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The Publicness of Urban Commons. Insights from the Brussels Commoning Scene
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024If care is one dimension of welfare we need to reappropriate to protect the foundations of a democratic society and democracy, publicness is the other. As Ota De Leonardis pointed out, the final consolidation of the institutions and the operating systems of the welfare state corresponded to the loss of a lively public sphere - as an essential, fundamental public good. While her observations were formulated at the end of the 90s, in the context of an emerging welfare mix season and growing privatisation, they appear very relevant today, given the more recent developments of the welfare systems, particularly the proliferation of urban commons. While almost inherently representing a complementary layer of existing welfare infrastructures, their operational systems and conditions may fuel the risk of increasing privatism in the welfare sphere. Vis-à-vis, such a risk, looking at the case of Brussels, I will investigate the publicness of the urban commons as a capability to contribute to the identification of welfare problems and issues and the elaboration of solutions in the public sphere.
Keywords: urban commons - publicness - public sphere- welfare - Brusselspublished versio
Evaluation of Fuel Poverty in Urban Regeneration Areas: A Case Study of Ankara, Türkiye
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper discusses fuel poverty in urban regeneration areas, as regeneration activites aim to improve socio-economic and structural conditions. Low Income High Cost method is adopted to assess fuel poverty, and a logistic regression is conducted to determine the factors affecting fuel poverty. The results indicate that fuel poverty level among households living in urban regeneration areas is 11.7%. Structural and design components such as aspect, size, heating duration and heating system, alongside global socio-economic factors like household size, employed households, and young children in the household appear to be influential on fuel poverty level. Structural and design factors can be addressed in future regeneration activities, while broader socio-economic factors require complex and large-scale interventions to deal with fuel poverty.
Keywords: Urban regeneration, fuel poverty, energy justice, energy efficiencypublished versio
Urban parks through people’s new lens: Opportunities behind COVID-19 for public spaces’ policies in Costa Rica
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The lockdown and restrictions during the last COVID-19 health crisis confronted the population with an unprecedented situation for urban life. Green areas, mainly large urban parks, become highly valued spaces during and even after the pandemic. This work shows the visitation patterns of users from three large urban parks within the Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica (GAM). The research is based on 8575 in situ surveys carried out between January and August 2023; our team also conducted an exploratory study between 2018 and 2019 (prepandemic), which was resumed to compare some aspects before and after the pandemic. The findings allow to explore challenges in public policies to improve access and enjoyment of urban recreational spaces in Costa Rica, replicable in other parts of the world.
Keywords: COVID-19, post-pandemic, Costa Rica, public policies, urban parkspublished versio
Planning As Magma. Suggestions From The Work Of Cornelius Castoriadis
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The philosophical work of Cornelius Castoriadis on the imaginary institution of society can inform planning theory today at a juncture of major transitions, unprecedented global urbanisation, multiple crises, and conflict. Planning as magma constitutes a dynamic world of social imaginary significations, which goes beyond plans, legal frameworks, administrative processes, and professional practices. This highlights the political dimensions of planning as thinking and doing interwoven with consensual or conflictual social dynamics, representations, desires, finalities, and affects. Derivative values such as indetermination, infinite potentiality, inexhaustibility, multiplicity, and difference may open paths to self-reflection, selftransformation, and radical imagination. Planning as magma means to elucidate planning goals and orientations, to conceive new social imaginary significations, and to constitute new methodologies, epistemologies, policies, and practices, toward sustainability and justice.
Keywords: planning theory; spatial planning; philosophy; magma; Cornelius Castoriadispublished versio
How social media influences rural spatial practice and place identity: A case study of Fuling Village
Get PDFGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Social media have opened up new growth opportunities for the development of tourism in traditional villages. It can not only attract the attention and sustainable development of villages, but also make villages dependent on the outside world's imagination of "tradition" and "the gaze of the other" in spatial remodeling. In this paper, we take Fuling Village as a case, and explore the spatial practice and changes in villagers' local identities triggered by social media in the context of rural tourism. It is found that (1) the village is changing from a local space to an fluid space under the shaping of social media.(2) Social and power relations in the social media space influence there modeling of local space, forming the "production of virtual space".(3) The development of rural tourism affects the community and rebuilds place identity. The development of traditional villages needs to pay more attention to refining and transforming local characteristics, preserving originality and promoting individuals' place identity in order to achieve sustainable development.published versio
Editorial: Social mobilisations and planning through crises
No full textRossini, L., Gall, T., & Privitera, E. (2024). Editorial: Social mobilisations and planning through crises. plaNext – Next Generation Planning, 14, 5–10. https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/101Cities are increasingly becoming sites of contestation. Intersecting crises—economic, social, political, and environmental—are shaping urban life and governance. The 2007/08 financial crisis triggered waves of austerity that profoundly restructured urban planning. The COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, inflation, and climate change further intensified urban inequality and precarity. This editorial introduces the special issue which explores how urban social movements respond to these crises. Based on an Early-Career Workshop on Urban Studies (Lisbon, 2022), it highlights the role of grassroots mobilisation and engaged scholarship in shaping alternative urban futures. The articles in this issue examine contestation, co-optation, and innovation in planning, offering a diverse and comparative perspective on planning through crises.publishedVersio
Theorizing State Dispossessive Planning vs. Community Self-Determinative Planning: The Case of the Al-Bostan Palestinian Community Struggle against the Israeli Planning in East Jerusalem
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The Jerusalem Municipality recently launched the King’s Garden Plan to transform Al-Bustan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the heart of East Jerusalem. The Plan called for demolishing Al-Bustan’s buildings, displacing its residents, and constructing a park, named after the Biblical King David. The Al-Bustan community objected fiercely to the Plan, resisting it through a political campaign, preparing an alternative plan, and undertaking various measures to prevent their displacement and ensure their continued presence. This paper investigates what I call dispossessive planning, contrasting it with the self-determinative planning developed by communities in response. Dispossessive planning is a regime of practices that dispossesses and displaces relatively disadvantaged groups, weakening the material foundations of their affective and existential security, as it deliberately constructs a new reality. In response, self-determinative planning, as I conceptualize it, involves the development of forms of autonomy in their place, as dispossessed urban populations assert their right to produce and control their spaces of existence autonomously.
Keywords: Planning theory, Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, Displacementpublished versio
Social capital among public housing residents: A comparative study between mixed-income communities and independent public housing complexes
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study aims to examine whether there is a difference in social capital among public housing residents in mixed-income communities compared to those in independent public housing complexes. This study utilizes data from the 2021 Seoul Public Housing Residents Panel Study and employs logistic regression analyses. The empirical analysis shows that public housing residents living in mixed-income communities (i.e., social-mix housing complexes and buy-to-rent public housing) exhibit greater social capital compared to those living in independent public housing complexes. This finding suggests that living in mixed-income communities has an effect on enhancing social capital among public housing residents and thus helps alleviate problems associated with public housing.
Keywords: public housing, social capital, social exclusionpublished versio
Master of Science in Spatial Planning Department of Spatial Planning and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology)
No full textWarsaw University of Technology is distinctive amongst spatial planning programmes in Poland for being located in the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, reflected in the programme’s distinctive emphasis on geospatial technologies, environmental issues, spatial design, land management and revitalisation. Further strengths lie in the programme’s incorporation of inputs from key stakeholders, from understanding the views of communities to setting assessment briefs that respond to the needs of Polish cities.
This reflects the challenges faced by contemporary Poland in addressing the environmental degradation caused by decades of prioritising intense industrialisation and urbanisation. The programme also addresses the ongoing reforms of Polish planning, as well as other challenges, such as a shortage of housing. Within this context, the programme brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education.
Programme Curriculum and Identity
The programme is organised around two coherent tracks, each building on a common first trimester with a mix of common and specialist modules in the second trimester and specialist modules in the third trimester. The overall mix is three-quarters common modules between the two tracks and one-quarter module modules specific to the track:
- Environmental conditions of spatial planning – focused on land management, as well as the use of advanced geospatial technologies in decision-making process.
- Urban design in spatial planning – focused on the preparation and development of planning processes and documents, including formulating land use plans, technologically supported by Geographical Information Systems, Computer Aided Design and Building Information Modelling
Accessibility of local amenities to reduce car dependency : Obsolete concept or change yet to come? The Prague case
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper aims to present a novel interdisciplinary framework investigating the phenomenon of urban transport based on behavioural aspects of mobility interaction with the built environment in the Czech-specific context. The central research question lies in testing the influence of the accessibility of local amenities on car dependency within the suburbs of Prague. The work utilises an activity-based modelling technique, quantifying individual travel behaviour using geolocated travel diaries. The method is based on two regression models, measuring (i) PKT (person kilometres travelled) and (ii) the number of regular car / PT users. Local amenities accessibility constitutes independent variables, whereas personal socio- economic background plus built environment characteristics control variables. The sample comprises suburban residents who are parents of at least one child aged 0-15 and state their home geolocation.
Keywords: Built Environment, Travel Behaviour, Suburbs, Amenities, Educationpublished versio