City In Flux: Old Buildings

I really like idea of having and using old buildings that are degrading and have been neglected over the years. This is why I have looked at buildings that have been through a rough experience and have started to decay away. I like the concept of some parts of cities being ignored and removed away from the fluex of the city which results in letting the buildings and the way of living to start break down. I feel that by concentraing on the other parts of the city which are considered non-important and compare it to the fluex part of the city, would be a far more interesting concept than other parts because I'll get to look how cities start to break down.

Background

“Major cities are in a continuous state of flux caused by building and rebuilding activities and flows of artifacts, goods, commodities, and people, which dissolve and recreate different areas as sites of activity and use. Cities are characterized by tensions between this destruction and reconstruction of spaces, the coexistence of heterogeneous groups, and the different claims upon spaces, which they advance, and contest. The fusion between the physical form of the city and its social composition promises to help us understand how the question of the city’s identity and differences can become a topic of interest for the groups of persons who inhabit its spaces and who calculate ways and means of practically dealing with these changes.”

Extract from Culture of Cities Project

The ‘City in flux’ can take many forms in its simplest and most literal form ‘City in flux’ is little more than the layout of the town and the associated directional signage. However, when we apply a more cultural interpretation, then the ‘City in flux ’is more than this alone. It is an integral, multi- sensory landscape that is realised when many factors inter-relate. The way in which the space is interpreted and perceived.

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