{"id":6266,"date":"2010-09-29T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:59:15","slug":"representing-halifax-8-public-lands-as-connective-tissue-or-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/09\/29\/representing-halifax-8-public-lands-as-connective-tissue-or-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"[Re]Presenting Halifax #8: Public Lands as Connective Tissue or Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4146\/5027762172_59327c936f_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/feature-representing-hfx-60.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/representing-halifax\/\"><em>[Re]Presenting Halifax series<\/em><\/a><em> revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/01\/28\/representing-halifax-exploring-the-potential-of-the-city-through-mapping\/\"><em>first post<\/em><\/a><em> for the full aims of this project and more information about contributing to the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/representing-halifax\/\"><em>series<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HALIFAX &#8211; <\/strong>The previous [Re]Presenting Halifax\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/08\/17\/representing-halifax-7-tissue-samples\/\">installment<\/a> explored the morphology of the city through its most basic and anemic form: street pattern.\u00a0Yet, despite this skeletal representation, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">relatively<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span>little of the city\u2019s structural form \u2014 as experienced on the ground \u2014 is visible through the street network alone. For this reason, it is useful to look elsewhere \u2014 to what not only defines large scale spatial patterns in central Halifax, but <span style=\"color: #000000;\">that<\/span> also impacts its social and economic structure.<\/p>\n<p>The form and scale of public land holdings and other\u00a0mono-functional, amassed\u00a0plots located on the peninsula demonstrate an alternate network, albeit a simple and fragmented one. Large swaths of peninsular Halifax have been claimed by public and pseudo-public entities \u2014 universities, schools, federal agencies (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">i.e. the<\/span> <\/span>Department of National Defense and Parks Canada),<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the <\/span>Waterfront Development Corporation, and other provincial and municipal bodies. While the City can leverage their own properties, it often has little control or influence <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 or even communication \u2014<\/span> <\/span>with these other <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;public&#8221;<\/span> land owners. Yet, the use or mis-use of these parcels \u2014 specifically on the peninsula \u2014 can drastically impact the flow, permeability and vitality of the city itself.<\/p>\n<p>In this sense, the question arises: What is the morphological impact of public lands and other large mono-functional zones held within the tight confines of a peninsula<span style=\"color: #000000;\">?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do they act as<\/span> connective tissue uniting otherwise\u00a0separate\u00a0communities through common ground<span style=\"color: #000000;\">?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span>Or a cancer that fragments, segregates and adversely affects the health of Halifax?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/5027763466_e932eb7106_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"{re]presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/5027763466_80a0ce4680_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure ground; the built fabric of peninsular Halifax (most urbanized portion only). The Common and Citadel lands appears as a significant urban &quot;void&quot;. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5027815802_1269725d06_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5027815802_5554ed86b6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reverse figure ground; open space in peninsular Halifax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4127\/5027189733_42a0bb8785_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4127\/5027189733_42a0bb8785_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public land holdings (separated by holding agency) on peninsular Halifax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grouping plots together, the city is almost legible from these largely public uses alone. It suggests the importance of public institutions in the make-up of Halifax. A large area in the far north end varies slightly in its inclusion of a large area home to big box, mono-functional sub-urban style development, but it is near\u00a0impossible to\u00a0separate due to the immediate juxtaposition of DND lands, Halifax Forum and a large Canada Post sorting outlet with relatively little internal circulation paths or connections to the surrounding grid.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5027769802_4565470abc_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5027769802_43ff6a81b7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public land holdings (amalgamated) on peninsular Halifax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4153\/5027153323_53b3422564_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4153\/5027153323_9a03400c15_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public land holdings (as extracts) on peninsular Halifax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5027772022_415190c7ec_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5027772022_6415b308b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Areas that remain after public and mono-functional extracts are removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/5027155465_f729bbca59_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/5027155465_4241ffd410_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The resulting &quot;Living Blocks&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/5027156077_051b647723_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"[Re]Presenting Halifax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/5027156077_decc79a1a9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composite<\/figcaption><\/figure>Reviewing the images above, a few things immediately jump out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public uses are largely clustered \u2014 especially education and military functions;<\/li>\n<li>The block pattern of the city can be\u00a0separated\u00a0 into two strong orientations based on the shore line; the dividing line runs along the Chebucto-North Steet axis;<\/li>\n<li>Spring Garden Road &#8211; between Robie Street and South Park Street &#8211; is a crucial path that ties the largely residential areas in the west to what is currently the commercial and retail centre;<\/li>\n<li>The Hydrostone exists largely on its own due to both \u00a0DND lands and a low-density commercial suburban strip; this commercial zone also seems to fragment this &#8220;side&#8221; of the city, as there is no Spring Garden\u00a0equivalent\u00a0to act as a connective path (North Street may serve this function to some degree, but is severely limited due to traffic\u00a0congestion);<\/li>\n<li>The city&#8217;s spatial separations &#8211; through lands devoted to military and eduction &#8211; is mirrored\u00a0historically by soci0economic settlement patterns &#8211; north end as working class neighbourhood and south end as affluent neighbourhood;<\/li>\n<li>The rail cut effectively cuts off the western shore of the Northwest Arm from the peninsula while DND and dockland area restricts access to large portions of the eastern shoreline;<\/li>\n<li>While many communities and towns throughout the province lament the centralization of public functions in Halifax, it is clear that centralization is also\u00a0occurring\u00a0at the scale of the city;<\/li>\n<li>The future of the city is largely related to the treatment of these large parcels regardless of program or ownership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are these &#8220;zones&#8221; the ties that bind or break? Many capital cities experience a &#8220;cancer of\u00a0bureaucracy&#8221; \u2014 a largely spatial affliction caused by the centralization of government functions \u2014 but are the symptoms exacerbated in Halifax due to the presence of DND and multiple post secondary &#8220;urban&#8221; campuses? Beyond spatial concerns about flow and permeability, do the positive economic effects associated with having a strong base of public functions outweigh the\u00a0negative\u00a0economic effects (i.e. reduced tax base)? Do these zones improve or prevent social\u00a0cohesion\u00a0among\u00a0segregated\u00a0groups?<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the future, will these zones grow or shrink in size? Can the city afford to allow any additional land to be added to these already\u00a0dominant\u00a0&#8220;patches&#8221; of non-residential and arguably non-living pieces of peninsular Halifax? Instead, should the city actively be trying to &#8220;reclaim&#8221; pieces and encourage the intensifying land-use for some of these areas (Dalhousie continues to intensify the use of its land), or should it be encouraging the spreading out of what are certainly major employment nodes? Given the heavy presence and centralization of public functions, how will proposed public(ly funded) buildings such as the Central Library or Convention Centre impact these already well established zones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [Re]Presenting Halifax series revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my first post for the full aims of this project and more information about contributing to the series. 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