Bøger om Urbanism

This booklet is a collection of work of the students of Urban design and planning studio 3 at the Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. The students followed a spatial planning simulation based on a shortened version of a full planning process. In the context of the course, the first three steps (analysis, strategy, masterplan and action) were developed, and the content of the booklet reflects this structure: after an introduction on the relationship of the studio with the local administration of the case study and other experts, the case study itself is described through an analysis that goes from the city to the neighbourhood scale, and visions, strategies, masterplans and actions are proposed by two different student groups according to the issues that surfaced from the results of the investigation.

The booklet is a collection of the projects done by the students during the Urban design and planning studio 3 at the bachelor of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. The students simulated a spatial planning process in a critical area in Odense called Vollsmose, which has been listed as a ghetto area (ghettolisten) since was exceeds all the criteria of the ghetto list, and it was also categorized as a hard ghetto area. With approximately 6.800 inhabitants in 2021, it represents the largest ghetto area in Denmark.The booklet is divided into three main chapters, analysis, strategy and masterplan, which are also the three planning phases of the simulation. The idea is to promote a great job of the students and to be part of a process by giving fresh ideas on territorial issues and dynamics.

Gellerup tells the story of one of the most ambitious and controversial urban development projects in Danish history. Gjellerupplanen was launched as a brand-new urban district, modelled after the modernist planning ideals that transformed cities all over the world. The book follows the plan, from the 1950s when the visions surfaced, to the point when the first turf was cut, and all the way up to the present, when the area has come to epitomize the social challenges associated with modernist large-scale planning. Today, the district is undergoing a dramatic transformation aimed at redefining the place and installing a different narrative about this troubled part of Aarhus. This means that Gellerup may be used as a prism to shed new light on the varying Danish architecture and housing policies.The book takes an in-depth look at the architectural and urban visions that shaped Gellerup in the first place and then goes on to examine the events and ideas that led to the present perception of the area, including its problems and potentials.