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A Research Framework of Urban Spatial Planning Regulation Based on Cardiovascular Health in the Context of Severe Cold Climate
Get PDFClimate has a significant impact on public health. In the context of severe cold climate, severe cold regions have high incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Combining the health problems with regional climate and urban spatial elements, to study the impact of urban space has on public health and planning regulation strategies will help deepen research of healthy urban planning. In this paper, with the analysis of the correlation between severe cold climate, urban space and cardiovascular, we discuss the research significance on urban spatial planning regulation based on cardiovascular health. We try to develop a research framework of urban spatial planning regulation in severe cold regions, through two pathways including reduction of incidence of cardiovascular diseases and promotion of physical activities favorable to prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. With the pathways analysis, preliminary planning regulation strategies are put forward, aiming at providing some support for healthy urban planning in severe cold regions for reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.Supported by Sub-project of the “13th Five-Year Plan” National Key R&D Program “Design Pattern and Demonstration of Green Public Building Adapting to Severe Cold Climate” (2017YFC0702306)publishedVersio
Living Apartment Buildings in Ankara and Their Relation with the City
Get PDFInnovative buildings, with their design aspects, functions and environmental relations, can enrich urban areas spatially and functionally. This study explores inner-city apartment buildings in Ankara that adapted a similar approach to Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation (dwelling unit), and analyzes how they have contributed to their surrounding area. Le Corbusier's approach to city planning involved geometric forms. In his works on city planning, dwelling is the fundamental element. One of his well-known contributions in this regard is Unité d'Habitation. Besides its architectural features, a remarkable aspect of this model is its communal spaces. It is more than an apartment building; where he emphasized a communal lifestyle along interior streets and on the roof. The emptied ground floor and roof garden allow a social environment for users, and these spaces interconnect with nature. A similar approach was adapted by a few cooperative housing initiatives in Ankara during the 1950s-1960s period. It was a period when cooperative housing was largely implemented to respond the housing need of working population. The examples in Ankara are still well-known with their architectural styles and functional aspects. This study focuses on some of them, designed and constructed in the same period. It analyzes the morphological and functional features at street-scale. The study does not propose this approach or similar ones as a solution to all contexts, but it highlights how an architectural approach can interrelate to the urban level with its communal spaces, and open areas at ground and roof levels, and contribute to urban life in spatial and functional terms
Understanding the Urbanite-oriented Performance of Ecosystem Service in Peri-urban Areas : An analytical Framework
Get PDFPeri-urban area is the transitional territory between rural and urban areas and the most diverse area that the ecosystem confronts the urban development. It is probably one of the fastest growing areas across the world, especially in developing countries, among which China is recognized as one of the most important contributors. Extant research document peri-urban area not only as the most dynamic and growing territories, but also the territories haunted by urban sprawl, environmental pollution, social segregation, etc. Based on the particularity of the ecosystem in the peri-urbanized area, this paper proposes a human-centered analytical framework for assessing ecosystem functions based on the original ecological service value assessment method. First assess the performance of ecosystems (ES), including cultural services, supporting services, regulating services and provisioning services to meet the diverse needs of urban dwellers, rather than equal value or biomass carbon. Further, instead of simply superimposing the four types of ES, clustering analysis is used to classify the ES types of each analysis unit because they differ in the four dimensions of the ES, and finally some scenario predictions were made through the classification results.publishedVersio
Built heritage and landscape role in the Rome metropolitan plan
Get PDFBuilt Heritage and landscape are long-term cultural and material memories costantly reinterpreted by the contemporaries. Both are considered as fundamental level for local and regional development in the Rome’s Metropolitan Plan (Piano Territoriale Provinciale Generale PTPG). The Plan interpret nature, built heritage and landscape as key value that characterize the metropolitan identities. Settlement’s transformations in the plan arise from the physical and historical form of the territory and encourage a double polycentrism (Rome and 120 municipalities). One of the general objective of the plan is to reorganize present settlement in made the most of existing patterns rules and peculiarities by using principles of the compact city. The paper would like to point out how built heritage and landscape development have to re-shapes the territories of our dispersal contemporary city
Sustainable tourism and public space - a case study of Skeppsholmsviken 6 in Stockholm, Sweden
Get PDFThe visitor industry is considered a primary industry for Swedish economic growth today. Official strategies and goals for the industry focus mainly on quantitative aspects such as number of visitors, number of jobs in the visiting sector, or total revenues from the same. Despite a large body of evidence showing that urban tourism can have unintended consequences of a less desirable nature, public documents categorically present the idea of more visitors to Stockholm as something leading to positive outcomes. A discussion or mention of social or economic change to a city’s residential character and heritage is hard to find in written or spoken discourse. By studying an on-going conflict related to a project that might bring more visitors to an already well-exploited area in central Stockholm, this paper aims to explore what role a society sustainable tourist strategy can or could play for decision making when urban development impacts public space. The paper employs complementary strategies of qualitative enquiry through interviews, discourse analysis and desk based research.publishedVersio
Dialectical Understanding on Urban Shrinkage and Growth in China: Taking the Old Industrial Base Cities in Northeastern China as an Example
Get PDFPlanning for Transition – book of proceedings 31; 2According to statistical data, nearly 60 percent of China’s population had lived in cities, by 2018. Recently, research reports show that China's population growth will enter a period of stagnation, followed by a likely rapid decline. This paper selects the old industrial base cities, in Northeastern China, as the research object. Based on the data of population, urban construction, fiscal revenue and LGDP, etc., utilizing data spatial visualization analysis software such as ArcGIS, this research reveals the space-time dynamic association between urban growth and shrink, happening in cities and in regions. Furthermore, the research analyzes the dynamic process of growth and reduction of population and land-use scale in individual city case, focusing on industrial landuse and the situation of related employment. At the same time, it reflects the socio-economic characteristics of urban outflow population, such as age, occupation, income, and the structural characteristics of the urban secondary industry as well as the transition trends. That means, the areas and cities to which the population flows, and the jobs performed, also have important explanatory implications on the things happening in case cities. Based on the analysis above, the paper proposes an understanding and definition of the shrinking cities in the context of contemporary China. And then it argues that, comparing with the economic growth and population accumulation previously, the status of population outflow, industrial decline and spatial shrink happening currently, still can be regarded as an urban development mode which isn’t represented by the growth of space and economic, but by the reconstruction of space, population and industry. Furthermore, the reconstruction of space has the rich connotation of smart growth. It is the right way for cities to seek new development engine and the mechanisms by which the engine works.publishedVersio
The role of activist researchers in urban and regional planning : Analysing and comparing international case studies of social change
Get PDFActivist researchers in urban planning place an emphasis on facilitating social change through innovation and empowerment. The research explores the definitions of action research, how these different dimensions of activism in urban planning can be identified and redesigned as new situations and challenges arise. In defining action research, the paper also introduces the roles that activist researchers play in contributing to practice and theory through their research. Considering the research carried out by the authors, the paper compares the different approaches adopted by the researchers analysing international cases of social change. The authors argue that the research activist positions in urban and regional planning can affect the long-term change of a place by contributing in theory and practice, defining new models and procedures. Through these examples, the research affirms that the methods applied in action research, can be constructive or critical of existing urban planning processes and can contribute to the production of knowledge for both theory and practice. However, the main concern for activist researchers will always remain the long-term impact of their research and its benefit to society
Planning the mirage: Lessons for planning education from Abu Dhabi
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 3 / Issue 1 / June 2019; page 23-36Throughout the 1980s planning educators disagreed on the appropriateness of Western planning education for poor countries’ students, and on the question of whether training of students from developing countries should be based on “general principles” or “contextual material specific to poor countries” (Sanyal, 1990, p.8). Today most planning programs in North America (and in the West in general) offer courses in ‘international development’, ‘world cities’, ‘urbanization in the global South’, or closely related topics. However, as ‘the other’ becomes more mainstream in Western planning education, the belief that Western planning education is robust enough to accommodate global differences (the ‘one world’ model of planning education), becomes more entrenched. Further, an unspoken assumption goes unquestioned – that planning curricula, too, just like planning skills, can be transferred internationally. Over the last three decades or so, the advent of the age of interconnected economies and the networked society, has had a profound impact on global trends of development and urbanization. This paper argues that the question of appropriate planning curricula ought to be revisited especially from the perspective of education in developing countries. Scholars educated in the West, who are teaching in developing countries, are in a unique position to assess the utility of bringing Western planning education to less developed parts of the world. This paper is based on the authors’ observations and experiences over seven years, teaching Urban Planning at undergraduate level at a private university in Abu Dhabi. During this period the authors were involved with program design, course design, accreditation and quality assurance, mentorship, along with university service, teaching, and research. The paper evaluates the practices and circumstances of urban planning in UAE and the implications for planning education. It is argued that there is a fundamental disconnect between the profession’s ethics, and the reality of planning practice in the region. This gap has not been considered in depth in either program design or in accreditation standards. The paper concludes with recommendations for planning education in the Gulf region
Built heritage and Agenda 2030 : Embedding heritage values in the spatial planning local agenda
No full textThe UN Agenda 2030 is abundantly clear on the intertwined nature of sustainable development, as a combination of socio-economic and environmental aspects. Less explicit emphasis is posited on the role played by culture, identity and history and their contribution to pursue sustainable development. Indeed, the Sustainable Development Goal 11 encompasses strengthening efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage. This is measured by the total expenditure per capital on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage. However, successful heritage preservation and conservation strategies rest not only on capital investments, but most importantly on how they are embedded in the spatial planning procedures and instruments and on the level of protection they ensure to the existence of the built heritage as such. Failures in recognizing the existence value of heritage assets may cause significant flaws in the governance of preservation, particularly in growing urban areas under the pressure of the real estate market. This paper engages with the complex issue of embedding heritage values in spatial planning local agendas, by instrumentally discussing a purposely selected case study. It is suggested that although heritage values are socially constructed, still the intergenerational justice principle of sustainable development should urge for applying the precautionary principle while dealing with heritage assets, because of their non- replaceable nature. This paper concludes that the existence value of tangible heritage should be more explicitly recognized in Agenda 2030, by incorporating a target indicator allowing to track permanent loss of built heritage. Shifting from the international to the local scale, this paper also concludes that overreliance on the notion of spatial planning as political discourse may pave the way to slippery paths in heritage conservation policies, leading to the permanent loss of non-replaceable assets. It is anticipated that the paper concludes that local planning decisions on heritage conservation should be subjected to the precautionary principle and not being left into the political negotiation domain
A resilience-based approach to enhance the capacity of small villages to cope with intertwined threats: A Case-Study in the Basilicata Region
No full textTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 2019; page 126-140About 70 percent of Italian municipalities that have fewer than 5,000 inhabitants are located in difficult to access mountain areas which are often prone to multiple hazards. As clearly demonstrated by the seismic events that hit Central Italy in 2016, the socio-economic decline of these municipalities is also increasing their vulnerability. Nowadays, small villages represent an important challenge for Italy, because they require significant resources and effective strategies to both break the cycle of decline and promote their economic and social development, while also reducing their vulnerability to natural and climate related hazards. This contribution provides an overview of the initiatives recently launched in Italy in favour of small villages and outlines a methodological path to assess and enhance the overall resilience of these areas, with a focus on a case study area located in the Basilicata Region of Southern Italy