Since 2010 funding for local government in the UK has been drastically cut, first under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition and subsequently by successive Conservative governments The impact of this has been a drastic downscaling of funding of local health, education and environmental services The limitations placed upon local planning authorities (LPA) by fiscal cuts has been brought to the fore in the UK (and internationally), by the novel coronavirus--COVID-19--and the subsequent 'stay-at-home' orders issues by the UK government With restrictions of movement in place, although these are beginning to be relaxed in May 2020, among the few resources available to people are public parks and green spaces As a result of COVID-19, parks have become both sanctuaries and contentious spaces, physically and conceptually, as the public, LPAs and central government have fought over perceived 'rights' to the landscape, and what practices should be allowed in them All of which has been framed within an ongoing debate of austerity government and the management in a time of public-sector contraction Here, Mell reflects on a series of factors that have influenced the funding and management of parks in the UK, the political decision making that has shifted funding away from the welfare state, and the reactions of individuals and communities to the restrictions placed upon them by the COVID-19 lockdown
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This article will propose new approaches to the representation of architectural design principles, in residential design guidance. The visual appearance of new development is key in its successful integration of new housing in historic environments, providing an important means of analysis for planning departments and client users and establishing key information for developers regarding local-authority expectations and the contextualisation of proposed schemes. An epistemological analysis of content in 98 currently accessible guides identified a need for a more concise and accessible approach to architectural analysis. This figure is representative of a majority of residential design guides in England. A greater understanding of the visual impact of architectural design decisions is key in ensuring the continuity of the built environment. This research is more widely significant in terms of consolidating architectural design approaches in design guidance, as many authorities and bodies have adopted similar approaches globally.
{"title":"The communication of architectural design analysis in residential design guidance: legibility, commodity and design","authors":"L. Moreton","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.28","url":null,"abstract":"This article will propose new approaches to the representation of architectural design principles, in residential design guidance. The visual appearance of new development is key in its successful integration of new housing in historic environments, providing an important means of analysis for planning departments and client users and establishing key information for developers regarding local-authority expectations and the contextualisation of proposed schemes. An epistemological analysis of content in 98 currently accessible guides identified a need for a more concise and accessible approach to architectural analysis. This figure is representative of a majority of residential design guides in England. A greater understanding of the visual impact of architectural design decisions is key in ensuring the continuity of the built environment. This research is more widely significant in terms of consolidating architectural design approaches in design guidance, as many authorities and bodies have adopted similar approaches globally.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"489-513"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49064093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Adams, Lauren Andres, S. Denoon-Stevens, Lorena Melgaço
Drawing on interviews with selected UK planning academics and survey results from current planning practitioners, this article provides valuable and timely perspectives on how internationalisation is experienced by those within and beyond the immediate institutional context. Although internationally focused planning education helps planners tackle the manifold urban challenges in the global South, the article goes on to argue that relational approaches hold much promise for planners working in so-called developed countries, including the UK, to understand the diverse needs of different diasporic communities. Such knowledge is crucial to develop sustainable planning solutions in the face of uneven processes of urban development.
{"title":"Challenges, opportunities and legacies: experiencing the internationalising of UK planning curricula across space and time","authors":"D. Adams, Lauren Andres, S. Denoon-Stevens, Lorena Melgaço","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.29","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on interviews with selected UK planning academics and survey results from current planning practitioners, this article provides valuable and timely perspectives on how internationalisation is experienced by those within and beyond the immediate institutional context. Although internationally focused planning education helps planners tackle the manifold urban challenges in the global South, the article goes on to argue that relational approaches hold much promise for planners working in so-called developed countries, including the UK, to understand the diverse needs of different diasporic communities. Such knowledge is crucial to develop sustainable planning solutions in the face of uneven processes of urban development.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"515-534"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45956331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 14th Annual Conference on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Czech Republic, 17-21 February 2020","authors":"B. Ntiwane, Mark Koelman","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"553-557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44024739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DFID is a self-confessed late entrant to the urban discourse. Two major recent proposals give this assertion credence. First is the collective Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG) programme, to strengthen the management of urban and energy sectors and boost investment in infrastructure. Second is the African Cities Research Programme, to produce new knowledge and evidence on African cities as systems. In turn, from both practical and research standpoints, they seek to reduce poverty and enhance national prosperity through the known advantages of urbanisation, while impacting on its negative dimensions. This critique seeks to test the assumptions underscoring both proposals.
{"title":"DFID’s new urban discourse: a critique","authors":"R. McGill","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.26","url":null,"abstract":"DFID is a self-confessed late entrant to the urban discourse. Two major recent proposals give this assertion credence. First is the collective Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG) programme, to strengthen the management of urban and energy sectors and boost investment in infrastructure. Second is the African Cities Research Programme, to produce new knowledge and evidence on African cities as systems. In turn, from both practical and research standpoints, they seek to reduce poverty and enhance national prosperity through the known advantages of urbanisation, while impacting on its negative dimensions. This critique seeks to test the assumptions underscoring both proposals.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"461-474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49444699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the post-colonial context, the global South has become the approved nomenclature for the non-European, non-Western parts of the world. The term promises a departure from post-colonial development geographies and from the material and discursive legacies of colonialism by ostensibly blurring the bifurcations between developed and developing, rich and poor, centre and periphery. In concept, the post-colonial literature mitigates the disparity between cities of the North and South by highlighting the achievements of elsewhere. But what happens when we try to teach this approach in the classroom? How do we locate the South without relying on concepts of otherness? And how do we communicate the importance of the South without re-creating the regional hierarchies that have dominated for far too long? This article outlines the academic arguments before turning to the opportunities and constraints associated with delivering an undergraduate module that teaches post-colonial concepts without relying on colonial constructs.
{"title":"Decolonising cities of the global South in the classroom and beyond","authors":"A. Wood","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.30","url":null,"abstract":"In the post-colonial context, the global South has become the approved nomenclature for the non-European, non-Western parts of the world. The term promises a departure from post-colonial development geographies and from the material and discursive legacies of colonialism by ostensibly blurring the bifurcations between developed and developing, rich and poor, centre and periphery. In concept, the post-colonial literature mitigates the disparity between cities of the North and South by highlighting the achievements of elsewhere. But what happens when we try to teach this approach in the classroom? How do we locate the South without relying on concepts of otherness? And how do we communicate the importance of the South without re-creating the regional hierarchies that have dominated for far too long? This article outlines the academic arguments before turning to the opportunities and constraints associated with delivering an undergraduate module that teaches post-colonial concepts without relying on colonial constructs.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"535-552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69966113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As infrastructure is key to the prosperity and sustainability of cities, this article discusses whether London’s and the central government’s critical investments in infrastructure capacity in recent years have been sufficient, and, especially for the government, whether they are understood spatially. Taking recent projects like Crossrail, HS2 and the National Infrastructure Plan into consideration, it explains what is being done to keep ahead of the pace in order to maintain London’s and Britain’s leading positions globally and within Europe after ‘Brexit’. Critically, the analysis addresses the need for a new framework of spatial strategy for sustainable infrastructure and its sustainable financing.
{"title":"The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy: who is left behind?","authors":"M. Neuman","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.27","url":null,"abstract":"As infrastructure is key to the prosperity and sustainability of cities, this article discusses whether London’s and the central government’s critical investments in infrastructure capacity in recent years have been sufficient, and, especially for the government, whether they are understood spatially. Taking recent projects like Crossrail, HS2 and the National Infrastructure Plan into consideration, it explains what is being done to keep ahead of the pace in order to maintain London’s and Britain’s leading positions globally and within Europe after ‘Brexit’. Critically, the analysis addresses the need for a new framework of spatial strategy for sustainable infrastructure and its sustainable financing.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"475-487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46192422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.22271/tpr.2020.v7.i2.052
Sk. Md. Abu Imam Saadi, I. Mondal, Subrata Sarkar, A. Mondal
The present study integrates Remote Sensing, GIS and ground survey to study the floristic composition of medicinal as well as herbal plants within and around Chilkigarh village; the major fascination of Chilkigarh, West Bengal, India. The Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) layers of land use and land cover (LULC), and plants species location interpolated were created using thematic functions in Arc GIS software. The relationship between the landuse and medicinal plant species were implemented to explore the plants modeling both spatial and non-spatial data under the GIS platform. The forest is covered with 184 medicinal plant species under 155 genera, distributed among 56 plant familes under the division Mono-cotyledons and Di-cotyledons. Our checklist represents some dominating families likeFabaceae (16), Poaceae (13) Asteraceae (13), Euphorbiaceae (13), Malvaceae (11), Apocynaceae (10), Araceae (9), Acanthaceae (8), Solanaceae (7). Rubiaceae (6), Verbenaceae (6) among the 184 species, presented checklist includes herbs (98), shrubs (33), trees (34), climbers (18) and epiphyte (1). Finally, the medicinal plant’s information as a geographic database determination assists the conservation prioritization, methodical documentation, continuous monitoring and safeguard the forest from anthropogenic activities of the plant species.
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