scholarly journals From Planned to Transformative Urbanization: Analyzing India’s Policies of Urban Rejuvenation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Mihir Bholey
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Sustainable Technology ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Plan Period

<p>This paper examines India’s urban challenges, successive policies of urban development and their impact on the much needed urban transformation. It examines successive policies, plans, and approaches to meet the ever rising urban challenges from the first Five Year Plan till the end of planning era and also underscores the highlights of urban planning through the entire five-year plan period. In the process, it investigates whether the ubiquitous urban deficit in India is actually due to the so-called 'reluctant urbanization' and whether the current policy of creating hundred smart cities can lead to urban transformation in India. This paper is based on the analysis of the available secondary data from various sources. By critically examining the available secondary data this paper explores whether India’s urban deficit is a result of poor planning or lack of long term vision and strategy to meet the emerging urban challenges. This paper also critically looks into the emerging ICT-driven paradigms and design of the ‘smart cities’ as models of urban transformation and juxtaposes them to India's own vision of creating hundred smart cities to ensure urban transformation. The paper concludes that any urban transformation should be socially inclusive, economically viable and environmentally sustainable. Technology should not be the end rather the means for bringing urban transformation and building smart cities.</p>

scholarly journals Planning for 1000 Years: The Råängen Experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
Peter Pelzer ◽  
Roger Hildingsson ◽  
Alice Herrström ◽  
Johannes Stripple
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Situation ◽  
World Class

While traditional forms of urban planning are oriented towards the future, the recent turn towards experimental and challenge-led urban developments is characterized by an overarching presentism. We explore in this article how an experimental approach to urban planning can consider the long-term through setting-up ‘conversations with a future situation.’ In doing so, we draw on a unique experiment: Råängen, a piece of farmland in Lund (Sweden) owned by the Cathedral. The plot is part of Brunnshög, a large urban development program envisioned to accommodate homes, workspaces, and world-class research centers in the coming decades. We trace how Lund Cathedral became an unusual developer involved in ‘planning for thousand years,’ deployed a set of art commissions to allow reflections about values, belief, time, faith, and became committed to play a central role in the development process. The art interventions staged conversations with involved actors as well as publics geographically and temporally far away. The Råängen case illustrates how long-term futures can be fruitfully brought to the present through multiple means of imagination. A key insight for urban planning is how techniques of financial discounting and municipal zoning plans could be complemented with trust in reflective conversations in which questions are prioritized over answers.

scholarly journals Efficiency assessment of urban planning transformations: economic and legal aspects

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1308-1320
Author(s):  
Svetlana А. Ershova ◽  
Svetlana А. Shishelova ◽  
Тamara N. Orlovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Transformation Efficiency ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Efficiency Assessment

Introduction. A discrepancy between legislative requirements for the compulsory recognition of economic factors in the process of drafting urban planning documents, on the one hand, and the unavailability of an approved implementation procedure, on the other hand, makes a substantial impact on decision making processes that deal with urban planning transformations. The unavailability of (a) unified approaches to the assessment of the economic efficiency of urban planning solutions, (b) an approved efficiency assessment procedure or (c) a database decelerates the process of making well-grounded urban development decisions. Therefore, development of a conceptual framework for the efficiency assessment in terms of integrated urban development actions and their implementation procedures is particularly relevant. The subject of this research consists in the study of the regulatory/methodological framework of urban development, and its mission is to analyze the main regulatory problems that accompany the efficiency assessment of urban development. Materials and methods. The co-authors employed a socio-spatial approach that takes account of objective and subjective factors of a high-quality urban environment at various stages of the urban planning documentation drafting process. Within the framework of this approach, methods of comparative/logical analysis were applied, expert evaluations were made, materials, developed by foreign and Russian scientists, Russian legislative acts, methodological documents were studied with regard to the evaluation of the urban development efficiency. Results. The co-authors identified gravest theoretical and methodological problems of urban transformation efficiency assessment. An assessment procedure was developed. The co-authors suggested organizing the urban transformation efficiency assessment in the course of drafting urban planning documentation. Principal efficiency assessment stages were identified, and the main objectives of each stage were formulated. Conclusions. The novelty and practical relevance of this research reside in the fact that the co-authors have identified problems of the legal framework of assessment procedures and suggested a sequential estimation of the economic efficiency of urban transformations so that each subject of urban planning activities followed a unified research-driven decision making procedure.

Urban Transformation in the City of Riyadh: A Study of Plural Urban Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Mashary A. Al Naim
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
The City ◽  
Transformation Processes

Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has been witnessing rapid urban transformation processes during the 20th century, which have had various kinds of impact on the evolution of its urban identity. This paper therefore attempts to investigate how the new urban concepts, which were introduced by modernization and globalization, caused a conflict of identities and how this has resulted in dividing Riyadh into opposing urban entities. The main challenge in establishing a cohesive urban identity in Riyadh is based on the long-term conflict between traditional forms of urbanism and modern ways of urban development. The paper thus investigates the urban transformation of Riyadh from the beginning of the twentieth century until the present day. The main objective of this historic analysis is to capture the various ways inhabitants have perceived surrounding urban environments and how this has been influencing urban planning activities. The applied methodologies include the evaluation of historic documents, such as official reports and plans.

scholarly journals Beijing’s First Green Belt—A 50-Year long Chinese Planning Story

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 969
Author(s):  
Lu Sun ◽  
Christian Fertner ◽  
Gertrud Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
Mega Events

This article traces the development process of Beijing’s First Green Belt from its origins in the 1950s, to its reinterpretation in the 1980s/1990s and its implementation in the 1990s/2000s. We identify three-time phases and important milestones, which kept the green belt idea alive, developed it and contextualized it in relation to the historical background. This article shows that the first green belt project in Beijing was a continuing process of changing functions and ranges. Its adaptability to variations followed the political changes and reflected the socio-economic dynamics, which secured its longevity. Different ideas shaped the plan and its link to mega events like the Olympic Games and environmental problems accelerated the implementation, but the shortage of funding and absence of legislation led to a compromised result. The case is an interesting example of how a long-term project transforms over and with time, but also for the gap between planning ambitions and actual urban development, illustrating past and contemporary urban planning in the context of a fast-developing country.

scholarly journals Adaptation techniques of an urban planning due to climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 ◽  
pp. 05013
Author(s):  
Natalia Bakaeva ◽  
Maria Suvorova ◽  
Roman Sheps ◽  
Alexandra Kormina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
New Challenges

In this paper there is reviewed a concept of adaptation of an urban planning to the changing climate conditions. The statements of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN FCCC, which are actively discussed these days in conditions of new challenges, determine a necessity of applying scientifically reasoned approaches to the landscape development and city transformation considering the climate change in the urban environment. There are discussed statements of climate change adapted concept of the urban planning and are reviewed examples of urban solutions corresponding to these statements. The authors are convinced that problem solving of the climate change adapted urban planning requires an interdisciplinary approach, embracing multiple scientific directions such as ecological, urban, social, technical and technological. In this aspect the concept of adaptation the urban planning to volatile climate conditions represent a long-term strategy of the urban development, which is, first of all, requires a preparation of a roadmap and then decision making, which would conduce to forming a fully comfortable and safe urban environment.

scholarly journals ASPECTS OF SUCCESSION URBAN DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-123
Author(s):  
Elvira A. GROMILINA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Relationship

The modern development of cities is infl uenced by a large number of factors, for example, the political environment, global climate change, and the epidemiological situation. The article examines the relationship between the subsystems of urban structure, ensuring its successive development, with the aspects of sustainable development. Aspects of succession urban development in the context of sustainable development are divided into three groups: environmental, economic and social. The urban planning process consists of short-term and long-term programs. Taking into account the identifi ed aspects, the principles of urban planning are formulated, which are aimed at preserving and developing the successive elements of the architectural and planning structure of the city.

scholarly journals São Paulo’s strategic master plan and the challenges of sustainable urban transformation

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-253
Author(s):  
Adalberto Gregório Back ◽  
Gabriela Marques Di Giulio ◽  
Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Real Estate Developers ◽  
Transformation Processes

Cities play an essential role in the challenge of sustainability, and urban planning is one of the main tools for guiding urban transformation processes. This paper analyses the São Paulo Master Plan 2014, considering the principles and guidelines on compact cities, sustainable adaptation and ecosystem-based adaptation. An urban development model within sustainable parameters, however, involves conflict dynamics. In this sense, the views and demands of the main stakeholders seeking to influence the regulatory arena of São Paulo's urban policy are mapped. The analysis focuses on attempts to change the zoning law that would affect several of the definitions agreed in the Master Plan, prioritising mainly the interests of real estate developers.

Interrelationships between municipal spatial policy strategy and airport operation and development. Lodz Airport case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nikorowicz-Zatorska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Spatial Management ◽  
The One ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Abstract The present paper focuses on spatial management regulations in order to carry out investment in the field of airport facilities. The construction, upgrades, and maintenance of airports falls within the area of responsibility of local authorities. This task poses a great challenge in terms of organisation and finances. On the one hand, an active airport is a municipal landmark and drives local economic, social and cultural development, and on the other, the scale of investment often exceeds the capabilities of local authorities. The immediate environment of the airport determines its final use and prosperity. The objective of the paper is to review legislation that affects airports and the surrounding communities. The process of urban planning in Lodz and surrounding areas will be presented as a background to the problem of land use management in the vicinity of the airport. This paper seeks to address the following questions: if and how airports have affected urban planning in Lodz, does the land use around the airport prevent the development of Lodz Airport, and how has the situation changed over the time? It can be assumed that as a result of lack of experience, land resources and size of investments on one hand and legislative dissonance and peculiar practices on the other, aviation infrastructure in Lodz is designed to meet temporary needs and is characterised by achieving short-term goals. Cyclical problems are solved in an intermittent manner and involve all the municipal resources, so there’s little left to secure long-term investments.

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