Suburban renewal: perspectives from Belgian, Danish and French cases

Serre, Marion; Vigneron, Rémy; Devisch, Oswald; Larsen, Majken Toftager; Maleas, Ion

doi:10.6035/kult-ur.2019.6.12.4

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“…In recent decades, planning policies in France 9 and Denmark 10 have been put in place to counteract these effects (Serre et al 2019). They aim at revitalizing suburban cores, attracting new populations and densifying existing residential subdivisions.…”

Section: Capacity Building As a Forceful Response To The Challenges O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Suburban regeneration through capacity building two case-studies from France (Périgueux) and Denmark (Viby)

Larsen

Serre²,

Vigneron³

2021

European Planning Studies

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Across Europe many suburban areas strive to boost their vitality through intensification of uses and densification of their vast existing urban fabric. Urban participatory practitioners working from external positions to urban administrations can play a vital role by introducing new co-creative formats for collaboration between public and private actors. Drawing on theories of capacity building and participatory planning this article explores two case-studies from France and Denmark. Through two models of action led by two different urban participatory practitioners we investigate capacity building as long-term and multilevel processes that are structured through different phases and processual goals: (1) To Mobilize: How to create a group of action. (2) To Involve: How to work together in the same direction (3) To Flow: How to anchor the process. The juxtapositioned cases then establish a nuanced perspective on interdisciplinary approaches of urban practitioners and their implications for capacity building in a suburban context.

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Section: Capacity Building As a Forceful Response To The Challenges O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Suburban regeneration through capacity building two case-studies from France (Périgueux) and Denmark (Viby)

Larsen

Serre²,

Vigneron³

2021

European Planning Studies

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“…The first principle was to focus all three participatory processes on the urgent question of how we, as academics and practitioners active in the field of spatial planning, should deal with the increasing societal costs of suburban developments. Suburbia remains the preferred housing dream for a large part of the (West-European) population (Serre et al, 2019). But this mode of living comes at a high societal cost: the low density, car dependency and largely homogenous population trigger an ecologic, economic and social crisis (Campbell, 1996).…”

Section: The Tough Decision Of Retrofitting Residential Subdivisionsmentioning

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Places For continuous learning on spatial planning issues – reflections on an experiment

Devisch

Larsen

Palmieri

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European Planning Studies

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Ever since the eighties, spatial planners have been approaching planning processes as learning processes. In this article we argue that such learning processes not only require a trajectory that helps groups to reflect in and on their actions, but also a trajectory that helps these groups to learn how to participate in such reflections. We refer to such a trajectory as a Place for Continuous Learning. The aim of the article is to explore how to develop such places. Over a period of 18 months, we conducted our own learning experiment and facilitated, on the one hand, three participatory processes in three European countries that each address the societal issue of retrofitting suburbia, and, on the other hand, organized a series of three Collective Learning Workshops in which we invited the main facilitators of these participatory processes to exchange experiences. Together these participatory processes and workshops made up our Place for Continuous Learning. The article first discusses the design of the experiment. It then summarizes the actual workshops and ends with formulating a number of principles on how to develop Places for Continuous Learning.

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Suburban renewal: perspectives from Belgian, Danish and French cases

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Suburban regeneration through capacity building two case-studies from France (Périgueux) and Denmark (Viby)

Suburban regeneration through capacity building two case-studies from France (Périgueux) and Denmark (Viby)

Places For continuous learning on spatial planning issues – reflections on an experiment

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