Balarezo, MLG;
Karimi, K;
(2018)
Urban Art and place. Spatial patterns of urban art and their contribution to urban regeneration.
In: Colomer, V, (ed.)
Proceedings of the 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age.
(pp. pp. 587-597).
Universitat Politècnica de València
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Abstract
Cities face several challenges regarding public space and urban regeneration. Some of them are the depersonalization and lack of interest of citizens in their own city, privatization, gentrification, technologization and gender-insecurity. Public spaces lose their character as articulator and generator of human relations, while neighborhoods lose their role as the basic unity of community and urban identity. Nowadays, many bottom-up strategies have arisen as expressions of neighborhood’s inhabitant’s will, producing cultural diversity and civic engagement, with a placemaking effect. Urban art is one of them. Social and economic products of urban art have been studied, but the spatial manifestation and impact have been largely absent from the discourse of urban morphology. Spatial conditions are representational of social practices like art, by structuring patterns of movement, encounter and separation in the city (Cartiere & Zebracki, 2016). This study aims to discover the spatial relation between urban art displays and the network of public spaces, and whether this pattern has a role in neighborhood regeneration. To identify these relations in Shoreditch, London, Space Syntax analysis and spatial clustering were used, combined with a survey of geographically located public urban art (extracted from social networks data). Also, the spatial patterns of land prices and land uses from 1995 to 2016 were examined. Research showed that various types of artwork have a strong relation with certain spatial network characteristics and visibility of locations from each other. Economic and use outcomes were also related to the development of the art pattern through the years.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Urban Art and place. Spatial patterns of urban art and their contribution to urban regeneration |
| Event: | The 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age |
| Location: | Valencia, Spain |
| Dates: | 27th-29th September 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 9788490485743 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.6069 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.6069 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Universitat Politècnica de València 2018. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Urban Art, urban regeneration, placemaking, spatial analysis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080107 |
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