Search results for " spatial planning"
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The spatial strategies of Italian regions
2014
Spatial planning is undergoing radical changes all over Europe. As space is greatly affected by the intersection of processes of economic restructuring and institutional reorganisation, planning tools at different scales are required to reinvent their capacity to describe local identities, spatial relations and any form of territoriality. The increased complexity of territorial change, therefore, demands planning to reshape it as a cognitive process which is able to combine the designing of the future with the emergence of new, flexible and socially recognised conceptions of space and places. In this context, regions are no longer seen merely as a background for cultural identities or the s…
South-eastern Sicily: a counterfactual post-metropolis
2017
Postmetropolis is an ambitious term that could be summarized as the "postmodern metropolis." With it Edward W. Soja (2000) aims to define the globalized city that he supposes to be involved in a radical transition process that began with the post-modern city. In relation to these considerations, the article explores the post-metropolitan profile of South-eastern Sicily through: a socio-economic outlook describing the characteristics of demography, employment and income in this part of Sicily; a spatial analysis of housing and land use; and finally an institutional description of the administrative state of the art in Syracuse, Ragusa and their surroundings. Each section describes the most c…
Transizioni in periodi di incertezza. L’innovazione delle politiche regionali di governance per lo sviluppo auto sostenibile
2020
The basis of this contribution are a) the European Commission's regional innovation strategies for smart specialization (RIS3), b) the regional policies to combat the risk of decline and c) the governance model of Transition Management. Today the challenge consists in the validation of RIS3 even in the conditions of uncertainty exacerbated, for example, by the recent experience of COVID 19 as a global pandemic, trigger of the planetary economic and social decline. The guidance of the territorial transformations induced by RIS3 can be achieved with GIS technologies which, in turn, can constitute a single platform of the competent regional administration for urban and landscape planning. This…
A Territorial Contradiction
2014
Spatial planning and environmental restoration are essential corollaries to the management of protected natural areas; however, without a sound awareness of the evolutionary consistency of biocoenoses, the harmonious integration between human activities and ecosystem preservation remains an unattainable utopia. The theorisation of a balanced welfare, inspired by the universal tendency of ecosystems to reach a steady state, has to go along with the defection from any economic greed. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Community action and planning. Contexts, drivers and outcomes
2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative a…
Towards the urbanisation of the Med sea: MSP challenges and opportunities for floating cities between utopia and reality
2023
Anthropogenic climate change effects push us to reimagine human life on the planet confronting extreme living conditions. Droughts, risk of submersion and flooding, saline intrusion, and land scarcity lead to more inhospitable life conditions on land. These demanding risks have led governments to envisage the displacement from the coasts of some cities at significant risk or to think of new settlements for human life, such as floating cities. Floating offshore settlements, reminiscent of the XXth-century architectural utopias, are gaining more and more popularity in contemporary debate and are, in fact, emerging realities in other parts of the globe due to advanced technology. Floating sett…
Matrici Meridiane. Strumenti di georeferenziazione e visioni per il futuro delle regioni mediterranee nella selezione degli indicatori territoriali. …
2013
Il progetto OTREMED, Finanziato dal programma MED, è stato pensato come uno strumento per la strategia territoriale dello spazio MED, che mira a sviluppare strumenti metodologici a livello regionale per migliorare il processo decisionale in termini di competitività e pianificazione nel territorio nelle regioni del Mediterraneo. Il progetto ha avuto una durata di due anni, ha riunito 13 partner, in prevalenza composte da autorità regionali: Regione di Murcia (capofila del progetto) Generalitat Valenciana, Centro sloveno Ricerca Scientifica Accademia delle Scienze e delle Arti , Regione Emilia Romagna , Regione Sicilia, Regione Piemonte, MMLAB Laboratorio per la Grafica, Multimedia & GIS Univ…
Il rescaling e la flessibilità geografica del modello territoriale reticolare policentrico
2021
Con l’obiettivo di alimentare il dibattito scientifico-disciplinare in corso sulle modalità con cui i territoti devono essere governati e con quali strumenti e politiche, il contributo intende proporre alcune riflessioni sulle relazioni che stanno caratterizzando il processo evolutivo dei territori, sulle forme di cooperazione necessarie e sui confini che devono essere re-interpretati e ri-definiti, e propone il policentrismo reticolare come modello di sviluppo territoriale da perseguire per affrontare le sfide del rescaling. I primi due paragrafi affrontano specificatamente le questioni legate ai processi di rescaling e alle questioni ancora aperte relativamente alla governance territorial…
Projektowane zmiany w regulacji prawnej planowania przestrzennego w Polsce w świetle Europejskiego Zielonego Ładu
2022
Artykuł przedstawia dyskutowane obecnie na świecie zagadnienia związane z pojawieniem się nowych instrumentów mających na celu zapewnienie zrównoważonego rozwoju w kontekście rozważanej obecnie reformy systemu planowania i zagospodarowania przestrzennego w Polsce. W Europie przedmiotem szczególnej uwagi jest wizja nowego paradygmatu rozwoju przewidziana w ramach Europejskiego Zielonego Ładu. Obejmuje on nie tylko kwestie związane z problematyką zmian klimatu (czy szerzej ochrony środowiska) czy też np. tak istotną obecnie samowystarczalność energetyczną Europy, ale też przewiduje konkretne instrumenty służące wdrażaniu nowej wizji rozwoju oraz wskazuje na konieczność rozszerzenia udziału sp…