Review: Selling Places: The City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present, Modelling the City: Performance, Policy and Planning, the People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America, Housing Women, the Natural and Built Environment Series 6. Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy, European Research in Regional Science 4. Issues in Environmental Planning, Virtual Design Studio, a National Health Service? The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979, on the Aesthetics of Architecture: A Psychological Approach to the Structure and Order of Perceived Architectural Space, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
M Crang ◽  
P Longley ◽  
P Malpass ◽  
S Fielder ◽  
M Raco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
The City ◽  
Property Markets

Artificial Planning Experience by Means of a Heuristic Cell-Space Model: Simulating International Migration in the Urban Process

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1647-1665 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Portugali ◽  
I Benenson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
The City ◽  
Theory And Model

We suggest considering the city as a complex, open, and thus self-organized system, and describing it by means of a cell-space model. A central property of self-organizing systems is that they are not controllable—not by individuals, nor by economic, political, and planning institutions. The city, in this respect, is complex and untamable. Inability to recognize and accept this property is one of the reasons for the difficulties and problems of modernist town planning. The theory and model we present are built to describe the urban process as a historical one in which, given identical initial conditions, each simulation run is unique and never fully repeats itself. From the point of view of urban policy and planning, our heuristic model can guide decisionmakers by answering the following question: ‘given the initial conditions of an inflow of new immigrants (that is, from the ex-USSR), what possible urban scenarios can result, and what are their global structural properties?’.

scholarly journals Redefining the city and demolishing the rest: The techno-green fix in postcrash Cleveland, Ohio

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Akers ◽  
Vincent Béal ◽  
Max Rousseau
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
East Side ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Racial Hierarchies ◽  
The City ◽  
Property Markets ◽  
Scientific Ambition ◽  
Cleveland Ohio

This paper examines the techno-environmental urban policy that emerged in Cleveland, Ohio following the financial crisis, consisting primarily of mass demolition and greening programs, we argue this techno-green fix is an urban redevelopment strategy in shrinking cities that reshapes these places into manageable islands of urban development. Demolition and green reuse accelerated displacement without gentrification in long established low-income communities of color while reinforcing the racial hierarchies in US property markets. We demonstrate how the unevenness of the demolition program mirrors earlier racialized practices while adopting the rhetoric and strategy of “smart shrinkage.” We show that behind its neutral and scientific ambition, this strategy targets the most disadvantaged areas of the inner city. The market rational of these programs reproduces old patterns of racial segregation in the city. Finally, we show that the “green” dimension of this strategy is highly ambivalent. If “greening” is publicly presented as a means to benefit marginalized areas and residents, it is also used as a way to transfer the maintenance of urban services to poor residents on the city’s east side, to erase urban spaces, and to foster market dynamics.

The New Urban Infrastructure Crisis Competition for Urban Space

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Marvin ◽  
Simon Slater
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Road Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Privately Owned

British cities are now experiencing unprecedented competition for surface and subsurface urban space. Restructuring of the utilities sector has created privately owned companies that are now engaged in major programs of infrastructure renewal while massive investments are underway in retrofitting new forms of telecommunications, energy, and transportation infrastructure. Above the ground, increasing mobility has created new demands for urban road space for the movement of goods and people. Focusing on a case study of Sheffield, the article identifies the competing demands for space, examines the broader implications of these new tensions, and evaluates how far the city is able to mediate between competing demands. The article concludes by raising serious questions about the ability of urban policy to mediate between private companies' demands for urban space in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Imagining Cities of Inclusion—Formulating Spaces of Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
Anja Nygren ◽  
Florencia Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
Everyday Resistance ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
The City ◽  
Rights To The City ◽  
Structural Aspects

This introduction underlines some of the topics the present thematic issue focuses on, such as segregation and security, control and creativity, resistance and networking, presenting continuities and changes in urban governance and urban justice in different parts of the world. We argue that urban theory should be rethought to consider cities as fora that recentre the ‘political’ in relation to gentrification, rights to the city, justice, and alternative urbanisms. We highlight structural aspects of urban policy and planning, including the intersection of mega-development projects with disruptive acts of social dispossession and efforts to depoliticise institutional control. Simultaneously, we emphasise tactics that reinterpret hierarchical modes of governance and create initiatives for enhanced justice through claim-making, negotiation, improvisation, acts of everyday resistance and organised opposition.

Exploring Attendance at a Traditional Cultural Event: The Case of a Holy Week Celebration

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Víctor Lafuente ◽  
José Ángel Sanz ◽  
María Devesa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Count Data ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City ◽  
Complex Expression

Holy Week is one of the most important traditions in many parts of the world and a complex expression of cultural heritage. The main goal of this article is to explore which factors determine participation in Holy Week celebrations in the city of Palencia (Spain), measured through the number of processions attended. For this purpose, an econometric count data model is used. Variables included in the model not only reflect participants' sociodemographic features but other factors reflecting cultural capital, accumulated experience, and social aspects of the event. A distinction is drawn between three types of participants: brotherhood members, local residents, and visitors, among whom a survey was conducted to collect the information required. A total of 248 surveys were carried out among brotherhood members, 209 among local residents, and 259 among visitors. The results confirm the religious and social nature of this event, especially in the case of local participants. However, in the case of visitors, participation also depends on aspects reflecting the celebration's cultural and tourist dimension—such as visiting other religious and cultural attractions—suggesting the existence of specific tourism linked to the event. All of this suggests the need to manage the event, ensuring a balance is struck between the various stakeholders' interests and developing a tourist strategy that prioritizes public-private cooperation.

Individualizing Civic Responsibility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon C.C. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Local Service ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
Policy And Planning

Chapter 3 demonstrates that DIY urban designers are largely motivated by failings they perceive in urban policy and planning. Placing them in this context is essential for interpreting the phenomenon. While do-it-yourselfers respond to the problems they see in creative ways, their individualistic tactics of doing so introduce problems of their own. The chapter focuses on bus stops to consider the lack of sidewalk seating in many cities, the privatization of street furniture, and concerns with local service provision. In trying to correct problems they see, do-it-yourselfers always impart their own personal and cultural values, and some DIY alterations can be selfish and anti-social in impact. The chapter interrogates DIY urbanism in the context of the “neoliberalized” city, arguing that even as the practices aim to counter the ill effects of market-driven planning, they can also reinforce an individualistic, undemocratic logic in placemaking.

Resilience to climate change in Ghanaian cities and its implications for urban policy and planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Mensah ◽  
Owusu Amponsah ◽  
Patrick Opoku ◽  
Divine Kwaku Ahadzie ◽  
Stephen Appiah Takyi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy And Planning

scholarly journals Exploring tutor-student interactions in a novel virtual design studio

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 101019
Author(s):  
Oscar G. Nespoli ◽  
Ada Hurst ◽  
John S. Gero
Keyword(s):  
Design Studio ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Student Interactions
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