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PhD programme in Architecture and Urbanism (Czech Technical University)
No full textCzech Technical University
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https://ror.org/03kqpb082After a thorough examination of its contents and methods, the PhD programme in Architecture and Urbanism offered by the Czech Technical University has been highly distinguished with the AESOP CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY We certify that: This programme fulfils the European quality standards of planning programmes according to the AESOP Charter, complemented by an effective internationalization of teaching and learning processes This certificate is valid for a period of six years. Porto, 22 January 201
Cities in the global climate marketplace: transnational actors and urban climate adaptation planning in India
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southIn cities across the global South that are pursuing climate change adaptation actions, transnational and multilateral actors are critical catalysts for financing programs, generating public awareness, and legitimizing the agenda (Andonova, Betsill, and Bulkeley 2009; Anguelovski and Carmin 2011; Bulkeley et al. 2012). Transnational aid and philanthropic institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), the United National Development Programme (UNDP), and others have strongly advocated for programs that integrate and support both climate change adaptation and urban socioeconomic and spatial development (Bicknell, Dodman, and Satterthwaite 2009; Halsnæs and Trærup 2009; Huq and Reid 2004), arguing that combining these two objectives will help ensure the long-term resilience of cities (Carmin, Dodman, and Chu 2013). However, scholars of urban adaptation and transnational urban governance have yet to understand whether such external interventions have long-lasting effects on the sustainability, institutionalization, and justice of urban climate adaptation programs (Bulkeley, Edwards, and Fuller 2014; Chu, Anguelovski, and Carmin 2015; Chu 2015).publishedVersio
Policy-makers and “applied economic geographers”: the role of financial intermediaries in the making of Brazil’s Real Estate Investment Trusts
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southOver the past years, the rising importance of financial markets and financial investors in the production of the urban built environment has been recognized. However, far from being simply a global, exogenous process that produces all sorts of local outcomes, financialization of the urban built environment is as much national and local a process as a global one (Ahston et al., 2014; Attuyer and Halbert, forthcoming). Additionally, to describe this process as one driven exclusively by abstract financial market forces is misleading, given that the State has been in the front line of financialization by putting in place a suitable regulatory framework to encourage financial intermediation and financial investment (Gotham, 2006, 2014). With this in mind, some scholars have scrutinized the active role played by financial intermediaries in furthering financialization, often based on the proposition that the latter should not be viewed as simply a reformulation of the rent capitalization principle long theorized by authors such as David Harvey, but instead should be seen as the process whereby financial intermediaries pool capital from dispersed investors and channel it to activities where opportunities of accumulation are identified and future profits expected (Guironnet and Halbert, 2015). Financial intermediaries are here not simply passive actors that allocate capital in response to market signals, but actively redirect these capital flows in conformity to their own collectively produced representations and expectations and in interaction with existing systems of actors at city-regional level (Theurillat et al, 2012).publishedVersio
Analyzing Incremental Changes in Local Planning Institutions: Investigating transformation process after city-county consolidation in Tainan, Taiwan
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southFor two decades, some planning scholars have tried to apply the concept of institutionalism in the studies of planning theory, but most of them mainly focus on how institutional innovation occur in a particular place, or how planning systems vary in different places (for example Pasty Healey, Bishwapriya Sanyal, and so on). Recently, Andre Sorensen proposes a historical institutional (HI) research agenda in planning theory. He argues that applying the HI approach to study the development of planning institutions in a particular place or to compare planning systems in different places can strengthen their theoretical framing and provide meaningful connections between physical and social phenomena. However, applicability of the approach and its contributions in planning studies remains further exploration. In light of this, this study aims to explore the potential of the HI approach in planning research via investigating the transformation process of planning institutions in Tainan City, Taiwan after a city-county consolidation.
Historical institutionalist provides a systematical way to analyze what contribute to the institutional change or path dependence after critical junctures. Historical institutionalism is best known for the concept of ‘path dependence’ and ‘critical junctures’. According to Sorensen (2015, p. 21), ’[t]he core idea of path dependence is that, once established, some institutions tend to become increasingly difficult to change over time, and so small choices early on can have significant long-term impacts.’publishedVersio
Planning (beyond) tourism. The case of Barcelona ‘In Common’
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southA coalition of leftfield political groups, civic movements, and grassroots organizations led by social activist Ada Colau has won the Barcelona municipal elections of 2015 and though from a position of minority, is now governing the Catalan capital. Commentators believe that the key issue that determined this success has been the positioning of this coalition in relation to city tourism. Only a few years ago considered a ‘best practice’ in urban regeneration and transformation into an iconic urban tourism capital, prized in 2014 with the title of ‘sustainable tourism capital of the world’, Barcelona has lived in the last two years a veritable revolution in the public perception on tourism, from ‘manna from heaven’ to serious issue which is compromising the quality of life of its citizens. This paper looks into the factors which have determined this shift, from the objective growth of tourism beyond what could be considered a ‘social-economic carrying capacity’ threshold for an urban system, to the more subtle issue of the diversification of the forms of ‘being a tourist’ and their blurring with the quotidian livelihoods of resident populations. It then follow the steps of ‘Barcelona in Common’ candidature and of the negotiation of a programme to redress the balance of tourism in favour of citizens, something which is remarkably removed from mainstream tourism planning and management approaches and goes deeply into the debate on and progressive urbanism: the state of health of cities in the age of mobilities, the reclamation of the right to the city and public goods, and the role of redistributive institutions face to the global pressure of capital.publishedVersio
Capacity building for multi-level spatial development under fragmented institutional conditions
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe R&D-project “The Attractive Region”, initiated by the Swedish Transport Administration, aims at developing processes and methods that strengthen multi-level cooperation regarding the nexus of transport investments and local development in a regional context, outside Sweden’s main metropolitan regions. Using this project as a case, this study analyses the evolution of multi-level strategic planning capacity at the local and regional levels under contemporary fragmented and heterogenic planning conditions. An elaborated theoretical framework based on four key dimensions of urban-regional strategy formation processes, formulated by Patsy Healey, is applied in order to analyze strategic planning capacity among Swedish regions, and its effect on process and outcome in multi-level planning coordination initiatives. The results may contribute to the on-going efforts to strengthen regional spatial planning in Sweden and abroad.publishedVersio
Architecture and urban planning: creating a new place for women
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe presence of women in Architecture and Urban Planning schools isn’t something new; Brazil had its first female graduate in architecture as early as 1908. Over time, women reached the numerical supremacy in this field. Nevertheless, being majority over their male colleagues does not prevent these professionals from having considerably lower incomes, or their works from being less prominent. If we hope to shape our cities into more inclusive environments, which take into consideration the multiple contexts and needs of its citizens, we must listen and acknowledge all kinds of experiences. The sexism in the field not only backtracks women’s careers, it also makes it harder for them to give extremely important input as knowledgeable professionals. To this day, the main voice behind planning and urban politics are those of men. Therefore, this paper will cover analyses and conjectures about the context and the social processes that have contributed to establish the situation women architects are currently facing in Brazil, where the sheer power of numbers is not enough to prevent them from being sidelined. These analyses were grouped into three distinct categories named “myths”. These proposed axes – elaborated after reading and analyzing multiple sources – were the ones considered essential to the better understanding of the place created for women in this field of knowledge. The choice of the term “myth” to name them derives from the understanding that those are anachronistic and outdated concepts, detached of today’s reality, although they still have a great impact on people’s daily lives.publishedVersio
The use of space as decision-making process. Valuation of mobility, residential, and workplace choices in the Munich Metropolitan Region
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southHow important is a good public transport connection for inhabitants when they decide on a location to live or work? How are locational characteristics valued by people? What does the aggregate of individual choices on these issues tell us about the existing and aspired quality of the provision of public services and amenities, as well as spatial economic structure? Good knowledge about the inherent sets of preferences regarding locational qualities in different regional, temporal and societal contexts is crucial for successful urban development and planning, especially as far as transport is concerned.
In this research paper, I will employ a revealed preference approach with hedonic regression modelling to estimate the importance of locational characteristics such as proximity to public transport to individuals in the Munich Metropolitan Region (MMR), Germany, using a sample of more than 7,000 people who responded to a web-survey regarding their residential and workplace location choices in late 2014 and early 2015. In the survey, people who moved or changed their workplace to or within the MMR in the last three years were asked about their previous and current residential as well as workplace location, in addition to alternative residential locations their considered during their search for a new apartment. Critically, for all locations, we also asked about the rental or purchase price of the object as well as household income and commuting costs.publishedVersio
An evaluation of municipal efforts for climate change mitigation and adaptation: two cases from Turkey
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southClimate change mitigation and adaptation is a multi-level challenge, i.e. it requires simultaneous action at international, national and local levels. Since climate change is a global problem, political responses have been primarily developed at international platforms where nation-states participated. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol are significant attempts in this regard. Meanwhile, the “local” has been also widely recognized as an appropriate level to tackle the climate change problem. Accommodating roughly half of world’s population, more than 70% of greenhouse gas emissions are generated in cities. Ironically, cities are also the places which are vulnerable to climate change effects (Rosenzweig et al. 2010, Hunt and Watkiss 2011). The most severe potential effects of climate change on cities are heat waves, periods of extreme winter cold, increased frequency of air and water pollution episodes, rising sea levels and increased risk of storm surge, changes in the frequency and severity of flooding associated with more intense precipitation (Wilby 2007).
The growing concerns for climate change have led to urban responses by municipalities across the world particularly since the 1990s. Municipalities with their authorities over land-use planning, water and waste management, energy consumption and transportation can play significant roles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, they can go beyond their already defined responsibilities, and develop bottom-up initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Betsill and Bulkeley 2005). It should be noted that the growing interest and involvement of municipalities in climate change mitigation and adaptation has also led to establishment of climate-related international and regional partnerships and networks for the last two decades.publishedVersio
Commodification of retirement and the emergence of rural gated communities: the associated challenges for rural planning
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThis paper combines demographic ageing and retirement lifestyles with rural in-migration processes and suggests the emergence of a specific rural form of gated community; namely, park homes. All year round or permanent (as opposed to seasonal) residential mobile homes (resembling detached bungalows in design and appearance) are commonly referred to as 'park homes'. With a growing proportion of the UK population aged 65 and over, combined with increasing longevity, meeting the residential preferences and lifestyle aspirations of an ageing population is potentially 'big business' for the private sector. Park home living, with their resident age restrictions (normally 50 years and over), is increasingly marketed as a retirement option in rural and coastal locations of the UK. However, many areas are often remote with declining populations and limited community services. Operators have sought to tap into retiree aspirations for a 'place in the country' and 'sell' the concept of park home living as a specific form of housing, community and lifestyle. Park homes are frequently marketed as a means to release equity from the sale of a large family home to fund a retirement lifestyle and as friendly communities of like-minded people, always willing to lend support or provide assistance if required. The physical and social composition of such sites represent a form of rural gated community. This paper seeks to identify the rural planning issues which emerge from such developments and asks: who are moving to park home sites and why? Do park homes provide those who otherwise could not afford a 'place in the country' the option of rural living? Does park home living live-up to residents' expectations of the rural idyll or retirement lifestyle?publishedVersio