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The city of tomorrow is already with us
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper title provokes us and brings us back to the New Athens Charter published in 2003 by the European Council of Town Planners1. The aim is to discuss the city's planning based on the urban features we have inherited from the past, with the understanding of history in its evolutionary form and the city as an open-ended process in continuous construction. It's not about preserving, but adapting, reusing and creating again, reinforcing urban resilience and the identity of each place. Today's needs and the crises we face - climate change, the housing crisis and migration - call for a transformation of the city and behaviour so that cities become sustainable, healthy habitats that guarantee quality of life for all.
Keywords: reuse, heritage, sustainabilitypublished versio
Impact of Development Process of Cultural Tourism on the Authenticity of the Production Space of Cultural Heritage Sites
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Production space is an important resource for the survival of local communities. In the process of cultural tourism development, the entry of external resources and the demand of the market will change the original economic production of the heritage site. Different subjects such as local residents, operators from other places, local governments, and planners will continue to recreate the production space. This paper takes Xizhou Ancient Town and Zhoucheng Village in Yunnan Procince, China as examples. Xizhou Ancient Town made full use of rice field resource combined with land transfer procedures, introduced social enterprises to concentrate on farming, and held a "Rice Culture Festival" to create the "Xi" brand of agricultural products. On the basis of the original production tradition of tie-dye handicrafts, Zhoucheng Village renovated the abandoned state-owned factory building as a tiedye museum, integrating sightseeing, display, production, experience and other functions, moving the production work from the original private family workshop to a public cultural place, and further promoting the communication between local villagers. In these two cases, the changes of spatial ownership and function are led by the government and planning departments, which have injected new connotations into the regional agricultural and handicraft traditions. In the process of cultural tourism development, planning, as a leading role with legal effect, should use key spaces as carriers to guide the functional positioning of the region. At the same time, an operation platform should be built to provide positive guidance for cultural heritage sites under the principle of authenticity.
Keywords authenticity, production space, cultural tourism development, Xizhou Ancient Town, Zhoucheng Villagepublished versio
Inevitability of Strengthen the Development of Public Transport in Large Cities from the Perspective of Security Resilience
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In recent years, extreme weather, geological disasters, infectious diseases and other emergencies have put forward higher requirements for the normal functioning of cities. Large cities with high population density and high construction intensity are facing the dual pressure of disaster emergency support and economic production guarantee. As the carrier of most traffic activities, the public transportation system has the characteristics of closed space, high crowd density and high mobility of personnel, thus is easy to become a high-risk and disaster-stricken area in sudden disasters. This paper analyzes the development trend of individual transportation and public transportation, taking into account the characteristics of the two travel modes, the travel characteristics of large cities, the impact of sudden disasters on public travel, and the value orientation of policy strategies. This paper proposes that ensuring the sustainability of public transportation capacity is an inevitable choice in the face of travel demand, ensuring the safety and controllability of public transportation is the basis for resuming work and production after sudden disasters, and the value orientation of public transportation plays an important role in restoring normal urban life after disasters. At the same time, combined with the existing public transportation system and the attempt of new public transport products, the possible directions for the strengthening and development of public transport in the future are proposed.
Keywords: security and resilience, public transport, individual transportation, travel needspublished versio
Exportation of the Parisian's urban knowledge (1976–2005)
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024From 1976 to nowadays, 'Atelier parisien d'urbanisme' (APUR), which is an urbanism organisation partially financed by the Paris Municipality, was involved in projecs out of Paris, especially in Global South countries. This communication will focus on APUR's networks all over the world to highlight the way of the French way-of-thinking urbanism have been diffused abroad. We will analyse especially the APUR's projects for the reconstruction of the city centre of Beirut (1976–1977), the projets for Phnom Penh (1992–1998) and for Jakarta (1996–1998) and Cairo (2001–2004) in which APUR was involved.
Keywords: Urbanism ; History ; City planning ; Global Southpublished versio
Study on the characteristics of regional intergovernmental relationships network, based on the analysis of planning texts
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Many studies have been carried out to measure the complex inter-city networks by using multi-source data. However, few studies have considered the networks of concern that local governments have with each other. In this paper, we use text analysis and social network analysis to mine the texts of government plans of 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta to construct a network of attention among cities. It is found that the network is characterised by overall polarisation and local flattening, and that the degree of attention to each city is not perfectly correlated with its economic and population size. The study concludes with recommendations for a regional planning platform that removes administrative and institutional barriers.
Keywords: regional planning, intergovernmental relations, text analysis, social network analysis, Yangtze Riverpublished versio
Exploring new methodological approaches to mapping socio-spatial mobilities
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This paper highlights mobility as a methods paradigm by reviewing mobile methods from a theoretical and empirical perspective, i.e., adopted for a study focused on socio-spatial mobilities of urban marginalised women (UMW) in peri-urban areas of New Delhi, India. The article discusses the approach and design of mobile methods for this case study, including mobile ethnography using new technologies like GPS. We highlight that mobile methods enable the study of significant elements like scale and everyday mobilities. We discuss the challenges and opportunities for researchers that come with the use new technologies within mobile methods. By doing so we highlight the significance of using mobile methods to explore new research techniques that present a holistic perspective towards understanding mobility.
Keywords: Mobile methods, Socio-spatial mobility, Scale, New technologies, GPSpublished versio
The Open Orchestra project in the public spaces of Athens: an urban utopia with transformative power?
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The Open Orchestra is a group of about 150 professional artists and amateurs, founded in spring 2021, in Athens, Greece. Its establishment is directly correlated to the Support Art Workers Action Group that has emerged during the pandemic of Covid-19, as a way to resist to the depreciation of culture and art-workers themselves, many of whom remained unemployed and with no support from the state, during the long quarantines imposed as a protection measure1. Even more importantly, the Open Orchestra comes as a continuation of the Paris Occupation of Odeon, when, on March 27, 2021, during the Agora organized by the occupants of the Théâtre de l'Odéon, professionals from the French Symphonic and Lyric Orchestras, musicians from specialized orchestras, occupiers of the Odéon, and students formed a large orchestra of solidary musicians2. Following this line, in spring 2021, the Support Art Workers Action Group gathered in Propylaia, Athens, sang and played the piece “El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido”, exactly as did the solidary orchestra at Odéon, Paris, a couple of months earlier. This has been the starting act of the Open Orchestra (O.C./ A.O. in Greek). Which started rehearsing once a week, at the Filopappou Hill, in a central public park of Athens, yet derelict and merely abandoned by the Municipality of Athens. It is called Open Orchestra, because anyone who wants to rehearse with it can do it at any time: there is no limitation on artistic level or degree of commitment (one can enter and leave the Orchestra at any time). Organizationally, there is a solid core of 100 people, who rehearse every Sunday. There exists a coordination group, yet decisions are made through open circles organized regularly, in which the whole group participates. This is particularly relevant to the organization of different projects. Every one or two months, rehearsals take place in a deprived neighbourhood of Athens (Victoria square, Perama, Amerikis Square3, etc.), instead of the regular one at the Filopappou Hill, and messages such as “Lively Squares” or “We want to danse in squares, streets and neighbourhoods” are delivered in any possible means (e.g. banners, posters, etc.). The A.O. also gives an open concert every June, in vicinity to the archeological site of Kerameikos and the Acropolis. Yet, most importantly, it provides solidarity to several people and events: performances in several trials of public interest (trial for the murder of Zac/Zackie4; trials for victims a sexual violence, rape5 & murder; etc.), as well as campaigns for social justice and peace, with the most recent example concerning the war in Gaza and Palestine6. The aim of this presentation is to explore how this impulsive bottom-up initiative can/has become “game-changer” at the local (city) and the very local (neighbourhood) level, essentially as an antidote to the harsh regeneration and touristification policies that hit actually the Greek cities. Building upon my own participation to the A.O. during 2021- 2022, I seek to understand to what extend such an initiative – a community of joy, care and solidarity, and an urban utopia, as I would like to call it – may be capable of transforming, in the mid-term, both public space and the relations performed within public space. Considering its ephemeral and sporadic performances and actions, to what extend can an initiative such the A.O. play a role in shaping the neighbourhood and the city fabric overall? I am particularly interested in examining the potential of such initiatives yet also the significant challenges they pose as regards appropriation, belonging, and reclaiming the city. After all, what would be needed, from a planner’s perspective, to enhance and leverage such initiatives in a view of coming closer to the ideals of the Just City and the Right to the City? How can planners ensure that such bottom-up initiatives can be taken under consideration in decision-making processes? What kind of spaces could accommodate such initiatives that promote interaction among diverse people yet often they challenge the established status quo?
Keywords: Open Orchestra/Athens, culture, art/ist, solidarity, political action, spatial justice, public space appropriation, transformative powerpublished versio
Identification and Planning of Potential Ventilation Corridors: A Case Study of Wuhu, China
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Ventilation corridors have a significant effect on the improvement of urban climate adaptation as well as the improvement of habitat quality. In the context of climate change leading to the frequent occurrence of extremely high temperatures, it is necessary to research urban ventilation corridors to optimise the urban wind environment and thermal comfort. In the past, wind speed measurement and computational fluid dynamics methods have had limitations in their application to large-scale urban spaces. In this study, with Wuhu City as a case study, a geographic information system (GIS)-based method was adopted to design an urban ventilation corridor suitability assessment framework for identifying potential ventilation corridors, which can support the identification and planning of ventilation corridors in large-scale urban planning and design.
Keywords: Urban Wind Environment; Ventilation Corridors; Compensation Space; Urban Heat Island (UHI)published versio
The Internet As A Business Game Changer: A Study On Invisible Consumption Spaces In Nanjing Old City
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024With the recent development of online-to-offline (O20) industries in China, the Internet has become a game- changer, facilitating the creation of new forms of spaces. Taking Nanjing old city as a case study, this paper identifies invisible consumption spaces that are not situated on the streets or in shopping malls but are primarily located inside high-rise buildings and rely on online platforms to operate. The distribution of invisible consumption spaces presents characteristics of central agglomeration and multi-polar clustering. Based on decision tree algorithms, an analysis of a typical area indicates that spatial costs, property rights, and building management and support are the primary influencing factors. Additionally, commercial-residential buildings play a crucial role as carriers of spatial clustering. This paper argues that the emergence and development of invisible consumption spaces is a manifestation of the diversification of old city consumption spaces and a significant bottom-up regeneration strategy in the Internet era.
Keywords: Invisible consumption space, O20, distribution characteristics, spatial clustering, space regenerationpublished versio
Photos from the 2024 AESOP PhD Worshop, Grenoble July 3-6th
No full text40 photos taken at the AESOP PhD Workshop, Ahead of the game Reversibility, sufficiency and care in the context of urban transitions, that took plase at Grenoble, France, in 2024, from 3 to 6th July