Shifts in governance modes in urban redevelopment: A case study of Beijing's Jiuxianqiao Area

Zhang, Lei; Jing, Chen; Tochen, Rachel M.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.01.001

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“…Matsubara et al proposed to extract the line structure from the mammograms by the normal curvature for detecting AD [16]. Lakshmanan et al proposed using geometrical properties of edge structures for detecting AD [17]. Narváez et al extracted the linear structure information in the ROI and the edge, and formed a new feature vector according to different weights, AD was detected by SVM, and with an accuracy of 89% [18].…”

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The Transition from Housing Demolition to Conservation and Renovation in Shanghai: Challenges and Countermeasures

Shi

Min

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Land

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In the past few decades, a considerable number of old houses have been demolished in China’s urban redevelopment projects, which led to the disappearance of some historic buildings and the relocation of the original residents. Recently, the strategy of housing demolition (HD) in Chinese cities has been replaced by housing conservation and renovation (HCR). However, the transition from HD to HCR is not carried out well. This study aims to explore the key challenges in HCR practice by using a mixed method. Based on the field investigations in pilot projects and semistructured interviews, current HCR practices in Shanghai are summarized, and the four key challenges are identified as: (1) funding shortages; (2) an underdeveloped regulatory environment; (3) a psychological gap between the government and residents; and (4) a lack of stakeholders’ involvement. Targeted measures are proposed to mitigate the challenges. The findings and suggestions here could provide valuable references for the government when making decisions on sustainable housing conservation and renovation, and may promote urban renewal practices in China and other developing countries.

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Section: Measures To Promote Current Hcr Practicementioning

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The Transition from Housing Demolition to Conservation and Renovation in Shanghai: Challenges and Countermeasures

Shi

Min

et al. 2019

Land

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“…Despite the recent growth in the research of urban conservation and regeneration of China in the international debate, many scholars think that the overall amount and the depth still remain insufficient [38,45], especially in introducing and applying advanced Western technical methods into China [15]. In particular, the Italian technical methods, dominated by the typology-and morphology-led planning techniques, are little applied in China [15].…”

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Learning from Italian Typology- and Morphology-Led Planning Techniques: A Planning Framework for Yingping, Xiamen

Xie

2019

Sustainability

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As a vital historic neighborhood with an indeterminate large-scale planning scheme, Yingping, located in the city center of Xiamen, China, is struggling with poor livability and growing incoherent private additions and renovations that largely undermine the local historic urban landscape. Inspired by Italian typology- and morphology-led planning techniques, this study explores the possible interpretations and implications of their applications in Yingping to address its interconnected, heterogeneous, and stratified urban fabric and planning problems. The research is developed through a two-pronged multi-layered planning framework. Firstly, from the maintenance perspective, five intervention approaches are grouped, with a specific focus on the leading structural elements of the urban fabric—the arcade streets. Secondly, from the morphological view and through the ecological lens, six characterized areas are identified and classified with respective morphological features and crucial planning problems being faced. This framework provides a strategic thematization of corresponding optimizing strategies and suitable guidelines to direct future governmental actions and to support the self-maintenance of local inhabitants toward sustainable development. The study also presents the possibility that such techniques are applicable to the Chinese context and is expected to inspire further research and practices in China and beyond.

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“…When addressing the key question about whether public participation processes, aside from being explored in urban governance studies, are also adequately and appropriately adopted in the real life by urban designers and planners, the analysis revealed numerous concerns about the role played by neoliberalism in the governance of city that appear unresolved and poorly researched. This covered for example the outsourcing key services such as maintenance of open green spaces to community groups (Mathers et al loc cit) or wholesale redevelopment using private--public partnerships (Zhang et al 2016). Likewise, questions exist about the legitimacy of branding as a sales or marketing tool for regeneration of disadvantaged or semi--derelict neighbourhoods (Eshuis and Edwards 2015).…”

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Making urban design a public participatory goal: toward evidence-based urbanism

Dyer

Corsini

Certomà

2017

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Desig

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The paper builds upon the evidence of an increasing consensus toward citizens'engagement practices in shaping both the form and functioning of the city; and upon the apparent distance between the setting up of governance structures adequate for participatory processes to be performed, and the daily urban planning and design. Against this context, the research investigates whether public participation processes are adequately and appropriately addressed in urban planning and design practices. A bibliometric analysis on participatory processes' connection with urban studies (including urban governance, planning, design and development) is described, together with an in-deep evaluation of some works which makes it possible to appreciate the complexity of the topic. The bibliometric analysis reveals a significant divide between the traditional fields of social sciences, built environment disciplines and information technologies; and no common understanding or framework to translate aspirations for greater citizen participation into improved planning, design and construction of city infrastructures. Discussion and conclusions provide, thus, some guidelines for an ambitious research agenda to address these shortcomings based on a systems approach, able to integrate the processes and results from direct participatory processes into decision making for urban planning and design. Keywords: participatory processes, bibliometric analysis, urban governance, urban planning, urban design 1. The need for cross fertilisation between urban studies and participatory processes It is nowaday clear in socio-spatial research that those who have the means and the legitimacy to produce the physical space inhabited both in terms of planning, design and development practices, are equally-still more subtly-endowed with the power to foster democracy, equality and participation or, conversely, to produce exclusive spaces where injustice and unequality are perpetuated (Harvey 1990; Soja 2000). The power to shape the form and functioning of the city has been for a long time almost exclusively hold by urban design professionals, exerting it under the guide of public administrations and in strict alliance with building companies. Nowadays the vastly documented complexification of the urban governance sphere (Sassen 2006), in response to a crisis of confidence in the ability of national states to create socially cohesive and green-oriented cities inhabited by public-spirited citizens (Coaffee and Healey, 2003; Garcia 2006; Jones and Evans 2006 and de Wilde et al 2015), required an increased attention toward truly participatory practices granting access for citizens to urban-related decision making processes. Cities confront today a host of challenges and opportunities, as witnessed by policy and state of the art reports emerging from regional and international governmental agencies during the last decade (UNICEF 2004, IEA 2008, EC 2011, EC 2011a, OECD 2016). The unparalleled attention being paid to cities is due to urban centers being at the nexu...

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Shifts in governance modes in urban redevelopment: A case study of Beijing's Jiuxianqiao Area

Cited by 56 publications

References 64 publications

The Transition from Housing Demolition to Conservation and Renovation in Shanghai: Challenges and Countermeasures

The Transition from Housing Demolition to Conservation and Renovation in Shanghai: Challenges and Countermeasures

Learning from Italian Typology- and Morphology-Led Planning Techniques: A Planning Framework for Yingping, Xiamen

Making urban design a public participatory goal: toward evidence-based urbanism

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