Negotiating Proximity in Sustainable Urban Planning: A Swedish Case

Solá, Ana Gil; Vilhelmson, Bertil

doi:10.3390/su11010031

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“…Developed according to the principles of placemaking and public space design, these can serve as the new type of urban center of metropolitan importance (Carmona, 2019). Allowing for better social interactions can contribute to providing socially accepted proximity of functions and social interactions (Gil Solá & Vilhelmson, 2019).…”

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Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Lorens

Bach-Głowińska

Habier

et al. 2021

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Development trends regarding the business-related urban complexes seem to evolve from the “big-box” towards the more “multi-use” types of structures. Within it, the special role is reserved for places, which—due to economic, political, and geographical reasons—have not been previously considered as major business hubs. Only recently, places like cities in Central and Eastern Europe have become attractive locations for business complexes. These could offer centrally located and attractive locations for new structures, which resulted in the development of the new type of commercial centers—in the form of multi-use districts, walkable, and complemented by other uses. Therefore, to some extent, these cities “surpassed the development line” of the commercial and business complexes, and have become home to something much more advanced. Within the article, the cases from Poland, including Gdańsk, Warsaw, Cracow, and Wroclaw, are discussed. Not only is the urban arrangement of selected complexes presented, but the planning and socio-economic, legal, and infrastructural aspects of these developments are also discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Lorens

Bach-Głowińska

Habier

et al. 2021

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“…Planning for these spaces enhances the Social activities (Mikkilineni, 2018). The understanding of these informal public spaces which residents prefer develop is very important (Solá & Vilhelmson, 2018). Some attempts made by Municipalities to integrate these informal activities with formal parts of cities and economies (Erode Municipal Corporation;, 2015).…”

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Enhancing Social Sustainability in a Social Housing Project in India

Venkata Ravi Kumar Veluru,

Tej Kumar Karki

2023

J. Adv. Zool.

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This paper assesses the social environment required for enhancing social sustainability in a social housing project in India, with a case study of Ajith Singh nagar, social housing project of Vijayawada of Andhra Pradesh, India. Social sustainability is less thought off out of Three pillars of sustainability (Environment, social and economic). Social sustainability is quality of life in a neighborhood with its social environment. This paper studies the Informal social spaces such as informal meeting places, eating, sitting places, religious places and other activities of informal enterprise and trades which add to sustainable neighborhood environment. These spaces generate psychological comfort, enable to establish social relationships, that creates opportunity for informal interactions and social cohesion. Provision of these places in a neighborhood will address the social sustainability. This research arrives at what social spaces and activities required in a neighborhood by analysing existing housing layout which is otherwise just series of buildings and roads. The interactions between people and their surroundings strengthen community building and social bonding. This paper finds out that adding these places and activities enhance the social interactions and in turn establish social Capital.

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“…Hence, proximity centered strategies, which are rather different from accessibility centered strategies, introduce people's local access to a wide range of amenities important for quality of life as a core spatial planning principle. Such amenities include healthcare facilities, preschools and schools, social services, commercial services, leisure, cultural and entertainment amenities, parks and natural areas, this list being indicative rather than exhaustive [30]. Achieving proximity to all these amenities implies a great deal of decentralizing services and facilities locally, in order to equilibrate differences between districts citywide.…”

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15-Minute City: Decomposing the New Urban Planning Eutopia

2021

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As cities are struggling to cope with the second wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of 15-min cities seem to have sparked planners’ imagination and politicians’ willingness for providing us with a new urban planning eutopia. This paper explores the “15-min city” concept as a structural and functional element for redesigning contemporary cities. Methodologically, a study of three case cities that have adopted this new model of city vision, is carried out. The analysis focus on understanding how the idea of 15-min cities fits the legacies of different cities as described by traditional planning principles in the context of three evaluation pillars: inclusion, safety and health. The paper argues that the 15-min city approach is not a radical new idea since it utilizes long established planning principles. Nevertheless, it uses these principles to achieve the bottom-up promotion of wellbeing while it proposes an alternative way to think about optimal resource allocation in a citywide scale. Hence, application of 15-min city implies a shift in the emphasis of planning from the accessibility of neighborhood to urban functions to the proximity of urban functions within neighborhoods, along with large systemic changes in resource allocation patterns and governance schemes citywide.

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Negotiating Proximity in Sustainable Urban Planning: A Swedish Case

Cited by 28 publications

References 43 publications

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Enhancing Social Sustainability in a Social Housing Project in India

15-Minute City: Decomposing the New Urban Planning Eutopia

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