Visions of urban mobility: the Westway, London, England
Visions of urban mobility: the Westway, London, England
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城市交通的愿景：英国伦敦 Westway
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2007
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Susan Robertson
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Susan Robertson
本文通过对建筑形式的解释，探讨了城市建筑和地理学的问题。更具体地说，它涉及到高架公路的流动性的城市景观，显示景观和环境框架的想法和运动的做法。城市中限制通行的高速公路的概念可以被视为现代化的缩影，反映了日常生活的速度不断提高，个人与社区的距离越来越远。与景观的分离及其对时空关系的影响创造了一种新的空间性。高架高速公路项目为从高处快速欣赏城市提供了全新的可能性。Westway于1970年开放，是一条2.5英里长的高架公路，连接英格兰伦敦市中心和英格兰西部通往牛津的路线。本文从两个方面对西大街的空间进行了研究：第一，它是现代主义的标志，象征着当时国家的城市愿望;第二，它是一种物质形式，将西大街视为机械实体和电影体验。通过这种结合，我认为，阅读景观作为文本是不够的，在分析建成的形式，其他框架是必要的。特别是，本文试图了解建筑空间和形式，通过更密切的联系，身体的空间和形式在动觉和想象的意义。
This paper explores issues of urban architecture and geography through an interpretation of built form. More specifically, it attends to the urban landscapes of mobility of the elevated highway, showing how landscape and environment frame ideas and practices of movement. The concept of limited-access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity, reflecting the ever-increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of individuals from communities. Separation from contact with the landscape and its effect on space-time relationships creates a new spatiality. The elevated highway project opens up the possibility of a completely new perception of the city, from above and at speed. The Westway, opened in 1970, is a two-and-a-half-mile long elevated highway linking the centre of London, England, with the west-of-England route to Oxford. The paper treats the space of the Westway in two particular ways: first as a modernist marker, symbolic of prevailing national urban aspirations; secondly as material form, through considering the Westway as machinic entity and as cinematic experience. Through this combination I argue that reading landscape as text is insufficient in the analysis of built form; other frameworks are necessary. In particular, this paper seeks to understand architectural space and form through a closer connection of body to space and form in both the kinaesthetic and imaginary senses.