Urban acupuncture: a catalyst for urban regeneration in the historic exchange district of Winnipeg
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2007
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When considering the existing urban syntax and the potentials for the implementation of change on a large scale through a series small interventions; parallels can be drawn to the Barcelona model. "Barcelona began to pull itself around with a seven-year plan in 1980: 140 small projects provided more plazas and better housing ... the central theme was: make the centre more functional and mediate the expansion of the outskirts." The Barcelona visionaries (Mayors: Joan Clos, Narcis Serra and Pasqual Maragall and Architects: Oriol Bohigas and Josep Acebillo) believe the successful development of a decaying city depends on taking a less fragmented approach. The title 'Urban Acupuncture' speaks to a comprehensive approach that seeks to respond to an existing urban condition through a diagnostical analysis which inherently elicits
a prescriptive reaction whereby the illegibility and incohesiveness of the civic fabric of the City
of Winnipeg is medicated by a series of small architectural interventions. The City of Winnipeg is plagued by a condition referred to in this document as WasteSpace. The term was coined
by a Dutch firm, S333, whose work has responded to a similar condition in the Netherlands responding to a contextual climate where a deficiency of greenfield sites has elicited a new paradigm of brownfield reclamation. They have realized the importance of reclaiming wasted space is high. In Winnipeg we have not yet been met with this condition; a seemingly endless supply of greenfield sites has allowed for rampant suburban expansion that has left the core perforated with an immense series of vacant surface area and a high number of vacant buildings.
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Bibliography: p. 65-66
Some pages are in colour.
Some pages are in colour.
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Labossiere, S. R. (2007). Urban acupuncture: a catalyst for urban regeneration in the historic exchange district of Winnipeg (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1130