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Themes
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Arguments, suggestions, contributions, considerations
... a work in progress section for papers dedicated to an international
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Retail ----- |
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"Why are so many urban planners, environmentalists and new
urbanists so hostile about big-box retail? According to the author
it's time to take a more objective look at what the real issues
are...
The
Urbanistas versus Big-Box Retail
by Richard Carson |
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The Gulf Coast of the United States has been battered by major
hurricanes in recent years and the results have been devastating.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf of
Mexico. It left 527,000 people homeless, resulted in 1,299 casualties
and caused well over $250 billion in property damage. A few weeks
later, hurricanes Rita and Wilma also ripped through the area.
The hurricanes wrecked havoc on the region's natural resources,
sweeping away more than thirty square miles of Louisiana wetlands
and 25% of Mississippi marshes. These losses contributed to a
longstanding environmental problem.
Mapping
for Sustainable Resilience in the Gulf Coast of the United States
by Frederick Steiner, James Sipes, Barbara Faga, and
Robert Yaro |
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Two studies show the relationship between landscape transformation
and social practices. The first article focuses the attention
on the necessity of rethinking mass tourism to limit environmental
impacts; the second one considers the marginalization process
of European mountain environments caused by the abandon of these
territories.
The
tourist system of Caorle
by Giorgio Conti, Maria Giovanna Montagner
The
bio-cultural landscapes of Alps
by Giorgio Conti, Tecla Soave |
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Jan Gehl----- |
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From many points of view
Jan Gehl's research constitutes today a useful point of reference
for processes of transformation that are taking place in cities
throughout the world. They are physical and social worlds that are
always special, in which living takes place in unusual forms that
the author helps us to consider in greater depth.
Jan Gehl. Public space public life
by Andrea Di Giovanni |
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English
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Italian
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and urban coherence----- |
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Structural principles developed in biology, computer science,
and economics are applied to urban design. The coherence of urban
form can be understood from the theory of complex interacting
systems.
Complexity
and urban coherence
by Nikos A. Salingaros |
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Regentif----- |
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Regentif is an European project which involves development agencies,
universities, private companies. The main objective is to setup
both a methodology and a supporting Knowledge-Based System that
can be easily used by experts and newcomers involved in regeneration
projects.
Regentif. A Network for Knowledge Interchange on Regenerating
Old Industrial Facilities |
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Europolis---- |
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Europolis project is co-funded by the European Regional Development
fund through INTERREG IIIB North West Europe. It brings together
9 medium-sized cities across North West Europe, which have tested
different planning approaches to reduce urban sprawl, improve
living environments, regenerate inner city districts and attract
inward investment.
Medium-sized cities fight back to attract new inhabitants and
businesses
Press release about the final conference held in
Paris in March 2006 by the partners of the Europolis project. |
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Growing Cities---- |
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Metropolitan cities grow beyond imaginable proportions, particularly
in the developing world escalating the socio-economic demands,
which altering the biophysical environment of the city. Urban
issues therefore warrant – and receive – increasing
attention.
Way to Sustainable Development Of Urban Management: Green City
In India
by Sanhita Bandyopadhyay, Town Planner, working
as Environmental Planner in Sustainable Development Network Programme
in Government of India
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Urban Dynamics----- |
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Whoever is involved in planetary urban dynamics knows that, despite
the large differences between one region and another, we can find
some basic common trends. In order to do this, we need to look
at things from above, looking through the telescope from the wrong
end, as it were, even at the expense of simplification.
Urban Dynamics– Historical Values
by Prof. Elio Piroddi, professor of Urban Planning
at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, director of the study
centre Futures of Cities, president of the Scientific Committee
for the 49th IFHP World Congress.
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ICT and the city ---- |
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Given the continuing rapid development of
the information society, city planners and managers need
to reconsider their level of awareness– and their
degree of control of the impact of information technology
on today’s cities... |
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ICT
and the city. Tensions in the digital city
by Dr. Alessandro Aurigi, Architectural Informatics
group and Global Urban Research Unit in the School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne |
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Cooperation ---- |
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By supporting balanced spatial development, the Community
Initiative INTERREG III B constitutes an important instrument
for overcoming existing economic disparities and for better
integrating the new EU members... |
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Importance of Transnational Cooperation for German Spatial
Planning Policy
by Dr. Welf Selke, Federal Ministry for Transport,
Building and Housing / Christian Huttenloher, German Association
for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development |
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Autobiographic considerations ---- |
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Some autobiographic considerations, four articles and
a book presentation by Giuseppe Campos Venuti, one of the
fathers of Italian town planning... |
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Autobiographic Considerations (English,
Italian)
L'urbanisme en Italie, avec un oeil sur la France (French,
Italian)
Una estrategia para el reequilibrio de las transformaciones
territoriales (Spanish, Italian)
Reforme ou ideologie. le plan de rome vers la conclusion
(French, Italian)
My long way towards metropolization(English,
Italian)
by Giuseppe Campos Venuti, professor and honorary
president of INU, the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica |
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Rural America ---- |
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When urbanites clash with rural landowners, the outcome
is always the same: the country folks lose. Back at home,
the urbanists want their espresso bars, boutiques, and drive-throughs,
but they want rural areas to remain a pastoral land museum,
preserved for their visits by SUV... |
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Tyranny of the Urban Majority
by Richard Carson - writer, editorialist, practicing
planner member of the American Planning Association. |
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Housing and Planning ---- |
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The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP),
founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1913 under the historical
name of The International Garden Cities and Town Planning
Association, is the oldest international association involved
in town-planning... |
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The 49th Congress Of The International Federation
For Housing And Planning, Rome 2005
by by Elio Piroddi, University "La Sapienza"
Rome, president of The Congress's Scientific Committee
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mountain development ---- |
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"The article aims at providing an interdisciplinary
overview of the phenomenon of land abandonment, currently
affecting wide European mountain marginal regions and the
extent of which is described by considering wood expansion
figures..." |
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Sustainable Mountain Development and the key
- issue of Abandonment of Marginal Rural Areas
by Giorgio Conti, Associate Professor of Territorial
Planning, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Laura Fagarazzi,
Dr. Laura Fagarazzi, PhD Candidate in Analysis and Governance
of Sustainable Development |
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Sustainable tourism ---- |
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"Mass tourism is related to the industrial society
and to the emerging of the fordist production system. It
becomes a settled activity, based on large scale consumption
standardization and is insensitive to environmental priorities.
Our objective is to discover if it is possible, how to reconsider
the development model of a mass coastal tourism destination,
according to sustainable development. The case study chosen
is the Rimini region..." |
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Seaside Tourism Monoculture versus Sustainability.
The erosion of the social contract in the Rimini model.
by Giorgio Conti, Associate Professor of Territorial
Planning, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Carlo Perelli,
PhD Candidate in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development |
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Housing policies ---- |
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The article present the results of a research about the
housing policies in Uruguay, that has been made in ten years
by the Housing Unit of the Architect School in Montevideo
. It was previously presented to the International Seminar
of Housing Policies in Latin America (Montevideo, 2003) |
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Politicas
habitacionales en Uruguay
by Jorge Ruben Di Paula Perez, Director de la Unidad
Permanente de Vivienda. Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad
de la Republica. Montevideo (Uruguay) |
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identity and cultural integration ---- |
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This study takes mainly into account, the sub- region called
Plata_ MERCOSUR, with a special focus on the south part
of Uruguay, the one which is going to be a privileged area
of holidays and luxury secondary houses for the habitants
of "Cono Sur" (south cone) great cities; Buenos
Aires, San Pablo, Santiago de Chile, Asuncion and Montevideo,
as well as the geographic reference for the commercial path
San Pablo, Montevideo (headquarters of the MERCOSUR), Buenos
Aires and Santiago de Chile |
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Uruguay
dentro del continuum urbano de la sub-region Plata-Mercosur
By: Sonnia Romero Gorski, Doctora en Etnología,
Directora del Dpto. de Antropología Social-FHCE-Universidad
de la República- Uruguay. |
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Citizenship ---- |
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The words city, citizen, citizenship have historically
been determining a common feeling.We can identify different
steps of this evolution... |
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Cidade,
Cidadania e Segregação urbana
by Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro |
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American Ruralism ---- |
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| "American society has become more urban
and less rural according to every census taken since 1790.
Only in 1820 did the balance momentarily shift. However, the
technological advances of the last decade are already shifting
the population trends towards a New American Ruralism..." |
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The New American Ruralism
by Richard Carson - writer, editorialist, practicing
planner member of the American Planning Association. |
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City representation ---- |
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| A selection from a series of prints, which were
exhibited The Polish Cultural Centre in London in 2002, and
which take “The Ideal City” as their subject |
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The ideal city (monoprints)
by Tadeusz Deregowski - artist, painter, art director
(based in London) |
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Planning history ---- |
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"Among the historic Iranian cities, Isfahan
holds an extremely distinguished
place. Despite extensive research regarding the city of Isfahan,
there continue
to be many ambiguous points in the history of its development...." |
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Urban Planning of Isfahan in the Seventeenth Century
by Reza Abouei, University of Sheffield, School of
Architecture, Sheffield, England, UK |
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Living cities ---- |
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| "Living cities have intrinsically fractal
properties, in common with all living systems. The pressure
to accommodate both the automobile and increased population
growth led twentieth-century urbanists to impose anti-fractal
geometrical typologies. The fractal properties of the traditional
city were erased, with disastrous consequences for the urban
fabric. To undo this damage, it is necessary to understand
several things..." |
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Connecting the Fractal City
by Nikos A. Salingaros, Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
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American planning ---- |
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| "The words "American planning,"
while not an oxymoron, are still an ongoing political conundrum.
We have struggled for over 200 years to plan our cities and
metropolitan areas to reflect the standard of living we aspire
to. But such lofty aspirations are curbed by our historical
expansionist dreams, our Constitution in terms of property
rights and our own capitalist behavior..." |
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Occam's Razor
by Richard Carson - writer, editorialist, practicing
planner member of the American Planning Association. |
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Spatial patterns ---- |
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| The main concern of this paper tends to question
the relationship between the structuring of space and the
apparent correlation between the spatial patterns and the
system of social relations within domestic spaces. |
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• Spatial
interface between inhabitants and visitors in M'zabite domestic
spaces
by Dr Bellal Tahar, Department of Architecture, Sétif
University, Algeria. |
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Effect of ITS on spatial development
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The fact that ITS has great potential raises new questions
on the implementation effects of ITS, which are foreseen
in different fields, and are still unclear. The theme of
a PhD-project, called "Space", focusing at the
long term effect of ITS on spatial development., will be
described in this paper... |
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ICT-based innovation of transport: the links with spatial
development
by drs. Raffael Argiolu(1),
prof.dr.ir. Rob van der Heijden(1,2),
dr.ir. Vincent Marchau(2), dr. Daan
Drenth (1)
1) Group of Urban and Regional Planning, Nijmegen School of
Management, Nijmegen
2) Group of Transport Policy And Logistics’ Organisation,
Delft University of Technology,
Delft, The Netherlands |
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Hypercars and planning policies ---- |
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| After "The Golden Mean", a new contribution
by Richard Carson, on the new technology available to build
a new ultra light hybrid automobile and the links with today
planning policies and future American way of life .. |
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Auto Nation: Re-Thinking the Future of the Car
by Richard Carson - writer, editorialist, practicing
planner member of the American Planning Association. |
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quality and town planning ---- |
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| Today a renewed attention to urban and environmental
quality is a necessary condition for the achievement of proper
and sustainable development. The "quality" factor,
so clearly ignored for the past fifty years with results that
are before everybody's eyes, has today finally regained importance.The
long professional and academic experience of Marcello Vittorini
must be viewed in this context ... |
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Urban quality and town planning. A meeting with Marcello Vittorini
by Mario Cerasoli - Faculty of Architecture, Terza
Università degli Studi, Rome
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La qualità urbana e i piani urbanistici. Un incontro
con Marcello Vittorini
di Mario Cerasoli - Facoltà di Architettura
della Terza Università degli Studi di Roma |
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Urban Regeneration ---- |
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| The paper seeks to explore the urban-architectonic
model, on which the project of the Barcelona Forum 2004 has
been based. To be developed on a site of 636 acre, the Forum
involves an ambitious process of urban regeneration, a concept
that looks forward to showing the project as an example of
sustainable community of the XXI century... |
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Barcelona’s next post-Olympic urban challenge: The Universal
Forum of Cultures 2004
by Joaquim Clusa and Carlos Marmolejo - Centre
for Land Policy and Valuations - Polytechnic University of
Catalonia |
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Urban Growth ---- |
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In "The Golden Mean" Richard Carson
proposes alternatives to all the ways american planners tried
to manage urban growth during the 1990s.
The article, previously published by Planetizen,
received many comments, Planum presents this contribution
to the European audience. |
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The Golden Mean
by Richard Carson - writer, editorialist, practicing
planner member of the American Planning Association. |
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Environmental challenges ---- |
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| Environmental policies and best practices from
overseas are serving as important models to respond to demanding
and complex environmental challenges such as urban sprawl,
non-point source pollution, brownfields, and degraded water
infrastructure ... |
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International Best Practices and Innovation - Strategically
Harvesting Environmental Lessons from Abroad
by Dale Medearis, U.S. EPA's Office of International
Affairs
Brian Swett, U.S. EPA's Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation
G. Mark Gibb, Executive Director, Northern Virginia Regional
Commission
[The views expressed in this article are
those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the
views of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
or the Northern Virginia Regional Commission.] |
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