scholarly journals Domestication Will Shape Future Public Spaces. A Report from Rotterdam

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Maurice Harteveld
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Base Point ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The Future

This commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have seen how immediate responses induced by the COVID-19 crisis influences traveling, gathering, and public live in general. Now, it is time to look further. Having a base-point in Rotterdam and taking The Netherlands as an example, the commentary argues that some shifts in using, appropriating and experiencing public space will remain. Yet, mainly those not just being immediate responses to sudden societal change, rather those which are embedded in long-term change.

scholarly journals Lessons For Toronto From Melbourne’s City Centre Revitalization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Gilliard
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Physical Quality ◽  
Social Quality

Public space is important to a city’s economic and social quality. Downtown Toronto is not known for its public spaces but Melbourne is widely recognized for recently revitalizing its city centre with improved public spaces. A case study of Melbourne investigates its comparability to Toronto as well as the details of its "renaissance." It is concluded that Melbourne is, in fact, highly comparable to Toronto. Interventions in Melbourne were characterized by the principles: long-term vision, emphasizing local strengths, investment in quality, making space for people on foot, and using effective arguments and evidence. To emulate Melbourne’s city-centre revitalization, Toronto first should facilitate a civic conversation about the long-term vision for its downtown; second, it should initiate a public life survey of the downtown; third, it should invest is the physical quality of downtown public spaces; and fourth, it should begin an incremental program to reclaim roadway space from cars in locations of high pedestrian use.

Scientific basis for managing the transition to sustainability in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
GULMIRA TOLGANBAEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Problem Structuring ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The Social

The article analyzes the scientific approaches of Dutch scientists to the problems of managing the transition to sustainable development. Based on the analysis of research in the Netherlands, the author concludes on the methodological dominance of the coevolutionary concept and the theory of complex systems. The transition to sustainable development is seen as coevolutionary social change. Coevolution of sustainable development implies the possibility of transforming the processes of coevolution into a more sustainable way of development. The essence of managing the transition to sustainable development is goal-oriented modulation and directed coordination of all actors involved in this process. Transition management is viewed as a particular form of multilevel governance in which state and non-state actors work together to co-produce and coordinate policies in an iterative and coevolutionary way at different levels. The necessary qualities of such management are adaptability, reflexivity, and coherence of actors’ positions. Adaptive transition management involves the social learning of management actors based on problem structuring and strategic experimentation. Transition management combines elements of long-term planning, elements of incremental market approach, and social network interaction management techniques. Distinctive characteristics of such management are heterarchy, three-tiered structure, and distributed administration. Since transition management is aimed at long-term change of functional systems in a gradual way, with the use of variations and their selection, its implementation is possible in a society whose interests are well organized, and there is no authoritarian management. The considered scientific foundations for managing the transition to sustainable development are used in the Netherlands to manage the transition to sustainable energy, sustainable mobility, sustainable agriculture, sustainable water use, and the transition to biodiversity and natural resources. In Russia and Kazakhstan, it is possible to use this approach to select, organize and structure management styles and tools for managing the transition to sustainable development.

scholarly journals A Multi-Level Path Analysis of the Relationships between the Momentary Experience Characteristics, Satisfaction with Urban Public Spaces, and Momentary- and Long-Term Subjective Wellbeing

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijs-Perrée ◽  
Dane ◽  
van den Berg ◽  
van Dorst
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Contextual Characteristics ◽  
Multi Level

Previous research has shown that the urban environment could influence people's behavior and wellbeing. However, little is still known about how the objective and subjective measures of the momentary experience of urban public spaces could contribute to the satisfaction with the urban environment of cities, which eventually could influence the momentary and long-term subjective wellbeing (SWB) of citizens. Therefore, the aim of this research is to gain insight into how momentary experience and satisfaction with the urban public space could contribute to the SWB of citizens, and thereby control for personal, contextual characteristics. Relationships were simultaneously analyzed using a multi-level path analysis approach based on a sample of 1056 momentary experiences of urban public spaces reported by 161 citizens of the urban area Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The results showed that personality and personal characteristics are highly important for explaining long-term SWB and subsequently long-term SWB positively influences momentary SWB (the degree of feeling secure, comfortable, happy and annoyed) together with the momentary satisfaction of urban public space characteristics. In addition, contextual characteristics, such as time/day and distance to facilities are important for explaining people’s momentary SWB. Policy makers and urban planners can use these results when developing policy and designing a healthy, attractive, livable and safe living environment for citizens.

Looking for the future in the past: Long-term change in socioecological systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Michael Barton ◽  
Isaac I.T. Ullah ◽  
Sean M. Bergin ◽  
Helena Mitasova ◽  
Hessam Sarjoughian
Keyword(s):  
Socioecological Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Term Change ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals PENERAPAN KONSEP INTEGRASI ANTAR TUANG PUBLIK PADA REDESAIN STASIUN KERETA API PATI

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Ardi Aziz ◽  
Desrina Ratriningsih
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Design Object ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Descriptive Method

Abstract: Pati Train station is one of the second class stations in Pati Regency. Its presence is very helpful in transportation activities between regions within provinces and between provinces. Train station has an important role in relation to mobility of society. But in reality, train stations often lack adequate facilities such as the lack of large waiting rooms, of seats for resting passengers, and of other supporting facilities.  Pati Train Station is redesigned on the basis of activation planning for Semarang-Lasem Railway by the Indonesian Railways (PT KAI). In the future, the station's redesign improves the old station by exploring the facts and issues occuring in the field so that the two factors are used as the basis for the design.  The concept of “public spaces integration” used in station redesign aims to make it easier for users to get connected to public spaces inside and outside Pati train station. The method used is descriptive method, carried out by collecting primary and secondary data relating to the design object and then analyzing data based on public space theory which is then used as a design solution in the concept of public spaces integration.Keywords: station; train; Pati; integration; public space Abstrak: Stasiun kereta api Pati adalah satu dari beberapa stasiun kelas dua yang berada di Kabupaten Pati. Keberadaan stasiun ini sangat membantu dalam kegiatan transportasi antar daerah baik di dalam propinsi maupun antar propinsi. Stasiun kereta api memiliki peranan penting yang berkaitan dengan mobilitas masyarakat. Namun, dalam kenyataannya, fasilitas yang terdapat di stasiun kurang memadai dan belum memenuhi standar. Stasiun kereta api Pati di redesain dengan dasar perencanaan aktivasi jalur kereta api Semarang-Lasem oleh Perkeretaapian Indonesia (PT KAI). Pada nantinya redesain stasiun ini memperbaiki stasiun yang lama dengan menggali fakta dan issu yang terjadi di lapangan sehingga menjadikan kedua faktor tersebut sebagai dasar pemikiran perancangan. Konsep “Integrasi Antar Ruang publik” yang digunakan pada redesain stasiun ini bertujuan untuk memudahkan pengguna agar terhubung/terkoneksi ke ruang publik yang ada di dalam stasiun dan luar stasiun kereta api Pati. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode deskriptif, dilaksanakan dengan mengumpulkan data-data primer dan sekunder yang berkaitan dengan objek perancangan kemudian melakukan analisa data berdasar teori ruang public yang kemudian digunakan sebagai solusi perancangan dalam konsep integrasi antar ruang publik.Kata kunci: stasiun; kereta api; Pati; integrasi; ruang publik

scholarly journals Research on Sustainable Design of Regeneration for Traditional Settlement Based on Ecotect Software

2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 02024
Author(s):  
Hong Xi ◽  
Ruiqiang Liu ◽  
Weixiao Han ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Leilei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sustainable Protection ◽  
Microclimate Environment ◽  
Construction Practice

Based on the concept of sustainable protection and regeneration, this thesis retrospected and analysed the history and culture, public space and courtyard space of Miaohou village in Hancheng to explore the historical prototype. And combined with Ecotect Analysis software to simulate microclimate environment, the public spaces was reasonable updated and predicted from both qualitative and quantitative aspects to explore the rationalized strategy of rural renaissance. It will provide reference for the development of related construction practice and theory in the future.

scholarly journals Long‐term change in dissolved inorganic nutrients in the heterotrophic Scheldt estuary (Belgium, The Netherlands)

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1part2) ◽  
pp. 409-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karline Soetaert ◽  
Jack J. Middelburg ◽  
Carlo Heip ◽  
Patrick Meire ◽  
Stefan Van Damme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Scheldt Estuary ◽  
Inorganic Nutrients ◽  
Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients ◽  
Term Change

scholarly journals Battle of the Java Sea: One Event, Multiple Sites, Values and Views

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
M. R. Manders ◽  
R. W. de Hoop ◽  
S. Adhityatama ◽  
D. S. Bismoko ◽  
P. Syofiadisna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Coastal State ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
The Future ◽  
Java Sea ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

AbstractThree Dutch naval ships, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer, were lost during the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, claiming the lives of 915 sailors. Although the ships were relocated in 2002, no official action was taken until 2016 when an international diving team from the Karel Doorman Foundation discovered that the warships had disappeared. This created tension between the government of Indonesia and those countries that had lost ships in the archipelago, especially the Netherlands. A three-track cooperation agreement was set up to investigate the disappearance of the three Dutch wrecks with the aim of understanding what had happened, in order to create a better basis for cooperation in the future. The management and protection of shipwrecks from WWII is very complicated, because of the different values that stakeholders attach to them. Only with the proper understanding and consideration of the different values or significance WWII shipwrecks hold for different stakeholders can new ways of managing these complex sites be developed that have long-term effectiveness. This paper argues that different stakeholder groups from both the flag and the coastal state must work together on this issue.

scholarly journals «Zurück in die Zukunft» – Rolle und Bedeutung des Schweizerischen Forstvereins

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (6) ◽  
pp. 315-322
Author(s):  
Bianca Baerlocher ◽  
Martin Stuber ◽  
Eva Lieberherr
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Forest Society ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Forestry Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Level

“Back to the future” – role and meaning of the Swiss Forestry Society Associations can be described as public goods and “schools of democracy”. They enable their members to participate in the political sphere and accomplish public tasks. Beyond this, we can view associations as a means for holding society together; they foster common values and norms as well as reduce societal insecurity. The Swiss Forestry Society, founded in 1843, has taken a supporting role in the landscape of associations in the 19th and early 20th century. However, since the 1990s, this association has faced declining membership, which raises questions about its role in today's political landscape, its meaning for its members and how it can adapt to societal change. In the context of the Swiss Forestry Society's 175th birthday, we addressed these questions by analysing historical documents and conducting interviews with members and experts. Responses show that the Swiss Forest Society plays an important role for current members' career as well as at the personal level in terms of solidarity in advocating for the forest. In contrast, former members say that the association is a club of ETH forest engineers which is neither well known publicly nor does enough for the forest itself. In terms of the future, the Swiss Forest Society faces the challenge to become interconnected across sectors. To address this, it will be key for the association to attract young, active members from different forest-related backgrounds who will engage in the association over the long-term and thus enable it to keep up with today's and tomorrow's (ever more digital) world.

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