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The title Urban furniture for young people reveals that this paper handles two central phenomenon in landscape architecture; the form and content of the urban spaces, respectively the users and their need for an appropriate outdoor environment in the city. In this paper youth is referred to as...
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| Formato: | L3 |
| Lenguaje: | sueco Inglés |
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SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development
2009
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| Sumario: | The title Urban furniture for young people reveals that this
paper handles two central phenomenon in landscape architecture;
the form and content of the urban spaces, respectively
the users and their need for an appropriate outdoor
environment in the city. In this paper youth is referred to as
15-18 year olds and the paper is based on theories of their
physical use of the city's outdoor environment. Urban furniture
refers to equipment and components in the public room
which becomes furniture when people takes them in to claim
and gives them a meaning and a function that is useful for
the moment. The starting point is that the users, in this case
youths, defi nes urban furniture as something signifi cantly
more than traditional park furniture, bicycle racks and waste
baskets.
This paper aims to investigate how the city's furniture can be
developed to meet the youths need to see each other, move
and make their marks in the public room.
The theories about how youths uses the city are presented
in the Theory chapter. To make it easy for other landscape
architects to use my results in practical planning situations
when environments for youths are developed a synthesis
with 17 conclusions is presented. An important objective has
also been to show my experiences in a concrete way in the
form of an idea for a design of urban furniture for youths. I
have accomplished this by combining my theory synthesis
with inspiration from existing youth places and with analysis
of the place where I have chosen to put my furniture. This
has resulted in a program where an important word has
been communicative fl exibility and the concept Spring Time.
This paper completes with a proposal, an urban furniture for
youth. The proposal is based on three different units of a furniture,
where one is stationary and the other two constitute
movable units. |
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