Presentation for the Nordes design research conference - Copenhagen 2006

1. Shift towards
NORDES networks: integrating
2005 social and physical
subsystems of the city
through stratified
In the Making models
Jeroen van Schaick
Delft University of Technology / Faculty of Architecture /
Department Urbanism
j.vanschaick@bk.tudelft.nl / www.networkcity.bk.tudelft.nl
Faculty of Architecture

2. Shift towards
Presentation: networks: integrating
social and physical
subsystems of the city
• Motive through stratified
• 4 Stratified models models
• Comparison
• Research agenda
Jeroen van Schaick
Delft University of Technology / Faculty of Architecture /
Department Urbanism
j.vanschaick@bk.tudelft.nl / www.networkcity.bk.tudelft.nl
Faculty of Architecture

3. Motive:
Urban design approaches through layers is a trend
It fragments the urban system artificially in sectors without
relating those explicitly
It generally does not deal with complexity, specifically with regard
to time-space use and the speeding up of society
Socio-spatial models:
1. The urban ground plan as mediator (Heeling)
2. (The production of) Social Space (Lefebvre)
3. Space of flows as dominating spatial organizer/organization (Castells)
4. Network City (Urbanisme de Reseaux – Dupuy)
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4. Concrete stratified
approach
Little interdependency between layers
Substratum
Urban work
Use (functional determination)
Focus on composition
Static idea of time (slow change)
‘Closed’ approach
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5. Abstract stratified
approach
Production of space:
conceiving
perceiving
living
Interacting processes
Focus on everyday life
Relational and relative approach
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6. Stratified approach through
network thinking
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7. Social orientation Social orientation with Spatial orientation with Spatial orientation
spatial compenent social compenent
Levels Layers Levels Layers
Relational, produced Fluid, abstract time Time as complex of Time as change
time conception concepts
No existing visualization Based on existing visualization
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8. Relations between models
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9. Relations between models
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10. Relations between models
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11. Relations between models
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12. Research agenda:
7 lines of thinking in the models
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13. Research agenda:
Relational approach
Stratified approaches just a conceptual tool; not the design itself
Relations between levels
Relations on levels
Co-existing varied perspectives
Dynamics of the urban system: the issue of time
Language
Representation
Scale
Complexity
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14. Temporalities of the
NORDES Network City
2005
The relations between ‘time’
and ‘space’ and their
In the Making consequences for urban and
regional design and planning
Underlying PhD Research Project
Jeroen van Schaick
Delft University of Technology / Faculty of
Architecture / Department Urbanism
j.vanschaick@bk.tudelft.nl / www.networkcity.bk.tudelft.nl
Faculty of Architecture