Conflicting neighbourhoods and urban pattern: does architecture help in building conflict-resolution strategies in contested spaces? (Abstract/Poster in convegno)

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  • Conflicting neighbourhoods and urban pattern: does architecture help in building conflict-resolution strategies in contested spaces? (Abstract/Poster in convegno) (literal)
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  • 2010-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Esposito G., Trillo C., Martinez-Perez A. (2010)
    Conflicting neighbourhoods and urban pattern: does architecture help in building conflict-resolution strategies in contested spaces?
    in Giornate internazionali di studio “Abitare il Futuro … dopo Copenhagen”, Napoli
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  • Esposito G., Trillo C., Martinez-Perez A. (literal)
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  • The presentation draws from an international ongoing research project, carried on by researchers from the UK and Italy.The research focuses on the role of architecture and urban design in supporting strategies addressed to manage contested urban spaces. More in depth, it investigates the potential of an urban-design centred approach in analysing, interpreting and managing conflicting neighbourhoods, whose residents and users show multi-cultural features. Several contemporary cities are still plagued by social conflicts, due to the presence of different groups divided by their culture, religion or race. As a result of multiculturalism, sometime a real and proper sectarian geography emerge, by misunderstanding the link between territoriality and identity in terms of segregation, thus generating contested spaces, whose features have been clearly highlighted by Morrisey and Gaffikin (2006: 876). In terms of how urban design and architecture should address those issues, it has been observed (Amin 2002: 12) that urban planners and designers are often merely asked to focus on designing shared public spaces, rather than providing conflicting societies with more sophisticated dialogic places where multiculturalism might really flourish (Thompson, 1997). The research aims to fill this gap, by developing an innovative method, which emphasizes the role of architecture in building conflict- resolution strategies in contested spaces. To reach this goal, the research group built and tested a methodology aimed at analysing, interpreting and managing conflicting neighbourhoods through urban design tools, by adapting the Kevin Lynch (1960) approach in reading the urban pattern as discussed in the classic book “The image of the city”. By drawing from the above mentioned text, a new taxonomy of urban features in conflicting spaces (i.e.: explicit edge, hidden border, implicit barrier, visual control point, access node, shared space...) has been first identified, then tested on the case-study of the city of Belfast, specifically selected to verify its applicability to a real context. The case-study research method was adopted in order to capture the multi-faceted issues embedded in such a complex situation. The city of Belfast has been struggling for years with problems related to the inter-religious conflicts. Beyond the selected case, the research seeks to provide architects, urban designers and planners with innovative tools and methods which can be implemented in any kind of contested space. (literal)
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  • Conflicting neighbourhoods and urban pattern: does architecture help in building conflict-resolution strategies in contested spaces? (literal)
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