Temporary City Bishop Peter
Temporary City Bishop Peter Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. Similarly, there has been…
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Temporary City Bishop Peter
Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. Similarly, there has been relatively little analysis of the importance of interim, short-term or meanwhile activities in urban areas. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies.
Instead, we need to view temporary uses as increasingly legitimate and important in their own right. In an era of increasing pressure on scarce resources, we cannot wait for long-term solutions to vacancy or dereliction. They can be a powerful tool through which we can drip-feed initiatives for incremental change as and when we have the resources while being guided by a loose-fit vision.Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams explore the growing interest among practitioners at the