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.

Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Symons
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City ◽  
Held Back

This chapter argues for an ‘emergent city’ urban policy, inspired by organisers of civic parade in Manchester which involved over 1,800 participants from 90 community groups. The analysis compares the top-down, command-and-control process of cultural strategy development in the city with the nurturing emergent approach of the organisers commissioned by the council to produce a civic parade. Drawing on parade making as a cultural trope, the chapter describes how the parade makers held back, allowing the parade shape to develop rather than over-directing it. It suggests that city decision makers can learn from this restrained approach.

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.

scholarly journals Análise de Susceptibilidade a Alagamento em Juazeiro do Norte

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 2204-2219
Author(s):  
Orjana Dias Palacio ◽  
Carlos Wagner Oliveira ◽  
Ana Célia Maia Meireles
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Curve Number ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
High Susceptibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Casual Relationship

This study addresses the casual relationship between urban growth patterns and environmental phenomena, which we have in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a powerful tool to support urban planning and decision-making. In this sense, an analysis of susceptibility to flooding of regions through GIS represents important information for the public sector, as support to the urban zoning process, delimitation of risk areas and for the allocation of public resources, with corrective and preventive purposes. Thus, this study aimed to determine areas susceptible to flooding in in the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, through geoprocessing techniques. For that purpose, data on slope, elevation, accumulated water flow, curve number, soil type and land use and occupation were used. The results indicated that Juazeiro do Norte is a city of medium susceptibility to flooding, corresponding to 69% of the municipality and compromising 17% in a high susceptibility. The urban area of the Tiradentes neighborhood deserves alert due to its greater potential for flooding, where 79.5% of its area is very vulnerable. The generated map serves as an instrument for managing and monitoring extreme water events that happen routinely in the city. It also signals the community and managers to take measures to prevent and minimize flooding.

scholarly journals A dinâmica urbana de cidades médias do interior paulista sob o Estatuto da Cidade

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson O. Goulart ◽  
Eliana T. Terci ◽  
Estevam V. Otero
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The City

O artigo examina o alcance do Estatuto da Cidade como novo marco regulatório da política urbana brasileira a partir de estudo comparativo de processos contemporâneos em três cidades médias do interior paulista (Piracicaba, Bauru e Rio Claro). O estudo se faz mediante a análise de três dimensões complementares: econômica, urbanística e político-institucional. São constatados obstáculos endógenos e exógenos que têm condicionado as políticas urbanas e dificultado a aplicação dos indicativos dos Planos Diretores recém-aprovados. Apesar da expressiva incorporação formal dos instrumentos do Estatuto da Cidade, boa parte não tem sido implantada ou não foi regulamentada, cenário que pode ser generalizado como predominante no país e que remete aos padrões contemporâneos do desenvolvimento regional e urbano. Palavras-chave: dinâmica urbana; cidades médias; Estatuto da Cidade; planos diretores participativos. Abstract: The paper examines the scope of the Statute of the City as a new regulation act of Brazilian urban policy based on the comparative study of contemporary processes in three medium-sized cities in São Paulo State (Piracicaba, Bauru and Rio Claro). The study analyzes three complementary dimensions: economic, urban and political-institutional. It observes the existence of endogenous and exogenous obstacles, which have been conditioning urban policies and hindering the implementation of the directives of newly approved Master Plans. Despite the expressive incorporation of instruments of the Statute of the City, many of them has neither been implemented nor regulated. That scenario can be generalized as prevalent in Brazil and refers to contemporary standards of regional and urban development. Keyword: urban dynamics; medium-sized cities; statute of the city; participative master plans.

scholarly journals INDAGANDO OS “MODOS DE VER” DA POLÍTICA URBANA: O PROBLEMA PÚBLICO DO CRESCIMENTO URBANO NA CIDADE DO RIO DE JANEIRO

GEOgraphia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (46) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Ana Brasil Machado ◽  
Leticia Parente Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discontinuous Nature ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The City

Resumo: Ao longo dos anos 2000, o problema do crescimento urbano passou por um processo de redefinição cognitiva no âmbito das políticas públicas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Tal mudança fez emergir um novo regime de visibilidade, um novo modo de ver, imaginar e definir este problema. A partir da análise de artigos da Coleção Estudos Cariocas, publicada pelo Instituto Pereira Passos, bem como de fontes hemerográficas, foi possível constatar que o problema do crescimento urbano, antes concebido em termos do crescimento populacional nas favelas, passa a descrever a expansão das áreas de favelas sobre áreas de proteção ambiental. Tal mudança realçou o caráter relacional do espaço e a natureza descontínua da cidade, além de chamar a atenção para a necessidade de elaboração de políticas que considerem os limites e as “zonas de contato” como elementos constituintes do espaço urbano.Palavras-chave: Crescimento urbano. Problema público. Regime de visibilidade. Favelas. Rio de Janeiro. INQUIRING THE “WAYS OF SEEING” OF URBAN POLICIES: THE PUBLIC PROBLEM OF URBAN GROWTH IN THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIROAbstract: Throughout the 2000s, the problem of urban growth underwent a process of cognitive redefinition within the scope of public policies of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Such a change has given rise to a new regime of visibility, a new way of seeing, imagining, and defining this problem. From the analysis of works published in the Estudos Cariocas collection, from the Pereira Passos Research Institute, as well as from hemerographic sources, it was possible to verify that the problem of urban growth, previously conceived in terms of population growth in the favelas, went on to describe the expansion of favela areas over areas of environmental protection. Such a change emphasized the relational character of space and the discontinuous nature of the city, drawing attention to the need for policy making that considers boundaries and “contact zones” as constituent elements of urban space.Keywords: Urban growth. Public problem. Visibility regime. Favelas. Rio de Janeiro. INVESTIGANDO LAS “FORMAS DE VER” DE LA POLÍTICA URBANA: EL PROBLEMA PÚBLICO DEL CRECIMIENTO URBANO EN LA CIUDAD DE RÍO DE JANEIRORsumem: A lo largo de la década de 2000, el problema del crecimiento urbano experimentó un proceso de redefinición cognitiva en el marco de las políticas públicas en la ciudad de Río de Janeiro. Tal cambio ha dado lugar a un nuevo régimen de visibilidad, una nueva forma de ver, imaginar y definir este problema. Del análisis de artículos de la Colección de Estudios Cariocas, publicado por el Instituto Pereira Passos, así como de fuentes hemerográficas, fue posible verificar que el problema del crecimiento urbano, previamente concebido en términos de crecimiento de la población en las favelas, llegó a describir la expansión de las áreas de favelas sobre áreas de protección ambiental. Este cambio ha resaltado el carácter relacional del espacio y la naturaleza discontinua de la ciudad, además de llamar la atención sobre la necesidad de desarrollar políticas que consideren los límites y las “zonas de contacto” como elementos constitutivos del espacio urbano.Palabras clave:  Crecimiento urbano. Problema público. Régimen de visibilidad. Favelas. Rio de Janeiro.

scholarly journals Processos de inclusão e participação Quilombola nas políticas urbanas da cidade/Quilombola inclusion and participation processes in the city urban policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-839
Author(s):  
Ricardo Lopes Correia ◽  
Samira Lima da Costa ◽  
Marco Akerman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The City

A participação na cidade deve considerar os processos de envolvimento coletivo em ocupações para as tomadas de decisão, planejamento e engajamento sobre o desenvolvimento e expansão de seus espaços públicos e sociais. Este artigo é uma análise da prática em Terapia Ocupacional que sumariza as intervenções construídas junto a uma Comunidade Quilombola, para a criação de um Plano Diretor Participativo Local, incluindo tal população enquanto cidadãos de direito na pauta do desenvolvimento da cidade. Considera-se que terapeutas ocupacionais podem produzir espaços de atuação no planejamento urbano das cidades, se suas intervenções estiverem balizadas pelas ocupações coletivas e políticas públicas de urbanização. AbstractParticipation in the city should consider the processes of collective involvement in occupations for decision making, planning and engagement in the development and expansion of its public and social spaces. This article is an analysis of the practice in Occupational Therapy, which summarizes the interventions constructed, together with a Quilombola Community, for the creation of a local participatory director plan, including such population as citizens of right in the agenda of the development of the city. It is considered that occupational therapists can find spaces of action in the urban planning of cities, if their interventions are marked by collective occupations and public policies of urbanization.Keywords: Community; Local development; Right to the city. Collective occupations; Urban planning; Occupational therapy.

Fire Surfing

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Michael W. Popejoy ◽  
Daniel P. Popejoy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Budget Planning ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
The Impact

This is a short story of fiction developed to illustrate teamwork, leadership,camaraderie, the impact of uncontrolled urban growth and poor budget planning. Italso demonstrates the darker side of public bureaucracy in decision making and how it can result in tragic consequences.

scholarly journals Urban Policies and Large Projects in Central City Areas: The Example of Madrid (Spain)

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Dolores Brandis García
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Central City ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Since the late 20th century major, European cities have exhibited large projects driven by neoliberal urban planning policies whose aim is to enhance their position on the global market. By locating these projects in central city areas, they also heighten and reinforce their privileged situation within the city as a whole, thus contributing to deepening the centre–periphery rift. The starting point for this study is the significance and scope of large projects in metropolitan cities’ urban planning agendas since the final decade of the 20th century. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the correlation between the various opposing conservative and progressive urban policies, and the projects put forward, for the city of Madrid. A study of documentary sources and the strategies deployed by public and private agents are interpreted in the light of a process during which the city has had a succession of alternating governments defending opposing urban development models. This analysis allows us to conclude that the predominant large-scale projects proposed under conservative policies have contributed to deepening the centre–periphery rift appreciated in the city.

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