Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how built forms architecture urban design act as mediators social practices power. Explored through a range theories case studies, this examination shows lives are 'framed' within clusters rooms, buildings, streets cities. These silent framings everyday life also mediate coercion, seduction authorization architects designers engage with articulation dreams; imagining constructing 'better' future in someone's...

Informal urbanism, from informal settlements to economies and street markets, is integral cities of the global South - economically, socially, environmentally aesthetically. This paper seeks unfold re-think this informal/formal conception using two interconnected theoretical frameworks. First assemblage theory derived work Deleuze Guattari, in which a series twofold concepts such as rhizomic/tree smooth/striated resonate with construct. Second on complex adaptive systems, dynamic...

The concept of urban ‘walkability’ has come to occupy a key role at the nexus series multidisciplinary fields connecting design and planning broader issues public health, climate change, economic productivity social equity. Yet walkability itself remains elusive – difficult define or operationalise. Density, functional mix access networks are well-recognised as factors: density concentrates more people places within walkable distances; produces greater range destinations; mediate flows...

Over the last century we have seen a slow transformation of architecture school classrooms in response to changing pedagogical theory and practice. A shift from teacher-centred student-centred learning is accompanied by move towards more 'open' plan with new spatial types, interconnections modes adaptation. This paper seeks understand this linkage plans pedagogies case middle school. Using an analytic framework assemblage theory, clusters spaces range recent innovative are analysed terms...

Informal settlement is the most pervasive mode of urbanization throughout cities global South, yet little known how informal urban design works as a production space. This paper maps emergence and transformation street/laneway networks buildings in broad range settlements. While such data cannot reveal social, economic political complexity individual cases, it demonstrates morphologies self-organizational practices that produce them. Building types, plots, blocks, streets lanes are analyzed...

AbstractThe public/private interface has long been recognized as a key issue in urban design theory. This article presents typology for the mapping and analysis of interfaces – typical ways which private territories plug into public networks. Drawing on mappings mixed morphology Australian inner city, simple five primary types is articulated according to criteria access, setback, transparency mode access. The construed socio-spatial assemblage wherein are diagrams connectivity that enable...

Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to our understanding spatial structure cities, particularly importance mapping network integration in relation density, functional mix and streetlife vitality. It focused attention urban researchers onto relations between sociality spatiality city. The primary methods syntactic involve reduction morphology set axes; here, we explore some limits such for design. Topological axial models long recognized...

Discussions of urban density have long been central to theories relating form city life. Both maximum and minimum measures linked qualitative aspects cities including health, safety, creativity, vitality sustainability. Extensive research has produced a multiplicity concepts: densities building bulk floorspace; dwellings, people jobs; measured perceived densities; interior exterior; net gross. From these are derived various controls: floor area ratios, envelopes, coverage open space ratios....

Abstract This paper explores the aesthetics and politics of slum tourism – what are attractions dangers aestheticizing poverty? We first present eleven images slums informal urbanism in south Southeast Asia suggest a complex mix for Western tourists. On one hand can be picturesque with elements nostalgia quest authenticity; on other is shock real, spectacle intensive labyrinthine urbanity an uneasy voyeurism. attraction more anxious awe-filled pleasure sublime than any formal beauty. The...

Functional or land-use mix has been seminal to urban design and planning for over 50 years. Mixed-use reduces the need travel, increases walkability generates street-life intensity. In this paper we review existing methods of measuring functional rethink ways in which it might be conceived, measured mapped within a framework assemblage thinking. We suggest live/work/visit triangle as promising method with focus on interconnections between functions rather than themselves. Mapping techniques...

While the geography of 'creative cities' is widely explored, urban morphology creative clustering within cities relatively ignored. This paper excavates morphological properties and capacities through Australian case studies with a series mappings informed by assemblage theory. Such clusters are characterized synergies that emerge from 'mix mixes'—a mixed linked to multiplicity functions (production, exchange, reproduction, recreation) socio-economic mix. The 'buzz' or 'atmosphere' cluster...

Everybody knows that the phrase ‘informal settlement’ is a widely used euphemism for ‘slum’, avoiding word can be seen to cast stigma on neighbourhoods of urban poor. Yet we have also long known verb – identifying self-organised modes production through which poor produce affordable housing and infrastructure. Here argue four key points. First, distinction between slums informal settlement evident in UN-Habitat data suggests has rapidly expanded while not. Second, informality paradoxical...

Debates over definitions of urban graffiti as either ‘street art’ or ‘vandalism’ tend to focus on contributions the field artistic practice violations a legal code. This paper explores place an spatial practice—why is where it and what its role in constructions experiences place? Through interviews mapping inner-city Melbourne, ways that potential for different types mediated by micro-morphology city becomes embodied into habitus symbolic capital. From framework Deleuzian assemblage theory...

Abstract Transgression is often driven by the power to exercise choice and consciously cross line. As Kim Dovey , Professor of Architecture Urban Design at University Melbourne, explains, informal settlements, which have grown up globally out immediate need for shelter community, are legally precarious, transgress established codes ‘land tenure, urban planning, design construction’. Their condition requires transgression, even if they subversion through necessity rather than design. So what...

The relationship between urban morphology and walkability is central to design theory practice. In this paper, we develop new measures for pedestrian permeability catchment areas, suggesting that their joint use can progress our understanding of the ways mediates walkability. Existing do not account heterogeneous morphologies. Likewise, what it caught. proposed "area-weighted average perimeter" "interface catchments" together integrate both street width block size, measuring walkable access...

This paper engages with the ontology and epistemology of urban mapping. While geographical information system (GIS) other digital technologies have long transformed capacities for representation data, this explores capacity mapping to produce new ways seeing, understanding, planning designing city. With a primary focus on morphology, distinctions overlaps between mapping, diagramming, are articulated within framework assemblage thinking. Through cases drawn from design research, we analyse...