Crystal Palace Park, ice-cream urbanism & revamping India’s train stations

水晶宫公园、冰淇淋都市主义和印度火车站改造

The Urbanist

艺术

2024-09-06

33 分钟
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We explore some summery stories as the season comes to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, including how ice-cream-shop owners and urbanists think alike, plans for regenerating London’s Crystal Palace Park and revitalisation efforts for India’s railway stations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to the Urbanist, Monocle's program all about the built environment.

  • I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.

  • Coming up, the local community started taking ownership of the space before its creation, which is very important.

  • We're in South East London, explore some modern developments in an historic park in the UK capital.

  • Then as we start to wave goodbye to summer, well, here in the northern hemisphere we have time for one last ice cream.

  • As we head to Canada to consider how ice cream shop owners and urbanists think alike.

  • And we hop off at a few of India's train stations to learn about a new scheme hoping to modernise more than 1,000 the country's railway hubs.

  • All that coming up over the next 30 minutes right here on the Urbanist with me, Andrew Tuck.

  • Crystal palace park is a famed green space in the UK capital, known for being the place where the extraordinary cast iron and plate glass exhibition hall of the same name was moved at the conclusion of the 1851 Great Exhibition.

  • The so called palace was destroyed by a fire in 1936.

  • But the park still holds many historic landmarks including Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.

  • Crystal palace dinosaurs, Victorian era interpretations of dinosaurs which date all the way back to 1854.

  • Plans are underway for a regeneration now of the park and details of this next exciting phase will were devised by the London based design practice, HTA Design.

  • Natalia Rousseau is a landscape designer director at HTA Design and Monacle's Carlota Ribello recently spoke with her in our studios.

  • Carlotta began by asking for some background on Crystal palace park and the features that make it so special.

  • Crystal palace park was created in the 1850s by Sir Joseph Paxton and it's one of the first ever theme parks.

  • It was created to house Crystal palace itself after the Great Exhibition.

  • The Crystal palace was the largest ever glass and iron building, so it was from its early days an international destination.

  • So you had railway lines built in the years to come to allow visitors to access the park.

  • And it was a theme park in the sense that it portrayed a journey in time as Paxton described it.