城声 | 一周沙龙预告 2020.11.02-11.08
Informal/Formal Urbanism Keynote Lectures
Informality and the Pandemic: Thinking about our conceptual vocabularies
非正规性与疫情：对于概念语汇的进一步思考
Date: Friday 06 November 2020, 11:00 am 北京时间
Speaker: Gautam Bhan, IIHS, Delhi
Registration: https://www.infur.org/symposium2020
Abstract: This year has been, in some senses, another marker of the limits of current urban practices and theoretical frameworks to understand as well as anticipate urban realities. This talk will reflect on what the current pandemic has shown us about the lifeworlds that the conceptual diad of formal/informal urbanism has sought to describe, understand and engage with. Drawing from the Indian experience of what happened in these lifewords, the talk will think through what stands, and what stands challenged, in the conceptual work that “informality” helps us do, across both spatial and economic informality in cities of the global south.
从某种意义上说，2020年发生的事情进一步佐证了当前城市实践和理论框架在理解和预测城市现实方面的局限性。本场讲座将聚焦当下疫情对生活世界的实际影响过程，同时尝试与正规/非正规城市主义这个二元化的概念进行深入对话，力图进一步加深我们对这个概念体系想要描述、理解和参与的生活世界的认识。借助对疫情期间印度的城市经验和日常生活世界的观察，这个讲座邀请读者反思“非正规性”这个概念——它能够帮助我们把握这个生活世界的哪些部分，又有哪些部分超出了它的认知范围。这样的反思将进一步促进我们在更大的地理范围中理解全球南方城市的空间和经济非正规性问题。
Gentrification, brick by brick? Home renovations and the transformation of Toronto’s low rise housing stock
一砖一瓦砌出来的士绅化？多伦多的房屋装修与低层住宅转型
Date: Friday 06 November 2020, 22:00-24:00 北京时间
Speaker: Michelle Buckley & Glenn Brauen (University of Toronto)
Chair: Ugo Rossi (GSSI)
Link Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86185476338?pwd=UW0ya0tvK2pXN1h4ZzEyVjkydWdmUT09
Passcode: 493483
Abstract: Since 2014 in Canada, homeowners have been spending more money renovating homes than they have spent buying homes. In recent decades, levels of household mortgage debt have ballooned as housing prices in major urban centres across the nation have soared. With newfound wealth locked in their homes, homeowners across Canada have been mining this residential equity to make their homes bigger – making significant changes to the envelope of the house through the addition of floors or by digging out foundations to add a new livable basement. Filtering the City of Toronto’s public database of over 500,000 completed building permits between 2001 and 2018, we have sought to map these particular changes to the city’s housing stock. We argue that together these major renovation projects have significantly changed the housing stock as a whole. This collaborative project has encompassed not only novel empirical research but also the development of an innovative learning resource for students in our GIS program. In this presentation, we will discuss our efforts to combine curriculum development and student engagement with empirical research using municipal open data. We will also raise conceptual and theoretical questions about the place of financialized renovation in understandings of housing affordability in the current moment.
自2014年以来，加拿大的房主们花在装修房子上的钱超过了他们买房的钱。近几十年来，随着该国主要城市中心房价的飙升，家庭抵押贷款的债务也相应激增。当这些新发现的财富被锁在家里，房主们便开始不断挖掘着这些住宅进行改造的潜力，以使他们的房子更大——通过增加楼层或深挖地基来开发一个新的地下室，或者对房屋的外观进行彻底翻新。通过对多伦多公共数据库中 2001 年至 2018 年间超过 50 万份竣工建筑许可证的分析，我们试图将这些独特的变化图绘到该市的住房存量状况中。我们认为，这些大规模翻新工程整体而言已显著改变了房屋存量。这个合作项目不仅包括新颖的经验研究，还为GIS项目的学生开发了一个新的学习资源。本场讲座将介绍我们如何将课程开发与学生参与以及使用市政公开数据进行实证研究等目标结合起来，同时也会对金融化的住房翻新在理解当前住房可支付性等议题中的位置进行概念和理论层面的反思。
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