Community planning and urban design in contested places. Some insights from Belfast

Vita, Gabriella Esposito De; Trillo, Claudia; Perez, Alona Martinez

doi:10.1080/13574809.2016.1167586

Cited by 17 publications

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“…The coherence between a city, its urban planning and architecture, neighborhoods and public places is very significant in these processes. The community planning process implies an official cooperation between local government and communities within a neighborhood, with an incremental approach to long-term processes (Esposito De Vita et al 2016 ). Consequently, so-called ‘third places’, representing all the informal public places that people visit beyond housing and work, are of special importance for the social life of a neighborhood (Oldenburg 1999 ).…”

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The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade

Jovanović

Stupar

2021

Urban Des Int

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The development of New Belgrade, initiated in the post-war period, was based on the Modernist concept of urban structure. The planned central zone was never built, but the local community places, as urban hubs for meeting and gathering, have been developed within the initially conceived open public spaces. Considering their importance for establishing and strengthening local communities, the article focuses on the development tendencies detected in emerging urban hubs of the residential Blocks 37 and 38. Unlike many other blocks of New Belgrade, which have been exposed to drastic changes of their original Modernist structure, their authentic setting have remained mostly intact since their construction in the 1970s. Therefore, they are selected as the examples of a new process of community planning which has followed the activities of place making. Triggered both by the changed patterns of use and the specificities of original spatial features, these changes also influence the local neighborhood while shifting the perception of the previously neglected open public spaces. The emerging hubs are analyzed on the level of networks, configuration and places, providing an insight into ongoing transformation of both the space and the local community.

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The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade

Jovanović

Stupar

2021

Urban Des Int

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“…Since the early 1980s, the concept of heritage has been moving towards a value-based approach that addresses the city as a "living heritage" and incorporates associative values and multiple perspectives from different stakeholders (Poulios, 2014;. In parallel, scholars have developed multiple methods to address conflictual value systems within local cultural contexts (de la Torre Mason & Avrami, 2002;Holden, 2006;Vita, Trillo, & Perez, 2016;Heinich, 2017), and anthropologists have widely contributed to heritage studies in this regard. The most important themes in this literature are related to conflicts between "official" history and local historical knowledge, the contested representation of heritage between legitimate conceptions of the national identity and local identities related to everyday sociocultural constructs and experiences, the role of bureaucracies in daily life, and the struggle over citizenship rights and the right to the city (Herzfeld, 1991(Herzfeld, , 2006(Herzfeld, , 2016Zhang, 2004).…”

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Claiming a role for controversies in the framing of local heritage values

Ginzarly

Farah

Teller

2019

Habitat International

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This study focuses on the role of controversies in heritage management, considering more specifically cities characterized by tensions between community groups. In such cities, the regulatory and institutional systems are challenged by highly structured community-based initiatives and organizations. Using an analytical framework that assesses the regulatory system, urban conservation, and development practices, we compared two heritage management projects in Tripoli (Lebanon). Our results highlight the dichotomy between decision makers' and communities' approaches to the definition and management of heritage and to the struggle over the use of public spaces to reclaim heritage values. The discussion highlights how controversies emerge from the physical assets that are claimed as heritage, the range of values associated with tangible assets, and how local communities may coproduce heritage knowledge and actively contribute to the democratization of heritage values.

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“…Nevertheless, in a local perspective, the cooperation should be applied in a collaborative process among key local actors and researchers aimed at sharing local and expert knowledge, recognizing resources and values and planning actions for landscape management and sustainable development (Attardi et al, 2014;Clemente et al, 2015;Cerreta & Daldanise, 2017). Therefore, the local community is fundamental to building consciousness of the place, to identifying and assessing its tangible and intangible resources (Dematteis & Governa, 2005;Magnaghi, 2010a;Esposito De Vita et al, 2016), thus considering not only physical elements but also collective memories, meanings, and identities (Cerreta et al, 2014).…”

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Sharing responsibilities to regenerate publicness and cultural values of marginalized landscapes: Case of Alta Irpinia, Italy

Oppido¹,

Ragozino²,

Micheletti³

et al. 2018

Urbani izziv

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The paper deals with the issue of non-core areas in Italy by investigating the role that publicness and socio-cultural values of landscape can play in triggering development process in these contexts. Local communities have historically been the main producers of the cultural landscape. Nowadays, the importance of involving communities and sharing responsibilities together with policy makers and stakeholders is increasingly recognized. Their involvement is particularly valuable for processes that aim at safeguarding publicness and cultural values of places as well as for achieving social needs, carrying out economic activities, and promoting cultural assets. This research looks at Italian non-core areas in order to investigate the role of the "landscape community" in collaborative regeneration strategies. The aim is to highlight the power of landscape as a catalyst of civic activation and as the place in which to improve social practices for local development, competitiveness and attractiveness by using territorial capital and by strengthening territorial cohesion. For this purpose, Alta Irpinia, in Southern Italy, has been selected for empirical research. Preliminary evidence indicates the presence of bottom-up initiatives for reusing the historical Avellino-Rocchetta Sant'Antonio railway to promote the cultural landscape of the area and contrasting its marginalization. The main output of the ongoing research activity is the definition of the "action arena" to rearrange fragmented and conflicting perspectives and to start a collaborative process for local development in which the landscape could be recognized as driver.

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Community planning and urban design in contested places. Some insights from Belfast

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade

The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade

Claiming a role for controversies in the framing of local heritage values

Sharing responsibilities to regenerate publicness and cultural values of marginalized landscapes: Case of Alta Irpinia, Italy

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