THE IMPACT OF ACTOR-RELATIONAL DYNAMICS ON INTEGRATED PLANNING PRACTICE

This paper aims to open up a discussion about relations between former Yugoslavia's socialism and planning practice resulting from self-managing system established in early 1950s. Although this system was applied through a top-down approach, it implied, at least allegedly, coordination, integration and democratic harmonisation of particular interests with common and general ones on local level. The paper will briefly review the history and concept of socialist ideology and consider the impact that it had on institutional arrangements evolution and planning practice in Serbia. It will then touch on the role of ideology for urban planning process at the local level, understanding self-managing planning principles, their benefits, role and significance in planning practice.

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The Impact of Political Opportunities on Interorganizational Networks: A Comparison of Migrants' Organizational Fields

Mobilization An International Quarterly ◽

10.17813/maiq.19.4.d5p65x6563778xv6 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 369-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nina Eggert

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

General Assumption ◽

Collective Identities ◽

Relational Dynamics ◽

Organizational Fields ◽

Relational Patterns ◽

Opportunity Structures ◽

Political Opportunities ◽

Two Cities ◽

The Impact

This article analyzes patterns of collective action in the field of immigration by looking at relational dynamics in two different local political settings. Drawing on a relational approach to the study of collective action, the general assumption is that the specific political opportunity structure (POS) in the field of immigration shapes the logics of interaction of migrants' associations. To test this hypothesis, we compare migrants' organizational networks in two cities characterized by two different opportunity structures—Lyon and Zurich. We thus apply network analysis to examine the density, the structural patterns, and the distribution of ties amongst organizations in the two cities. Results suggest that specific opportunities in the two contexts, by providing differential institutional access to migrant associations and publicly recognizing different collective identities, partly shape the relational patterns in the field and thus the modes of coordination of collective action adopted by migrants' organizations.

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The Infiniscience of the hospitable God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: Re-interpreting Trinity in the light of the Rublev icon

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v75i1.5347 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Daniel J. Louw

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Relational Dynamics ◽

The Impact ◽

Church Doctrine

Because of the impact of church doctrine and many documents explaining the official confession of many denominations in Christianity, Trinity was mostly defined in terms of static and substantial categories (the impassibility of God). The undergirding research assumption is that the latter reflects, in most cases, more abstract and rather positivistic metaphysical speculation than representing the vividness of God’s compassionate being-with as explained and revealed in the narratives of the biblical account on God’s graceful intervention with the frailty of human life. The relational dynamics between the Father, the Son and the Spirit should be revisited. In this respect, the Rublev icon on Trinity could help establish the circular and spiral thinking of divine perichoresis as modes of God’s unpredictable, but faithful, covenantal and redemptive encounter with human misery. Trinitarian thinking should be directed by hospice-categories rather than by personhood-categories representing ‘substance’. It is argued that the trinitarian interplay should be re-interpreted in terms of compassionate categories stemming from the passio Dei in theopaschitic theology. This approach should be supplemented by the bowel categories of ta splanchna in order to qualify the infiniscience of the JHWH-Godhead: the being of divine interventions in terms of verbing terminology.

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Open innovation and network dynamics. An analysis of openness of co-patenting collaborations in Florence, Italy

Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness ◽

10.1108/cr-10-2019-0101 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 379-396

Author(s):

Francesco Capone ◽

Niccolò Innocenti

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Negative Binomial Regression ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Network Ties ◽

Relational Dynamics ◽

Content Type ◽

Innovation Capacity ◽

The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relational dynamics for innovation and, in particular, the impact of the openness of innovation process on the innovation capacity of organisations in restricted geographical contexts. Design/methodology/approach Through a negative binomial regression, the work analyses how the characteristics of the openness of the organisation’s innovation process in the period 2004-2010 influence the firm’s patent productivity in the following period (2011-2016). Findings The breadth of the open innovation (OI) process, here measured by the number of external network ties that an organisation realises for the realisation of its patents, has a positive effect on patent productivity. The depth of the openness, that is, the intensity of external network ties, has an equally positive influence on the innovative performance. However, after a tipping point, the patent productivity tends to decrease, underlining the costs and problems of OI practices. Research limitations/implications This study considers only patent collaborations in the city of Florence. Therefore, it focusses on codified innovations and on a single territorial case study. Practical implications The results underline the importance of the adoption of OI practices in restricted geographical contexts (such as cities, clusters or industrial districts) but with several limitations. Only collaborating more with others does not foster the organisation’s invention productivity, but different types of evidence are found here. Originality/value An original database has been created, containing all the information on patents realised in the area of Florence from 2004 until 2016, and a social networks analysis was applied to identify the local innovation networks.

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Gender mainstreaming planning cultures: Why ‘engendering planning’ needs critical feminist theory

GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht Kultur und Gesellschaft ◽

10.3224/gender.v12i1.02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2020) ◽

pp. 11-29

Author(s):

Lidewij Tummers ◽

Heidrun Wankiewicz

Keyword(s):

Gender Stereotypes ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Gender Mainstreaming ◽

Planning Practice ◽

Urban And Regional Planning ◽

Adopted Model ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

This contribution looks at strategies for gender mainstreaming (GM) in planning practice applying gender/diversity design criteria. It offers a critical discussion of the ‘city of proximity’ (CoP) as a guiding principle for genderaware planning. Examples of guidelines and handbooks from different planning cultures show that the CoP is a widely adopted model, not only in gender mainstreaming, however it is seldom associated with its feminist origin. As planning professionals and researchers, we consider the role of urban and regional planning to change power relations and gendered norms. Taking two Austrian cities as examples, we illustrate the impact of GM on planning practice, revealing both the strength of the legislative framework and the limitations of Leitbilder that unintentionally reproduce gender stereotypes. The paper concludes with suggestions to move beyond the stage of pilot projects and handbooks, particularly in two fields: first, by looking at the attitudes and competences of professionals, and second, by dissociating the city of proximity from neighbourhoods while implementing gender criteria at a larger scale, e.g. in regional development plans.

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Teen Suicide Attempt: The Subjective Experience of the Family

Journal of Psychiatry & Mental Disorders ◽

10.26420/jpsychiatrymentaldisord.2021.1048 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Szmulewicz T ◽

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Echávarri O ◽

Morales S ◽

Maino M de la P ◽

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Keyword(s):

Suicide Attempt ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Family System ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Relational Dynamics ◽

Entire Family ◽

Analysis Process ◽

The Family ◽

Before And After ◽

The Impact

This study aimed to understand the impact of a teenage child’s suicide attempt at a family level, based on the subjective experience of the family as a whole. A qualitative study based on an hour and a half interview with the entire family was performed within two weeks of the suicide attempt. Ten adolescents hospitalized in a psychiatric unit of a Health Service of the Metropolitan Region, in Chile, and their families, were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using the Grounded Theory methodology. Three major categories emerge from the analysis: Process Vision, Family Dynamics and Hospitalization Experience. Families perceive a before and after of the suicide attempt in the subsequent evolution of the family system. Changes occur in the way they ‘read’ the experiences and signs prior to the suicide attempt, in the understanding of what happened, and in the transformations of the relational dynamics as a consequence. Family resilience will depend on their history and how they have learned to cope with difficulties. Although one of the most recurrent reports regarding the suicide attempt refers to the traumatic component that it had in all the family members, they also state that this event has meant great learning as a family and an opportunity to grow, to get to know each other better and help each other. The benefits for the family of having a safe space to talk about how they feel and elaborate on what happened, without fear of being judged, has been highlighted. This enhance the need to incorporate the family as a whole when we think about an adolescent suicide attempt, both in understanding the phenomenon and in intervention and treatment.

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Regional Accessibility Analysis for Digital Urban Planning Based on GIS

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.488-489.525 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 488-489 ◽

pp. 525-529 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Qing Liang Zhao ◽

Xian Juan Kong ◽

Jian Li

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Regional Planning ◽

New Method ◽

Traffic Network ◽

Traffic Networks ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Integrated Planning ◽

Accessibility Analysis ◽

Digital Urban Planning ◽

The Impact

China has been going through urbanization, and foreign experiences show that urbanization would finally lead to integrated planning and development of region. In regional planning, traffic network is an important aspect, which affects the impact of cities. However, in traditional accessibility analysis, only traffic lines are taken into consideration, while the influence of stations is ignored. This lead to the actual problems that traffic facilities cannot play the roles designed in regional planning when they are really constructed. Therefore, firstly, two rank traffic networks system are proposed, and different traffic networks with the normalization costs are combined to analyse the accessibility of the cities. Secondly, a new accessibility analysis method to get arrival domain for a city is proposed, which take not only the traffic lines but the traffic stations into consideration. Finally, the Jing-Jin-Ji Region is taken as an instance to show the effect of the new method.

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Analysis on Urban-Rural Integration Planning Practice for Resource-Based Towns in Northern Shaanxi

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.3632 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 368-373 ◽

pp. 3632-3637 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fan Li ◽

Xiao Min Wang

Keyword(s):

Integrated Planning ◽

Current Development ◽

Coordinated Development ◽

Planning Practice ◽

Spatial Coordination ◽

Rural Space ◽

Urban Rural ◽

Northern Shaanxi ◽

Integration Planning

This paper starts with the current development of urban-rural integration planning concerning resource-based towns in Northern Shaanxi. Through the analysis on characteristics of towns in Northern Shaanxi, this paper tries to apply the principle and means of urban-rural spatial coordination to effectively integrate the urban and rural space, and achieve the purpose of coordinated development of urban and rural space. It is also hoped by virtue of practical study on the integrated planning of urban and rural towns in Zhidan County, Yan’an City to provide reference for the development of emerging resource-based towns in Northern Shaanxi and its adjacent areas.

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