scholarly journals Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data for Participation in Urban Planning

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afif Fathullah ◽  
Katharine Willis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Information Layer ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Planning Decision

This paper presents an exploratory study on the potential for sharing urban data; one where citizens create their own data and use it to understand and influence urban planning decisions. The aim of the study is to explore new models of participation through the sharing of emotional data and focuses on the relationship between the physical space and emotions through identifying the links between stress levels and specific features of the urban environment. It addresses the problem in urban planning that, while people’s emotional connection with the physical urban setting is often valued, it is rarely recognised or used as a source of data to understand future decision making. The method involved participants using a (GSR) device linked to location data to measure participant’s emotional responses along a walking route in a city centre environment. Results show correlations between characteristics of the urban environment and stress levels, as well as how specific features of the city spaces create stress ‘peaks’. In the discussion we review how the data obtained could contribute to citizens creating their own information layer—an emotional layer—that could inform a shared approach to participation in urban planning decision-making. The future implications of the application of this method as an approach to public participation in urban planning are also considered.

scholarly journals Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data as a New Information Layer in Urban Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afif Fathullah ◽  
Katharine S. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Information Layer ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Skin Response ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Although our emotional connection with the physical urban setting is often valued, it is rarely recognised or used as a resource to understand future actions in city planning. Yet, despite the importance of emotion, citizens’ emotions are typically seen as difficult to quantify and individualistic, even though knowledge about people’s response to space could help planners understand people’s behaviours and learn about how citizens use and live in the city. The study explores the relationship between the physical space and emotions through identifying the links between stress levels, and specific features of the urban environment. This study aims to show the potential of integrating the use of galvanic skin response (GSR) within urban spatial analysis and city planning, in order to address the relationship between emotions and urban spaces. This method involved participants using a (GSR) device linked to location data to measure participant’s emotional responses along a walking route in a city centre environment. Findings show correlations between characteristics of environment and stress levels, as well as how specific features of the city spaces such as road crossing create stress ‘hotspots’. We suggest that the data obtained could contribute to citizens creating their own information layer - an emotional layer- that could inform urban planning decision-making. The implications of this application of this method as an approach to public participation in urban planning are also discussed.

scholarly journals Community Participation: How the population contributes to urban planning and cities’ development in Brazil and Portugal

Terr Plural ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-409
Author(s):  
Ana Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Main Instrument

The urban environment, understood as the environment changed by man, is represented by the city as a space for the coexistence of individuals, endowed with an entire infrastructure composed of public goods and services, which aim at the well-being of its inhabitants. When people effectively participate in decision-making interest in cities, they feel more responsible for the outcome of their decisions, providing a political maturity of the population. In both Brazil and Portugal, the Master Plan is the main instrument for planning and regulating cities and the urban environment. The difference between them may lie in the fact that Brazil is one step ahead with popular participation in urban planning and participatory budgeting, probably due to the political and socio-economic characteristics of the country, and the needs that this condition imposes on its inhabitants. Regardless of both Brazil and Portugal already make great efforts in this direction, and the question of community involvement in the decision-making process, urban planning, and participatory budgeting is already addressed and considered (although at different levels, stages, and legal formalization), there is still much to be done in this direction to ensure the effective participation of the population in the construction and evolution of cities.

Space Syntax: A Neutral Tool for Inclusive Planning on Urban Renewal

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2376-2381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Lu ◽  
Wei Min Guo ◽  
Xuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Graph Theory ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Case Presentations

Through overview of the western planning decision-making history underlying in urban planning theories and methods in 20th century, this paper introduces an increasingly perfect methodology or tool for inclusive planning which can benefit to admit various interest groups when facing the tough debates in urban renewal. By using space syntax technique, it based on the integration with algebraic graph theory, computer science and GIS techniques, the interests of all parties group even including ordinary citizens can intuitively understand planning procedures and predicted results. Therefore, from the perspective of inclusive participation planning, the method of space syntax presents a communicative interface to represent various proposals and solutions. In addition, in order to further to explain the application of space syntax, the case presentations such as King’s Cross area of London are also introduced.

L'efficienza dei processi concessori nella pubblica amministrazione locale

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Del Gatto ◽  
Marzia Morena
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Transformation Processes

- The Permanent Observatory on the Local Public Administration (Pal) was established in 2008 by Assoimmobiliare, DS&P Studio Legale Associato and Laboratorio Gesti.Tec of the Polytechnic of Milan. It was created with the objective of mapping and analysing the procedures and times for the approval of measures to implement urban planning decisions by Pal which plays a decisive role in urban redevelopment and transformation processes because by intervening in the decision-making phase of plans, it influences the feasibility from many points of view (architectural, social, environmental, time, economic, financial, etc.). The bureaucratic and administrative difficulties represent the first obstacle to overcome for those who intend to invest capital in the property sector. Streamlining those bureaucratic procedures therefore constitutes one of the main objectives which Pal must pursue to attract investors to its area and demonstrate that it is able to able to manage urban planning and building formalities efficiently and effectively.

Fandom, Place Protection, and Urban Planning: Two Sporting Case Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422110404
Author(s):  
Sean Brawley ◽  
Erik Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Rugby League ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
The City ◽  
Development Applications ◽  
Sydney Australia

This study explores the intersections between the study of sport and the study of the city through the extension of sport history to themes traditionally explored by geography—notably urban planning scholars. Its focus is two case studies related to urban planning decisions in early millennial Sydney, Australia. Through an examination of public submissions in response to building development applications made by two community-owned professional sports organizations competing in the National Rugby League, the study explores how modern sporting fandom complicates ideas about place and locality through forms of delocalization and glocalization. The authors conclude that when exploring the phenomenon of place protection, the built environment is not necessarily the primary factor informing a sense of place attachment in an urban environment.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Moralee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Affective Engagement ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Middle Ages

The epilogue traces the afterlife of the Capitoline Hill’s late antique history, the unresolved tension between the valuation and devaluation of the Capitol’s multiplying and variegated histories into the Middle Ages. The Capitol was a physical space that structured the lives and urban environment of postclassical Rome, and it was an imaginary location that animated an affective engagement with the hill’s traditions as well as Christian polemics against the materiality of pagan cults. It became one of the Seven Wonders of the World, a notable stop for sightseeing tours, and the location of an incredible collection of statues called the Salvatio Civium. In the Middle Ages, the Capitoline Hill became even more mystically charged than it had ever been in its long history. What ended the hill’s ancient legacy was not the so-called Dark Ages but Fascist urban planning and modern assertions of the value of heritage.

INNOVATIVE URBAN DESIGN METHODOLOGY IN THESIS PROJECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL FACULTY

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Rasim M. VALSHIN ◽  
Elina V. DANILOVA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Essential Prerequisite

The article is devoted to the features of urban planning decisions in thesis projects in the context of modern urbanization and sustainable development. The issues of local and global factors interaction in the cities are viewed as the essential prerequisite for sustainable urban environment. The article gives ground of the concept of innovation in urban development, it focuses on the search for optimal solutions to reconcile urban differences and for a better way out of urban conflicts. The article pays attention to the essence of urban innovations as tools and design methods, ensuring the balance of influencing factors and offering urban planning balanced decisions. Given examples of masters theses illustrate the principles of urban planning taken in the author`s workshop.

GENDER RELATIONS: HUSBAND–WIFE FERTILITY AND FAMILY PLANNING DECISIONS IN KENYA

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
SITAWA R. KIMUNA ◽  
DONALD J. ADAMCHAK
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Doubling Time ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Demographic Health Survey ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Health Survey Data

Although Kenya’s fertility rate has declined from 6·7 births per woman in the mid-1980s to 5·4 births per woman in 1993 (NCPD, 1994), population growth is still high, yielding a doubling time of 35 years. This study uses the 1993 Kenya Demographic Health Survey data collected from 1257 couples to examine the socioeconomic and sociodemographic characteristics of married men and women and their communication with their spouses over fertility and family planning decision-making practices. The logistic regression analysis shows that education for both men and women, discussion of fertility and family planning between spouses, male approval of use of contraception and male family size desires are important factors that influence ever-use of family planning.

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