scholarly journals The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019)

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Carme Bellet Sanfeliu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Neoliberal Urbanism ◽  
Land Consumption ◽  
City Models

Urban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that urban planning has undergone over the last 40 years. It sets out to do this by studying the cases of two medium-sized Catalan cities, their underlying city models, and the ways in which planning has been defined and managed in Catalonia. All of this was undertaken through a bibliographic and documentary analysis of the approved planning documents, which was accompanied by a study of the population dynamics and building cycles. In Spain, urban planning has been one of the instruments used to catalyse expectations for economic growth based on land consumption through urbanisation. Within this context, planning has progressed from fulfilling an initial requirement to regulate activities and urban growth (1979–1991) to facilitating urban development through a clearly expansive and speculative form of neoliberal urbanism (1993–2007) and, finally, to assuming a form in which these previous tendencies coexist with certain new orientations.

Planning for Growth: Contradictions in the Framework of Economic and Urban Development from the “Spanish Miracle” (1959-1973)

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422098333
Author(s):  
Juan Luis De las Rivas Sanz ◽  
Miguel Fernández-Maroto
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
National Level ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Planning Policies

In the postwar period, the strong economic growth in Western countries coincided with the configuration of their modern urban planning systems. This article aims at exploring to what extent the targets of the economic planning that was broadly adopted in this growth period conditioned the performance of urban planning tools by analyzing the case of Spain. During the so-called “Spanish miracle” that started in the early 1960s and lasted until the mid-1970s, there were notable contradictions between economic and spatial planning policies and between the performance of the national and the municipal governments. It is concluded that the lack of an integrated approach to regional and urban planning policies at national level combined to the gap with the actual local planning framework, illustrated through the example of three cities, can help to understand the patterns of urban growth in a context of an expanding economy.

Revisiting the Legal Framework of Urban Planning in the Global South

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the profession of urban planning within the context of the Nigerian legal system. In Nigeria, there is an array of legislation relevant to urban planning that is aimed at securing sustainable cities through various planning activities. The chapter establishes the relationship between law and urban planning activities and puts it that the latter is an offshoot of the former. It further discusses the legal framework of urban planning in Nigeria, with due consideration to the problems inherent in it and the effects of such problems on urban development in the country. The chapter also suggests a need for paradigm shift by providing for strategies rooted in law towards viable urban and regional development and economic growth in Nigeria. The chapter concludes that strengthening the legal framework of urban planning will provide opportunities for equitable and spatial allocation of resources that takes cognizance of the social, economic, institutional, and environmental dimensions of an urban center.

scholarly journals Boosting the French Canadian Town: Municipal Government and Urban Growth in Quebec, 1850-1900

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Rudin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Late Nineteenth

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was common for municipal governments across Canada to promote local economic growth through a variety of means. This process of promotion, which has come to be known as boosterism, has not generally been studied in Quebec, however. Owing to the continued power of the stereotype that saw French Canadians opposed to the use of government to promote economic development, most writers have simply concluded that boosterism was non-existent in Quebec. A closer analysis reveals an entirely different situation. In spite of limited resources municipal governments employed a variety of means to boost local development. These efforts were generally championed by local francophone businessmen who could see their own fortunes enhanced by the growth of their towns.

The Italian Apennines between earthquakes, high naturalness and urban growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 716-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Zullo ◽  
Alessandro Marucci ◽  
Lorena Fiorini ◽  
Bernardino Romano
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Cultural Conservation ◽  
Italian Apennines

This paper sets out the results of a study conducted in the inland areas in central Italy on certain phenomena that, for decades, have evolved separately: urban and socio-economic growth, environmental and cultural conservation and the curbing of seismic risk. The study was carried out by analysing the urban conversion of land in the Italian Apennines over the past 50 years, focusing on areas of varying seismic hazard. Our analysis highlights that territorial planning has failed to tackle this risk in an integrated manner, implementing entirely uncoordinated actions that have produced poor results. Thus, our main goal is to study urban development and its effects on the Apennine system and devise possible strategies to mitigate the seismic risk in this area of significant worth, but made extremely vulnerable by policies and solutions that have never been “nature-based”.

Revisiting the Legal Framework of Urban Planning in the Global South

2018 ◽  
pp. 258-271
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the profession of urban planning within the context of the Nigerian legal system. In Nigeria, there is an array of legislation relevant to urban planning that is aimed at securing sustainable cities through various planning activities. The chapter establishes the relationship between law and urban planning activities and puts it that the latter is an offshoot of the former. It further discusses the legal framework of urban planning in Nigeria, with due consideration to the problems inherent in it and the effects of such problems on urban development in the country. The chapter also suggests a need for paradigm shift by providing for strategies rooted in law towards viable urban and regional development and economic growth in Nigeria. The chapter concludes that strengthening the legal framework of urban planning will provide opportunities for equitable and spatial allocation of resources that takes cognizance of the social, economic, institutional, and environmental dimensions of an urban center.

Knowledge Creation in Urban and Knowledge Environment

2008 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Joris E. Van Wezemael
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Knowledge Environment ◽  
Key Driver

Today, knowledge is addressed as a key driver in urban development. From an urban planner’s perspective, however, it seems that the knowledge we talk about is out there in so-called knowledge industries. Knowledge-based urban development refers to development of city regions that are more or less driven by the knowledge economy, or to opportunities to attract knowledge workers in order to fuel economic growth in specific areas. The aim of this chapter is conceptualizing what knowledge and learning mean to, and in, contemporary planning praxis. The chapter discusses the key concepts of knowing and their relation to doing. By mooting a theory of assemblages, the chapter further provides a foundation for the analysis and the enforcement of learning in urban development praxis. Drawing on research on learning organizations, this chapter provides a basis for the contribution of urban planning to knowledge-based urban development.

scholarly journals Dubai Before Dubai: The Pietiläs and the City Coastline

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Garcia Rubio ◽  
◽  
Tiziano Aglieri Rinella ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Land Consumption ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

This paper will attempt to highlight the land reclamation as an instrument of urban planning. To achieve this goal, Dubai will be considered as a case study and, specially, Reima and Raili Pietilä’s proposal for the Deira Sea Corniche Competition as a visionary proposal which anticipated the creation of artificial islands in the city. Describing the history of the Dubai’s coastline and analyzing the Pietiläs’ project for its innovative and -at the same time- contextual ideas, the paper will not only offer a new way to approach urban design in Dubai but also to consider the value of land reclamation as a tool for urban development -with its strengths and weaknesses- in order to avoid land consumption and to allow the preservation of most part of the coastline.

scholarly journals Simulation and prediction of Shanghai urban spatial change based on random forest and CA-Markov model

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Xuewei Dang ◽  
Liang Zhou ◽  
Xiaoen Li ◽  
Haowei Mu ◽  
Lei Che ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Simulation ◽  
The City ◽  
Red Line

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In the context of rapid urbanization, accurate assessment of urban expansion has become increasingly important for urban sustainable development, and smart growth theory has been put forward to avoid urban sprawl. Previous studies about urban expansion simulation focused only on ecological constrain which prevent urban growth from developing in specific regions. However, government decision-making and urban planning greatly influence urban development and limit the disorderly expansion of the urban. In this paper, we consider planning policies into urban simulation and uses the ecological protection red line, farmland protection red line and cultural protection control line as limiting factors for future urban simulation. Choosing Shanghai as the study area, we integrated Random Forests Algorithm (RFA), Markov chain and Cellular Automata (CA) to simulate urban expansion in 2015, and further predict the urban expansion in 2020, 2025 and 2030. The results show that the overall accuracy of urban land use simulation in 2015 is 93.86%, and the kappa coefficient is 0.8577. The model has a good simulation effect. Furthermore, the predicted results in 2020, 2025 and 2030 show that the urban land area in Shanghai is still increasing, and the spatial distribution of urban land has obvious circle structure and regional differences. The urban areas within 10km from the city center are growing slowly, and the region within 30km from the city center is growing faster, and there are more new urban points from 2025 to 2030. But in the area 30km away from the city center, different administrative areas show different urban growth phenomena. Among them, there are a large number of new urban points in the junction area between Songjiang District and Jinshan District, which may be the focus of future urban development planning in Shanghai. The proposed model and the results can help planners study the evolution of urban patterns and develop further urban planning.</p>

scholarly journals Multi-Scenario Simulation of Urban Growth Under Integrated Urban Spatial Planning: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11279
Author(s):  
Haofeng Wang ◽  
Yaolin Liu ◽  
Guangxia Zhang ◽  
Yiheng Wang ◽  
Jun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Simulation Accuracy ◽  
Ca Model ◽  
Development Area ◽  
The Impact

Although many publications have noted the impact of urban planning on urban development and land-use change, the incorporation of planning constraints into urban growth simulation has not been adequately addressed so far. This study aims to develop a planning-constrained cellular automata (CA) model by combining cell-based trade-off between urban growth and natural conservation with a zoning-based planning implementation mechanism. By adjusting the preference parameters of different planning zones, multiple planning-constrained scenarios can be generated. Taking the Wuhan Urban Development Area (WUDA), China as a case study, the planning-constrained CA model was applied to simulate current and future urban scenarios. The results show a higher simulation accuracy compared to the model without planning constraints. With the weakening of planning constraints, urban growth tends to occupy more ecological and agricultural land with high conservation priority. With the increase in preference on urban growth or natural conservation, the future urban land pattern will become more fragmented. Furthermore, new urban land beyond the planned urban development area can be captured in future urban scenarios, which will provide certain early warning. The simulation of the current urban spatial pattern should help planners and decisionmakers to evaluate the past implementation of urban planning, and scenarios simulation can provide effective support for future urban planning by evaluating the consequences.

SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANNING DOCUMENTATION FOR THE UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Olha Dorosh ◽  
Iryna Kupriyanchik ◽  
Denys Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Land Use Systems ◽  
The Law ◽  
Land Use Development

The land and town planning legislation concerning the planning of land use development within the united territorial communities (UTC) is considered. It is found that legislative norms need to be finalized. The necessity of updating the existing land management documentation developed prior to the adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On Land Management" and changes in the structure of urban development in connection with the adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On Regulation of Urban Development" was proved as they do not ensure the integrity of the planning process within the territories of these communities through their institutional incapacity (proved by the example of the Palan Unified Territorial Community of the Uman district of the Cherkasy region). The priority of land management and urban planning documents as the most influential tools in planning the development of land use systems in UTC is scientifically grounded and their interdependence established.

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