The essay should convincingly demonstrate how you are rethinking ideas of architecture and the city. You need to establish a critical position and clearly articulate the position using architectural and urban discourses and compelling images in this illustrated essay.

no need for introduction and conclusion

PART B: Image and Argument

maps 1 and 2 (re)considered in the process of shaping a city and used to help clarify and articulate your position.

maps 1 shows the psychogeography exploration activity allows individuals to spectate and experience the derive of Bendigo city through online platforms. Instagram as a platform of active image collection gives a good compilation of personal experience, movement, and individual’s perspective on their surrounding environment.

In the book The Critical Order, Choay emphasizes that “in the process of inhabiting the city, the citizens are integrating the structure of a society at a specific moment of time, which every plan corresponds to that structure” (Choay 1969, 7). Bendigo was declared as a city in 1871, not long after the gold discovery on Bendigo creeks. In the last 19th century, the discovery of gold increased the migration population in Bendigo, causing rapid economic growth and raised the need for buildings. This built up a fast formation of city architectural buildings that are widely influenced by the Victorian architecture style and second empire style. By looking at the map, there is Alexandria Fountain, Bendigo Town Hall, the Colonial Bank, and Shamrock Hotel. As a result of the gold rush, the Bendigo government constructed the mine site into a manmade lake, Lake Weeroona (shown in map), which is now the jewel of the city of Bendigo.

The online platforms (Instagram, Facebook, WeChat) are good mediums for collecting old memories, however, the pictures and captions labeled can be biased and easily curated. As a result, there is a higher possibility of inaccurate information being collected through screens. For instance, scrolling through and filtering out hashtags is also not an effective and efficient way of understanding the history and situation happening in Bendigo city. The process behind creating an ideal city without considering the owner of the land, Dja Dja Wurrung. Although this gold rush brought enormous wealth to the city of Bendigo, it can’t erase the negative impacts tagged along, this includes riot community, entry taxes, brutal killings, and segregation.

maps 2 depict the chaotic explosion in urban growth. The urban population was expected to explode in 2030, The city of Bendigo faces many challenges in terms of adapting to the modern era.

As Klingman suggests in Beyond Bilbao – Brandscapes: architecture in the experience economy, that to provide a newer experience for the inhabitants and visitors, a city may undergo a restoration which can result in a successful new urban personality and to contribute towards economic patterns of growth.

The increase in urban growth also resulted in higher demand for housing which may result in stricter urban planning controls being put to regulate the city.