com/

Since the end of last year the square with its concrete structures is awaiting demolition. As the demolition job is still stuck in legal and political processes, the secretary responsible for the area was obliged to open the space again to the public and clean the place up, until further decisions are made. After the elections in the end of this month we´ll probably see a next chapter in the short yet turbulent life of Praça Roosevelt. The removal of the walls revealed the spatial qualities of the original design. Nevertheless it is almost certain that the brutalist concrete structure will be demolished to make place for a new uncovered terraced layout, but who knows…

Photographic survey on October 21 2008

“The project Decolonizing Architecture, directed by architects Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman and located in Bethlehem/Palestine, is dealing with a complicated architectural problem: How to deal with the future remnants of Israeli colonial Architecture – colonies and military camps – at a time these would be unplugged from the architectural political power of Israel’s regime of occupation.”

www.decolonizing.ps

Instead of demolishing the evacuated Israeli colonies, the project proposes the transformation of the abandoned structures for different future use. An ungrounding strategy is suggested, meaning the demolishing of only the surface infrastructural occupations, leaving the houses as isolated pavilions in a new continuous, natural and collective context. Reuse and connection of existing buildings are studied, as well as flooding of certain areas.

Neve Decalim before (June 2005) and after (2006) its destruction by the Israelis.

Courtesy: ARIJ

The settlement P’sagot ungrounded

Unhoming

Conjunto de reportagens do Estadão, lançamento 03 de Agosto de 2008. São discutidas as seguintes megalópoles: São Paulo, Tóquio, Lagos, Chongqing, Moscou, Londres, Nova Iorque, Xangai, Rio de Janeiro, Cidade do México, Mumbai e Brasília.

www.estadao.com.br/megacidades

As reportagens providenciam uma boa introdução de cada cidade com fotografias e vídeos e alguns dados, sem aprofundar muito.

Megacidades, a lista

Represa Guarapiranga, São Paulo

Arbat Prospekt, Moscou

The former Island (now peninsula) - located in Brooklyn New York and named “Coneyne Eylandt” (Rabbit Island) by the Dutch - has been an icon of upcoming mass spectacle and entertainment and also of fast urban decay and deterioration. Today, the area is undergoing processes of new investment and urban revitalization.

History
The island was developed as a beach resort from the 1860´s when it was connected by rail to Manhattan. Against the will of those who wanted to preserve the area as a nature reserve, the beach front was filled with amusement parks, restaurants, bars etc. By the beginning of the 20th century Coney Island was the largest entertainment zone in the world. At the time the wooden Boardwalk was the most expensive street in the Monopoly game. Attractions like the Cyclone and Thunderbolt rollercoasters, the Parachute Jump, Steeple Chase, Luna Park, Astroland and the hotdog gained world fame and attracted millions to Coney Island. Spotlights were installed so that the beach might be occupied 24 hours a day.
After World War II the entertainment cluster entered in decline, due to the rise of less crowdy leisure alternatives and cheaper automobiles that put more distant beaches in range. A period of abandonment and closing of amusement parks followed, in which several wooden structures were lost in fires. Several closed parks were purchased by Astroland, which eventually sold all land to the Thor corporation in 2006.
In 2003 the City of New York launched a revitalization project for the area as site for the 2012 Olympics, but did not succeed.

New development
Thor Equities now pretends to turn the area into a contemporary amusement zone with hotels and a new aquarium, investing about $2 billion. The controversial plan has been widely opposed to and still waits for approval in a modified form. During the legal preparations for the development of the site, the company is leasing it back temporarily to Astroland and other amusement businesses.

Read more:

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island

Coney Island Under Siege - article by David Hershkovits
www.papermag.com/…

Coney Island
www.coneyisland.com

Delirious New York: A retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan -
book by Rem Koolhaas, London 1978

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