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Enterprise-led or government-led? Research on the characteristics and mechanisms of rural gentrification in metropolitan suburbs driven by significant projects taking lianmin village in Shanghai as an example
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Under the combined influence of factors such as the implementation of the rural revitalisation strategy, superior geographical location, and the implementation of significant projects such as Disneyland, the suburban villages of Shanghai's metropolitan area have experienced similar characteristics of rural gentrification in rural revitalisation in Western countries. According to the differences in driving forces, rural gentlemen are divided into two types: enterprise-led and local government-led. There may also be complex interactive relationships between the two kinds of gentrification. Then, this article takes Lianmin Village in the suburbs of Shanghai as an example, organises three panoramic surveys on it, summarises the characteristics of rural gentrification, and then constructs actor networks to explain the formation and interaction mechanisms of the two types of rural gentrification.
Key words: actor network; rural gentrification; interaction; social mechanismpublished versio
Flood Risk Management in the Face of Climate Change: Strategic Spatial Planning for Integrating River Basin Management and Residual Risk
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In response to the impacts of climate change, the increasing risk of flooding has traditionally been addressed by identifying flood-prone areas using floodplain maps to regulate land development. However, the interconnected dynamics of runoff in the river basin and levee effect have highlighted the potential threats posed by residual flood risk. Consequently, this paper integrates residual risks and flood source areas into flood risk management within the river basin. Utilising the SOBEK model, this study simulates three flood scenarios—without levees, with existing levees, and with failed levees—to conduct flood hazard analysis and flood source-to-impact analysis. Based on these findings, this paper proposes land use management strategies aimed at enhancing water resilience through strategic spatial planning in the face of climate change.
Keywords: flood risk management, spatial planning, residual risk, flood source area, SOBEK modelpublished versio
Editorial - Volume 8 / Issue 1 / (2024) : Exploring conformorality in planning debates
Full text linkTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2024)This themed issue on “conformorality” is inspired by the work of Chiara Lisciandra, Marie Postma-Nilsenová, and Matteo Colombo (2013), which explores the tendency of individuals within a particular group or community to align with certain ideologies and values. The term “conformorality”, which combines the concepts of “conformity”, “conformism”, and “morality”, was first introduced into planning debates by Claudia Basta, the former coordinator of the AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values, and Planning, in her thought-provoking presentation entitled “Unequal, thus Unjust?”. This presentation was delivered at a research seminar entitled “The Just City in Practice: Operationalising a Broad and Varied Concept,” which was held on August 21, 2020 in The Hague after the long period of social distancing that had been enforced due to COVID-19 restrictions. In Basta’s presentation, conformorality represented the widespread sentiment that exists between planning scholars that economic inequality equates to injustice; she discussed the limitations of this uncritical attitude.publishedVersio
Rental Affordability, Housing First and Beyond. A Focus on the City of Trieste (Italy)
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In Europe, access to affordable rental housing is increasingly recognised as a priority issue, particularly for individuals facing multifaceted distress or temporary and precarious employment. By addressing multiple dimensions of poverty, the Housing First (HF) approach challenges traditional emergency responses, framing access to housing as a comprehensive and diversified set of preventive actions against homelessness. Since 2015, HF has gained recognition in Italy, although its implementation remains limited. This paper explores the spatial conditions, target populations, stakeholders, and both material and immaterial resources that could facilitate the integration of HF into structural policies for affordable social (and ‘very social’) rental housing. The case study focuses on Trieste, a medium-sized Italian city where the risk of homelessness is significant due to demographic aging, migration flows, and an insufficient supply of public housing.
Keywords: Rental Housing Affordability, Social and Very Social Housing, Housing First, Triestepublished versio
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No full textSince when has regional planning been vague? An analysis of textual data from 7 regional master plans of Ile-de-France region between 1939 and 2019
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper explores whether discursive vagueness has been used for a long time in planning documents, in the case of the Ile-de-France region. To do so, we analyzed seven main regional plans between 1939 and 2019, with the help of textometry. What emerges is a major pivotal moment in the way regional planning is formulated, between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s. Two phases can be distinguished: (1) a “before” phase in which discourse and rules are intrinsically linked, in a normative and regulatory approach; and (2) an “after” phase in which regional discourse aims above all to support the actions of the various players, largely abandoning normativity and the definition of clear rules. We interpret these results as the reflection of a major change in the planning system in France in the late 1960s, as well as an evolution in the way urban planning norms are written.
Keywords: planning discourse analysis, regional planning, Ile-de-France region, planning norms, discursive vaguenesspublished versio
Deciphering the Scaling Laws and Spatial Structure in Urban Micro-mobility: Empirical Evidence from Bike-Sharing in Shanghai
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Micro-mobility, including bicycles and other low-speed vehicles, significantly enhances urban mobility and provides a sustainable alternative to traditional transport modes. Despite extensive research on the universal laws in urban mobility and its impacts on urban growth, the empirical distribution and allometric scaling phenomenon of micro-mobility like bike-sharing remain poorly understood. This study delves into the scaling laws and spatial dynamics specific to micro-mobility using bike-sharing data from Shanghai. The number of cycling visitation to any location in the city is inversely related to the square of the cycling distance multiplied by the frequency. This scaling relationship is controlled by a parameter that describes the attractiveness of different locations in the city for cycling. It is noteworthy that the size distribution of the spatial clusters, as determined by spatial clustering analysis of the attractiveness, conforms to Ziff's law. This implies that the spatial structure underlying the cycling is a highly ordered, hierarchical system, which coincides with the central place theory. This study provides a framework that can effectively predict the distribution of micro-mobility within a city, which can help to understand and utilize the dynamics of complex urban systems in order to promote more sustainable urban mobility solutions.
Keywords: Micro-mobility; bike visitation; scaling laws; spatial clusters; Zipf's lawpublished versio
Evaluation and Spatial Governance Strategies for Old Residential Areas’ Renewal and reconstruction in Urban Downtown Districts: A Case Study of 70 old residential areas in Changzhou ,China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As vital components of urban renewal efforts in old city districts, old residential areas play a crucial role in rejuvenating regional vitality, enhancing residents' well-being, and fostering sustainable economic and social development in cities. Taking the example of the transformation of old residential areas in the Zhonglou District of Changzhou City over the past three years, a comprehensive assessment is conducted.By integrating the theory of a full life cycle, a holistic evaluation system for the renovation of aging residential communities is established to assess the project comprehensively. This evaluation system focuses on three dimensions: space, services, and culture, in order to evaluate overall resident satisfaction across all elements.Finally, long-term governance strategies are proposed from four dimensions: government governance, social operations, engineering projects, and economic funding.
Keywords: Old residential area, Renewal evaluation, Spatial governancepublished versio
In the name of Peace, Sanitise!
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Sanitised space is a concept that is quickly gaining momentum in the disciplines of urban planning and architecture. It refers to the process in which urban space is ‘cleansed’ from all things that make it dirty, undesirable, and differentiated. The process can be achieved through the use of soft power or it can also be achieved through hard power. Through the use of semistructured interviews with municipal officials, this paper seeks to showcase the various efforts by the capital city of Tshwane, South Africa to sanitise space in the name of peace. With the use of examples from public parks, the paper argues that although the sanitisation of space is done in the name of public interest, peace, it often conflicts with the public experience.
Key words: Sanitisation, Public Space, Safety and security, Peace, Symbolic violencepublished versio
Spatial Network Characteristics of Shrinking Areas in Shanghai Metropolitan Area: An Urban-Rural Population Flow Network Analysis
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The development of the concept of growth as the mainstream has led to the neglect of the shrinkage phenomenon in China. However, identifying shrinkage areas is significant for regional coordinated development and urban-rural integration. There are few studies on shrinking areas from the perspective of the spatial networks and the characteristics of towns in the urban-rural spatial networks. The study identifies shrinking towns based on traditional demographic data in the Shanghai metropolitan area, then uses massive mobile phone positioning data to build urban-rural and rural-rural population flow networks to analyze the characteristics of shrinking towns and put forward planning strategies. This study explores shrinking towns from a new perspective of spatial networks and provides references for implementing shrinking area management policies.
Keywords:Urban–rural integration; Shrinking area; Mobility network; Shanghai metropolitan areapublished versio