Monday, 13 February 2017

Mind mapping the topic of urbanism

Mind mapping the topic of urbanism



Joseph Kim-keung Ho
Independent Trainer
Hong Kong, China


Abstract: The topic of urbanism is a main one in Housing Studies. This article makes use of the mind mapping-based literature review (MMBLR) approach to render an image on the knowledge structure of urbanism. The finding of the review exercise is that its knowledge structure comprises four main themes, i.e., (a) Descriptions of basic concepts and information (b) Major underlying theories and thinking, (c) Main research topics and issues, and (d) Major trends and issues related to practices. There is also a set of key concepts identified from the urbanism literature review. The article offers some academic and pedagogical values on the topics of urbanism, literature review and the mind mapping-based literature review (MMBLR) approach.
Key words: Urbanism, literature review, mind map, the mind mapping-based literature review (MMBLR) approach


Introduction
Urbanism is a main topic in Housing Studies. It is of academic and pedagogical interest to the writer who has been a lecturer on Housing Studies for some tertiary education centres in Hong Kong. In this article, the writer presents his literature review findings on urbanism using the mind mapping-based literature review (MMBLR) approach. This approach was proposed by this writer in 2016 and has been employed to review the literature on a number of topics, such as supply chain management, strategic management accounting and customer relationship management (Ho, 2016). The MMBLR approach itself is not particularly novel since mind mapping has been employed in literature review since its inception. The overall aims of this exercise are to:
1.      Render an image of the knowledge structure of urbanism via the application of the MMBLR approach;
2.      Illustrate how the MMBLR approach can be applied in literature review on an academic topic, such as urbanism.
The findings from this literature review exercise offer academic and pedagogical values to those who are interested in the topics of urbanism, literature review and the MMBLR approach. Other than that, this exercise facilitates this writer’s intellectual learning on these three topics. The next section makes a brief introduction on the MMBLR approach. After that, an account of how it is applied to study urbanism is presented.

On mind mapping-based literature review
The mind mapping-based literature review (MMBLR) approach was developed by this writer in 2016 (Ho, 2016). It makes use of mind mapping as a complementary literature review exercise (see the Literature on mind mapping Facebook page and the Literature on literature review Facebook page). The approach is made up of two steps. Step 1 is a thematic analysis on the literature of the topic chosen for study. Step 2 makes use of the findings from step 1 to produce a complementary mind map. The MMBLR approach is a relatively straightforward and brief exercise. The approach is not particularly original since the idea of using mind maps in literature review has been well recognized in the mind mapping literature. The MMBLR approach is also an interpretive exercise in the sense that different reviewers with different research interest and intellectual background inevitably will select different ideas, facts and findings in their thematic analysis (i.e., step 1 of the MMBLR approach). Also, to conduct the approach, the reviewer needs to perform a literature search beforehand. Apparently, what a reviewer gathers from a literature search depends on what library facility, including e-library, is available to the reviewer. The next section presents the findings from the MMBLR approach step 1; afterward, a companion mind map is provided based on the MMBLR approach step 1 findings.

Mind mapping-based literature review on urbanism: step 1 findings
Step 1 of the MMBLR approach is a thematic analysis on the literature of the topic under investigation (Ho, 2016). In our case, this is the urbanism topic. The writer gathers some academic articles from some universities’ e-libraries as well as via the Google Scholar. With the academic articles collected, the writer conducted a literature review on them to assemble a set of ideas, viewpoints, concepts and findings (called points here). The points from the urbanism literature are then grouped into four themes here. The key words in the quotations are bolded in order to highlight the key concepts involved.

Theme 1: Descriptions of basic concepts and information
Point 1.1.              “…"urban" is defined solely in terms of population concentration-the greater the number of persons aggregated at a place of settlement the more urban the place. (Thus, the terms "urban" and "rural" are used solely as conveniences, not as references to a dichotomy)…” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 1.2.              “The concept of new urbanism was created for rebuilding communities which previously had automobile-oriented environments and residential areas that were disconnected from social and commercial areas. New urbanism is also referred to as neotraditional community design emphasizing a walking-friendly environment” (Kim, Lee and Bell, 2008);
Point 1.3.              “Urban studies and Urban Studies have long focused on studying the diverse and complex array of built environments and social relations that constitute urbanism. Urbanism, in this context, connotes the widest sense of the urban, addressing not only urbanisation and development but also ways of life that define urban areas in specific historical periods” (McCann, 2017);
Point 1.4.              “For a movement that goes by perhaps dozens of names, the lack of a unifying theory or definition of DIY urbanism is no surprise, at least partially because it is such a capacious and free flowing concept. The term and its variants have been used to describe everything from graffiti, skateboarding, parkour and flash mobs … to the creation of multi-acre, multi-million dollar parks” (Finn, 2014);
Theme 2: Major underlying theories and thinking
Point 2.1.              “… cities are disproportionately the locale of invention …; crime, particularly with regard to property ….; and behaviors and attitudes which contravene standard morality-for example, illegitimacy, alcoholism, divorce, irreligiosity, political dissent, violence for social change, and the smoking of marijuana” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 2.2.              “….rather than the clearly expressed hierarchy of landscape first, a promising and hopeful fusion of landscape and urbanism happens when landscape is only one generative medium, parlayed in conjunction with the traditional figure ground artifact of the city” (Sease, 2015);
Point 2.3.              “…cities are made coherent through the work of their inhabitants, through the efforts of actors located elsewhere, and through the power laden and uneven relations among these various actors, all set within larger social and material contexts which tend to complicate straightforward assumptions about causality” (McCann and Ward, n.d.);
Point 2.4.              Aesthetic urban planning is not only about creating ambient surroundings, but also creating images, symbolic representations, and fantasies discursively using books and advertising, newspapers and television, research, and political agendas. These discursive practices are used to signify an identifiable and/or imaginary place-identity to form a sense of place or feeling of belonging to place” (Pløger, 2001);
Point 2.5.              “An urban society is simply a society with cities. That is, it has places that are the physical settings for urban activities, practices, experiences, and functions. "Urbanism" denotes the prevalence of urban places in a society” (Cowgill, 2004);
Point 2.6.              Discourses and discursive formations in action produce truth, meaning-frames, and cultural schemes about the world. Political use of discursive planning is made (for example) to stage the possible meaning and interpretation of a community’s particular social and spatial qualities. Planners, experts and politicians use texts, maps and material objects in spatial planning and architecture so as to produce symbolic discourses to be read” (Pløger, 2001);
Point 2.7.              DIY urbanism and its many cousins (tactical, guerilla, pop-up, insurgent ad infinitum) are part of a burgeoning and much larger narrative about public space and citizens’ right and responsibilities in relation to it … Certain members of the public are increasingly unwilling to wait for bureaucracies to deal with pressing urban problems in traditional, methodical ways, instead addressing these issues on their own” (Finn, 2014);
Point 2.8.           “From the neighborhood standpoint, new urbanist communities should be compact, pedestrian-friendly, and have mixed-use developments …. New urbanist communities are also expected to provide many open spaces such as parks and community gardens that preserve natural environments and consider residents’ social interactions in such places. From the block/ street/ building standpoint, new urbanist communities emphasize interconnections between architecture and its surroundings such as streets and public spaces. Streets should be safe and comfortable for people to walk. Civic buildings and public places should be important sites that reinforce community identity” (Kim, Lee and Bell, 2008);
Point 2.9.              “In considering structure within cities, three sectors should be distinguished: the central political authority (which, in the case of a regional state or empire, may be located outside the city); lesser elites, such as religious communities, prosperous merchants, regional governors, and local hereditary nobles; and nonelite residents (grass roots). Amenities may be provided by any of these levels, and at least the upper two may explicitly shape physical features and impose specific practices. Other structured aspects, however, may arise from practices at any of these levels without explicit planning, through self-organizing processes(Cowgill, 2004);
Point 2.10.         “In thinking about cities as possibly having been creations, we should distinguish among "pristine" and mature and "planted" cities. Many think the term pristine is problematic, but it is a good term for settlements that exhibit a degree of urbanness previously unknown and unheard of in the local tradition, which means that occupants have neither a prior model to emulate nor prior experience with the consequences of urbanism. Over time, pristine cities mature and acquire features not previously present, often as responses or accommodations to earlier features. By planted cities I mean those created by people who did have some prior experience with urban life” (Cowgill, 2004);
Point 2.11.         Landscape urbanism has been articulated against the purported failures of traditional urban design approaches first to accommodate temporal dynamics of the contemporary city, and second to embrace environmental and ecological systems as generative and experiential elements of urbanism” (Sease, 2015);
Point 2.12.         Landscapes can represent multiple layers of meaning and there is a long tradition of reading landscapes as texts to understand how groups construct identity in space” (Arreola, 2012);
Point 2.13.         “Many scholars have thought of increasing urbanism as simply a by-product or even an unintended consequence of the creation of increasingly large and complex political systems.….. At issue is the extent to which early cities did not simply "happen" as consequences of technological, political, and economic innovations, but instead were actively and intentionally created” (Cowgill, 2004);
Point 2.14.         New Urbanism is committed to making physical improvements a public matter, emphasizing participatory design and publicly rather than privately produced plans as an approach that is likely to increase social interaction and collaboration” (Talen, 2002);
Point 2.15.         “Settlements or societies with no more than a few hundred members cannot sustain the degrees of specialization and sociopolitical power that we are accustomed to thinking of as urban. Populations of a least a few thousand seem a necessary, if not sufficient, requirement for a settlement or a society to be urban” (Cowgill, 2004);
Point 2.16.         “The more urban a place, the greater its subcultural variety.…. it does so through at least two related, but independently sufficient, processes: a) Population size encourages structural differentiation through the familiar process of "dynamic density" … b) The second process by which urbanism generates subcultural variety involves migration” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 2.17.         “The more urban a place, the more intense its subcultures .….. It [intensity] refers to the presence of, attachment to, and force of subcultural beliefs, values, norms, and customs” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 2.18.         “The traditional sociological approach to urban styles of community and personality was founded in the work of Durkheim …, Simmel …, and Park …, and fully presented by Wirth …. The concentration of large and heterogeneous populations, Wirth posited, eventually leads to the weakening of interpersonal ties, primary social structures, and normative consensus” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 2.19.         “The widened possibilities for human life which the city offered would … lead to the disappearance of local and tribal cultures, then in the process of fusion in the city” (Robinson, 2004);
Point 2.20.         “There is a clear, direct link between New Urbanism and the goal of accessibility. This link is provided through three interrelated principles: compactness, mix of housing units, and improvements in transportation” (Talen, 2002);
Point 2.21.         “Enclave urbanism in the twenty-first century is defined as the pattern of metropolitan development produced by the globalized real estate and financial sectors, and codified in planning regulations, whereby metropolitan regions are becoming agglomerations of unequal urban districts, sharply divided by race, class and other social distinguishers, and often physically separated. Enclave urbanism is not random. It reflects the conscious adoption of policies that shape the physical and social life of the metropolis; it is not the absence of planning but the presence of a particular kind of planning” (Iossifova, 2015);
Theme 3: Main research topics and issues
Point 3.1.              “Few planning theorists before the 1990s, however, emphasized how discourse analysis is a crucial way of understanding and outlining the different reasons, cultural schemes, meaning-frames and ontologies of urban planning” (Pløger, 2001);
Point 3.2.              “....a wealth of personal ties and thriving primary groups even in the innermost recesses of the large city. Consequently, …. "the variables of number, density and heterogeneity . . . are not crucial determinants of social life or personality" …” (Fischer, 1975);
Point 3.3.           “…there has been lack of comprehensive perspectives and related policy implications in the design and planning principles of new urbanism for comprehensive community planning. Most research has focused on the health benefits and economic value of walkable environments …, and sense of community” (Kim, Lee and Bell, 2008);
Point 3.4.              “Collections on topics like global cities, globalizing cities and city-regions, increasingly attempt to reflect the range of different urban contexts around the world …. But in response to now conventional postcolonial sensibilities, writers are also quick to locate their theoretical reflections in a specific context, and eager to abandon “western-centric assumptions” about cities …. How is it possible to write across diverse urban contexts, distinctive and unique, but also interconnected and part of widely circulating practices of urbanism?” (Robinson, 2004);
Point 3.5.              “For many years there has been substantial urban political and economic interest in exploiting the use of cultural and aesthetic planning in order to improve the position of cities, within an expanding inter-urban competition. Built environments, places and spaces, have been regenerated in order to exploit their aesthetic, cultural, and historical significance so as to enhance commercial, consumption and public value, either for their citizens and/or tourists and capital” (Pløger, 2001);
Point 3.6.              “For Zardini …, the singular actions emerging between the cracks of formal urbanism have in common a shared desire to ‘propose alternative lifestyles, reinvent our daily lives, and reoccupy urban space with new uses’. For Hou …, what gives these various experiments some kind of unity is that they explore, and potentially reveal, the alternative cities within the existing city, occupying urban spaces and ‘injecting them with new functions and meanings’.” (Iveson, 2013);
Point 3.7.              Latino Urbanism argues that Latino urban living in modern American cities can incorporate many of the principle tenets of New Urbanism: compact urban form, pedestrian activity, public transportation, sustainability, recycling and active use of public and private Spaces” (Arreola, 2012);
Point 3.8.              New Urbanist principles are evaluated in terms of three social goals: community, social equity, and the notion of the common good. Obviously, there are more than three types of social goals. These particular goals were selected because they are prevalent in discussions about the social implications of city design” (Talen, 2002);
Point 3.9.              “Questions about the ways in which cities are imagined and about how these imaginings are realised in particular urban settings are of considerable importance in the development of a critical understanding of urban experiences and the spaces, and they are also significant politically, being intertwined in how cities may be thought about, conceived, and lived” (Goldman, 2011);
Point 3.10.         “Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor and the global-city theorists emphasize how global cities, as the home for the rule-makers of global capitalism, are unique spatial configurations generating socio-spatial dynamics geared toward extending and reproducing the power and authority of transnational elite social and corporate networks” (Goldman, 2011);
Point 3.11.         “The appraisal of New Urbanism is most often focused on its physical design, while analysis of its social goals is limited. This is not difficult to explain: Establishing a link between the physical design of cities and social goals like “sense of community” and “equity” is difficult” (Talen, 2002);
Point 3.12.         “The concept of governance, along with its parallel, cognate, and crosscutting concepts, is one lens through which urbanists have studied urbanism. The key question, from this general governance perspective, is not only why cities are the way they are at a particular time, or only how urban built environments, societies and political economies are shaped and reshaped in reference to wider forces and processes, but also how they are made to be the way they are, through the concerted actions of the state, other public and private institutions, social movements, civil society and the practices of everyday life” (McCann, 2017);
Point 3.13.         “The connection between physical design and community, particularly its affective component, is complicated. Some even view the linkage as potentially harmful. For example, a key paradox confronting attempts to build community through physically oriented policies and planning proposals is that, at least at the neighborhood level, such community building efforts have historically been linked to efforts to promote social homogeneity and exclusion” (Talen, 2002);
Point 3.14.         “The modern architectural movement Metabolism originated in the 1960s and represented a new conceptualization of architecture and the city landscape which embraced utopian futurism. Metabolism offered the opportunity to re-construct the national image and to establish the social role of modern architects in Japan. In doing so, the Metabolists followed the modern utopian architectural assumptions in believing that architects could change society and people’s habits for the good” (Tamari, 2014);
Point 3.15.         Urbanism as a way of life seems to be returning within various forms of community planning, not only as spatial planning or housing schemes, but also as imagined, mythical, segregated, ethnic and mobile lives” (Pløger, 2001);
Point 3.16.         “It is notoriously difficult to agree on a cross-culturally applicable definition of "the" city, but we cannot do without definitions altogether” (Cowgill, 2004);
Point 3.17.         “Scholars like Crawford have begun the important work of developing typologies to capture some of the shared dynamics of the myriad DIY urban practices across different cities. For her, key dynamics involved in these emergent ‘everyday urbanisms’ include: Defamiliarization …; Refamiliarization ; Decommodification …; Alternative economies ….; Collaboration across difference” (Iveson, 2013);
Theme 4: Major trends and issues related to practices
Point 4.1.              “…the majority of studies concerned with urban enclaves in China seem to neglect not only that enclaves are part of larger, complex urban systems, but also that they are interlinked and interconnected through spatial, social, ecological and economic networks and relationships on various scales, and that therefore, their adjacency and co-presence in patchworked urban space must have important implications for perceptions of inequality among urban residents” (Iossifova, 2015);
Point 4.2.              “In many cities around the world we are presently witnessing the growth of, and interest in, a range of micro-spatial urban practices that are reshaping urban spaces. …. At present, we are not quite sure how to describe what is happening. Those seeking to come to grips with such practices have begun to group them together for consideration under banners such as ‘insurgent’, ‘do-it-yourself’ (DIY), ‘guerrilla’, ‘everyday’, ‘participatory’ and/or ‘grassroots’ urbanism” (Iveson, 2013);
Point 4.3.              “One of the most powerful aspects of some of the practices being grouped together under the banner of DIY urbanism is that their participants are not content with lobbying for a better city some time in the future, and they often refuse to wait for permission to do things differently. Walls and billboards are appropriated as spaces of communication. Roads are appropriated as spaces for gathering. Benches and rooftops are appropriated as spaces for play” (Iveson, 2013);
Point 4.4.              “Talen … argues that the DIY movement in the United States is actually the latest in a long tradition of American self-help and urban beautification efforts starting at least as far back as the municipal art and civic improvement movements of the mid-to-late 1800s through the City Beautiful era and into the mid-20th century as urbanists like Jane Jacobs and William “Holly” Whyte promoted fine-grained, contextual design solutions” (Finn, 2014);
Point 4.5.              “The key movers and shakers for urban transformation in India’s largest cities include coalitions of local business elites (such as the Confederation of Indian Industry and NASSCOM, the software industry’s chamber of commerce), professionals from the IFIs and bilateral aid agencies, non-resident Indians living abroad (NRIs), internationally connected NGOs, along with India’s elite urban bureaucrats and officials” (Goldman, 2011);
Point 4.6.              “The Mexican housescape has become a landscape fixture in Garfield for both immigrant and non-immigrant ethnic Mexicans. The ensemble of front property enclosure, bright house color and yard accents including religious statuary, plantings and furniture, creates a Mexican Latino cultural space. This landscape signals cultural stability in the community” (Arreola, 2012);
Point 4.7.              “The rise of the modern skyscraper in New York was an essential element in the changing urban landscape of the 1920s. These buildings, grand in scale and utopian by design, looked unimpeded toward the future. They were architectural displays of a particular vision of America: sturdy, immobile, and theoretically unaffected by the changing world around them” (Gordon, 2005);
Point 4.8.              “Fundamentally, landscape urbanism is about constructed ground …., not a re-creation of some preexisting natural or ideal state. Indeed, in the design for the Toronto Don Lands, the sinuous curves of the Don River hearken not to an excerpted, fixed moment in history but rather to facilitating variously scaled experiential engagement with the river and its attendant ecologies” (Sease, 2015);
Point 4.9.              Radio’s emergence as a popular medium brought the invisible to the forefront of everyday life and significantly altered how the city could be imagined. The city’s interface was conceived as a network. It deemphasized its center and placed importance on the hubs surrounding it in a radial fashion” (Gordon, 2005);
Point 4.10.         “The West has reached a state where segregated areas are not usually visually apparent as “fortified enclaves”; rather, they “are presumed to be part of an open city where freedom, diversity and equality reign”; thus, the “contemporary enclave city is all the more difficult to challenge because of its semblance of openness”…” (Iossifova, 2015);
Point 4.11.         “There is good evidence that the layouts of many cities in East and Southeast Asia were designed to be cosmograms, or at least to physically embody some important religious concepts…. However, the use of city layouts to express such concepts is less clear in other parts of the world, and there seems to be great variation” (Cowgill, 2004);

Each of the four themes has a set of associated points (i.e., idea, viewpoints, concepts and findings). Together they provide an organized way to comprehend the knowledge structure of the urbanism topic. The bolded key words in the quotation reveal, based on the writer’s intellectual judgement, the key concepts examined in the urbanism literature. The referencing indicated on the points identified informs the readers where to find the academic articles to learn more about the details on these points. Readers are also referred to the Literature on urbanism Facebook page for additional information on this topic. The process of conducting the thematic analysis is an exploratory as well as synthetic learning endeavour on the topic’s literature. Once the structure of the themes, sub-themes[1] and their associated points are finalized, the reviewer is in a position to move forward to step 2 of the MMBLR approach. The MMBLR approach step 2 finding, i.e., a companion mind map on urbanism, is presented in the next section.

Mind mapping-based literature review on urbanism: step 2 (mind mapping) output
By adopting the findings from the MMBLR approach step 1 on urbanism, the writer constructs a companion mind map shown as Figure 1.





Referring to the mind map on urbanism, the topic label is shown right at the centre of the map as a large blob. Four main branches are attached to it, corresponding to the four themes identified in the thematic analysis. The links and ending nodes with key phrases represent the points from the thematic analysis. The key phrases have also been bolded in the quotations provided in the thematic analysis. As a whole, the mind map renders an image of the knowledge structure on urbanism based on the thematic analysis findings. Constructing the mind map is part of the learning process on literature review. The mind mapping process is speedy and entertaining. The resultant mind map also serves as a useful presentation and teaching material. This mind mapping experience confirms the writer’s previous experience using on the MMBLR approach (Ho, 2016). Readers are also referred to the Literature on literature review Facebook page and the Literature on mind mapping Facebook page for additional information on these two topics.

Concluding remarks
The MMBLR approach to study urbanism provided here is mainly for its practice illustration as its procedures have been refined via a number of its employment on an array of topics (Ho, 2016). No major additional MMBLR steps nor notions have been introduced in this article. In this respect, the exercise reported here primarily offers some pedagogical value as well as some systematic and stimulated learning on urbanism in Housing Studies. Nevertheless, the thematic findings and the image of the knowledge structure on urbanism in the form of a mind map should also be of academic value to those who research on this topic.


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2.      Cowgill, G.L. 2004. “Origins and Development of Urbanism: Archaeological Perspectives” Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Reviews, 33: 525-549.
3.      Finn, D. 2014. “DIY urbanism: implications for cities” Journal of Urbanism 7(4), Routledge: 381-398.
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[1] There is no sub-theme generated in this analysis on urbanism.

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  1. Pdf version at: https://www.academia.edu/31410677/Mind_mapping_the_topic_of_urbanism

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