Matthew Adams - Aesthetics of Mobility

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/21/totem-de-dos-by-brut-deluxe-architecture-design/

Ceramic Speaker

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/11/23/ceramic-speaker-by-nendo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dezeen+%28Dezeenfeed%29

Matthew Adams

Time Banks

http://timeinterchange.wordpress.com/

Virtually every piece of demographic statistics you will ever want to know about Stoke-on-Trent.

Alex Dodd

This useful little link will take you to a neighbourhood zoning page, which contains every social / demographic and statistical piece of information you will ever want to know about the City of Stoke on Trent, broken up into the 54 zones used to map the city.

It is the smallest unit of demographic detail I have currently found.

http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/LSP/neighbourhood-zone-profiles.en


Neighbourhood Zone Profiles
It has long been recognised that the city's wards*, with a population of approximately 12,000 people each, contain different areas in terms of their social and economic make-up.

The city of Stoke-on-Trent has a population of 239,000 people (Office of National Statistics mid-year 2007 estimate), currently divided into 20 electoral wards. In terms of population these wards are more than double the average size of wards across England.

The 54 areas have been adopted by the Stoke-on-Trent Local Strategic Partnership including Police, Health, Jobcentre Plus, and other public agencies, and form the basis of the Local Area Agreement, launched in March 2006, as well as the current Neighbourhood and Community Strategies in use across the city.

Following either clear physical barriers such as:

■roads;
■railways;
■canals;
■rivers and brooks; or
■clearly separate areas of housing;

the neighbourhood zones are more easily recognisable areas than wards.

These profiles have been updated for 2009 and can be downloaded by clicking the links below.


http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/LSP/neighbourhood-zone-profiles.en



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Relationships Between Physical & Virtual Spaces

Matthew Adams

"The notion that physical space can be 'replaced' by an on line environment suggests that traditional forms of social engagement have been superseded."

The virtual world of social networking and micro-blog sites such as Facebook and Twitter exist in a non physical space which rapidly expands everyday as users input data into the system and communicate with other users of the medium. Users are now invited to 'check-in' or 'location tag' themselves, their tweets, their photos, their events and activities, increasingly so with the use of GPS on smart phones. This one example begins to demonstrate the interesting link between the virtual world inside our computer systems and engagement with 'real' world spaces and events.

This interactive music video by Arcade Fire uses developing technologies such as HTML 5, and Google mapping services including Goodle Earth and Streetview. Images of real world spaces are utilised by the software to autonomously synthesise a dynamic music video experience based on location data entered by the viewer.

This video is really impressive and interestingly combines technology, location information, space and the idea of mobility within a part virtual, part real personalised experience for every user.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

(make sure that you have the latest version of your browser software installed, Safari seems to work best)

Requiem for Detroit?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OpXhd7iau8

 

Julien Temple's new film is a vivid evocation of an apocalyptic vision: a slow-motion Katrina that has had many more victims. Detroit was once America's fourth largest city.

Built by the car for the car, with its groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping centre's, it was the embodiment of the American dream.

 

Now it is truly a dystrophic post-industrial city, in which 40 per cent of the land in the centre is returning to prairie. Greenery grows up through abandoned office blocks, houses and collapsing car plants, and swallows up streetlights. (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rkm3y)

 

Is this a model of what life is going to be for post-industrial cities?

 

The reliance on a few industries, the flight of the professional classes and the decline of the public sector are all examples that have occurred in Stoke on Trent. Even though there has been vast amount of public investment in the last 30 years these issues have failed to stop.

 

Russell Ingram 

Antonios Papanastasiou Mobility task

my response to the introductory task. As Stoke is characterised as a "polycentric linear city", i wanted to find out as much as i could about the origins of this type of planning. During my research i came across the two archetypes of the polycentric linear city: Ebenezer Howard's "Garden City" and Arturo Soria's "Ciudad Lineal". Then i looked at how the layout and past industrial character of the city are reflected on its current physical, sociological and economical state and continuing my research, i am looking at various proposals for the regeneration of the city, starting off with Cedric Price's conceptual "potteries thinkbelt" and the "vision lite" spatial vision system, a 2004-2014 community regeneration scheme. References: www.thepotteries.org www.stoke.gov.uk FISHMAN, Robert(1982): Urban Utopias in the Twentieth century Shephali p. Mendon: Human settlements 2: A study on the planning principles of Ebenezer Howard and Arturo Soria y Mata