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Cities across the globe are creating new public spaces out of neglected areas and revitalizing abandoned infrastructure. Submit projects<\/a> that contribute to urban development and change to the Architecture +Urban Transformation<\/strong> category in the<\/i> 11th Annual A+Awards program<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ildefonso Cerd\u00e0, the designer of Barcelona’s famed Eixample expansion, first coined the term “urbanization” in 1987. The concept was explored in his book, General Theory of Urbanization<\/a>, <\/em>which outlined a new <\/span>philosophy for the rational development of cities \u2014 or, as he put it, the “science of making cities.” In his planning and his writing, Cerd\u00e0 was interested in exploring how industrialization and burgeoning forms of transportation could transform the very idea of what a city could be. For him, cities are complex systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His theory grew from an attack on the word \u201ccity\u201d itself, whose roots in the <\/span>Latin<\/span> term <\/span>civitas <\/span><\/i>placed<\/span><\/a> more emphasis on the political underpinnings of collective society. While <\/span>civitas <\/span><\/i>emphasized citizens’ laws and rights, Cerd\u00e0 pointed out that the Roman term for <\/span>Urbs <\/span><\/i>referred instead to the material collection of buildings and infrastructure. If cities were passive products of human activity, his nascent science of \u201curbanism\u201d would actively shape human social structures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ildefons Cerd\u00e0, Drawings for the extension of Barcelona (Eixemple). Images via Wikimedia. <\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Reinforced by the <\/span>success of Barcelona’s extension<\/span><\/a>, Cerd\u00e0’s thought gave rise to a new discipline that broadly affected the economic, social, and cultural lives of urbanites worldwide. Now, 150 years later, urbanism and urbanization are standard terms widely used around the world. With many cities now long-established, the discipline is at another crossroads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Transformation<\/span> of the existing urban fabric now holds equal importance to its <\/span>expansion. <\/span><\/i>Architects and urban planners are currently working with experts in other disciplines to adapt cities to our changing world by revitalizing abandoned infrastructure, preparing for climate uncertainty, creating new public spaces out of neglected areas, and, more broadly, building new ways for the world’s citizens to live more densely within the existing urban fabric.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past century and a half, it has only become more clear that urban solutions are not universal and cannot be prescribed; by necessity, urban plans are profoundly relative, contextual interventions that involve making multidimensional changes to the fabric of the city. The diversity of A+Awards<\/strong> winners in Architizer’s urban and masterplan categories demonstrate this complexity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tainan Spring<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by <\/span>MVRDV<\/span><\/a> Tainan, Taiwan
\n<\/span>Jury Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Concepts – Plus – Architecture +Urban Transformation<\/span><\/p>\n

In Tainan, MVRDV\u2019s conversion of a former city-center shopping mall into an urban lagoon produced a vibrant new leisure space for city dwellers and had the added benefit of revitalizing the nearby Haian Road. By transforming an underground parking level into a sunken public plaza, the lagoon behaves like a contemporary Roman Forum; it visually captures the historic decision to close a port in favor of a mall. At the same time, reducing vehicular traffic and improving pedestrian pathways gave one of the city\u2019s busiest streets a new lease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nodeul Island<\/a><\/strong> by <\/span>mmkplus<\/span><\/a>, Seoul, South Korea
\n<\/span>Popular Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Concepts – Plus – Architecture +Urban Transformation<\/span><\/p>\n

Set in the center of Seoul’s Han River, Nodeul Island is an artificial landmass, first constructed to support a pedestrian bridge in 1917. Despite its proximity to the city center, the island was abandoned for decades and is only now being recognized for its potential as a desirable community hub. The masterplan envisions a landscape chock full of spontaneous social interactions: offices, shops, galleries, a bookstore, a multi-purpose hall, and a 450-person performance hall are set in a multi-level village-like plan that allows a small community of user groups to coexist in a natural setting harmoniously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vejlands Quarter<\/a><\/strong> by <\/span>Henning Larsen<\/span><\/a>, Copenhagen, Denmark
\n<\/span>Jury Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Landscape & Planning – Unbuilt Masterplan<\/span><\/p>\n

Copenhagen\u2019s next \u201cit\u201d neighborhood demonstrates the country\u2019s holistic approach to fusing environmentally-minded design with sustainable lifestyles. Set in a former dumping ground, this model for collective living places nature at its core; nearly half of the site will be dedicated to the natural world, which will first undergo remediation in order to increase local biodiversity. Buildings will be entirely timber constructions, and inhabitants will share their homes with birds and animals, whose habitats will be built into the facades. U By placing environmental concerns at its core, the Vejlands Quarter promotes collective living and greener future \u2014 literally and figuratively.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jiangyin Greenway – Weaving and Stitching<\/a><\/strong> by <\/span>Brearley Architects and Urbanists<\/span><\/a>, Jiangsu, China<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jury & Popular Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Landscape & Planning – Urban Masterplans<\/span><\/p>\n

More than an elevated walkway, the Jiangyin Greenway is an urban intervention that brings coherence to an area of the city that was left disjoined by previous uncoordinated decision making. It is a cost-effective and poetic solution built along the Yangtze river that creates a distinct identity in a remarkably forgotten natural area. Yet, not even the term \u201ccivic infrastructure\u201d truly covers the scope of this project\u2019s reach. Designed as a scaled model of the Yangtze River, with various \u201ccities\u201d and \u201ctributaries\u201d along, or plazas and balconies, offering\u00a0 information boards with local histories that immerse visitors in the larger story of the region, while intertwined with the raised freeway as if to suggest that it is not a barrier to citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roman Fa\u00e7ade\/Piazzas of the Tiber<\/a><\/strong> by <\/span>Ballman Khapalova<\/span><\/a>, Rome, Italy <\/span>
\n<\/span>Jury Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Landscape & Planning – Unbuilt Masterplan<\/span><\/p>\n

For millennia the Tiber River has wound through Rome in a meandering path that cuts the Eternal City in two. Yet, despite this long presence in the urban fabric, the vertical drop from city to water has left its banks underused and under-appreciated during modern times. This series of bold facades and piazzas seeks to remedy this neglect. By adding a thickened, inhabitable fa\u00e7ade that resonates with the adjacent bridges and piazza fa\u00e7ades throughout Rome, it also aims to reconnect the two sides of the city that have been spliced for centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cities across the globe are creating new public spaces out of neglected areas and revitalizing abandoned infrastructure. Submit projects<\/a> that contribute to urban development and change to the Architecture +Urban Transformation<\/strong> category in the<\/i> 11th Annual A+Awards program<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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