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Investigating the carbon elements based on remote sensing, UAV oblique photography, and AI technologies: A case study of Nanhui New Town, Shanghai
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study investigates carbon dynamics within Shanghai's Nanhui New Town, exploring the intricate relationships among land cover, climate factors, and carbon sequestration processes. Utilizing advanced methodologies such as remote sensing, UAV, and AI technologies, we conduct a thorough assessment of carbon sinks and emissions, with particular emphasis on the contributions of vegetation and water bodies. Our analysis highlights the importance of integrated land management strategies in optimizing carbon sequestration potential and mitigating emissions. Furthermore, we discuss Shanghai's proactive initiatives towards peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality. Overall, this research offers valuable insights into carbon management strategies for sustainable urban development, contributing to efforts aimed at building resilient and low-carbon cities in the face of climate change.published versio
Climate and transport planning: a messy junction
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The European Green Deal's ambition for climate neutrality by 2050 necessitates robust action at all levels of governance. This paper examines the intersection of climate planning and transport actions in European cities, emphasizing the critical role of local authorities in driving sustainable urban development. Drawing on data from 50 European climate plans, the analysis reveals geographical disparities in climate planning efforts. Methodological variations in climate planning approaches are identified, alongside gaps in linking actions to emission reduction targets. Priority transport actions, categorized under the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework, highlight a focus on active mobility, electrification, and public transport enhancements. Recommendations for integrating climate and transport planning underscore the need for clearer target-setting and stakeholder engagement. Future research directions include exploring the efficacy of public participation methods and assessing planning system legitimacy. Overall, this paper contributes insights into advancing climate action agendas in European cities, crucial for achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal and fostering sustainable urban futures.
Keywords: climate plans, transport planning, strategic planninglpublished versio
Deep Learning-Driven Morphological Dataset and Analysis Methods for Chinese Campuses
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Modern campuses in China display distinct morphological characteristics, evolving to form unique patterns as subsystems within the urban environment. Hence, the approaches for comprehensive analysis for those urbanized Chinese campus morphology (UCCM) are important. This study proposes a framework for dataset construction and morphology recognition of UCCM, using visual representing learning methods. Computer vision technologies are used to acquire the morphology patches of 1257 campuses. We analyse the campus morphology with our proposed multi-dimensional morphometrics. Then, we constructed multiple morphological cluster maps for UCCM in terms of road, building and landscape, respectively. The cluster maps show significant compliance with human visual perception. Compared with classic morphometrics, our approach excels in learning implicit morphological characteristics with lower data processing demands and less reliance on expert experience.
Keywords: Urbanized Chinese campus morphology, Morphometric, Visual Representation, Self-organizing Map, Unsupervised learningpublished versio
Heterotopic Pocket Spaces through Intermittent Occupancy
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In the contemporary context of a profound crisis of public spaces in general, and the Portuguese context in particular, questions of intensive ‘touristification’, fast gentrification, and concentrated immigration are reshaping the use and values of traditional urban spaces. The introduction of new public actors, new communities, and associated different social practices, often lead to feelings of estrangement of the public space, as well as to the emergence of different intermittent uses of public space. In this context we aim to discover different formal and social conditions of space especially within ‘off-map’ places whose use and value are currently being rediscovered and/or shifted. In this article, we propose a new approach to public space as a threefold notion based on: (1) the idea of Pocket spaces, (2) Foucault’s heterotopia and (3) intermittent occupation. We analyse fifteen different potential heterotopic pocket spaces from a threefold perspective composed by the (1) morphological qualities of pocket spaces, (2) the socio-spatio-temporal relationships of Foucault’s heterotopia and (3) the social use based on the capacity of the space to accommodate different uses and practices. We argue that, due to its complexity and ability to embrace contradictions and conflicts, heterotopic pocket spaces can be used as a valuable concept for describing, analysing, and creating speculative designs for a more democratic city, embracing and re-signifying possible estrangement of the public space in the contemporary, everchanging context.
Keywords: heterotopia, urban pocket spaces, intermittent occupancy, public spacepublished versio
Enhancing suburban life with Victor Gruen
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The essay deals with the theme of the prejudices that prevent us from designing vibrant suburban spaces and argues that we should rediscover Victor Gruen’s lesson in doing so. The first part analyzes the consequences determined by the advent of the car and the urban explosion on public spaces. The second section of the essay develops a critical reflection on the way we look at suburban collective spaces and proposes a change of perspective. The concluding section of the essay contains some specific proposals, of a planning and normative kind, to improve the quality of collective suburban spaces.
Keywords: urban explosion; public places; collective spaces; non-places; Victor Gruenpublished versio
Residents’ sense of belonging in (gated) communities in urban China
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsCommunities or neighborhoods are specific places in the research field of place identity that links between environment and psychology to address the sense of belonging as one of crucial human needs. This article explores the community identity in Chinese urban communities to investigate differences between sense of communities, and community satisfaction. Since 1980s, gated communities (Xiaoqu) are the dominant form of residential development in urban China and sometimes have the same boundary as the community (Shequ). Thus, this article sheds light on different understanding of gated communities in and outside of China. It is approached via deductive research to assess four specific hypotheses based on the concepts of communities, neighborhoods and gated communities. Four gated communities from Suzhou Industrial Park in China are used as study sites, where primary data was collected and then analyzed via multiple linear regression model and logistic regression model. Interestingly, the finding shows that having an active homeowners’ committee, which is considered as a socio-political force, is negatively associated with a sense of community. In addition, representation is positively associated with community identity in general. The findings imply that property management fees play an important role in residents’ community identity. In addition, the finding also supports that sense of community is a social rather than a physical construction.publishedVersio
From private to public: redeveloping private space as the way to reframe publicness of everyday life. Investigating build-by-people trials in Shanghai
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsThe publicness discourse has been extensively explored from the perspectives of numerous disciplinary interests, multiple actors, especially the government and expert professions, and its normative ideal. This study examines how individual engagement in shaping private and semi-public space could be viewed as a means of reframing the publicness of everyday life and thereby contributing to the shaping of cities. Through examining the rationale of build-by-people trials in Shanghai, categorising in stewardingpractise, DIY tactic, and informal trial, this study anticipates shedding light on the particularities of publicness in the contemporary Chinese context. Drawing on empirical data from observation and interviews, the study discusses different facets of build-by-people trials, including the combination of desire and belief to push individuals to be a part of the public, contribution to forgotten spaces, impact on social relationships, as well as concerns on privatisation. The analysis demonstrates that the current ‘build-by-people’ trials have manifested their capacity to proactively engage concerned citizens, develop forgotten spaces, and advance a broader sense of publicness discourse. However, additional research is needed to investigate how to maximise the value of ‘build-by-people’ practises in a sustainable manner, and how to strategically advocate for more ‘public-isation’ processes while keeping the privatisation scenario from deteriorating.publishedVersio
Bachelor programme in Urban and Regional Planning (Faculty of Architecture Yıldız Technical University)
No full textFaculty of Architecture Yıldız Technical University
41.055306882047056, 29.01058049385181
https://ror.org/0547yzj13The BSc in Urban and Regional Planning delivered at the Yildiz Technical University is distinctive in its focus on theoretical and methodological courses, interdisciplinarity and regional science. It brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
Programme Curriculum and Identity
- A blend of substantive planning courses and courses focused on communicative and strategic spatial planning constitute the three main pillars of the curriculum: knowledge, skills for professional competencies, and values and ethics, making the latter a crucial component of the curriculum.
- Focus on contemporary research areas in urban and regional planning enable students to understand, research and apply their knowledge, skills and attitudes to solve complex problems and recognise and enable future opportunities in cities and regions.
- Progression from mainly compulsory courses in the 1st year towards more elective ones on the final year stimulates the progression in student’s responsibility for their education and future professional engagement in urban and regional planning.
- An excellent balance and exposure to theoretical, methodological and policy-based courses delivered by a highly qualified teaching team engaged in public services, visiting professors from a well-established global network, stakeholders and practitioners foster the intentional distinctiveness of the programme to integrate planning theory with practice while safeguarding professional ethics
Master in Architecture and Urbanism - Spatial Planning Module (Czech Technical University Prague)
No full textFaculty of Architecture Czech Technical University Prague
50.103353791542546, 14.393796330220153
https://ror.org/03kqpb082The Master Programme in Architecture and Urbanism - Spatial Planning Module delivered at the Czech Technical University in Prague enriches students’ knowledge in the field of regional policy and development, geography and social ecology, and skills in applied statistics, spatial analytics, ICT and GIS. In this way, the Module provides the students of the study programme Architecture and Urbanism an added value, extending their professional capabilities to the field of spatial planning. Additionally, it brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
Programme Curriculum and Identity:
- Acknowledgement of professional ethics through applied approach (e.g., studio course occasionally attended by real-world stakeholders).
- A cross-disciplinary approach, seen not only in the structure of the courses offered in the Module but also in collaboration with experts in complementary fields from other universities.
- A comprehensive yet well-interlinked and content-coordinated system of subjects
Ethnic Economy in Milano: The Case of the Turkish Immigrants in the Kebab Sector
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsThe concept of ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the economy represents the employment patterns in a particular country. Ethnic economies consist of immigrants from a specific ethnic group who are either self-employed or employ other members of the same ethnic group. Immigrants often experience discrimination and exclusion in the labor market and the outcome of this process is a high rate of unemployment. Ethnic economies seem to have emerged to provide a potential alternative to unemployment for immigrants. Comprising a big part of urban economies, immigrant entrepreneurs may create their own businesses and support other immigrants if the business reaches success. Besides contributing to the economics of the countries, immigrant entrepreneurs also open the way for the integration of immigrants in their new host societies. By creating an ethnic economy to overcome discrimination and exclusion, immigrants are making themselves attractive and integrated into the host society. In Italy, many immigrants who came from Turkey and eventually settled in Milano between 1988-2010 are self-employed in the kebab fast-food restaurant sector. Interviews showed that most of them migrated as asylum-seekers, looking for work, study, and living. The research findings from this study provide valuable insights into the significant role played by the ethnic economy in the integration process of Turkish immigrants within the city of Milano. Furthermore, these findings also shed light on the broader impact of the ethnic economy on societal dynamics and urban development within the region, more broadly