Adaptation of the urban codes – A story of placemaking in Jerusalem

Placemaking is a relatively new planning technique formulated as an alternative to formal, comprehensive, top-down land-use planning. Instead of the statutory process and product, placemaking offers an open-ended, unstructured framework for planning and implementing focused interventions. This study applies a critical look at how this relatively loose framework operates in practice. Based on an investigation of community placemaking projects in southern Israeli cities, we present four models of placemaking, organized around two main axes: the goal axis, which ranges from a broad community goal to a narrow, predetermined aim, and the motivation axis, which ranges from internal to external motivation. The four types of placemaking emerging from the combination of these considerations are (1) traditional, (2) governmental, (3) artistic-economic, and (4) segregative, based on the varied socio-spatial relations between the stakeholders. This typology serves as a warning sign for possible ways that processes with loose boundaries can be exploited, and the setbacks to which they can lead. It offers a helpful framework for further advancements in placemaking, making it an effective tool for socially and environmentally sustainable urbanism.

Section: Implementing Placemaking: the Role Of Ngos And Professional ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Operationalizing Community Placemaking: A Critical Relationship-Based Typology

Fingerhut

Alfasi

2023

“…The pandemic has offered important motivations for the experimentation of paths already underway in many cities, accelerating a process of reuse and experimentation of tactical interventions in existing spaces, favored by soil-saving objectives, by the demographic aging and shrinking phenomena. Following Pasqui's reflections [59], we tried to understand if in the three cases treated, the strategic nature of the tactics was enhanced, putting into practice a line of reflection that thinks of tactics as a strategic move, adapting their urban codes for placemaking [60]. Probably the pandemic has enhanced a top-down approach in some choices and to make some of the solutions tested permanent or more stable, it will be necessary to strengthen the mechanisms of both administrative capacity and social interaction within which the devices are called upon to manifest their effectiveness.…”

Section: Critical Observations and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tactical Urbanism in Italy: From Grassroots to Institutional Tool—Assessing Value of Public Space Experiments

Rotondo¹

2021

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.

“…When this adaptation is permanent and interdependent, this may refer to co-evolution between planning institutions and informality. When this co-evolution has a broader impact, not only on how planning institutions and informal settlements interact, but also on planning institutions' ability to learn and replicate those lessons to other contexts, then we can say that, by exposing planning institutions to informality, change is promoted at higher levels [47]. Their impact is multi-level, since it affects planning and design practices, as well as feeding innovative approaches, in terms of planning and design theory.…”

Section: Why Do Planners Need a New Mindset To Face Global Complex Challenges?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Not So Much about Informality: Emergent Challenges for Urban Planning and Design Education

Silva

2020

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This paper addresses the challenges faced by planning and design education programmes when focusing on more sustainable ways of dealing with global changes. While the dominant discourse addresses the fact that planning programmes discuss the Global South through the lens of planning theory and practice from the Global North, the proposal is to shift the debate and recognise that, from a complexity perspective, planning problems are not so different from region to region. The argument is that, although the theory has moved on, when discussing conceptual aspects of planning, spatial planning practice is still focused on objects rather than the relationship between them (be they buildings, streets, neighbourhoods or even cities). Assuming that urban territories are not objects and do not develop in a linear way, but rather evolve, the proposal is to reflect on how planning and design education addresses urban evolution. This paper suggests a revision of planning and design approaches to informality, given the participation in recent years of a joint studio in Bandung, Indonesia. The alternative perspective offered here involves a re-examination of concepts and deconstruction of dichotomies. The main findings rely on the interpretation of formalisation processes (in the Global North) through the lens of complexity theory, which has facilitated understanding of today’s informal settlements (in the Global South). It suggests the deconstruction of dichotomies, such as informal versus formal, thus, positing the need for a major shift on planning and design rules that focus less on objects and more on the relationship between them.