“…First, CIOS do not owe their existence to a 'planning vacuum' (cf. Andres 2013). Planning for the rebuild (bottom-up and top-down) started almost immediately after the February 2011 earthquake and resulted in a comprehensive planning framework that set out a long-term vision and development goals (CCDU 2012).…”
Section: Transitional Community-initiated Open Spaces (Cios) In Chrismentioning
Temporary uses of vacant urban spaces are usually not foreseen in conventional urban planning and have often been linked to economic or political disturbances. In New Zealand, Christchurch's vacant spaces came into existence after the city was hit by several devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Parallel to the 'official' rebuild discourse, temporary uses have emerged on vacant post-earthquake sites including community gardens, urban agriculture, art installations, event venues, eateries and cafés, and pocket parks. Based on the review and analysis of exemplary transitional community-initiated open spaces and correlated literature, the paper looks at how the post-disaster urban context in Christchurch has influenced particular aspects of temporary urbanism in comparison with case studies in non-disaster environments. By focusing on the anticipated benefits of community-initiated open spaces, the paper discusses the relevance of temporary uses of vacant urban spaces for urban sustainability in relationship to concepts of community resilience and raises questions about possible long-term values.
“…First, CIOS do not owe their existence to a 'planning vacuum' (cf. Andres 2013). Planning for the rebuild (bottom-up and top-down) started almost immediately after the February 2011 earthquake and resulted in a comprehensive planning framework that set out a long-term vision and development goals (CCDU 2012).…”
Section: Transitional Community-initiated Open Spaces (Cios) In Chrismentioning
Temporary uses of vacant urban spaces are usually not foreseen in conventional urban planning and have often been linked to economic or political disturbances. In New Zealand, Christchurch's vacant spaces came into existence after the city was hit by several devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Parallel to the 'official' rebuild discourse, temporary uses have emerged on vacant post-earthquake sites including community gardens, urban agriculture, art installations, event venues, eateries and cafés, and pocket parks. Based on the review and analysis of exemplary transitional community-initiated open spaces and correlated literature, the paper looks at how the post-disaster urban context in Christchurch has influenced particular aspects of temporary urbanism in comparison with case studies in non-disaster environments. By focusing on the anticipated benefits of community-initiated open spaces, the paper discusses the relevance of temporary uses of vacant urban spaces for urban sustainability in relationship to concepts of community resilience and raises questions about possible long-term values.
“…The last decade has witnessed the rise of precarious urban conditions involving temporary land use, the appropriation of vacant buildings, pop-up trucks and stores, energy and water precarities, and related dialogues (e.g. Neilsen & Rossiter, 2008;Bishop & Williams, 2012;Andres, 2013;Tonkiss, 2013;Németh & Langhorst, 2014;Harris, 2015). The world as a whole seems to be moving towards more precarious states of existence as the durable edifices of twentieth century liberal democracy slowly crumble.…”
Over the last decade, a multitude of urban climate change experiments have emerged to go beyond traditional role of the state in environmental governance. These activities provide a real world evidence base for how a low-carbon world could be realised and they have the potential to fundamentally change the way that cities are conceived, built, and managed. Most urban climate change experiments are designed to be geographically and temporally bounded to accelerate innovation activities and realise actual changes on the ground. But what if urban experiments did not scale up? What if, instead of informing existing modes of urban governance, they became the dominant approach to governing cities? What would a 'city of permanent experiments' look like and how would it function? This chapter speculates on the implications of experimentation as the new mode of governance for twenty-first century cities. Here, experiments are not interpreted as one-off trials to provide evidence and justification for new low-carbon policies, regulations, and service provision; instead, they are emerging as a new mode of governance in themselves. This emerging form of urban governance is characterised by uncertainty, recursive learning processes, and spatial fragmentation with multiple unknown implications on the politics of cities in the future.
“…Some of the former tenants still surviving in Flon are highly critical of the process, feeling that they were exploited by commercial logic. However, no organized community strategy was mobilized to challenge the redevelopment process as soon as it started; rather, tenants negotiated on behalf of their own individual interests with the landlord (Andres, ). The owners were thus able to achieve their goals:We secured enough income from the Flon‐Flon initially.…”
Section: A Decade Of ‘Non‐swiss Instability' In a Strong Planning Conmentioning
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