Inner city area in transition. Consequences of product-oriented planning in Oslo
Titel:
Inner city area in transition. Consequences of product-oriented planning in Oslo
Auteur:
Christensen, A. L. G.
Verschenen in:
Housing, theory and society
Paginering:
Jaargang 1 (1984) nr. 1 pagina's 15-26
Jaar:
1984
Inhoud:
The article presents results from a research teamwork between an architect, an art historian and an ethnologist, analyzing an urban renewal process in an inner city area in Oslo: Grønland/Nedre Tøyen. The project is a part of Research Programme on Norwegian Cities, initiated by Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities. The officially initiated and controlled renewal process is analyzed from an ethnological point of view, as a cultural process. The author questions whether urban qualities can be taken care of in a product-oriented process, with the goals and standards already set, and where the planning models are very simple, seen in relation to an old and complex multifunctional area. The “freezing” of a future situation by product-oriented planning and implementation seems incompatible to the very nature of “natural” cultural processes, where the changes are generated and controlled by the members of the society themselves.
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