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Innovative Tools For Building Child-Friendly Communities: The Development And Application Of Child-Friendly Neighbourhood (CFN) Built Environment Audit Tools, Insights From Shanghai
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Neighbourhood environment is an important carrier of children's daily activities, but traditional urban planning and design often ignore the impact of micro-scale built environment on children's environmental perception. In the central urban area of Shanghai, which is characterised by high-density human settlements, integrating childfriendly concepts to carry out community renewal requires more consideration of the actual basis and renewal results. This study innovatively developed a "Child-Friendly Neighbourhood (CFN) Built Environment Audit Tools" that can systematically evaluate the micro-spatial elements in the three types of spaces within the 5-10 minute living circle of the community, including community streets, outdoor public spaces, and residential environments, to finely identify community space problems and help formulate special renewal plans for childfriendly communities.
Keywords: Child-friendly, Child-friendly Neighborhood, Built environment audit, Micro-scalepublished versio
Administrative boundary effects of cross-border migration of manufacturing enterprises: a case study from the Pearl River Delta in China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study examines the migration trajectories of 468 representative leading manufacturing enterprises in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, aiming to analyze the impact of various administrative boundaries on the relocation and site selection decisions of these enterprises. The analysis focuses on the cross-boundary migration behavior of enterprises at both the inter-prefecture-level city and intra-prefecture-level city levels. The key findings are: (1) Despite the highly contiguous urban development in the PRD region, few enterprises choose to migrate across prefecture-level cities. (2) Driven by cost considerations and the local industrial network, urban boundary areas have become a significant target for enterprise relocation. (3) County/district and street boundaries within cities do not impose constraints on enterprise migration. Instead, intra-prefecture-level city migration is relatively frequent.
Keywords: Administrative boundary, Manufacturing enterprises, Cross-boundary migration, Dynamic mechanism, Pearl River Deltapublished versio
From Global North to Global South: Exploring Creative City Policy Mobilities and Their Urban Impacts
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024An increasing number of cities of the global South are introducing the creative city policy and pledging to adopt creativity as their main developmental focus to improve the living conditions of their population. Although European cities have long used this policy (Scott, 2014), many have been unsuccessful (Rius-Ulldemolins, Hernàndez I Martí and Torres, 2016). Since developing countries of the Global South are participating in such international models, more research is needed to address a gap in the knowledge on the North-South policy mobility and the urban planning effects of creative city policy in the Global South. This study presents a theoretical framework of creative cities focusing on the urban development of cities in developing countries by rehabilitating cultural creativity, diversity, and social inclusion. The research may provide a valuable knowledge base for international exchange of experience in the planning field.
Keywords: creative city policy, policy mobility, global South, urban planningpublished versio
Exploring colour planning strategies for children’s outdoor playgrounds in communities: An analysis of children’s diverse preferences in Shanghai, China
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Children's understanding of the world is largely shaped by their visual perception of their surroundings, with colour playing an integral role. Colour not only creates a visual impact but also has a profound influence on children's emotions, cognition, and behavior. This study explored colour planning strategies for children’s outdoor playgrounds in communities, specifically focusing on children’s colour preferences. We collected data through a questionnaire survey conducted in Shanghai, China, and employed the chi-square test and single-factor logistic regression to analyze the correlations between colour preferences and individual attributes of children, including gender, age, and community type, which we hypothesized could influence the diversity of children’s color preferences. It is found that there exist significant differences in children’s colour preferences across various ages and community types. Based on the children’s colour preferences and preferences differences, we proposed several strategies for colour planning of children's outdoor playgrounds in the communities. Through these strategies, it aims to enhance the scientificity and universality of colour planning. Overall, this research contributes to the field by providing evidence-based recommendations for colour planning in children's outdoor playgrounds, ultimately contributing to the creation of more inclusive and vibrant child-friendly communities.
Keywords: colour planning, colour preference, children’s playground, child-friendly communitypublished versio
What practices to overcome the "cultural remoteness" of inner peripheries? A focus on Italian case studies
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The contribution focuses on the role of culture in regeneration practices in inner peripheries. The few culture- based strategies promoted so far in these areas often consist of territorial marketing operations tailored to urban tourism, which risk of trivialising and flattening local culture and identities. Instead, the promotion of a contemporary cultural production, albeit based on local heritage, memories, traditions and identities could strengthen the ongoing socio-economic development strategies and offer alternatives to the prevailing urban cultural model. The critical review of best practices, selected from Italian and European networks that bring together culture-led regeneration practices, allows to explore whether and how current practices in inner peripheries are contributing to generate new "cultural models", tailored to the peculiarities of these areas and alternative to the urban ones.published versio
Norms and the City
No full textConformity is the tendency to modify one’s behaviour to match the behaviour of others. Lisciandra et al. (2013) introduced the concept of conformorality to refer to the susceptibility of moral judgements to conformity. While it is often suggested that conformorality is generally bad, recent interdisciplinary work indicates that conformorality can also promote epistemically and morally positive outcomes under certain conditions. In the literature, little attention has been paid to the geometry of urban spaces. Here we combine results from the philosophy and psychology of conformity with general insights from urban studies to distinguish three ways in which the geometry of urban spaces might relate to conformorality, namely: urban spaces can exemplify, afford, or constitute conformorality. This paper’s analysis contributes a more nuanced understanding of the different faces of conformorality, as well as their bearing on urban planning and city living
Regenerative Public Space as game-changing option for Thriving Communities
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024There is currently growing evidence of many conflicts and intolerance at both macro and micro levels in the world. These trends question the future of public space as a peaceful and inclusive commons. This paper focusses on regenerative public space in South Africa and its potential to contribute to thriving communities. By exploring the paradigm, process, and product, the discussion shares critical challenges facing public space development in the Global South while offering pathways for regenerative development and design applicable everywhere globally. The paper argues that regenerative public space can become a game- changer for peace construction and inclusion in diverse societies and contribute to healthy and thriving communities in global South and North cities.
Keywords: Regenerative public space; potential, process, peace, SDG 11.7, South Africapublished versio
Embracing Diversity: Ararat's Role in Inclusive Urban Development and Migration in Rome
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper aims to contribute by spotlighting an example of inclusive practices aligned with the principles of open city, specifically focusing on a migrant community who have established a sociocultural centre in Rome, called Ararat. Ararat nestled in Testaccio neighbourhood with its enduring presence, stands as a testament to the resistance and vibrancy of the Kurdish community, particularly noteworthy as the neighbourhood undergoes development and renewal as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. By examining Ararat's journey, this paper seeks to extract valuable insights and lessons that can inform urban planners and policymakers engaged in inclusive urban development projects. The longevity and vitality of Ararat underscore the importance of incorporating the unique perspectives and contributions of migrants communities in the urban renewal process.
Keywords: Migration, Rome, Participation, urban renewalpublished versio
Eventful years – a look back at the activities of the Association ofEuropean Schools of Planning (AESOP) over the last two years
Get PDFSince 2022, despite global crises such as the COVID pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine, the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) has continued its mission to promote cooperation and exchange in the academic planning community. In recent years, the focus has been on AESOP’s international congresses, PhD workshops, numerous projects and quality assurance programmes. This review provides an insight into the activities of the past two years. Fortunately, AESOP is very active with its member schools and I apologise for not being able to mention all the activities
Dis-integrated urban biodiversity: an analysis of urban policies and plans in Italy
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This contribution presents the outcomes of an analysis of urban policies and plans in Italy where the objectives of UB safeguarding, restoration, provision, and enhancement are explicitly acknowledged. The objective is to understand the interface between biodiversity and urban policies and identify guidelines and strategies for reorienting the action of city governments towards conserving and enhancing UB. The survey has a two-fold focus, respectively, on the urban policies adopted at regional, sub-regional, municipal levels, and on the spatial plans in charge of translating the general objectives identified in policies into concrete actions, and monitoring their implementations. The research findings show that, while at the European and national levels, a clear trajectory of policies regarding urban biodiversity can be observed, at the local level policies mainly have a sectoral focus as well as an ambiguous impact on UB and lack tools and mechanisms for monitoring their implementation. Concerning the plans, the survey highlighted the pervasive, although rhetorical, diffusion of UB strategies and actions in spatial plans. Nevertheless, the scarce integration between thematic and statutory plans results in the difficulty of implementing and monitoring in an integrated way the objectives related to the protection and restoration of urban biodiversity.
Keywords: urban biodiversity, urban policies, spatial plans.published versio