scholarly journals The importance of Swedish–Norwegian border residents’ perspectives for bottom-up cross-border planning strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotta Braunerhielm ◽  
Eva Alfredsson Olsson ◽  
Eduardo Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Planning Strategies

Planning Versus Plan: A Comparative Analysis of Revitalization Process in Two Inner Cities

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Yael Sivan-Geist ◽  
Rachel Kallus
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Hybrid Planning

By comparing urban regeneration mechanisms implemented in two declining urban centers, this paper attempts to examine the usefulness of hybrid planning strategies over a more traditional statutory land-use plan, considering their respective effectiveness for introducing urban change. The paper compares the planning and implementation methods used to generate urban revitalization in Lev Ha-Ir (City Heart) in Tel Aviv and Hadar in Haifa. In reviewing these two case studies, the paper considers the role of the residents in each area and various bottom-up local initiatives. The paper examines how these initiatives were met and utilized by the planners and by the municipality, and how they acheived the goal of urban revitalization. The approch towards and the use of local assetes of each locality is considered, as well as the way they were implemented in the revitelazing plan. The paper draws attention to official enterprises and planning mechanisms that utilize and even encourage unofficial residents' actions and activities. The findings from the two case studies suggest the importance of mediating between bottom-up initiatives of individual residents, community organizations, and local institutions, and top-down institutional municipal systems, as early in the process as possible, in order to make both the statutory land-use plan and the hybrid planning strategies more effective.

Image Work in Tijuana

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-270
Author(s):  
Kristen Hill Maher ◽  
David Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
International News ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The City ◽  
Cartel Violence

This chapter examines efforts to reinvent Tijuana’s reputation during and after a period of image crisis. From 2008 to 2010, cartel violence dominated international news coverage about the city, with devastating economic effects. Drawing on a set of twenty interviews conducted in Tijuana from 2009 to 2012, the chapter explores cultural contestation over how to represent the city during that time of image crisis and in its aftermath. Actors with stakes in industry promoted substantially different place images than those involved in tourism and cross-border commerce. A third, diverse set of actors worked to shape the city’s image from the bottom up, through blogs, grassroots organizations, and entrepreneurialism, which showed potential for shaping place narratives within and outside the city. Finally, the chapter takes a closer look at the transformation of the former tourism district and finds promising signs for a debordering future stemming from ongoing image work.

scholarly journals La Movilización De Los Actores Locales En Los Territorios De Fronteras. Una Perspectiva Transfronteriza Desde Centroamérica

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Lucile Medina
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Central America ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Resumen:Este artículo propone analizar las dinámicas de movilización de los actores locales que surgen en los territorios de fronteras, considerados como espacios claves de interrelaciones transfronterizas. El análisis moviliza varios casos de fronteras en Centroamérica para centrarse en las asociaciones transfronterizas surgidas de la sociedad civil o de municipios. Examinar las dinámicas fronterizas a través de las estrategias de los actores locales permite proponer un enfoque “desde abajo” de los procesos de cooperación transfronteriza y de integración regional, y captar la afirmación de nuevas categorías de actores, locales como transnacionales, en las reconfiguraciones territoriales.Palabras claves : frontera, transfronterizo, movilización, actores locales ***Abstract:This article aims to analyze the dynamics of mobilization of local actors that arise in the border territories, which are considered as key areas of cross-border relationships. The analysis is based on several cases of Central America borders and focus especially on cross-border partnerships emerging from the civil society or municipalities. Analyze the border dynamics through those local actors allows to highlight a "bottom up" approach of cross-border cooperation and regional integration processes. It shows that new categories of actors assert oneself, at local and transnational scales, in the territorial transformations affecting border spaces.Key-words : boundary, cross-border, rallying, local actors ***Resumo:Este artigo propõe analisar as dinâmicas de mobilização dos atores locais que surgem nos territórios de fronteiras, considerados como espaços chaves de inter-relações transfronteiriças. Análise mobiliza vários casos de fronteiras na América Central, para se centrar nas associações transfronteiriças surgidas na sociedade civil ou em municípios. Examinar as dinâmicas fronteiriças através das estratégias dos atores locais permite propor um enfoque “desde baixo” dos processos de cooperação transfronteiriça e de integração regional, e captar a afirmação de novas categorias de atores, locais como transnacionais, nas reconfigurações territoriais.Palavras-chave: fronteira, fronteira, mobilização, atores locais, América Central

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