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Book of Abstracts : Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
No full textWelcome to Paris and to the Urban School and the CEE of Sciences Po
Paris is now another example of the urban impact caused by significant events like the Olympics. However, it generally raises questions about all urban transformations intended to be virtuous but often proves counterproductive. Both great events and disasters teach us to adopt a rigorous and critical approach to significant events. Moreover, this occasion provides an opportunity to ponder the interface between new and emerging themes that Tracks, Round tables and Special sessions offer from the various networks connecting AESOP researchers, institutions and countries of origin. A new section introduced this year - French Cuisine - addresses the interface with researchers in France and the world of operational urban planning, which is in a constant dialogue with researchers in France Lastly, it entails reflection on the ongoing significant challenges, transitions, and changes, as well as the wars and conflicts that we cannot ignore, even though we may not know how to address them.publishedVersio
Temporal Evolution and Conservation of Urban Morphology in Harbin with Space Syntax
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Harbin is a city historically shaped by its railway heritage. The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, a railway linking Europe and China, has rapidly transformed Harbin from a fishing village to an international metropolis in just half a century. The railway brought expatriates to Harbin, as well as European planning concepts to China. In the process of rapid modernization, Harbin's unique urban form is based on a Western urban texture, overlaid with localized planning ideas. Thus, understanding the historical development and preserving the spatial morphology of Harbin's historic core are key research goals. This research employs the spatial syntax framework to decode the urban axis model of Harbin across four distinct developmental epochs. By quantifying the local integration indices of these axis models, our investigations divulge that the burgeoning expansion of Harbin's urban footprint and the establishment of novel districts have not fundamentally disrupted the historical urban axes. This study contributes to our understanding of urban adaptation and suggests ways to preserve these unique urban features.
Keywords: Urban morphology, Urban evolution, Space syntax, Characteristic conservation strategy, Harbin historic areapublished versio
Continuing Community Spirit: Study on the Public Space of “Pu-Jing” Community in the Ancient City of Quanzhou
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Exploring and continuing the spiritual connotation of community public space is of great significance to shaping the place identity. "Pu-Jing", the grass-roots organisation system of Quanzhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, created the “Pu-Jing” community, a governance unit that combined official administration and folk beliefs, and had a profound impact on the community public space system. The purpose of this study is to interpret the spatial characteristics and cultural connotations of public space in Pu-Jing community by analysing the spatial carriers and social factors. The research examines the compositions of the community public space, explores their spatial structure, and then summarised the formation logic and building ideas of the public space. The study reveals a public space system with the Jing Temple as the core, the streets and alleys as the link, and the belief realm as the unit was formed in Pu-Jing community under the combined effect of official management and civil autonomy, creating a stable sense of spatial domain for the residents' ritual and daily activities. The wisdom of place-making implied in the public space of Pu-Jing community provide inspiration for contemporary community governance.
Keywords: Community public space; spatial characteristics; place identitypublished versio
Research on Urban Sharing Linear Space Design Based on Walking Experience
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As urbanization accelerates, addressing the basic walking experience needs of citizens in urban spaces becomes increasingly crucial in urban planning and design. This study focuses on the walking experience during the design of urban spaces, with special attention to the sharing design in linear spaces. The paper focuses on the urban mobility space in Shanghai, China, and employs field research, morphological typology, and ethnographic research to study spatial typologies, and categorises it into five spatial forms and three functional types. The study then proposes five elements and corresponding design strategies for the sharing design of urban linear spaces from the perspective of walking experience, including path networks, spatial interfaces, landscape nodes, sharing spaces and social feedback management. The study hopes to optimise the design of urban linear spaces to make walkable urban spaces, enhancing the walking experience shared by all and promoting the sustainable development of the urban environment.published versio
Research on Assessment Model of Disaster Prevention Capability of Urban Residential Area
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Urban residential areas are an important unit of urban disaster prevention and reduction, which affects the goals, strategies and countermeasures of urban disaster prevention and reduction. The characteristics of current research on evaluating residents' disaster prevention capabilities are not applicable to urban planning research and practice. Based on the concept of comprehensive disaster prevention, this paper establishes a theoretical formula for assessing vulnerability and constructs six evaluation indicators that affect the disaster prevention capacity of residential areas. The weight of factors is determined by Delphi method and establish an evaluation model. Evaluate the disaster prevention capacity of residential areas using the standard evaluation guideline method. It provide guidance for evaluating the disaster prevention capacity of urban residential areas in China and formulating disaster prevention countermeasures.
Key words: the residential area, disaster prevention capability assessment, vulnerability, assessment model, Standard Assessment Guide Methodpublished versio
Achieving proximity in Public Space: Inclusion, Flexibility and Accessibility
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The city of proximity can be defined as a city able to offer to all its inhabitants everything they need to live, work and have fun to be reached on foot or bike in no more than 20 minutes (Moreno, 2020). An important factor is that the city of proximity has to be created with the support of a wide process of participation with the actors involved and interested in its realization. Starting from these premises, this study - carried out in the framework of the research project PRIN 2020 SUMMA #20209F3A37 - aims at presenting the process of participation and the proposed project interventions for the regeneration of the former fair of Rome, interested by dismission and then isolation from the rest of the neighbourhood. As a result, the 25 principles Charter of Proximity - flexible, inclusive and updatable - was realized, which consists in a holistic tool for design or verify proximity in an area and assure equitable accessibility (Sepe, 2023).
Keywords: public space, proximity, inclusion, flexibility, accessibilitypublished versio
Caracas, Departure City: Urban planning after emigration and collapse
Get PDFGzyl, S. (2024). Caracas, departure city: Urban planning after emigration and collapse. plaNext – Next Generation Planning, 14, 114–130. https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/95The recent deterioration of living conditions in Venezuela has resulted in an unprecedented migratory crisis, infrastructure collapse, and institutional decline. In the middle of this complex situation, migrants’ left-behind properties are being transformed into new uses. These changes often contradict zoning regulations, prompting a series of legal, social, and spatial strategies to conceal them.
This article examines ongoing spatial and programmatic transformations of vacant homes in Caracas, the country’s capital, framing these changes within disciplinary discourses of shrinking and departure cities and in a specific experience of collapse that shapes daily life in the city. The article studies spatial transformations in terms of their material conditions and the opaque and informal procedures that produce them, describing the process from the point of view of various actors, from architects and entrepreneurs to local residents and planning authorities. Through interviews, site visits, and photographic documentation, the article describes the challenges and possibilities for social organization and institutional renovation in a climate of emigration and uncertainty.publishedVersio
Backcasting as a tool for governing transitions beyond technosolutionism: the Torino2050 and ToMove projects
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The paper addresses the complex and multifaceted issue of how planners, public administrations and scholars can approach high-tech transitions, and more generally the governance of transition to desired futures beyond techno-solutionism. The paper first presents the results of the Torino2050 project, which addressed the issue of governing the transition to autonomous driving. It then discusses how a collaborative backcasting approach will be applied in the recently launched ToMove project, which will test an autonomous public transport shuttle and a robot for last-mile delivery in a quasi-superblock testbed area. The project is promoted by the Municipality of Turin and the authors are involved in setting up a participatory scenario planning process. The project is a useful opportunity to actively involve the public administration in the scenario planning process, taking stock of the lessons learnt in the previous Torino2050 project.
Keywords: scenario-planning, backcasting, autonomous vehicles, public administrationspublished versio
Exploring User Preferences and Place Attachment in Urban (Public) Spaces: A Case Study of Kadıköy Historical City Centre, Istanbul, Türkiye Ulubaş
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study aims to explore the preferences of different user groups for urban (public) spaces and their selective behaviours within them. The study centres on the Kadıköy Historical City Centre (KHCC) in Istanbul, Türkiye. A public online survey was conducted with 473 participants representing residents, workers, and visitors. Survey data were analysed using mixed methods techniques, including descriptive statistics, discourse analysis, and mapping. It was found that there were notable differences in terms of urban space preferences among locals and visitors, and that the place attachment different user groups developed with the space were diversified and differentiated. The study underscores the need for inclusive urban spaces that cater to the needs and demands of all user groups, given the transformation of KHCC.
Keywords: urban (public) space; user preferences; place attachment Exploringpublished versio
Women’s Participation in the Context of Urban Renewal in China: A Case Study of Yulin Community in Chengdu
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As one of the main concerns of urban studies, more and more scholars have paid attention to the interaction of the government, community, residents and other stakeholders in the process of urban renewal, as well as the significance of participatory planning for the sustainability of cities. Strikingly, however, there are few studies on the gender dimensions of participants. In fact, in an urban renewal project in Yulin Community of Chengdu, I observed that women were the major participants in the process. Therefore, this study uses the theory of intersectionality to analyse the three different female groups in this urban renewal project, including professional women, female community workers and female resident activists. The diverse rights, knowledge, ethics and other backgrounds held by different female groups led to complex participation motivations, processes and outcomes, to fill the research gap of the gender dimension in the participation process.
Keywords: Urban renewal; Women’s participation; Intersectionality; Feminism; Space power relationpublished versio