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Master Programme in Planning and Sustainability Département Aménagement et Environnement, Polytech Tours University of Tours
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https://ror.org/02wwzvj46The Master Programme in Planning and Sustainability delivered at the University of Tours brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
— Academic curriculum:
• A comprehensive study programme within the fields of spatial planning and sustainable development with a strong emphasis on research, leading a majority of graduates towards the pursuit of a PhD.
• A high;level academic environment within a School of Engineering (Polytech Tours).
— Teaching!pedagogy:!!
• A delivery of planning knowledge with emphasis on theory, methodology and professional skills.
• An assortment of pedagogical approaches including inter alia research;based teaching, problem;based learning, case;based work, seminars and internships.
— Elements of distinctiveness:
• A distinctive focus on research with a strong emphasis on the environmental dimension in planning.
• An interdisciplinary planning programme that connects the social sciences with engineering.
• The only planning programme in France entirely taught in English with a strong connection to UN Habitat, leading to a high degree of internationalisation
Analysis and Research of Urban Street Functions Based on GIS : A Case Study of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
No full textIn the context of the shortage of public space resources in large cities, the concept of "Street Space Renaissance" has been reintroduced, and the social attribute of urban streets as public space have been reemphasized. Street vitality is one of the main indicators to evaluate the social attribute of urban streets, and it is also the main target of urban street design and control in recent years. In this paper, GIS technology is used to evaluate the vitality of streets of different functional types, which makes up for the deficiency of ignoring the functional properties of streets when evaluating the vitality of streets by spatial syntax. This paper takes the Xuhui District of Shanghai, China as an example and comprehensively analyze urban facilities' POI data of different functions (commercial, office, residential and public service facilities, etc.) to identify the density, mixing degree and the dominant nature of the street functions, and using the three indicators to identify the characteristics of urban streets. The research found that: (1) In the area of Xuhui District, according to different types of infrastructures’ POI data, the streets present different functional features. (2) At the overall level, the street vitality shows a certain correlation with the mixing degree and density of the street functions. For example, the streets in the northwest of Xuhui District bordering with Changning and Jing'an District are more active. On the contrary, the vitality of the streets’ in the southern part of Xuhui District and the eastern part near the Huangpu River are generally weak, whose overall development are not perfect. (3) At the meso level of street vitality, the street sections at the intersection are more dynamic than the middle sections. (4) Xuhui District has the highest proportion of streets dominated by the functions of public services and public management, followed by commercial and business streets, and finally residential streets. In general, Xuhui District has strong public functional features and high public service capabilities.publishedVersio
Governance and power in the metropolitan regions of the Randstad
No full textUrban growth and new patterns of urban flows demand new scales and forms of governance since administrative borders often do not reflect contemporary functional relations such as labour and housing markets. To address these issues, new arrangements for metropolitan governance have been developed across many countries. These arrangements can take many forms but often seek to reduce administrative fragmentation and manage complex issues beyond the municipal scale. These arrangements are often collaborative and negotiated; competences and processes of deliberation and decision-making are not closely defined by the rule of law. Their strategic capacity or powers are derived from ‘resources’, ‘process’ and ‘meaning’. This paper compares these three types of power in the governance arrangements for two Dutch metropolitan areas: Amsterdam and Rotterdam The Hague
The repositioning and urbanisation of health: new healthy places along hospital-city-continuum and its implications for healthy city planning
Get PDFThe role of health in our cities and in planning is radically changing. Aaron Antonovsky’s concept of the Healthease-Disease-Continuum brought the dichotomy of disease and health to an end. Consequently, the differentiation between a place for the ill (hospital) and one for the healthy (neighbourhood) is outdated and rather moves towards into a Hospital-City-Continuum. While the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified the city and the urban environment as the main setting for health promotion, health infrastructures are gradually losing their insulated positions and turn into integrated elements of the neighbourhood’s everyday life. Considered systematically the borders between hospital- and urban areas are blurring. Resulting from this, new fields and places for health infrastructure, health promotions and urban health evolve. At the same time, health promotion and health care increasingly penetrate the everyday spaces in the cities. Digital Health, individualized care, personalised (or stratified) medicine and mobile medical devises are no longer banded to health institutions. On the contrary, they can turn a private bedroom into a temporary patient room. The paper identifies and describes these (new) healthy places, positions them along the Continuum and enquires into their possible futures.publishedVersio
Setting up the new planning system in Kosovo - evolution and influences in the development
Get PDFThis paper analyses the evolution of the Kosovo Planning System and the influences in the planning practice and development. It looks back in the period of socialism when planning was established and the overall context after the wars in the Western Balkans by identifying similarities and differences of the planning system in the former Yugoslavia and the shift from a centralized administrative to a democratic system after the war in Kosovo in 1999. The author investigates the role of the international actors, in particular UN Habitat, in setting up the planning system, institutional development, capacity building as well as exercising planning tasks in the practice from 2000-2013. The paper analyzes also the impacts of the shifts in 2013 influenced by the World Bank towards a more liberal planning system and development. The paper explores roles of main local actors in planning, including Kosovo government and the municipalities, international as well as local agencies and civil society organizations in promoting the relevance of planned development and necessary changes in the spatial planning policies. Through the evidence based research the paper intends to measure the outcomes of the plans at central and local planning level throughout the territory of Kosovo
When constraints become assets in the design of bluegreen infrastructures: an insight from two cases in the Western part of France (Loire River Basin)
Get PDFOur presentation focuses on two recent projects of blue-green infrastructures located in the very heart of French middle-size cities in the Western part of France, in the Loire river basin (the Ile aux Planches in Le Mans and the Parc Balzac in Angers). They constitute good illustrations of recent and innovative approaches in the design of blue-green infrastructures. In the two cases, it is interesting to point out the major challenges that planners had to face. First, innovative solutions have been found to overcome technical difficulties (flood-prone areas, brownfield sites, heavy pollution and so on). Second, planners also had to address local conflicts during the definition and implementation of those projects. At last, we point out how those various constraints have been mainly turned into assets and synergies to design multifunctional blue-green infrastructures.publishedVersio
Activism by lay and professional planners : Types, research issues, and ongoing analysis
Get PDFplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 8 (2019) : Making space for hope 32-39Activism was one of the main themes of the AESOP PhD Workshop 2018 in Karlskrona and Tjärö, Sweden. One of my presentations was about the activist roles of planners working for local governments and lay planners affiliated with civil society organizations. I have kept a close eye on the academic literature on activist planning for many years, and am still working in that sub-field of planning theory. My aim is to explore the limits of how professional planners with an activist intent can practice their line of work inside a bureaucracy, and to study how actors from the civil society can use spatial planning and local environmental planning in combination with direct action as a strategy for achieving their goals. To specify the kind of planning I have in mind, I follow Healey (1997:69), stating that: ‘Spatial and environmental planning, understood relationally, becomes a practice of building a relational capacity which can address collective concerns about spatial co-existence, spatial organisation and the qualities of places’. Activist planners can contribute to the processes of such planning and help collect and form the input to spatial and environmental plans
Flood Can Miami learn from Venice (or the opposite)
No full textOn the one hand, “la Serenissima”, a millenary city, which saw its heyday between XIII and XV centuries. On the other “the Magic City”, famous for leisure and pleasure, born in the late nineteenth century from the encounter of two American pioneers. Apparently, they have nothing in common. Yet they share a lot in common. They are both situated in lagoon areas. They rely heavily on tourism and port activity for their economy. And, they find themselves at the frontline of climate change. Venice has always been confronted to flooding, but this condition has been worsening, due to over extraction from aquifers, which caused the city to subside, and to sea level rise. In contrast, flooding isn’t part of Miamians’ culture and tradition. In recent years, however, with climate change bringing about higher rainfalls and storm surges, and causing sea level to rise, Miami has been experiencing more and more floods. Both cities are now highly jeopardised. After developing on the differences and similarities between Venice and Miami, this article proposes to investigate what answers these cities come with to address climate change effects, and to question what they could learn from each other.publishedVersio
Suspended territories and windows of opportunity after the 2016 earthquake in Central Italy
No full textWhile globalization is promoting strong economic concentrations in a few urban centres, peripheral regions are negatively affected by decreasing population and increasing impoverishment, due to the lack of policies and the failure to develop and maintain rural economies. Although natural disasters accelerate these trends, the shock created by unexpected events may generate a window of opportunity, linked both to risk-reduction processes and to transition paths towards more desirable futures. This review aims to discuss tendencies in post-disaster management in the central Apennines after the 2016 earthquake, since this shrinking rural region is slowly concluding the emergency phase and starting to plan reconstruction in the medium-long term. According to the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the reconstruction phase is a critical opportunity for Building Back Better. In order to achieve this primary objective, this paper suggests new scenarios based on a multi-scalar approach and on rural-urban interactions. This is a new opportunity for the rural areas in question to re-evaluate the role of the landscape and the environment and act accordingly. The creation of clusters of highly efficient multifunctional agricultural and infrastructure projects is seen here as an opportunity to create future ecosystems and new approaches to land and landscape management
Erratic Climate Change Planning: The Gold Coast’s Alternating Transition
No full textPlanning the future spatial development of coastal cities is a challenge that has become even more difficult due to the impacts of climate change, governing institutions that were not designed to address such wicked problems, and the reluctance of some right-wing governments to respond. The Gold Coast, Australia, provides a case in point. The city is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change having been hard hit by storms, floods, heatwaves, and droughts over decades. The governing system for the region is part of a complex three-tiered hierarchy involving national (Commonwealth), state (Queensland), and local governments (City of Gold Coast). Governments periodically swing between a rightwing Coalition (of the Liberal and National parties) and the left-wing Labor party (sometimes with the support of the Greens party). In the period 2007-2012 all levels of Australian government had started to take the first steps in addressing the challenges posed by the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. The shift to right-wing governments during the period 2012-15, however, saw many climate plans and policies and plans reversed due to the combined effects of: gaps in the three-tiered system of government; the ideology of the rightwing parties in power; powerful economic interests; electoral politics; fears of legal liability; and, the unique features of the Gold Coast. Since 2015 there has been a divergence with the state-based Queensland Labor government moving back into the climate change adaptation space but the national Coalition government still refusing to act. The science is clear: climate change is happening, the impacts are serious, and low-lying coastal settlements like the Gold Coast are highly vulnerable to its effects. The constant policy and planning reversals over the last decade, however, have made consistent long-term planning and investment in building resilience very difficult