352 research outputs found
Territoires du productivisme, paysages altérés : Voyage sur un transect du cœur du Bocage vendéen à la côte atlantique = Territories of productivism, altered landscapes : Journey along a transect from the heart of the Vendée Bocage to the Atlantic Coast
No full textTerritori produttivi in transizione. Reti alimentari alternative nei territori del Bocage vendéen e del Val-de-Marne.
No full textI territori produttivi occidentali sono attualmente inseriti in un regime alimentare dominante di Cheap Food che presenta numerose fragilità di fronte alle crisi ambientali, sanitarie, economiche e geopolitiche in corso. In opposizione alla valorizzazione unidimensionale del cibo come merce, secondo molti autori le reti alimentari alternative costituiscono nicchie di transizione che possono contribuire a rafforzare la resilienza alimentare dei territori ed essere considerate come uno dei pilastri della costruzione di un nuovo regime di beni comuni alimentari.
Questo contributo è tratto da una ricerca di dottorato che ha affrontato il paradigma della transizione agroalimentare. Lo ha fatto attraverso un’esplorazione delle iniziative situate in due territori produttivi contemporanei del contesto francese, le cui configurazioni spaziali corrispondono a due forme di territori europei: il territorio dell’ibridazione urbano-rurale del Bocage vendéen e il territorio denso e compatto del Val-de-Marne. In particolare, il contributo illustrerà l’esplorazione di alcune reti alimentari alternative – Association pour le Maintient de l’Agriculture Paysanne (AMAP) e organizzazioni simili – e gli spazi a loro associati.
Il contributo ha l'obiettivo di verificare in che modo la condizione situata di queste iniziative può influenzare il loro funzionamento e il loro assemblaggio, e quindi provare a capire in che misura la loro dimensione spaziale possa influire sulla loro capacità di contribuire alla resilienza alimentare locale e alla transizione agroecologica in corso
(Re)Habiter le bocage vendéen. L’urbanisme face aux imaginaires, réalités et tensions de trois jardins productifs
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Urbanism and peasant agriculture in French hybrid territories. Limits and counter-trends of contemporary planning in the Vendée Bocage.
No full textQuale manifattura per la città? Il caso di Bruxelles nella ricerca Cities of Making
No full textFaced with the challenges posed by the growing economic, social and environmental imbalances, the question of the transition of the European territories towards a more circular system of production and resource management seems to emerge as an opportunity to reflect on the distribution of wealth. Specifically, the article examines some territories and the role that urban manufacturing can play in accompanying the transition from the current linear production model to a circular one, to ease the consequences of consumption and the dependence relationships of cities from outside territories, but also to rebalance inequalities in management and resource allocation.
The article is based on the first results of the Cities of Making research (JPI-Urban Europe, 2017-2019), which focuses on the role of urban manufacturing in the cities of London, Rotterdam-The Hague and Brussels. In addition to these three regions
metropolitan areas, other European cities today reflect on the need to establish spatial and political strategies for industry.
In the manner of American Urban Manufacturing, production suggests the construction of new relationship systems and opportunities towards a model of socio-economically resilient city, despite the difficulty of coexistence in the same context interested industrial processes and everyday urban life
Designing with Uncertainty : A Collaborative Approach to Coastal Change in Vias
No full textIn the past few years, numerous authors formulated the hypothesis that the informal city offers several original amenities: lightness, adaptability and social cohesion for example. The acknowledgement of these assets risks to hide, on the one hand, the limits of informality, and on the other hand, the first vocations of the city. Collectivising basic services and regulating their use, providing accessibility and ensuring the permeability of the ground, guaranteeing safety for inhabitants and goods: these are some of the purposes territorial planning and design usually intend to fulfil.
On the Mediterranean coast, in the south-east of France, the municipality of Vias has seen an informal residential fabric develop since the 1960s. Mainly used for leisure, the plots are now exposed to coastal risks. In the trail of the Xynthia storm, the awareness of these risks leads the French Government to launch in 2015 a national experimental approach to strengthen the knowledge of the affected territories. The ambition is to set up local strategies aimed at adapting territories to coastal change and reducing their vulnerability. Among the experimental sites, Vias has the peculiarity to combine both risk-related themes and the specific issues of informality.
In Vias, the cooperation between the Government, the local authorities and the inhabitants quickly takes an exceptional direction. The dimension of the site is particularly significant: 2,500 leisure plots in part occupied by illegal constructions. The means employed are equally impressive: for three years, a dedicated team led by an architect has been organising a series of workshops to develop an adaptive masterplan. The latter should allow a more sustainable transition of the coast. The approach is exemplary, but numerous doubts are emerging in a context marked by contradictory injunctions. How to experiment without admitting uncertainty?
Originally written for the 4th City Futures Conference organised by the European Urban Research Association and the Urban Affairs Association1, this article provides a critical analysis of the method used to design the adaptive masterplan of the coast of Vias. It fits into a thematic session entitled “Inhabiting Outside the Law: The Variety of Housing Informality/Illegality in Western Countries”, itself included in the first of 6 conference’s tracks called “Cities and Spatial and Social Justice - Creating More Inclusive Cities”
Toward New Urban Hydrographies
No full textThe contribution to the book, entitled 'Towards New Urban 'Hydrographies'', is of a theoretical nature and is intended as a reflection on the hypothesis of the concept of 'new urban hydrography', which would consist of creating a rainwater collection system (from the private roof, via the backyard garden, the public pavement and the street) that always remains visible and is treated entirely on the surface. While we conclude this article by questioning the feasibility of such an idea - especially in terms of the division of private/public responsibilities and long-term management - the Brussels Region has shown itself to be particularly sensitive to these issues and has since developed a number of tools and strategies to promote the construction of new kinds of 'hydrographies'
Territories of urban-rural hybridisation in the agroecological transition. A spatial exploration of agroecology initiatives in Veneto plain.
No full textWhile Food Planning has long been interested in food spaces related to urban and metropolitan contexts, there are few case studies today that consider territories and processes of diffusion and dispersion, where urban settlements and infrastructures mix and hybridise with the rural tissue. However, in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the territories of urban-rural hybridisation, in an attempt to overcome those spatial categories that continue to structure much of western urban thought (city-country; urban-rural, etc.). In fact, beyond food production and the city-countryside distinction, some scholars question the renewed relationship between urbanism and agriculture and the latter's role in determining the future of inhabited territories in a necessary phase of agro-ecological transition. If numerous urban statistics and policies promote the prospect of a global urban destiny of humanity, the new processes of reterritorialisation of food systems and some traces of back-to-the-land movements, re-interrogate their universality and give rise to the first hypotheses of an urban exodus. The observation of agro-ecology initiatives and the exploration of related emerging tensions, conflicts and imaginaries could help confirm or refute these hypotheses and sketch new scenarios of the future of inhabited territories. Starting from these reflections, the contribution will focus on the construction of the methodology for the research project entitled "Territories of urban-rural hybridisation in the agro-ecological transition", financed by the Vinci program of the French-Italian University (UFI) and built between the École d'architecture de la Ville & des Territoires Paris-Est (Ensa Paris-Est) and the Iuav University of Venice (Iuav). The project stems from the desire of the two partners to collaborate in the construction of a shared knowledge of the territories of urban-rural hybridisation in Europe and in particular on the transformations affecting the spaces of emerging agro-ecological initiatives in the Italian case of the central Veneto plain. How can the emerging agro-ecology initiatives help us rethink the culture of urban and spatial design? What tensions, conflicts and new imaginaries are emerging? What future scenarios lie ahead for the territories of European urban-rural hybridisation
Territories of urban-rural hybridisation in the agro-ecological transition. A spatial exploration of agro-ecology initiatives in Veneto plain.
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