Manifesto for a pedestrian and green city under vital porosity
The city is space and momentum for community exchange and expression.
Is there a special desire for post-pandemic urbanism? Can a city be reconverted as if it were part of its natural extension? Can the idea of landscape be intertwined with city life?
By recovering a diverse, vibrant way of life that is less bound by zoning, one that allows for the mixing of social, natural, and built-up areas, Sudbury could move away from being a city abruptly split by the railroad. Instead of a having a central district with offices, on the one hand, and beautiful, wooded and residential districts, on the other hand, it could become a city connected to the landscape.
The city is the space for encounters and different forms of spatial appropriation. It is landscape and interstice, discovery. Sometimes it is iconic, and almost always it is the right scale that facilitates the proliferation of places.
Highlighting the local landscape is to recognize a non-monumental horizontality as an invitation displacement. By leaving aside the self-centred monumentality of architecture, one promotes the natural movement of displacement without obstruction. A similar concept was behind the famous case of bridges of Könisberg.
The result is a healthier city, pedestrianized, with bicycle paths; a city that accompanies irs topography, one where geographical accidents as a space of opportunity. A city dotted with multiculturalism.
The vision for Sudbury towards 2050 attempts to balance three types of urban actions that will be melded into a powerful image of horizontal integration. It focuses on the idea of a community that not only enjoys an integrated green space, but also a pedestrian and bicycle space that prevail over the dominance of cars and parking space.
Sudbury presents a characteristic that is also its potential: its porosity. It should enhance the taste for visual extension to nature in the city and to its regional connections.
I believe in a series of interventions that recognize this potential, often overlooked by a supposed "lack of formal unity", a exaggerated deformation of architecture. The city should be the product of a series of linked micro-spaces where the residents find themselves discovering and appropriating all the interstices, now colonized by common activities. A place to roam, away from the car; a rediscovered place for the unpredictable. Let us rewrite and rediscover the miner's path, along three pillars of intervention.
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