AESOP Digital Archive
Not a member yet
2915 research outputs found
Sort by
Territorial governance in marginal areas: learning from an integrated project for landscape regeneration and place-based development in southern Salento
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023The paper discusses premises, development and contents of an integrated initiative for landscape regeneration and place-based development promoted by the Apulia Region, Italy. It took place in the rural area of Southern Salento, in the southmost part of the region, which not only suffers from deep marginality so to be included among the targeted areas of the SNAI policy but has recently been hit by the so-called Olive Quick Decline Syndrome, an environmental disaster connected to the Xylella epidemic, which has turned that area into a ghostlike place. The integrated initiative proved to have interesting potential for filling in some gaps in the effectiveness of existing public policies in the area because of its capacity to mobilize, support and offer long term perspectives to vibrant bottom-up processes and collaborative practices promoting sustainable rural economies. The analysis of this experience may thus give interesting suggestions for future public policies supporting place-based development in marginal territories.
Keywords: place-based development; multi-level and multi actor processes; marginalpublished versio
Master in Urban and Regional Planning (Norwegian University of Life Sciences - NMBU)
No full textDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
59.66855087369124, 10.762384221823357
https://ror.org/04a1mvv97The programme curriculum offers three main progressions – scales, topics and ethics –, the development of which are clearly articulated through a coherent course structure:
- Rooted in landscape and land use planning and land consolidation alongside the Norwegian legislation and public administration, programme branches from compulsory knowledge related to project management, place making, local development to comprehensive land use planning, urban, landscape, regional and strategic planning.
- Progression of skills and competences related to procedural and substantive theories and methods in planning, but also to interdisciplinary collaboration. From the main focus on land use and spatial planning, the programme offers a large spectrum of optional courses around the following 5 tracks: Planning, landscape and public health; Global development and sustainability; Property development; Organisation, project management and finance; and Environment/climate/nature/management/ecology.
- Progression of professional and academic ethical considerations and engagement of planners in practice and in research: from the planner’s role in mediating/communicating knowledge about the impacts of spatial interventions to key decision-makers to the planner’s role in defending the ethical choices (related to sustainability, climate change, social justice and resilience) in a specific planning practice. The progression of professional ethics in is undertaken to consider the specific Nordic, but also agnostic/general market and regulative driving forces and planning system(s).
- International mobility, including recruiting international staff and students, is perceived as a significant mechanism for increased quality and competence in education, research, innovation and multicultural understanding. It fosters collaboration within leading international research and education environments and a variety of institutional measures are in place to support it
Residents’ sense of belonging in (gated) communities in urban China
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsCommunities or neighborhoods are specific places in the research field of place identity that links between environment and psychology to address the sense of belonging as one of crucial human needs. This article explores the community identity in Chinese urban communities to investigate differences between sense of communities, and community satisfaction. Since 1980s, gated communities (Xiaoqu) are the dominant form of residential development in urban China and sometimes have the same boundary as the community (Shequ). Thus, this article sheds light on different understanding of gated communities in and outside of China. It is approached via deductive research to assess four specific hypotheses based on the concepts of communities, neighborhoods and gated communities. Four gated communities from Suzhou Industrial Park in China are used as study sites, where primary data was collected and then analyzed via multiple linear regression model and logistic regression model. Interestingly, the finding shows that having an active homeowners’ committee, which is considered as a socio-political force, is negatively associated with a sense of community. In addition, representation is positively associated with community identity in general. The findings imply that property management fees play an important role in residents’ community identity. In addition, the finding also supports that sense of community is a social rather than a physical construction.publishedVersio
Atlante del cibo della laguna di Venezia: Towards a food policy for the Venice lagoon
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Food systems and food-related policies are gaining unprecedented recognition in planning, advocating for more integrated practices: food is both a system subject to contemporary global transformations, and a territorial and urban flow capable of transforming the environment, economy, and society. Moreover, there is a renewed interest in food-related bottom-up practices, which imposes to take into account issues related to collective forms of knowledge production, exchange and extraction. This contribution reflects on the process of designing the Food Atlas of the Venice Lagoon as an attempt to give voice to the multiplicity of stakeholders and to non-human agents of the Venice Lagoon. The Atlas calls attention to the existing network of bottom-up practices while stressing the urgency for an effective food policy for the Venice Lagoon, to test transdisciplinary, integrated methodologies that intersect local –human and non-human –actors and collectively produce food policies in the muds of practice.
Keywords: Venice Lagoon, Food Policy, Living Lab, Food Atlas.published versio
Urban Resilience to Disasters: A Policy Case from Turkey
Get PDFDue to continuous increase of world urban population and urbanization rates, cities are confronting many challenges and problems as over-consumption of the resources, the impacts of global warming, climate change and natural disasters. With the increased concentrations of people and commodities in cities, risks and vulnerabilities are also increasing. This has resulted in the development of new visions for cities to overcome the adverse impacts like achieving disaster resilience or becoming a resilient city. Resilience notion, by covering coping and adapting capacities in multiple aspects of ecological, social, economic, community and governance, also help to connect disaster risk management and envisioning sustainability within cities with several public policies and community-based movements. Disaster resilience is described as a set of actions for preventing the possible losses and reducing risks while increasing the capacity to recover when facing any disturbances like disasters. In this respect, resilience thinking in urban planning helps to understand the capacities, vulnerabilities, risks, to connect multiple aspects with each other and to build or enhance capacity in a systematic way. This paper that is based on the MSc research study seeks to identify the relationship between urban regeneration policies and disaster resilience by using the Turkish Law no.6306 “Transformation of Areas Under Disaster Risk”. For this reason, the law and its regulations were analyzed by using urban resilience to disasters framework. Based on the findings of the study it could be asserted that the Turkish urban regeneration experiences reflect that the policy instruments of the Law like “risky areas, risky buildings and reserve areas” are as a way of disaster risk mitigation including protective, preventive and transformative measures which contributes to the reduction of vulnerabilities, addressing different dimension of resilience yet with several limitations and challenges.publishedVersio
Understanding implementation of a strategic tool in planning law – national diversification by implementation: regional planning strategies, RPS, in Norway
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This paper applies the theory on translation and strategic planning theory to address two questions. (1) As a new tool in the Planning and Building Act (PBA), how is the Regional Planning Strategy (RPS) understood and implemented, and how can this implementation be seen as an institutional change of the regional planning system? (2) How is the strategic orientation understood and implemented?
The basis for our analysis is a study of the implementation of the RPS in Norwegian counties over three ‘generations’. We find that the translation, contextualization, and re-contextualization of the PBA regarding how the RPS are implemented are clearly diverse in 2011/12, aconvergence of concepts between the counties in generation two, and that diversity reappears in new ways in generation three.
Keywords: regional strategic planning, translation, storytellingpublished versio
Resilient spatial planning and governance strategies for industrial towns facing sudden epidemic: based on the cases in China
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Abstract. Industrial towns, emerged during the restructuring process from planned economy to market economy, are special products of China’s urban-rural dualistic structure, and also are important bases for the civilian production industry. Currently, under the crucial circumstances of epidemic prevention, industrial towns are also faced with multiple risks and challenges. It is necessary to pay full attention to the prevention work and spatial governance strategies in those industrial towns. Based on the observation of some industrial towns in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, this paper analyzes the ability and shortcomings of those industrial towns in preventing the epidemic, and points out that it is essential to plan and develop those industrial towns with resilience theory. In further, following the concept of resilience, the paper discusses the key points of spatial planning in industrial towns from the perspectives of public space, community unit, public facilities and emergency space redundancy, etc. Finally, several spatial governance strategies have been put forward, including resilient allocation of medical resources, coordinated prevention mechanism, participation of social organizations, refined community governance and so on.
Keywords: sudden epidemic, industrial towns, resilience, spatial planning, governancepublished versio
The impact of urban street canyon morphology on the microclimate environment: the case of the representative business districts in Seoul, Korea
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023As urbanization progresses worldwide, high density development emerges around major cities. Korea, with an 81.9% urbanization rate (2021), is no exception, especially in Seoul. The central and Gangnam districts have strong street canyon features due to complex land surfaces, urban morphology, and heavy transportation. These factors, combined with polluted traffic emissions, threaten urban residents' thermal and pollutant exposure. Understanding vulnerable areas in terms of microclimate and ventilation is vital for livability, sustainability, and resilience in urban planning. Using Ladybug & Dragonfly in Rhino's Grasshopper, we analyzed the correlation between street canyon morphology, microclimate, and the urban heat island index. The study focuses on the geometric characteristics of urban spaces, particularly high-rise buildings and roads forming street canyons, and their impact on microclimate (thermal comfort). The findings contribute to effective management, fostering sustainable urban forms and redeveloping street spaces with consideration for the microclimate environment.
Keywords: Urban Morphology, Urban Street Canyon, Microclimate Environment, Sustainable Urban Planning, UTCI Simulationpublished versio
From private to public: redeveloping private space as the way to reframe publicness of everyday life. Investigating build-by-people trials in Shanghai
Get PDFplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsThe publicness discourse has been extensively explored from the perspectives of numerous disciplinary interests, multiple actors, especially the government and expert professions, and its normative ideal. This study examines how individual engagement in shaping private and semi-public space could be viewed as a means of reframing the publicness of everyday life and thereby contributing to the shaping of cities. Through examining the rationale of build-by-people trials in Shanghai, categorising in stewardingpractise, DIY tactic, and informal trial, this study anticipates shedding light on the particularities of publicness in the contemporary Chinese context. Drawing on empirical data from observation and interviews, the study discusses different facets of build-by-people trials, including the combination of desire and belief to push individuals to be a part of the public, contribution to forgotten spaces, impact on social relationships, as well as concerns on privatisation. The analysis demonstrates that the current ‘build-by-people’ trials have manifested their capacity to proactively engage concerned citizens, develop forgotten spaces, and advance a broader sense of publicness discourse. However, additional research is needed to investigate how to maximise the value of ‘build-by-people’ practises in a sustainable manner, and how to strategically advocate for more ‘public-isation’ processes while keeping the privatisation scenario from deteriorating.publishedVersio
Healthy urban food : The nexus between public health, food systems and city-region governance
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023); 45-52Food is a territorial system that is closely linked to public health, social equity, and land policies. Eating habits are at the root of both incidence of cardiovascular disease and the phenomenon of malnutrition. Food often entails social inequity and is acquiring, directly and indirectly, ever greater relevance in the tools of territorial governance. The Cities2030 project is being developed and financed by the European Horizon 2020 programme. The methodology agreed upon by the partners envisages the involvement of all interest groups and actors within the food system arena through the installation of urban Policy and Living Labs. The University Iuav of Venice is involved in the development of two labs in the Veneto region: one in the city of Vicenza, the other in the Venice lagoon. Working in these two labs will make it possible to reflect on two food systems which are very different even though they are geographically close