Innovative Practices in Large Urban Development Projects: Conflicting Frames in the Quest for “New Urbanity”

Gualini, Enrico; Majoor, Stan

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“…From a superficial perspective, in fact, one may be tempted to label the critical issues of the planning processes described as foreseeable outputs of a context characterized by petty politics and poor institutional arrangements. Still, when looking at outputs of planning practice from a critical perspective, no big differences are found between what was described in this article and in contexts characterized by neo-liberal trends in planning, that is, a prevalence of developers' and real-estate interests over the common interest of good territorial governance (see, amongst others, Swyngedouw, Moulaert, and Rodriguez 2002;Gualini and Majoor 2007;Sager 2011;Deas 2013). Similar outputs along with different processes suggest going beyond a simple understanding of the case of Palermo as 'extreme'.…”

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Questioning the Universality of Institutional Transformation Theories in Spatial Planning: Shopping Mall Developments in Palermo

Tulumello

2015

International Planning Studies

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Theories about institutional transformation in spatial planning, although mainly based on the Anglo-Saxon context, have assumed a dominant role in planning research and theory as means to understand the transformations that have been restructuring planning systems in recent decades in the Western world and beyond. The article, looking at transformations of planning practice through the lenses of the concept of planning cultures, debates the utility of building 'universal' theories for spatial planning and advocates for the need for a de-provincialization of planning theories. This is done through a case-study approach applied to the history of the transformation of the retail system in a context characterized by the specificities of the Italian planning context and Southern European cities, namely: the planning processes for, and power relationships underlying, the first shopping malls opened in Palermo, Italy, since 2009 -some decades later than most of Western cities.

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Section: Discussion and Concluding Remarksmentioning

confidence: 65%

Questioning the Universality of Institutional Transformation Theories in Spatial Planning: Shopping Mall Developments in Palermo

Tulumello

2015

International Planning Studies

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“…Gualini & Majoor, 2007;Hagens, 2010;Van Duinen, 2004;Zonneveld, 1991Zonneveld, , 2005Zonneveld & Verwest, 2005). Most of their empirical analyses have focused on use in operational policy-making.…”

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Transformations of Planning Rationales: Changing Spaces for Governance in Recent Dutch National Planning

Balz

Zonneveld

2018

Planning Theory & Practice

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Dutch national planning has acquired an international reputation because it provides strong planning guidance while simultaneously being responsive to the particular spatial and political circumstances of different regions and areas. Spatial concepts, like the Randstad, are important vehicles for sustaining this approach. Such concepts incorporate select spatial planning rationales that justify operational decisions. Concepts can, however, also be ambiguous, and this can allow for different interpretations and deliberations about how guidance should take effect in different situations. In this paper we assess the degree of ambiguity contained in concepts outlined in Dutch national plans between 1988 and 2012. By focusing on the dimensions of spatial concepts, and the room for interpretation these create, we demonstrate how concepts were modified to accommodate a shifting appreciation of deliberation and, as a result, collaboration and governance. On a theoretical level, we propose a method that analyses in detail the ambiguity ("fuzzyness" or "softness") of spatial concepts. We argue that such sophisticated understandings contribute to explaining the variety of governance responses that these geographies produce in practice. On an empirical level we seek to increase understanding of change in recent Dutch national planning.

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“…In parallel with this assumption, Dale and Newman (2009) stated that several brownfield and urban renewal projects distinguish sustainability as a dedicated and main aim. The role of sustainable urban development has been emphasised by also Gualini and Majoor (2007), since large-scale urban development projects have become the target of critics regarding sustainability aspects involved into development aspects. As it was declared above, main aim of present study is to elaborate an assessment framework to evaluate climate-based sustainability of given urban renewal plans.…”

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Ex-Ante Assessment of Urban Development Projects

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Csete²

2017

EJSD

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Budapest, the capital of Hungary facing several climatic challenges in the next decades, therefore there is a need of sustainable development projects with strong emphasis on the projected impacts of climate change. The main aim of the paper is to evaluate an ex-ante assessment methodology to analyse existence or absence of sustainability principles in renewal projects. The selected works have a focus on the same challenge, namely building an intermodal passenger transport hub and renewing the surrounding area in the district IV. of Budapest. The renewal plans have been developed by students from different Hungarian universities during a three-day-workshop. However the main focus of the workshop was on tackling the transport-based challenges, most of the elaborated plans have strong emphasis on green and blue areas, communities, building and related sustainability issues. The jury of the competition included mainly transportation engineers, real estate developers and civil engineers, therefore there is a need of involving broader sustainability and climate-related aspects into the assessment process. The output of the paper shall reveal the differences between developer-oriented ranking and the climate-related one regarding the same urban renewal challenge.

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Innovative Practices in Large Urban Development Projects: Conflicting Frames in the Quest for “New Urbanity”

Cited by 68 publications

References 20 publications

Questioning the Universality of Institutional Transformation Theories in Spatial Planning: Shopping Mall Developments in Palermo

Questioning the Universality of Institutional Transformation Theories in Spatial Planning: Shopping Mall Developments in Palermo

Transformations of Planning Rationales: Changing Spaces for Governance in Recent Dutch National Planning

Ex-Ante Assessment of Urban Development Projects

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