scholarly journals The Importance of the Participatory Dimension in Urban Resilience Improvement Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria LopezDeAsiain ◽  
Vicente Díaz-García
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regeneration Processes

This article discusses the approach adopted by the researchers into citizen participation in urban regeneration actions and projects. It describes the concepts of sustainability and habitability in relation to the urban environment and architecture within the framework of improving the resilience of our cities through the circular economy and decarbonisation processes in architecture. The authors review the participatory dimension of different urban regeneration actions carried out in Spain and the impact of this dimension on the results obtained by environmental, economic and social urban improvements. They then define possible strategies and methodological tools for integrating this dimension into traditional urban regeneration processes. The article presents case studies and their specific characteristics, and draws conclusions about their effectiveness and relevance. It also compares citizen-led interventions with interventions led by public administrations. Lastly, the authors analyse the potential reasons for success in these processes and projects, identifying weaknesses and proposing possible strategies for future development by researchers.

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration and “Resistance of Place”: Foregrounding Time and Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Degen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
City Council ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regeneration Processes

Time and experience lie at the heart of urban life. While extensive research on the social implications of the spatial transformation of urban landscapes has been undertaken since the 1980s, the discussion of the impact that manifold temporalities and sensory experiences might have in shaping or constraining the physical and social change of a neighbourhood have been limited, however. Existing research has a tendency to focus on a specific period in time within the remaking of a neighbourhood and draws conclusions from this window in time on the impact of the regeneration. By drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic study of the regeneration of el Raval, Barcelona from 1996 to now, this article interrogates how a focus on temporality and experience produce interruptions of power in contemporary urban regeneration processes leading to what I define as a `resistance of place’. While there have been attempts to regenerate el Raval since the early 20th century, most dramatically during the last 20 years to create Barcelona’s new cultural quarter, the neighbourhood has not been gentrified and developed as expected by Barcelona’s city council. I argue that while elements of control, discipline and gentrification are certainly part of global contemporary regeneration strategies, temporal and experiential dynamics destabilise their full implementation so that these elements are only partial in their imposition.

A Practical Guide to the Fashion Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Grose
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Competitive Industry ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Slow Fashion ◽  
Insight Into

Highlighting the skills and considerations needed to manage products, Virginia Grose introduces key processes such as product development, the supply chain and branding to help you quickly get to grips with the business side of fashion. Examining traditional and newer roles within the industry, discussing the roles of buyers, retailers and merchandisers interviews and case studies give insight into the realities of this competitive industry. This second edition has all new case studies, interviews and projects as well as coverage of sustainable practice, the use of social media, the circular economy and slow fashion. There's also more on digital storytelling, online and offline retailing and elements of retail entertainment for customers plus the impact of fast fashion throughout the industry.

scholarly journals The ‘Expo’ and the Post-‘Expo’. The Role of Public Art in Urban Regeneration Processes at the Late 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Art Program ◽  
Port System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regeneration Processes

In 1998, the Lisbon Universal Exhibition – Expo'98 – led to an urban regeneration process on Lisbon’s waterfront. Following other cities, this event was a pretext to replace a depressed area and to re-connect it with the river, through the creation of a set of new spaces for common use along the water. For them, it was promoted a public art program, which can be considered quite innovative in the Portuguese context, and that resulted in a monumentalisation of Lisbon’s eastern riverfront, later extended to other areas. Behind this framework, this article aims to debate the relations between public art and the dynamics of urban regeneration at the end of the 20th century. For that, it will analyse: 1) the Expo'98’s public art program, comparing its initial assumptions with the final results; 2) the impact of this program, through the identification of public art’s placements before (1974-1998) and after (1999-2009) the event. As a result, it is possible to find that the placement of public art reveals the spaces that were "conquered" to the port system, and a dialectic between functional/economic and leisure/symbolic values. It is concluded that public art had a significant role in the urban processes of the late 20th century, which is quite evident in a discourse that considers it as a qualifying factor of urban space and a mean of economic and social development.

scholarly journals Trojans of ambiguity vs resilient regeneration: visual meaning in cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Marthinus De Kock ◽  
Silvio Carta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
A Site ◽  
Or History

This paper presents a theoretical framework that helps identify visual sustainability in urban projects and evaluates its relevance for the use, design and making of public space. It is aimed at showing how the process of urban regeneration is far more nuanced and sophisticated than much of today’s building industry allows for. The first part of the article provides an outline of this framework, by drawing from the notion of ambiguity and discussing regeneration around a concept of trojans of ambiguity: by which we simply mean that modern-day regeneration projects are often a confusion of meaning. The framework is then applied to two case studies: Heygate, and Sidewalk Labs Toronto. The Heygate regeneration produced a negative emotionally charged process and social displacement. By contrast Sidewalk Labs Toronto exemplifies a technologically clean start for regeneration, on a site with little social vitality or history. The starting points for each ultimately point to two very different outcomes. Visual sustainability represents ‘the technology before the technology’ and future research must recognise how human needs, not technology, provide the meaning into ‘how’ we may create a successful, smart, and sustainable urban environment.

scholarly journals Bijlmermeer and Scampia: The potential of suburbs as centralities in sustainable and circular cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 855 (1) ◽  
pp. 012022
Author(s):  
P Chiara Mazzarella ◽  
Hilde Remoy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urbanized Areas ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract In the sustainable paradigm of the circular economy, waste is a resource to be valued. Similarly, in the circular city, fringe areas and urban wastescapes are places full of potential. This study consider two modern suburbs in Amsterdam and Naples. The two cases aims to compare the characteristics, potential and problems of the two districts and the ongoing actions for sustainable or circular urban regeneration. The objective is to identify the potential of these two European suburbs in the wider process of development of fair and circular cities. Therefore, this paper aims to answer to the following research question: Based on the two case studies Bijlmermeer and Scampia, what is the potential for circular and socially sustainable urban transformation of the 1960s suburbs? Analysing the main changes that have taken place over the last ten years in these complex areas, the main drivers are identified with the historical value of modern architecture landmarks, the opportunities offered by big green public spaces in dense urbanized areas, the presence of active place-based communities and their position in nodal points of the metropolitan areas.

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