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The social performance of nature in three Brazilian cities: territorial systems and social innovation in the historical process of visualizing and imagining natural places
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This paper aims to explore the social performance of nature, investigating the interplay of nature, subjectivities and visions for the future. The main challenge is to denaturalize our conceptions of nature and to understand science as techniques of phenomena, thus grounding a paradigm for the right to nature as a right to produce nature as a work of design. For that, we will investigate the evolution of the imaginary of urban nature in a regressive progressive history of urban rivers in the cities of Goias, Goiania and Caldas Novas, thus visualizing the social dimensions in different attitudes, appropriation and future plans for its urban nature. This aims to contribute for building a reflexive and design thinking approach to nature and unveiling the politics of environmental perception.
Keywords: Regional Design; Nature; Denaturalizing; Urban River; Urban Political Ecologypublished versio
Navigating the Ganges: exploring the role of inland water transport in enhancing accessibility, affordability and acceptability in Varanasi
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023As the world population continues to grow, increasing congestion on road and rail transport systems in urban areas demands to explore alternative modes of transportation. Inland water transport (IWT) is one such mode with potential to alleviate congestion and provide additional mobility options for urban residents, but its citizen acceptability has been a major challenge.
This research paper examines the potential of IWT as a viable passenger and freight transportation option in the city of Varanasi, India. Through mixed methods approach, it correlates various impact factors such as transit nodes, land use, tourism, environmental factors, and citizen acceptability in terms of accessibility and affordability.
This research highlights the importance of addressing urban infrastructural challenges, when planning for IWT, and provides insights for urban planners and policymakers to explore River Ganges as a transportation corridor.
Keywords:Water Transport, accessibility, affordability, linkagespublished versio
The beauty of transition: aesthetics and innovation in strategic urban transition projects: experiences from classroom
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023The challenge of transition to a new more resilient and sustainable urban age is huge. Collectively, in our modern lifestyle as ‘urbanites’ we consume environmental services to an extent which matches several planets in scale. In diverse institutional settings, these challenges are constantly debated and looked at, with a view to possible solutions. Most of this, still, stays on the level of paper. But how do we generate the urgently needed concrete actions and changes? Especially, how do we evoke on the level of the individual energy and commitment as the basis of a potential system change? As difficult as this may be, instead of devising new ‘big plans’ (Burnham) the paper suggests developing ‘beautiful’ plans, projects, ideas to stir the affects of citizens. Within the environment of a MA course in spatial planning at Radboud University (Nijmegen), the beauty of transition was further explored.
Keywords : aesthetics, transition, New European Bauhaus, education, theory and conceptspublished versio
Method for refined function zoning prediction of tourist town urban design based on big data and conditional GAN
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Looking at the urban design of a tourist town, it is necessary to refine further the function zoning given by the urban plan. However, in the traditional urban design process, this step requires the designers to manually research for similar cases studies to analyze the spatial distribution relationships between businesses and geographical elements such as road networks, water bodies, and topography, which is not only time-consuming and laborious but also lacks reliability and accuracy. Therefore, this paper aims to propose a method that uses big data and conditional Generation Adversarial Network(cGAN) to obtain a POI-guided refined function zoning efficiently and accurately based on multiple proven precedents. Taking Nanjing's Tangquan Hot Spring Town as an example, this paper shows the process of acquiring and processing the dataset, building and training the model, and finally applying it to the target site and generating a preliminary urban design massing based on Rhinoceros and Grasshopper.
Keywords: Urban Design, Big Data, Conditional GAN, Function Zoning, Tourist Town Designpublished versio
Strategic thinking as basis for successful future development: repurpose Poreč: development vision 2050
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023Strategic thinking and development planning of a certain area are of key importance for the course of its development. This paper shows the intention of the establishment of a comprehensive system of strategic planning and development management on the national level in order to ensure its social progress, enhanced and more focused territorial development and the project Repurpose Poreč: Development vision 2050 that is based on the strategic thinking of spatial development. The aim of this paper is to point out the need for a synergy between strategic planning and spatial planning and the importance of education and the role of spatial planners and urban planners to achieve the highest possible quality of life in cities and regions of the 21st century.
Keywords: development vision, education, Poreč, spatial planners, strategic thinking and planningpublished versio
Ethnic Economy in Milano: The Case of the Turkish Immigrants in the Kebab Sector
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 13 (2023) Exploring Human Well-Being and Community DynamicsThe concept of ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the economy represents the employment patterns in a particular country. Ethnic economies consist of immigrants from a specific ethnic group who are either self-employed or employ other members of the same ethnic group. Immigrants often experience discrimination and exclusion in the labor market and the outcome of this process is a high rate of unemployment. Ethnic economies seem to have emerged to provide a potential alternative to unemployment for immigrants. Comprising a big part of urban economies, immigrant entrepreneurs may create their own businesses and support other immigrants if the business reaches success. Besides contributing to the economics of the countries, immigrant entrepreneurs also open the way for the integration of immigrants in their new host societies. By creating an ethnic economy to overcome discrimination and exclusion, immigrants are making themselves attractive and integrated into the host society. In Italy, many immigrants who came from Turkey and eventually settled in Milano between 1988-2010 are self-employed in the kebab fast-food restaurant sector. Interviews showed that most of them migrated as asylum-seekers, looking for work, study, and living. The research findings from this study provide valuable insights into the significant role played by the ethnic economy in the integration process of Turkish immigrants within the city of Milano. Furthermore, these findings also shed light on the broader impact of the ethnic economy on societal dynamics and urban development within the region, more broadly
Strategies and evaluation of urban regeneration of historic industrial districts from a life cycle management (lcm) perspective: a case study of Yangpu riverfront in Shanghai
No full textBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023As developing countries have embraced rapid urbanisation and deindustrialisation since the end of last century, massive historic industrial districts sitting idle, due to industrial restructuring and land resource scarcity, have undergone spatial regeneration and industrial upgrading in large scale, as part of important efforts to improve urban spatial quality and functional capacity. However, regeneration of historic industrial districts is often impacted by the complicated relationship among stakeholders, burdensome red tape, and high requirements for historical preservation. Therefore, it will inevitably lead to a raft of consequences, such as dissension among different parties, divided planning, construction, and management, and mismatch between inputs and earnings. In this context, a regeneration management system featuring multiple parties, whole process, and whole elements underpins the sustainable regeneration of urban historic industrial districts. This coincides with the idea and content of LCM, which provides a possible solution to the sustainable regeneration of urban historic industrial districts. By drawing on the theory and methods of LCM and corresponding to its ‘Plan Do Check Adjust’ theoretical approach, this study an LCM framework for the regeneration of historic industrial districts. The framework includes ‘institution formulation, stake holder organisation, resource introduction, right transfer, planning and construction, operation and management, supervision and evaluation, feedback and adjustment’. This study also systematically reviews the strategies, experiences, and challenges of each stage in the regeneration of the Yangpu Riverfront Historic Industrial District in Shanghai, which is a key area for upgrading the city’s overall strength. The effectiveness of the LCM system is also evaluated, with a view to contributing to the theoretical and practical aspects of urban regeneration planning and management, and beefing up the city's ability to respond to challenges and uncertainties.
Keywords: Life Cycle Management (LCM); Urban Regeneration; Historic Industrial Districts; Yangpu Riverfront in Shanghaipublished versio
How to support affordability and sustainability of housing? Set of tools applicable via strategic plans of cities
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This article presents the results of project “Affordable and Sustainable Housing in Strategic Settlement Planning”. The project researched how municipal strategic planning might be connected to housing policies and brought the set of 30 tools and actions supporting affordability and sustainability of housing at local level. When applied individually, none of the presented tools and actions solves the situation –they always need to be well combined, fit the conditions of individual cities, and create synergies. Even though the project focused on the Czech Republic, the developed list of tools and actions might be inspiring for other countries too.
Keywords: cities; affordable housing; strategic plans; tools supporting sustainabilitypublished versio
Reflections on Tirana’s urban identity
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This article examines the concept of identity related to public places. In post socialist cities, the rush of urban development signed the loss of peculiar characters of places and of what Pierre Nora called lieux de mémoire. The Albanian concept and perception of urban public space have undergone through radical transformations which have affected the identity of the place neglecting and sometimes canceling it and the process of place making. The paper discusses the effect that recent projects have had on the memory and the tradition of public places. The aim is to look at the local level for various forms and manifestations of elements of urban identities. In this perspective, the paper tries to rebuild the evolution of public places of Tirana to understand the past transformation phenomena and the ones in progress, identifying the specific features of places such as morphological identity, uses and culture. It argues that development of amnesia in urban space was intentional and proposes guidelines for future developments.
Keywords: memory, place, amnesia, identity, traditionpublished versio
Planning the 15 min city-the case of Chania
Get PDFBook of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023According to C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group & C40 Knowledge hub, adopting a 15 minute city strategy means striving for an urban model that allows everyone, in every neighborhood, to meet most of their daily needs within a short walk or bike ride of their home. The current paper will examine the possibilities of a typical Greek city, Chania, to be developed as a 15minute city. The city is chosen as it combines dense development in its historic center, and sprawled development in its borders, so these contradictions are decisive for its sustainable mobility development. Its inhabitants and visitors mostly use cars for their daily needs fact that is caused by the lack of pedestrians and cyclist networks and the fragmental way public uses and areas have been diachronically developed in the city. Research will examine the positions of public uses and areas, their connections with mobility networks and it will evaluate their accessibility. Finally, it will propose strategies for the adjustment of the city in the principles of the 15-minute city.
Keywords: 15-minute city, post pandemic cities, Chania, urban planningpublished versio