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The Chicago Riverwalk and the Maggie Daley

Raumlabor

Dissing+Weitling architecture

Christian Phillips

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A new cycle superhighway in Copenhagen

A new public sauna at the derelict harbor at

Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden is a first step to

architecture for economic reasons. As a result, the

“Bicycle Snake� marks another step toward realizing

transform the area by site-specific interventions. This

landscape architect becomes mediator.

Copenhagen’s vision of becoming an eco-metropolis.

transformation culture could change city governance.

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Peter Benett

Archive Paolo Deganello

increases the ease of daily commutes. The so-called

Christopher Marcinkoski

Park in Chicago exemplify the trend to use landscape

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Urbanization has become a tool for economic

Los Angeles has plans to revitalize the LA

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The 1960s were an era of utopian visions in

and political interests. The global impact of speculative

Riverbed and its different facets with the help of Frank

architecture and city planning. These designs still have

urbanism that is no longer in sync with financial

Gehry. The city wants the river to become a place with

the capacity to inspire, but do they really still have

reality affects architecture and city planning.

urban atmosphere and a high quality of life.

relevance for the pressing urban-planning challenges?

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CITY

Cover: Chicago Riverwalk Expansion, Chicago, USA Design: Sasaki Associates Photo: Christian Phillips

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CONTENTS

MARKUS RICHTER

16 Open City – Open Space

78 Within the Big Structure

Economic Design: Chicago Riverwalk and

Past Visions: utopian architecture and city planning from

Maggie Daley Park in Chicago

the 1960s

N ATA LI E G U L S RU D, H E N R I E T T E S T E I N E R

G E O R G V R AC H LI OT I S

24 Life Between Buildings

84 The City as a Digital Fabric

Green mobility: cycle superhighway in Copenhagen

Urban Networks: the integral urban model of Fritz Haller

MI C H A E L KO LL E R

C A R L O R AT T I , MATT H E W C H RI S TOP H E R C L A U D E L

32 Adaptive Planning

92 Agents of Mutation

New Masterplan: football stadium and riverbank park

Futurecraft: predicting future scenarios with the help

in Bordeaux

of design

C A ROL I N E DA H L , P E R - J O H A N DA H L

ARJAN HARBERS, DANIËLLE SNELLEN

40 The Celebration of Co-creation

98 Smart Transportation

Participation: Bathing Culture and Jubilee Park in Gothenburg

New Mobility: the future of transportation in the Netherlands

NADIN HEINICH

J Ö R N F R E N Z E L , RE G I NA V I L J A S A A R

48 How to Survive in Moscow

104 Parallel Cities

Public Space: Krymskaya Promenade and Gorky Park

Digital Urbanism: Smart Cities Tallinn and Helsinki

in Moscow

Currents

C H R I STO P H E R M A R C I N KO SK I

56 The City That Never Was

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Projects, Competitions, Reviews

Speculative Urbanism: city planning as a tool for economic interests

110 Authors

ALEXANDER GUTZMER

111 Credits/Imprint

64 Transforming an Urban Dystopia New Identity: radical plans for the Los Angeles River DA N I E L RO E H R , M I C K E L L A S J O Q U I S T

70 Social Structures Connecting Element: Under Gardiner Expressway in Toronto

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Conor O’Shea

Open City – Open Space In Chicago, the new Maggie Daley Park and Chicago Riverwalk exemplify the trend for cities to build high-profile works of landscape architecture to spur reinvestment in historic urban cores. In this era of decreased federal and municipal funding for such projects, private investment is increasingly called upon. As a result, and as a range of new spaces in Chicago demonstrate, the landscape architect has emerged as a mediator between commercial interests and civic responsibilities.

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The Chicago Riverwalk was designed by landscape architects Sasaki Associates. They proposed a 25-foot extension to be built into the river. Through its proportions and formal structure it acknowledges Chicago’s call for a pedestrian promenade at the river’s edge.

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Natalie Gulsrud, Henriette Steiner

LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS Copenhagen has a new piece of bicycle infrastructure. The so-called “Cykelslangen”, the “Bicycle Snake”, is a cycle superhighway that increases the ease and efficiency of daily commutes in the city. It not only marks another step in Copenhagen’s vision of becoming an eco-metropolis, it also allows a glimpse into the complex structure of a modern city.

The new cycle superhighway is elevated 5.5 meters above ground level at its highest point. The whole structure is resting on elegant, evenly spaced white pilotis.

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Caroline Dahl, Per-Johan Dahl

The Celebration of

Co-creation Public Space and Bathing Culture, which currently appropriates an area of the derelict harbor at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden, is more than a participation project or an urban renewal process. Through prototyping, the city is nurturing a transformation culture of site-specific interventions, that may change city governance from the inside out.

The new public sauna is built on a caisson in the river.

Raised on stilts to even further elevate the space, the building is visible from various viewpoints in the harbor.

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