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Towards spaces of Trust: The power of integrative spaces in generating trustworthiness amongst groups in conflict cities
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 southContemporary cities are the main arenas for conflicts along cultural, social, religious, gender, political and ethnic lines. Yet, in this paper, we are looking for urban spaces where different groups, who live under an intense ethnic conflict, share practices and willingness to occupy the same place. This paper focuses on role particular spaces, their definition and contours in generating spatial practices that manifests collaboration and goodwill among different, for the most part conflicting groups. We understand these spaces as spaces of trust. We follow Sennett (2012) in the search for the “shared politics of place,” which signifies participants, of usually unequal power, as equal within the specific space. We focus on the city of Haifa, probably the only mixed city in Israel, were Palestinian minority and Jews share housing, and recreation spaces well. Within this city we examine two functionally different spaces, the popular bars and restaurants’ street of the German Village, were Jews and Palestinians visit. The second site is the campus of the Technion where 20% of the students are Palestinians, like their proportion in the general population of Israel. By studying the Palestinian and Jewish participants’ spatial practices and their perceptions of the spaces, we configure the spatial counterpart that affords the construction of shared politics of space and the evolvement of spaces of trust. Theoretically, this paper conceptualizes spaces of trust, and practically suggests some planning approaches to enhance it.publishedVersio
Poverty in urban zones of exception: urban segregation in São Paulo
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 central hypothesis to be engaged in this work is that the elimination of the image of urban poverty, of living precariously, which in the beginning of the 20th century was disguised by the need to eliminate unhealthiness and immorality, has undergone changes in its way of application, without, however, leaving the Brazilian political urban agenda. If urban segregation presupposes the use of urban design tools, especially road works for the creation of locations (Villaça, 2004), it is intended to present here the way in which the Public Policy in Brazil has acted to create what could be called “segregating locations”, by sponsoring the elimination of slums.
The return guarantee for investments to be made by the private sector presupposes, in the current case of the Água Espraiada Corsortium for Urban Operation (OUCAE, in Portuguese), in the municipality of Sao Paulo, the total suppression of 29 slums, with the prolongation of the Roberto Marinho Avenue, the building of a tunnel and a linear park. The motto for the works estimated in more than 4 billion Brazilian reals is the opening of a new front for real estate capital, with emphasis on private investments in housing and services. If the success of this contemporary model of urban planning presupposes the viability of private investments, it is convenient to consider the mechanism that ensures such viability. This research intends, therefore, to explore the final form of these plans – urban design itself –; how the physical poverty has been eliminated, notably the slums and the other “informal settlements”, as a hurdle to the return of private investment. Opposing the consolidated speech in the last quarter of the 20th century, about the integration of informal settlements to the formal city as an urban policy, the State continues to fund its elimination in regions destined to be given to the real estate market in exchange for ‘financial contribution’ (in the form of onerous grant of the right to build).publishedVersio
Yacht as a part of city public space
No full textCity on water : 6th AESOP European Urban Summer School 2015, BremenTechnology development in the field of maritime transport reflected immediately in demands aimed to ports’ infrastructure, size, location and connected land transportation. Harbors started to be redeveloped but quickly turned out that new standards are much too higher to face them up because of the lack of space. In many cases the only solution was to move out of the city to a new place. This process released from industry large areas in good location, very often close to the historical old town. Because of this and attractive vicinity of water they started to be an integral part of the center. Leaving cities ports left its immovable infrastructure as cranes, wharfs, docks, inner harbors etc. The most natural and easiest way to adopt them to new functions was to change them into yacht harbors. And that is a moment when we face question about methods of this transformation. Will we choose the easiest way and simply exchange ships to yachts rearranging infrastructure due to new requirements or will we act more profoundly by analyzing specificity and potential of new function? Below I feature some reflections about yacht harbors and will also try to look at them in a non-common way to discover their role in creating city public space
Interspace – а space between the disciplines
No full textCity on water : 6th AESOP European Urban Summer School 2015, BremenEvery year, the School of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Environment, with its Master’s degree course in Architecture & Environmental Design at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences, and the Systems and Structures Studio for the degree course in Integrated Design at the University of the Arts in Bremen organise an interdisciplinary, project-based course. The second-semester master’s degree students from each university come together in Bremen’s ‘Centre for Building Culture’ to address current issues concerning the designing of our environment
Master programme in Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning -PTUPA (University "Federico II", Napoli)
No full textUniversity "Federico II", Napoli
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https://ror.org/05290cv24After a thorough examination of its contents and methods, the Master programme in Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning (PTUPA) offered by the University "Federico II", Napoli 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
Artistic urban interventions, informality and public sphere: research insights from ephemeral urban appropriations on a cultural district
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 southArtistic intervention in cultural districts can be an outstanding viewpoint to understand the multiple layers of uses and segregations that bring everyday life vitality to the complex organisms cities are. Urban informality contexts can be fundamental for the expression of this diversity and to liminality strategies, particularly interesting in the case of artistic intervention, as artistic creativity is often about transgression, differentiation, and, therefore, conflict. Small initiatives that develop in an informal and ephemeral way by artists who choose the city as stage for their work, exploring the ambiguous and flexible boundaries between public and private spaces are particular interesting, evidencing the usual conflicts verified on creative milieus but being also important to keep these places as vernacular as possible and to avoid gentrification processes.
In this perspective, this paper aims to discuss this relation between urban interventions, informality and public sphere appropriation, analyzing the way informal artistic dynamics can contribute to urban re-vitalization and to the enhancement of real creative milieus. Drawing on a research-action based methodology the authors explore the results and impacts of three experiences of urban intervention that they developed in three consecutive years in informal urban contexts in Bairro Alto, the main cultural quarter of Lisbon, Portugal. These ephemeral artistic interventions introduced in the city new spaces of public use, performing different public and private spaces, and bringing them to the public sphere, creating also “new” zones that re-gain a utility in the city, contributing to the vitality and symbolic centrality of this area.publishedVersio
Exploring alternatives for the redevelopment of peri-central neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro: an urban design teaching perspective Guilherme
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 southStrategic planning has been a means for cities to enhance their ability to attract investment, transforming them into territories that are now essentially understood as real estate profits generators. Acting as a main partner in such a process, the concept of urban regeneration then converges with the rehabilitation of historic centers, an agenda dictated by the postmodern critique and recently reinforced by the concept of 'sustainable city'. The first struggle is culturally driven and emerged as a reaction against the large-scale application of functionalist urban planning precepts incubated in the European context of postwar reconstruction. The second initiative, more concerned with environmental issues, seeks to reorient a whole lifestyle associated with a kind of urban 'product' that had been simultaneously stimulated by the consumer goods industry, especially in North America: the suburban single-family detached house. In both cases, we are talking about a process that resulted in the abandonment of urban centers by the economic elite. In Europe, the return to the city center was initially driven by historical heritage concerns combined with aggressive policies to improve energy performance of old buildings but has since been slowed down by the 'sales success' of these picturesque neighborhoods where the high cost per square meter is driven by the investments strategies of the international financial system (especially in major global cities). This tendency has represented a constant challenge for local governments forcing them to create and make use of legislation specifically conceived to ensure a minimum of social mix.publishedVersio
Cappadocia: the current issues in planning a World Heritage Site
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 cultural heritage landscapes are facing many threats. These threats can be focused on the human effects simultaneously on the nature. In special cases the threats due to the nature’s and human’s effects, can be together and simultaneous. The effects of threats is widening; the problems of protection are becoming increasingly complex. Cappadocia is a significant example for this situation.
Cappadocia in terms of natural and cultural values, with transcultural continuity of daily life, say semi-troglodyte, in cave houses, is a unique masterpiece of nature. The permanent contributions of humanity throughout history have transformed Cappadocia, from a natural area of the simple rural life troglodyte, to a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. The fairy chimneys with their structure easy to dig and shape, are good protectors for cultural continuity created in the natural landscape.
The most essential natural threat that Cappadocia is facing today is the erosion. The life of hoodoos that begins with the birth followed by improving ends with a slow process of disappearance, the cycle of nature. The idea to keep or maintain their shape is synonymous to stop the time.
Moreover, cultural works created in these hoodoos are the most important values and prestigious in the world and certainly their protection is a humanitarian obligation. The tourism potential of World Heritage sites is very important for local people. But the extreme increase in tourism sector oriented cultural values has become a destructive threat. Development plans and regional planning were shaped by decisions and policies that contribute to this development. The trend is to offer cave houses to tourism demands, transforming them to "boutique hotels". Small traditional institutions lose their vernacular habitat, gradually transforming to holiday villages.publishedVersio
Indigenous ‘rights to the city’ and planning: Lessons from a comparative urban study in Bolivia and Ecuador
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 southRecent research emphasises the need to study cities of the global ‘South’ (Robinson 2002; Roy 2009; Watson 2012) where urban geographies and planning dynamics differ from those in European and North American cities. As shown, for example, in studies on differentiated urban planning in Brazilian and other Latin American cities (Holston 2008; Goldstein 2013), state-led urban planning interventions in cities of the global ‘South’ often represent the cause for urban poverty, ethno-racial discrimination, social exclusion, uneven urban citizenship, and the reproduction of colonial urban spaces in post-colonial societies. In such a context, marginalised urban groups have to rely on their own practices to improve their living conditions and claim their ‘right to the city’ (Harvey 2008; Lefebvre 1991).
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical contextualisation of the notion of the ‘right to the city’ – a notion which is widely used by critical planning scholars, social movement activists and practitioners but often in unclear and conflicting ways particularly in relation to addressing the interests, needs, and rights of specific groups (Attoh 2011). To offer such a contextualisation, the paper introduces findings from recently completed comparative urban research in Bolivia and Ecuador – two countries which recognise specific indigenous ‘rights to the city’ in new political constitutions. To ensure indigenous peoples ‘rights to the city’ the constitutions emphasise that policies in sectors as diverse as housing, spatial planning, or healthcare should follow intercultural principles and address the interests and demands of previously marginalised indigenous peoples. Both constitutions also grant urban indigenous peoples with specific rights – including the right to prior consultation about interventions taking place on their territories, the right to territorial autonomy and indigenous justice (CPE Bolivia 2009, art. 30; CPE Ecuador 2008, art. 57).publishedVersio
The relationship between dementia prevalence of the female elderly, personal exercise habits and distribution of exercise spaces in Tainan City, 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 southWith advances in medical technology, the average human life expectancy extends and the global population is aging. Accordingly, the number of people with dementia is steadily increasing. Alzheimer’s Disease International released the World Alzheimer Report in August 2015 and updated the data on dementia's global prevalence. There are an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015. This number will reach 74.7 million in 2030 and 131.5 million in 2050. Due to the average life expectancy of female is longer than male, female people comprise a significant majority of the elderly population (United Nations, 2015). Moreover, the prevalence is higher for women than for men. (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2015). Hence, female elderly have become a high-risk group with dementia in the foreseeable future.
The estimated prevalence of dementia in people aged 60 or over is 4.7% in Asian, 5.9% in Europe, 6.4 in the America and 4.6% in Africa (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2015). In Taiwan, the prevalence of dementia in people aged 65 or over is 4.97% (Taiwan Alzheimer's Disease Association, 2012). Although the number in Taiwan is not particularly higher than other region around the world, the increase of proportion in the number of elderly people living with dementia (2015-2030 and 2015-2050) will be higher in Taiwan than in most of other countries.publishedVersio