http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/12/17/on-urban-attractiveness/ Fabien Girardin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/12/17/on-urban-attractiveness/#comment-357406 Cecilia Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:32:51 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/12/17/on-urban-attractiveness/#comment-357406 PD: Urban attractiveness as a magnet? What about "non" atractive terrain vague for example? Isn´t attractiveness a subjective fact? PD: Urban attractiveness as a magnet?
What about “non” atractive terrain vague for example?
Isn´t attractiveness a subjective fact?

]]> http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/12/17/on-urban-attractiveness/#comment-357405 Cecilia Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:28:45 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2008/12/17/on-urban-attractiveness/#comment-357405 Comming from a small (and narrow) country as Chile, having work as an architecture "profesor" and after listening certain architect´s delusions in Madrid, your thesis makes sence to me. There is still the notion of architecture as a mere material construction, my point of view is that we should be moving forward to a wider view, much more complex considerations should be made in terms of real user´s behavior. When we talk about actual urban space and existing relations understanding, it turns out to be quite a difficult subject, for we might have some clues, but it ussually turns into a ramble around lack of concrete evidence, objective data. I once was in a workshop in Casa Encendida, Piensa Madrid, as an observer I listened to the "profesor´s" sugestions to the young people participating. It sound great, he talked about managing data such as how and how many trash trucks where going through Madrid, their timing. I can´t even remember what it was for, it ended up in nothing, vanishing purposes into the lack of real and focused data. Then, is when an architect ends up as an "artist". I admit it, there is not such a thing as a modest arquitect, we have inherited a certain megalomaniac impulse to change things around. Even though, I´ll rather try to understand things before.Your research is interesting to me as a primary approach through digital senses to urban reality, still an intrincated social and economical hank. Comming from a small (and narrow) country as Chile, having work as an architecture “profesor” and after listening certain architect´s delusions in Madrid, your thesis makes sence to me.
There is still the notion of architecture as a mere material construction, my point of view is that we should be moving forward to a wider view, much more complex considerations should be made in terms of real user´s behavior.
When we talk about actual urban space and existing relations understanding, it turns out to be quite a difficult subject, for we might have some clues, but it ussually turns into a ramble around lack of concrete evidence, objective data.
I once was in a workshop in Casa Encendida, Piensa Madrid, as an observer I listened to the “profesor´s” sugestions to the young people participating. It sound great, he talked about managing data such as how and how many trash trucks where going through Madrid, their timing. I can´t even remember what it was for, it ended up in nothing, vanishing purposes into the lack of real and focused data.
Then, is when an architect ends up as an “artist”. I admit it, there is not such a thing as a modest arquitect, we have inherited a certain megalomaniac impulse to change things around.
Even though, I´ll rather try to understand things before.Your research is interesting to me as a primary approach through digital senses to urban reality, still an intrincated social and economical hank.

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