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Collaborative housing shaping new forms of urban regeneration: an Italian approach, the city of Turin
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017The concept of “collaborative housing” encompasses various perspectives on the housing issue: from the scale of single architectural project to the broad neighbourhood dimension, involving different actors and networks and with a specific attention towards social capital and the role of the community. The main research question of this paper is whether a collaborative housing development has an effect on the larger neighbourhood. The aim is addressing the topic focusing on the urban regeneration/revitalisation effect, in order to understand if collaborative housing can be an aid against social exclusion and marginalization related to housing distress. Therefore, the author intends to investigate whether the development of collaborative housing can be a mean to increase social cohesion and strengthen community involvement. The Italian case study can contribute to an international comparison: Italy constitutes a particular territorial context in Europe due to the scarce investment on public housing and the irregular attention of national governments and national policies on the social housing sector. This case allows to discuss the definition of collaborative housing in a historical and place-specific perspective. The practices developed in Turin, a metropolitan city in the North-West of Italy, show a comprehensive approach to the housing issue. In Turin public and private local stakeholders promoted a general frame of actions to deal with social exclusion and marginalisation related to housing distress. The city’s approach indicates that collaborative housing can promote new forms of intervention in the urban contexts.Published versio
Village character – to the roots of rural aesthetics
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017Quality of public spaces is one of the crucial themes of contemporary architecture and urban design also because its significance is evident not only to the architects. Even in the era of strong individualism, public spaces pertain to the whole of a community and jointly form its identity. Therefore, it is reasonable to pay attention to their aesthetic nature on a general level. This paper aims to provide an intelligible ground for a creative grasping of the rural character of environment based on two criteria: 1) the relationship of figure and ground, 2) the level of urban character. These criteria apply both to remote territories as well as to fragments of former villages engulfed in metropolitan areas. It is based on the interpretation of selected features of rural environment which are generally considered valuable by architects.Published versio
A model for the pursuit of robust urban form
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017The starting point of the argument to be presented here is that the physical structure of urban areas lasts from many decades to several centuries. Without rebuilding, it can constrain, or even prohibit, specific urban activities that are thought desirable and being planned for. In contrast, economic and social forces will change markedly over the same time period and it is desirable that the physical structure should be designed to cope with these changes. Growth of settlements is the norm rather than the exception and, at the very least, there is no basis for assuming that a city will never expand beyond its existing limits. As urban areas expand, it becomes necessary to retrofit them by inserting new, and adapting existing, buildings and by renewing and extending the infrastructure. Increases in residential density will result and will require similar retrofitting. If, therefore, a city is to be planned it must be robust: it should be designed to accommodate change, particularly the expansion of infrastructure, on a continual basis. Although, at first sight, very long-term physical planning of robust form may seem like a tall order, it will be argued that it is feasible. A theoretical and normative model of robust urban form can be derived, or deduced, from two sets of planning goals - pursuit of quality of life and pursuit of sustainability (Hall, 2015) - and it will be shown that it has some remarkable properties.Published versio
Green Space System Planning Based on the Green Infrastructure - A Case Study of Ji´An, China
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017With the rapid promotion of China’s urbanization, problems of rapid urbanization gradually threaten the healthy and sustainable development of the city. The theory and method of the traditional green space system planning is difficult to meet the basic requirement for modern cities, which embodies in: 1) Evaluates urban green space system planning and construction of urban green space by the green index, resulting in result in low benefit of many urban green space system planning; 2) Planning is mainly confined to the built-up area, and lack of consideration on the regional ecological integrity and the relationship between green spaces inside and outside the city. The green space system planning within the region is difficult to implement; 3) Lacks of mechanism to promote the effective participation of multisubject. Planning Text often one-sided emphasizes on the harmony between human and nature, but lacks of the powerful means of space construction; 4) Green spaces and other construction sites are placed together and isolated in the city, and the result is that green spaces have been eroded by construction sites. Therefore, the green space system planning in the new period must break through the limitations of the traditional green space system planning. The layout of the green space system must be based on the principles of Urban and Rural planning and ecological construction, and consider the green spaces within and outside the city integrated, systematic and ecological. This requires planning workers not only to consider problems with macroscopic spatial and temporal scale, but also implement specific work of meso and micro level. We should fully grasp the structure and function, form and elements of green space in a specific urban and rural environment, to make the artificial environment and the natural environment to form a coordinated system.Published versio
An output of paradigm-shift in urban planning: “resilient transportation” and examination on city of Istanbul
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017Throughout the history, urban planning experienced several changes and developments with the light of economic, politic, demographic, social and environmental characteristics of existing time period and effects of these features on society. An example of these developments is the emergence of the idea of seeking a comprehensive and multi-faceted solution to the negative situations of cities in the early 1990s in the context of "sustainable planning". The question of how our cities will react in the face of adverse conditions has become a matter of debate. The focus of this debate lies in the fact that cities and the inhabitants of the city struggle with sudden changes and threats. Aim of this study is determination of necessities for integrating urban transportation with urban resilience concept and examination of basic approaches for this integration method. One of the most important subject is identification of policies and scenarios in so that resilient transportation concept works with urban transportation system in harmony and reflection of this harmony to city as a whole. In addition to this, the determination of working principles integrated with different disciplines (social sciences, economic sciences, etc.) and the inclusion of macro and micro scales into urban planning are among the topics to be elaborated. Finally, on the Istanbul city, analysing existing potentials and possibilities in the context of urban transportation and making of policies, scenarios and solution alternatives are discussed on the city of Istanbul.Published versio
Bringing life back to streets through landscape designs: a case study in Suzhou industrial park, China
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017Previous research shows that the quality of street space would determine the outdoor activities, public health conditions and people’s perception of place identity. This paper explores how the existing street landscape can be re-designed to bring public life back to streets – a concern arising in city regeneration. Due to the rapid urbanization in the last three decades in China, streets in major cities were often designed and built to prioritize and facilitate vehicular circulation. Although the well-known design principle – streets should be designed towards pedestrian-friendly – has been incorporated into textbooks and street design guidance. Less attention has been paid to the pedestrian’s needs in practice. As a result, existing streets are often lack social activities. Public space design has now become a major concern of the Chinese public. How can existing streets be redesigned to bring life back to the streets in residential areas, especially in a given urban context with gated communities? To answer this question, a wide range of literature has been reviewed. Key factors that would contribute to a vibrant street life have been summarized into a design framework. Then a design research has been conducted to verify the effectiveness of these key factors, based on a case study in Suzhou Industrial Park, China. It is expected that the research findings would inform the retrofits of existing streets in the city regeneration process.Published versio
Urban regeneration process as an asset to rise active citizenship: the human cities experience with using photostories as a trigger
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017While the rapidly developing world is facing a rapid urban growth, these processes have been in a full swing much earlier in the s. c. western world. Many of the western cities thus face a need for a redevelopment and regeneration of the already aged-up urban quarters constructed in the periods of their fast growth. Typical examples are the modernist urban neighbourhoods built in the decades after WWII which offered new standards of living when constructed, but need renewal and up-gradings to cope with the needs and expectations of contemporary urban population that is much more individualised in its lifestyles. The paper puts light on the new approach to participatory urban regeneration process that is developed around reveal ingresidents' perceptions of their living environments through crowdsourced analytical photography and attached descriptions. The approach was developed in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as an experimentation programme of the European Human Cities project running from 2014-2018 in eleven European countries. The project aims to encourage and enable civil society across Europe to actively contribute to urban regeneration of living environments in participatory way.Published versio
Resilience through a methodology to plan green infrastructures
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017The increasing use in recent years of the word resilience when considering sustainable development, linking relief to development, adaptation to climate change and the need to give greater priority to addressing vulnerability has been much discussed. It has proved attractive because it appears to offer a way to bring different disciplines and perspectives under a single conceptual umbrella. The impacts of urban sprawl on peri-urban landscapes include, among other things: loss of natural habitats for species; lack of natural water retention areas; negative impacts on water quality; negative impacts on human health, mental/physical wellbeing, recreation, social interaction; impacts in terms of climate adaptation. The climate crisis is hitting a territory in which the hydrogeological instability has made the mountain slopes unstable and fragile and where the lowland areas improperly exploited, particularly in the vicinity of rivers, have become spaces of devastation due to floods and landslides. The territory has suffered profound and disfiguring changes in terms of structure, function and, consequently, of resilience capacity to these extreme events (Fasolino, 2017). Green Infrastructures (GI) can mitigate the effects of climate change and extreme events that they pose, managing, for example, the devastating power of floods or landslides, re-establishing spaces and functions (Austin, 2014; Benedict and McMahon, 2006; Lafortezza et al., 2013). The main elements of GI include parks, private gardens, agricultural fields, hedges, trees, woodland, green roofs, green walls, rivers and ponds. The theme of GI is closely related to Ecosystem Services (ES), which are fundamental to maintaining the resilience of a territory. We propose a methodology for the effective planning of a GI network that will help achieve numerous benefits, including: reducing risks to people and property, improving psychological health & well-being, boosting local economic regeneration and providing a habitat for wildlife. There are currently any tools available and many more emerging. The challenge is to ensure that well planned GI, providing functions which will meet numerous planning objectives, can go beyond the purely scientific and environmental framework and become an integral part of public policies; but this requires thorough planning, design and management. This paper shows how to develop a GI network using existing European data. Most input data for the Geographic Information System (GIS) was taken from published and reclassified sources for analysis purposes. The choices made during the data processing and analysis are based on expert opinions and are open to public control. In conclusion, to achieve the resilience of a territory, it is very important to promote the mainstreaming of risk assessments into land-use policy development and implementation, including into urban planning.Published versio
Аrts and culture strategies for activating neighbourhood public spaces: bringing arts to the heartlands of singapore
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017In 2011, the National Arts Council (NAC) Singapore started an initiative of establishing the ‘Community Arts and Culture Nodes’ in Singapore’s heartlands that extend beyond the traditional art venues, such as museums, art galleries or theatres to incorporate various public spaces and facilities. The objectives of this initiative are to provide greater access to arts through regular quality arts programmes in the local housing neighbourhoods, to activate neighbourhood public spaces through arts and culture and to increase the opportunities for social interaction and community bonding. 25 of such nodes are envisioned to be established island-wide by 2025. With reference to ‘Community Arts and Culture Nodes’ strategy, this paper discusses the capacities of five Singaporean neighbourhoods to create culturally rich and vibrant environments through unique art experiences and participation opportunities for the local residents. The key focus is the neighbourhood spatial opportunity analysis that involves mapping and assessing available neighbourhood spaces, their characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, as well as the symbiotic relationship between the quality and capacity of space design and programming in relation to arts and culture events and activities. The process and findings of neighbourhood analysis provide a guide for choosing the most suitable spaces for the arts as well as the strategies to activate community spaces through arts and culture activities.Published versio
А method for mapping the publicity-privacy spectrum in a historical bazaar in iran: illustrating the socio-spatial fabric of the Tabriz bazaar as a public place
No full textBook of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017The bazaar is a social and spatial network, shaped through centuries of relations between the bazaar community, the states, the regular public, and other actors, such as the vaqf endowment organisation and the religious clergy. As a commercial centre, urban heritage, and public place, the bazaar is profoundly influenced by the quality and quantity of the presence of regular public members. By reviewing literature presenting empirical studies on the bazaars in Iranian commercial cities such as Tehran, Esfahan and Tabriz, this research has categorised the general types in the spatial, functional, legal, and social aspects of these bazaars (Yadollahi, 2017). Based on these categories and according to the literature on the methods of studying public places , this research has developed a method to study an Iranian bazaar as a public place. After documenting the aspects mentioned above in the Tabriz Bazaar, located in the north-west of Iran, this method is modified specifically for and applied towards this case. The present paper discusses the results of implementing the mapping method on the Tabriz Bazaar. The adaptation of the mentioned method towards the Tabriz Bazaar is based on the data collected through regular ethnographic research in the bazaar between March 2013 and September 2015. Through mapping the functional, physical, legal, and cultural aspects of the involvement of public and private actors in the bazaar, this research addresses the following questions: How can we map the sociospatial fabric of a bazaar as a public place? How can we discover the patterns of spatial distribution of public and private power in a bazaar, considering the four aspects mentioned above? Does crowdedness of a bazaar represent social diversity and equality of all public members in its use and control?Published versio