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Study on The Characteristics and Changes of Street Cultural Attributes in Mingcheng District of Xi'an
Get PDFAs an important part of a city, streets are not only the arteries of transportation, but also the carriers of history and culture. The cultural attribute of streets highlights the connotation of cities to some extent. Exploring its characteristics and changing rules is an important way to study urban culture. This paper, taking Xi 'an Mingcheng district as the research object, through the historical data query and the current situation matching, based on the ArcGIS platform, the three types of cultural space and the four important periods of the street pattern are coupled and analyzed, obtaining the street culture property during the period of the overall features and classification, finally summed up the cultural attributes of Xi’an Ming city streets. The research shows that the number of streets with cultural attributes in Mingcheng district of xi 'an is gradually decreasing, and the fluctuation of cultural index is decreasing. In the research on different types of streets, religious streets maintain a steady state, educational streets continue to increase, and humanistic streets decrease significantly.publishedVersio
15. Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics: From the financialization of the city to planning for efficient housing
No full textThe 15th Lecture Series took place at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and featured two talks by Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics.
The Lecture was organised in collaboration with the final conference of project exPERts: Making Sense of Planning Expertise (coordinated by Marco Alelgra; https://expertsproject.org/). The Lecture was chaired by Marco Allegra and Simone Tulumello and introduced by an AESOP ExCo representative.
In the first talk, Manuel Aalbers argued that a new form of urban development is emerging in which processes of financialization play a key role, and focus on the implications for the emerging, global housing crises. In the second talk, Iván Tosics reflected on how planning can contribute to efficient and inclusive housing, and the role of the various actors at stake.
Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yIwgdoyPeU&t=6spublishedVersio
Developing transformation strategies for Alpine industrial landscapes shown by the Styrian Iron Route in Austria
Get PDFThe Alpine Space is one of the most important industrial regions in Europe. The transformation from manufacturing to service industry in the last decades and the decrease of traditional heavy and manufacturing industry are leaving impressive former productive landscapes of relevant size and complexity, so-called Alpine industrial landscapes behind. The potential value of these landscapes is linked closely to ecological, economical and social challenges in the development of these regions. No significant strategies or programmes for a transformation of industrial brownfields exist currently. The INTERREG project “trAILs " deals with the topic of industrial brownfields and aims to generate knowledge about Alpine industrial landscapes. It shows how future development paths for these sites can be developed and visualised and thus serve as a basis for discussion, decisionmaking and planning for the definition of concrete planning recommendations for municipalities. The overall objective of the project is to discuss and develop ways of raising awareness of the strategic development of brownfield sites, a topic that will continue to gain in importance in future. The following contribution focuses on the first project phase, in which a process for developing a transformation strategy was elaborated and tested in one of four pilot regions
An inclusive, multilevel planning experience to regenerate Milan metropolitan peripheries
Get PDF“Metropolitan welfare and urban regeneration” is the project that the Metropolitan City Authority of Milan is carrying out thanks to a National fund by the Infrastructure Ministry of the Central State aiming at developing deprived areas in the country. The topic of inclusiveness is the key chosen by the Metropolitan City of Milan to interpret the issue of peripheries and the idea of urban regeneration. Its target is to transform marginal places into the pivots of a territorial and social infrastructure to build a new livability of the metropolitan suburbs, through a multilevel planning tool that involves the environmental level, such as the housing inclusion and the cultural and social promotion levels. It is mainly addressing the vulnerable population, and at the same time it aims at the construction of nodes of attractions for all the citizens. The paper presents the innovative approach of governance proposed by a program that experiments new relationships at the metropolitan scale, and the contents of the six different projects that compose the program interpreting the issue of integration as a fundamental criterion into planning tools aimed at responding to the current challenges
Who is afraid of transition? Monitoring the impact of transformation on historical rural landscapes as indicator of communities' changing needs
Get PDFRural landscapes are a productive heritage. Consequently, these sites can be representative, more than others, of the quantitative and qualitative impact of macro-phenomena related to transition by monitoring transformations acting over them. This heritage is recently at the centre of a strong interest and debate. The challenges posed by a constantly transforming and stressed heritage led to an urgent need, emerged in particular in the last fifteen years, of an integrated approach that could cope with a complex background of issues, such as exogenous and endogenous pressures. However, at first instance, preservation approaches applied over historical rural landscapes focussed on a “crystallization” of these sites, although their intrinsic dynamism. Accordingly, some are the recent management tools dedicated specifically to this heritage, aimed to integrate preservation and planning policies (e.g. GIAHS, FAO). Their effectiveness is based on two main pillars, which differentiates them from previous approaches: first, the direct involvement of communities that have shaped, maintained and inhabited these sites over time, through an examination of newer needs derived from a recent opening to a globalized world; second, the definition of site-specific management plans able to change accordingly to the results of a participate monitoring over time, in the perspective of the definition of a win/win methodology including all the stakeholders involved (communities, agencies, institutions). The paper evidences the contraposition between the “fear” of an inevitable transformation and the potentialities they can generate as indicator of the transition effects on rural landscapes in time. Thus, the development of policies aimed to a dynamic preservation of this heritage must consider an accompanied and mutual support to transition between communities and professionals. To discuss this scenario, a comparison over the application of management and preservation approaches in two rural landscapes sites is given, to outline potentialities and critical aspects
Transformation of Roads' Feature Protection: Status and Future Thinkings of Shanghai's Feature-protected Roads: Based on the Case of Yuyuan Road in Shanghai
Get PDFDuring the decades of the formation and development of historic roads in Shanghai, the urban connotation has different traces in different times. Feature-protected roads are one kind of urban heritage because they have the characteristics of urban form and urban culture. However, in the process of protection, the work of protecting feature-protected roads has been confront with certain difficulties due to the imperfection of the theory and the technology. This paper tries to answer the question what are the realistic problems and dilemmas faced by the feature-protected roads under the background of rapid development and transition of the city? And what aspects should be focused on in the protection work? It combs the basic characteristics of the relevant planning of Shanghai feature-protected roads and analyzes the requirements of the management and control of feature-protected roads in Yuyuan Road Historical and Cultural Area and the status of its protection, aiming to explore the highlights and problems in the protection process. Finally, this paper tries to put forward the optimization direction aiming at the problems in the protection work, which can provide the protection of historical landscape and the continuation of cultural tradition under the concept of shareable development
Public Space as Protest Space: Between Visibility and Insecurity
Get PDFPublic space in the European City is, by definition, a place of political publicity, debate and open exchange of opinions. Social movements use public space to create visibility and to express their political, social, or ideological perspectives and demands. Looking at the situation nowadays one can observe cleavages between right-wing and left-wing groups on the one hand, and an increasing eventisation of protests - a "pleasure for the state of exception" or "event-driven protest" - on the other hand. What do these developments mean for public space and its inherent qualities? How do protesters assess the situation? Based on the results of quantitative surveys of participants two types of protest are contrasted: 1) a conflicting political demonstration march 2) a less conflicting and more festivalized Christopher Street Day parade. The results show significant differences in the visitors’ structure, motivations, the individual perception of the events and the perception of security and presence of police. The framework conditions of protest have an effect on public space: If they implicate security risks and instrumentalize or abuse the purposes of specific groups, there is a considerable impact on its accessibility, usability, and political quality.publishedVersio
The Characteristics of the Working Place of the Creative Class: The Case of Fashion Designers in Istanbul Nisantasi
Get PDFDevelopment of the fashion design industry in Turkey has gained momentum since the 1990’s. Nisantasi, where there are many luxury garment stores and ateliers producing haute couture evening dresses, is the neighborhood where most of the fashion designers have an office. On the other hand, fashion designers are part of the creative class. The creative class has high knowledge and skills, as opposed to unskilled workers engaged in routine work in industrial plants. This working class, which works flexibly, needs different working places from the classic work offices. The researches in the literature related to the design criteria of these work places are insufficient. In this study, fashion designers' offices in Nisantasi were examined and both environmental characteristics and interior features of the offices were analyzed. Face-to-face interviews were held with designers. In these interviews, the reasons of clustering of the designers in the region, the environmental, physical and social factors affecting their creativity were questioned. The answer to the question of how to design the ideal office where fashion designers can exhibit their creativity was also sought. This research provides design criteria for the offices of fashion designers as well as location criteria of them
Built Commons: Reclaiming the Sharing Economy
Get PDFThe advance of distributed computing research in the U.S. during the 1990s led to the conception of novel channels for subletting surplus space right after the burst of the U.S. housing bubble. The coincidence of the new technologies with the biggest increase in house prices (1990-2008) resulted in a new sharing culture which we know today as the “sharing economy”. This paper suggests that even if sharing platforms today are failing by exacerbating the housing crises around the globe, they could provoke other alter-sharing practices. The paper aims to reevaluate the sharing economy in relation to housing and in particular, its spatial implications. It looks into historical nondigital stranger-shared housing precedents and their architectures by deploying the theoretical framework of the commons as autonomous, resilient grassroots sharing networks. Finally, it explores contemporary online listing accounts looking for spatial evidence for both the effects of the sharing economy today and the potential emergence of alter-sharing practices. While regarding housing as a resource, it speculates if the pressures of its ever-growing scarcity and unaffordability could lead to the emergence of a collective political action.publishedVersio
Spatial distribution characteristics of cultural tourism in historical regions: a case of Shaoxing Ancient City based on POI data
Get PDFAs an important industry to achieve sustainable economic development, the role of cultural tourism has become increasingly prominent. The concentration and dispersion of various functions in the urban often reflect the distribution of different activities. It has become a crucial topic to consider how to respond to changes of urban function and balance the regional cultural protection and tourism economic development in historical areas for urban studies. In order to realize the comprehensive management and dynamic supervision, the article provides a method for analyzing cultural tourism in historical regions by using big data. In this work, we obtain the POI data of Shaoxing ancient city in China from Gaode map, combine them with GIS spatial analysis function and summarize the spatial distribution. In order to quantitatively identify the urban single and mixed functional area, the article also illustrates a way to reclassify the POI data and use the RGB color method to visualize the functional diversity index. The result shows that (1) With a tendency of decreasing from the road to the periphery, Shaoxing Ancient City function is relatively distributed in the marginal areas rather than in the central parts, especially in the traffic distribution square. (2) It is confirmed that the larger the functional density and diversity, the higher the public awareness of the historical blocks in Shaoxing Ancient City. (3) From the perspective of functional mixing, cultural function shows a high ability to be mixed with the tourism, but the spatial distribution of the two is still relatively discrete, which has not yet formed a good collaboration in Shaoxing Ancient City. (4) Compared with the network electronic map, the quantitative identification method provided by this study is more precise and accurate.publishedVersio