The aim of this research paper is to explore the sustainable approach towards the management of public spaces. The paper is divided into seven sections. In the beginning, a discussion of why management of public spaces is generally an important subject is described by means of a literature review. The second part of the paper focuses on the value of public space, providing an overview of the benefits of, and roles played by, properly defined and planned public spaces. The third part of the paper presents a detailed discussion of the process of what is seen to be an innovative approach to the management of public spaces. Significant objectives are identified, in accordance with the new process of public space management, its impact, and synergies. In the fourth part, the research methodology is discussed. This section outlines the two approaches taken towards a case study of temporary use of public space in Slovakia and a survey exploring the success of the temporary approach.Finally, the outcome of the case study and results of the survey are outlined, highlighting interesting potential best practices regarding the temporary use of public spaces. The results of the case study suggest that the planning of public spaces plays a significant role in the cities; consequently, the creation of public spaces must be considered as one of the most important aspects when analysing strategies towards sustainable urban development.
This paper explores the processes of harmonization of the interests of green infrastructure and urban development of specific areas at the urban fringe. The case study of Devinska Kobyla (Natura 2000 site) is located within the landscape with a high density of urbanization in Bratislava located in close proximity to the protected areas of Little Carpathians. The management and planning of contact zones are one of the tools for avoiding fragmentation of the landscape, but one of its limitations in practice is that the concept of contact zones of urban and natural structures [1] is not properly reflected in the existing policies, despite huge conflicts threatening the conservation areas. Therefore, the conflicting behaviour and multi-actor decision-making of stakeholders with conflicting interests, such as residents and vacationers, environmentalists, municipalities, developers and activists lead to fragile sustainability of these areas. Consequently, there is a need to cultivate the spaces - to develop them into deeper levels of understanding, participation and sharing [2] - by a thorough impact assessment, visionary planning, innovative design and sensitive management in the complexity. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations projected in the plan of measures for sustainable development of natural areas of Bratislava urban fringe developed in cooperation with local key stakeholders (Daphne and BROZ NGOs) [3] and State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic as the Natura 2000 Bratislava partners. Using the methods of the field research, analysing historical and existing characteristics of the sites, participation of residents and visitors and consulting with experts, the landscape planning design proposal had been developed. The project segments – the buffer zones – were designed in greater details. These buffer zones respect both the values of nature and also human demands on democratic, accessible places with more opportunities for sociability, involving the concept of learning landscape design. The paper contributes to the debates on practical examples of harmonization of various interests in specific locations of contact zones by design and planning, minimising fragmentation of ecological corridors, solving it by spatial planning and landscape design.
In global water arena, a consensus had been emerged that urban water management urgently calls for smart solutions in order to adapt to climate change. The ways our society is managing water resources are clearly in need of innovation and experimentation, but on the other hand call for reinstatement of traditional knowledge based on locally developed practices of water use. This paper describes a smart water system as a system that implements meaningful data and transforms it into actionable intelligence, but in the same time as a system build upon traditional knowledge. Transect coding is used as research method, to answer the question, how to smartly manage urban water systems at different scales and in different type of urbanized landscape.
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