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Policy recommendations for facilitating an urban and regional circular economy
No full textA shift towards a circular city or a circular region entails developing a place-based and critical
approach to CE policy that considers the often-overlooked social and political aspects of sustainability, going beyond the technical aspects of resource efficiency and waste management,
and incorporates the principles of regeneration, resilience, and justice
La strada della valle: Towards an alternative strategic framework for the regeneration of the valleys Impero and Prino in the province of Imperia, Liguria, Italy
No full textTo grow a phenomenon of the globalized world. To prosper and to have a booming economy is a main goal of cities and their regions. But what about those regions which are badly connected because of their morphology? What about those which originated in the industrialization period and have not had the possibility to change?What is about those areas that no longer fit into the current economic framework?Land abandonment and depopulation is a consequence of different factors. A phenomenon that not only has an impact on the environment and the socio-economic aspects but also has consequences for the landscape itself. (Lasanta et al. / Catena 149 (2017): 810). “Baldock et al. (1996) conclude that marginalization and land abandonment depend on the interaction between physical, environmental and socioeconomic factors. Therefore, it can happen everywhere, even in areas with a very high potential and in favourable socioeconomic situations in general.” (Lasanta et al. / Catena 149 (2017): 816).So, what is the reason of land abandonment in Liguria? Is it the aging population and its population decline or the change of economy? Or is it because of the location itself, being a territory of transit? What are the internal and what the external reasons (Lasanta et al. / Catena 149 (2017): 816) for this ongoing abandonment?In this thesis, the values of the rural and the ‘unreachable’ countryside are gathered. In addition, they are used for a new model of development which focuses on cooperation between remote rural villages and the coastal cities. By linking spatial, social qualities, structures, and characteristics through the entity of the valley the author gives a new image to the countryside which valorises and shows by two small design proposals a new planning approach
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Vision and strategy making: Teaching spatial planning in design education on a situated learning environment
No full textThis chapter introduces the pedagogical approach of guiding vision and strategy making in university design studios. This is a unique way of teaching spatial planning in design education, bridging research, planning, and design. It will use one of the master’s courses at the Urbanism Department of TU Delft as an example: the regional design studio ‘Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis’. This approach is based on the tradition of planning schools with design education – using the design studio as a key method for teaching. This tradition has made spatial planning in design education different from other planning schools that focus on policies or social/environmental sciences. The approach being introduced is not only evidence-based/scientific but also explorative at the same time, prone to search for the more plausible and desirable future scenarios. It is in line with the role of regional design in practice, in the context of collaborative planning. To teach such practice-related skills, an authentic assignment from and the interaction with the ‘real world’ are needed, namely a situated learning environment, which mimics the actual situation and collaborative efforts of spatial planning. Spatial vision and development strategy are both tools of spatial planning in practice, meant to frame and steer the development towards a more sustainable future, with the involvement of stakeholders. In design education, they are also seen as design products students could and should work on to understand the roles of these tools in spatial planning and how to use them to develop regional design proposals.Spatial Planning and Strateg
Four Clusters o fThought on Flood Resilience and Climate Adaptation: The state of the art and new directions for spatial planning
No full textThe need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental–technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof facades of architecture, setting buffering zones, and designing green-blue corridors). However, the implementation of the proposed physical interventions is often challenging and necessitates assistance from practices such as climate assessment, policy disciplines, civil societies, and economic resources. These extensive perspectives have spawned many new research domains in the realm of spatial planning. This chapter provides a review of the recent developments in flood resilience, risk management, and climate adaptation; based on this, it positions planning research and practice within these works of literature. Four clusters of thought are identified, mainly in the European and American scholarship of the last two decades. They are environmental concerns, disaster management concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns. Current planning research concentrates on disaster management in the underlying belief that planning is functionally efficient. The attention to environmental concerns, socio-economic concerns, and institutional concerns of planning research remains insufficient but has been growing. This, in turn, enlarges the scope of planning research and indicates future directions for study. These new concerns relate to spatial planning’s ability to operate effectively in a multi-sectoral setting, despite limited resources and in the face of uncertain risk.Spatial Planning and Strateg
Planning as Critical Engaged Practice: Consequences for Studio Education.
No full textSpace, people, and time are all intertwined in the city, a complex system in which planners intervene. Their strategic plans and neighbourhood designs impact the daily lives of city dwellers. This emphasises the point that spatial planning and urban design ar enot technical disciplines. The everyday use of space and its symbolic meanings must be incorporated. Planning as an engaged practice involves explicit engagement with the Habitat III goals and, more specifically, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) goals. This commitment to sustainable urban development means we are working to create integrated and just societies for the future. The NUA paved the way for the right to the city to be incorporated into planning. This chapter discusses incorporating both aspects (socio-spatial complexity and the right to the city) into planning education, specifically the design studio. It begins by questioning the design studio’s current functioning. It then shows a resurrected studio setting, where socio-spatial complexity and the right to the city can be gradually integrated meaning that the studio will no longer be about what is, but about what is ‘yet to be’.Spatial Planning and Strateg
Regression Analysis: Quantitative exploration of interactions between the built environment and spatial behaviour
No full textIn many graduation projects in Spatial Planning and Strategy (SP&S), empirical research and spatial design are intertwined. This chapter introduces regression analysis; a ’family’ of related models of quantitative statistical analysis in empirical research. It is very appropriate to study interactions between the built urban environment and people’s spatial behaviour in a project location at a high level of quantitative precision. The outcomes of such quantitative studies can be very useful in urban design or planning, either in preliminary empirical research, i.e. prior to design, or in the iterative cycles of Research by Design. There are several types of regression models; which one is most appropriate for your project (if any) depends on the specific questions about that interaction you want to answer, and on the empirical data that is available for that answer.Spatial Planning and Strateg
Teaching, Learning & Researching Spatial Planning
No full textThis book is composed of a general introduction followed by 18 chapters written by teachers and researchers from TU Delft, as well as frequent collaborators, each describing an issue or tool used in Spatial Planning, as it is taught and researched at our university. The book aims to give readers around the world an introduction to how spatial planning is conceived at TU Delft. Spatial planning is a highly idiosyncratic discipline and is conceived differently around the world. In most places, spatial planning is part of an architectural approach to the city, in which design exists almost autonomously, while in other places it is part of a political-economical approach to the city. What distinguishes Delft is the bridge we have managed to build between design and politics, and the way we understand space as foundational for the understanding of socio-economic processes. This is anchored on a Dutch tradition of city-making in which issues of “maakbaarheid” (roughly translated by “feasibility”), a guiding concept in Dutch society, which was built upon an exceedingly difficult territory to plan, design and manage. Spatial planning in the Netherlands is hence a combination of planning, design and management that is unique. Simultaneously, spatial planning as a discipline in the Netherlands is rather forward-thinking and uniquely equipped to deal with the great societal challenges of our time (climate change, pandemics, growing inequality, etc) and may be useful for students and teachers elsewhere seeking to learn from other traditions. Each chapter addresses issues that we see as central to the way of teaching and researching spatial planning
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