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INTEGRAL URBANISM

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INTEGRAL URBANISM
NAN ELLIN
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Dedication
To Dan

Précis
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
What is Integral Urbanism?
Five Qualities of an Integral Urbanism













Slash City (/city)
Conclusion
Illustrations
Notes
References

Index
contents
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Porosity
Hybridity & Connectivity
Authenticity
Vulnerability
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C o n v e r g e n c e P a t t e r n s I n t e g r a t io n F l o
P e r m e a b i l i t y F l u x C a t a l y s t s A r m a t u
N e t w o r k s N o d e s L i n k s H u b s P a t h s E
Te n t a c l e s R h i z o m e s W o r l d W i d e W e
E c o l o g y E n g a g e m e n t P e o p l e C h i l d r
H y bridit y C on ne c tivit y Porosit yAu t h e
Connectivit yPorosit yAuthenticit yVuln
Porosit yAuthen tici t y Vuln er abilit y H y

Authenticit yVulnerabilit yHybridit yCon
Vulnerabilit yHybridityConnectivityPoro
P u b li c S p a c e P r o a c t i v e S u s t a i n a b i l i t
I n t e r d e p e n d e n c e D y n a m i c P r o c e s s F
H a r m o n y A d v e n t u r e F a s c i n a t i o n E n e
L o c a l C h a r a c t e r G l o b a l F o r c e s R e l a t
C o m m u n i c a t e C o m m o n s C o n g r e g a t e
R e f l e c t R e h a b ili t a t e R e v i t a li z e R e s t o
D i v e r s i t y R e s p e c t W e l l - B e i n g P r o s
C o n v e r g e n c e P a t t e r n s I n t e g r a t io n F l o
o w M o bili t y R e s ilie n c e F lo u r is hT h r i v e
u r e s F r a m e w o r k s P u n c t u a t i o n M a r k s
c o l o g yT h r e s h o l d s E c o t o n e s N a t u r e
e b I n t e r n e t B o r d e r E d g e I n - B e t w e e n
r e n C o m m u n i t y C o n s e r v e C a r e t a k i n g
ent icit y In t e gr alUr banis mVulnerabilit y
erabilit yHybridit yConnectivit yPorosit y
y bridit y Conn ec ti vit y Pr é cis A uthenticit y
nnectivit yPorosityAuthenticityHybridity
rosit yAuthenticit yHybridit yConnectivit y
i t y S y m b i o t i c O r g a n i s m I n s p i r i n g V i t a l
F e e d b a c k C o m p l e m e n t a r i t y S y n e r g y
e r g y E x c i t e m e n t U r b a n i s m L a n d s c a p e
t i o n s h i p sTr a n s p a r e n c yTr a n s l u c e n c y
C o n v e r s e C o n s i d e r C o n s p ir e C o u r a g e
o r e R e ali g n R e a li z e R e v e a l R ej u v e n a t e
p e r i t y I n n o v a t i o n V i s i o n I n c l u s i v i t y
o w M o bili t y R e s ilie n c e F lo u r is hT h r i v e
As ecological success is measured

by the capacity of our planet to support all life forms,
urban design success should be measured
by its capacity to support humanity.

Learning from best practices,
an Integral Urbanism offers guideposts along that path
toward a more sustainable human habitat.
hybridity
In contrast to escapist, cynical, or purely mercenary tendencies,
Integral Urbanism aims to heal wounds

by the modern and postmodern eras
as m anifest in:

Visually unappealing places

I mpoverishment of public space and heightened perception of fear
Diminished sense of place and sense of community &
Environmental degradation.

 
Hybridity
Connectivity
Porosity
Authenticity
Vulnerability
Hybridity and Connectivity bring activities and people together, rather than

as symbiotic—as well as buildings and landscape—rather than oppositional.

Porosity preserves the integrity of that which is brought together while allowing
mutual access through permeable mem branes, rather than the modernist attempt

Authenticity involves actively engaging and drawing inspiration from actual social
and physical conditions with an ethic of care, respect, and honesty. Like all healthy
organisms, the authenti-City is always growing and evolving according to new
needs that arise thanks to a self-adjusting feedback loop that measures and moni-
tors success and failure.
And Vulnerability
as well as product, and re-integrate space with time.
connectivity
In contrast to the master-planned functionally-zoned city
which separates, isolates, alienates, and retreats,
Integral Urbanism emphasizes
connection, comm unication, and celebration.
flow
As we are a part of nature,
so are our habitats including our cities.
Over the last century, however,
urban development has treated the city as a machine

and for moving people, money, and goods.
The city-as-m achine approach has privileged building upon
a tabula rasa, or clean slate.
This is manifest in leaving older cities behind
to build further out on pristine or agricultural land.
It is also manifest in razing large swaths of older cities to build anew.

Introduced one century ago as industrial production and the car
were transforming the urban experience,

zoning segregated functions
that had been integrated
from time immem orial.
As people are mutually interdependent, however,
so are our activities as expressed in city form.
Cities and communities only thrive (are only sustainable)


patterns
We are now belatedly recognizing the problems
wrought by the clean-slate tendency and land-use zoning.
However well-intended, these efforts to “renew” our cities
   
ultimately draining the life from them and contributing
to threaten our sense of community, security,
and physical and emotional health.
Rather than neglect, abandon, or erase our urban heritage, Integral Urbanism
preserves buildings, neighborhoods, and natural landscapes that we value;
rehabilitates, reclaims, restores, or renovates what is underperforming;
and adds what we do not have yet but would like,
as informed by effective community involvement.
Whether applied to existing urban fabrics or new development,
Integral Urbanism activates places
by creating thresholds—places of intensity—
where a range of people and activities may converge.

Integral Urbanism offers settings—while also liberating tim e and energy—
for collaboratively envisioning and implementing desired change.
The result is:
more conservation & less waste,

moreless distrust and fear,
moreless “screen time” and commuting tim e,
more proaction & less reaction.
Whereas the modern paradigm discouraged convergences
through its emphasis on separation and control,
this new paradigm encourages them .
Convergences in space and time
of people, activities, businesses, and so forth
generate new hybrids.
These hybrids allow new convergences and the process continues.

convergence
From the machine as model (modernism),
to cities of the past as model (postmodernism),

ecology and new information technologies such as
thresholds, ecotones, tentacles, rhizomes, webs, networks,
the World Wide Web, and the Internet.
It also reveals a fascination with the border, edge, and in-between,
as concepts as well as actual places.
In contrast to earlier models, these suggest
the importance of connectedness and dynam ism
as well as the principle of complem entarity.
On the ecological threshold where two ecosystems meet, for instance,

There is fear along with adventure and excitement.
It is not about good or bad, safety or danger, pleasure or pain, winners or losers.
All of these occur on the threshold if it is thriving.
Integral Urbanism veers away from master planning which,

in its focus on controlling everything,
ironically tends to generate fragm ented cities without soul or character.
Instead, Integral Urbanism proposes more punctual interventions
that have a tentacular or domino effect,
catalyzing other interventions in an ongoing dynamic process.
If master planning were a form of surgery on an anaesthetized city,
Integral Urbanism might be a form of acupuncture on a fully alert and engaged city.
By opening up blockages along “urban meridians,”
just as acupuncture and other forms of bioenergetic healing
open blockages along the energy meridians of our bodies,
this approach can liberate the life force of a city and its vibrant communities.
porosity
While integrating the functions that the modern city separated,
Integral Urbanism also seeks to integrate:
l conventional notions of urban, suburban, and rural to
produce a new model for the contemporary city
l design with nature
l local character with global forces
l the design professions and
l people of different ethnicities, incomes, ages, and abilities.
Integral Urbanism is about:
Networks not boundaries
Relationships and connections not isolated objects
Interdependence not independence or dependence
Natural and social communities not just individuals
Transparency or translucency not opacity
Permeability not walls
    not stasis
 
not controlling nature

Catalysts, armatures, frameworks, punctuation marks,
not
authenticity
The urban and environmental challenges of the last century
have prom pted a reconsideration of values, goals, and means of achieving them,
particularly over the last decade.
In contrast to the fast-paced more-is-more mentality,
the appeals of simplicity, slowness, spirituality, sincerity, and sustainability
are clearly on the rise.

Side by side with the still prevalent reactive tendencies of
form to follow fiction, finesse, finance, and fear,
myriad proactive initiatives from a wide range of contributors
to shaping the environment are shifting the paradigm toward integration.