1. Masterplanning is the wrong word!
adaptive planning for 21st century urban communities
Lucy Bullivant
www.lucybullivant.net
Cities for People
Turku Cultural Capital of Europe programme
Thursday 17 March 2011

2. Lucio Costa’s plan for Brasilia, 1956

31. Medellín, Columbia; masterplan, 2006+ led by Alejandro Echeverri

39. Parque Explora/Explora Park

40. Jardin Botanico-Orquideorama/Orchid Botanical Garden

49. pink zone = damage by the tsunami; red (on the right) = damage by the earthquake

64. proposal for Enrique Donn Primary School

77. UMRANIYE ISTIKLAL MAHALLESI PARKING TYPOLOGIES
1. Kindergarten
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P 2. Pool
P 2 min. walking
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3. Library
P P
4. Running Track
P P
5. Concert Hall
6. Underground 7. Garden
Superpool Architects; proposal for multi-use car parking structures to help free up the streets of two districts in the city of Istanbul, 2009

78. Diagram of the housing units at Olympia Quartier, Almere, the Netherlands; masterplan: MVRDV; individual houses designed by up to 30 different practices. Status: ongoing

79. Graphic of the ‘wishlist’ which emerged from the public consultation for Governors Island, New York City. Masterplan led by West 8, 2009+

80. Avenida de Portugal, part of the Manzaneres River scheme to unite one of Madrid’s poorest neighbourhoods with the rest of the city. Masterplan: West 8

81. ‘If you have built castles in the air, your work need
not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
the foundations under them’.
Henry David Thoreau
‘The freedom to make and remake our cities and
ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most
precious yet most neglected of our human rights’.
David Harvey
‘The main character of any living system is
openness’.
‘The future is uncertain...but this uncertainty is at
the very heart of human creativity’.
Ilya Prigogine
www.lucybullivant.net