Urban And Regional Planning

High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century

by Matthew Lasner

Forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2012

Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family... more Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the 21st century. In this unprecedented study Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City's first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condo and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

Arquitectos proyectistas y transición democrática. El concurso ´20 ideas para Buenos Aires´.

by Guillermo Jajamovich

Published in Anales del Instituto de Arte Americano, nro 41, 2012, pp. 203-212.

El artículo analiza la expansión de las redes de arquitectos proyectistas que proponen intervenir en la ciudad a... more El artículo analiza la expansión de las redes de arquitectos proyectistas que proponen intervenir en la ciudad a partir de proyectos puntuales y fragmentarios. En un marco de disputas entre técnicos y proyectistas, se interrogan los factores que favorecen la expansión de estos últimos, como ser: su sintonía con aspectos clave del contexto político y económico, sus conexiones políticas y el uso de intercambios con pares españoles. Así, en un contexto de transición democrática y crisis económica, se analiza el concurso “20 ideas para Buenos Aires” (1986), organizado entre la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y la Comunidad de Madrid. Esta iniciativa es abordada en tanto indica la expansión de arquitectos proyectistas que cuentan con trayectorias y un saber hacer vinculado a la práctica profesional privada y a la enseñanza de la arquitectura.

Intercambios internacionales, estrategias urbanísticas y aspectos políticos: España, Buenos Aires y Rosario (1976-1993)

by Guillermo Jajamovich

Published in Revista Iberoamericana de Urbanismo, nro. 7, 2011. p. 19-30.

El presente artículo aborda una serie de intercambios internacionales de ideas y estrategias urbanísticas en relación... more El presente artículo aborda una serie de intercambios internacionales de ideas y estrategias urbanísticas en relación a aspectos políticos entre España (Madrid, Barcelona y Andalucía), Buenos Aires y Rosario, entre 1979 y 1993. Se analizan los desajustes que sufren las ideas y estrategias urbanísticas una vez que son retomadas en contextos políticos y culturales diversos y se indagan las legitimaciones cruzadas a niveles políticos y urbanísticos que suponen estos intercambios. Entre 1979 y 1993, Buenos Aires y Rosario reciben visitas de arquitectos, gestores urbanos, consultores y suscriben convenios de cooperación con ciudades españolas, de los cuales se analizará el anteproyecto del estudio de arquitectos MBM para el Parque España de Rosario, el Concurso 20 ideas para Buenos Aires, la operación Puerto Madero a partir del plan estratégico Antiguo Puerto Madero y la Manzana de San Francisco, producto de la cooperación entre la MCBA y la junta de Andalucía.

Políticas urbanas en un contexto de dictadura militar. Algunos interrogantes a partir de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (1976-1983)

by Guillermo Jajamovich

Co-authored with Luján Menazzi. In press. Bitácora urbano-territorial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, nro 20.

El presente artículo busca reflexionar acerca del accionar de la última dictadura militar argentina sobre la ciudad de... more El presente artículo busca reflexionar acerca del accionar de la última dictadura militar argentina sobre la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Así, se analizarán las políticas urbanas de la dictadura en general profundizando en particular ciertas intervenciones, tales como los fallidos intentos de traslado del Mercado Nacional de Hacienda y el plan de Autopistas Urbanas, que supuso una serie de demoliciones y expropiaciones en un área que sería testigo al poco tiempo de medidas de protección patrimonial. Estas intervenciones, entre otras, suponen ciertas fisuras o contradicciones que nos alejan de entender el accionar de la dictadura como algo unívoco. En ese sentido se señalan los distintos organismos estatales desde donde se producen estas intervenciones, las distintas perspectivas y lógicas de intervención y los efectos en ocasiones contradictorios sobre el territorio. A partir del análisis de estas intervenciones se problematizarán dos aspectos: la idea que supone un accionar unívoco, sin fisuras ni disputas internas por parte de la dictadura, y la imagen de un gobierno dictatorial omnipotente, sin actores sociales con capacidad de oponerse a sus distintas iniciativas.

This paper analyses the last military dictatorship urban policies for the city of Buenos Aires. It deepens certain interventions, such as the failure attempts to transfer the National Cattle Market and the urban highways plan, which brought a series of demolitions in an area that would be protected as urban and architectural heritage after a short period of time. These interventions, represent certain fissures or disputes which contradict the image of the military dictatorship policies as univocal. The paper identifies the various state agencies that produce these interventions, the different perspectives and logics of intervention and the incongruous effects on the territory. Based on these analyses two issues will be discussed: the image of the military dictatorship as univocal, without internal fissures nor disputes, and the idea of an omnipotent dictatorial government, without stakeholders with capacity to oppose its different initiatives.

Del Parque España a Puerto Madero: circulación del “urbanismo de los arquitectos” y la planificación estratégica entre Argentina y España (1979-1993).

by Guillermo Jajamovich

In press. Cuaderno Urbano, nro. 12, 2012.

El artículo analiza algunas características de la circulación internacional de ideas urbanas a partir del despliegue... more El artículo analiza algunas características de la circulación internacional de ideas urbanas a partir del despliegue de una serie de inicitaivas urbanísticas en Buenos Aires y Rosario entre 1979 y 1993. Sólo algunas de las numerosas ideas y estrategias del debate internacional “llegan” a Buenos Aires y Rosario, y lo hacen de una manera desarticulada. Así, se abordan algunos elementos del discurso ´español´ en torno al “urbanismo de los arquitectos” y la planificación estratégica. Se analiza su contexto de recepción, revisando el debate disciplinar y considerando las condiciones políticas y económicas en las aquellas ideas “llegan” y los actores públicos y privados que participan en estos procesos. Respecto a Rosario, se analiza la presencia del arquitecto catalán Oriol Bohigas y su anteproyecto para Parque España realizado en el año 1979. En Buenos Aires, se examina el inicio de la operación Puerto Madero.

The aim of this paper is to analyse various characteristics of the international circulation of urban ideas from the point of view of their applications in Buenos Aires and Rosario between 1979 and 1999. Only some of the numerous ideas and strategies of the international debate arrived at Buenos and Rosario, and they did so in an unarticulated manner. I take into account some elements of the Spanish discourse around urban projects and urban management. The context of the reception of those ideas requires a review of the disciplinary debate around urban projects and urban management as well as the political and economical conditions in which they arrive and the public and private actors involved. For Rosario, I look into the presence of the Catalan architect Oriol Bohigas and his project for the Parque España (1979). In Buenos Aires I examine the revitalized industrial area of Puerto Madero.

problemi attuali

by marcucci edoardo

Un indice di qualità per il trasporto publico locale

by marcucci edoardo

Valutazione di un servizio pubblico differenziato territorialmente

by marcucci edoardo

Centri urbani di distribuzione delle merci e politiche di traffico:una valutazione empirica tramite le preferenze dichiarate

by marcucci edoardo

Defining the Pattern of the Sustainable Urban Region-Development of Regional Measurement Methods

by Elizabeth Brabec

The future of UK housebuilding

by Chris Goodier

Pedestrian Shopping Streets in the Restructuring of the Chinese City

by Alan A. Lew

Lew, A.A. 2007. Pedestrian Shopping Streets in the Restructuring of the Chinese City. In T. Coles and A. Church, eds., Tourism, Power and Place, pp. 150-170. London: Routledge.

Today, virtually every city in China has one or more pedestrian shopping street (buxingjie). They come in a wide range... more Today, virtually every city in China has one or more pedestrian shopping street (buxingjie). They come in a wide range of forms and styles. Most are highly successful, though some are more successful than others. Some are permanently closed to vehicle, while others are only closed at night or on weekends. They are part of the transformation of Chinese cities from socialist cities of production, to cities of play and tertiary employment (Ma, 2004; Yang 2004; Wu, 2004; Short and Kim, 1999). More specifically, they are representative of the decentralization of power from the central government to local municipalities, and of the development of a more market-oriented land development system in China.

Protecting local green spaces

by Ian Mell

Published in Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association. Vol. 81., No. 4. 194-197.

Ian Mell considers the implications and possible outcomes of
the new ‘Local Green Space’ designation. Ian Mell considers the implications and possible outcomes of
the new ‘Local Green Space’ designation.

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) For Spatial Planning and Environmental Management in India: Critical Considerations

by Martin Bunch

Bunch, M.J., T. Vasanthakumaran, and R. Joseph (2012) Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for spatial planning and environmental management in India: Critical Considerations. International Journal of Applied Science and Technology, 2(2):40-54.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer-based tools used to collect, store, manipulate and display... more Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer-based tools used to collect, store, manipulate and display spatially-referenced information. They are used to support decision-making in a wide variety of contexts, including spatial planning and environmental management. Because the process of GIS production, from software development to visualization of GIS output, is characterized by political, economic and social motivations, it is important that GIS practitioners are aware of issues such as access to data and the political economy of information, and the nature of GIS epistemologies vis-à-vis multiple coexisting perceptions of reality. Lack of such appreciation can lead to social and spatial marginalization of communities. Use of GIS in a research program for environmental management of the Cooum River in Chennai, and in support of participatory processes for managing environment and health in slums are used to demonstrate appropriate applications of GIS in India. Internet-distributed GIS as a potential avenue to address issues of public access to data is also considered.

Tourism Planning and Traditional Urban Planning Theory: Planners as Agents of Social Change

by Alan A. Lew

Invited commendaty, (2007) In "Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies" 31(2):383-392. (pre-publication version)

In terms of community focus, the field of urban and regional planning is much more comprehensive in both subject... more In terms of community focus, the field of urban and regional planning is much more comprehensive in both subject matter and outcomes than is most tourism planning, as least as each is taught in higher education around the world. Tourism planning, however, draws upon a good portion of urban and regional planning methods, especially in the area known as rational planning. As such, the more narrow area of tourism planning could be considered a subfield of urban and regional planning. One major shortcoming of tourism planning is an apparent lack of attention to the normative issues of (1) how planners should plan and (2) what issues planners should focus on in their planning efforts. These questions address the complexity of data and issues that planners deal with, including questions of what
data or information is collected, how it is organized, and how the information will be used to make decisions. Tourism planners could benefit from greater familiarity with these fundamental concepts of planning theory.

Keywords: tourism planning, urban planning, planning theory

'By Accident or Design: can Culture be Planned?

by Colin Mercer

in Francois Matarasso and Steven Halls, eds., The Art of Regeneration, Conference Papers, City of Nottingham and Comedia, Nottingham and Stroud, 1996. ISBN 1 873 557 06 X

The Decayed-Core Periphery Model: A Marxian Contribution to Urban Economics

by Michael J. Thompson

Draft

The reality of urban poverty in many cities in the U.S. and the apparent inability of many of these areas to develop,... more The reality of urban poverty in many cities in the U.S. and the apparent inability of many of these areas to develop, even during times of economic expansion, has not been adequately explained either through modern neo-classical models or through the traditional Marxian literature on urban poverty and uneven regional development. This paper argues that there is a specific category, or city-type, present in the landscape of the modern American economy which can be explained through a reversal of the structural core-periphery model of which Marxian economics has made extensive use. This new model will show how urban-suburban disparities occur and endure in advanced capitalism as a result of the interaction between macroeconomic restructuring and a city’s internal loss of scale economies. Specifically, it argues that the effects of the spatial movement of capital acts to construct a permament and enduring relation of economic and social decay in many urban cores and, as a result, a permanent structure of inequality between de-industrialized ghettoes and their more affluent suburbs. I also provide a model for this phenomenon which I refer to as the “decayed core-periphery model.”

New state space formation in Morocco: the example of the Bouregreg Valley

by Koen Bogaert

published in Urban Studies (2012), vol.49 (2), pp.255-270.

Most scholars working on the Arab World typically view the state’s power as something congruent with its cartographic... more Most scholars working on the Arab World typically view the state’s power as something congruent with its cartographic boundaries. Power emerges from an institutional core—the regime—which exerts its hegemony over subordinated institutions, spaces and scales. Thus, the regime presents itself as the privileged site of political formation, intervention and inquiry. The result is a body of scholarship that has largely neglected the dynamics of ‘new state space’ formation at the urban scale. Drawing on the case of the Bouregreg project, a massive high-end urban development scheme positioned between the twin cities of Rabat and Salé, Morocco, this paper investigates the dynamics of agency formation implicated in the creation of a new state space and considers what it reveals about state respatialisation and the rise of new governmental arrangements that have been elided by mainstream accounts on the Middle East and North African region.

The Application of LiDAR to Assessment of Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Deployment Potential on a Municipal District Unit

by Joshua Pearce

Nguyen H.T., Pearce J.M., Harrap R., Barber G. The Application of LiDAR to Assessment of Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Deployment Potential in a Municipal District Unit. Sensors. 2012; 12(4):4534-4558.

A methodology is provided for the application of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to automated solar photovoltaic... more A methodology is provided for the application of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to automated solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment analysis on the regional scale. Challenges in urban information extraction and management for solar PV deployment assessment are determined and quantitative solutions are offered. This paper provides the following contributions: (i) a methodology that is consistent with recommendations from existing literature advocating the integration of cross-disciplinary competences in remote sensing (RS), GIS, computer vision and urban environmental studies; (ii) a robust methodology that can work with low-resolution, incomprehensive data and reconstruct vegetation and building separately, but concurrently; (iii) recommendations for future generation of software. A case study is presented as an example of the methodology. Experience from the case study such as the trade-off between time consumption and data quality are discussed to highlight a need for connectivity between demographic information, electrical engineering schemes and GIS and a typical factor of solar useful roofs extracted per method. Finally, conclusions are developed to provide a final methodology to extract the most useful information from the lowest resolution and least comprehensive data to provide solar electric assessments over large areas, which can be adapted anywhere in the world.

Varanasi documentation

by Govind Srivastav