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The built environment and active life-styles in older adults: an analysis of the location of care services in Portugal
Get PDFThe relationship between the built environment and people's health has been a frequent scientific subject. The ageing populations of many developed countries has further increased the interest in this relationship. At the core of these studies is the assumption that, as people age, they become more sensitive to the physical space they live in, which can form barriers or, on the contrary, contribute to active life styles. But the role the institutions for older adults can assume in this context, and how their location and surrounding built environment can affect their users’ mobility, has often been ignored by this discussion. This paper focusses on this relation, by analysing 17 care facilities in Portugal. For this analysis, interviews were conducted with 36 professionals and 137 users, and in locu assessments of their location was made. Through this methodology, it was found that the proximity to primary services is fundamental for an active lifestyle in institutionalized older adults and their integration in the neighbourhood. Particular attention should thus be paid to the broader location of these facilities in the urban context, and not only to the assessment of the surrounding environment’s walkability levels.publishedVersio
Smart Energy Transition: evaluation of cities in South Korea
Get PDFPlanning for Transition – book of proceedings 31; 2One of the major objectives of smart city development is achieving energy efficiency and moving towards a low-carbon energy society. The idea is that ICT-embedded urban infrastructure can enable efficient energy management and contribute to reducing CO2 emission. In that sense, a smart city can play an important role in the energy transition. In South Korea, the government plays a major role in smart city development. Since the 2000s the governments implemented informatization and digitalization and since 2008 they started smart city implementation across the country. Then how these government-led smart city initiatives perform in the energy transition? The purpose of this paper is to discover the contribution of government-led smart city initiatives in the energy transition. After building a conceptual framework on smart city and energy transition, we develop a Smart Energy Transition Index. The 161 cities in South Korea are grouped into three categories: 1st and 2nd wave smart cities and non-smart cities. The index score is compared among the groups and the analysis showed that there is a significant difference between 2nd wave smart cities and the 1st and the non-smart cities. The analysis provided empirical evidence of the smart city’s contribution to the energy transition.publishedVersio
Influence of Creative Activities on the Residents and Conservation of Culture, History and Landscape in Setouchi Islands, Japan
Get PDFDue to worldwide changes in economic conditions and industrial infrastructures, many coastal industrial areas are now suffering from the outflows of industry and population. In recent years, efforts aimed at halting such declines and revitalizing those areas have often been led by cultural and artistic activities. One such effort is the “Setouchi Art Festival” on islands in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. On Inujima, one of them, the Inujima Seirensho Art Museum was built on the ruins of an old copper refinery as a tribute to the island’s industrial heritage. A number of other art projects were created on the island and old houses were renovated as part of the art festival. This paper aims to identify the influence of these creative activities on the island’s residents and learn how they reflect the conservation of culture, history, and the natural landscape of Inujima Island. To accomplish this, we conducted a field survey and interviews with local residents and learned that many of them feel positive about interacting with the young people who visit the art festival, including foreign tourists, while other local residents have developed a sense of separation from the old refinery since it was transformed into an art museum
Urban green spaces in transition: Urban socialecological resilience in the region Frankfurt Rhine- Main—A review
Get PDFThis study reviews the fundamental literature and emphasizes the significance of urban green spaces (UGSs) of the studied case, the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region (FRM). UGSs as natural resources provide benefits against main climate-related urban hazards—floods, droughts, and heat waves—and are considered as essential components of climate adaptation. Also, UGSs are spatial resources for densification, a key instrument against sprawl. UGSs’ competing functions cause urban land-use conflict in many growing metropolitan regions. FRM, with its increased frequency, randomness, and severity of climate hazards and peaking rates of housing demand, is no exception to this trend. In this study, the literature review is guided by a conceptual framework which assigns urban land-use competition as the point of departure and the concepts of regional economic development and environmental protection as entry points to urban social-ecological resilience. Although resilience, as a theory of social-ecological system property, is already studied extensively, it still needs to be unpacked to be operationalized in planning practice. This work looks at the links among theory, policy, and practice and suggests that resilience is most purposeful when it is approached rather as an integral process to planning and management than an end destination. (195 words)publishedVersio
Sustainable and connected infrastructure networks and urban regions – transition towards integrated planning of urban nodes on TEN-T corridors
Get PDFAchieving a smart, green and integrated transport system is essential for the (social) economic and environmental vitality of European urban regions. In order to better integrate urban nodes into TEN-T corridors, the challenges of multimodal connections between long-distance and last-mile transport have to be tackled from both freight and passengers’ perspective. Different spatial scales, modalities, sectors and stakeholders have to be taken into account when improving mobility, infrastructure and spatial development in both urban nodes and corridors. To tackle these challenges a research programme has been developed, supported by EU’s Horizon2020 (Vital Nodes), which analyses best practices, experiences and opportunities in various urban nodes in Europe. This paper addresses the approach deployed by the Vital Nodes-project to integrate investments in mobility, infrastructure and urban development from (inter)national/corridor, regional and local perspectives. To this end, the paper discusses results from case studies in urban nodes as Gothenburg, Vienna, Rotterdam, Genova, Strasbourg, Turku, Hamburg, Budapest and Mannheim and related TEN-T corridors, including an analysis addressing their main challenges. The paper concludes by exploring the main elements of such transition that will improve the integration of urban areas into the TEN-T corridors and the vitality of the urban regions of tomorrow.draf
Towards a Historical Urban Landscape: Principles and approaches in recent built heritage and landscape regeneration projects in the Yorkshire region of England
Get PDFThere is a recent shift in focus in the design preservation and transformation of the built heritage from building objects to historical urban landscape in the Yorkshire region of U.K. The paper will discuss the conservation policies, design regeneration principles, approaches, and socioeconomic impacts of two up-to-dated exemplar projects -- ‘Albert Works’ in Sheffield in 2017, and ‘Square Chapel’ in Halifax in 2017. The paper points to a more culturally and socially-sensitive way of architectural design involving built heritage and historical urban landscape, which works with the as-found conditions of historical fabric and monuments, strategic design branding, economic returns in preserving and transforming the built heritage and landscape in the Yorkshire
CoRep Meeting, Venice, 9 July 2019
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AESOP Council of Representatives Meeting
Università Iuav di Venezia
09th July 2019
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9:30
1. Approval of the Agenda (BD) F
2. Approval of the CoRep Meeting Minutes and Resolutions from Ljubljana (PP) F
3. Election of the AESOP President (2020-2022) (BD, PP) F
a. Maros Finka
4. Progress report on the 2020 Bristol Congress (ZNB) F
5. Short Report on Lisbon World Planning Schools Congress 2021
6. Election of the host of the 2020 HoS Meeting (BD, PP) F
a. TU Vienna
7. Ratification of AESOP membership (PP) F
a. Graduate Program in Urban Planning (Uninove University), as Corresponding Member
b. School of Planning, Design and Construction (Michigan State University), as Corresponding Member
c. School for the Environment (University of Massachusetts at Boston), as Corresponding Member
d. School of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (National Technical University of Athens), as Full Member
e. Institute of Architecture and Planning (University of Liechtenstein), as Full Member
8. Information on AESOP individual membership (PP) F
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
9. Financial Matters (BB) F
a. Financial Statement
b. Annual Budget
c. Project proposals
10. Quality Recognition Report (DG) F
11. GPEAN & UN Habitat Update Report (EBS) F
12. Transactions of AESOP Report (EBS) F
13. YA Network Report (AM) F
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14. AESOP Lecture Series Report (PP) F
15. AEKOM Report (CP) F
16. Website relaunch (BD)
17. AESOP International (BD) F
18. General Assembly Agenda (BD) F
19. AOB
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Let's Talk About Change : Experiences from a video exhibition confronting the public with urban and landscape transition bz revisiting the original sites of relocated historical museums buildings to view these sites in their current state
Get PDFBetween 1985 and 2015, settlement areas in the densely populated parts of Switzerland increased by almost one third. Whereas Switzerland still perceives itself as "Heidland" (referring to Johanna Spyri's novel), expected to attract tourists with its beautiful landscapes and charming small towns, the country has been transformed into an urban landscape dominated by conurbations. In the 2010s, several ground-braking (direct democratic) popular initiatives linked to landscape issues were launched and received the majority of the vote. The will to control further expansion of settlement areas exists and the transformation of built heritage and landscapes is present on the national political stage, but the perception of change is still difficult to express. However, dealing with landscape transition and developing local planning concepts accepted by people requires talking about change more site-specific.
In 2016, the authors organised an exhibition at the Swiss open-air museum Ballenberg. It presents more than 100 historical farm buildings from all over Switzerald, which had been relocated from their original sites for various reasons, from construction of new residential or commercial buildings to infrastructure projects and original sites today cover urban, suburban and peripheral locations. Videos of the original sites of 14 selected Ballenberg buildings were produced in order to present these sites of origin as they appear today. The videos, which were presented in the respective museum buildings, confronted the visitors with historical buildings - still in existence, but relocated - and the current condition of their former sites. A special visitor's centre provided an opportunity to find out more and to discuss the topic of change with volunteers.
Experience gathered from this exhibition will be presented, giving an insight into the quality of the visitors' debate initiated by the videos and reflecting on the impact of these findings in dealing with landscape transition future
Towards a better understanding of upcoming challenges related to technology and data usability within design practice. Key reflections from a collaborative process in Amsterdam city
Get PDFThe digital turn of the twenty-first century has unleashed an unprecedented amount of high quality data. Whereas most industries have eagerly taken advantage of this information to cut costs and improve their products, designers are still searching for an instrumental approach to implement data as a design tool. Technology companies and research institutes seem to have the tools to investigate today's challenges for better cities. However, their tools are not reaching into the design practice. We argue that we need to start a dialogue between the worlds of design, data and technology to find out what the real value is of big data for the spatial design disciplines. We propose to run an experimental case study using data as force of design and share our findings with the discipline. This paper describes and reflects on a process carried out by a project funded by Creative Industries NL and the Municipality of Amsterdam to develop a Smart City-Scan (an experimental data-driven Sustainability Scan) applied in the city of Amsterdam. This project aims to map spatial challenges and opportunities for sustainable and resilient urban design, hereby creating an integral foundation for healthy urban ecosystems. The Scan is executed in collaboration with experts on sustainability, data analysts, decision makers and other urban design offices through a series of six workshops. In conjunction with this paper, we will reflect on the role of these discussions between academics and practitioners aiming to bridge the rift between theory and its application within practice, specifically regarding research on potential technological methods and tools which could be potentially useful for daily practice struggles. This paper aims to provide insights on the content discussions carried out, but also reflects deeply within the methodology and potential outcomes obtained from the multidisciplinary discourse of shaping the smart city scan
Land take and regional planning: promoting sustainable settlement development in urban regions
Get PDFPlanning for Transition – book of proceedings 31; 2In Germany the national goal of reducing land take is opposed to the increasing demand for new spaces for housing and commercial construction, especially in already concentrated urban regions. Many dominating regional centers are not able anymore to satisfy the settlement pressure within their own boundaries. So regional solutions are required. Regional planning is an important player concerning sustainable settlement concepts in Germany with almost fully developed tools to provide land reduced settlement structures. Within this paper success factors as well as obstacles for the realization of the vision of compact and environmentally sustainable settlement structures in urban regions are shown. On the one hand, it provides a presentation of the regional planning tools promoting this spatial vision. In the light of an implementation deficit of the regional requirements on local level caused by a lack of acceptance for compact and space-saving settlement structures, there is, on the other hand, a need for innovative approaches of informal cooperation, participation and awareness raising. For this purpose, two case examples from the German regions of Hannover and Stuttgart are presented.publishedVersio