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Research on the High-Quality Development of Contracted Urban Spaces along the Middle East Railway under the Governance Model of Symbiosis Concept
Full text linkExploring a high-quality development model of symbiotic governance that effectively balances and mutually promotes green ecology, societal humanities, and economic industries is a fundamental concern for ensuring sustainable urban development over extended periods and in expansive spatial contexts. Consequently, this has become a topic of considerable scholarly interest in the field of urban and rural planning theories and methodologies. With the continuous intensification of reform and opening-up policies by the Chinese government, coupled with the proactive promotion of rapid market economic development, the municipalities along the Chinese Eastern Railway, previously reliant on heavy industries, are now experiencing a deceleration or even stagnation in their developmental pace. These regions are currently undergoing evident urban contraction, exacerbated by geographical marginalization and a sharp decrease in population, rendering this trend increasingly severe. This study, leveraging advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing technology and comprehensive multi-source, multi-dimensional spatial big data support, precisely measures the overall contraction status of the municipalities along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Furthermore, it conducts an in-depth analysis of the changing patterns in urban contraction spaces and the key influencing factors behind them. Employing scientific methodologies, such as the rational allocation of production factors and adjustments to urban spatial layouts, the research aims to construct a targeted and intelligent high-quality urban spatial development control strategy. This endeavor provides robust theoretical and practical support for the revitalization of the Northeast region and the high-quality development of similar municipalities nationwide
Reshaping the New Capital: Influence of The City Plan of Nanking on the Practice of Urban Planning in Modern China in 1930s
Full text linkThe City Plan of Nanking announced by the National Government of the Republic of China in 1929 was an epochal urban planning practice, whether in terms of planning content, structure or expression. It demonstrated a new goal-oriented, design-driven planning thought. The plan played an important role in the exploration of modern urban planning practice in China. The City Plan of Nanking as a construction standard was learnt and imitated by municipal governments all over the country, which greatly changed the direction of the preparation and development of urban planning in China. The provisions of relevant systems and laws in the planning content laid the foundation of the urban planning system and regime. The compilation and implementation of the capital plan in 1929 was the beginning of the road towards "scientific rationality" in modern Chinese urban planning practice. The concept of urban spatial planning, which combines nationalism, scientific rationality and the integration of China and the West, constructed in the plan, was the best expression of the spatial concept and planning technology of the times
GIS-based Historical and Cultural Value Sorting and Spatial Construction: Taking Taihu Lake Basin as an Example
Full text linkThe Taihu Lake Basin is rich in historical and cultural resources, its water network pattern and settlement texture showing the historical and cultural changes of urban and rural units. This paper takes the Taihu Lake Basin as the research object, excavates historical and cultural resources, and classifies their value elements and carriers. With GIS, we identify the main natural ecological patches, cultural value points and cultural routes to form a historical and cultural spatial system based on nature and humanities, then establish a systematic global historical and cultural spatial database. Firstly, we translate the geographic data of Taihu Lake Basin through ancient texts and ancient maps, locate the elements and carriers of cultural value on the historical and cultural spatial base map, and present the formation mechanism and value connotation in the form of spatial information, so as to facilitate more intuitive knowledge and understanding of the cultural distribution and evolution law in different periods, and provide historical thinking and future development suggestions for the historical and cultural spatial construction of Taihu Lake Basin
Women’s Expectations of Imperial Reconstruction Planning at Tokyo: Gender Historical Approach to Urban Planning in Prewar Japan
No full textThis paper critically reevaluates the predominant male-centric and planner-centric narrative in urban planning history in Japan through a gender historical lens. It delves into the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), examining the interplay between the women’s movement and urban planning, explaining their subsequent divergence. Initially, it investigates how Mary Beard introduced urban planning issues to the Japanese women’s movement post-earthquake, as evidenced by women’s magazines. The paper then analyses the treatment of brothel, sangyōchi and nigyōchi (red-light district) locations as urban planning concerns within the women’s movement, highlighting the public prostitution system. It scrutinizes the response of male-dominated urban planning authorities to women’s movement demands, revealing a reluctance to intervene despite acknowledging the link between prostitution and urban planning. The analysis shows the alignment of interests between the women’s movement and urban planning during protests sangyōchi and nigyōchi. However, the women’s movement gradually shifted focus towards viewing the prostitution issue as a humanitarian concern, moving away from urban planning solutions. Finally, this paper illustrates how the convergence between the women’s movement and urban planning, observed briefly after the Great Kanto Earthquake, was disrupted by political inaction from authorities and the abolitionist movement’s ideology
The Myth of the Codes: Exploring Self-Built Rules in Peri-Urban Villages, Southern China
Full text linkThis paper challenges the prevailing belief that informal settlements lack effective zoning and building regulations by presenting an ethnographic study on self-built practices in multiple peri-urban villages in the Guangzhou metropolis, Southern China, from 2012 to 2019. Under China’s urban-rural divided system, not only do formal urban zoning codes and building regulations not apply to these locales, but the emerging village regulatory frameworks are also often sites of contestation between the local state and residents. The research highlights how three distinct social groups within these villages have formulated their own informal self-built rules, akin to zoning and building codes. Local villagers have negotiated with their neighbours to establish rules on setbacks and patio arrangements to reduce overcrowding, enhance ventilation and natural lighting, and be competitive in the rental market. Peasant-workers, who fulfil dual roles as both builders and tenants, have improved housing standards by making on-site ad hoc adjustments to building elements like windows, balconies, patios, entrances, and staircases. Small businesspeople have established bottom-up guidelines to preserve and renovate traditional houses that are excluded from official preservation lists. This paper argues that these self-help settlements are not devoid of zoning and building regulations; rather, these communities develop their own sets of rules, albeit informally. Despite facing various limitations, these informal rules are crucial for grassroots empowerment. They use these rules to enhance their living conditions, establish collective actions, and leverage their economic and social interests. By revealing the rationales, mechanisms, and outcomes of these self-initiated rules, this study calls for a deeper reflection on how zoning and building codes could be made more effective and just in informal settlements
From the world porcelain capital to tourist attraction: An analysis of Jingdezhen’s masterplan and innovative urban planning strategies
No full textCeramics are extremely important in Chinese culture, this craft has been present throughout chinese history since the Palaeolithic era and especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties when Chinese porcelain became popular all over the world, and, since the 13th century, Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi province, has been considered the porcelain capital of the world and the main production site. This article aims to analyse the strategies used in the city to revitalise historic areas and use the region\u27s cultural heritage and creative potential as a vector for economic and urban development. Therefore, it is also essential to study Jingdezhen\u27s current master plan, as these were the factors that enabled the success of this case. The Jingdezhen City Master Plan follows the premisses of creating an urban space guided by the ceramics, aviation and tourism industries, supported by manufacturing industries such as automobiles, machinery, home appliances, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, and with modern service industries and modern agriculture as new growth poles. This study aims to analyse the case of Jingdezhen and its practicality to be introduced in other similar cities around the world
Investigating the Urban Response to Border Closure in a Transnational Metropolitan System: The case of the Gibraltar/Algeciras Bay
Full text linkBorder regions tend to be the cradle of dense metropolitan areas shaped by the (socio- economic, governance, and planning) differentials intrinsic to borders. However, the border permeability variations have historically exposed such systems’ fragility. The paper aims to investigate the spatial repercussions of border closures in cross-border metropolitan regions characterised by strong socio-spatial inequalities. It takes the Bay of Gibraltar/Algeciras cross-border area as an analytical framework, focusing on two instances of abrupt border closure. The first is historical (1969-85) and was caused by the Francoist dictatorship’s expansionist policies, while the second is recent, caused by the overlap of the Brexit process and the Covid-19 pandemic. These crises shed light on the vulnerability of strongly asymmetrical cross-border urban agglomerations. They act as cautionary tales and testing grounds, proving the necessity of a robust endogenous collaboration on the local cross-border level to create a more resilient, equitable, and polycentric socio-spatial development
Wind Energy in Planning Visions and Practices in Contemporary China
Full text linkChina is the leading player in the wind energy market, with nearly half of the current global installed wind energy capacity. Literature on wind energy development is dominated by the energy policy and engineering sciences domains and focuses on the economic and decarbonization potential of wind turbines. This paper aims to bring the actual resource (the wind) and the land on which the turbines are placed to the forefront of discussion and explore how these three components relate to each other. While wind as a natural resource is atmospheric and aterritorial, the technology that facilitates conversion into electricity is rooted in the ground. Wind energy in China was able to grow rapidly not only by way of strong state support, but also because regulations on natural reserve preservation were not strictly enforced, and wind farms were aestheticized as fitting into ecological landscapes. The paper concludes by looking forward to shifts in configurations of the resource, land, and technology prompting new path in wind energy development: turbines situated on nature reserves are mandated to be decommissioned under the concept of ecological civilisation, and various cultural meanings of wind continue to be used to rationalize the siting of wind turbines
Urban Lifewor(l)ds: Footsteps, Futures, and Narrative Repair
Full text linkThis article focuses on narrative encounters between people, cities, and stories, and the narrative, material, and futuristic urban plotting. It explores how people engage with narrative heritage, its objects – not just neoliberal wet dreams and dystopias, but also speculative street theatre, participatory utopian fiction, orature, or lyrics – and the practices of co-writing, reading, and listening to ask, beyond Henri Lefebvre, not simply ‘who has the right to the city’, but who can narrate its shared pasts and futures, and how. In the paper, I treat stories and urban architecture as interwoven and co-constitutive modalities of heritage preservation, destruction, repair and futurescaping, drawing attention, after Don Mitchell and Sara Zawde, to the narrative affordances of built landscapes as ‘metaphors to live by’ and to the design-making force of narratives and words. The narrative heritages I center on are, therefore, not simply literary texts but diverse narrative acts, including narrators, different media, spaces, and situated rehearsals of public and collective sci-fi storytelling, writing, and listening for togetherness and less violent futures. The article meanders across several urban narrative situations: ‘Society of the Future’ showcases designed by students after dystopian novels and urbanscapes in Boston; speculative heritage live action role-play (LARP) in the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; ‘wave writing’ experiments in Trondheim/Tråante, Norway; and Søstrene Suse’s Radiokino listening sessions in the footprints of Sámi Elsa Laula Renberg across Scandinavia. It concludes with a reflection on the archives of narrative ‘repair’ and urban otherworldliness as pedagogies of non-necrotic futuring
Standardization for grand societal challenges
Full text linkThe 28th EURAS Annual Standardization Conference, held in Delft, the Netherlands (June 19-21, 2024), explored the multifaceted role of standardization in addressing societal challenges. The conference brought together scholars and practitioners to examine the latest developments in the standardization research and practice. This paper summarizes the key themes discussed during the conference