Ecological  democracy  centeredness  

Design  for  Ecological  Democracy  

•  Randolph  T.  Hester  •  Professor  Emeritus  of  Landscape  

Architecture  &  Environmental  Planning  and  Urban  Design,  UC  Berkeley  

•  Hester,  R.  2006.  Design  for  Ecological  Democracy.  MIT  Press,  Cambridge,  MassachuseJs.  

BACKGROUND  •  Problems  from  

urbanizaPon  •  _  Ecological  illiterate  •  _  Losing  idenPty  •  _  Losing  community  

•  Democracy  •  _  Public  involvement  

•  Ecological  •  _  RelaPonship  between  human  

beings  themselves  and  the  nature  

THREE  PRINCEPLES  Ecological  democracy  

•  INABLING  FORM:    GET  TO  KNOW  OUR  NEIGHBORORS  

•  RESILIENT  FORM:    LIFE,  LIBERTY  AND  PERSUIT  OF  SUSTAINABLE  HAPPINESS  

•  IMPELLING  FORM:  TO  MAKE  CITY  TO  TOUCH  PEOPLE’S  HEART  

AMERICAN  VALUES  

•  Mobility  •  Affluence  •  StandardizaPon  •  Technology  •  specializaPon  

 

•  Loss  of  community  •  AlienaPon+  public  phobia    •  Placelessness  •  Eco  illiteracy  •  Lack  of  comprehensive  knowledge    

PROBLEMS  FROM  CITY  FORM  

•  Land-­‐use-­‐segregated    subdivision  

•     High  speed  arterial  traffic  and  distance  

 •  Working  and  residenPal  

area  strictly  divided    •  Subdivision  ,standardizaPon

,  technology  

•  _  only  housing,  no  community  life  

•  _    impossible  to  neighbor  beyond  a  small  area,  especially  for  young  and  old  

•  _  CommuPng  takes  the  Pme  once  used  for  civic  acPviPes  

•  Far  away  from  the  natural  process  and  nature  play  for  children  

GOALS  INABLING  FORM:    GET  TO  KNOW  OUR  NEIGHBORORS    

•  Get  to  know  the  neighbors-­‐  connect  neighbors  within  their  locality  

•  The  capacity  to  work  together  to  solve  complex  problems    

FIVE  RULES  INABLING  FORM:    GET  TO  KNOW  OUR  NEIGHBORORS      

•  CENTEREDNESS  •  CONNECTEDNESS  •  FAIRNESS  •  SENSIBLE  STATUS  SEEKING  •  SACREDNESS  

CENTEREDNESS                                      10  RULES  

The  aggregate  of  shared  experience,  acPviPes,  and  interests  and  of  associated  se_ngs  is  called  centeredness.  

CENTEREDNESS  1    

Intense  concentra6ons  of  different  uses-­‐  diversity  groups          

CENTEREDNESS  2    

Be  accessible  for  everyone  in  the  area-­‐  car+  public  transport+  by  foot    

CENTEREDNESS  3    

Encourage  frequent,  preferably  daily  use+  use  throughout  the  day  and  evening  

CENTEREDNESS  4    

Provides  places  for  formal  and  less  forma  community  interac6on  and  for  public  and  private  affairs.    _  shared  acPviPes  

CENTEREDNESS  5    

Help  develop  local  knowledge  by  providing  seNngs  for  new  ideas  to  incubate,  transform,  and  spread.  

CENTEREDNESS  6    

Help  to  develop  shared  interest.  

CENTEREDNESS  7    

Provide  a  sense  of  orienta6on  for  coming  and  going  and  for  inside  and  outside.  

CENTEREDNESS  8    

Reflects  its  ecological  context  in  its  built  form.  

CENTEREDNESS  9    

Presents  a  consistency  of  building  form  without  having  any  one  building  dominate.  

CENTEREDNESS  10    

To  invite  commitment