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Martin Brabant
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.11.010
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Projektkraft Building Brands, Rheinboldtstrasse 1, 2362 Biedermannsdorrf, Austria
ABSTRACT
Dispersed and peripheral spaces in the urban
core are influenced both by the trend towards constant growth as well as social
ways of life which are constantly evolving. Following a connotation, these two
factors therefore play a crucial role in defining the alternation of urban
space—in particular, that of the centers. The main focus of this research
article is on the methodology used in the survey and
evaluation of “centralities” as well as their developments over the past four
decades (1974~2014) in approaches to urban development that has been developed
in Graz.1 The analysis has drawn on the four editions (“evolution”) of approaches to
urban development as conceived by the city of Graz in order to examine their
verbal characteristics in regard to centralities. At the same time, the analysis does not examine
presentations of plans which exist in supplementary forms (e.g., explanatory
reports and supplemented plans)—it restricts itself solely to the various plans
set out in the STEKs.2 The highest degree of
accuracy has been applied to the notion of “centralis” in approaches to urban
development. The goal of the research project was to depict the modulation of
the notion of “centrality” in the urban context as a space-forming dimension.
Furthermore, it clearly shows the extent to which the notion of the “centre”
(in the widest sense of the word) has become distanced from qualitative,
spatial development and at the current time of urban development is experiencing
a sort of Renaissance. In the field of “urban development”, architectural
references in the context of “centrality” have scarcely been researched. This
has led to the opening-up of a complex interdisciplinary research field. In
order to make the complex architectural determinants of “centrality” more accessible to the participating
disciplines, approaches to urban development have been explored in the form of
a social and spatial analysis.
KEYWORDS
Social space analysis, qualitative research methods in urban development processes, classification of city sizes, urban, centre.
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