ESRA conference 27 April 2013 contribution Blondeel

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Reading and knowing

the city

How to analyze the readings and

appropriations of citizens

How to use the appropriationsof city users

ESREA conferenceSaturday April 27 2013

Paul Blondeel


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how to use the appropriations of city users


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| citywide | district | hood | metro-stop

0.1. Appropriation

Patterns in the use of urban space on

different socio-spatial levels in

Molenbeek Brussels (1993-1998):northsouth orientations;

(not entering

the inner city?)

Scales

Patterns (juxtapose incomparable observations)

How many people

What came before (antecedents)

What happens next: degree of petrification | structuratie


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0.2. Focus on the meaning of the urban interaction itself and go back check again and again

-They stay there so silent (at

the bus stop)so I dont know

how to pass them.

Doing that wayhere

Doing herethat way

Doing here that way we

Here (There) We do it that way

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the

lady

atthe

bus

stop


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Doing that wayhere

Doing herethat way




Do-ings

(place-)

things

Word-

ings


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Doing that wayhere

Doing herethat way



Go back and

document the

competent routines

the DO-ings

Is she crossing

the street at the

bus stop

Is she able to

address her to

them

Is the silence

difficult or the

glaring

Always the

same kids?


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Doing that wayhere

Doing herethat way



Go back and

document the

competent routines

the DO-ings

Is she crossing

the street at the

bus stop

Is she able to

address her to

them

Is the silence

difficult or the

glaring

Always the

same kids?

document

the here &there (the

place

things


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Whose word-ings?

which power? when

in the research

process?

Outcome: lady at the bus stop:

-The people in this small hood are just all

old people, (like me)

- In the community house they always (like

here in the hood)

- When I want to see young people, I go to

the Hema (in the city centre)

I long for more contact, but here, in

the surroundings of my home, I do not

know how to deal with it.


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1. Appropriating urban space - some pictures


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Playing is

forbidden


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structure

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structuration

structure

Petrified environment

Ongoing routines & investments

Adjusted environment

Formal environment

Factual routines & practices

Appropriated environment

2. Giddens double reading


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structure


structuration

structure

Petrified environment

Ongoing routines & investments


Formal environment



Reading

by

Anthony


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structure

structuration

structure

Petrified environmentOngoing routines & investments


Formal environment



Reading

by Anthony

1streading 2nd reading

Whose

words?


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And all the

epistemological

problems in socialsciences that derive

from this double

readings


structure

structuration

structure

Petrified environmentOngoing routines & investments


Formal environment



Reading

by Anthony

1streading 2nd reading

Whose

words?


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Second

layerresearch:

- Considering the maps:

the things, doings andwordings

- Deliberations about

things and doings; about

doings and wording,

about wordings and

things

- Can we find betterwords for whats

happening here?

Mapping the constructs, the

routes and routines, the

physical and morphological

spaceMapping groups with

same presuppositions about whatis true and valuable in de (local)

world;

same assumptions about how to

behave

[ same amounts of social energies

(capitals) and thus same positions in

the local Field ]

First layer research: mapping the things, doings and wordings

(= local forms of research )


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First layer research: mapping the things, doings and wordings

(= local forms of research )

Second

layerresearch(=

local

deliberation) :

- Considering the maps:

the things, doings and

wordings

- Deliberations about

things and doings; about

doings and wording,

about wordings andthings

- Can we find better

words for whats

happening here?

Mapping the constructs, the

routes and routines, the

physical and morphological

spaceMapping groups with

same presuppositions about whatis true and valuable in de (local)

world;

same assumptions about how to

behave

[ same amounts of social energies

(capitals) and thus same positions in

the local Field ]

preparingthe debate


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WP 1

Andere woorden, termen en

definities dan de vertrouwde

WP2

Andere routines en praktijken

dan de vertrouwde; andere

competenties

WP3

Andere ervaringendan de

vertrouwde; andere verhalen

. Onderscheidt

veronachtzaamde

gebeurtenissen en situaties

. Deconstrueer

veralgemeningen

. Specificeer; documenteer;

concretiseer

. Rubriceer en herorden: wat

hoort (niet) bij wat

. onderscheid eenvoudige en

complexe routines en

onderliggende competenties

. onderscheid competente

praktijken

. noem kruisverbanden tussen

beroeps- en belangengroepen en

terugkerende praktijken

. contacteer en bevraag

brugfiguren

. bespreek remmende

aannamesals stakeholders

(van je zelf en van elkaar)

. ondersteun en bewaak

gespreksruimte

. koppel terug richting lijndienst

en samenleving (achterbannen)

. maak programmabeelden

. test verschoven wijkverhaal

uit 31

Begin-

situatie


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Rottedam

People use their environment in different

ways than what planning and policy

try to provide.

Spangen = leven met en naast de stad

niet IN de stad [ verhaal tot nog toe nogal

wit en middenklasse!!! ] 32how to use the appropriations of city users

Examples & Illustrations


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Spangen = leven met en naast de stad

niet IN de stad [ verhaal tot nog toe nogal

wit en middenklasse!!! ] 33how to use the appropriations of city users


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Spangen = we live by the side of the city

but not INit (what comes from them, has to be

dismantled first and then reassembled) 34

things ~ doings ~ wordings


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Stadsplattegrond1910

1500 - 1870 1900 1923

things doings wordings

- the river Schie as a century old border & limit

- where the city has to withdraw for the water

- 9 meters lower than all the other surrounding districts

- 20 years before regeneration plans reach the neighborhood

- when the queen visits Spangen, everything is sealed of- what is asked for, is not delivered; what is being delivered, people didnt ask for

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Spangen = we live by the (out)side of the

city but not INit (what comes from them, has to

be dismantled first and then reassembled)

4. Examples & Illustrations


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p

4.3. Antwerp railway station district

Flanerende dagjes-

mensen ontmoeten een

gehandicapte bedelaar

aan de terrasjes van Meir

Foto uiterst rechts: De

agenten zijn weg en daar is

de vrouw weer. Daarom

heeft de politie zaterdag 14

bedelaars opgepakt en

vastgehouden tot de

winkelende menigte weg

was.


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4.3. Antwerp railway station district


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4.3. Antwerp railway

station district



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4.3. Antwerp railway

station district


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Focus group during

the end

deliberation:

Average people

and poor ones live

in different cities

but we do share the

same urban places,the same hood

(2000: before the city

slogan A belongs to

everybody)

Omgeving De Coninckplein-

stationsbuurt Antwerpen


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stationsbuurt Antwerpen

1911: Flanerende dagjes-

mensen ontmoeten een

gehandicapte bedelaar

aan de terrasjes van Meir

Foto uiterst rechts: De agenten

zijn weg en daar is de vrouw

weer. Daarom heeft de politie

zaterdag 14 bedelaars opgepakt

en vastgehouden tot de

winkelende menigte weg was.



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DE PRAKTIJKE

DE DINGEN

Wat niet in de stad hoort/mag, komt in deze

wijk terecht

Het niet bebouwen van wat in verval raakt

Meersen, natte gronden, rest gebied

Overkant - Buitengebied

De woorden en de dingen Wat is gebiedsspecifiek werk? 2 of 3 soorten planning? 10 teasers



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7. The blind spots in each practice-community


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All the good things

come from theoutside

(shop owners )

All the good things

(and people) are

already here - no

gentrification

(social workers)

In the end-deliberation

one social worker tells

the two shop owners:

you guys are the only

ones here around the

table living in the hood;

you have houses here,

you rent them, you still

are investing here.Nevertheless you say

that nothing can be

expected from the

inside

And social workers in

their turn discover that

their assumption isnt

applying to themselves

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10.2. ontwerp programmabeeld(en)


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Het goed dat van

buiten komtmoet zich

hechten aan het

goede dat hier al is

Open de stad voor deze wijk



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Put everything together (juxtaposing what is


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Put everything together (juxtaposing what is

incomparable but shows possible patterns)

1998 - 2001 wordings doings (Place-) things

All

whats

good for

the hood

comes

from

outside

(the

hood)

They are complaining again

(say the politicians)

The shop owners no longer

part-icipate in the annual

neighbor-hood festivities)

Social workers do not live in the neighborhood but

elsewhere

we do not sell a thing to

those Turkish families (say a

majority of the shop owners)

Shop owners do not distribute

their promotion within the

hood but just outside it.

Some shop owners still live here, renovate their houses

they rent, rent to students and Turkish families.

( Ghent is that city far away )

[ this social-work peoplehere, their intentions are

nice but they haven't got a

clue ]

greet themin Gent (to the

fieldworker when he tells

Gustave he goes to the

Korenmarkt

All destinations with a positive

content (leisure time,

restaurants, gardening,) were

outside the hood (1998).)

For centuries a military zone : no buildings allowed;

very wet grounds

District is a residual zonelocation for functions and

activities the inner city can or will not tolerate (

cemetery, sanitation; polluting industries; pestilent

houses; )

Second half 20the century: vacant parcels remain

vacant for 25 years and more.


6. What (not) to expect (some limitations and pitfalls)


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1. Not about identity but about tensions and appropriation

2. Not enhancing uniformity but opening blind spots and getting aware ofone owns presuppositions

3. Learning to know the other (getting curious)

4. Bringing in the personal into the local public debate

5. Not about cohesion but about mutual understanding; better seeing thedifferences and helping each other to articulate them

6. Asking questions to the whole of the city

7. Only for politicians who are not afraid of dissensus


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Pathways 1848 52how to use the appropriations of city users

2. Lommel

Informal places and

disequilibriaremain invisible,

also in good

urban design

plans


Oostzijde v.h. centrumgebied: vier parallele wegen nog veel ouder -UITVANGEN


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j g p g g

Rood = buurtwegen 184853how to use the appropriations of city users


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Oude heesgrondenblijven in 18de& 19deeeuw het

minst bewoonde gebied; latere plek voor autowrakken

en woonwagenbewoners, locatie voor vervuilende

metallurgie = eerder een achterkant ?

De as Raadhuis (Dorp)Kerkplein =

het commercile en bestuurlijke hart;7 eeuwen lang geflankeerd door de centraalgelegen landbouwgronden, ui tvangen,

oude morfologie (weggeleding) is nog

steeds intact.

= collectief bewerkt, een hoofdschakel in de heide-,

schapen- en potstaleconomieBracht Lommel welvaart bracht

in het geheugen gegrift

relatie met de grond, met

de natuur! ecologie in

city marketingplan)


Actual use (the doings) is analogue to the older th ingsbut this analogy is totally absent in the

d i


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word ings

Illustratie 10

26 van de 27 gebruikskaarten

boven elkaar geled


De detaillering van trajecten, routines en knopen waar en hoe gebruikt men centrale

plekken (+ verbaal materiaal diepte interviews)


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plekken (+ verbaal materiaal diepte interviews)



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Routes (en domeinen?) met een

meer gemengd stadsgebruik

dezelfde scheefheid

Illustratie 16De tweede rntgenfoto

(vereenvoudigde weergave)


Illustratie 17

Vereenvoudigde weergave tweede rntgenfoto (zonder onderlegger) met aanduiding

van rode en groene kamers

A

B

C

XY

Z

U

V

The peripheral is merely organized but has a very good use value


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subject/matter

Mode Perspective of plannerPerspective of the

program /fieldworker

Perspective of the actor

while acting also


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(policy maker ?program /fieldworker ,

local professionalinformal readings &

appropriations

represented

The policy plan indicating

specific needs and the

prospection of plausibleevolutions in retail and

leisure

For the 2060 area.

Annual report of what

professionals has been

doing or will do;The translation of policy

plans into programs

where do I have to go to

in order to find

gathering the financing

money means visiting myuncle again are

auntyour uncle

ongoing

The act of attending

reunions and deliberations,

making calculations, the

ongoing activities of

professional policy-planners, politicians, lobby-

groups,

Professionals visiting

the shop owners,

organizing meetings,

implementing programs

The ongoing activity of

shop-owners,

barkeepers,

entrepreneurs, and

their clientele

petrified

Maps indicating physical

zones, buildings, squares,

lanes, the built urban

landscape

Locations and

morphology of the

offices, time and places

where interviews are

held, meetings are

organized

Some houses and garage

boxes are used as

restaurants; other official

spots are empty; others

ones are used informally;

Third mode: relation

subject /matter as conceived

Second mode: relation

subject/matter as lived

First moderelationsubject/matter as built

3rd

echelon

2nd

echelon

1st

echelon


II. Wat is specifieke van een stedelijke ruimte of gebied?1A.


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Mensen in de wijken

weten en kennen specifieke zaken over de wijk

waardoorals we daar op inspelen

het beleid / ons werk

duurzamer / effectiever zou kunnen

worden (objectieve bondgenoten)

Sociale precies werk= nadruk op mensen / civiele samenleving =

Gebiedsspecifiek werken= insteek via mechanismen eigen aan (specifiek voor)

het werkgebied / wijk

Onderzoeken (WP1)

deconstructie

Specificeren (WP2)

Praktijkgemeenschappen

Beraad (WP3) Reconstructie +

programmabeeld

1stecyclus: omgevingsanalyse en ontwerp

2decyclus: ontwikkelen verbreden - toepassen

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Werking

1B.

?klassieke

planning ???

2.

Ingredinten

& processen

3.

Methodologie,

enkele cases

4.

Tien vuist-

regels uit het

vak metho-

den & tech-

nieken

5.

? Implicaties

voor

ruimtelijke

planning en

ontwerp? how to use the appropriations of city users


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