Doctoral Dissertation Research: Urban Designers and the Production of Public Space in Belleville, Paris, France

博士论文研究：法国巴黎贝尔维尔的城市设计师和公共空间的生产

• 批准号: 0221053
• 负责人: Donald Mitchell
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0221053&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Urban; Designers

Although community and government leaders often promote programs that can lead to significant transformations of major parts of cities with terms that use the word "public" as an adjective, there is not one public but rather many different groups who have interests in "public space," "public works," and other manifestations of "public" activity. These different groups can have fundamentally different views of what is best for "the public," and the ways in which they organize space and interact with each other can have profound consequences for the groups individually and for the overall cumulative product. This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award proposal outlined plans for a doctoral student to examine the transformations of public space in Belleville, a community in northeastern Paris, France, that now is dominated by relatively poor, recently arrived immigrants. The student will use ethnographic approaches to assess how the quarter's public spaces have developed as a result of the struggles between urban designers and local residents during the major redevelopment of the quarter in the 1990s. The study will focus on the urban development process itself, paying particular attention to the determining if and how immigrant struggles for political and representation have influenced the design process. The student will conduct archival research and use participant observation of both local residents and the design offices engaged in redevelopment efforts.This project will provide valuable new insights into the ways that different groups conceive of and deal with public spaces. In particular, it will shed light on the varying ways that urban designers, who often are situated far away from the sites where their designs are to be implemented, and residents based directly in affected communities participate in debates on the political economy of public space. The study will provide useful information to residents and designers in the study area, and its insights may have practical benefits for comparable actors in other communities. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

虽然社区和政府领导人经常用“公共”这个词作为形容词来推动可以导致城市主要部分重大变革的项目，但对“公共空间”、“公共工程”和其他“公共”活动表现形式感兴趣的不是一个公共群体，而是许多不同的群体。 这些不同的群体对于什么是对“公众”最好的看法可能有根本的不同，他们组织空间和彼此互动的方式可能对群体个体和整体累积产品产生深远的影响。这个博士论文研究改进奖的建议概述了一个博士生的计划，以检查公共空间的改造在贝尔维尔，在法国巴黎东北部的一个社区，现在是由相对贫穷，最近抵达的移民为主。 学生将使用民族志的方法来评估该季度的公共空间是如何发展的，因为城市设计师和当地居民之间的斗争，在该季度的主要重建在20世纪90年代。 这项研究将侧重于城市发展过程本身，特别注意确定移民的政治和代表性斗争是否以及如何影响设计过程。 学生将进行档案研究，并利用参与观察当地居民和参与重建工作的设计办公室。该项目将为不同群体构思和处理公共空间的方式提供有价值的新见解。 特别是，它将阐明城市设计师，谁往往是远离他们的设计将被实施的网站，和居民直接基于受影响的社区参与公共空间的政治经济辩论的不同方式。 这项研究将为研究区域的居民和设计师提供有用的信息，其见解可能对其他社区的类似行为者有实际好处。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。