scholarly journals DESIGN PARTICIPATION: FROM RHETORIC TO PRACTICE (AND BACK?)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radojka Jandrić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Top Down ◽  
City Administration ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Cultural Infrastructure ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City

Design participation is considered an inclusive, democratic and transparent process of urban planning and decision-making, particularly important for environments where complex social and economic realms could easily be misinterpreted in a common top-down design approach. This paper examines actual contributions of this methodology, implemented in ongoing strategies for designing and building public spaces and cultural infrastructure as part of the project Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2021, which is based on democracy, decentralisation, inclusion and citizens' participation. Now, these strategies were put into action, with several projects prepared, launched and brought closer to actual realisation. This process revealed conclusions inrespect to implementation possibilities, as well as its strengths and weaknesses in actual projects, and ephasized the need to further improve urban practice and undertake change of the slow and unprepared procedures of the City administration.

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

The Co-Creation of the City

2013 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
Salvatore Iaconesi ◽  
Oriana Persico
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Pervasive Systems ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
The City

Is it possible to imagine novel forms of urban planning and of public policies regulating the ways in which people use city spaces by listening to citizens’ expressions, emotions, desires, and visions, as they ubiquitously emerge in real-time on social networks and on other sources of digital information? This chapter presents the theoretical and methodological approach, the investigation and research phases, the design and prototyping processes constituting the ConnectiCity initiative, a collaborative, multi-disciplinary series of projects in which artists, scientists, anthropologists, engineers, communicators, architects, and institutions participated to the design of innovative ubiquitous and pervasive systems which were able to transform the ways in which the concepts of urban planning and city-wide decision-making are defined. Novel forms of urban life were imagined, in which cities became the time/space continuum for multiple, stratified layers of information expressing the ideas, goals, visions, emotions, and forms of expression for multiple cultures and backgrounds, producing new opportunities for citizenship: more active, aware, and engaged in the production of urban reality, and in the transformation of city spaces into possibilistic frameworks.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

PLACE-MAKING: APPLICATION IN THE CITY PLANNING PROCESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
A. A. Lekomtseva ◽  
◽  
A. N. Khatskelevich ◽  
G. A. Gimranova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Place Making ◽  
City Administration ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
The City

Currently, there is a significant increase in the need to include residents in the urban planning process, in which they, along with other actors (for example, the city administration, developers, business structures) will become participants in making decisions about the fate of urban space. Interacting with the residents, the authorities directly receive feedback that helps to prevent the discontent of the population with respect to those or other decisions. The article considers some aspects of population involvement in urban planning as one of the primary tasks of urban planners.

scholarly journals METHODS OF RENOVATION OF OPEN PUBLIC SPACES OF THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF SAMARA

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
Dmitrii B. VERETENNIKOV ◽  
Sofia O. NOVIKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development

The necessity of renovation of open public spaces in Samara, which has developed in the historical environment, is considered. The concept of “open public spaces” and their features are revealed. Att ention is focused on their signifi cance and impact on the further development of the city as a whole. The relevance of the topic is formulated, the goal and objectives of scientifi c research are set. A research hypothesis of scientifi c work is put forward, a methodological basis for the study is proposed, based on the analysis of scientifi c works in the fi eld of urban planning, considering aspects of the organization and formation of open public spaces.

scholarly journals The concept of creating a form-based code of Zelenodolsk

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 01021
Author(s):  
Yulia Zakirova ◽  
Maria Latypova ◽  
Svetlana Gafurova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Code ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
The City

The purpose of the study is to identify and compare territorial zones, volumetric-spatial characteristics of buildings and the peculiarities of the formation of open public spaces in Zelenodolsk. The main results of the study are that a comprehensive urban planning analysis was carried out, on the basis of which the features of the formation of territorial zones in the city were revealed, the boundaries of spatial-environmental morphotypes, their environmental features were identified, and the specificity of the formation of a design code for different areas of the city was determined. The significance of the results obtained for architecture and urban planning lies in the fact that the concept of the form-based code developed in the study for Zelenodolsk can become the basis for updating (or updating) urban planning documents (Local standards for urban planning, General plan, urban planning regulations, City beautification rules). The method of identifying and forming spatial-environmental morphotypes in the city is also of great importance, as the basis for creating a form-based code for Russian small and medium-sized industrial cities.

Cittŕ dei Morti nella post-rivoluzione. Politiche urbane e nuove sfide socio-culturali al Cairo

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Costanza La Mantia
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Complete Eradication ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cemetery

Cairo is a dense, compact megalopolis with an urban growth, mostly the victim of inadequate or non-existent planning, that spilled out during the last century into the informal sector and is powerfully threatened by the new Cairo 2050 strategic plan. Policies already partially put into action before the revolution reflected a government characterised by a top-down system of decision-making, the same system the evolution strongly placed in jeopardy. For the City of the Dead, an immense historic cemetery, still functioning and still inhabited, and a major symbol of the complexity and contradictions that distinguish Cairo, this urban policy envisaged the complete eradication of the resident community and its destruction. The lack of recognition of its rich social and cultural fabric and the complex heritage unrecognised as a resource, underline an attitude that characterises the urban policies of the deposed Regime.

A Federative Approach of Decision-Making Aid in Urban Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 368-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kouamou ◽  
C. Pettang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Water Network ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
Land Question ◽  
The City

The interest in urban planning and development is a major preoccupation in the two last decades. In fact, the urban development is the act of improving living conditions, which are necessary for rest and for labour, for the health and education facilities, for the various exchanges and provisioning, for the moving of the population between their dwellings and their working place. However, the cities of the developing countries know serious problems of urbanization due not only with the non application of the urban guide (SDAU) when it exists, but also with the inadequacy of the policies of management of the city needed by the populations. That is why the proliferation of unstructured quarters around the cities, without the urban services necessary for their operation like drinking water network, electricity, and roadway system. Facing these failures, the urban development is not any more the only fact of the municipal authorities. The populations through associations and the non governmental organisations are more implied, these activities are carried out under the impulse of the multilateral backers that support and finance the actions of the different actors. In order to propose new approaches of the urban development, we started by defining a characterization of the city for better apprehending its morphology and its operation (Pettang, Kouamou, & Mbumbia, 1997). This characterization permits to deal with the land question, since the soil is the beginning of any installation (Pettang & Kouamou, 1999).

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN PLANNING FORMATION OF SPORTS AND LEISURE COMPLEXES

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (163) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
D. Baibak
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Active Implementation ◽  
The City

Nowadays there is an urgent need for Ukrainians to meet the demands of quality, diversity and availability of sports services. Therefore, sports and leisure complexes, which are integrated into the urban infrastructure, act as interactive public spaces with tactile surfaces. Analysis of foreign practical experience in the formation of sports and leisure complexes demonstrates what it means to move around the city, breathe new life into abandoned places and how the architecture of modern life is changing. The countries of China, Russia, and Denmark were analyzed. This analysis showed that the typical objects for leisure activities are: 1) Squares, parking lots with integrated sports and leisure areas; 2) Separate specialized buildings of sports and leisure centers or centers of youth culture with different sports; 3) Open public spaces in parks, residential complexes, preschool education constructions, health centers. The analysis of the features of sports and leisure complexes formation in the territory of Ukraine allowed to reveal two groups. The first group consists of outdoor areas, which contain outdoor simulators or sports complex workout for trainings, both for professional athletes and amateurs. The second group of sports and leisure complexes contains "urban parks" as centers for the development of street culture, which has become a part of the state youth policy. The analysis of foreign and domestic practical experience of architectural and urban planning formation of sports and leisure complexes proved that there is an active implementation of the advanced world concepts related to a healthy lifestyle in Ukraine. At the same time, the design of sports and leisure complexes is at the stage of formation and requires the development of special methods, as well as research in terms of typological, structural-functional and planning analysis. Determination of the factors influencing the development of the studied objects and the principles of their formation is needed. This can be considered as the next stage of this research.

scholarly journals Public Spaces for Children in a Post-Socialist City

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Krklješ ◽  
Dejana Nedučin
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Times ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City

AIM: The aim of this research is to present the outcomes of urban transformations during the post-socialist period in Novi Sad, Serbia, from the aspect of quality of public spaces for children.MATERIAL AND METHODS: This research is a contribution to the process of designing public spaces for children in the times of rapid urban changes and a step forward to creating adequate places for children’s play.RESULTS: The socialist legacy of architectural design and urban planning strategies in terms of housing was altered by the new post-socialist patterns. Residential construction became insufficiently regulated and predominantly profit-driven, which resulted in a disregard of the value public spaces for children should have.CONCLUSIONS: Upon analysing public spaces for children in the city after transition, it can be concluded that there is a significant shortage of attractive places for gathering, play and other leisure activities in many of newly built urban neighbourhoods. It also seems that architects and urban planners did not pay much attention to children’s needs. The distribution of public spaces, their proportions and dimensions, programs and contents, should all be planned with the aim to create harmony between spaces and their users, making the whole process of socialization more successful and intensive.

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