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| Tall buildings, Tunapuna |
I look up! Tall
buildings play a major role in defining the identity of the urban as they form
the city’s skyline and its form. Discussing these matters involves raising
issues such as urban space, scale and skyline. The city’s planners have sought
the benefits that city revitalization and renovation can bring; in the capacity
of local city infrastructure. In this post, the height of the building makes me want to speak as a town representative ( smiles). SO I CARRY ON.
In
Tunapuna, the tall buildings on the lower Westward end of the Eastern Main
Road; the edge of the city, dominate the entire urban fabric of the area. These
buildings are concentrated in clusters and thus highlight specific city fabric
and the contextualization of the urban. The clustering allows for flexibility
in building composition. The morphology of the urban therefore is not totally
dependent on the individual buildings or their locations. These new clustered
tall buildings have collaborated with a loss in the historical image of how the
city was.
The
corroboration of tall buildings in Tunapuna is a visible creative element of
the socioeconomic building considerations that have gone into it. Although this
building is tall, it relatively low compared to those high rise buildings in
the main city Port of Spain. This may be due to building regulations regarding
skyline and built spaces in Trinidad. In particular, this building creates a
very famous public space for people within a certain taste and within a
particular age group (Hall et al., 2012). For example, the first floor caters to children and the
second floor caters to fitness personnel.
This
building, among others in the cluster, is a marker of financial stronghold of
the city. It is one that is aggressive and powerful in terms of whom it allows
on the inside. As a result, this building is very keen on security; it has iron
bars on the first floor and dark glass windows on the second.
These buildings being on the
edge of the city means several ramifications. For example, an economic
challenge would be an increase the cost of land and infrastructure on the city
edge ( Train, 2003). It would also mean that there would be morphological / physical
consequences; changes in the urban fabric and spatial shaping. Studying the
urban form and the process of their formation and transformation seek to
further help us to understand the spatial structure and character of a by
examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its
development in the Tunapuna area.
Reference:
Hall
and Barrett,2012. Urban Geography. 4th Edition. London and New
York: Routledge Publishing.(pages 282-301 ).
Train K. (2003) Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Great photos and references.
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