scholarly journals Railway and urban development in Patras: Towards the improved participation of local governance in complex planning problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Theodora Papamichail
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Test Planning ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Planning Problems ◽  
Complex Planning

In recent years, the topic of integrated infrastructure and urban development requires the bottom-up approach in addition to the formal planning policies. This is specifically true for complex institutional frameworks, which need the enforcement of the interested public. Due to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, infrastructure networks have already been dramatically influenced by the fragmented decision-making among the different planning levels and actors. The case study presented in the paper relates to the improvement of a railway system in Patras, Greece (in narrow terms), but, in broader terms, the case study elucidates the informal planning procedure (called the Test Planning process) behind the railway improvement as such. The idea of using such a procedure in Patras emerged due to the different interests of various actors concerning the railway integration into the urban fabric in last two decades. However, it seems there is an absence of an effective cooperation between the initiators of this procedure and the local authorities. Research methodology is developed in several steps. Firstly, the broader problem and the potential of infrastructure development will be presented. Secondly, the Test Planning process will be presented shortly. In the end, the importance of local government in such a collaborative procedure will be mentioned and the case of local actors in Patras in the different phases of the Test Planning process will be under a critical scope towards the existing situation and the benefits in future steps.

scholarly journals Optimal Coordination of Timetable and Infrastructure Development in a Liberalised Railway Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Martin Smoliner Smoliner ◽  
Stefan Walter ◽  
Stefan Marschnig
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Status ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Optimal Coordination

The gradual liberalisation of the European railway market has so far mainly been assessed regarding its effect on the grade of competition and market access. However, one major impact has not received much attention yet: the effects of the liberalisation on the joint development of timetables and infrastructure. This is especially crucial for countries that align their railway network according to the requirements of the Integrated Timetable (ITF). The implementation of the ITF requires a longterm planning process and network-wide cost-intensive infrastructure measures. Contrary to that, open access traffic can neither be planned in the long-term, nor is it coherent with the ITF. Recent conflicts show that the assignment of train paths for open access traffic considerably affects the system of the ITF, calling for significant timetable and/or infrastructure adaptions. For an efficient and sustainable railway system, a holistic approach is needed allowing for a combination of open access and the requirements of the ITF.To derive a suitable methodology the status quo of the ITF-implementation and open access traffic is analysed in Austria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Based on these findings, three options are identified on how open access can be integrated in an ITF-system according to the EU legislation. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed and finally the optimal procedure in terms of a sustainable network development is recommended.

scholarly journals Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ann Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Local Food Movements

This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of land in growing urban areas with a view to profiting from re-zoning and exiting the market well before development occurs.   It uses  a case study of the struggle in Edmonton, Alberta over a city food and agriculture strategy and the protection  of prime food producing land in the northeast from urban development.  The article shows how local food activists were able to mobilize citizens in support of local food and preservation of the land and were able to initiate a process of linking land use decisions to a food and agriculture strategy. However, the power of development interests and the planning process resulted in a strategy which was weak on preserving land for food and the adoption of a land development plan which preserves little land  and threatens the future of existing food producers in the area.  The article argues that new forms of land grabbing in North America pose challenges to movements seeking to preserve local food production.

scholarly journals Planning for Development of Favorable District for the Elderlies; Case Study: Kerman Arg District

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Hashem Vazirizadeh ◽  
Ismaeil Shieh
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Increase Life Expectancy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aging Period

By increase of age group of people older than 60 years and problems of aging period, it seems necessary to provide favorable environmental conditions in order to increase life expectancy of this group. One of the public spaces which had been much underlined in traditional urban development and has double importance for the elderly and receives less attention today is the district. This paper, aiming at planning urban districts tailored to the needs of the elderly, provides required criteria in district planning through descriptive-analytical method. Finally, by offering components of: familiarity, readability, dignity, accessibility, convenience, security and beautification in the district planning process of Kerman Arg district, these components are applied.

scholarly journals ‘Rapid Scenario Planning’ to Support a Regional Sustainability Transformation Vision: A Case Study from Blekinge, Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6928
Author(s):  
Giles Thomson ◽  
Henrik Ny ◽  
Varvara Nikulina ◽  
Sven Borén ◽  
James Ayers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Stakeholder Integration

This paper presents a case study of a transdisciplinary scenario planning workshop that was designed to link global challenges to local governance. The workshop was held to improve stakeholder integration and explore scenarios for a regional planning project (to 2050) in Blekinge, Sweden. Scenario planning and transdisciplinary practices are often disregarded by practitioners due to the perception of onerous resource requirements, however, this paper describes a ‘rapid scenario planning’ process that was designed to be agile and time-efficient, requiring the 43 participants from 13 stakeholder organizations to gather only for one day. The process was designed to create an environment whereby stakeholders could learn from, and with, each other and use their expert knowledge to inform the scenario process. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) was used to structure and focus the scenario planning exercise and its subsequent recommendations. The process was evaluated through a workshop participant survey and post-workshop evaluative interview with the regional government project manager to indicate the effectiveness of the approach. The paper closes with a summary of findings which will support those wishing to conduct similar rapid scenario planning exercises to inform policy planning for complex systems.

scholarly journals Toponymic assemblages, resistance, and the politics of planning in Vancouver, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor J Wideman ◽  
Jeffrey R Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Territorial Conflicts ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Downtown Eastside ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
Area Planning

The marginalized and impoverished Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada has long been subjected to planning programs that have aimed to solve area problems through strategic government intervention. The 2011–2014 Local Area Planning Process, led by the City of Vancouver in consultation with local actors, represents the most recent of such programs. Despite the Local Area Planning Process’s stated goal of inclusive participation, the resultant Downtown Eastside plan transformed the political landscape of the neighbourhood and met with derision from stakeholders for its potential to generate dramatic capital-led transformations. In this paper, we critique participatory planning through a case study of the Local Area Planning Process. We utilize a lens of critical toponymy (the investigation of the historical and political implications of place naming) as a methodological tool to examine planning technologies of power and their mobilization through governmental processes. We deploy a novel approach to toponymy, drawing on assemblage theory, that presents toponymy as a radically open and dynamic process mobilized relationally through a multiplicity of discourses and materialities. Our case study demonstrates that processes of toponymic assemblage within the Downtown Eastside Local Area Planning Process worked to (1) generate new territorial conflicts, (2) depoliticize community activism, and (3) co-opt racialized and class-based histories of displacement and dispossession to stimulate “revitalization” (“Japantown”). On the other hand, we found that in unanticipated ways, these processes worked to stimulate anti-gentrification activism, alliances, and resistance. Our analysis of planning highlights how toponymic agency can service oppressive and marginalizing place-framings, but it can also have liberating effects – by inspiring unlikely alliances and counter-framings.

scholarly journals Suburbanization and Local Governance - Positive and Negative Forms: Olomouc Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Kladivo ◽  
Pavel Roubínek ◽  
Zdeněk Opravil ◽  
Martina Nesvadbová
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract Over the previous 15-20 years (in Czech conditions), suburban processes have substantially influenced the appearance and transformation of municipalities on the fringe of larger cities. And it is not only the morphology of the municipality structure (new housing estates and their urban as well as architectural solutions) that has undergone the transformation, but also the functions municipalities have started to fulfil (the development of civic amenities and services). After such a long period of time, we are capable of identifying negative as well as positive impacts of suburban processes on municipalities, and evaluating the role of local actors (with regard to local governance) in the shaping of sub-urbias and their appearance (the area urban solution, infrastructure, architecture in terms of housing appearance, etc.). We are also capable of assessing new construction sites based on their location or appearance (housing naturally complementing or suitably extending the municipality built-up area, or, on the contrary, a satellite housing estate built “on a greenfield site”), social climate between old residents and newcomers, etc. The goal of the paper is to present the most significant aspects that have had influence on new housing construction in suburban zone municipalities, and to describe differences in the application of the concept of local governance (at the lowest - microregional, or possibly municipal tier) in positively impacted municipalities as compared with those affected rather negatively. Concentrating on the city of Olomouc and its suburban zone in greater detail, the study shall also outline expected future development.

Participatory Mapping in Browns Canyon National Monument, Colorado (USA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
John Harner ◽  
Lee Cerveny ◽  
Rebecca Gronewold
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Bureau Of Land Management ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Natural Resource Managers

Natural resource managers need up-to-date information about how people interact with public lands and the meanings these places hold for use in planning and decision-making. This case study explains the use of public participatory Geographic Information System (GIS) to generate and analyze spatial patterns of the uses and values people hold for the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado. Participants drew on maps and answered questions at both live community meetings and online sessions to develop a series of maps showing detailed responses to different types of resource uses and landscape values. Results can be disaggregated by interaction types, different meaningful values, respondent characteristics, seasonality, or frequency of visit. The study was a test for the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, who jointly manage the monument as they prepare their land management plan. If the information generated is as helpful throughout the entire planning process as initial responses seem, this protocol could become a component of the Bureau’s planning tool kit.

Theoretizing A New Sustainable Business Event: Extension of Mair and Jago Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Norol Hamiza Zamzuri ◽  
Khairil Wahidin Awang ◽  
Yuhanis Abdul Aziz ◽  
Zaiton Samdin
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Business Events ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Event Based

The growth of the event sector is underpinned by the demand of organizing a business event.  Thus, it leads to an increase in economic and social impact. However, the problems from the growth of this sector potentially results from the use of several event materials, transportation and infrastructure development.  Organizing a green event is seen as one of the strategies to reduce the environmental impact.  Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the issues involved throughout the process of greening an event by applying Mair and Jago Model.  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with event managers from six Malaysia business event companies that encourage green practices during their event.  Findings suggest that impact, initiative, support and performance motivates event organizers in organizing a green event.  It has also been found that knowledge, resources and behaviour are the barriers faced by event organizers throughout the process of organizing a green event.  Based on the findings it appears that two important factors have emerged from the data collection and analysis that showed a deviation from the Mair and Jago Model, namely “impact” for the motivation element and “support” for the barrier element.  The main limitation of this study was the scope of the study; as it only focuses on business events.  However, as the main purpose of this study is to explore the issues of organizing a green event, it has been found that there are other issues need to be explored in other contexts and geographical area.  Apart from this, as this is a case study, it can only replicate according to the circumstances of this case study. However, this study can be generalized in terms of the theory that has emerged from it.  It is suggested that further research should explore more issues in other contexts and geographical areas. 

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