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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
(AESOP, 2016) Randolph, Rainer
We are publishing here the extended abstracts presented at the IV WPSC. Those which were discussed in the Track Sessions, as well as a considerable number of contributions in Plenary and Special Sessions and Roundtables. Farnak Miraftab´s Opening Keynote “Insurgency, planning and the prospect of a humane urbanism” was published (in portuguese) in ANPUR´s journal Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Brazilian Journal of Urban and Regional Studies), v.18, n. 3 (2016), p. 363-377 (http://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/5499).
It is our conviction that these texts reflect an important panorama of ideas, thoughts, experiences and practices of the nearly 600 researchers, scientists, students and practioneers who attended the congress in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to have an unique opportunity to discuss the matter of planning with colleagues from all over the world.
As it puts our colleague Carlos Balsas in the conclusions he wrote about his experiences by participating the discussions at the congress: “Attention was directed at the need to look forward to more planning not less, more planning research not less, and more educational opportunities to strengthen urban and regional planning. … Alternative paradigms based on the radical deconstruction of prevailing knowledge sets and philosophies by some of those living in southern and northern hemispheres are making positive strides and can be confidently further developed”
Integration of local and scientfic knowledge to enhance community resilience against flood disaster: a case study of kemaman, Malaysia
(AESOP, 2016) Muhammad Ludin, Ahmad Nazri; Tengku Asmara, Tengku Amirul; Jamaludin, Jamal Aimi
The unprecedented two weeks devastating flood that plunged the east coast of Malaysia Peninsular in late December 2014 had cost an initial economic loss estimated by least at USD300 millions, and severely affected approximately 300,000 victims. The top down disaster relief efforts which led by the National Security Council (NSC) had been under severe criticism then, for their incapability to respond affectively, and coordinating disaster relief by various government agencies and non-governmental organisations. The council has been accused of being inefficient, in term of inaccurate forecasting, issuing an early warning to communities living in flood prone areas, uncoordinated evacuation processes, inappropriate relief centre management, sluggish logistic, and inadequate amount food and medical supply during the chaotic period, which predominantly affected the large number of victims, scattered across a vast region. Nevertheless, a community in Kemaman, Terengganu, was an exception. Through in depth group interview, it is learnt that this community, led by their state assemblyman, has developed a decent self-initiate plan that enhanced their resiliency towards flood. Basic scientific flood related data such as rainfall intensity graph, frequent flooded area map, real-time rivers’ water level, and ocean tidal data of previous floods, and supported by local knowledge information like the local topography, rivers morphology, existing housing area, road network, and location of possible evacuation centres of their constituency has been scrutinised, comprehend and utilised collectively to develop an early warning indicator.
Who uses geolocated social media in the United States?
(AESOP, 2016) Maurer, Samuel
There has been increasing interest from both city planning scholars and practitioners in using geolocated social media posts as a way to learn about urban activity patterns: which public spaces are most popular at different times, what people’s travel patterns look like, and so forth. Information about residential demographics, employment, and motor vehicle traffic is often already available from census agencies or roadway sensors, but widespread smartphone adoption now provides novel information about people’s actual uses of urban space.
However, not all residents of cities have access to smartphones, and those who do may not use the type of apps like Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, or Foursquare that create public traces of location and activity context. From large-scale surveys, we know that users of these services in the United States tend to be younger and wealthier than average residents, and are less likely to be from disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups. This leads to concern that city planners utilizing this data may inadvertently privilege some members of the community over others.
This paper demonstrates a methodology to assess the demographic characteristics of geolocated social media data for metropolitan areas in the United States, using data form the U.S. Census. We will report findings for the entire U.S. if possible, and otherwise will focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of about 9 million people in the state of California.
LUMEs - Places of Metropolitan Urbanity: social processes for shared planning information, institutional democratization and strengthening, and construction of metropolitan citizenship in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte - RMBH
(AESOP, 2016) Libânio, Clarice de Assis; Monte-Mór, Roberto Luís
In 2009, the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG was hired by the Minas Gerais State Government to develop the Integrated Development Plan for the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region – PDDI-RMBH, ending in 2011. In 2013, UFMG was once more hired to develop the Metropolitan Macrozoning Project – MZ-RMBH, one of the various action programs contained within the twenty-eight major metropolitan policies designed by the PDDI. It ended in 2015.
In that context, the UFMG team also began to implement another action program – the LUMEs – Places of Metropolitan Urbanity, a program conceived within the PDDI as a way to "organize and disseminate information and knowledge produced within the Metropolitan Plan, as well as access to the discussion of metropolitan priorities in order to guarantee participation and integration of different metropolitan agents in the metropolitan planning system.”
The LUMEs Program relies on the perspective that planning must consider "in an unquestionable way the centrality of the subject in the civitas, absolute and local, but also and mostly, in the expanded urban space – the "metropolitan civitas" – implying the construction of a sense of identity and the strengthening of citizenship, now in an urban-regional scale." (CEDEPLAR 2011: 33).
Technology and subjectivity in education: news urbanities to town
(AESOP, 2016) Oliveira, Fabiana; Costa, Aldenilson; Kraus, Lalita; Egler, Tamara
The text of the proposal arises from concerns on the possibilities offered by new information and communication technologies (NTIC`s), which allow to increase the capacity of citizens to understand and participate in society. Creating alternatives for a better dynamic in the work in the classroom. Understanding the profile of these new students, born in the digital age, called digital natives (Palfrey & Gasser, 2011) that dominate the NTIC's with ease at the same time, they have increasing difficulty interpreting everyday situations.
The NTIC`s (computers, smartphones added to web) enables the creation of a structured public space on low power relations up, which allows us to think in derivative processes of emergence of inter-subjectivity, in turn, has as a point of starting a form of collective thinking that points to social transformation. It is, to replace enforcement action by another that originates in the intelligence of all actors involved in the process and can contribute to the formation of a collective intelligence.
You can see some tensions regarding the use of technologies that arise and changes that occur in the teaching / learning process. There is a change in the forms of interaction and appropriation that implies a process of adaptation by all who work in the educational environment, not only coordinators, teachers and students, but also the agencies that subsidize the educational system.