The overcrowding of large congested conurbations challenges a consolidated metropolitan lifestyle all over the world, while the uncontained expansion of the settlements casts the inhabitants into a post-urban condition. A population influx growing at the pace of its nation’s economic development, entails a dramatically insufficient provision of essential services such as housing and transportation, delivering large social strata into intolerable living circumstances. Nations apart from each other in geographical, cultural, and economic terms are faced with these very same challenges. The Post Urban Living Innovation Education and Research Program, in acronym PULI, is aimed to train, in Japan and Mexico, a next generation of practically-versed professionals capable to efficiently address the issue. Across five years, the PULI program proposes to analyze a series of sites and themes in Japan and Mexico to identify the most urgent challenges, contribute trace the direction for the evolution of the industry of dwelling innovation. Finally, a company created as a spin-off by the academic institutions involved, is intended to commercialize the applied outcomes of the program. In particular, the QOL axis of the project, dealing with ‘quality of life in the overpopulated city’, aims at combining work on the ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ of urbanized areas. That is, besides evaluating and innovating the current technologies, the program also seeks the creation of an agreeable, social, and safe urban environment by working on tangible and intangible components. This book presents the results of the last four years of work progress realized on six sites of Japan and Mexico by the joint QOL team of Chiba University and the Universidad de Monterrey. The graphic documentation presented consists in maps, plans of urban areas, photo-surveys and line-drawings of street-fronts and façades, attempting to capture the intangible qualities of the relics of urban systems in the megacity of Tokyo or in the small towns of urbanized regions of Mexico. Critical texts by the research faculty accompany as a narrative the unfolding of the illustrations.
Post-Urban Sites in Japan and Mexico: Their Appearance and Their Colors
Pasini R;
2018
Abstract
The overcrowding of large congested conurbations challenges a consolidated metropolitan lifestyle all over the world, while the uncontained expansion of the settlements casts the inhabitants into a post-urban condition. A population influx growing at the pace of its nation’s economic development, entails a dramatically insufficient provision of essential services such as housing and transportation, delivering large social strata into intolerable living circumstances. Nations apart from each other in geographical, cultural, and economic terms are faced with these very same challenges. The Post Urban Living Innovation Education and Research Program, in acronym PULI, is aimed to train, in Japan and Mexico, a next generation of practically-versed professionals capable to efficiently address the issue. Across five years, the PULI program proposes to analyze a series of sites and themes in Japan and Mexico to identify the most urgent challenges, contribute trace the direction for the evolution of the industry of dwelling innovation. Finally, a company created as a spin-off by the academic institutions involved, is intended to commercialize the applied outcomes of the program. In particular, the QOL axis of the project, dealing with ‘quality of life in the overpopulated city’, aims at combining work on the ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ of urbanized areas. That is, besides evaluating and innovating the current technologies, the program also seeks the creation of an agreeable, social, and safe urban environment by working on tangible and intangible components. This book presents the results of the last four years of work progress realized on six sites of Japan and Mexico by the joint QOL team of Chiba University and the Universidad de Monterrey. The graphic documentation presented consists in maps, plans of urban areas, photo-surveys and line-drawings of street-fronts and façades, attempting to capture the intangible qualities of the relics of urban systems in the megacity of Tokyo or in the small towns of urbanized regions of Mexico. Critical texts by the research faculty accompany as a narrative the unfolding of the illustrations.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
