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Research on the theoretical Framework of Integrated Urban Water System Planning Based on Water Cycle Theory
No full textThe city is a complex system, and the relationship between the city and the natural environment is very close, especially the interaction and relationship between water resources and water environment becomes more complicated in the city system. In recent years, there have been more and more researches on metabolism and recycling economy. This paper will use the concept of water cycle to carry out water system planning research. The study believes that the urban water system is an important part of the complex large-scale system of the city. It is the system of the natural circulation of water and the coupling of social circulation and urban space. According to the theory of water cycle, the final study divides the urban water system into rainfall, river system, water supply and water distribution system, urban water usage system, sewage treatment, water reuse, and rainwater discharge system. Based on the study of the relationship between traditional urban water related planning and Integrated Urban Water System Planning (IUWSP), the theoretical framework structure of IUWSP (Integrated Urban Water System Planning [IUWSP]) is proposed. The planning system consists of the following modules: planning target determination method, standardized investigation content and method, and demand forecasting method, supply and demand analysis, comprehensive evaluation
Using Spatial Aggregation Method outcome to explain the influences of built environment on health profile
No full textHealth profile is becoming more significant in Developing country such as China. Research into the effects of the built environment on health has increased dramatically in recent years. Researchers are trying to understand and research explores the role of the built environment and transport system on an individual's health. Data from recent reviews have shown associations between environmental features, such as presence of sidewalks, proximity to parks and presence of certain types of food outlets, and outcomes such as physical activity. However, results from many studies conducted have been non-significant. A primary cause of these non-significant is due to how neighborhood areas are defined, which directly affects how the built environment variables are calculated in geographic information systems. In this paper tests to what extent the potential impacts on regression analysis resulting from different data aggregation methods are well documented in spatial studies by varying the initial geographical scale of analysis which is primarily referred to as the modifiable aerial unit problem. As explained earlier, the focus is on reducing the error caused by the modifiable aerial unit problem by introducing a data aggregation method. Individual health and lifestyle data are obtained from the survey of income, and labor dynamics in census figures of China, and the relationship between the built environment and health profile is evaluated by using a discrete choice model. The intended results is identify which variable is more closely related to health status by the proposed aggregation method is evaluated across three spatial scalespublishedVersio
Editorial Vol. 9 (2019) : Planning is about change Different perspectives on societal challenges
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 9 (2019) Navigating change: Planning for societal and spatial transformations 6-10t was with pleasure that I accepted the invitation to be guest editor of volume 9 of plaNext. This publishing initiative of AESOP Young Academics Network, almost reaching a dozen, has an already remarkable amount of knowledge produced and shared, fulfilling the aim based on the strategic vectors referred by Francesco Lo Piccolo in the editorial of the first volume of plaNext: to make Young Academics’ research products more visible; to bring together young academics from Europe and beyond, sharing new research perspectives, intersecting planning with other academic fields; and to combine open access environment with high quality materials (Lo Piccolo, 2015). This could not be truer when looking to contents of past and present volumes of plaNext, by giving visibility to more peripheral planning and research contexts, crossing perspectives from various disciplines while looking at European planning issues and not only
The transition urban planning history of Lisbon Metropolitan Area
No full textDrawing from an ongoing research project 'SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change, which aims to inform a sustainable planning transition of Portuguese metropolitan areas, this presentation identifies the planning paradigms which have guided the urban planning of Lisbon, its region and metropolitan area, during twentieth century. The influence of specific theories such as the Garden City (1898-1902), the Chartre d'Athénes (1933-1943), the Doorn Manifesto (1954) and the Compact City (1997) on strategic planning documents inclunding the 'Plano Director de Urbanização de Lisboa' (1938-1948), the 'Plano Director Municipal de Lisboa' (1954-1958), and the municipal and regional masterplans established after the 1974 Portuguese Democratic revolution are here identified. Such analysis is constructed through an overview of municipal and subregional plans and of neighbourhoods created in them, which allows an analysis of the metabolic and morphological transitions which have marked twentieth century Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) urban planning history. By doing so, we seek to establish which were the impacts of these transitions, inclunding on urban form, how have these changed the role of urban growth in LMA and how to interpret and optimize such built heritage today, when Sustainability urges for change.publishedVersio
Using SNAMUTS to Plan for Change: The Place for Accessibility Modelling in Strategic Planning for Urban Transitions
No full textAccessibility Instruments based on big data, such as SNAMUTS (Spatial Network Analysis for Multi-Modal Urban Transport Systems), show great potential in facilitating strategic planning for mobility transitions, by providing useful and usable information on accessibility outcomes of public transport infrastructure scenarios. However, how should accessibility instruments best be used in existing strategic planning processes? This study used an experiential case study methodology to insert SNAMUTS into a real-life process of strategic planning for the Monash ‘national employment and innovation cluster’ in Greater Melbourne. It asked how, when and where accessibility modelling should best be introduced to improve accessibility outcomes in a long-term strategic planning process for urban transitions. The results demonstrate the significant problems with introducing accessibility data into the planning process in the context of politicised planning, weak sustainability vision and insufficient role definition between various stakeholders. In this context, the use of data and analysis in planning was limited to ‘evidence-based lobbying’.publishedVersio
Aspern explained: How the Discursive Institutionalization of Infrastructure Planning shaped North-Eastern Vienna’s Urban Transformation
Get PDFPublic perception of infrastructure planning is oftentimes simplistic: experts instruct adaptations to the physical environment in consequence of contextual structural influences. Such structure-agency imaginaries imply an argumentative bypass though that neglects discursive institutionalizations of (1) the ideal structure of society, (2) the envisioned ideal-type city, and (3) the disciplinary self-conception of “good planning” as key intermediary instances of development and change. Focusing such discursive institutionalizations thus could aid understanding and explaining the origins of the material transformation of the city. We exemplify this notion with an analysis of Aspern in northeastern Vienna and its urban transformation since 1954. We claim that its conversion from cropland to smart and sustainable development area is not just the often-cited logical result of a re-urbanization trend manifesting in a zeitgeisty form, but the path-dependent materialization of past discursive institutionalizations of infrastructure planning. Employing an ASID and discursive institutionalist perspective, we point to critical strategic action and discursive complexity reduction, the institutionalization of networked infrastructure in the planning system, and its consequential materialization in a distinct form of infrastructure development. Our analysis uncovers institutionally stable phases of infrastructure planning as well as critical transitions in the planning system – all shaping Aspern’s subsequent development. Retracing this process serves as an explanation to the multi-layered pathdependency of the entailing realization of a large-scale urban development project. Herewith, the research contributes to a better understanding of the discursive institutionalization of infrastructure planning and the planning-development nexus at large
Characteristics in the space reshaping of creative cluster during gentrification: the case of Tianzifang in Shanghai
Get PDFThis paper explores the process of gentrification of Tianzifang creative cluster and analyzes the space reshaping characteristics during this process. The study finds that: due to the gentrification of the population and surge of leisure businesses, there are five main driving forces that reshape the space:1) space consumption and experience demand of tourists, 2) space competition and privatization demand of businesses owners, 3) space renovation and defense demand of local residents, 4) space renovation demand of creatives, 5) space control and guidance of local government. As a result of five main driving forces, the space has shown new characteristics including reserved space structure, mixed functions, segregated living space, commercial space sprawl, privatized public space. This paper provides suggestion that coordinating the relation among diverse stakeholders will be the key to promote transition of urban space and maintain social justice.publishedVersio
16. Rethinking Planning in a More-than-human World
Get PDFSpatial planning is not external to the eco-social realities which co-produce the Anthropocene. I am concerned with spatial planning, its multispecies entanglements and the production of novel ecosystems, including those of damaged landscapes. Many planning systems reinforce hyper-separated categories of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, reflected in the separation between landuse planning and environmental conservation planning. The ‘unreflected imposition of human primacy upon the desires and habits of other beings’ (Metzger, 2014: 210) and resulting asymmetric ‘negotiations’ between human planners and nonhuman others, have contributed to often-catastrophic changes across the globe. I argue that planning academics and practitioners should think carefully and critically about who speaks for (and with) the nonhuman in place making. I introduce the concept of ‘more-than-human’, as developed in geography and the environmental humanities, to explore new possibilities for productively rethinking the ontological exceptionalism of humans in planning theory and practice. I argue the need to develop inclusive, ethical relationships that can nurture possibilities for multispecies flourishing in diverse urban futures: a co-adaptive, more-than-human multispecies entanglement.published versio
The role of Participatory Planning methods in the development of public spaces: A systematic case studies review on Sustainable Urban Governance
No full textUrban Design and Planning worldwide have long been criticized for their lack of meaningful public consultation and participation in the process of shaping our built environment. Currently, the existing practices of consultation and participation are within the confines of council meetings, complex form filling and survey reports that often carry little weight towards the decisions made by the planning authorities; the latter are increasingly seeking for ways to encourage meaningful public participation in urban development decisions. This paper presents a systematic literature review on sustainable urban governance vis-a-vis participatory planning, in an effort to consolidate, evaluate and critique the various approaches on involving the public in decision-making process in relation to urban form in general and public space in particular. The literature/case studies presented are referenced across a scale of degrees of participation, referring to a range of influence that participants have in the decision-making. In its two extremes it can be viewed as no participation, where designers make assumptions of users’ needs and requirements, and full participation, based on user-defined criteria of quality. The evaluation of many participatory research practices is somewhere in between the two extremes, focusing more on design with the users. However, the given theoretical process, might provide an insufficient degree of realism that designers need to cope with, due to time and budget constraints. If it is to remain grounded to the practice of design, literature should be able to cope with barriers, and seek understanding beyond its conceptual approaches
Editorial - Volume 3 / Issue 2 / (2019)
No full textTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 2019; page i-iiIn summer 2017 during the Annual AESOP Congress in Lisbon we were delighted and proud to present the inaugural issue of Transactions of the Association of the European School. Starting this journal took the editorial team on an enjoyable (ad)venture where we discussed format innovations, approaches, and procedures that would be suited to encapsulating the very inclusive, open-minded and nurturing character of the AESOP community while also measuring up to academic standards and scrutiny. It was a venture that was co-created by a mixed gendered team of complementary strengths, experiences, and competencies – as one would expect from a functional team.
The papers in this issue of the journal again embrace the diversity of planning cultures in Europe and beyond. They address themes ranging from transport to open space planning. Interdisciplinarity, qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches, design and strategy, and research and education are all covered in varying depth and breadth. (Post-)modern planning is diverse, and requires flexibility and openness to change; in our complex world the future is not predetermined but shaped and evolving.
This fourth issue is a good example of this diversity; with a geographical focus spanning from Mexico, Portugal to Russia and Italy, it explores planning approaches (resilience-based planning) as well as knowledge management issues and social behaviours