scholarly journals Changed precipitation patterns and the need for a novel approach to building plot planning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Niksic ◽  
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Jernej Cervek ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Current System ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Novel Approach

The events related to climate change are recently challenging the Slovenian urban planning. One of them are the floods in urbanised areas that call for a radically new approaches to how the urban built structure is organised and managed. The continental (and largest) part of Slovenia has a subalpine climate which has been traditionally characterised by a moderate precipitation throughout the year. This is now being changed as the larger amounts of water fall on the ground in a shorter period. As the current urban structure is not shaped in accordance with these new circumstances, parts of the cities are getting flooded more often. Some mitigation measures have been implemented, however to address the issue comprehensively new urban planning approaches are needed too. The paper will present one of the tools that has been developed within the endeavours of the national Ministry of Spatial Planning to reform the urban planning system to better reflect the changes posed by the climate change. It is related to the urban design criteria for building plots planning. To allow the rainfall to penetrate the soil as soon as the precipitation reaches the ground, new measures in organisation of the building plots will be provided. The current system defines the percentage of the built-up area within the plot but does not consider the permitted percentage of the paved open spaces (which do not allow the water to penetrate into the grounds), therefor it will be supplemented by the new measures based on the ability of the plots to allow the penetration of the water. The paper firstly presents the current system of building plots regulation within the Slovenian planning system. It then reports the results of the extensive analyses that focused on the existing characteristics of building plots for different building typologies across the country (housing, production, trade, public services) with the aim to map the state of the art in terms of the potential of the existing building plots to allow the water to flow into the grounds. The third part explains the methodological framework for the new approach to the building plots regulation. The last part presents the newly proposed approach and relates it to other urban design tools that need to support the implementation in practice. The concluding section relates the lessons learnt in Slovenian case to the similar situations elsewhere and stress the responsibilities that the urban planning and design have in providing future urban environments that will ensure the environmentally just living conditions for all.

scholarly journals Beyond Beauty or Urban Design of Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Thorsten Bürklin ◽  
Michael Peterek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Resource Economy ◽  
Land Water

In recent years, urban spaces all over the world have been effectively staged, sometimes all too obviously, and urban design has often concentrated on the implementation of "beautiful" lighthouse projects and globally oriented lifestyle urbanism. However, beauty – also in the broader sense of a beautiful experience – cannot be an end in itself in urban planning. An urban design of responsibility has to be committed to all residents and address the pressing challenges of our time, for example: the almost unlimited consumption of land, water and energy; floods and heatwaves due to climate change; lack of decent living conditions for large parts of the population. Against this background, five strategic guidelines for the integrated and responsible planning of our cities have been developed. These include "comprehensive" and integrated neighbourhoods, a mobility turnaround, interconnected blue and green infrastructure, a circular resource economy and space sharing, and the exploitation of the opportunities of digitalisation for a social and ecological city.

scholarly journals Indicators Framework for Sustainable Urban Design

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1143
Author(s):  
Andrea López Chao ◽  
Amparo Casares Gallego ◽  
Vicente Lopez-Chao ◽  
Alberto Alvarellos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Climate change and sustainability have recently been object of study due to the impact on the planet and on human activity of the first and the benefits that could derive from the efficiency of the second. Particularly, urban environments are locations that represent a high percentage of emissions of gases, waste, resources use and so forth. However, they are places where great changes can be made, in an attempt to accomplish the urgent challenge to adapt to current and projected rates of climate change. Research has shown that a fruitful approach to urban sustainability is to describe indicators that measure the effectiveness of current processes of urban infrastructures, analyze areas in need of improvement and measure the effect of any actions taken. The significant feature of this research relies on its global approach, considering both major worldwide used and less widely-spread frameworks and the analysis of the 32 selected tools and guidelines, including over 2000 indicators. The result is a proposed structure of 14 categories and 48 indicators, easily applicable in urban areas, that tries to fulfill basic aspects to obtain a general diagnosis of the sustainable nature of the urban environment, which can serve as support to detect the strongest and weakest areas in terms of their sustainability.

Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1536-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Potter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Place Making ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact

In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant consequence for diverse, inclusive and climate change-responsive urban environments. Urban planning in the modern global city commonly deploys imaginaries in line with neoliberal logics, and this article takes a particular interest in the impact of this on Indigenous Australians, whose original dispossession connects through to current Indigenous urban experiences of exclusion which are set to intensify in the face of increasing climate change. The article explores what urban resilience means in this context, focusing on a case study of urban development in Port Adelaide, South Australia, and broadens the question of dispossession through the forces of global capital to potentially all of humanity in the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals MAPPING SCIENCES: ANALISIS BIBLIOMETRIC ILMU PERANCANGAN KOTA BERKELANJUTAN DI DUNIA BERBASIS DATA SCOPUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Grandy Loranesssa Wungo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah (1) melihat perkembangan penelitian tentang perancangan kota yang berkelanjutan di dunia dan menyajikan struktur intelektual menggunakan analisis jaringan bibliometrik; (2) produktivitas publikasi ilmiah ilmu perancangan kota berkelanjutan berdasarkan kategori; dan (3) visualisasi perkembangan ilmu perancangan kota berkelanjutan. Metode yang digunakan yaitu dengan mengakuisisi dataset literatur dari database Scopus periode 2014-2020. Kemudian melakukan penyempurnaan dataset, konstruksi dan visualisasi jaringan, serta analisis dan interpretasi. Berdasarkan hasil analisis bibliometrik diketahui bahwa jumlah publikasi penelitian perancangan kota berkelanjutan sejak tahun 2014 hingga tahun 2019 mengalami peningkatan yang signifikan, namun pada tahun 2020 mengalami 3,2% penurunan dari tahun 2019. Negara dengan jumlah publikasi terbanyak penelitian perancangan kota berkelanjutan yaitu United States, China dan United Kingdom. Indonesia masih termasuk dalam 10 besar negara dengan jumlah terbanyak publikasi penelitian perancangan kota berkelajutan. Tren topik penelitian dalam ilmu perancangan kota berkelanjutan di dunia didominasi oleh topik sustainability, sustainable development, urban planning, green infrastructure, urban design, dan climate change.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking Strategies for Resilient Urban Design, Perceptions, and Planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Afrin ◽  
Farhat Jahan Chowdhury ◽  
Md. Mostafizur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Proactive Measures

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the scientific community has been continuously trying to assess the virus, its socio-environmental impacts, regulatory/adaptation policies, and plans. The emergency is to develop pandemic-resilient city planning and management in order to tackle the infectious diseases during COVID-19. Such development includes the reframing of unsustainable urban patterns, hazards, and social inequalities to be prepared for the emerging cases. In this study, we focus on the assessment of disaster risk management (DRM), which will help to develop pandemic-resilient urban strategies (response, mitigation, and preparedness phase) through analyzing previously published literature. Short- and long-term recommendations for pandemic resilience urban planning and design have also been provided. In the response phase, implementation of the smart and resilient city design and policies has been highlighted to identify disease transmission. In the mitigation phase, new technological approaches can be adopted for better management of present and future pandemics. The physical (urban access, infrastructure, environmental factors, and land use patterns) and non-physical (socio-cultural, governance, and economic factors) aspects of resilient urban strategies have been focused, which may help to develop understanding of health- and disaster-related risks in pandemic. In the preparedness phase, proactive measures such as capacity building of people toward any outbreak and different simulation processes (models of transmission pattern) can be adopted for future pandemics. We also discuss about the enhancement of urban resiliency in housing, public spaces, and cities that may bring the effective outcome of DRM framework to combat pandemic. The study focuses on the major lessons that can be adopted for post-pandemic urban resilient planning related to disaster management and climate change adaptation, preventing extensive challenges of sustainability apart. In the following months and years, it will be difficult to assess various changes to develop urban planning and design in the post-COVID-19 world. However, this study expresses the possibility of creating good opportunities for policymakers and city planners to undertake significant transformative and advanced actions during the three different phases of DRM. This study presents a novel approach to delineate the scope of DRM framework in achieving more resilient cities (RC) to tackle future pandemics. This study will also crucially help the planners and decision-makers in better assessing and addressing the strategic and resilient urban design and planning approach in future.

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. 

METHODS OF RENOVATION OF LOW-RISE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH LANDSCAPE RECULTIVATION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ROSTOV REGION)

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Oksana Sadkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Planning Methods

One of major factors of deterioration in a microclimate of urban development in the conditions of the Rostov region, is degradation of landscapes owing to violation of water balance of the territory. In article the main reasons for violation of water balance which included natural features of the region, a consequence of anthropogenic influence, climatic changes, etc. are considered. Examples from the world practice of urban planning, which show the relevance and effectiveness of compensation for the effects of anthropogenic im-pacts and climate change using planning methods, are given. The experience of the United States, the Nether-lands, Canada and other countries that use water-saving technologies in planning is considered. The rela-tionship of urban planning and the formation of sustainable urban landscapes is shown. The integration of water-saving technologies into the urban environment can be a means of optimizing landscapes and a means of creating unique urban spaces. Reclamation of the urban landscape of low-rise buildings is a necessary step in creating a modern and comfortable urban environment in the conditions of the Rostov region. Meth-ods are proposed to compensate for negative changes in urban landscapes that can be applied at the stage of urban planning. As well as the proposed methods can be applied in the reconstruction of urban low-rise buildings. The considered methods concern not only urban landscapes, but also agricultural landscapes that surround small and medium-sized cities of the Rostov region. In article the author's concept of the organiza-tion of the low housing estate on a basis Urban- facies is submitted. Planning methods of regulation of water balance of the territory on the basis of models the ecological protective of landscapes are offered: an ecolog-ical core, an ecological corridor and an ecological barrier and also analogs from town-planning practice are considered. The reclamation of urban landscapes based on urban planning methods for regulating the water balance of the territory will allow creating unique urban spaces that are resistant to local climatic conditions and the possible consequences of climate change.

scholarly journals Multi-Level Perspective on Sustainability Transition towards Nature-Based Solutions and Co-Creation in Urban Planning of Belgrade, Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7576
Author(s):  
Ana Mitić-Radulović ◽  
Ksenija Lalović
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research On Evaluation ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Multi Level

In recent years, nature-based solutions have been increasingly promoted as a climate change adaptation instrument, strongly advocated to be co-created. Achieving clear, coherent, and ambitious urban greening strategies, embedded in urban planning and developed in a co-creative, participatory and inclusive manner, is highly challenging within the EU enlargement context. In this article, such challenges are studied through two recent urban development initiatives in Belgrade, the Capital of Serbia: the first initiative focuses on planning the new Linear Park, within the framework of the CLEVER Cities Horizon 2020 project; the second initiative envisages the transformation of the privatised Avala Film Complex in the Košutnjak Urban Forest, primarily led by private interests but supported by the local authorities. The multiple-case study research method is applied, with an exploratory purpose and as a basis for potential future research on evaluation of co-creation processes for NBS implementation. The theoretical basis of this article is founded in the research on sustainability transitions, focusing on multi-level perspective (MLP) framework. The urban planning system in Belgrade and Serbia is observed as a socio-technical regime of the MLP. In such framework, we recognize co-creative planning of the Linear Park as a niche innovation. We interpret opposition towards planning of the Avala Film Complex as escalation, or an extreme element of the socio-technical landscape, comprised of civic unrests and political tensions on one side, combined with the climate crisis and excessive pollution on the other side. Moreover, the article examines informal urban planning instruments that can be implemented by the practitioners of niche innovations, that could support urban planners and NBS advocates in the Serbian and EU enlargement contexts to face the challenges of motivating all stakeholders to proactively, constructively and appropriately engage in co-creation.

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