scholarly journals Soft planning for soft spaces. Concept of Poznań metropolitan area development – a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
Area Development ◽  
Planning Approaches

Abstract The article presents the essence, goals and instruments of soft (informal, non-statutory) spatial planning, developed in the countries of Western Europe and relatively new in Poland. It targets areas with fuzzy borders (soft spaces) and areas between administration tiers. The article presents conceptual issues and non-formal planning tools used in Western Europe. The planning approaches which are generally described as “soft” are characterised by non-formalised and non-binding procedures, and by their focus on achieving a consensus. In the first part of the article presents the conceptual issues and further informal planning instruments used in Western European countries at different spatial scales The following section presents deficits of spatial planning of metropolitan areas and - against this background - the legitimacy of creating informal plans in Poland, using Metropolia Poznań as an example

scholarly journals Spatial Planning Experiences for Vulnerability Reduction in the Wildland-Urban Interface in Mediterranean European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Galiana-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Vulnerability Reduction

Abstract Expansion of the wildland-urban interface in countries in the European Mediterranean basin is increasing vulnerability to forest fires. Despite more effective extinction systems, this is still a growing problem. This article defends the importance of spatial planning (land-use and urban planning) and the need for systematic intervention to mitigate this wildfire risk. A critical review of the current situation, noting intervention focused on buildings and plots and insufficient action on intermediate spatial scales, is followed by the presentation of significant and relevant experiences in the European context.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS OF THE EMERGENT METROPOLITAN AREAS IN A TRANSITION COUNTRY. ROMANIA, AS CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan IANOȘ ◽  
Daniel PEPTENATU ◽  
Cristian DRĂGHICI ◽  
Radu Daniel PINTILII
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Countries In Transition

Complex processes, specific to the countries in transition, have had major impacts on restructuring the territorial management systems. The removal of restrictions of limiting urban expansion, imposed by the totalitarian regime, has allowed the rapid expansion of cities, beyond administrative boundaries, since 1989. The concept of emerging metropolitan area is explained by the multitude of problems posed by the sketching of these areas and especially by their functioning. Synthesizing, there are presented some managerial experiences considered inchoate, of some emerging Romanian metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on Bucharest’s metropolitan area. The conclusions of these descriptive analysis show the complexity of the problems that can occur during the process of building of the metropolitan areas under the circumstances of lack of an inter-municipal cooperation culture. Integrated management takes into account two realities: firstly, that the management of emerging metropolitan areas is trans-scalar, achieving the partial mergence of the management types (including the collegiate one), and secondly, that insuring a multi-level governance without implementing a polycentric intra-metropolitan development policy, is not sufficient.

scholarly journals Influence of Characteristics of Metropolitan Areas on the Logistics Sprawl: A Case Study for Metropolitan Areas of the State of Paraná (Brazil)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9779
Author(s):  
Luísa Tavares Muzzi de Sousa ◽  
Leise Kelli de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
Data Collection Procedure

The concentration of warehouses in peripheral regions of metropolitan areas in a time period is called logistics sprawl (LS). Identifying this phenomenon could help to reduce externalities related to urban freight transport, mainly, the distance traveled. This paper examines the contribution of the characteristics of metropolitan areas on the logistics sprawl indicator. A case study was carried out considering data from eight metropolitan areas of the state of Paraná (Brazil). The research method is based on the data collection procedure proposed, centrographic method, and linear regression. The results of the centrographic method reveal a positive LS in four metropolitan areas and a negative LS in three metropolitan areas. In general, the warehouses are close to the highways that cross the metropolitan area. In addition, the size of the metropolitan area has a negative relationship with the number of warehouses and the logistics sprawl indicator. The findings highlight the importance of public policies relating to urban freight transport and land use at a metropolitan level.

scholarly journals Urban-Rural Relationships in Feeding Metropolis: A Case Study in Ljubljana Metropolitan Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Sali ◽  
Stefano Corsi ◽  
Federica Monaco ◽  
Chiara Mazzocchi ◽  
Matjaž Glavan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Definition Of

Metropolitan areas are characterized by the coexistence of a urban core insisting on natural resources of surrounding rural areas, strictly linked to the former. Inevitably, increasing urbanization and its consequences affect the model of urban development, which then needs to deal with the challenge of sustainability, also aiming to reduce pressures on resources and on supplying capacities of rural agricultural systems in providing food to urban zones, traditionally lacking. It then becomes important to deepen the possibility for the dense core to be supplied through proximity agriculture, able to recreate and improve synergic connections between urban and rural spheres. The paper aims to study the relationships among them for feeding the metropolis, adopting a methodology for the spatial definition of urban centre in metropolitan area and the assessment of its food balance, in order to identify the potentialities of local and proximity agriculture and provide a first evaluation for the possibility to match urban development and production potential. Identified tools are applied to Ljubljana metropolitan area.

scholarly journals The influence of suburban development and metropolitan fragmentation on language variation and change: Evidence from Greater St. Louis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-97
Author(s):  
Daniel Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Northern Cities Shift ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
Suburban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Fragmentation

AbstractThe distances between urban and suburban spaces, while small in Euclidean terms, have a rather large social reality. This paper calls attention to two reasons for this—suburban development and metropolitan fragmentation—and situates these phenomena within the context of sociological and historical thought about metropolitan areas. I test their role in linguistic variation through a case study of three Northern Cities Shift features (raised trap, fronted lot, and lowered thought) in English of the St. Louis metropolitan area. I show that these features diffused throughout the region in three different ways. Additionally, phonological conditioning of lot-fronting differs between urban and suburban speakers, and retreat from urban dialect features is led in the suburbs. These findings highlight the need to consider the geography of metropolitan areas more deeply in studies of language variation and change in metropolitan areas, as similarity across a metropolitan area should not be assumed a priori.

scholarly journals Approaching Sustainability in Local Spatial Planning Processes: A Case Study in the Stockholm Region, Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2601
Author(s):  
Johan Högström ◽  
Peter Brokking ◽  
Berit Balfors ◽  
Monica Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Complex Settings ◽  
Planning Approaches

The quest for cogent responses to sustainability goals challenges local spatial planning practices across growing metropolitan regions to develop planning approaches that enable transformative capacity in increasingly complex settings. Based on a case study conducted in the Stockholm region, this paper explores the design and organization of local planning processes to provide a basis for a discussion of alternative approaches that may enhance sustainability in plan and project development. More specifically, it aims to analyze the conditions for embedding and consolidating sustainability issues in local planning processes. The results show that the municipalities need to create conditions for an effective interplay between the planning work carried out in individual projects and the organization of resources, knowledge, and skills on which the projects depend to handle sustainability issues. This study contributes to the understanding of the challenges associated with putting sustainability into practice at the local level by identifying and conceptualizing three important barriers. By acknowledging the temporal, locational, and procedural dimensions of knowledge in local planning processes, planning practices may become better at knowing when, and in what ways, different forms of knowledge can become created, introduced, and used in a synergistic manner to aid the realization of sustainability goals.

scholarly journals Analysis of Regulation of Residential Suburbanisation in Hinterland of Post-socialist ‘One Hundred Thousands’ City of České Budějovice

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 109-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kubeš
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
South West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Plan

AbstractResidential suburbanisation is currently the most important urbanisation process transforming metropolitan areas in European post-socialist countries, especially in Central Europe and at Baltic states. The paper compares the statements of the mayors of the suburban municipalities situated in the hinterland of the city of České Budějovice (a one-hundred-thousand city in the South-West of the Czech Republic) and also the local building officials, spatial planning ofcials and experts regarding the recent, currently on-going and upcoming construction of houses in the suburbs and the regulation of these constructions. Further, it discusses the possibilities of influencing the construction of the houses through the spatial plans of municipalities, settlement zones, and metropolitan areas. The interviewed mayors consider, rather uncritically, the recent large construction of houses in their suburbs in general as appropriate. One third of the mayors, however, do not want any further suburban development of this kind. Spatial planning officials and building officials do not have sufficiently powerful tools to influence the extent of the construction and the designs of houses in the individual suburban municipalities and their suburbs. Some of them, together with the experts, support the reintroduction of the metropolitan area spatial plan.

scholarly journals FORTIFICATIONS OF THE RAPALLO BORDER AND THEIR ROLE AS CO-CREATORS OF SPACE / RAPALLO SIENOS ĮTVIRTINIMAI IR JŲ VAIDMUO KURIANT ERDVĘ

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Janez Peter GROM ◽  
Alenka FIKFAK ◽  
Luka SKANSI
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Demarcation Line ◽  
Land Expropriation ◽  
Spatial Assessment ◽  
Historical Perspectives

In the period between the two world wars, the latent tensions between the European nations resulted in the construction of defensive positions on the borderlines of major European countries. Under the same conditions, the Italian Kingdom built an extensive fortification line, i.e. the Alpine Wall. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (SHS) replied to it with the Rupnik Line. On the base of the Treaty of Rapallo, a 289-km long demarcation line was built with an exceptional defence infrastructure, which interfered with vast natural areas of exceptional quality that are protected by various nature conservation regimes today. The research presented in this paper is focused on a specific land expropriation. The goal is to understand the historical perspectives and assess the current significance of this fortification system with its impact on the natural environment. The system of spatial assessment of the architectural, urban, regional and spatial planning aspects and landscape interpretation has been developed with the use of spatial planning mapping and other methods. It was tested on the case study of the Žiri Municipality to establish a possible systemic base on which the entirety of the Rapallo border with its defence infrastructures could be mapped and their contemporary role assessed.

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