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Rethinking urban transformation: Temporary uses for vacant land
Highlights Question whether “permanent” solutions to vacant land are appropriate. Outline potential drawbacks and benefits to new temporary use model. Present supportive case for incremental and experimental responses to vacant land.
Abstract As some cities grapple with economic decline and depopulating neighborhoods, a number of academics and professionals have focused their attention on the causes, conditions and patterns of the resultant vacant land, whereas others lay out broad programmatic, institutional, fiscal and design responses to address vacancy on site or citywide scales. We find that, regardless of condition and context, most responses advocate complex, officially sanctioned, formal programs and policies that call for or depend on implementation over several multi-year phases. While laudable in scope, we question whether “permanent” solutions are appropriate given the widely varying causes, durations, contexts and patterns of vacancy and the inability of similarly scoped government-led programs to thus far achieve intended goals or improve local quality of life. We present examples that make the case for temporary, incremental, flexible and experimental responses to urban vacant land, then conclude by outlining the potential benefits and drawbacks of this temporary use model.
Rethinking urban transformation: Temporary uses for vacant land
Highlights Question whether “permanent” solutions to vacant land are appropriate. Outline potential drawbacks and benefits to new temporary use model. Present supportive case for incremental and experimental responses to vacant land.
Abstract As some cities grapple with economic decline and depopulating neighborhoods, a number of academics and professionals have focused their attention on the causes, conditions and patterns of the resultant vacant land, whereas others lay out broad programmatic, institutional, fiscal and design responses to address vacancy on site or citywide scales. We find that, regardless of condition and context, most responses advocate complex, officially sanctioned, formal programs and policies that call for or depend on implementation over several multi-year phases. While laudable in scope, we question whether “permanent” solutions are appropriate given the widely varying causes, durations, contexts and patterns of vacancy and the inability of similarly scoped government-led programs to thus far achieve intended goals or improve local quality of life. We present examples that make the case for temporary, incremental, flexible and experimental responses to urban vacant land, then conclude by outlining the potential benefits and drawbacks of this temporary use model.
Rethinking urban transformation: Temporary uses for vacant land
Németh, Jeremy (author) / Langhorst, Joern (author)
Cities ; 40 ; 143-150
2013-01-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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