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Andres, Lauren, John R. Bryson, and Paul Moawad. "Temporary Urbanisms as Policy Alternatives to Enhance Health and Well-Being in the Post-Pandemic City." Current Environmental Health Reports 8, no. 2 (2021): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40572-021-00314-8.
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Abstract Purpose of Review While there has been extensive discussion on the various forms of temporary uses in urban settings, little is known on the ways in which temporary and health urbanisms connect. Now, a turning point has been reached regarding the interactions between health and the built environment and the contributions made by urban planning and other built environment disciplines. In the context of the post-pandemic city, there is a need to develop a health-led temporary urbanism agenda than can be implemented in various settings both in the Global South and North. Recent Findings Health-led temporary urbanism requires a reinterrogation of current models of urban development including designing multifunctional spaces in urban environments that provide sites for temporary urbanism-related activities. A healthy city is an adaptable city and one that provides opportunities for citizen-led interventions intended to enhance well-being by blending the temporary with the permanent and the planned with the improvised. Summary Health-led temporary urbanism contributes to the call for more trans- and inter-disciplinary discussions allowing to more thoroughly link urban planning and development with health.
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Rossitti, Marco, Alessandra Oppio, Francesca Torrieri, and Marta Dell’Ovo. "Tactical Urbanism Interventions for the Urban Environment: Which Economic Impacts?" Land 12, no. 7 (2023): 1457. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12071457.
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In the last decades, the emergence of new social, environmental, and economic demands, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led urban planning to innovate its themes, methods, and approaches. In this context, temporary urbanism has emerged as a mainstream approach. How-ever, the impacts of temporary approaches to urban planning are far from being fully understood. In this light, this study focuses on one of the mainstream approaches to temporary urbanism, tactical urbanism, and tries to understand its economic impacts on contemporary cities. Indeed, despite the growing interest in tactical urbanism interventions and their value as an urban regeneration tool, there are no specific reflections focused on investigating their economic effects. Based on these premises, this paper focuses on different tactical urbanism experiences in the Italian context and tries to assess the economic impacts of tactical urbanism interventions by adopting the lens of real estate values as a suitable proxy when dealing with urban environments. The first obtained results show that the experiences of tactical urbanism, partly because of their temporary nature and their tendency toward minimal intervention, fail to trigger regeneration processes or produce significant economic impacts on the territory. Instead, such experiences can play a role in accelerating or consolidating urban regeneration processes already underway, and, in this sense, they contribute to the generation of economic impact on the territory.
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Vasconcelos, Claudia, Naielly Eudira Almeida dos Santos, José Armando Martins Ferreira, Wesley Dias Guedes, and Luana Dos Santos Costa de Sousa Lima. "A requalificação urbana: para regeneração de espaços verdes de praça pública em Santana do Araguaia-PA." Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 18, no. 1 (2024): 45–59. https://doi.org/10.19180/2177-4560.v18n12024p45-59.
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This article discusses an analytical study of the importance of urban requalification for the regeneration of green spaces in a public square in Santana do Araguaia-PA. The object of the study was to consider the relevance of listening to the demands of the local community regarding the need to revitalize public space in the face of a sustainable project proposal. In this way, the research explored improvements in infrastructure, considering the relevance of the user's quality of life. Community involvement was decisive in decision-making for the development of the proposed requalification of the built environment. The multidisciplinary approach observed aspects of architecture and urbanism, landscaping, sustainability and accessibility to improve public space, making it more attractive, welcoming, functional and safe. The results showed the importance of requalifying urban equipment to strengthen social relations, enabling community interaction in open spaces for collective use.
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Kim, Jihyun. "In-Formality?: Two Cases of Temporary Uses in Urban Regeneration of South Korea." Sustainability 16, no. 7 (2024): 2932. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16072932.
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This paper aims to explore how we can utilize temporary and tactical urbanism in urban regeneration, focusing on its ability to redistribute power relations and foster inclusive processes. The research analysis compares two urban regeneration projects that were implemented under the concept of temporary urbanism in South Korea. The first case involves the transformation of a declining shipbuilding yard area into a cultural and small retail sector, while the second case is a regeneration project of an abandoned municipal cultural center. To identify detailed differences and similarities, this research tracked the project processes and changes in relationships through in-depth interviews and the analysis of related documents. The significance of these cases lies in illustrating two distinct paths of urban transition, from informal to formal and legitimate territory. This research suggests temporary urbanism as a means of introducing new ideas and functions into urban space, especially within the context of formal and informal relations.
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Robazza, Guido. "Build Art, Build Resilience. Co-creation of Public Art as a Tactic to Improve Community Resilience." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 5 n. 4 (December 1, 2020): 283–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i4.1388.
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Temporary urbanism practices are forms of appropriation of the public space by the citizens. They can be a powerful engine for urban regeneration and social innovation, empowering local communities to take ownership of urban spaces, promoting positive urban change. In particular, the collective creation of temporary art installations in public spaces can foster a sense of belonging and define new forms of civic participation, including unrepresented voices, and re-activate the public realm. The portfolio narrates the development of the “Co-Creation of Temporary Interventions in Public Space as a Tool for Community Resilience” (University of Portsmouth) project, which promotes and develops a series of tactical, small-sized, co-created, temporary interventions in public spaces, bringing together various local actors and underrepresented groups. Temporary urbanism initiatives can be very powerful tools; while the change they bring may be small at first and incremental, the varied ways in which such initiatives affect the city and its citizens lead to an extremely meaningful and long-term impact.
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Kamal, Ohoud. "Temporary Urbanism in Times of COVID-19: Creating Refuge in Temporary Urban Spaces of Amman: A Comparative Reflection." Built Environment 48, no. 2 (2022): 222–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.48.2.222.
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This article is an illustration on how the people of Amman have created temporary urban spaces as a means of coping with COVID-19 restrictions, particularly how they have appropriated spaces in the city normally not used as public spaces to socialize and find refuge outside their homes. The first section explores the lens of temporary urbanism across the Global North–South as an entry point to explore COVID-19 temporary spaces. The second turns to the context of Amman: first, by relating temporary urbanism to a wider understanding of it as a culturally permanent phenomenon and then by moving to a more speci fic understanding of the phenomenon. This is followed by three case studies of temporary spaces used during the pandemic in Amman: a parking space; sections of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lane; and a vacant plot of land. The discussion and concluding sections place the narratives of the temporary spaces of Amman/Global South and Global North in juxtaposition and point to the need to rethink planning practices.
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Dr., Snoussi Mohamed islam1* Prof Dr. Najem Dhaher2. "Post-Ksour Urban Identity in the M'zab Valley: A Critical Analysis of Urban Transformation through the Lens of Sustainable Development." ISRG Journal of Arts Humanities & Social Sciences (ISRGJAHSS) III, no. III (2025): 61–66. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15348972.
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<em>The five ksour of the M’zab Valley in southern Algeria, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1982, stand as a model of vernacular architecture and sustainable urbanism. Despite their historical significance and strong identity, recent urban expansions in Ghardaïa and its surroundings reveal a striking departure from the original architectural and spatial principles. This article explores the erosion of urban identity in the post-ksour housing developments and examines the underlying causes of this transformation. Through a chronological study of five representative cases, this research evaluates the extent to which the founding principles of the ksour—centered on identity, cohesion, sustainability, and adaptation to the Saharan environment—have been disregarded in new urban configurations. The study employs the HQE²R approach to assess the integration of sustainable development principles. Ultimately,the paper proposes strategic recommendations to guide the requalification of these urban areas in alignment with the original model of the M’Zab.</em>
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Nawzad, Rozh, and Alan Ali. "The Use of Tactical Urbanism in Urban Public Spaces in The City of Sulaimani as The Case Study." Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences 10, no. 3 (2024): 49–66. https://doi.org/10.17656/sjes.10178.
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This paper aims to explore the impact of using tactical urbanism for reviving the urban public space as a place making method in the city of Sulaimani.as part of thesis about tactical urbanism, public areas in Sulaimani have degraded due to rapid urbanization and population increase. Due to these obstacles, tactical urbanism, a grassroots approach to urban design and planning, has grown in popularity to swiftly modify and enhance urban areas. Place-making initiatives in urban development are less feasible in developing cities like Sulaimani since most urban design projects are top-down, expensive, and long-term, requiring years to accomplish. Despite being implemented over time, these initiatives seldom match urban space users' needs. Recent proposals include tactical urbanism to promote “right to the city” and place-making in cities. This study focuses on the impact of using temporary projects on urban areas and users through the de-flopping of the framework for the following criteria:(Functional, Environmental, Experimental, Economic, Social Governance and Monitoring, Tool, Time) The results were obtained through questionnaires to determine the impact on individual users and graphical analysis to determine the impact of existing projects in the area on individuals, communities, and Sulaimani public spaces. The proposed framework exhibits the capacity to provide guidance for the implementation of Tactical Urbanism strategies in developing nations, specifically focusing on small-scale and informal place-making initiatives that cater to the demands of local inhabitants.
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Seghetto, Italo, Ricardo Lopes, and Fernando Lima. "Virtual Reality as a Tool for Enhancing Understanding of Tactical Urbanism." Architecture 5, no. 2 (2025): 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture5020026.
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Tactical urbanism (TU) and Virtual Reality (VR) both aim to reimagine physical spaces, with TU utilizing rapid, temporary, scalable, and cost-effective physical interventions to test and refine urban design, while VR offers immersive virtual environments for exploration and analysis. This article investigates the integration of VR with TU to address challenges in effectively communicating and evaluating temporary urban interventions. This study is grounded in a literature review on spatial perception, TU, and VR, followed by an empirical experiment involving Brazilian college students. Participants interacted with a parklet installation in both physical and virtual environments, with their spatial perception and emotional responses evaluated using the AR4CUP (Augmented Reality for Collaborative Urban Planning) protocol. The results demonstrated that VR positively impacts the perception, usability, and social dynamics of urban spaces. Participants emphasized the importance of social interaction and recreational activities, reinforcing VR’s potential to simulate and refine urban interventions. A crucial avenue for future research is identifying best practices for using VR as a platform for collaborative design and decision-making. This step could enhance VR’s effectiveness in creating public spaces that align with community needs, fostering participatory planning and promoting inclusive, functional, and enriching environments.
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Simon, Mariann, and Amine Mseddi. "The Vacant Urban Space: Problems, Possibilities, Processes." Periodica Polytechnica Architecture 51, no. 2 (2020): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppar.15749.
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Cities are dynamic entities in perpetual evolution. Through this process, vacant spaces tend to appear under different circumstances. Certainly, empty and abandoned lots in a dense urban fabric are easily locatable. That their state persists over a considerable period is what makes them remarkable. This phenomenon may be viewed from different perspectives by urban planners, architects, geographers, economists, environmentalists, sociology academics and policymakers. Therefore, multiple data, parameters and definitions are in play. This multidisciplinary combination could quickly create a terminology issue in the scientific body related to urbanism and open space design. This paper presents an overview of the definitions of urban vacant spaces, taking into consideration the various perspectives. While following the timeline and the changes in the interpretations of the vacant urban space, it becomes evident how this phenomenon came from a problem of failed urban design to a possible place of resistance and finally an accepted possibility for temporary urbanism.
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Tornaghi, Chiara. "Edible public space. Experimenting with a socio-environmentally just urbanism." TERRITORIO, no. 60 (March 2012): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2012-060007.
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This paper presents an English case of urban agriculture, the Edible Public Space Project in Leeds, contextualised in a context of urban agriculture initiatives committed to social-environmental justice, to the reproduction of common goods and the promotion of an urban planning which promotes the right to food and to the construction of urban space from the bottom up. The case study emerged as the result of action-research at the crossroads between urban planning policies, community work and critical geography. As opposed to many similar initiatives, the Edible Public Space Project is not intended merely as a temporary initiative hidden within the tiny folds of the city, but rather as an experiment which imagines and implements alternatives to current forms of urban planning within those folds and it contextualises them in the light of the ecological, fi nancial and social crisis of the last decade.
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Sopena Porta, María Pilar, and Francisco Pellicer. "Urban Planning and Landscape Projects on Urban Riverbanks in Europe: Comparative Study of the Ebro River, Zaragoza, and the Isar River, Munich." Urban Science 8, no. 4 (2024): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8040152.
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The tension between rivers and cities reaches its highest expression in urban river basins. Given the high level of interaction between natural and cultural factors in many riverfronts, an integral project design is essential. The large number of urban river basin enhancement cases that have been conducted has resulted in a large amount of urban scientific literature. The multifaceted nature of these systems renders their analysis and contextualization a challenging endeavor. The objective of this research is to propose a novel evaluation tool based on a reformulation of Lynch’s theory of urban form performance, which has been updated from a landscape urbanism perspective. The conceptual framework provides a comprehensive method for translating diverse design strategies into comparable and meaningful categories. The results illustrate the impact of urban riverbank requalification initiatives on the formal quality dimensions of the city–river socio-ecological system. The assessment tool was applied to two cases: the Ebro River in Zaragoza (Spain) and the Isar River in Munich (Germany). Despite differences between the cases, comparative analysis revealed similar levels of urban landscape quality parameters and common elements that can provide new insights when considering the solutions applied and the degree of improvement in quality and river–city cohesion achieved with these projects.
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Law, Lisa, Simona Azzali, and Sheila Conejos. "Planning for the temporary: temporary urbanism and public space in a time of COVID-19." Town Planning Review: Volume 92, Issue 1 92, no. 1 (2021): 65–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.48.
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Ramneantu, Krisztina, and Teresa Marat-Mendes. "AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN GREEN SPACES IN LISBON USING DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF ORTHOPHOTO MAPS." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 48, no. 1 (2024): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jau.2024.19687.
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Green urbanism, namely in the form of consolidated urban green spaces (UGSs), has gained traction along with the reformist impetus of urban design, based on the ideal of efficient, functional, sustainable cities that promote a better quality of life for their citizens and on the notion of making urban expansion compatible with natural resources. Using a diachronic analysis (1995–2020) of the orthophoto maps of 38 UGSs included in the last version of the main municipality’s legislation, framed within the Plano Director Municipal (PDM), whose first version was approved in 1994, we assessed the situation and evolution of the UGSs in the centre of Lisbon, Portugal. We conclude that with fewer or more incidences, depending on the periods analysed, the structure of UGSs in the centre of Lisbon has undergone significant changes, whether in terms of the implementation and requalification of existing UGSs or in terms of the increment and quality of UGSs (space created), thus respecting to a lesser or greater degree the strategic lines defined in various plans, as is the case of the PDM itself, but also of other important documents, such as the Carta Estratégica 2010–2024, Estratégia de Reabilitação Urbana 2011–2024 and Estratégia Regional de Lisboa 2030.
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Shah, Sarah Javed, Munazzah Akhtar, and Rabia Ahmed Qureshi. "Reclaiming Public Spaces amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism as a ‘Resilience’ Response." Journal of Art, Architecture and Built Environment 6, no. 2 (2023): 54–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/jaabe.62.04.
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Several cities were struck by the global COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020. The rapid and hazardous spread of the crisis resulted in a profound urban transformation, changing the fundamentals of urban living. This research provides a perspective regarding the vulnerability and resilience of cities, particularly their public spaces. Public spaces, a significant component of the urban realm, remained fundamental in transforming cities during the pandemic. Implementing radical measures to minimize the spread of the virus and adopting emergency plans to resist the subsequent socioeconomic collapse demonstrated the varying yet synchronized stance on resilience. Two key approaches are used to pursue the concept of resilience as a strategic framework for public spaces. These include a balancing or bounce-back approach, which supports the idea of ‘return to normal’. The other is an evolutionary or bounce-forward tactic, characterized by adaptive capacity and transformation. This research reflects on the adaptive capacity of ‘resilience’ in public spaces, in which ‘tactical urbanism’ as an effective tool is used to create flexible, low-cost, and temporary design strategies to achieve public health goals and urban sustainability. It also discusses the examples of tactical interventions in public spaces during the pandemic and manifests the strength of temporary tactics to bring long-term change. The research concludes by proposing a new paradigm for public space planning, associating tactical urbanism and incorporating the evolutionary or adaptive capacity of resilience. The discussed strategies instil a vision for designing resilient public spaces for highly anticipated future pandemics and other hazards.
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Robazza, Guido, Jacqueline Priego-Hernández, Silvio Caputo, and Alessandro Melis. "Temporary Urbanism as a Catalyst for Social Resilience: Insights from an Urban Living Lab Practice-Based Research." Buildings 14, no. 6 (2024): 1513. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings14061513.
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This research paper investigates the impact of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) on social resilience within urban communities, with a specific focus on the Multicultural City ChatterBox project in Portsmouth, the UK. Drawing on a rich body of literature and empirical data collected through ethnographic research methods, including interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, this study explores how participatory placemaking and co-creation activities foster community resilience. The ChatterBox project, a collaborative effort between the local community and researchers, led to the construction of a temporary timber pavilion in an underutilized urban space, serving as a vibrant hub for social interaction and engagement among diverse community groups. Our findings reveal that ULLs significantly contribute to enhancing social resilience by empowering communities, fostering a sense of belonging, and facilitating the development of social networks. Through the process of co-design and co-creation, participants not only gained a deeper understanding and ownership of their urban environment but also developed valuable skills and knowledge, thus strengthening their capacity to adapt to societal challenges. Furthermore, this study highlights the role of ULLs in bridging gaps between different community groups, thereby promoting inclusivity and social cohesion. The Multicultural City ChatterBox project exemplifies how ULL interventions can serve as catalysts for social innovation, offering flexible and adaptive solutions to urban challenges while simultaneously enriching the social fabric of cities. This paper contributes to the growing discourse on urban resilience, placemaking, and community-led urban development, providing valuable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and community organizers seeking to foster resilient and vibrant urban communities.
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Plasencia, Lozano Pedro, Facal Estela Pantiga, and Manjón Irene Méndez. "Methodology for planning short-term urban bike lane networks; an example of downtown Gijón." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 177, no. 2 (2024): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.23.00031.
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Recently there has been increasing interest in the construction of bike lanes in cities due to their enormous positive effects; however, in some places society is resistant to these infrastructures and it is difficult to break a dynamic defined as the vicious circle of cycling mobility. In view of this, there is the option of proposing temporary bike lanes to evaluate the social response and, if successful, to make them permanent. This option is called temporary or tactical urbanism and has been widely used in the field of bicycle infrastructure during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The problem is that there is no quick and low-cost method to determine a comprehensive and well-connected scheme of bike lanes in the whole of a city; therefore, sometimes design mistakes are made and as a consequence temporary infrastructures, far from becoming permanent, disappear. This research study proposes an agile and economical methodology to establish which streets, within those that define the urban grid as a whole, can accommodate a temporary bike lane without altering the motorised traffic grid. The method is based on the use of quantum geographic information system and on a quick and easy data collection. The method was applied to downtown Gijón, Spain.
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Chapman, David. "Cities in time, temporary urbanism and the future of the city." Journal of Urban Design 24, no. 1 (2018): 158–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2018.1529538.
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Frandsen, Peter Christian, and Friederike Landau-Donelly. "On Top of Sustainability." Journal of Public Space 8, no. 2 (2023): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v8i2.1658.
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This article examines the role of cultural events in Rotterdam’s urban sustainability transition by looking at the festival Rotterdamse Dakendagen [Rotterdam’s Rooftop Days]. During this week-long festival, rooftops are used by citizens and cultural groups to activate urban spaces as places of learning, exchange, and DIY urbanism, thus broadening the scope of rooftops as places for cultural sustainability. Drawing on empirical material collected via qualitative interviews, policy document analysis, and five months of participant observation, we identify three aspects that inform urban sustainability transitions via culture: (1) the (re)activation of rooftops via cultural programming, (2) institution-building that is mindful of festivals’ continuously temporary nature, and (3) the limited material, yet wide-ranging immaterial effects of urban cultural festivals that have accelerated the Rotterdam’s urban (cultural) politics of sustainability. In sum, the article argues that culture plays an important role in any investigation of urban sustainability transitions and should be considered with more conceptual nuance in the future.
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Turku, Veera, Mikko Kyrönviita, Ari Jokinen, and Pekka Jokinen. "Exploring the catalytic power of temporary urbanism through a binary approach." Cities 133 (February 2023): 104145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104145.
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Gillespie, Tom, Kate Hardy, and Paul Watt. "Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: Gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 5 (2018): 812–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775817753844.
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This article reflects on an occupation led by single mothers to contest the destruction of social housing in post-Olympics East London. In the process, it argues for a more gendered theorisation of the urban commons. Drawing on auto-ethnography, participant observation and qualitative interviews, the article argues three central points: First, that the occupation demonstrates the gendered nature of the urban commons and the leadership of women in defending them from enclosure; second that the defence of an existing urban commons enabled the creation of a new temporary commons characterised by the collectivisation of gendered socially reproductive activities; and third that this commoning has had a lasting impact on housing activism at the city scale and beyond. This impact is conceptualised as an ‘Olympic counter-legacy’ that is characterised by the forging of new relationships and affinities, the strengthening of networked activism and circulation of tactics between campaign groups.
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Cariello, Alessandro, Rossella Ferorelli, and Francesco Rotondo. "Tactical Urbanism in Italy: From Grassroots to Institutional Tool—Assessing Value of Public Space Experiments." Sustainability 13, no. 20 (2021): 11482. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132011482.
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The paper aims to evaluate the value that the experimentation of tactical urban planning activities can assume for the city, through the critical account of some practices in three Italian cities of large (Milan), medium-large (Bari), and medium size (Taranto), which in recent years, in some cases unknowingly, have experienced its effects, also forced by the thrust offered by the need to respond to the consequences of the pandemic. The authors reflect on how short-term interventions started by tactical urbanism movement are inspiring planning institutions to implement short-term place-making initiatives. The contribution moves within the context of new generation urban regeneration in which the transformation of existing spaces is a process of community reconstruction through the redevelopment of public spaces increasingly open to multiple and temporary uses. First through a process of rereading the state of the art of the project of public spaces in Italy and its transformation caused by the pandemic, then through a comparative look between the three case studies, conclusions are drawn on the urban value of the experiments conducted and, on their ability, to identify a new reference point for the sustainable urban regeneration of public spaces.
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Herman, Krzysztof, and Maria Rodgers. "From Tactical Urbanism Action to Institutionalised Urban Planning and Educational Tool: The Evolution of Park(ing) Day." Land 9, no. 7 (2020): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9070217.
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A singular and modest activist action, a temporary park created in San Francisco, grew into the global urban Park(ing) Day (PD) phenomenon. This tactical urbanism event not only expanded to be annually celebrated in thousands of parking lots all over the world but became an inspiration for urban planning and policy changes. The permanent rendition of Park(ing) Day, parklets, resulted from the movement but did not stop the spread of PD itself. This article presents case studies from New Zealand and Poland, two geographically and culturally distant locations where PD has further developed and evolved gaining local qualities. Through research methods such as research in design, secondary data analysis and expert interviews we study the trajectory of PD evolution and the role and interpretation of it in different parts of the globe. The results show a narrative of successive popularisation and institutionalisation as well as diversification. Departing from its grassroots, guerilla and assertive traits, PD has grown to become an artistic, creative and urban planning tool. As an established, recognised action and an ‘attractive’ idea, PD has great potential for designer education, allowing a venue for implementing methods such as design-build and live project.
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Kassens-Noor, Eva. "From Ephemeral Planning to Permanent Urbanism: An Urban Planning Theory of Mega-Events." Urban Planning 1, no. 1 (2016): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v1i1.532.
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Mega-events like the Olympic Games are powerful forces that shape cities. In the wake of mega-events, a variety of positive and negative legacies have remained in host cities. In order to bring some theoretical clarity to debates about legacy creation, I introduce the concepts of the mega-event utopia, dystopia and heterotopia. A mega-event utopia is ideal and imaginary urbanism embracing abstract concepts about economies, socio-political systems, spaces, and societies <em>in</em> the host <em>during</em> events. The mega-event utopia (in contrast to other utopian visions other stakeholders may hold) is dictated by the desires of the mega-event owners irrespective of the realities in the event host. In short, a mega-event utopia is the perfect event host from the owner’s perspective. Mega-event utopias are suggested as a theoretical model for the systematic transformation of their host cities. As large-scale events progress as ever more powerful transformers into this century, <em>mega-event dystopias</em> have emerged as negatives of these idealistic utopias. As hybrid post-event landscapes, m<em>ega-event heterotopias</em> manifest the temporary mega-event utopia as legacy imprints into the long-term realities in hosting cities. Using the Olympic utopia as an example of a mega-event utopia, I theorize utopian visions around four urban traits: economy, image, infrastructure and society. Through the concept of the <em>mega-event legacy utopia</em>, I also provide some insight toward the operationalization of the four urban traits for a city’s economic development, local place marketing, urban development, and public participation.
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Tardiveau, Armelle, and Daniel Mallo. "Unpacking and Challenging Habitus: An Approach to Temporary Urbanism as a Socially Engaged Practice." Journal of Urban Design 19, no. 4 (2014): 456–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2014.923743.
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Simpkins, Robert J. "The Cadences of Rails." Transfers 10, no. 2-3 (2020): 212–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2020.1002315.
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Abstract This article explores how urban space produced by the Japanese railway system is appropriated by people for common use in Tōkyō. Drawing from ethnographic research among musicians at a central train station, I explore how individuals enmeshed within the schedules of the commuter network negotiate mobilities that fall outside the purview of railway urbanism. Station tsūro are passageways monitored by rail staff and local authorities, protected by traffic and railway commerce laws, and influenced by competing pressures from the overburdened network and local neighborhoods. Musicians sensitive to these shifting relationships identify leeway within, performing in ways that open tsūro up, producing temporary, finely balanced spaces of encounter and connection. Through these processes, the commuter system creates rail-specific forms of human relationships.
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Afanasiev, Kirill, and Ekaterina Stepanova. "Initiative Improvement in Saint-Petersburg: from Local Community Art towards Tactical Urbanism." Inter 14, no. 3 (2022): 124–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/inter.2022.14.3.6.
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The article summarizes the preliminary results of the analysis of public initiatives in the field of landscaping in St. Petersburg. In order to systematize the variety of research approaches and assessments of interested persons authors used the methods of source analysis and generalization (grouping) of assessments and analogies in relation to the objects and phenomena under consideration.The practical part of the study consisted in the formation of an array of data and a bank of cases in the field of grassroots initiatives to improve the urban environment and the formation of public spaces. Based on the data obtained, there was created a map of the activity of urban communities, as well as a heat map, illustrating the foci of concentration of the social capital of the city. As the analytical tools authors used models of joint actions and cooperation, research methods of the theory of public goods and behavioral economics, as well as the method of geoinformation analysis.As a unifying term for the phenomena under consideration, the authors propose the term “initiative improving”, meaning a spontaneously emerging and developing form of civic activity at the place of residence using self-organization and self-financing tools. The range of revealed facts of initiative landscaping varies from negatively perceived ‘local community art’ (a form of naive and artisanal improvement of the space around a residential building) to initiatives of residents to restore and form public facilities approved by the majority (restoration of entrances of historical buildings, lost historical elements, green spaces). Intermediate forms in this regard are initiatives within the framework of territorial public self-government, festive events and temporary facilities. The concept that allows us to describe the most constructive format is M. Lydon's “tactical urbanism” — the theory of “small affairs” in the field of urban development.The novelty of the presented approach consists in the systematization of the facts of initiative improvement (including negative ones) and their integration into the general logic of modern urban development against the background of currently prevailing approaches based on the allocation of the decisive role of professionals and experts in this process.
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Wesener, Andreas. "Temporary urbanism and urban sustainability after a natural disaster: transitional community-initiated open spaces in Christchurch, New Zealand." Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 8, no. 4 (2015): 406–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2015.1061040.
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Gledhill, John, and Maria Gabriela Hita. "REQUALIFICAÇÃO URBANA E DESPEJOS EM CENTROS NOVO E ANTIGO DE SALVADOR." Caderno CRH 31, no. 82 (2018): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/ccrh.v31i82.24454.
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A cidade de Salvador replica o processo de “acumulação por espoliação”, característico de um urbanismo neoliberal em todo o mundo. Neste artigo, comparamos como atua a lógica da requalificação urbana em duaszonas da cidade. A primeira é uma grande e historicamente combativa favela localizada na região que tem se tornado o mais moderno “novo centro” da cidade. Nela, a chave dos problemas são os novos projetos demobilidade urbana e a construção de condomínios para outras classes sociais. A segunda zona é o centro colonial da cidade, que experimenta uma nova fase de gentrificação. Ali, as políticas de patrimônio históricose encontram com outras políticas, transformando os remanescentes espaços públicos da cidade neoliberal securitizada em zonas mais seguras para turistas e residentes mais ricos. Enfatizamos o valor de um entendimento etnograficamente fundamentado para compreender o que essas mudanças significam para moradores pobres da cidade, assim como a complexidade, a heterogeneidade e a ambiguidade de suas diferentes reações.URBAN REQUALIFICATION AND EVICTIONS IN SALVADOR’S NEW AND OLD CITY CENTERSThe city of Salvador replicates the process of “accumulation by spoliation” characteristic of the neoliberal urbanism around the world. In this paper, we compare how the logic of urban requalification operates in two areas of the city. The first area is a large and historically combative favela located in the region that has become the latest “new Centre” of the city. In this region, the key issues are the new urban mobility projects and the construction of housing for other social classes. The second area is the colonial Center of the city, which is undergoing a new gentrification phase. There, the historical heritage policies meet other policies, transforming the remaining public spaces of the securitized neoliberal city into safer areas for tourists and wealthier residents. We emphasize theworth of an ethnographically-based understanding to comprehend the meaning of these changes to poor residents of the city, as well as the complexity, heterogeneity and ambiguity of their different reactions.Keywords: Cities. Pelourinho. Gentrification. Evictions. Resistances.REQUALIFICATION URBAINE ET EXPULSIONS DANS DES CENTRES, NOUVEAU ET ANCIEN, DE SALVADORLa ville de Salvador reproduit le processus “d’accumulation par spoliation”, caractéristique d’un urbanisme néolibéral à travers le monde. Nous faisons, dans cet article, la comparaison du fonctionnement de la logique de requalification urbaine dans deux parties de la ville. La première est une grande favela historiquement combative située dans une région qui est devenue le plus moderne “nouveau centre-ville”. En son sein, les nouveaux projets de mobilité urbaine et la construction de copropriétés destinées à d’autres classes sociales sont la clé du problème. La deuxième partie est le centre historique colonial de la ville qui connaît une nouvelle phase de gentrification. Là, les politiques du patrimoinehistorique se voient confrontées à d’autres politiques qui transforment les espaces publics restants de la ville néolibérale titrisée en zones plus sûres pour les touristes et les résidents plus aisés. Nous insistons sur l’importance d’une compréhension fondée sur l’ethnographie pour saisir ce que ces changements signifient pour les habitants pauvres de la ville ainsi que la complexité, l’hétérogénéité et l’ambiguïté de leurs différentes réactions.Mots-clés: Villes. Pelourinho. Gentrification. Expulsions. Résistances.
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Benjamin, Carrie Ann. "A Place to Breathe in the Dense City: Community Gardening and Participatory Urbanism in Paris." Sociální studia / Social Studies 17, no. 1 (2020): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2020-1-55.
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Community gardens have emerged in Paris as a way to create green spacesin the city’s densely populated working-class neighbourhoods. One such garden is the Goutte Verte,a temporary, nomadic community garden that, with the agreement of the city and its developers, occupiesvacant lots awaiting the construction of new-build social housing. The continued existence of the GoutteVerte is placed in opposition to much-needed housing in the city, with poor, unemployed, and middle-classgardeners alike caught between a desire for green space and a demand for comfortable housing. Drawingon participant observation and interviews conducted in 2013–14 and 2019, I demonstrate how communitygardens act as a material alternative to urban planning and governance that often fail to account for a rightto a “place to breathe” in the city – a situation that is increasingly fraught as city planners treat newconstruction as the primary solution for affordable housing in Paris.
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Bruyns, Gerhard, Henry Endemann, Veronica Ching Lee, and Darren Nel. "The Exclusionary Nature of Hyperdensity: Hong Kong's Volumetric Urban Compaction as Liveability Model for Exclusionary Interiorized Settings." Built Environment 48, no. 3 (2022): 393–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.48.3.393.
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East Asian urbanization is characterized by complex processes of extensive densi fication. Fuelled by rapid economic growth, Asian cities' size, scale, and physical dimensions remain incomparable to any Western se ing. During the past thirty years alone, various concepts have a empted to de fine hyperdensity, layering, and intensity as core principles of Asian urban development. Although these concepts explore the physical properties of development, few examples provide insights into the behavioural and social dimensions of such complex morphological se ings. This paper examines the eff ects of urban compaction and volumetric urbanism on liveability in East Asian cities. Hong Kong exempli fies an extreme scale and rate of densi fication. Podium developments – commercial plinths elevated above street level that connect large residential towers to commercial complexes – are one of the city's most common development types. The hypothesis is that the combination of diff erent types of podium development results in the interiorization of the urban realm, which compresses public services, social engagements, and behavioural conditions into diverse privatized and fragmented 'public interiors'. To explore these conditions, this paper first outlines the conceptual premise of reading urban se ings through the lens of volumetric urban compaction. This framework combines urban compaction and volumetric urbanism. Second, the paper discusses theories that deal with the links between spatial se ings and behavioural traits. Privatization is of particular interest here, including those processes in which the private and the public become interchangeable conditions or where the temporary occupation of functions occurs. The diff erent concepts – volumetric urban compaction and interiority – are studied within Olympian City, a podium development in Kowloon (Hong Kong). Through fi eldwork, the case is investigated in terms of the elements that make up Olympian City's spatial con figuration and how diff erent groups use space at diff erent times of the day and week. The case study shows that Hong Kong's development follows an economically driven model of volumetric urban compaction; it supports a larger privatization strategy that depends on the interiorization of the city to the extent that makes the overall structure highly exclusive, static, and controlled.
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Sayed Abul Khair, Sayed Muhammad Aiman, Farid Al Hakeem Yuserrie, Mohammad Nazrin Zainal Abidin, Fazidah Hanim Husain, and Nur Azdli Mohamed Noor. "REIMAGINING NODE: A PROPOSAL FOR POP-UP URBANISM INITIATIVE IN ALOR SETAR." Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Environment 11, no. 3 (2024): 219–40. https://doi.org/10.24191/myse.v11i3.3919.
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A big part of tactical planning is pop-up structures. As part of a secondyear architecture design lab, this study looks at pop-up urbanism in the city centre of Alor Setar, focussing on short-term changes that make places lively and focused on people. In line with Alor Setar's Strategic Plan 2024–2028, the study aims to make cities better places to live by using strategic popup buildings. A mixed-method approach combines Edward T. White's Site Analysis with the Space Syntax method. It starts with finding important places like Dataran Alor Setar. A lot of site data is being collected and analysed for the study to determine how cities change over time. Space Syntax helps determine how to connect and integrate spaces, which helps with where to put these temporary changes. Key results show that areas with a lot of connections, like Jalan Istana Lama and Lebuhraya Darul Aman II, are great for making things livelier, whilst areas with fewer connections, like Lebuhraya Darul Aman I, are better for targeted interventions. The study gives useful information to students who are designing pop-up structures. It also helps with future urban planning, which makes cities more resilient and open to everyone.
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Parish, Jessica. "Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 1 (2019): 263–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619868110.
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In 21st century Toronto, the labour of caring for urban trees is entangled with both gentrification processes and the social reproduction of settler colonial space. This paper contributes to the study of environmental gentrification through a study of the social reproduction of settler colonial relations to land in the Parkdale–High Park area of Toronto. Specifically, I take up the hyper-visibility of some forms of social reproduction, in order to shed light on how the mundane, quotidian ‘non-work’ of living in/with/for capitalism becomes a site of privilege and a luxury pursuit for more affluent residents. The paper highlights the processes and practices whereby settler colonial urban subjects seek out ‘nature’ as a temporary outside where they can escape from widely accepted downsides of capitalist urbanism, including a diverse array of social and physical ills, from stress, to obesity, to ecological degradation. The paper asks: whose social reproduction does the presence of urban trees serve? In the context of 21st century financialized gentrification, cities are increasingly normalized as spaces of wealth and luxury. It is therefore crucial to pay attention to the raced, gendered, and colonial micro-politics through which urban ecologies are transformed in the service of an anti-democratic vision of the city as a space of leisure and luxury.
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Kim, Jihyun. "A Study on the Application of Temporary & Tactical Urbanism - A Suggestion for the Practice-based Urban Design Approach." Journal of the Urban Design Institute of Korea Urban Design 24, no. 1 (2023): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.38195/judik.2023.02.24.1.133.
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Karachalis, Nicholas. "Temporary Use as a Participatory Placemaking Tool to Support Cultural Initiatives and Its Connection to City Marketing Strategies—The Case of Athens." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2021): 1652. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041652.
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For many cities, abandoned or underused spaces pose a major challenge, but temporary use is being manifested as a tool that can offer solutions. So-called “meanwhile spaces” provide opportunities for city officials to create the conditions for the cultural economy to be supported while simultaneously meeting urban regeneration goals and supporting city marketing purposes. In European cities, such as Berlin, Ghent, Nantes, and Bremen, there are examples where “temporary urbanism” is being incorporated into mainstream policy and is forming part of the city’s identity and tourism promotion. Temporary use is discussed in the context of current challenges facing European cities (austerity crisis, unemployment, refugee crisis, lack of affordable housing or office space). In this paper, the focus is on the creative sector. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked discussion on how temporary use can cover a community’s needs. In this contextual framework, the scope was to explore the conditions under which temporary use becomes an effective policy tool and discuss management issues and difficulties that may arise. A description and analysis of the particularities of initiatives that were implemented in Athens compared to the ones in other European cities are presented. This paper is partly based on the works of the Athens URBACT Refill project, which included an extended consultation process with local stakeholders. Further field research was conducted regarding how temporary use initiatives with a cultural focus have been managed and the way the relations between owners, managers, and users were formed. Feedback from users and stakeholders’ representatives is presented. The key findings refer to the evaluation of the approaches used in temporary use initiatives with a cultural focus, the future perspectives, and the difficulty with drawing early conclusions on the effectiveness of these initiatives and the impact on the reputation of the city. Finally, the discussion is linked with promoting Athens as a city that allows experimentation by citizens’ groups and cultural initiatives in the context of temporary interventions.
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Marti, Miquel, and Lara Espindola. "Opportunity in the Time of COVID-19. Learning Lessons to Improve Public Spaces." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 5 n. 3 (November 30, 2020): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i3.1373.
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To face the COVID19 pandemic, cities have taken short term actions. Streets have been closed to traffic during weekends to enable temporary playgrounds or car lanes have been transformed into bike lanes or used to enlarge sidewalks following tactical urbanism practices. Time has appeared as a main factor in the management of public space (defining timeslots to exit to the street or trying to avoid peak hours in public transportation by extending the starting and ending working times). Technologies have been key, enabling online work, virtual gatherings and creative activities, as well as developing applications for better tracing the disease or enforcing the lockdown regulations. But what will be the lasting effects of these measures in the long-term transformations of cities? This commentary was written in May 2020, in the middle of a total lockdown in Barcelona. It is based on the events, reflections and public opinion reactions at this precise moment in this particular place. It argues that the urban adaptations to the COVID19 could be an opportunity to adjust, strengthen and accelerate some ongoing urban strategies: the transition towards a more sustainable mobility and a greener city; the development of neighbourhood life; the application of technologies in urban planning and management, community based initiatives and everyday public space experiences.
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Lehmann, Steffen. "The unplanned city: Public space and the spatial character of urban informality." Emerald Open Research 2 (April 22, 2020): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13580.1.
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The ‘unplannable’ is a welcomed exception to the formal order of urban planning. This opinion article explores some examples of informal urbanism and discusses its ambiguous relationship to public space and unplanned activities in the city. The informal sector offers important lessons about the adaptive use of space and its social role. The article examines the ways specific groups appropriate informal spaces and how this can add to a city’s entrepreneurship and success. The characteristics of informal, interstitial spaces within the contemporary city, and the numerous creative ways in which these temporarily used spaces are appropriated, challenge the prevalent critical discourse about our understanding of authorised public space, formal place-making and social order within the city in relation to these informal spaces. The text discusses various cases from Chile, the US and China that illustrate the dilemma of the relationship between informality and public/private space today. One could say that informality is a deregulated self-help system that redefines relationships with the formal. Temporary or permanent spatial appropriation has behavioural, economic and cultural dimensions, and forms of the informal are not always immediately obvious: they are not mentioned in building codes and can often be subversive or unexpected, emerging in the grey area between legal and illegal activities.
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Udelsmann Rodrigues, Cristina, Patience Mususa, Karen Büscher, and Jeroen Cuvelier. "Boomtown Urbanization and Rural-Urban Transformation in Mining and Conflict Regions in Angola, the DRC and Zambia." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (2021): 2285. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042285.
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Starting from temporary settlements turning into permanent urban centers, this paper discusses the transformations taking place through the process of so-called ‘boomtown’ urbanization in Central and Southern Africa. Based on data collected in Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the paper identifies the different conditions for migration and settlement and the complex socio-economic, spatial, as well as political transformations produced by the fast growth and expansion of boomtowns. Different historical and contemporary processes shape boomtown urbanization in Africa, from colonial territorial governance to large- and small-scale mining or dynamics of violence and forced displacement. As centers of attraction, opportunities, diversified livelihoods and cultures for aspiring urbanities, boomtowns represent an interesting site from which to investigate rural-urban transformation in a context of resource extraction and conflict/post conflict governance. They equally represent potential catalyzing sites for growth, development and stability, hence deserving not only more academic but also policy attention. Based on the authors’ long-term field experience in the countries under study, the analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork data collected through observations as well as interviews and focus group discussions with key actors involved in the everyday shaping of boomtown urbanism. The findings point to discernible patterns of boomtown consolidation across these adjacent countries, which are a result of combinations of types of migration, migrants’ agency and the governance structures, with clear implications for urban policy for both makeshift and consolidating towns.
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Silvia, Stuchi Cruz, and Regina Paulino Sonia. "A Inovação Social em Experiências de Mobilidade Urbana: Análise na perspectiva dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável." Gecontec: Revista Internacional de Gestión del Conocimiento y la Tecnología 10, no. 3 (2022): 69–84. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7054369.
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This paper aims to analyze social innovation through the implementation of an initiative of the Municipal city hall of São Paulo, focused on active mobility, in the homeschool walking commute: the Safe Route to School (Rota Escolar Segura) program. Documentary research and semi-structured interviews were carried out. Categories and variables for social innovation analysis were applied, relating them to the Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs. Social innovation involves the co-creation of new services/products and is shaped by the interactions between the main stakeholders. In the case studied, participation in co-construction and codesign occurred through feedback and ideas. The co-creation is highlighted in the actions to obtain community involvement, evaluate the acceptance of the project proposal and identify potential points of improvement not foreseen in the pilot project, participatory workshops, informative and interactive panels, preparation and approval of the temporary intervention project, and joint discussion and analysis involving third sector organizations and municipal agencies. The new urban design, with requalification and redistribution of the road space, consolidated the reduction of speeds, prioritizing active mobility, ensuring that society is the beneficiary by appropriating the results of innovation. The results of the research are aligned, above all, with SDG 16, with regard to transparency and social participation, with SDG 11, by the search for improvement of spaces for active and sustainable mobility, and with SDG 13 by the tendency to improve environmental quality
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Gubić, Ilija, and Nebojša Antešević. "Architecture of craft and service centers by Ranko Radović: Creating an urban ambience." Arhitektura i urbanizam, no. 56 (2023): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/a-u0-44073.
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Ranko Radović (1935-2005) was a prominent Serbian, Montenegrin and Yugoslavian architect, urban planner and designer, professor and architecture historian and theorist. This paper explores the architectural concepts and urban characteristics of the craft and service centers he designed, which were built in Belgrade (1968-1972), Šabac (1982) and Ljig (1988), as well as his architectural-urban planning research proposal for the reconstruction and revitalization of the old market and the area under the bastion of the fortress in Novi Pazar (1986-1987). In addition to his notable designs for the Sutjeska Battle Memorial House (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the town hall in Aranđelovac, the Partizanka hotel, a post office and a bank in Vrnjačka Banja, and the reconstruction of the Atelje 212 theater in Belgrade (Serbia), Radović's solutions for craft and service centers in Belgrade, Šabac and Ljig represent specific considerations of architecture and urbanity, in which the experiences of modernism, critical regionalism, and the influences of postmodernism are sublimated. He also produced a proposal, partly implemented, for the protection and revitalization of the old bazaar market in Novi Pazar, with a grouping of low-rise buildings for craft and service purposes and prefabricated-temporary structures based on the traditional scale. As a contribution to the study of Ranko Radović's work, these specific micro-urban structures are analyzed in the context of his theoretical views on contemporary architecture, urbanism and tradition, and the aim of the work is to illuminate and document Radović's contribution to the ideas of the development of modern architecture and cities in Serbia. Due to the architectural concepts and urbanistic values of craft-service centers expressed in the ideas of ephemerality and changeability, the paper provides an analytical overview and photo-documentation of their existing state, and the possibilities of their revitalization are discussed.
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Biloshchytskyi, Andrii, Alexandr Neftissov, Oleksandr Kuchanskyi, et al. "Fractal Analysis of Air Pollution Time Series in Urban Areas in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan." Urban Science 8, no. 3 (2024): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8030131.
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The life quality of populations, especially in large agglomerations, is significantly reduced due to air pollution. Major sources of pollution include motor vehicles, industrial facilities and the burning of fossil fuels. A particularly significant source of pollution is thermal power plants and coal-fired power plants, which are widely used in developing countries. The Astana city in the Republic of Kazakhstan is a fast-growing agglomeration where air pollution is compounded by intensive construction and the use of coal for heating. The research is important for the development of urbanism in terms of ensuring the sustainable development of urban agglomerations, which are growing rapidly. Long memory in time series of concentrations of air pollutants (particulate matter PM10, PM2.5) from four stations in Astana using the fractal R/S analysis method was studied. The Hurst exponents for the studied stations are 0.723; 0.548; 0.442 and 0.462. In addition, the behavior of the Hurst exponent in dynamics is studied by the flow window method based on R/S analysis. As a result, it was found that the pollution indicators of one of the stations are characterized by the presence of long-term memory and the time series is persistent. According to the analysis of recordings from the second station, the series is defined as close to random, and for stations 3 and 4, anti-persistence is characteristic. The calculated Hurst exponent values explain the sharp increase in pollution levels in October 2021. The reason for the increase in polluting substances concentration in the air is the close location of thermal power plants to the city. The method of time series fractal analysis can be the ecological state indicator in the corresponding region. Persistent pollution time series can be used to predict the occurrence of a critical pollution level. One of the reasons for anti-persistence or the occurrence of a temporary contamination level may be the close location of the observation station to the source of contamination. The obtained results indicate that the fractal time series analysis method can be an indicator of the ecological state in the relevant region
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Kim, Joongsub, and Stephen Vogel. "Reflecting on City Governmental Responses to COVID-19: Focus on Design Justice." Architecture 4, no. 4 (2024): 1071–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/architecture4040056.
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In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant stay-at-home mandates, local governments in some cities in the United States implemented programs in response to the pandemic. This article focuses on Slow Streets, which were several programs implemented in eleven cities (Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Boston, and New York) in the United States. The programs were intended to keep people healthy by providing temporary public spaces on residential roads where residents were allowed to exercise and socialize. Some practitioners characterized the programs as tactical urbanism or tactical placemaking and as agile responses to the public health crisis. The programs deserve a critical reflection, considering their potential impact on community health and the limited amount of the literature on the program in terms of design justice, which is an approach to design that prioritizes marginalized communities and challenges their structural inequality. This reflective study attempts to fill that gap in the literature of architecture and urban design. This article aims to examine whether the Slow Streets programs promoted design justice. To address that aim, we propose a social justice framework to evaluate the program, because social justice is essential to design justice. Data from publicly available information online about the eleven cities’ Slow Streets programs, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and the interdisciplinary literature support the qualitative research. The study outcomes suggest that the Slow Streets program had limited success because their attention to the priorities of underserved populations was ineffective. We argue that while the programs provided a timely response to the pandemic, the programs did not adequately address the vulnerability of low-income communities of color due to the limited consideration of design justice. Building on the lessons from social justice and human geography, the article concludes with recommendations for future practices including place-cultivating and human geography-informed design to better serve vulnerable communities of color.
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McCarthy, Linda. "Milwaukee’s Swing Park: Guerrilla Urbanism at the Intersection of Public Space, Community, and Urban Planning." Sociální studia / Social Studies 20, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2023-37714.
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Guerrilla urbanism involves citizen-led bottom-up unsanctioned temporary efforts. This kind of temporary urbanism may offer unique opportunities not possible through traditional planning approaches. This paper is a case study of the Swing Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It began as an effort to temporarily enliven an area at one end of a pedestrian walkway – the Marsupial Bridge – suspended under a viaduct across the Milwaukee River. What started as an illegal temporary installation of swings made of used tires was embraced physically and emotionally as part of the everyday life of the pedestrian bridge by the local community who wanted the swings to stay. The guerrilla urbanism group found itself in conflict with the City’s Department of Public Works over concerns about safety and legal liability, aside from budgetary constraints on permanently upgrading and maintaining the swings. This paper conceptualizes the case study within a three-part framework of public space, community, and urban planning. It examines how the Swing Park has been seen to have both succeeded and failed, while problematizing it within the context of the interdisciplinary literature on temporary urbanism.
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Bishop, Peter. "Temporary and tactical urbanism: (re)assembling urban space." Journal of Urban Design, April 11, 2023, 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2198888.
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Bråten, Lina Naoroz. "Temporary temporariness? The (mis)use of tactical urbanism from the ‘open city’ framework." Urban Studies, August 22, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980241263436.
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This paper discusses how Tactical Urbanism aligns with the principles of the ‘open city’ framework. The ‘open city’ is often theorised as the urban condition that best welcomes diverse and flexible use of a city’s public spaces. However, the nature of the planning system at its core is to control and predict urban development, thereby effectively reinforcing the principle of a ‘closed city’ with more fixed and rigid forms. One counter-reaction to the ‘closed city’ is the Tactical Urbanism movement, which applies principles of simple, low-cost, and often temporary public space interventions to achieve and accelerate change. Such interventions can create more ‘open’ and inclusive urban environments, enabling diversity and flexibility. However, Tactical Urbanism is applied in multiple forms by different actors with varying intentions and goals. In this paper, I question the role of Tactical Urbanism in congruence with the theoretical framework of the ‘open (and vibrant) city’, drawing attention to how tactical interventions are used to brand new development projects. Doing so, I ask if Tactical Urbanism can be (mis)used merely as ‘temporary temporariness’ to serve top-down planning strategies, resulting in the ‘closed city’.
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Malhotra, Arushi, Meeru Abrol, and Agrima Malhotra. "EXPLORING EPHEMERALITY AS A DESIGN STRATEGY IN TACTICAL URBANISM AND PAVILION DESIGN: A SURVEY-BASED STUDY." ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts 5, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.4868.
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This study investigates the role of ephemerality as a strategic design approach in tactical urbanism, with a specific focus on pavilion design. As urban environments continuously evolve, designers are increasingly utilizing temporary structures to reshape public interactions, encourage creativity, and test innovative spatial solutions. Through a survey-based research methodology, complemented by interviews and case studies, this paper examines how pavilions function as adaptable and dynamic spaces that challenge conventional urban design paradigms. By activating underutilized urban spaces, these temporary structures act as experimental platforms that foster engagement, stimulate innovation, and contribute to the vitality of the urban landscape. The findings provide insights into the effectiveness of ephemeral architecture in enhancing public space and inform future design interventions in tactical urbanism.
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França, Tiffany Nicoli Faria Latalisa, and Teresa Cristina de Almeida Faria. "COVID-19 and Tactical Urbanism." Periódico Eletrônico Fórum Ambiental da Alta Paulista 17, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.17271/1980082717520213057.
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This work sought to reflect on urgent adjustments in public space in times of crisis from tactical urban interventions. For this, it elucidates protective measures related to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular under the aspects of urban mobility and civil engagement, using for this the case study of the implementation of temporary cycle lanes in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The methodology of this research was based on official publications made available electronically by the Municipality of Belo Horizonte and by the Company responsible for the transport and transit sector of Belo Horizonte (BHTRANS). In addition, this work was supported by publications available electronically from the Association of Urban Cyclists of Belo Horizonte (BH in Cycle) from 2012 to 2021. Based on the correlation between the material collected and the theoretical basis available on topics of interest to this research, the study aimed to discuss temporary and small-scale operations of the Tactical Urbanism type, implemented from the partnership between public authorities and civil society to ensure a safer urban mobility in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic during the year 2020 to date. The work highlights that the inclusion of Tactical Urbanism as a formal tool in urban planning can foster new local possibilities and immediate action strategies in the face of crises such as COVID-19, in addition to fostering citizen participation in decision-making processes about the city and its importance , guaranteeing basic rights such as moving safely.
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Bradley, Karin. "Open-Source Urbanism: Creating, Multiplying and Managing Urban Commons." FOOTPRINT, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.59490/footprint.1.901.
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Within contemporary architecture and urbanism there is marked interest in urban commons. This paper explores the creation of temporary urban commons, or, more specifically, what can be called ‘open-source urbanism’. Citing two practices – urban commons initiated by Atelier d’architecture autogérée in Paris, and Park(ing) Day initiated by San Francisco-based Rebar – I argue that these practices can be understood as open-source urbanism since their initiators act as open-source programmers, constructing practice manuals to be freely copied, used, developed and shared, thus producing self-managed commons. Although this tradition of ‘commoning’ is not new, it is currently being reinvented with the use of digital technologies. Combining Elinor Ostrom’s analysis of self-managed natural resource commons with Yochai Benkler’s assertion that commons-based peer production constitutes a ‘third mode of production’ that lies beyond capitalism, socialism and their blends, I argue that open-source urbanism critiques both government and privately-led urban development by advancing a form of postcapitalist urbanism.
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Bradley, Karin. "Open-Source Urbanism: Creating, Multiplying and Managing Urban Commons." FOOTPRINT, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.59490/footprint.9.1.901.
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Within contemporary architecture and urbanism there is marked interest in urban commons. This paper explores the creation of temporary urban commons, or, more specifically, what can be called ‘open-source urbanism’. Citing two practices – urban commons initiated by Atelier d’architecture autogérée in Paris, and Park(ing) Day initiated by San Francisco-based Rebar – I argue that these practices can be understood as open-source urbanism since their initiators act as open-source programmers, constructing practice manuals to be freely copied, used, developed and shared, thus producing self-managed commons. Although this tradition of ‘commoning’ is not new, it is currently being reinvented with the use of digital technologies. Combining Elinor Ostrom’s analysis of self-managed natural resource commons with Yochai Benkler’s assertion that commons-based peer production constitutes a ‘third mode of production’ that lies beyond capitalism, socialism and their blends, I argue that open-source urbanism critiques both government and privately-led urban development by advancing a form of postcapitalist urbanism.
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Tonin, Stefania, and Gianluca Zanatta. "Promoting temporary reuse of brownfield sites for triggering urban transformation." Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, September 1, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.69554/scjv8670.
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The last economic crisis imposed structural changes on many former industrial areas, leading public and private stakeholders to reconsider the urgency of issues related to the environmental remediation and requalification of areas. Nevertheless, while the remediation and reuse of industrial brownfield sites present an important opportunity for the improvement of urban quality, sustaining the costs of these operations is currently an economic burden for owners or local authorities. For this reason, temporary uses and temporary activities could be a successful way of finding opportunities in periods of uncertainty and crisis, financial market volatility, deindustrialisation and political change. This paper explores the possibility of pursuing temporary reuse in a specific brownfield site in Italy, where urban redevelopment has been halted for far too long. The main positive effects attributed in the literature to temporary reuse are: economic benefits to the owner, users and the broader urban context; social and economic benefits to the local community; increased democratic participation in urban development; adaptability and innovation in the process of urban change; and low costs of implementation.