waterfront-design-a-three-cities-comparison

Once a back area, water ways are no longer looked at being something to be hidden for. This is a good way to promote hygiene and also to observe flood before it comes. During the last decades, waterfront redesign has been in trend to change the face of a city. The pictures were taken from 3 different cities (left-right above-right down; Yogya, Shanghai, Paris), although the quality of the designs are not comparable, the attention and message are clear, waterfront is exactly ‘a front’ piece. Read more

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Study Case - 3

 

National - Bastille Day, France

champ de marsWe would not discuss the details of the long history in French Revolution. I will just refresh the memory of how things were and put more emphasize in the use of public space and the actors behind it. Bastille Day was declared as French national holiday on 6th of July 1880 as the birth of the Republic. However, on 14th of July 1790, the first celebration was held at Champs-de-Mars between the Ecole Militaire and the river Seine. Read more

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