Making Room for People :  Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Areas

Qu, Lei; Hasselaar, E.

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“…The issues of car-free cities (or car-free zones within cities) and the safety of streets as public spaces, were becoming recognised in the 1960s: in the UK 'the Buchanan Report' [1], in Sweden SCAFT guidelines (Principles for urban planning with respect to road safety) [2] and perhaps most famously in the USA with the publication of the 'Life and Death of Great American Cities' [3]. The first Woonerf, an environment unfriendly to cars but suitable for children and other pedestrians, was created as an illegal project led by local residents in 1968 in Groningen, the Netherlands [4]. Woonerfs or 'Living streets' have become popular in the Netherlands and other parts in Europe as public areas serving primarily as places for walking and playing, with only local traffic [5].…”

Section: Context Of Car-free Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Tactical Urbanism Action to Institutionalised Urban Planning and Educational Tool: The Evolution of Park(ing) Day

Herman

Rodgers

2020

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A singular and modest activist action, a temporary park created in San Francisco, grew into the global urban Park(ing) Day (PD) phenomenon. This tactical urbanism event not only expanded to be annually celebrated in thousands of parking lots all over the world but became an inspiration for urban planning and policy changes. The permanent rendition of Park(ing) Day, parklets, resulted from the movement but did not stop the spread of PD itself. This article presents case studies from New Zealand and Poland, two geographically and culturally distant locations where PD has further developed and evolved gaining local qualities. Through research methods such as research in design, secondary data analysis and expert interviews we study the trajectory of PD evolution and the role and interpretation of it in different parts of the globe. The results show a narrative of successive popularisation and institutionalisation as well as diversification. Departing from its grassroots, guerilla and assertive traits, PD has grown to become an artistic, creative and urban planning tool. As an established, recognised action and an ‘attractive’ idea, PD has great potential for designer education, allowing a venue for implementing methods such as design-build and live project.

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Section: Context Of Car-free Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Tactical Urbanism Action to Institutionalised Urban Planning and Educational Tool: The Evolution of Park(ing) Day

Herman

Rodgers

2020

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“…It is becoming a more suitable route to stimulate active participation and enhance social capital, although affordable applications in practice is still scarce (Alvarez et al 2017). For example, in Western European countries, raising the voice of people has been institutionalised in renovation projects and has continued as a strong movement in urban restructuring activities (Qu and Hasselaar 2011). In Chinese cities, small-…”

Section: 'Place-making' and 'Place Branding' Embedded In Participativmentioning

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Emerging Participative Approaches for Urban Regeneration in Chinese Megacities

Chen

2020

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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The rapid development of Chinese megacities in the past decades have been mainly characterized by top-down planning and large-scale urban (re-)development, and by using "place-making" as a tool for city branding. This approach has also been used in other countries and has been constantly criticized for replacing old neighbourhoods. In recent years, alternative development modes and participative approaches in urban regeneration practices have emerged in cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen. This paper investigates participative urban regeneration cases in Yangpu district, located in Shanghai and the Dalang sub-district in Shenzhen. Both case studies are located in the urban-rural interface, where past industrialization processes have resulted in complex socio-spatial conditions. The primary focus was to analyse the governance aspects in the cases, such as the enabling factors that allow the participative approach to emerge in these projects and their governance model. This paper concludes on the importance of civil society organizations and the incorporation of social objectives in emerging participative regeneration practices.

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“…Resident group initiatives seem to flourish when their household base is on order, when the group searches for social togetherness instead of bonding, and when the municipality facilitates the small scale of such initiatives (Sanders, 2014a). Resident group initiatives differ greatly in their goal setting and involvement; that is why there is a large difference between passive and active residentship (Tonkens, 2009) (WRR, 2012) related to the ladder of participation (Qu and Hasselaar, 2011). Secondly differences are found concerning the governmental attitude towards such initiatives, being static or dynamic, directive or facilitating (Hendriks, 2006) Within this for the SBE16 research, joining-in and investment-in gave the best sustainable results when researching the number of Dutch IKS2 city projects (Sanders and Timmeren, 2016).…”

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Dutch Natural Resiliency of below Sea-Level Living Residents

Sanders¹

2018

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The Wester coastal Delta zone of the Netherlands, the relatively more crowded area of the country hosting ten out of seventeen heading to twenty million people, asks for a growing alertness on the topic of resiliency the light of climate-change, like many coastal urban areas do. Approaches of resiliency are often pre-dominated by governmental rescue planning and mobilization of technology innovative solutions. By comparing the float disasters of the 2015 Katrina and 2012 Sandy thunder-storms that hit respectively New Orleans and New York we can learn that the behaviour of people can make the difference in overcoming climate change impact disasters. Post-PhD research with focus on the Dutch Zaanstreek-Waterland area north of the city of Amsterdam, where in 1916 a severe flood took place, proved such. The outcome from focus group sessions is that the alertness and availability of the people to act in case of disaster urgency makes a positive difference, if the memory of the area residents to previous disaster handling is kept alert. This Zaanstreek-Waterland research showed that the disaster from 100 year before still kept the residents alert into resiliency. With that result the defi-nition of resilience should be improved by adding: ‘the interplay in a triangular relationship of civil servants, technicians and residents’.

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Making Room for People : Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Areas

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

From Tactical Urbanism Action to Institutionalised Urban Planning and Educational Tool: The Evolution of Park(ing) Day

From Tactical Urbanism Action to Institutionalised Urban Planning and Educational Tool: The Evolution of Park(ing) Day

Emerging Participative Approaches for Urban Regeneration in Chinese Megacities

Dutch Natural Resiliency of below Sea-Level Living Residents

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