POLITICS OF THE CITY

Heidegger: Polis Politics

Space is inherently political; politics is inherently spatial.

Foucault: Space is fundamental to any exercise of power

City is A Political Artifact Merlyna Lim

What Makes a good city ?

Who should decide ?

Is a good city the product of a whole set of individual decisions largely uncoordinated, or does one attempt

to coordinate them?

What are the opportunity costs for working one way or another?

IDEALISM

How far should the controlling authority (public or private) go in defining the specification of ends and

means ?

What are the limits, if any, to the rights of individual developers and their architects to build what they

want, where they want and how they want ?

CONTROL PLANNING

How can we ensure the fiscal responsibility ?

FINANCE

How is the development to be phased ?

Where does one begin ?

How disrupted will the lives of those who inhabit the first phase be as the project moves into another

phase of construction ?

Whose responsibility is it to ensure that those people’s lives are disrupted as little as possible ?

DEVELOPMENT

THE CHALLENGE OF POLICY PLANNING:

Bureaucracy – Inflexibility – Lack of Innovation

CREATIVE POLITIC

CURITIBACreative Policy

CURITIBA –BEFORE

Innovative PlanningBy. Jaime Lerner (1964-1980)

1.Urban Sprawl Control2.Reduction of Traffic In Downtown Area3.Preservation of Historic Area4.Convenient and Affordable Public Transport System

HOW ?

1.Close Rue XV de Novembro

2. Rede Integrada de Transporte (RIT)

1. the Trinary Road System = two one-way streets moving in opposite directions which surround a smaller, two-lane street where the express buses have their exclusive lane.

2. Five of these roads form a star that converges to the city centre.

3. Land farther from these roads is zoned for lower density developments, to reduce traffic away from the main roads.

3. Diverting Water from lowlands into park

Competition between CitiesSYDNEY VS MELBOURNE

Pre-Federation:TRADE BATTLE (Free Trade VS Protective Trade)

1901:Trade for Capital City(Melbourne become a temporary capital (1901-1927)

19th century:The biggest city: Melbourne

20th century:The biggest city: Sydney

21st century:Battle continues

Difference:

LANDSCAPE

LIFESTYLE

ORIENTATIONDENSITY:

SYDNEY : 1900/Km2 (4.2millions)MELBOURNE : 1500 / Km2 (3.7millions)

COMPETITION GIVES YOU:

What HAPPENED Next ?

Sydney Morning Herald, 2008-09-14