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The final version of the "ESDP
European Spatial Development Perspective - Towards Balanced
and Sustainable Development of the Territory of the European
Union" , prepared by the Committee on Spatial Development,
was finally adopted, by the Ministers responsible for Spatial
Planning in the Member States of the European Union, at the
Potsdam Council on 10 and 11 May 1999.
The final conclusions at the close of the Informal Council
of EU Ministers defined the ESDP "as a policy framework
for the Member States, their regions and local authorities and
the European Commission in their own respective spheres of responsibility".
The aim of these spatial development policies is "to work
towards a balanced and sustainable development of the territory
of the European Union [...] to ensure that the three fundamental
goals of European policy are achieved equally in all the regions
of the EU: 1) economic and social cohesion; 2) conservation
and management of natural resources and the cultural heritage;
3) more balanced competitiveness of the European territory".
The book "The Making of the European Spatial Development
Perspective" by Andreas Faludi and Bas Waterhout, here
reviewed for Planum's readers by Luisa Pedrazzini, is an account
of the process of preparing, negotiating and adopting the ESDP;
enriched by a Sir Peter Hall foreword the book offers a snapshot
of contemporary European spatial planning. |
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Projects for Public Spaces ---- |
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The year 2000 marked Project
for Public Spaces' 25th anniversary as a nonprofit technical
assistance, research and educational organization. PPS' mission
- to create and sustain public places that build communities
- is achieved through programs in transportation; parks, plazas
and central squares; public markets; and community institutions
and public buildings.
In this section Planum presents two books published by PPS:
a manual which gives many examples of good practice in re-vitalising
failing parks, run-down streets and public spaces, and a report
from North America which provides invaluable advice on creating
new private-public partnerships to support regeneration projects. |
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How To Turn
A Place Around
by Project for Public Spaces
Book review by
Andrea
Di Giovanni |
Public Parks,
Private Partners
by Project for Public Spaces
Book review by
Andrea Di Giovanni |
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Global City and Immigration
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Because of the significant interest provoked
by the section "City
and Immigration", Planum has decided to open this new
service with four books linked to the same theme. From each
book review it is possible to visit the specific section and
read further essays concerning the topic.
As far as the selection of the following four books is concerned,
they have been chosen because they touch the problem of immigration
treating question of general interest and representing the complexity
of the contemporary urban landscapes. |
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Justice and
the Politics of Difference
by Iris Marion Young
Princeton Univ Pr, 1990
Book presentation
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Migrations:
Humanity in Transition
by Sebastião Salgado
Aperture, 2000
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The Urban Project ---- |
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It is out of doubt that the "urban project"
is now constitutive to the planning process; for that reason
the "urban project" suffers and at the same time introduces
mutations and innovation in the town planning methods.
The notion of urban project lives between continuity and innovation:
continuity because of, since the beginning of the twenty century,
the urban project has been a diffused practice to "modernize"
the city; innovation because since the '80 years of the last
century the notion of the urban project acquired a new force
and significance, the concept became complex and interdisciplinary
to identify the multiple operations that followed one another
in European cities.
From this time, the concept of urban project evolves with deep
changes: the opposition between urban project and town planning
becomes inclusion, the urban projects play, very often, a very
important role inside the planning processes.
Planum has the intention to open new spaces specifically dedicated
to the topic "urban project". In this section "books reviews"
Planum is pleased to introduce Patrizia Ingallina essay Le projet
urbain edited by Presses
Universitaires de France, collection "Que sais-je?".
Patrizia Ingallina is an architect and planner, "maître de conférences"
at the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris (Université de Paris XII),
and is in charge of a DESS (Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées)
on urban projects.
The book, taking as a starting point the actual researches in
France on the "urban project" theme, in particular the study
done by the author with M.Roncayolo for the Dictionnaire de
l'urbanisme et de l'aménagement (dir. P.Merlin and F.Choay),
presents a deep reflection on the urban project notion, on its
history, on the importance of this concept in the actual planning
debate. |
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Le Projet Urbain
by Patrizia Ingallina
Presse Universitaires de France Place, 2001
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The Town Planners' Cinema ---- |
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Planum chose, since the beginning of his project,
to pay attention to the relationship between town planning and
multimedia representations of the city. Planum is so pleased
to present the book "Progetti di città sullo schermo - Il Cinema
degli Urbanisti" ("Cities' projects on the screen, the town
planners' cinema") by Leonardo Ciacci.
In this new essay Ciacci, teacher on "Town Planning Theory"
at the I.U.A.V. (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia),
shows the results of his deep research and suggests an overall
original interpretation of the movies that constitute the first
important core of the town planners' cinema archive.
Planum published short
summaries and video-abstracts of some movies commented in the
book, and will present, in a new "contemporary movies
section", "La campagna che si fa Metropoli" ("The country
that become Metropoli"), a short film produced by Ciacci for
the I.N.U. XXIII Congress, Naples 2000.
Leonardo Ciacci, editor of the section Multimedia/Movies
, cooperated to the project since the first release, when
he published the text presented at the 4th International Conference
on Urban History (Venice September 1998), "Remaking
History to Plan The City, in Town Planners' Movies"
, text revised for the article "Urbanistica filmata. Non progetti
illustrati ma trasformazioni della memoria" (Urbanistica 113,
1999). |
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2001 |
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City and Nature
- An integrated whole
by Trausti Valsson
Book
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Splintering
Urbanism
by Stephen Graham and Simon
Marvin
Book
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Del Periodo
Giovanile di Galileo Galilei.
Il trattato di Fortificazione.
by Antonino Pellicanò
Book
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Ces événements
nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateurs.
by François Ascher
Book
presentation |
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