2011 Quality of Space – Quality of Life Planning for Urban Needs of diverse timeframes

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Quality of Space – Quality of Life Planning for Urban Needs of diverse timeframes
(AESOP, 2011) Mironoviks, I.; Antunes, F.; Moutinho, M.
The urban quality is a challenge and an actual issue for urbanists but also for researchers. One of urbanism aims is giving quality to the space and, with that or by it, the opportunity to people achieve quality of life. But work about quality is not a simple task because the sense of quality varies in time and space, by culture, by educational and economic backgrounds etc…. The advantage to could bring, in the same space, young professionals and researchers from different countries of Europe to debate the sense of urban quality meant we to take the challenge to coordinate the European Urban Summer Scholl of 2011. The preparation of EUSS’11 started late in time and the course only occur on last week of September, with all problems that it could bring because coincides with the beginning of master and PhD courses where young professionals were enrolled had begun. But beside a few inscriptions (about 20) we take the risk and organize the EUSS’11 with collaboration of two municipalities – Odivelas and Sintra – that provide us the “ground” and all needed information to work the discussed theories and give solutions to improve the space quality and with it the opportunity of life quality for users.
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Quality of Space – Quality of Life Planning for Urban Needs of diverse timeframes AESOP European Urban Summer School 2011
(AESOP, 2011)
Quando a Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, foi criada em 1990, o urbanismo foi considerada como área prioritária e foi incluído nas 4 áreas cientificas estratégicas para o projeto educativo, daquela que viria a ser a maior universidade não estatal sem fins lucrativos de Portugal. Tratava-se de fundar um departamento que assegurasse formação nos níveis de Licenciatura, Mestrado e Doutoramento, de forma articulada com a investigação científica e a intervenção no terreno. Atualmente, continuamos a ser a única universidade no país que assegura os 3 ciclos de estudo, especificamente na área disciplinar do Urbanismo, agora organizados de acordo com a Reforma de Bolonha. É verdade que não conseguimos sensibilizar as outras universidades portuguesas para reconhecerem de igual modo o urbanismo como área disciplinar inteira, de forma a que fossem criadas mais licenciaturas em Urbanismo. Isso resultaria num reconhecimento social do lugar dos Urbanismo na nossa sociedade, com um lugar mais consistente no ordenamento do território em geral e na resolução dos problemas atuais, muitos dos quais são consequência da falta de profissionais devidamente qualificados nos diferentes níveis de decisão de planeamento de poder.
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Introduction
(AESOP, 2011)
The urban quality is a challenge and an actual issue for urbanists but also for researchers. One of urbanism aims is giving quality to the space and, with that or by it, the opportunity to people achieve quality of life. But work about quality is not a simple task because the sense of quality varies in time and space, by culture, by educational and economic backgrounds etc…. The advantage to could bring, in the same space, young professionals and researchers from different countries of Europe to debate the sense of urban quality meant we to take the challenge to coordinate the European Urban Summer Scholl of 2011. The preparation of EUSS’11 started late in time and the course only occur on last week of September, with all problems that it could bring because coincides with the beginning of master and PhD courses where young professionals were enrolled had begun. But beside a few inscriptions (about 20) we take the risk and organize the EUSS’11 with collaboration of two municipalities – Odivelas and Sintra – that provide us the “ground” and all needed information to work the discussed theories and give solutions to improve the space quality and with it the opportunity of life quality for users. The need of a full work days – from morning to night – do not demoralize the important and pleasant fun/party part, an important component that make us more motivated for work. The weather bring us sunny and hot days in the autumn (more than 30º C). This conjugated things brought us a work environment conducive to a good final results in the way to use the space improvement as a positive factor to give users quality of life opportunity.
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Smart cities tackling cities turning point more of the same is not enough
(AESOP, 2011) Pereira Teixeira, João
Children born today may live until 2100. Cities must be prepared for them. How should that be done? And how new paradigms and new basis of city life should be combined with the struggle to overcome current crisis? Our solidarity with new generations obliges us to change. Changes should include new political approaches, new technologies, new concepts and new paradigms. Energy, agriculture, transportation, green space, regional development, urban design and housing, will all need to change. We are now living an ecological overshoot, consuming more resources than the planet can replace, dredging down the stock of natural resources. Assuming present trends, the World in 2030 will have 14% more population and will need 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water. It’s no longer bearable the unquestionable fact that “we are living as if we have an extra planet at our disposal. We are using 50% more resources than Earth can provide. Unless we change course that number will grow very fast – by 2030, even two planets will not be enough” ¹. Society is at a turning point, the transition from the end of the Industrial Age to the New Age. The progression was from Agropolis to Petropolis. Now the transition is from Petropolis to Ecopolis. During Agropolis and Petropolis the rhythm of innovation allowed long term experimentation. Now innovation shall be tested during a few times.
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Urban Quality: and if it would not be a matter of plans?
(AESOP, 2011) Silva, Paolo
In the context of the European summer school 2011 held in Lisbon at Universidade Lusófona most participants were requested to give a lecture related to the subject of urban quality. The challenge of producing an essay on the subject is also an opportunity to develop some further ideas from those discussed during the summer school. Although most of the theoretical framework is brought from Portugal, I take this opportunity to focus on practical issues concerning urban quality related to the Portuguese reality and particularly to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Despite the fact that urban quality can be approached from many different points of view, I will basically focus in this essay on planning tools, especially on how plans are designed in order to achieve urban quality. I will approach the matter of urban integration to develop the concept of urban quality versus plans. Why does urban integration arise as my focus on urban quality? As I will try to demonstrate, it is because history shows us that urban quality has been related to much differentiated sets of values, and according to those values, city planning tried to focus on different solutions. Nevertheless, what brings together all this diversity is that at each moment of the history of cities urban quality has been part of the solution to problems of cities. Depending on what has been defined as urban quality through centuries, different skills and disciplines were called upon to play a central role in the effort to turn our cities into more enjoyable places.
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Towards understanding quality of urban space
(AESOP, 2011) Franchini, Teresa; Ryser, Judith
The humble London bus shelter illustrates connections between quality of space and quality of life, the theme of EUSS 2011. London bus shelters are designed by architects. Their brief emanates from the planning system. The bus stop area and spaces linking it to its surroundings fall into the realm of urban design. Their wider context depends on a multitude of values influenced by diverse protagonists. The planned objective of a bus shelter is to accommodate persons who are using buses. Its function is to provide shelter, a roof, somewhere to sit, a view to see the bus arriving. The functional requirements devised by the bus company and its controlling transport department are for people to get on a bus and alight as fast and as economically as possible. When bus conductors were withdrawn to save a second salary, machines were installed for passengers to buy tickets in advance, thereby accelerating the process of entering and stepping off the bus. Another economic criterion is to produce the bus stop as cheaply as possible. It has to be vandal proof to prevent expensive maintenance and repairs. Moreover, it has to generate income. For this reason it offers space for advertisements. A prototype applied London-wide generates economies of scale, although it may not satisfy local conditions.
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Territorial cohesion: towards 2020
(AESOP, 2011) Elisei, Pietro
This paper tries to point out practical as well as conceptual open questions about the topic of Territorial Cohesion (TC). It focuses on practical problems met by the author in his daily work as town and regional planner, often carried out in EU convergence territories (ex. Ob. 1). It acknowledges the scientific statements developed by EU institutions in recent years as a frame of the picture representing the policies and instruments for Territorial Cooperation and Cohesion. In other words, the article is about “operational considerations” aiming at stimulating new attentions on how to make the debate on TC more practical than a thoughtfully considered essay providing a detailed storyline on the topic and its past and future transformations. ⁵⁷ These consideration address three critical points: 1) the difficulty of fully involving the local administrative levels in new and innovative opportunities for TC 2) a fluctuating “Europeanisation” in the realm of territorial cooperation (especially related to the urban dimension), 3) the uncertain perspectives on how to design effective and efficient future urban policies for 2014-2020, both at central and local level.
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Perspectives on the urban quality of public space
(AESOP, 2011) Kropman, Niels J.; Netsch, Stefan
Urban quality of public space is becoming increasingly a key issue in recent urban planning processes. In the past, strategic master plans focussed mainly on the development of houses. More recent planning projects are trying to single out the importance of public space. Projects like Hafen City in Hamburg or Seestadt Aspern in Vienna have integrated quality of urban space in a way that makes the importance of the public realm more obvious and is receiving more attendance. But the way people use public space and how they perceive public places is very different. This raises the following questions concerning urban quality: - What is the reason for feeling pleasant of unpleasant in a public space? - Why do we feel comfortable or unsafe? - Why are places attractive and others not? If we look at the realisation of quality we can ask ourselves the following questions: - How do we experience quality of urban spaces? - How can we define urban quality? - What is the most deciding factor of urban quality? The question is how we can define quality of public and urban space.
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Developing a system of urban indicators for measuring quality of space and life in Pula and Zadar, Croatia
(AESOP, 2011) Cavrić, Branko I.
Measuring the quality of urban life has a long tradition in many parts of the world (Gahin, Paterson, 2001; Ghosh, Vale & Vale, 2006). These measurements were developed within social sciences first (Sawicki, 2002), mostly urban sociology, and then urban ecology as antecedents of inter-disciplinary urban studies (McDonald & Patterson, 2007, Wong, 2002). Their specialised applications in urban planning, management and governance based on principles of sustainable development (Flood, 1997) became a recent trend. What is to be said about measuring the quality of urban life nowadays, especially when fashionable urbanism is created by influences of globalisation, or ‘glocalisation’ emerge as a natural response? In this dynamic performance, where both major and small key players strive to achieve their interests, urban indicators are useful “instruments” for decision making. Today, many cities, regions and countries have decided to introduce them for monitoring and measuring the progress towards sustainability and improvements of spaces and human lives.
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EUSS11 Student projects summaries Projects: Arroja-Odivelas and Sintra – Praia das Maçãs
(AESOP, 2011) Ryser, Judith
For their practical work, the summer school students were allocated wo sites, in need of urban transformation in the context of declining local authority funding. The purpose of the design projects was to generate creative solutions to revitalise a commuter suburb of Lisbon (Arroya-Odivelas) and a coastal village (Sintra – Praia das Macas) with summer tourism. The background to these projects was the acknowledgement that the public sector was no longer in a position to fund urban regeneration. The students were expected to produce alternative planning approaches with new stakeholders and funding opportunities. Analysis of traditional high street and proposals for transformation within contemporary constraints. One background study towards the summer school design tasks consisted of an analysis of the decline of traditional high streets. It was expected to assist students in rethinking the declining public realm in their study areas which amounts to a generic planning problem in many parts of the world, and in particular in Europe.
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Alexandra Tisma : Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
(AESOP, 2011)
Senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague. Her research interest involves spatial planning, landscape development and policy evaluation, urban landscape design, and planning support systems. In 2005, she has been appointed associate professor at the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture in Novi Sad, Serbia, where she teaches landscape planning. Since 2009, she has been working as a tutor for the subject Paper Writing at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, at the third year of master studies in Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. Alexandra Tisma obtained her PhD and master’s degree at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, Netherlands, and her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. She is a member of the Netherlands Association for Landscape Architecture and Le-NOTRE network.
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Artur da Rosa Pires : Universidade de Aveiro
(AESOP, 2011)
Dean for cooperation and regional development of Aveiro University, is graduated on Civil Enginery (Coimbra, PT, 1978), have a Master on Regional and Urban Planning (Cardiff, UK 1983) and PhD on Regional and Urban Planning (Cardiff, UK, 1987). Professor at the Social, Political and Territorial Sciences of Aveiro University. His field of work is Planning Policies and Theory, Strategic Territorial Planning, Inovation Policies and Sustainable Development Policies. Between 2003 and 2005 was Vice-President of Regional Coordination and Development Commission of Centro Region (CCDR-C). Was State Secretary of Environment and Territorial Planning of Portugal (May to June 2004) and Consultant of Presidency of the Portuguese Republic on Science and Environment between 2009 and 2011.
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Branko Carvic : Department of Architecture and Planning at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. University of Botswana
(AESOP, 2011)
Is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Botswana. He gained his Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in geography and spatial planning from the University of Belgrade. He has been involved in professional practice, research, management, government service and academia since 1980. Before joining the University of Botswana in 1997, he served on the Board of directors in Yugoslav Institute of Town Planning and Housing (YUGINUS), as an assistant professor at University of Belgrade (Faculty of Geography and Faculty of Architecture), as director of GISDATA Belgrade, and as a senior urban planner in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Environment of the Republic of Botswana. During period 1997-2005 he was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of Serbia (IAUS). As geographer and chartered town planner with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), he devoted his professional, research and teaching interest around issues of spatial planning and design, environmental land use planning, development and management, applied geography, institutional and organizational aspects of GIS, focusing on selected countries of Southern Africa and Western Balkans.
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David Prosperi (USA) : Florida Atlantic University. International Society of City and Regional Planning (ISOCARP)
(AESOP, 2011)
Professor at the Department of Urban & Regional Planning, has been with FAU since 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from Indiana University and a master’s degree from Temple University in Geography. His main interests include growth management, economic development, and computer applications. Florida Atlantic University, USA; ISOCARP
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Derek Martin (NL) : International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)
(AESOP, 2011)
Has been the CEO of the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) since the end of 2007. He has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Amsterdam. As policy officer at the former National Physical Planning Agency in The Hague (NL), he worked in the Benelux Structure Plan, and on European planning collaboration within the framework of the Council of Europe. In 1987-88 he worked at DG Environment at the European Commission where he helped set up the CORINE Land Cover programme. After working on the cross border and European dimension of the Dutch 4th National Planning Report, he spent another 3 years (1990-93) at the European Commission working on the development of the spatial dimension of EU regional economic policy. Worked on the further elaboration of European spatial planning policy, which produced new European instruments (ESPON, INTERREG) and policy documents (ESDP). For almost 10 years, he was Head of International Spatial Policy, and then of Sustainable Spatial Development at the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment.
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Diogo Mateus (PT) : Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
(AESOP, 2011)
Urban Planner (PhD., Master Degree and 5 years degree on Urbanism) Head of Urban Planning Department on Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa Portugal since 2006. Researcher at TERCUD – Centro de Estudos Território, Cultura e Desenvolvimento (FCT ID 462); President of APROURB – Professional Urbanists Portuguese Association; Manager at GEOIDEIA – Territorial Planning Studies. His research fields are urban quality and quality of life, urban rehabilitation and the teaching of planning. As researcher stand out the participation on LUDA – Improving quality of life on Large Urban Distressed Areas (EU FP5) and on TECHNOLANGUE (INTERREG B MEDOC/MEDA) on the Indicators field. His activity on APROURB stands out in the awareness on the need of regulamentation for professional access supported on academic qualification on urban planning/design. (Head of EUSS 2011).
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Dirk Engelke (D) : Pakora.net – Network for Towns and Region’s. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
(AESOP, 2011)
Dipl.-Ing in Civil Engineering (1996) and Applied Cultural Studies (1996), have a PhD in Spatial Planning (2002). Coming from civil engineering and applied cultural sciences Dirk is currently managing director of a planning office called ‘pakora.net – Network for Towns and Regions’. Beside his office work Dirk teaches at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His main tasks are consulting and research in national and international projects on urban planning, regional development and land use management. Recent tasks are e.g. a research project on land use management for communities for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, leader of a European working group with several cities within the URBACT programme on mediation on settlement structures for the Region of Stuttgart and their bordering regional authorities or the state of Luxemburg.
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Fernando Varanda (PT) : Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
(AESOP, 2011)
Have a B.A. in Architecture (Lisbon University, Portugal), a M.A, of Science in Urban & Regional Planning (University of New York, USA) and a PhD in Human Geography (University of Durham, UK). His field of research are Urban Geography, Natural and built space; Activities, forms, materials and schemes of social and professional organizations. Works on popular constructions and “appropriate architecture”; traditional responses and integration of old and new forms and materials; Urbanism and heritage, conservation of natural and built heritage and sustainability of urban development.
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Fernando Nunes da Silva (PT) : Instituto Superior Técnico. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
(AESOP, 2011)
Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, on Urbanism and transportation Civil Engineering and Architecture degrees. Is president of CESUR (Regional and Urban Systems Centre of IST) and coordinator of R&D area of Urbanism, Spatial & Environmental dynamics. Teaches on master degrees on Portuguese and Brazilian Universities. Is member of directory of the (International Federation of Housing, Urban planning and management - FIHUOT). Recognized as specialist on “Territorial Planning and Management” and on “Transports and communication infrastructures” of Portuguese Engineers Order.
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Izabela Mironowicz : Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
(AESOP, 2011)
AESOP Vice-Secretary General. Qualified in architecture from Worclaw University of Technology obtained post-graduate diploma in urban design and spatial planning. Her PhD thesis discussing spatial patterns of business services was awarded the prize of the Minister of Urban and Regional Development of the Republic of Poland. Her research interests focus on urban development and urban transformations. is deeply involved in international cooperation in teaching planning. She run big international planning workshops as a Head Coordinator. Her activities within AESOP focus on core curricula and education-practice relationships. She contributed UN-Habitat ‘ Global Report on Human Settlements 2009. During 24th AESOP Congress in Helsinki Izabela was elected as new AESOP Secretary General.