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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
Dispositive-disposition dyads as a lever for change-making: the reconfiguration of school spaces promoted by the Metropolitan Regeneration Program of Bologna
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The paper discusses the modernization of school facilities, to address contemporary educational and social demands, as a critical issue for the public sector. The study focuses on the "Progetto Scuole Terre di Pianura," part of the Metropolitan Regeneration Program in Bologna, which aims to reconfigure school spaces to foster educational and social initiatives. The paper critically examines how public officials (disposition) engage with technical and regulatory frameworks (dispositive) to implement local projects. It underscores the crucial role of public officials in interpreting and applying these frameworks to achieve effective urban regeneration, navigating the complexity of public administration in resource-constrained environments.
Keywords: City-education relationship Territorial governance Public action Small and medium-sized townspublished versio
Stakeholders of participatory planning: a comparison between Megacities and Cities in Europe
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Participatory planning is regarded as an accelerator of sustainable development. However, it comes with its own set of challenges. In this paper, we study the challenges that are explicit in the case of Megacities. As they are more prominent in our current years, megacities form a large portion of their countries' population, not to mention they constitute an issue when combatting climate change. In the context of megacities, the analysis of the participation process requires a breakdown of the one factor which constitutes the biggest difference between its application in cities and megacities: the stakeholders and their extrapolation. Following this method, a solution for its implementation in megacities is proposed highlighting the use of digital tools and following the learnings from the city of "Vinnytsia" and applying them to the case of the megacity of "London".
Keywords: Participatory Planning - Megacities - City Development-Planning Stakeholderspublished versio
An analysis of current integration of urban agriculture and domestic garden into urban planning: the case of Île-de-France region
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024More than a passing trend, urban agriculture (UA) has become a part of modern cities. According to some authors, it provides some ecosystem services (well-being, food, water catchment, biodiversity ) contributing to creating more liveable cities. Although these functions are recognised, not all municipalities integrate those functions into urban planning. The survey conducted on 240 land-use local plans and their integration of UA and Urban Domestic Gardens functions and issues reveal that the most expected functions are environmental, landscape management and social. We also observe that these topics are considered more in the presentation part of the plan that remains more declarative than operational and regulatory. There seem to be contextual and technical constraints on the implementation of regulatory mechanisms to preserve and develop these areas.
Keywords: land-use plan, functions, zoning, resilient citiespublished versio
Empowerment and Participatory Approaches to Urban Health: The E-City Programme
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper explores the importance of urban health in contemporary urban planning. It aims to address the question on how planners can actively contribute to knowledge and practices related to urban health, promoting equality and equity in future cities through empowerment and participation. The study analyses the strategies and initial steps of the method used by E-city, a long-term university program at the University Paris-Est Creteil since 2020. Focusing on intersectionality dynamics in planning and urban health from interviews with project leaders and professionals, survey data, and participation observation, valuable lessons from the E-City program aim to inspire a new generation of planners committed to intersectional approaches to urban health planning.
Keywords: intersectionality, pro-equity, urban justice, uncertainty experimentationpublished versio
Study on the Response of Local Legislation to Coordinate the Interests of Multiple Subjects in Urban Renewal from the Perspective of Property Rights
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This article analyses the challenges of coordinating the interests of multiple parties in urban renewal and the institutional response through the development of local legislation on urban renewal in Beijing, using the policy mechanisms and practices of urban renewal projects in Beijing as an example. The article is divided into three sections: (1) defining the characteristics of property rights in urban renewal, and clarifying the key points of the legislation; (2) constructing an analytical framework of 'subject identification-interest expression-interest coordination' for the pluralistic subjects; and (3) analysing the responses of local legislation, including the concept and responsibilities of each type of subject, and the establishment of conflict negotiation and mediation mechanisms. Overall, the legislative design effectively responds to the property rights dilemma in practice. This principled legal framework clarifies the responsibilities of different government departments and facilitates the next step of developing specific policy tools to guide project practice.
Key words: Urban renewal; property rights; co-ordination of interests; multiple subjects; local legislationpublished versio
Embracing The Green Curricula? The New European Bauhaus as a Driver of Environmental Change in the University Education
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The education of future urban planners and architect has been exposed to various global trends which influence our environment. Nowadays, the imperatives embedded into the 2030 Agenda, the European Green Agenda and the New European Bauhaus (NEB) represent a starting point for the preferred green transition which should contribute to the sustainable urban future. The University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture has been strengthening the environmental dimension on all levels of studies, and this paper will focus on the case of the Master program in Architecture_ Module Urbanism. The thematic and structural modifications will be discussed on the level of three courses - Sustainable City (obligatory), Ecopolis (elective) and the final/graduation work (Thematic research, Master Thesis, Master Project studio), also considering their results and public outreach.
Keywords: education, green transition, urban planning, architecture, Green Agenda, New European Bauhauspublished versio
On freedom, public space and women’s experiences of prostitution. The (in)visible world of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper focuses on Nigerian women’s experiences of prostitution in a public space, the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, as democratic experiences questioning the value of freedom in pluralistic societies. It is based on the very provisional outputs of a collaborative field-research. It relies on an ecological-pragmatist perspective of analysis that suggests to consider public spaces as frontiers of capacitation: in-between spaces where Nigerian women reinvent themselves in the face of international and local, planned and unplanned, events. The aim of the paper is to rethink the political and cultural value of public spaces for just and inclusive territorial transformations.
Key-words: prostitution, freedom, public spaces, social justice, cultural pluralismpublished versio
Planned out? Rethinking the role of planning in regulating houses in multiple occupation in England
Full text linkPlanning Theory & Practice, 25(5), 2024This article critically re-examines the role of planning in regulating houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in England. It explores how planning policies and regulatory practices shape access to housing and may produce discriminatory outcomes for particular social groups. Building on empirical analysis and planning theory debates, the paper reflects on the implications of regulatory approaches for equity, housing justice, and the future role of planning in addressing complex housing challenges.publishedVersio
Conceptualising the urban transformative capacity of underprivileged neighbourhoods for realising just energy transitions
Full text linkGame 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