Dwelling in Density: Opportunities for Civic Agency and Collective Social Captial
Paper presented at Spaces and Flows Conference 2016, at the University of Philadelphia. All hand-drawn diagrams are original and a copyright of Amelyn Ng.
Paper presented at Spaces and Flows Conference 2016, at the University of Philadelphia. All hand-drawn diagrams are original and a copyright of Amelyn Ng.
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common ground<br />
“No apartment is an isl<strong>and</strong>”:<br />
Connect<strong>in</strong>g cont<strong>in</strong>guous residential sites & re<strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>c<strong>in</strong>g sociocultural adacencies<br />
• ‘Locked Lobby’:<br />
developer’s modus oper<strong>and</strong>i<br />
• Gated vertical communities<br />
seen as a typological ‘norm’<br />
• Inert street <strong>in</strong>terfaces<br />
• Monocultural br<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
• Poor civic utility<br />
• ‘Open Lobby’: Time-sensitive programm<strong>in</strong>g<br />
• Intelligent, culturally productive shared <strong>in</strong>terfaces<br />
• Programmatic flexibility managed by both body<br />
corporate <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> part by residents<br />
• Policy level change needed <strong>for</strong> large-scale adoption:<br />
Re-evaluate zone overlays, prompt developers/<br />
architects of adjacent sites to negotiate shared space<br />
prior to lodg<strong>in</strong>g of plann<strong>in</strong>g draw<strong>in</strong>gs
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