Seminar Series 4 - Nicosia
The CyNUM Seminar 4 took place in collaboration with the SHCAD at the Home for Cooperation on 16th March 2018.
Programme:
Presentations:
Nicosia: searching for the Centre by Constantinos Kypris (University of Cyprus) Download Presentation Slides
Nicosia, a divided capital, in the last few decades has seen dramatic changes which make it a unique example of continuous socio-spatial transformation.The presentation will attempt a quick journey covering the last 60 years of changes in Nicosia’s urban space and urban function, searching for the urban centre of the city in different periods. The presentation mainly examines the south part of Nicosia.
Nicosia of 1957, 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2016 will be discussed. A discussion of a possible unified Nicosia will be attempted. Starting from 1957, the changes of the spatial configuration and the consequences on the urban function will be discussed, focused on the urban centre. Using configurational analysis, the spatial syntactic properties of every period, is compared to data about the use and the movement in the city.
The centre of commercial and business activities, the socio-economic nucleus of Nicosia, shifted out of the old city after the impose of the division line in 1963. In our days there is evidence that the urban centre in the south part of the town is shifting again to the south, losing its compactness. As Jacobs writes about urban centres, “without a strong and inclusive central heart, a city tends to become a collection of interests isolated from one another” (Jacobs,1961).
The morphological attraction of Nicosia by Alessandro Camiz (Girne American University) Download Presentation Slides
Recent urban morphology studies consider urban tissues as living organisms changing in time. The lecture will analyze the case study of Nicosia in continuity between the Conzenian approach (Whitehand, 2012) and the Italian School of Urban Morphology methods. The aim is to describe the diachronic changes of routes, and other multi-scalar occurrences of the attraction phenomenon. The theory introduces attractors and repellers, already used in archaeological studies, to explain such changes. “The trajectory that a system follows through time is the result of a continuous dynamic interaction between that system and the multiple 'attractors' in its environment” (Renfrew, Bahn, 2013, p. 184). Actually, the ridge theory (Caniggia, 1976) considers the attraction and the repellence of topographic features on anthropic routes. The attractors we are considering here operate at a different scale (Batty, 2005), deviating locally across time the theoretical geographic trajectory of a route as determined by land morphology.
Discussion moderated by Ms. Şebnem Önal Hoşkara (Cyprus Network of Urban Methodology)
For more information email ozge.ozogul@ahdr.info
Nicosia: searching for the Centre by Constantinos Kypris (University of Cyprus) Download Presentation Slides
Nicosia, a divided capital, in the last few decades has seen dramatic changes which make it a unique example of continuous socio-spatial transformation.The presentation will attempt a quick journey covering the last 60 years of changes in Nicosia’s urban space and urban function, searching for the urban centre of the city in different periods. The presentation mainly examines the south part of Nicosia.
Nicosia of 1957, 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2016 will be discussed. A discussion of a possible unified Nicosia will be attempted. Starting from 1957, the changes of the spatial configuration and the consequences on the urban function will be discussed, focused on the urban centre. Using configurational analysis, the spatial syntactic properties of every period, is compared to data about the use and the movement in the city.
The centre of commercial and business activities, the socio-economic nucleus of Nicosia, shifted out of the old city after the impose of the division line in 1963. In our days there is evidence that the urban centre in the south part of the town is shifting again to the south, losing its compactness. As Jacobs writes about urban centres, “without a strong and inclusive central heart, a city tends to become a collection of interests isolated from one another” (Jacobs,1961).
The morphological attraction of Nicosia by Alessandro Camiz (Girne American University) Download Presentation Slides
Recent urban morphology studies consider urban tissues as living organisms changing in time. The lecture will analyze the case study of Nicosia in continuity between the Conzenian approach (Whitehand, 2012) and the Italian School of Urban Morphology methods. The aim is to describe the diachronic changes of routes, and other multi-scalar occurrences of the attraction phenomenon. The theory introduces attractors and repellers, already used in archaeological studies, to explain such changes. “The trajectory that a system follows through time is the result of a continuous dynamic interaction between that system and the multiple 'attractors' in its environment” (Renfrew, Bahn, 2013, p. 184). Actually, the ridge theory (Caniggia, 1976) considers the attraction and the repellence of topographic features on anthropic routes. The attractors we are considering here operate at a different scale (Batty, 2005), deviating locally across time the theoretical geographic trajectory of a route as determined by land morphology.
Discussion moderated by Ms. Şebnem Önal Hoşkara (Cyprus Network of Urban Methodology)
For more information email ozge.ozogul@ahdr.info
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