Photographs of Cabrini Green

http://www.satoki.com/archives/2109

These photographs have been taken by Japanese photographer since 2010.

All people in these photographs is gone now…

Cabrini Green will exist only in those photographs and some people’s memories.

1/1000 scaled models of cities

A crazy project.

They made not only 1/1000 scaled model of Tokyo but of New York and of Shanghai to study and to compare city planning.

http://www.thepolisblog.org/2011/09/photo-realistic-model-of-tokyo-braces.html

 

Forgotten place

There are some places that have been forgotten in a city. One of the reasons to not go there is that no reason to go there; nothing is going on or interested in. Stateway park is one of them. No one is there although this park is on State street which is one of the major street in the city, just a half mile from the Crown, and not the dead-end corner. I felt as if I slipped into the gap between spaces unnoticeably.

 

 

But I saw a group of visitors in the park. At least I had a company!

If a reason to go will be created, people will come to this park even during cold winter.

Something like a field house… (That’s my studio project. :))

31st Street stencil

This stencil is on a plywood barrier on 31st  where the road passes over the railroad tracks just west of Lake Shore Drive (see map for location; x marks spot.)  This site will be in sight of the soon-to-come protected bike lane on 31st.  Only this single panel carries a message; the others seem (to me) eager to join in the dialogue.

You are looking at Chicago and being taxed for it.

Unregistered Cities

(All images by Jiang Pengyi, via Blindspot Gallery)

 

Jiang Pengyi expresses excessive urbanization, redevelopment and demolition in the Beijing city with miniature model.

He installed abandoned buildings in abandoned space.

Design seoul

1. Public idea

2. Get what people want

3. Respond them

 

There was a movement to re-design Seoul.

Seoul city hall tried to make the city better responding what citizen want.

However, the project was not successful. because of low participant of people.

Most of them were not experts and  some opinions conflict.