March 29th, 2009
Editor: HJ.Rosemann
Contributors: Saskia Sassen, David Rusk, Declan Kennedy, Bernardo Secchi, Joaquim Sabate, Alexander Tzonis, and others
ISBN: 978-90-78658-05-4
Published by IFoU-Papiroz
This book aims to give an answer on these questions by investigating conditions and possibilities of urban sustainability. To do so, it traverses and undermines boundaries between different disciplines and stresses interconnections between urban sociology, social geography, ecology, urban planning, design and management.
The aim is not to develop a consistent argumentation, but to explore the field with different approaches, from distinctive standpoints. Authors from different disciplines and from different parts of the world have been invited to reflect upon the idea of PermaCity from their respective point of view. The contributions are clustered in five sections:
Section I: Changes discusses the present changes in society and social conditions, as well as their effects on urban form. In a fundamental article François Ascher is analyzing the process of metropolization under the conditions of the Third Modernity. He comes to the conclusion that environmental issues will not revolutionize the form of the city, but will change the design. ‘Technologies do not develop independently of fundamental social forces.’ David Rusk reflects on the USA as a multicultural – global – society and thus model for future societies. Henco Bekkering discusses the origins of the concept of historical continuity in urban design and the role of ‘meaning’ within this framework. Edward Hulsbergen, Cecilia Marengo and Hui Xiaoxi analyze in different articles the problems of social exclusion, segregation and the influence of public housing policies.
Section II: Concepts introduces two different (historical and contemporary) concepts and models for urban development and transformation. On the case of the Randstad Holland, Han Meyer reflects on the shift from urban to regional planning and the role of the city in this process. Wu Liangyong analyzes the pattern of traditional town development in the Yangtze River Delta in China. Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis introduce Lewis Mumford with his (failing) plan for Honolulu as the first critical regionalist in urban planning. Johannes Widodo presents the Southeast Asian coastal cities with their ancient trade tradition and their varied cultural influences as examples for permacultural societies. Frank van der Hoeven, Gerhard Bruyns, Remon Rooij and Jeroen van der Schaik focuses on the question of mobility and the model of network city. Qu Lei presents sustainable urban models for the development of Beijing and Mohammadreza Parvizi shows how ancient water systems (so-called qanats) are structuring historical settlements in Iran.
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Tags: Ascher, Kenney, permacity, Sassen
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March 24th, 2009
Editors: Rosemann, J. , Bruyns, G. , Pinilla, C., Nes, A., Rocco, R.
ISBN : 978-9-0786580-30
Published by: IFoU-Papiroz
Within Randstad’s complex urban system, the Rijnland region with Leiden city as core takes up a special position. No other region in the Randstad is so centrally located and so well connected to the national highways and train network as well as to the international airport Schiphol as Rijnland. This is why the region in the report from the workshop Werkweek Deltanet held in October 2003 became awarded with a strategic role for the further development of the Randstad: “…beside Schiphol Airport the Region Rijnland is the only connector that is accessible for almost 3 million households within 30 minutes. Rotterdam, Den Haag and the Zuidas of Amsterdam are following with some distance. A further development of Leiden fits with the strategic position of the Schiphol-Leiden axis within the Randstad and supports the integration of Randstad’s north and south wing. Leiden’s position is not only based on its centrality within the mobility network, but also in cultural and historical terms the city (and the region) plays an important part.
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Tags: Add new tag, Leiden, Nederlands, Urbanism
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March 19th, 2009
ISBN : 978-9-0786581-08
Author: Marengo, C. (March 2009)
Published by: IFoU-Papiroz
This book proposes to study spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the possibilities that spatial planning has to attenuate conditions of inequity in urban development derived from urban growth process; in the framework of a neoliberal policy orientation and new consensus on strategic planning developed in the last decade. The new socio-spatial form derived from globalization has been very uneven, evidencing a process of increasing global inequality as one main outcome. The spatial expression of the social conditions of restructuring process derived from globalization has been called the dual city. In the case of Latin America the urbanization of poverty is quoted as main urban problem that demands political action. In Argentina, the restructuring of labour markets and the opening of economy has been introduced simultaneously with structural adjustment reforms, (partly as consequence of the pressures of higher external debt) decentralization, the privatization of services, and focalization (this means the progressive reduction of welfare oriented policy and the shift to social priority criteria on policy implementation). Undoubtedly the effects these decisions have on society and space is the initial point to analyze the role spatial planning has on urban development. In a context of high social inequity (as is the case of Argentina) the debates are between those that defend the position that only through free-market initiatives should it be possible to achieve better living conditions and those who argue that the intervention of the State is required to balance the driving forces of economic actors and community interests in urban space. The detailed analysis of the case-study of Cordoba Municipality contributes to provide arguments, and to present the driving forces behind spatial planning in the local context. It presents the central issues of the current spatial planning that impedes achieving greater equity conditions in urban growth. The conclusions demonstrate that the intervention of the State in the redistribution of costs and benefits derived from urban growth is necessary if the objective is to attenuate deep conditions of socio-spatial inequity. However, overcoming this problem would entail not only spatial planning techniques, but also the social and political context in which such planning is implemented.
Tags: Cordoba, Latin America, Sprawl, Urbanism
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March 19th, 2009
Author: Kusumo, K. (March 2009)
Published by: IFoU-Papiroz
Railway stations have become hubs of networks due to their high accessibility by different modes of transport at different scale levels and have emerged as potential new central places in metropolitan cities in Europe. Planners and designers put a lot of effort into transforming these railway station areas into urban centres. Nevertheless in the case of designing the spatial layout of these areas, the designer is often left with statistical information and some city’s beautification design guidance. The role of the local street pattern as a factor that influences the liveability of an urban area around the station is often not taken into account. This dissertation is an attempt to define urban spatial frameworks for creating liveable space in station areas. Station areas in Indonesia and the Netherlands are analyzed by a grid configuration analysis to uncover space-structural details within the urban fabric as a field of movement and activity. These different case studies are subsequently compared, to analyze how the different street configurations affect the retail activities around those stations. The research results presented in this dissertation suggest that all the cases studied confirm a relationship between spatial configuration and the distribution pattern of commercial activities. Stations and the flow of additional pedestrians they produce will only influence the existing pattern of shops in a city if these railway-generated flows of regional-oriented pedestrians will be embedded in the street networks on both city- and local-scale level.
Tags: Delft, Nederlands, Railway, Station, Surabaya, Urbanism
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March 19th, 2009
Author: C. Pinilla (2009)
ISBN: 978-9-0786581-15 (Paperback, BW)
Published by: IFoU-Papiroz
There are several enquiries concerning the ability of public planning within contemporary demands. Globalisation, neoliberalisation, internationalisation, competitiveness, regionalisation, service oriented economies or societal fragmentation, are some of the mentioned subjects to which contemporary planning practices must respond. Suggestions to embrace these matters include new ways of governance, public and private partnership, planning flexibility, strategic, communicative or development planning.
In this study, such line of enquiry on planning within contemporary conditions is followed. In particular, there is an assumption that contemporary spatial and social conditions increase the complexity of planning practices introducing a new context of requirements. Consequently, the way in which planning practices respond to this new context is analysed. Derived from this analysis alternative responses are explored. To conclude, operative suggestions for planning practices to suitably deal with contemporary spatial and social demands are given.
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Tags: Latin America, Planning, Urbanism
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March 19th, 2009
Author: Devisanthi Tunas (March 2009)
ISBN 9789081408813
Published by: Papiroz
The Chinese Settlement of Bandung offers a complementary approach to the little known history of a Chinese society in the Priangan region which is a highland area in the interior of West Java at the turn of the twentieth century. Before the passing of the Agrarian Law in 1870, the Priangan was a prohibited area for the Foreign Orientals, European and non Sundanese Native. Such prohibition however did not stop the Chinese to travel and to take settlement in the area since
the early days of Bandung during Daendels period in the fi rst decade of nineteenth century. Highlighting on the importance of main urban infrastructures in Bandung, the Great Postroad; the market places and the railway on the development of the Chinese settlements in Bandung, the book offers a complementary approach to the widely accepted approach to the study of Chinese settlements in Indonesia which places a strong emphasize on the importance of colonial residential segregation policy. The policy which is known as the quarter system or wijkenstelsel, has been generally believed as the origin of the formation of a Chinese settlement, commonly known as Chinesewijk or pecinan. The Chinese Settlement of Bandung places the Chinese in Bandung in a larger context as an integral part of Bandung population and a colonial city society whose history cannot be detached from the colonial commercial interest and their idea of progress. This book is written based on close readings of colonial maps and intensive literature research on books, colonial journals, colonial government reports, newspapers, old photography, Sundanese literature and Chinese Malay literature accessible from libraries and archives in Indonesia, Singapore and The Netherlands.
Tags: Asian Cities, Bandung, History, Settlement
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March 19th, 2009
ISBN 9789078658122
Author: D. Tunas (March 2009)
Published by: IFoU-Papiroz
The Spatial Economy in the Urban Informal Settlement In the rapidly urbanizing world, the informal settlement has been forming a significant part of the common urban scene in many cities in the developing countries. It holds a particular role in the city as it houses millions of urban poor who has no access to the public housing. However it does not only offer accommodation but also economic opportunities that enables the inhabitants to survive. The informal settlement displays a very specific and particular mechanism of survival that is significantly characterized by the notion of flexibility in term of production and spatial occupation. This book aims to investigate the local spatial economy or the spatial dynamic of survivability in the informal settlement. It focuses on the notion of space and locations of the process of survival in such settlement by analyzing the way the spaces are organized and negotiated as one of the most important tool of production and the place of production. It analyzes the dynamics by relating it to the notions of the social capital and the life chances in the informal settlement. Moreover in order to offer a deeper understanding of the problem, apart from the looking at the actual and the localized problem, it will also look at the root of the problems by relating it to its past as an element of a colonial city; and analyse the major economic forces that contribute to its creation by relating it with the Dual City theory in order to accentuate the nature of the problem and its position in the metropolitan context.
The research employs the case of kampong to illustrate the case of the informal settlement in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. The result of the research shows that the dynamic of the survivability in the informal settlement is characterized by a multi-tier relationship between the formal and the informal economy. The continuity of its production is related to the wider economic sector; namely the formal sector, that creates demands and economic opportunities for them. It is also strongly bounded with its actual location; dislocation would therefore destroy the local livelihood. The local economic activities are also determined by the flexibility of the local spatial organization and production. These particular characters enable the inhabitants to manoeuvre in order to survive amidst the limited capital and resource. The process of production is highly depended on the intensity social relation that makes the spatial negotiation and the flexible production possible to take place. The local survivability therefore is in the same time very flexible and fragile.
See review in TU Delfta click here “Creatief in de kampong”
Tags: Asian Cities, Informal Settlement, Jakarta, Kampong
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March 19th, 2009
Welcome to [Papiroz.] Book Club. This is where we discuss and present new publications from Papiroz Publishing House.
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