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31/03/08 THE POTENTIAL OF THE
UNOCCUPIED SPACE IN THE FORMATION AND PLANNING OF METROPOLITAN LISBON The potential of the
unoccupied space in the formation and planning of Metropolitan Lisbon is a
research project under the scope of a bilateral agreement involving
Universities in Portugal and Spain (2008-2009), and is being developed in the
Urban and Spatial Planning Research Laboratory, Faculty of Architecture TU
Lisbon (LUOTP-FA-UTL) and the Urban and Spatial Department in the School of
Architecture, TU Catalonia (DUOT-ETSAB-UPC). The team, coordinated by Sofia
Morgado and Angel Martin, includes several experts in urban planning - Clara
Mendes, Carles Crosas, João Rafael Santos and Rita Dionísio - as well as a
junior team from several MArch Programs within the university: Urban Planning
- Cláudia Rocheteau, Fábio Espírito Santo, Paulo Lopes, Vasco Botas;
Architecture - Carolina Hogan, Ana Beto, Emanuel Rebelo, Tiago Frazão and
Landscape Architecture - Susana Rodrigues. The project aims to
develop both an analysis and a theoretical approach, considering that on
contemporary urban development the role of the unoccupied space is becoming
more relevant on the configuration of the metropolitan urban development.
Several experts have already advised on this, nevertheless the
epistemological identification of such spaces is still far from being
complete. This is an opportune
moment to examine innovative ways of urbanistic interpretation and
intervention, through new approaches to the creation of the urban space, in
order to produce necessary advances in metropolitan development. It is argued
that the unoccupied space is seen as a relevant agent that articulates the
territorial and urban scales. This work proposes its own specific methodology
that includes the preparation of original cartography, and the study of
selected cases. The previous
interpretation of Lisbon metropolitan territory evolution has shown a
territorial structure undergoing important transformations from its genesis
into today’s integration in a supra-metropolitan frame. To further
develop this approach, the current research has set as main objectives:
The Lisbon metropolitan
area was selected since it is structured around a large unoccupied space that
is fundamental to its formation: the Tagus Estuary, which is a catalyst for
essential situations that impact both on creating and conceptualizing the
city. Three main areas for development have been considered:
Sofia Morgado 31/03/08 LUOTP- URBAN AND
SPATIAL PLANNING RESEARCH LABORATORY FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE TU LISBON The LUOTP- Urban and
Spatial Planning Research Laboratory, a research unity of the Faculty of
Architecture TU Lisbon initiated in 2006, is a multidisciplinary structure.
The team includes senior and junior researchers, doctoral students, and
maintains important interaction with other research centres, within the
Faculty of Architecture and the TU Lisbon, but mostly with public
institutions, private and public, national and international, with similar
scientific and technological areas of interest. The LUOTP stimulates the
bond between theory and practice, having, nonetheless, a special vocation in
what the study, evaluation, methodological and analytical approaches and
diagnose applied to urban and territorial planning are concerned, also from
the environmental, sociological and economical viewpoints. Research areas include
urban and environmental regeneration, regional management, spatial planning
models and governance, regional development, urban and rural
landscapes’ evolution and dynamics, as well as urban planning history
and theory, gardens and urban parks. This Research Laboratory
also aims to support teaching, contributing to graduation and post graduation
programs in urbanism, urban planning and landscape. Therefore, at this level,
research is actively encouraged, either by supervising doctoral dissertations
or by the permanent transfer of knowledge and technology to
non-academicals’ structures. Other activities include involvement in
technical upgrading and the development of partnerships with national and
international institutions and universities, regarding the improvement and
the qualification of the territory. Ongoing research projects, also endorse
the awareness to relevant issues regarding sustainability and social
cohesion, under a permanent assessment of the obtained results. At the LUOTP various
projects, which are currently being developed, include research on the
Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, with reference to spatial planning, urban policies
and sustainability, on public space and thermal urbanism. At a different
scale of urban analysis, the Plazas of Portugal research project already
completed, and the Streets in Portuguese cities research project, still at
the very beginning, are also being accomplished. Simultaneously, support
to community is being held through municipal urban regeneration projects
(Urban Rehabilitation Society and International Network of Cities, promoted
by the Municipality of Oeiras in a cooperation program with LUOTP). Under the scope of
international cooperation, with other universities and research institutions,
various projects are being developed. Amongst others, the following projects
can be referred: Arte Público y Diseño Urbano para todos / Public Art and Urban
Design for all (Universidade de Barcelona, Polis Research Centre,
Universidade de Zaragoza, Design for All Foundation et al.), Public Art Urban
Design Observatory (Universidade de Barcelona, Polis Research Centre,
Universidade de Zaragoza, Manchester Metropolitan University, Design for All
Foundation et al.), The potential of the unoccupied space in the formation
and planning of Metropolitan Lisbon (FA/UTL, ETSAB/UPC, Barcelona). LUOTP is also cooperating
with the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia (Portuguese
Foundation for Research and Technology) in URBAN-NET – Coordination of
the funding of urban research in Europe project (Fundação para a Ciência e
Tecnologia, Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research,
Stichting Kenniscentrum Grotesteden Beleid; Projejttrager Mobilitat und
Verkehr Bauen und Wohnen; Ministére des Transports e l´Équipement du Tourisme
et de la Mer; The Swedish Research Council for Environment. Sofia Morgado RECENT PUBLICATIONS (this section lists some of our
members publications in the past 12 months) Cross-national Lesson
Drawing for Local Governments Robin Hambleton writes
about a UK initiative to improve exchange between local authorities in
different countries In the late 1990s UK
central and local government set up a new agency – the Improvement and
Development Agency (IDeA) – to improve the performance of local
government in England. The IDeA is an influential organisation in the UK and
has a well respected website that is heavily used by local government policy
makers and practitioners. Earlier this year the
IDeA commissioned Robin Hambleton to research and write five short articles
on local government innovations in other countries. The articles are intended
to stimulate fresh thinking within the UK local government community in
relation to international lesson drawing. The articles were published on a
fortnightly basis in Municipal Journal (MJ) – a leading UK local
government management magazine – as well as on the IDeA website. The
versions on the website are longer than the MJ versions and they provide
guides to further sources. The articles –
which were published as an integrated series under the title
‘International Insights’ – are concerned with various
aspects of local government innovation, from urban regeneration to improving
the user experience of public services. The series employs a
‘lesson drawing’ methodology – meaning that explicit
attention is given in each article to the implications of experience abroad
for policy and practice in the UK. The five topics covered are:
The articles are
available for free download from: www.idea.gov.uk/international
The series represents
part of a strategic move by the IDeA and MJ to work with other partners to
develop a more sophisticated approach to international lesson drawing at the
locality-to-locality level. This initiative enjoys the support of the Local
Government Association (LGA), the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives
(SOLACE), the European Association of Chief Executives (UDITE), the Royal
Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and, of course, the European Urban Research
Association (EURA). The EURA logo appears on
all the articles and the IDeA website now has a link to the EURA website. It
is hoped that the articles will enhance the profile of EURA in the period
ahead. Robin Hambleton is
Professor of City Leadership, in the Cities Research Centre at the University
of the West of England, Bristol. A book based on papers
given at the EURA Warsaw conference ‘Cities in City Regions’ has
just been published: THE RE-CREATION OF THE
EUROPEAN CITY. GOVERNANCE, TERRITORY AND POLYCENTRICITY (opens pdf). Rob Atkinson and
Cristiana Rossignolo (eds) October 2008 ISBN 978 90 8594 022 7,
€47.50. Published by Techne Press Cities and city regions
have become key drivers of national and European economic development and, at
the same time, have become nodes of new forms of societal interaction,
calling for a major role in territorial and social development and addressing
issues of sustainability and social cohesion. With these changes, the effects
of spatial and urban planning on economic development and on territorial and
social cohesion have become relevant. The Re-creation of the
European City investigates the position of regions and cities and presents
different views of how cities and regions are conceived and planned at
different scales in different European contexts. It reveals some shared
assumptions and approaches, while simultaneously illustrating the continuing
importance of national contexts in institutional and organisational
traditions, social and policy history, and, in the largest sense, the process
of change itself. The contributions advance
our understanding of cities, in some cases pointing towards the resurgence of
cities. One clear conclusion that emerges is that different approaches and
different solutions have been developed in response to common problems.
However, at the same time what also emerges is that there is a common context
for all these practices - the European Union. Cities and regions are where
Europe’s future is being made. Table of contents Introduction: European
Debates on Spatial and Urban Development and Planning Part I: The “European City”
in the European Union—Urban policy and the objective of Territorial
Cohesion in Europe—The polycentric ‘vocation’ of European
territories— Policies and practices in the south of Italy— Part II: Re-thinking the varsity state in
Scotland’s city-regions—Urban sprawl and planning policy in
Europe—Mapping the cities of the Randstad Holland—National
planning systems and the emergence of city-region planning in England and
France—City-regions as territorial pacts and institutional
‘concertation’ in a devolved Scotland—Trends in
interactions between cities and surroundings—The battle between
retailers and planners Conclusions: Urban and Spatial Planning in
Europe— List of contributors — Index For further
information or to order Techne Press Civitas per Populi have
published a new book which focuses on theoretical approaches and experience
with European Common Indicator´s set in the Czech Republic and on a key study
in the city of Hradec Králové. Sustainable Development
Indicators. Theoretical Approaches and Experience in the Czech Republic.
Hradec Králové Key Study Vladimíra Šilhánková
(ed.) Civitas per Populi, 2007 The issue of
(permanently) sustainable development has been mentioned and discussed more
and more in this decade. An ever growing number of institutions, governmental
agencies and local authorities profess these principles. However, not that
many of these try to introduce/ implement them into a real life situation. A
number of these institutions, namely local authorities would like to
implement the principles of sustainable development, but the existing
options, methodologies and approaches are often far too theoretical and
fragmented thus making the practical implementation very difficult (mainly in
smaller municipalities). Therefore our objective and subsequently the
objective of this brochure, which was produced within the project of the
Sustainable Development Indicators as a Tool for Monitoring and Decreasing
Disparities in the Population Level of Individual Regions supported from the
programme of the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic
aimed at research and development under the title of “Research for
Regional Disparity Solution”, is to support the options of the implementation
of the sustainable development principles on a local level. Since there is a
quite integrated and stabilised methodology for introducing the sustainable
development principles in the planning processes in the form of the Local
Agenda 21, we endeavour to create a tool for monitoring the progress of the
Local Agenda 21 or more precisely a Tool for Monitoring any Planning
Processes on a Local Level. Creating a mutually interconnected system of
monitoring the sustainable development indicators, employable at a local,
micro-regional and regional level for monitoring disparities in the regional
development. The submitted brochure is the first interim result of our
efforts where we have tried to map out the “good practice” and
demonstrate with a study case both the possibilities of the actual indicator
monitoring and mutual indicator co-ordination and interconnection with
planning procedures and documents of the municipality. Obviously, even in
this described study case everything is not as it ideally could be, but in our
opinion it is a very inspirational example and in many aspects “well
worth following”. The publication is
available at: www.civitasperpopuli.org
and www.timur.cz or e-mail:: civitasperpopuli@volny.cz This publication was
produced within the research for the Ministry for Regional Development in
relation to the research project WD- 69-07-4 Sustainable Development
Indicators as a Tool for Monitoring Disparities and thanks to the financial
support of the Municipality of Hradec Králové.
Disadvantaged by where
you live? distils
lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research
Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It
offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as
a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New
Labour since 1997.
The book explores and
reflects on the notion of neighbourhood governance from a variety of
perspectives that reflect the unique depth and breadth of the Centre’s
research programme. Neighbourhood governance is examined in relation to:
multi-level governance and cityregions; local government; mainstreaming; cross-national
differences in neighbourhood policy; community and civil society; diversity;
different conceptions of democracy; and, evaluation and learning. In doing
so, the book identifies useful conceptual tools for analysing the present and
future contribution of policy to neighbourhoods. Policy Press (www.policypress.org.uk)
For further details or
to order a copy: Marston Book Services Tel: +44 (0)1235 465500 ----------------------------------------------------- We are delighted to
announce the publication of:
A selection of papers
presented at the EURA bi-annual conference 'Cities in City-Regions' on 11-14
May 2006 in Warsaw. Available September 2007 - download order form here. Contents Jan Erling Klausen, Pawel
Swianiewicz - Cities in City Regions: Governing the Diversity Part I. The Dynamics
of Social Diversity in Metropolitan Areas Andrzej Lisowski - The
Centralisation and Decentralisation Processes in the Warsaw Metropolitan Area
in the Years 1950-2002 Zohreh Daneshpour -
Spatial Inequality and Dislocation in Tehran’s Urban Region Zhan McIntyre - Mixing it
Up: Social Impacts of Using Gentrification as a Tool for Creating Social
Diversity Part II. Managing the
Diversity of Metropolitan Areas Iradj Asadi - Models of
Metropolitan Regionalism: a Comprehensive View Donald F. Norris, Don
Phares, Tonya Zimmerman - Why Metropolitan Government Has Not Been Adopted in
the United States and Why It Will Not Be Anytime Soon? Marta Lackowska -
Metropolitan Governance in Poland: Is Voluntary Co-operation Condemned to
Failure? Panos Getimis, Nikos K.
Hlepas - From Fragmentation and Sectoralisation to Integration Through
Metropolitan Governance? The Athens Olympics As a Catalytic Mega-Event Richard Morin, Jean-Marc
Fontan, Pierre Hamel, Eric Shragge - Community Organisations and Local
Development in a Metropolitan Region: Does Local Place Matter? Alexander Tölle - Major
Revitalisation Projects as Catalysts for Metropolitan Governance Structures?
Creating Partnerships in Greater Lyon, Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and
Gdansk TricityAgglomeration For further details or
to order a copy: Editorial Office Email: zako@uw.edu.pl ----------------------------------------------------- Bahn, C. and Loepfe, A.
(2007) Urban Management: A Value-Based Approach for Spatial Planning In the real estate
development process are several key actors involved who have different
conceptions of how and which kind of value within real estate projects is to
be obtained. Architects focus on the aesthetic quality of buildings and
define value as contribution to the cultural uniqueness of areas. Urban
designer judge real estate projects by their functional contribution to the
master plan of urban development. Investors and developers however are
particularly interested in a high cash flow over the entire life cycle of
properties. The diverse disciplinary backgrounds and objectives of these key
actors lead frequently to conflicts in the development process and hinder the
public permission of real estate projects. Urban management as a new approach
for spatial planning shall contribute to the overcoming of the linguistic
confusion which is inherent in the real estate development process. Key idea
of the urban management approach is the maximization of the land value of an
outlined area as central indicator for the well-being of the inhabitants and
other users of space. As e.g. the aesthetic quality of buildings and larger
areas as well as the quality of the public infrastructure are reflected in
the land value, this indicator allows managing not only the economic but
social and aesthetic betterment of a certain area. Therefore, the public
welfare could be better served by an urban management approach than by the
more traditional, prohibitive approach of spatial planning. For further details: Dr Christopher Bahn Tel.: +41 44 208 99 98 ----------------------------------------------------- Hambleton, R. and Gross, J. (eds) (2007) Governing
cities in a global era. Urban innovation, competition and democratic reform Palgrave. ISBN 1 4039 7673 ----------------------------------------------------- Richards, G. and Wilson,
J. (eds) (2007) Tourism, Creativity and Development This book analyzes, in
critical terms, the impact and effectiveness of creative strategies and
charts the emergence of 'creative tourism'. A wide range of examples from
Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa explore the interface
between tourism and creativity including: creative spaces and places such as
cultural and creative clusters and ethnic precincts, the role of the creative
industries and entrepreneurs in the creation of experiences, creativity and
rural areas, the 'creative class' and tourism, lifestyle, creativity and
tourism and marketing creative tourism destinations. The diverse
multidisciplinary contributions link theory and practice, and demonstrate the
strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and
marketing tool, the relationship between individual and collective forms of
creativity and the widely differing forms of modern tourism. Contact: Julie Wilson Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona/University of the West of England ----------------------------------------------------- Barnes, M., Newman, J.
and Sullivan, H. (2007) Power, participation and political renewal: Case
studies in public participation Public participation is
central to a wide range of current public policies – not only in the
UK, but elsewhere in the developed and the developing world. There are
substantial aspirations for what enhanced participation can achieve. This
book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of
participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion in
participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices represent a
fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case studies
across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the authors address key
issues such as: the way in which notions of the public are constructed; the
motivation of participants; how the interests and identities of officials and
citizens are negotiated within forums; and the ways in which institutions
enable and constrain the development of participation initiatives. Much of the literature on
public participation is highly normative. This book draws from detailed
empirical work, theories of governance, of deliberative democracy and social
movements to offer a nuanced account of the dynamics of participation and to
suggest why experiences of this can be frustrating as well as transformative.
ISBN 978 1 86134 667 4
(pb) £24.99 Contact: Professor Helen Sullivan ----------------------------------------------------- Sullivan, H. (2007) Interpreting community leadership in English local
government, Policy and Politics, 35(1) pp141-162 Contact: helen.sullivan@uwe.ac.uk
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