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Four cities, three provinces, two states, one region: integrated inner-city development concept in a regional context (ISEK⁴)
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Designed as a pilot project for the development of a new planning instrument, ISEK4addressed two spatial spheres that –despite obvious necessity –are rarely considered together in the existing planning toolkit: the inner city and the functional region. Integrated urban development concepts for the four inner cities of Bruneck (South Tyrol), Hermagor-Pressegger See (Upper Carinthia), Lienz (East Tyrol), and Spittal an der Drau (Upper Carinthia) were developed in conjunction with a regional symbiosis of the SOUTH ALPINE SPACE region –demonstrating and using synergies between the inner cities as anchor points of public life in the region. ISEK4is based on an integrated, interdisciplinary planning approach and was developed together with local steering groups from the cities. Within the project, knowledge and needs were collected, recorded, and located in different workshop formats. The paper will focus on the work process, the lessons learned and the transferability of the project approach, as well as the results.
Keywords: Integrated Planning, Urban Development, Inner Cities, Alpine Cities, Regional Symbiosispublished versio
Bachelor programme in Urban and Regional Planning (Faculty of Architecture Yıldız Technical University)
Get PDFFaculty of Architecture Yıldız Technical University
41.055306882047056, 29.01058049385181
https://ror.org/0547yzj13The BSc in Urban and Regional Planning delivered at the Yildiz Technical University is distinctive in its focus on theoretical and methodological courses, interdisciplinarity and regional science. It brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
Programme Curriculum and Identity
- A blend of substantive planning courses and courses focused on communicative and strategic spatial planning constitute the three main pillars of the curriculum: knowledge, skills for professional competencies, and values and ethics, making the latter a crucial component of the curriculum.
- Focus on contemporary research areas in urban and regional planning enable students to understand, research and apply their knowledge, skills and attitudes to solve complex problems and recognise and enable future opportunities in cities and regions.
- Progression from mainly compulsory courses in the 1st year towards more elective ones on the final year stimulates the progression in student’s responsibility for their education and future professional engagement in urban and regional planning.
- An excellent balance and exposure to theoretical, methodological and policy-based courses delivered by a highly qualified teaching team engaged in public services, visiting professors from a well-established global network, stakeholders and practitioners foster the intentional distinctiveness of the programme to integrate planning theory with practice while safeguarding professional ethics
Voluntary territorial planning tools and boundaries changes: soft spaces for better addressing challenging territorial issues in the Lazio region
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 335th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Based on longstanding research conducted in the Lazio Region about the implementation of two recent and innovative territorial policies, this contribution reflects on those findings by shedding light on the connection between administrative/not administrative boundaries and efficiency in the goals achievement. The analysis provides insights and prompts a reconsideration of the approaches taken in defining these new soft spaces for better addressing challenging territorial issues.
Keywords:boundaries, variable perimeters, innovative territorial planning tools, soft spacespublished versio
Beyond visualisation of big data: towards dynamic data-driven city planning in Singapore
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Cities are complex systems shaped by simultaneous dynamic processes. While an increased number of studies focus on analysing urban big data, the attempts predominantly propose means for data visualisation, and fall short in data interpretation and guidance. In response, this paper aims to systematically understand dynamic urban big data, trends and anomalies in city functioning. We outline a comprehensive framework and “DataCube-CityScan” platform that harness on dynamic economic, societal, environmental, health and attitudinal data available in Singapore (e.g., people movement, public transport use, shopping behaviour). We use GIS alongside multiple outlier detection algorithms to analyse and identify specific trends and anomalies in real-time and alert city officials to respond and make informed and timely decisions, monitor changes, plan actions and strategies, and maximise their resources.
Keywords:dynamic urban data; big data visualisation; city pulse; city planning; Singaporepublished versio
Exploring local spatial organization of offshore wind energy and coastal fishery: insights for justice from Changhua, Taiwan
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023The justice issue in energy transition concerns its distribution of benefits and burdens to society and environment. Space has been acknowledged as the underlying factor of distributive justices, by exploring the location and the relationships constituted by space. This study constructs a conceptual framework that can be used for analysing the relationship between capability of fishery livelihood, spatial organisation and justice. Through a case study of coastal fisheries and offshore wind farm development in Changhua, functionings of a coastal fisherman are defined as fishing behavior, mobility of fishing boats, accessing to fishing grounds. The capability set as their choice is constituted by fishing hours, fish catch and fishing methods for target species.
Keywords: capability, spatial organisation, coastal fishery, offshore wind energypublished versio
The strategic dilemma of an open and closed approach of transitional change. Comparing three transition paths to sustainability in the Netherlands
Get PDFThe paper aims to make two contributions to the literature on planning and transitions. First, it analyses transitional change as an open and closed process. The policy challenges are ‘wicked problems’ with unforeseen uncertainties, multiplicity of political values, and complex institutional systems. Dealing with these kind of challenges requires an open approach. Yet, in spite of the wickedness of the issues at stake, policymakers tend to treat transitional change as a closed process: as a large project with fixed goals, road-maps, timetables, and strategies to reduce uncertainty. The paper argues that this is not a matter of ignorance but the result of institutional mechanisms that push policymakers towards a closed approach. Second, the paper analyses how a closed approach leads to the exclusion of crucial aspects of transitional change, in particular the matter of social justice. It argues that, whereas some transition processes exclude social justice issues, it is better to include them in order to design an open and viable transition strategy. These issues are demonstrated by a comparative analysis of three transition paths to sustainability in the Netherlands: climate and energy, agriculture and food, circular economy.publishedVersio
Beautiful city: planning for transformations of the urban landscape
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Against the backdrop of increasing needs for compact growth, higher densities, and large scale energy provisions, planners are challenged with facilitating developments that significantly alter urban and rural landscapes. The level of change is unprecedented (and usually more irreversible) in cities, where major residential and commercial developments, and even renewable energy installations more typically associated with less urban areas, are reshaping the physical character. In rural areas, and despite mounting pressures for major technologies, beauty and the visual components of landscape are still holding substantive weight in planning judgements. The explicit and compelling engagement with landscape significantly weakens as an urban discourse, while cities and towns are experiencing levels of change that equate to that of these developments in the countryside. Using cases in Ireland where beauty and the visual landscape were determining factors in planning judgement, this paper teases apart emerging trends in decision making in both rural and urban areas and raises somewhat ethical questions on accommodating such ‘subjective’ considerations in the face of global pressures for change.
Keywords : Urban Landscape, Beauty Cities, Visualpublished versio
Health impact assessment in urban development: model approach, potentials and limitations for the systematic integration of health aspects in urban planning processes. Case study Gera, Germany
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This paper addresses the increasing importance of integrating health aspects into urban development, particularly in light of environmental impacts and the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper focuses on the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) as a tool to assess the potential health effects of policies, programmes and projects. It explores the integration of HIAs into the German administrative structure and urban development processes, with a specific case study of an urban development framework plan.
The paper presents a model that systematically integrates health aspects into urban planning and discusses the roles and tasks of public health services and urban planning departments in the HIA process. It also considersthe potentials and challenges of implementing HIAs in municipal administrations in Germany and their contribution to urban resilience. The paper concludes with recommendations for supplementary tools and emphasizes the need to adapt HIAs to specific planning tasks and local contexts.
Keywords: health impact assessment, urban planning, public health sector, urban development, urban resilience.Published versio
Adaptation : A metaphor for the age of climate change
Get PDFThe following contribution aims to explore the projective qualities of the metaphor, with a specific focus on the organic metaphor, and its potential applications within the milieu of climate change. Firstly, the paper will concentrate on the understanding of the metaphor as a tool for the construction of referential images and imaginary projects, taking into consideration some of the projects that have been generated through this powerful, cognitive means. Secondly, analyzing the term adaptation and the whole of its spatial connotations, an investigation will be proposed, which will identify this very concept as the vector for the modification of cities and areas that are – or soon will be – facing the impact of current and prospective climate transformations.publishedVersio
The resilience perspective for better dealing with territorial planning policies in non-metropolitan areas
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023The contribution adopts a resilience perspective to reassess the research findings on two territorial planning tools and policies, the SNAI Italian National Strategy and the River Contract, implemented in a non metropolitan area of the Lazio Region. Although these policies aimed to address crucial territorial challenges through multi stakeholder practices, they faced considerable difficulties and limitations. In light of these challenges, the resilience perspective suggests alternative approaches that prioritise the collaborative sharing of responsibilities, knowledge, and competencies. By doing so, it aims to overcome the inherent limitations and rigidity often observed in significant territorial planning policies implemented in non metropolitan areas.
Keywords: territorial planning, resilience, non metropolitan areas, inner areas, river contractpublished versio