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Cultural enthusiasts, civil society and the strategies of heritage-making in late Russian empire
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 3 / Issue 2 / December 2019; page 71-83Cultural heritage preservation became one of the key topics of public discussion in the Late Russian Empire. These discussions led to the establishment of several initiatives for protecting Russian cultural heritage. This article demonstrates that such initiatives developed a variety of different strategies for heritage-making. Examples from the Society of the Protection and Preservation of the Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia and the Society of the Revival of Artistic Rus’ show that several strategies of heritage-making focusing on cultural heritage preservation were developed simultaneously by different civil groups and helped cultivate the interest of the state authority in the subject, an interest which later became institutionalised under the Soviet regime
Spaces for tourism, Venice planning topographies
Get PDFIn Venice and in the whole Venetian Region, tourism has become one of the first economic powers over the last decades. During the years of crisis, tourism was virtually the only economic source which seemed not to show any recession set against the manufacturing industries and industrial production in general. Although the Venice Region has a long touristic vocation related not only to its historic heritage but also including winter sports, as well as coastal (sea and lake) and health (springs or thermal baths) resorts, some conditions have changed. Many changes have occurred since the 70s, considered the period of extreme expansion of spaces, in terms of buildings and infrastructures for tourism in the Region by expansions of large parts of villages or local settlements with the direct consequence of a huge amount of land use. Venice today faces peculiar conditions where the struggle for inhabitants to keep their residential and daily lives comes up against the huge power of private investments oriented exclusively towards tourism. According to recent surveys there is no longer accommodation for longterm affordable renting throughout the island. Many local associations have striven, through provocative actions and initiatives, in order to defend a specific right to live the city. Following this general framework, the paper aims at documenting how the city has changed in terms of physical space, modification in use of public spaces and the lack of administrative local policies to defend local inhabitants in the city. Meanwhile, over the last five years some studies and researches, especially in the University IUAV in Venice, have stressed the accent to reuse and recycle spaces for living or collective purposes, though local administration and public opinion generally shows itself to be unresponsive to these suggestions. Is there the need to display a reflection much more related to space and the its specific role in a peculiar city like Venice? This kind of work is oriented to read this phenomenon via a spatial lens through maps, re-drawings and interpretation of data coming from different sources. In order to show how the impact of tourism is apparently affecting the daily and ordinary spaces in the city of Venice, the study focuses on potential spatial planning initiatives towards a possible, hopefully alternative, scenario for the future.publishedVersio
Enhancing urban-rural connectivity in nonmetropolitan regions: a methodology in support to decision-making
Get PDFAccessibility to services and opportunities is vital to achieve the EU goals of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Some territories are worse equipped than others in this concern, due to their intrinsic peripheral character. Their weak and scattered mobility demand has progressively made traditional public transport subject to efficiency savings and cut to the bone. Such measures contributed to worsen social inequality, as they affect especially those already vulnerable groups who do not have access to a car. In this light, to improve urban-rural connectivity is essential for granting equal access to services and opportunities and, in turn, greater social justice. Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) has been often seen as a panacea for all the circumstances where traditional services are not viable, but a range of barriers (institutional, cultural, technological and economic) suggests that its adoption is more challenging than it may seem. Drawing on the results of the ESPON URRUC project, the paper sheds light on this issue, exploring the variables according to which various DRT solutions may or may not prove viable in a given area. On this basis, the authors propose a transport policy toolkit that may support decision-maker aiming at enhancing urban-rural connectivity across Europe.ESPON URRUC research Consortium
University of Coventry, Nordregio
University of Valencia.publishedVersio
Note: pre-conference draft, please do not cite. Author can supply latest version of this work-in-progress
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** author can supply latest version of this work-in-progress **The Museum of London (MoL) is one of the world's largest and best-curated collections. It was formed fifty years ago from the merger of two rivals: the archaeologically oriented Guildhall Museum, representing the antiquarian harvest from intensification of the central business district, which coincides with London's ancient core municipality; and the London Museum, metropolitan in scope, eclectic in its collections, oriented towards the scale and diversity of the modern city. From its formation MoL has sought to combine and reconcile these strands, making it - as IUAV expert Prof Donatella Calabi notes - a seminal example of a modern city museum. MoL's purpose-built home in the architecturally famous Barbican complex suffers from a fatal defect. Its entrance on an elevated deck is inaccessible, limiting visitor numbers. After several unsuccessful attempts to open up ground-level access, the museum has decided to relocate. MoL seized the opportunity to acquire two halls formerly belonging the wholesale meat market at Smithfield, in a prime visitor location close to the massively enlarged railway station at Farringdon, meeting point of London's north-south and east-west Crossrail routes. The new premises combine spacious ground levels under high domed roofs with deep cellars intended for cold storage of meat. Plans for the transition are well advanced with MoL scheduled to reopen its doors in 2023 The paper discusses the challenge of relocating the Museum from a purpose-built modernist structure on an elevated deck, to buildings that are larger and older, with street access from all sides; and the consequent choices for organisation and presentation of the collections. We see how those basic questions of urban museology which fuelled the rivalry between Guildhall and London collections a hundred years ago continue to exercise the MoL’s curators today.draf
Planning and architecture for climate adaptation: the experiences of the "structure-territories" in low and high density city
Get PDFThe paper reflects on the awareness that climate adaptation planning becomes more effective when it is dealt with a local context. This approach focuses on the relationship between vulnerability, adaptation and urban regeneration processes in territories of a low and high density. It refers to new balances of the urban ecosystem in the two case studies. The experiences highlight fields of experimentation of new forms of the urban project that take into account the peculiarities of each territory. Some urban areas are experimenting new ways of cooperation between public and private stakeholders which, although belonging to two different situations of low and high settlement density, are dealing with the issue of resilience and adaptation in both fields urban planning and architecture. The experiences of these different contexts, spread urban forms in Sardinia and high settlement density in the city of Tunis, reflect on how to rethink the structure of the city through adaptive urban strategies such as the design dispositive of "Structure Territory". This planning approach aims to promote the adoption of new design solutions that satisfy the contemporary needs of inhabitants and, at the same time, are oriented towards the nature-based solutions
CoRep Meeting Ljubljana 28 March 2019
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AESOP Council Representatives Meeting
Faculty of Civic and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana
28th March 2019
F = Files in the Repository
9:30
1. Approval of the Agenda (BD, PP) F
2. Approval of the CoRep Meeting Minutes & Resolutions from Gothenburg
(BD, PP) F
3. Progress report on the 2019 Venice Congress (ZNB, FM, LF)
4. Progress report on the 2020 Bristol (AK)
5. Ratification of AESOP membership (PP) F
6. Financial Matters (BB) F
a. 2018 Financial Statement
b. 2018 Auditors Report
c. 2019 Budget
7. Selection of the 2019 AESOP Lecture Series hosts (PP) F
8. Election of the GPEAN Representative (PP) F
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
9. Approval of a new Thematic Groups (PP) F
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 (DB) F
14. AESOP - ACSP Collaboration and MoU (BD) F
15. AEKOM Report (CP) F
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
16. »AESOP International« (BD) F
17. AESOP Assets Management (BD)
18. AOB
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Masters of Transition?
Get PDFMy grandmother lived in six different regimes. Influence of Austrians, then Germans and later on Russians on Czechs and Slovaks - with Jewish flavor until the 40th - framed Central European region and its spatial planning culture in the XX century. One may say people living there supposed to be masters in transition. The paper presents outcomes of a qualitative comparative research of planning law in the central European region and seeks possible lessons to be learned to tackle with upcoming challenges. The study demonstrates - based on data from residential development in the Czech Republic - the impact of social and economic changes to statutory (regulatory) planning system and its instruments. Transition from socialist to capitalist system combined with current and upcoming challenges (sustainability, hazards, social changes etc.) creates colorful puzzle to be disentangled. There were many attempts to address these issues in different ways but it does not seem the light at the tunnels´ end might be seen. After almost 30 years of democracy in the central European region there is permanent legislative uncertainty in the construction business there. This depreciates private savings and diminishes competitiveness of the country. Nevertheless, there were and are examples of legislative interventions which try to tackle the never ending transition.publishedVersio
Whose heritage? Challenges coming from turning cities as tourist places
Get PDFThe tertiarisation of society along the second half of the 20th century and the correlated growth of culture and leisure industries created an unprecedented pressure for change on historic centres, creating paradoxical relations between tourism, heritage preservation and urban development. This model of development provided a more intense cross-cultural confrontation, with the corresponding differences in recognition of heritage(s) values. This paper intends to discuss the transformation of heritage from 'shared heritage' into 'consumer good' cross-checking its effects on middle-sized cities Portuguese. The desertification, abandonment and degradation of the old areas created the challenge of their repopulation and their reuse. In turn, tourism has provided reuse of buildings and built new social and cultural dynamics, making it necessary to discuss how can one preserve the values and meanings of historic centres, and for whom. Recently, the Portuguese government has created fundamental changes in housing, rental and rehabilitation policies, with specific financial and legal instruments. However, their effects have not prevented the emergence of local challenges in housing law because of tourism, nor have they contributed to the promotion of new social constructions associated with heritage(s) understood as shared heritage(s). That is, public investment has not been able to enhance the heritage of the historic centres as good of public interest. For its part, the 'touristification' shows it has the power to catalyse its rehabilitation but implies changes that we intend to discuss focusing the perspective of who visits and who lives and assessing the losses and the gains for the communities.publishedVersio
Research on multi-level public space system planning strategy in historical and cultural block based on the concept of "collage city" - taking Beijing Moshikou historical and cultural block as an example
No full textIn China, historical and cultural blocks serve as the material carrier of traditional culture and resident life in the city, as well as an important area for protecting local culture, inheriting historical culture and displaying urban style. In the transformation and renewal stage of the city, the protection and renewal of historical blocks has become a hot topic of research and discussion. Based on the life and leisure needs of residents in historical and cultural blocks, this paper firstly interprets the concept of ‘collage city’, emphasizes the integration and coordination of spaces and surrounding population demand, land use function and style, and proposes a planning idea. Secondly, taking the Beijing Moshikou historical and cultural block as an example, realize the diversified and systematic public space system through the three-level planning of ‘node-tour line-region’. Meanwhile, we plan festival activities to promote neighbourhood relations and tourism development, and encourage community residents to participate in the planning process through time series construction. In the end, in the historical and cultural districts, the use of collage techniques to promote the integration of multiculturalism, coordinate the balance between tourism development and residents' lives, and achieve sustainable urban transformation.publishedVersio
17. Cities on earth: the politics and design of spatial development face to the new climate regime
No full textDue to strike action in France this Lecture Series has been cancelled