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Emerging Places of Social Innovation (POSI). The co-production of space between multilevel stakeholders: the case of productive urban green infrastructure
Get PDFSocial innovation is recurrently positioned as an important collaborative element in helping cities to transition and address human needs and societal challenges for the health, wellbeing and welfare of citizens. To address a call for more sector-specific research on the spatiality of social innovation and further understanding of the process dimension of social innovation, this article presents a conceptual framework of the process of socio-spatial innovation. By combining social innovation insight from process theories and urban spaces discourse the article indicates that sociospatial innovation in the co-production of space can be grouped into four major processes: 1) Identification of human need or societal challenges to sustainable development; 2) Development of social relations in systems or structures; 3) Provision of opportunity for social empowerment; 4) Reflection of socio-spatial development practice. Applying this framework, the article examines how the case of productive green infrastructure emerges in the urban landscape as a Place of Social Innovation (POSI). The framework draws attention to the significance of partnership working and intermediation activities to improve access to urban spaces to contribute to socio-spatial justice and healthy orientated urban environments.publishedVersio
By no place to public space: a new resource for Capua
No full textCapua is one of older cities in Caserta province and today its socio-economic, spatial, social, economic and settlement disequilibrium is clear. The analysis done discloses functional, social and physical degradation of the city and the missing of identity, mixed with phenomena of urban disorder and social and environmental degradation. Very often, infrastructures and social services miss as well. This deficit of public space takes to the creation of denied territory, localized in urban and rural areas. The area of ex assistance camp for foreign refugees – Ex C.A.P.S., our case study, is between the historical centre and housing buildings realized over the 80s-90s. Thanks to Law Scelba (1952), ruling assistance to refugee, this area is destined to a "Campo di Accoglienza", used to host refugee coming from East Europe. Nowadays, the area is not destined for anything and is a state of abandonment and misses its identity. It is neither an empty nor a dismissed area. It might be considered a non-place, without any value, any functional link with the context and with no social aim. It is a marginal place since Institutions have ignored it for years. The aim is to revitalize this area starting from its criticalities, such as accessibility, green and parking areas, services, infrastructures and the missing of social integration through the creation of a big urban park full of utilities and housing buildings. As for accessibility, pedestrian, cycling and driveway paths have been thought to improve it. The last, and maybe the most important, criticality deals with the missing of social integration since the area is not functionally connected with the context. A mixed housing park has been created in order to overcome this criticality. No distinction between public and private buildings has been done in order to achieve a social, functional and housing mix against mono-functionality of peripheral areas.publishedVersio
Mapping San Siro lab: Experimenting grounded, interactive and mutual learning for inclusive cities
No full textTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 3 / Issue 1 / June 2019; page 37-54The paper proposes a reflection on the Mapping San Siro experience, a five-year action learning project, promoted by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies in collaboration with Polisocial, the public engagement program of Politecnico di Milano. The project is currently ongoing in one of the largest public estates in Milan, known as San Siro. It aims at experimenting a pedagogical environment based on grounded, interactive, action-oriented and hybrid learning, reflecting how new approaches can enrich the experience of educational practices for the inclusive city. The paper addresses a series of issues, which emerge from this experience, reflecting on situated learning, the co-production of knowledge with community partners, and an action-oriented teaching practice. In this paper, a reflection on the pedagogical and social outcomes of the experience is also proposed
Temporarily Pedestrianised Street in Hong Kong: Governmental Strategy of Implementation and Tactics of Appropriation
No full textInternational organizations promote the equitable provision of open public spaces (OPS) as a strategy for healthy cities planning. In the context of high-density Asian cities, the densely built environment, constraints generated by mobility infrastructures and the limited distribution of OPS pose challenges to the implementation of equitable OPS provision. Pedestrianisation –the conversion of a vehicular street for pedestrian uses– is emerging as an effective policy to increase the supply of OPS. Nonetheless, the temporary or permanent space conversion strategy –from mobility infrastructure to OPS– lacks a comprehensive implementation framework. This paper reviews the governmental policies for the supply of pedestrianised streets (PS); it investigates the tactics of PS appropriation drawing upon the case of Hong Kong, one of the densest and more socially polarized Asian cities. The unconventional use of the short-term OPS can provide insights into tactics of informal use of OPS and it can contribute to evaluating the need for pedestrianisation and for additional planning measures. This study comprises documentary analysis and primary data collection and analysis. The method adopted for policy review is content analysis. The methods adopted in fieldwork involve unobtrusive observations. Results are presented in the forms of policy review and Structured Direct Observations.The work described int his paper was supported by a grant from the City University of Hing Kong (Project No. 6000645). We would also like to thank the Transport Department of the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the information provided.publishedVersio
Digital participatory planning tools helpful side and side effects
No full textPlanning for Transition – book of proceedings 31; 2Participatory planning is one of the latest directions of the urban planning field which began in the second half of the 20th century. Participatory planning back then used old fashion ways in doing so. Lately, urban planners start using digital participatory planning tools. These tools start to get spread worldwide for their help in the urban planning process. In the same time urban planners start having concerns regarding these tools and their side effects. One of these concerns is the issue of data privacy in digital participatory planning tools. This paper will explore the helpful side of digital participatory planning tools and their role in improving the urban planning process. Second, it discusses one of the side effects of these tools that is the issue of data privacy. Third, trying to find a solution for this issue and its side effects. The Swiss city of Zug experimented a solution which could be a possible solution. The experience of international experts of digital participatory planning tools spread worldwide will be collected. Once these tools are closer to solving their issues, these tools can be upgraded significantly in a way opens up a wide advancement towards effective urban planningpublishedVersio
Land use planning, tourism intensification and regulation of short term commercial visitor accommodation: the case of Edinburgh
No full textMany cities globally have seen an expansion of short-term rental accommodation (via online platforms) as a means of increasing capacity and encouraging additional tourism revenue. This has led in some cases to concern for more effective regulation, for instance via land use planning, because of problems such as loss of amenity. There are also concerns that this has led to displacement of the supply of traditional residential letting, as well as a rise in overall rents and capital values. This paper considers the case of Edinburgh and the associated potential of regulation via land-use planning. It explores how such regulation might seek to minimise problems while retaining benefits arising from expansion of the overall tourism sector and associated revenue. However, this is not straightforward, as evidenced by the significant variation in practice between cities this regard. In addition, there are significant associated problems related to the difficulties of detection, monitoring and enforcement in relation to letting activity. The experience of Edinburgh in these respects is instructive for many other cities globally which experience similar pressures.publishedVersio
Mass housing, relocation, and mothers’ and children’s residential satisfaction: Evidence from Ankara
No full textThis study investigates the effects of relocation on 9-12 year-old children’s and their mothers’ satisfaction with mass housing built in the context of squatter housing regeneration. The results are based on a survey of 235 nine-to-twelve-year-old children and their mothers living in three recently built inner- and outer-city mass housing developments in Ankara, Turkey. Results show the importance of prior place of residence, location of the mass housing estate, and dwelling and neighborhood characteristics in children’s and their mothers’ residential satisfaction. In general, compared to their mothers, children reported higher satisfaction scores for all the features of the current home and neighborhood. However, there were some differences in what children and their mothers liked and disliked about these places. The implications of these findings are important for designing communities for all ages
Friendly and accessible public spaces : the Venetian case
No full textThe population of Venice is falling drastically and its people are ageing steadily and living a unique existence as regards the town’s morphology. Venice has no car traffic and thus urban accessibility for elderly people is neither straightforward nor always safe. The reasons which make it difficult to live in the historic centre are bound up with its specific features: its town framework is made up of 120 islands linked together by bridges, alleyways and fondamenta canal side streets frequently free of rails, all of which are accessible primarily on foot as the public ferry service cannot link up all its urban spaces and areas. In the light of this, it is important to enable elderly people to get out into open spaces for both health reasons and in relation to the passage of the seasons as well as for socialising. This research work enquires into the physical barriers in the town which can make moving around its open spaces difficult, the various technical and architectural solutions which have been adopted over the years to improve public transport and urban policies designed for an age friendly town.publishedVersio
Reading the city through the lens of urban standards. The case of Ponticelli, East Naples
No full textIn occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Decree 1444/68, an intense debate has refocused the attention to the original tension of the Law towards the right of the city. By the application of the Decree it has be possible to reconstruct a new geography of Italy, variegated and diversified. In this scenario, the south of Italy is conspicuous by its lack of equipment, that can’t permit an evaluation of the social impact because it’s an interrupted process. The purpose of the present study is to observe and analyse how the spatial welfare system of southern Italy has been built, examining the study case Ponticelli, in the eastern periphery of Naples. Through the outline of two stories, it will investigate the construction of the public city in the degraded areas, among tensions and social inequalities. The first one is an institutional tale, which looks at the process of application of the decree; the second on is an informal tale, which reads the practices and the processes of use and appropriation of these lands. Thus, the current paper aims to rethink about the validity of the normative tool in an urban and social condition characterised by continuous and uncertain evolution. Additionally, the research attempts to find alternative and spontaneous forms, bordering illegal practices that can be found in urban areas, in absence of public intervention, such as subsidiary processes of guarantee of the right to the city.publishedVersio
Supply-demand analysis of park services for different age groups in Community life Circle: a central district in Shanghai as a case
No full textParks prominently contribute to the healthy lives of urban residents at all ages in their community life circle (CLC), however, it is rarely discussed what distinction in different age groups' personas exist and furthermore whether the supply and the demand of park services for them are matched. This results in socio-spatial injustice of urban parks and inefficiency of park services in terms of healthy city planning, design and governance. propose an enhanced method that takes both sides of supply and demand into account to reflect the authentic budget of park services in the CLC. At the same time, age plays a weighting factor in the evaluation progress so that the outcome could be more adaptive to specific groups of residents and thus support a targeted decision making in constructing CLC. A central district in Shanghai was taken as a case and the result suggests that in 177 out of 304 community units of this area, the elder and children's demand for park services could be basically or even better, while the young face a better situation. The service budgets also depict different spatial agglomeration. Some improvement strategies are thus proposed to assure a better healthy-oriented built environment.publishedVersio