scholarly journals Confronting Urban Planning Challenges in Chipata District, Zambia: Notes from the Field

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Tuason Mata
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Social Maladies

Since the public inauguration of the URP (Urban and Regional Planning) Bill in 2009, which is now law (The Urban and Regional Planning Act No. 3 of 2015), urban planning in Zambia has undergone changes. In partnership with the Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) Federation, the Zambian parliament put into effect pilot urban planning assistance programs to assist districts around the country, including Chipata District in 2011, transition to a more decentralized, integrated and locally-defined approach to urban planning. However, the presence of discrimination, corruption, and negative attitudes towards urban planning engagement, social maladies prominently displayed in Zambian society, pose challenges to implementing the ideal goals of the 2009 URP Bill. The extreme, widespread poverty in Zambia merely exacerbates the propensity towards corrupt and discriminatory behavior, and influences poor attitudes toward urban planning engagement. This paper describes the projects undertaken by the VSO volunteer from the USA between 2011 and 2012 in the light of the specific urban problems facing Chipata District, and discusses the ways the social maladies play out in Zambian society to pose challenges to implementing the recommended changes to the planning system scribed in the 2009 URP Bill.

Contemporary planning matters. The just city

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Massimo Bricocoli ◽  
Davide Ponzini
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Planning Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Planning Action

What are the social reasons for urban planning activity? How can we discuss issues, principles, values and guidelines in urban planning action today? The title of these notes is drawn from a series of three seminars which we organised and held between 2011 and 2012, with support from the Diap. These notes accompany Susan Fainstein's essay at the beginning of this edition of the journal. The expression ‘contemporary planning matters' with its double meaning is both a reference to the reasons for contemporary planning activity and a pointer to the challenges of the subject and issues which urban planning action must meet today. It is on these big issues that we have invited Susan Fainstein, Tim Rieniets and Jacques Donzelot to dicuss the conditions to which urban and regional planning is subject today.

scholarly journals Cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis: desafios conceituais e regulatórios / Intelligent and sustainable cities: conceptual and regulatory challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson Levy Braga da Silva Neto ◽  
José Renato Nalini
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

<p class="Default">O tema “cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis” que está no topo da agenda pública de debates sobre planejamento urbano condensa uma multiplicidade de sentidos e que tangencia as atuais fronteiras, partindo do horizonte reflexivo da área. Busca-se avançar em direção à construção dos conceitos relacionados ao tema de forma a contribuir para o fornecimento de subsídios para o avanço teórico da área de planejamento urbano e regional no Brasil. O texto será dividido em duas partes. A primeira discorrerá sobre os desafios conceituais do tema, tentando identificar as vozes e os discursos por trás da ideia de “cidades inteligentes e sustentáveis”. Este primeiro item tentará responder à pergunta: é possível, hoje, extrair uma unidade conceitual mínima em torno dessa ideia? Qual?</p><p class="Default"><span><br /></span></p><p>The theme of "smart and sustainable cities" at the top of the public agenda of debates on urban planning condenses a multiplicity of meanings and that touches current boundaries, starting from the reflective horizon of the area. It seeks to advance towards the construction of concepts related to the theme in order to contribute to the provision of subsidies for the theoretical advancement of urban and regional planning in Brazil. The text will be divided into two parts. The first will discuss the conceptual challenges of the theme, trying to identify the voices and discourses behind the idea of "smart and sustainable cities". This first item will attempt to answer the question: is it possible today to extract a minimal conceptual unity around this idea? What?</p><p class="Default"><span><br /></span></p>

scholarly journals O ensino do Planejamento Urbano e Regional: propostas à ANPUR

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Learning Expectations ◽  
The Relationship

O texto visa reconhecer desafios da formação na área do planejamento urbano e regional, associados à sua história acadêmica e às dificuldades experimentadas na atualização de seus fundamentos disciplinares e técnicos. Neste sentido, registra impactos na área com origem em mudanças na ação do Estado, na configuração de sujeitos sociais, na relação entre técnica e ciência, no mercado de trabalho e na teoria do espaço. Visando estimular a reflexão específica do ensino, o texto propõe o exame destes impactos a partir dos seguintes ângulos: práticas didáticas; experiência da interdisciplinaridade; expectativas da formação; renovação dos fundamentos da área e condições institucionais da docência. Por fim, são feitas sugestões à Anpur, com o objetivo de favorecer o debate, entre as instituições filiadas, da transmissão do conhecimento, assim como da formação de novos pesquisadores.Palavras-chave: ensino; espaço; planejamento; interdisciplinaridade; didática. Abstract: This work recognizes the challenge of teaching urban and regional planning, associated with its academic history and the difficulties related to the update of disciplinary and technical fundamentals. With this goal in mind, this work describes impacts observed in this field that were triggered by changes in State actions, in the configuration of social subjects, in the relationship between technique and science, in the work market and in the theory of space. To stimulate further thoughts on the specific task of teaching urban and regional planning, these impacts are analyzed from the following perspectives: didactic practice, interdisciplinary experience, learning expectations, renovation of the field fundamentals, and institutional facilities for teaching. At last, some suggestions are proposed to Anpur hoping to stimulate a debate on the transmission of knowledge as well as the training of new urban planning researchers. Keywords: teaching; space; planning; interdisciplinarity; didactic. 

scholarly journals The Distinction of the Major Design Principles of Planning Systems and How They Potentially Impact Planning Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Hu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Information Feedback ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Impact Planning

This paper addresses how different urban planning systems play their role in the development of cities, and how this directly affects the role and status of urban planning in social construction, and how to determine the social awareness of urban planning. By contrasting and defining the challenges and advantages of the regulatory, discretionary and hybrid urban planning systems, as well as examining the potential possibilities of each system, which system is more effective will become apparent. Therefore, planning and policy implementation can be more extensive and special. At the same time, a sound planning system can form relevant information feedback to propose amendments and adjustment methods for the city's planning content and policy and planning operation, which comply with the objective requirements of urban development.

scholarly journals Diálogos da pesquisa com os estudos em antropologia visual e da imagem

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Do Canto Wilkoszynski
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Dialectical Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Territory

Este trabalho tem por objetivo relacionar aspectos da pesquisa no âmbito da pós-graduação em Planejamento Urbano e Regional com o processo de aprendizado em “Antropologia Visual e da Imagem”, disciplina cursada junto ao PPGAS/UFRGS no segundo semestre do ano próximo passado. Neste sentido, o campo da imagem é explorado como forma de pensar e projetar o território urbano (aqui trazido como área de formação, atuação e interesse do pesquisador), em especial por sua capacidade narrativa e de interpretação do imaginário social. A escolha metodológica deriva entre os aspectos da leitura e decifração do imaginário social (a partir da visão de Walter Benjamin), das estratégias projetuais evidenciadas no pensamento por cenários e, ainda, pela análise e interpretação de imagens no âmbito da antropologia visual; em todos os casos com foco nas analogias e/ou complementaridades da capacidade hermenêutica das imagens em cada um dos campos de conhecimento.Palavras – chave: Imagem dialética. Cenários. Imagem. Montagem. Narrativas.Search dialogues with studies in visual anthropology and imageAbstractThis work aims to relate aspects of research within the post graduation in Urban and Regional Planning with the learning process in "Visual and Imagetic Anthropology" course taken within the PPGAS / UFRGS in the second half of last year. In this sense, the image field is explored as a way of thinking and designing the urban territory (brought here as an undergraduation, performance and research field of interest), in particular by the narrative and interpretation ability of the social imaginary. The methodological choice derives from the aspects of reading and deciphering the social imaginary (from a Walter Benjamin's view), the projective strategies evidenced from the thinking through scenarios and also for the analysis and interpretation of images in the context of visual anthropology; in all cases focusing on analogies and / or complementarities of hermeneutics capacity of images in each of these fields of knowledge.Key words: Dialectical image. Scenarios. Image. Montages. Narratives.

Portals as a Tool for Public Participation in Urban Planning

2010 ◽  
pp. 252-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Klessmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The Public

In this article it will be shown how different general types of portals can be utilized to foster public participation processes in urban and regional planning. First portals and the objectives of their use in the public sector are explained. This happens before the background of different concepts of administrative reform and a transition of government to an electronic manner. Then public participation will be described and different categories thereof are presented. This part forms the basis for the delineation of electronic participation in urban planning. Finally the already introduced general portal types will be applied to distinguish several kinds of participation portals.

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