01 Cosmos.City20

Governments are the only means by which to organize and coordinate effective collective responses.

Asya Tokbey:

Olivia - It is important for every new city to choose a single factor or driving force to center the construction of the city around..

Boulet: With the arrangement of the religious development, the city was able to plan and expect social and economic growth

Aidan French: The architecture of historical societies influenced the intent of planning, solidifying the importance of centralized zoning in Mexico City

Connor McCormick The innovation of green space for foot traffic in large cities dominated by private transportation is the only thing that can save those cities from creating an increase of environmental damage throughout the planet.

Adapt

Jake Picariello: Urban development is slowing in cities where they are to stubborn to change a city structure.

Action Statement: Develop a centralized arrangement of public amenities that amplify the economy and society of inhabitants.

Supporting Paragraph: Cities across the world establish a relationship between human scale spaces and buildings. Zoning organizes a system throughout the city to promote economic stability and social integration. A city's urban core sets up a grid system to help organize residences throughout the city, by bringing benefits of community-strengthening interventions to the greatest amount of people .

Questions:

- How does the development around the center get established?

- How can the focal point of the city and the outlying grids help to further implement societal developments? Such as public transportation

- What public amenities constitute as a focal point?

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[Paragraph of considerations capturing the key points and insights of your group discussion]

• [List of questions any group implementing the action step should take into consideration}?

Adapt cities of the Twenty-First Century to retain their cultural identities during modern globalization.

The typology of western skyscrapers adapted to exhibit values and cultural forms out of the history and heritage of the Cantonese People. Change economics growth adapt to retain the life of the arts & architecture all while expanding trade, global exposure and social change. Despite this cultural success, Hong Kong residents are not necessarily seeing these improvements on their own lives.

• How do we tell the difference between mimicry and honoring culture?
• How does a city know when it needs to change?
• What improvements can come out of Hong Kong for cities like New York?
• What problems does Hong Kong & NYC face together?
• What is New York's identity?

Adaption Policy action plan

Hong Kong's failure: Housing. Despite culturally adapting to western globalization, the housing crisis remains the same, just as New York equally struggles. New & expensive skyscrapers, no matter the cultural or economic context, are raising land values and forcing existing residents to move out.

Solution(s): For starters, city-wide implemented rent control on these terms:

- Landlords must charge no more than the monthly cap-in-place to avoid surcharging renters.

-Limit pricing out lower-income individuals [What's your Evidence?]

Other solutions: Limiting who can buy home's by enforcing a permanent residency law to avoid shell companies and billionaires from buying up property for real estate investments. [What's your Evidence?]

By putting laws requiring residency for X amount of time, this opens up housing availability and embraces giving New York back to the people by trying to reduce costs. New York residents who may have been kicked out of the city could return back and strengthen its culture.

Faisal. In order for cities to survive the amount of people that are already part of its system and the new once, they have to be creative in introducing solutions that address the living conditions of the people.

Kyle Andrews: Trade cities like Hong Kong hybridize their culture to both enforce their own system and embrace globalization.

Create centralized areas that connects monuments, governmental, and institutional buildings with axes of public spaces so that the public can directly experience this concentration of power.

Washington, D.C. creates a relationship between government buildings and the street axes that creates long visual corridors across the city. The public space that connects these nodes become symbolic spaces of control over the people while allowing people to gather and hold their government accountable. The urban design acts as a symbol of democracy by establishing a mutual relationship between the government and the people.

• What cheaper alternatives are there to building monuments?
• Can the staging of temporary events have a similar impact?
• Could this system be implemented in existing cities with minimal bulldozing to the existing buildings?
• Would a higher building density around these public spaces affect the relationship between the monuments? Do there need to be height restrictions?

Matthew Ducey: Washington DC has a series of monuments connected by public, open spaces. These spaces allow people to gather and experience the different institutions that amplify the power projected by the axes.

Will Allen: Washington, D.C. acts as a diagram of democracy by developing a relationship between government institutions and public zones through the use of wide visual corridors and public parks.

Odanrick Cabral: Washington dc establishes a relationship between governmental buildings and street axiality to represent democracy and impose order and control over the nation.

Zereger Araujo

Mo: Urban regeneration is a widely experienced but little understood phenomenon. It is crucial for public urban spaces to be treated as symbols of contemporary cities

Michael Skolnick: Florence's historic center is home to the Piaza de Duomo and Cathedral di Santa Maria del Fiore which acts as the geographic social heart of the city.

Jarod Redfield: Yangon, Myanmar, which is the previous capital of Myanmar, is primarily organized by the relationship between the people and the Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the most symbolic pagodas in Buddhism

Moreno: Organizing the city around areas of cultural significance like in Lhasa, Tibet it creates an accepted hierarchy for its citizens that reflects their beliefs.

Mok: The city of Beijing China is a prime example of how planning a city around a religious building like the Temple of Heaven can be beneficial to the efficiency of the planning of the city and also the well being of the people living there.

Central Capital Culture

Organize cities around centralized, cultural priorities to establish zoning hierarchy that maximizes social and economic growth for all inhabitants.

21st-century challenges require 21st century tools to bring the greatest benefits to the most people

21st-century challenges will strike unevenly and it is our job to protect as many as possible starting with ourselves.

[Organize]

Cities are composed of two organically but at the same time autonomic subsystems- urban and social. The urban form is represent by having a centralized cultural hub within the city that is used as a guiding principle for the city's organization. A centralized hub reflecting social beliefs would impose different aspects of the culture into the values and ideals of the residents. This supports universal cultural growth.

• What is of cultural importance to the region?
• Can an existing city be redeveloped around religious architecture?
• How is a city developed when there isn't a historic religious influence?

Widely dispersed choices based on individual self-interest are ultimately the only means to achieve authentically sustainable non-coercive outcomes.