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Stepping towards a sustainable future with TOD: Evaluating the Potential of the Lahore city for a Regional Policy Reform
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study investigates the potential of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Lahore, Pakistan, a developing city in South Asia, to address its pressing transport and environmental challenges. Recognized as the world's most polluted city in 2022, Lahore confronts urgent issues exacerbated by urban sprawl and automobile dependency. Despite the introduction of a mass transit system, the city lacks robust urban planning strategies to effectively utilize these services. Our research seeks to bridge this gap by evaluating the TOD potential at 95 transit stations across four transit lines, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Multicriteria Analysis (SMCA). The findings contribute to a sustainable urban planning framework, aiming to assist planners in making informed decisions for the development, funding, and implementation of TOD strategies, as outlined in the Master Plan for Lahore Division (MPLD-2050). This comprehensive approach will act as game changer, rejuvenating Lahore's urban center and promoting sustainable urban growth in emerging economies.
Keywords: Developing City, Game Changer, Sustainable Urban Planning, South Asia Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)published versio
Social Media Text Mining and Flood Disaster Analysis of Small Towns in Southern Shaanxi Qinba Mountain Area Based on Deep Learning
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The advent of the dataization era has made social media a new trend and tool for analyzing and managing flood risk. This paper aims to use the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF method to analyze the information on social media such as Weibo, and extract the content related to the flood of small towns in the southern Shaanxi Qinba mountain area. Firstly, we use python crawler to crawl the text data on social media such as Weibo, and then preprocess the data, including removing stop words, punctuation marks, emoticons, etc. Secondly, we use the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF method to perform named entity recognition on the text data, identify entities such as place names, person names, organization names, etc., and annotate them in BIO format. Then, we use methods such as geodetector to geocode the identified place name entities, obtain their latitude and longitude coordinates, and match them with the flood data of small towns in the southern Shaanxi Qinba mountain area, and analyze their flood distribution and flood relationship. Finally, we use flood risk analysis methods, such as flood frequency analysis, flood depth analysis, flood loss analysis, etc., to evaluate the similarity and difference of Weibo information and urban flood risk, and explore the impact and reflection of Weibo information on urban flood risk. In addition, using the high-precision risk analysis method of social media analysis, the flood risk and danger of small towns in the southern Shaanxi Qinba mountain area are evaluated, and the potential impact of flood disaster on the spatial characteristics of small towns is analyzed. The innovation of this paper lies in the combination of deep learning methods and flood analysis methods, extracting the information related to small town floods from large-scale social media data, providing new data sources and analysis methods for towns flood prevention and disaster reduction, and considering the impact factors of flood disaster, providing reference for small town planning and development.
Keywords: Flood Disaster Analysis, climate change, Flood resilience strategies, Small Town, Planning, Social Media Text Miningpublished versio
Reflection on the transformation of Tirana's architectural spaces
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The architectural spaces that form the function of the main squares and bazaars are often considered the best place to understand the history of the city due to their many layers of construction. These areas, as the first urban core of the city, represented a meeting place for people, a place of recreation, and a place where people could discuss politics. This research presents the transformation of two of Tirana's public spaces that have had interventions, as illustrated by the cases of Skenderbeg Square and Tirana-Old Bazaar, which is significant and almost prophetic for the understanding of a country such as Albania. The goal of this study is "participatory architecture," which regenerates infrastructure and public space. These interactions have recently been facilitated by the use of physical and digital planning production through analysis. This method stimulates innovative design, economic growth, cultural heritage activity, and greater tourist coherence.published versio
The 'conformorality' of residential displacement debates
No full textTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Vol. 8, No. 1 (2024)Much scholarly discourse about the problems of and solutions to urban residential displacement has tended towards ‘conformorality’ and, in so doing, has overlooked certain key aspects for study. First, there has been a lack of interest in explaining the complex motives of displacers. Second, certain solutions to displacement have become so commonly espoused that their negative aspects have been obscured. Third, addressing these issues, this paper suggests new ways to confront ‘conformorality’ by encouraging scholars to engage with the deeper ethical and normative questions about displacement solutions that have, hitherto, not often been addressed. Through exploring these rarely discussed topics, scholars may be able create new or improved responses to displacement that target inherent issues.publishedVersio
Transit-oriented Development in asymmetrical context : Learning from cross-border paradoxes in the Great Geneva
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Transit-oriented Development (TOD) is hailed as a solution to sustainable urban growth; yet research often overlooks its impact in asymmetrical contexts like cross-border metropolises. This study challenges this gap, examining public transport and urbanisation projects in Great Geneva. The region, nestled between Switzerland and France, faces significant socio-economic and institutional asymmetry. While the Agglomeration Project aims for cohesion, local conflicts abound. Through critical analysis, three paradoxes emerge: the metropolitan, radio-centric, and development paradoxes. These paradoxes question TOD's agency in an asymmetrical context. Understanding these paradoxes is necessary to inform future planning in such regions beyond rhetorical discourses.
Keywords: TOD, cross-border metropolis, asymmetry, planning, conflictspublished versio
Transhumance routes as tourist destinations: a concrete opportunity for inner areas or a romantic suggestion?
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The ancient practice of transhumance has generated on a large part of the Mediterranean territories a heritage of an intangible type (linked to the historical, cultural and socioanthropological value), and of a material type, consisting of the infrastructures used for centuries to move herds, characterised by intrinsic landscape and environmental qualities. In recent years, a renewed attention is emerging towards transhumance and the routes used for this purpose. In various European contexts a growing number of initiatives linked to the promotion of transhumance and to the enhancement of its routes are being implemented, both thanks to the bottom-up contribution of local associations and to top-down policies and projects. The research collects the ongoing experiences related to transhumance from the Italian, French and Spanish context, with the purpose of providing a contribution to answering the following questions: can transhumance be converted into a tourist experience with positive effects on the territory? How can the ancient transhumance routes be reconverted into infrastructures for slow tourism, enhancing the identity culture linked to it?
Keywords: transhumance, slow tourism, experiential tourism, inner areaspublished versio
Conflictual Natures: the role of architectural imagination in building paths for ecological transition in the city of Goias - Brasil
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This article addresses the intertwined history of Goias City and Vermelho River to show how social perceptions about nature evolve alongside social dynamics. Different nature perspectives were interpreted as tools shaping the socio-natural phenomenon. The study analysed nature's social construction across history by treating it as a design object and by aligning a new right to nature akin to Lefebvre's right to produce the city as a work of art. Design workshop was used to analyse societal perceptions of the river and it uncovered conflicting views. It explored micro-utopian approaches to foster counter-hegemonic ecological transitions by merging utopian ideals with practicality and challenging conventional nature narratives. This perspective can help establish benchmarks for alternative practices and build a socially active approach to ecological transition strategies.
Keywords: environmental conflicts; micro-utopias; design-thinkingpublished versio
Strategies to mitigate the urban heat island effect in Mediterranean promenades of France, Italy, and Albania
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Cities are currently confronting with a variety of challenges stemming from climate conditions, urbanization, and urban planning, resulting in increasing social, health, and economic issues. This study specifically examines the Mediterranean coastline promenades in Albania, France, and Italy as a unique type of built environment. The aim of this study is to examine the influence of different cooling system scenarios on the thermal comfort experienced by pedestrians, while considering climate data. We generate multiple scenarios by analyzing ways to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects. These strategies include revitalizing promenades by replacing current pavements, utilizing water bodies and sprays, increasing the presence of artificial shade, considering the proper greenery, and implementing advanced cooling systems using smart technologies.
Keywords: Mediterranean coastal promenades, urban heat islands, outdoor thermal comfortpublished versio
All-round walkability condition to primary school in Milan
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As part of the wider debate on social justice and the right to the city, the research addresses the fundamental and everyday issue of accessibility to services, through slow mobility, for the most vulnerable populations, and highlights how certain inequalities take shape in public space. Therefore, an analysis of the accessibility of a specific and prototypical service, primary schools, is proposed in three exemplary cases located in different districts of the city of Milan, studying the accessibility at different scales and for different user profiles (in particular, a comparison was made between vulnerable and able-bodied people).
Keywords: Walkability assessment, profiled pedestrian network, accessibility of primary schools, disabled peoplepublished versio
Reflection and Prospects on Data Sources, Management, and Application in Chinese Smart Cities from the Perspective of Platform Urbanism
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Smart cities are rapidly emerging globally, with data resources being crucial in their development. Currently in China, data in smart cities is largely acquired through tracking and monitoring by sensors and control rooms. Moreover, challenges in managing, transforming, and sharing heterogeneous data result in smart cities facing the issue of "data islands." Furthermore, urban issues and development complexity call for more grassroots collective intelligence. Addressing the above-mentioned challenges, this paper proposes a new approach from the perspective of platform urbanism. It suggests constructing a "platform data ecosystem" for smart city development, contemplating how to enhance data acquisition diversity and humancentric nature, optimise data resource management, and facilitate diverse open data utilisation.
Keywords: Platform urbanism, Smart cities, Data, Human-centric, Collective intelligencepublished versio