Sunday, February 10, 2008

Research Info.

This is more or less going to be a progress post for the research component of Columbus and past masterplanning (some images and brief amount of text). Most of the time was spent looking for material on past masterplans of Columbus, which surprisingly, there is a lot of past plans that were done. Some of the more plans I am going to spend time looking at this next week are the Ponte Plans (by Vincent Ponte - who did Montreal's Plans), the 1992 Comprehensive Plan and the 190(?) beautification plan. I also did find some recent work on the streetscapes of downtown, which address pedestrian issues.
Naturally, the city spent the money to do the research and after briefly looking at the proposals, nothing has been implemented.
The Ponte Plans and the Comprehensive Plan of '92, look like they will be the most useful of the plans, they address issues that I am interested in exploring (i.e. circulation, retail, districts, residential, etc.). I am also going to try and meet up with Michael sometime this week to also get some input on his thoughts on my findings and assesments of the masterplans. The culmination of the research will be a short paper addressing the content found within the documents.
First Image: Outline of Columbus in 1950:

Columbus in 1990:

Columbus Neighborhoods:

Neighborhood Prototypes:

Columbus Recreation Areas:
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3 comments:

Carli Sekella said...

Have you checked out this site before? Bart Overly talked about it a few years back at a lecture and I think the site is great.

http://1kco.org/

February 12, 2008 at 5:57 AM
F.R. said...

Ok, I bought MVRDV book..
not their latest, but I think it's pretty interesting.. 5 MIN city..the workshop is for 5 days
it was a workshop held by winy, he ask student what would happened if cities can be approach anywhere in 5 min.
they are using 2sites, 1 NY, the other one rotterdam..
various studies was done by involving public transportation vs pvt transportation
linear figuration, vs interstitial.
MVRDV also showed their previous case studies as well.
it might be relevant to your thesis "how to bring people back to downtown c-bus"
I can lend you my book, or maybe if you want to buy it from me.

February 12, 2008 at 6:56 AM
F.R. said...

another awesome book you should look at:
Cities: X Lines: Approaches to City and Open Territory Design (Paperback)

February 12, 2008 at 6:59 AM

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