There is now a well-developed research literature on the temporary use of land and buildings in cities around the world Research interest has focused in particular on experimental and inventive reuse of unused or under-used spaces, structures and infrastructure to accommodate a variety of cultural or creative activities The emergence of these new temporary uses has also provoked critical assessment, highlighting the role of short-term land use as a tactic to entrench developer interests by stabilizing land markets during periods of slack or legitimizing controversial development proposals Here, Deas et al highlight the ways in which the COVID-19 crisis has triggered multiple examples of the temporary reuse of land and buildings They highlight two challenges as the crisis evolves: how to employ temporary uses more effectively to create capacity for emergency uses and bolster resilience, and how to ensure that innovative or experimental land uses can continue to be supported in the context of future recovery
{"title":"Temporary urban uses in response to COVID-19: bolstering resilience via short-term experimental solutions","authors":"I. Deas, Michael Martin, S. Hincks","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.45","url":null,"abstract":"There is now a well-developed research literature on the temporary use of land and buildings in cities around the world Research interest has focused in particular on experimental and inventive reuse of unused or under-used spaces, structures and infrastructure to accommodate a variety of cultural or creative activities The emergence of these new temporary uses has also provoked critical assessment, highlighting the role of short-term land use as a tactic to entrench developer interests by stabilizing land markets during periods of slack or legitimizing controversial development proposals Here, Deas et al highlight the ways in which the COVID-19 crisis has triggered multiple examples of the temporary reuse of land and buildings They highlight two challenges as the crisis evolves: how to employ temporary uses more effectively to create capacity for emergency uses and bolster resilience, and how to ensure that innovative or experimental land uses can continue to be supported in the context of future recovery","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"92 1","pages":"81-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69966248","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}
Varna and Oswell talks about how many people, trapped for the first time in their own private realms, have found a renewed appreciation of the importance of (high-quality) public spaces The physical and mental therapeutic properties of having a pleasant walk or jog, or being able to relax in a natural landscape, have been re-evaluated by people in various forms of lockdown across the globe However, difficult realities have once again resurfaced as a result
{"title":"Towards a stronger quality-of-place agenda in the ‘new normal’","authors":"Georgiana Varna, Danny Oswell","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.71","url":null,"abstract":"Varna and Oswell talks about how many people, trapped for the first time in their own private realms, have found a renewed appreciation of the importance of (high-quality) public spaces The physical and mental therapeutic properties of having a pleasant walk or jog, or being able to relax in a natural landscape, have been re-evaluated by people in various forms of lockdown across the globe However, difficult realities have once again resurfaced as a result","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"92 1","pages":"107-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69965881","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":"Why ‘now’ is an important moment in history: coronavirus and the refigured mobility of the world","authors":"Ayham Dalal","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.76","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"92 1","pages":"97-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69965903","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}
Bertie Dockerill, D. B. Hess, A. Lord, John Sturzaker, O. Sykes
The origins of planning as a profession are of course related to public health, with action being seen as needed to respond to the dire conditions of cities in 'the West' in the late nineteenth century [ ]in the years preceding 2020, there was growing evidence to show that planning was re-engaging with health concerns, principally around non-communicable diseases, for example ill-health associated with so-called 'obesogenic' urban environments in contexts across the globe The rapid re-engagement of planning scholars, and indeed the whole world, with communicable disease, shows how events and 'conjunctures' shape the focus and content of planning and illustrates why Town Planning Review, the first urban planning journal in the world, has commissioned this series of Viewpoints
{"title":"Putting the COVID-19 pandemic into perspective: urban planning scholars react to a changed world","authors":"Bertie Dockerill, D. B. Hess, A. Lord, John Sturzaker, O. Sykes","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.1","url":null,"abstract":"The origins of planning as a profession are of course related to public health, with action being seen as needed to respond to the dire conditions of cities in 'the West' in the late nineteenth century [ ]in the years preceding 2020, there was growing evidence to show that planning was re-engaging with health concerns, principally around non-communicable diseases, for example ill-health associated with so-called 'obesogenic' urban environments in contexts across the globe The rapid re-engagement of planning scholars, and indeed the whole world, with communicable disease, shows how events and 'conjunctures' shape the focus and content of planning and illustrates why Town Planning Review, the first urban planning journal in the world, has commissioned this series of Viewpoints","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"92 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69965939","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}
N. Dempsey, C. Velarde, M. Samuel, Yugasha Bakshi, Manvita Baradi
With rapid urbanisation has come changes to Ahmedabad’s spatial form, including the decision to transform eleven kilometres of the city’s monsoon river into a Riverfront. The Sabarmati Riverfront project is extensive in scale and ambition, and emerged with strong political support for the ‘environmental improvement … and urban rejuvenation project’. However, exactly how the project has improved and rejuvenated the river is unclear. Mindful of how rivers in India constitute important cultural heritage, in this article we aim to examine how the policy rhetoric behind the Sabarmati Riverfront project was implemented in practice and experienced in real life.
{"title":"From river to Riverfront: how meanings and cultural heritage change. The case of the Sabarmati Riverfront project, Ahmedabad, Gujarat","authors":"N. Dempsey, C. Velarde, M. Samuel, Yugasha Bakshi, Manvita Baradi","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.89","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000With rapid urbanisation has come changes to Ahmedabad’s spatial form, including the decision to transform eleven kilometres of the city’s monsoon river into a Riverfront. The Sabarmati Riverfront project is extensive in scale and ambition, and emerged with strong political support for the ‘environmental improvement … and urban rejuvenation project’. However, exactly how the project has improved and rejuvenated the river is unclear. Mindful of how rivers in India constitute important cultural heritage, in this article we aim to examine how the policy rhetoric behind the Sabarmati Riverfront project was implemented in practice and experienced in real life.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"643-666"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49549991","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 role of planning and the role of planners: political dimensions, ethical principles, communicative interaction","authors":"Stefano Moroni","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.85","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"563-576"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48093298","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}
Urbanisation and population ageing are two critical trends identified in the New Urban Agenda. Understanding the relationship between environment-related experiences and well-being is conducive to achieving an age-friendly urbanism. We argue that place, as a location, a material form and an expression of value, is an essential component of this relationship. Physical and social environments shape socio-spatial experiences and hence one’s well-being, bearing significant implications for the current policy movement of ageing in place. Environment comprises contexts whereby older people develop sentimental and emotive links to the place they live. Such links give rise to residential satisfaction and place attachment, the psychological experiences that highlight the importance of place in ageing. The article calls for research and planning practices to shed light on policies concerning age-friendly urbanism.
{"title":"Age-friendly urbanism: intertwining ‘ageing in place’ and ‘place in ageing’","authors":"Yi Sun, M. Ng, Tzuyuan Stessa Chao","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.87","url":null,"abstract":"Urbanisation and population ageing are two critical trends identified in the New Urban Agenda. Understanding the relationship between environment-related experiences and well-being is conducive to achieving an age-friendly urbanism. We argue that place, as a location, a material form and an expression of value, is an essential component of this relationship. Physical and social environments shape socio-spatial experiences and hence one’s well-being, bearing significant implications for the current policy movement of ageing in place. Environment comprises contexts whereby older people develop sentimental and emotive links to the place they live. Such links give rise to residential satisfaction and place attachment, the psychological experiences that highlight the importance of place in ageing. The article calls for research and planning practices to shed light on policies concerning age-friendly urbanism.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"601-619"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48191132","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}
Drawing on interviews with residents and officials, this article investigates how local needs and perceptions have been balanced against other aspirations in plans for Montserrat’s new capital. This new settlement would replace the former capital, Plymouth, which was destroyed in a volcanic eruption and abandoned permanently in 1997. The article finds that residents’ needs and perspectives were given relatively little attention in the planning process and resulting plans for the capital. However, it also finds that residents and officials now hold relatively similar views on the existing plans and on what attributes are ultimately desirable in a capital. This suggests that adopting more participatory planning approaches in the future could build on this shared vision and result in plans that are more publicly and politically sustainable and more likely to be realised.
{"title":"The politics of participation in post-disaster planning: local needs and perspectives versus global aspirations in plans for Montserrat’s new capital","authors":"M. Hooper","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2020.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.86","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on interviews with residents and officials, this article investigates how local needs and perceptions have been balanced against other aspirations in plans for Montserrat’s new capital. This new settlement would replace the former capital, Plymouth, which was destroyed in a volcanic eruption and abandoned permanently in 1997. The article finds that residents’ needs and perspectives were given relatively little attention in the planning process and resulting plans for the capital. However, it also finds that residents and officials now hold relatively similar views on the existing plans and on what attributes are ultimately desirable in a capital. This suggests that adopting more participatory planning approaches in the future could build on this shared vision and result in plans that are more publicly and politically sustainable and more likely to be realised.","PeriodicalId":47547,"journal":{"name":"TOWN PLANNING REVIEW","volume":"91 1","pages":"577-600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47237027","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}