CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND TOWN-CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT IN BRITAIN, 1959–1966

This chapter looks at central government’s role in directing the way in which local authorities enacted central-area redevelopment schemes. It shows how modernist ideas were sustained by a broadly consensual cross-party political culture in central government. It shows how the Joint Urban Planning Group, set up within the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, provided guidance to local authorities in how to form public–private partnerships to redevelop their city centres. The last section discusses the fate of these ideas during Labour’s first term after the 1964 election, and argues for an economic explanation of the initial reaction against modernist approaches to the built environment.

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How Technologies Can Enhance Open Policy Making and Citizen-Responsive Urban Planning

International Journal of E-Planning Research ◽

10.4018/ijepr.2017010102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 23-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Francesca De Filippi ◽

Cristina Coscia ◽

Roberta Guido

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Public Administration ◽

The Public ◽

Administrative Management ◽

Open Policy ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Administrative Area ◽

Collaborative Platform ◽

Set Up

This paper explores an innovative approach to open policymaking and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino (the Polytechnic University of Turin). The project engages both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning critical issues, as well as positive trends and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), through the use of a digital collaborative platform. The experiment was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies to foster e-participation in urban planning. MiraMap has been set up with an eye to achieving integration within the current administrative management process and to involving new actors in the decision-making process through a “collective governance” approach. Therefore, this paper seeks to set up a methodological (and technological) framework, which is seen as crucial for addressing the complexity and dynamics of urban planning and programming, by integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

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Public Health Disasters and the Evolution of Pandemic Response Structures: A Case Study of MERS in Korea

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps32102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 27-52

Author(s):

Chang Jiyoun

Keyword(s):

Central Government ◽

Governance Structure ◽

Network Governance ◽

Leadership Communication ◽

Pandemic Response ◽

Set Up ◽

The Relationship ◽

Second Period ◽

Over Time

This study focuses on the Korean MERS epidemic and analyzes how governance structures were set up to respond to it. Compared to other countries` responses, which were built on both hierarchical and network structures, the Korean MERS response structure evolved over time. In the first period hierarchy characterized the relationship between the central government and hospitals. In the second period, heterarchy replaced hierarchy, and in the last period heterarchy evolved into a network governance structure. Furthermore, it was found that leadership, communication, information sharing and use of information technology affected the formation of the response structures. I conclude by exploring limitations in my research and suggesting paths and perspectives for further research.

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Urban planning in the twentieth century

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926800000341 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 384-396 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kevin Hourihan

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Development Planning ◽

Historical Research ◽

Planning History ◽

High Rise ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

Set Up ◽

The 1960S

Over the past thirty years, one of the fastest growing fields of urban history has been the history of planning. In some respects, this is surprising, as urban planning had existed on an institutional basis only since the early twentieth century. In other ways, though, it was a very logical development. Planning reached its high point during the 1960s, and by the 1970s was being condemned in many quarters, being blamed, for example, for disasters like high-rise tower blocks and sacrificing old cities to crude commercial and transport developments. Historical research was necessary to understand how a movement which promised so much at the start of the century had degenerated so badly in sixty years. Criticism became so severe that, in the words of one historian, ‘many planners have certainly thought in more pessimistic moments . . . that the past may be the only thing they have to look forward to’. For whatever reason, the Planning History Group was set up in 1974 and a massive body of historical research on planning has been produced. This paper reviews four recent books on planning, two from North America and two European. They represent different aspects of planning and different time periods and will be treated in chronological order.

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De cultuur van het televisiedebat - Veranderende percepties van de relatie tussen media en politiek, 1960 - heden

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis ◽

10.5117/tvgesch2014.2.kaal ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 127 (2) ◽

pp. 293-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Harm Kaal

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Election Campaigns ◽

The Media ◽

New Perspective ◽

Set Up ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Televised Debates

This article adopts a new perspective on the interaction between political parties and Dutch television in election campaigns from the 1960s onwards. Rather than exploring the ‘real’ impact of television on the nature and content of political campaigning, it presents a case study of televised debates in order to explore changing perceptions among parties and press regarding the so-called mediatization of politics. It shows that televised debates were at first perceived as a means to bridge the gap between politics and people. In the 1970s and early 1980s, when parties tried to control the set-up of these debates, they met with increasing criticism and were perceived as having hardly any influence on the outcome of the elections. Although the staging of the debates remained the same, midway through the 1980s perceptions of the impact of television dramatically changed. In response to the surprising outcome of the 1986 general election a discourse of mediatization and Americanization became dominant. This in turn resulted in a re-evaluation of the relationship between politics and the media in which the latter were now said to hold the upper hand.

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Digital Platforms for Enhancing Participatory Design and Urban Regeneration

Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4018-3.ch003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 54-82

Author(s):

Francesca De Filippi ◽

Cristina Coscia ◽

Roberta Guido

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

The Public ◽

Administrative Management ◽

Open Policy ◽

Administrative Area ◽

Collaborative Platform ◽

Set Up

This chapter explores an innovative approach to open policy-making and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on the ongoing project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino from 2013. It started creating a crowdmap, engaging both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning issues, and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), until it became a digital collaborative platform. It was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies. MiraMap has been set up by integrating current administrative management process and involving new actors in the decision-making process. Today, the project is focusing mostly on encouraging forms of co-design and co-production, including gaming components. The chapter seeks to set up a methodological and technological framework, by addressing the complexity of urban planning and integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

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How Technologies Can Enhance Open Policy Making and Citizen-Responsive Urban Planning

Sustainable Infrastructure ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0948-7.ch023 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 501-522

Author(s):

Francesca De Filippi ◽

Cristina Coscia ◽

Roberta Guido

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Policy Making ◽

The Public ◽

Administrative Management ◽

Open Policy ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Administrative Area ◽

Collaborative Platform ◽

Set Up

This paper explores an innovative approach to open policymaking and citizen-responsive urban planning. It reports on project MiraMap carried out by the Politecnico di Torino (the Polytechnic University of Turin). The project engages both citizens and the Public Administration in a reporting process concerning critical issues, as well as positive trends and resources within the Mirafiori Sud administrative area of Turin (Italy), through the use of a digital collaborative platform. The experiment was a real case study geared at evaluating the use of open source technologies to foster e-participation in urban planning. MiraMap has been set up with an eye to achieving integration within the current administrative management process and to involving new actors in the decision-making process through a “collective governance” approach. Therefore, this paper seeks to set up a methodological (and technological) framework, which is seen as crucial for addressing the complexity and dynamics of urban planning and programming, by integrating the perspectives of citizens through their actual engagement.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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Reconsideration of efficacy in transitional urban planning. A case study

ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI ◽

10.3280/asur2020-127-s1006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 98-112

Author(s):

Michelangelo Russo

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning

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Interrelationships between municipal spatial policy strategy and airport operation and development. Lodz Airport case study

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2018-0029 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 65-79

Author(s):

Katarzyna Nikorowicz-Zatorska

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Cultural Development ◽

The Other ◽

Local Authorities ◽

Spatial Management ◽

The One ◽

Surrounding Areas

Abstract The present paper focuses on spatial management regulations in order to carry out investment in the field of airport facilities. The construction, upgrades, and maintenance of airports falls within the area of responsibility of local authorities. This task poses a great challenge in terms of organisation and finances. On the one hand, an active airport is a municipal landmark and drives local economic, social and cultural development, and on the other, the scale of investment often exceeds the capabilities of local authorities. The immediate environment of the airport determines its final use and prosperity. The objective of the paper is to review legislation that affects airports and the surrounding communities. The process of urban planning in Lodz and surrounding areas will be presented as a background to the problem of land use management in the vicinity of the airport. This paper seeks to address the following questions: if and how airports have affected urban planning in Lodz, does the land use around the airport prevent the development of Lodz Airport, and how has the situation changed over the time? It can be assumed that as a result of lack of experience, land resources and size of investments on one hand and legislative dissonance and peculiar practices on the other, aviation infrastructure in Lodz is designed to meet temporary needs and is characterised by achieving short-term goals. Cyclical problems are solved in an intermittent manner and involve all the municipal resources, so there’s little left to secure long-term investments.

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