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Planning for proximity in a fragile urban context. The case of Tirana
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Tirana is the only city in Albania to have experienced a steady population increase over the past thirty years, due to strong internal migration and its attractiveness due to its great economic, social and cultural development. Its urban development is recent and relates to its political history. The demographic context nevertheless shows a high percentage of families at risk of poverty The contribution attempts, by analysing one of the strategic projects of the new Tirana2030 Urban Plan, the one concerning schools and education, to reflect on the role of planning in the challenge towards the transition to an urban proximity model.
Keywords: Proximity, urban planning, governancepublished versio
Renewing the city towards a linear attractors frame. Fuor cases in Iraq
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The article discusses Iraq's historical cities facing challenges of reconstruction amidst large-scale destructions, emphasising the complexity of contemporary urban redevelopment, exacerbated by climate change. It proposes a replicable planning approach employing adaptable modelling strategies tailored to each city's needs, allowing for independent implementation by local administrations. The progressive strategy, adaptable to specific characteristics, uses tools like linear attractors and matrices. These tools facilitate the design of repeatable solutions and rule-based urban transformations, ensuring a balance between public-private spaces and green areas. The approach aims to create resilient, climate-responsive urban environments, tested in four northern Iraqi cities, to foster positive transformations and mitigate climate impacts. Ultimately, the proposed scenario seeks to cultivate urban environments that thrive amidst evolving climate conditions while ensuring community well-being.published versio
Exploring colour planning strategies for children’s outdoor playgrounds in communities: An analysis of children’s diverse preferences in Shanghai, China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Children's understanding of the world is largely shaped by their visual perception of their surroundings, with colour playing an integral role. Colour not only creates a visual impact but also has a profound influence on children's emotions, cognition, and behavior. This study explored colour planning strategies for children’s outdoor playgrounds in communities, specifically focusing on children’s colour preferences. We collected data through a questionnaire survey conducted in Shanghai, China, and employed the chi-square test and single-factor logistic regression to analyze the correlations between colour preferences and individual attributes of children, including gender, age, and community type, which we hypothesized could influence the diversity of children’s color preferences. It is found that there exist significant differences in children’s colour preferences across various ages and community types. Based on the children’s colour preferences and preferences differences, we proposed several strategies for colour planning of children's outdoor playgrounds in the communities. Through these strategies, it aims to enhance the scientificity and universality of colour planning. Overall, this research contributes to the field by providing evidence-based recommendations for colour planning in children's outdoor playgrounds, ultimately contributing to the creation of more inclusive and vibrant child-friendly communities.
Keywords: colour planning, colour preference, children’s playground, child-friendly communitypublished versio
Housing financialisation and affordability in Milano. The case of Porta Romana large-scale project
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper examines the relationship between housing financialisation and large-scale urban development projects. In recent decades, global real estate finance has deeply impacted local housing markets, leading to segregation, exclusion, gentrification, and densification by treating housing as a financial asset. Financialisation has shifted major development projects from efforts to provide affordable housing to mechanisms for capital extraction from land. Focusing on the Milano Porta Romana regeneration project, the paper demonstrates how financialised schemes create tensions. While these projects do provide new housing, they also drive up costs, undermining the ‘right to housing’ for low- and middle-income residents. This raises challenges for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in balancing economic interests with equitable housing access. Keywords: financialisation, large-scale urban development projects, housing crisis; densification; Milano Porta Romanapublished versio
Designing the 'Right to Mobility': a Holistic Analysis to Rethink the Public City and Fighting Heat Waves in Urban Areas
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study examines the relationship between urban design, walkability, and climate change, with a particular focus on the necessity for public spaces that can accommodate rising temperatures and heat waves. Using Bergamo, Italy, as a case study, the research combines GIS-based spatial analysis with stakeholder interviews to assess the impact of urban heat islands on pedestrian mobility. The findings indicate that effective urban design must balance the practical needs of mobility with the social benefits of public spaces. The paper advocates for the implementation of adaptive design strategies that enhance walkability, promote social interaction, and mitigate heat-related barriers. These strategies are expected to support the health and well-being of urban residents, particularly those who are most vulnerable.
Keywords: Urban Design, Walkability, Urban Heat Island (UHI)published versio
Conceptualising the urban transformative capacity of underprivileged neighbourhoods for realising just energy transitions
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are put forward as a building block to facilitate the transition towards climate-neutral cities and sustainable energy systems. While PEDs are pivotal for realising climate objectives, the concept is difficult to apply in existing, underprivileged neighbourhoods, because it underestimates social and political dimensions of neighbourhood energy transitions, and therefore risks to perpetuate or even exacerbate energy injustices. This research uses a spatially-sensitive approach to scrutinise energy injustices and rethink vulnerability stigmas. Drawing on the concept of urban transformative capacity, the paper develops a four-track approach focusing on collective-inclusive visioning, collective actions, institutional-community co-evolution and socio-technical innovation to foster collective agency. This framework serves as a basis for further case-study research aimed at achieving just urban transformations.
Keywords: underprivileged neighbourhoods, Positive Energy Districts, urban transformative capacity, place-based, collective agencypublished versio
A Framework for Analysing Physical Form Outcomes of Value Capture Paths of Regeneration Projects in Residential Historic Areas
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study develops a framework to analyse the impact of value capture paths on physical form outcomes in residential historic area regeneration projects. The framework, using four independent variables: adjusting property rights, changing use, increasing intensity, and improving quality, and five dependent variables: plot form, building type, number of building floors, building density, and setback distance, is applied to the XIAOXIHU historic area in Nanjing, China. The findings reveal that the same planning control conditions can yield different spatial form outcomes, largely explained by value capture paths. The framework is informative for both planning and policy design.
Keywords: Value Capture, Physical Form, Residential Historic Area, Regeneration Project residential historic areaspublished versio
Comparative analysis of net land take in Portugal's Metropolitan Areas
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The "No Net Land Take by 2050" target, set by the EU, has been reshaping European urban development. The main goal of this research is to compare the processes related to net land take and soil sealing in the Portuguese metropolitan regions (AML and AMP) and to assess their situation regarding the 2050 target. During 2007-2018, the artificial land area increased by 4.9 percent in AMP and 4.6 percent in AML. Net land taken averaged 0.6 ha/day in the AMP and 0.7 ha/day in the AML. Reuse of artificial land was rarely practised, at 0.02 ha/day in the AMP and 0.03 ha/day in the AML. Given that the share of sealed artificial land in both regions was already close to 60% in 2018, thereby jeopardising urban biodiversity, to reduce net land take it is recommended that future infrastructure and housing needs be met by reusing already sealed artificial areas.
Keywords: Urbanisation; Reuse of developed land; Re-naturalisation of developed land; Urban land use efficiencypublished versio
Inevitability of Strengthen the Development of Public Transport in Large Cities from the Perspective of Security Resilience
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In recent years, extreme weather, geological disasters, infectious diseases and other emergencies have put forward higher requirements for the normal functioning of cities. Large cities with high population density and high construction intensity are facing the dual pressure of disaster emergency support and economic production guarantee. As the carrier of most traffic activities, the public transportation system has the characteristics of closed space, high crowd density and high mobility of personnel, thus is easy to become a high-risk and disaster-stricken area in sudden disasters. This paper analyzes the development trend of individual transportation and public transportation, taking into account the characteristics of the two travel modes, the travel characteristics of large cities, the impact of sudden disasters on public travel, and the value orientation of policy strategies. This paper proposes that ensuring the sustainability of public transportation capacity is an inevitable choice in the face of travel demand, ensuring the safety and controllability of public transportation is the basis for resuming work and production after sudden disasters, and the value orientation of public transportation plays an important role in restoring normal urban life after disasters. At the same time, combined with the existing public transportation system and the attempt of new public transport products, the possible directions for the strengthening and development of public transport in the future are proposed.
Keywords: security and resilience, public transport, individual transportation, travel needspublished versio
Multi-Planning Integration: Construction and Progress of China's National Territory Spatial Planning System
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Spatial planning entails the adept control and scientific management of national territorial space a task crucial for achieving a balance between development and conservation. In 2019, China initiated a spatial planning framework. This reform stands as a milestone, showcasing significant innovation in planning concepts, technical methodologies, and management systems in China over recent decades. This paper first reviews the pre-reform landscape, including the diverse planning types, prevalent issues, and experimental endeavors. Subsequently, it delineates the principal measures undertaken in China's national territorial spatial planning, encompassing aspects such as institutional management, systematic composition, compilation content, and technical methods. Lastly, it discusses the consequential shifts in objectives and goals within the realm of national territorial spatial planning objects and goals. China's spatial planning reform offers valuable insights for nations and regions grappling with the challenges of global climate change and aspiring for sustainable development.
Keywords: Spatial planning; National territory spatial planning; Planning reform; Chinapublished versio