Contested Landscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Conflict ; Landscape ; Periurban development ; Regional planning authority ; Scania ; Sweden ; Twentieth Century ; Urban planning ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization ; environmental planning ; peri-urban development ; planning history ; urban fringe
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination
of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inherent and conflicting aims within planning is examined
. Subsequent analysis of the seemingly scattered and weak spatial planning of the 1930s and 1940s in Scania, Sweden, reveals an ad hoc regional plan, developed primarily in order to curb scattered development. The importance of the landscape discourse
for the development of the plan, as well as the contradictory treatment of urban sprawl (on a local and regional level), is demonstrated. The final part discusses the importance of this historiography for the ability to deal with the current planning situation
. The conclusion is that urban sprawl is not necessarily the result of weak or absent planning, but rather of embedded contradictions within planning; therefore stronger planning will never be sufficient as long as the inherent conflicts within the plans
The knowledge of the effectiveness of local landscape planning in Germany is in the main limited to particular cases and derives mostly from qualitative single case studies. This applies especially to the implementation of measures defined
by landscape plans. To fill that gap, the paper focuses on the implementation of those measures. Furthermore, it discusses the factors and framework conditions which are crucial for this implementation. The potential factors and conditions of influence were
derived from theory and compiled in 20 investigation hypotheses. In order to gain information on the execution of the measures, 28 randomly selected plans were first analysed, then interviews were carried out with administration representatives. It can
be stated that landscape planning has positively influenced the development of nature and landscape in the investigated municipalities. A considerable number of measures had been implemented, although landscape planning as a supply-side instrument proposes
generally a very large number of measures. Factors with a positive effect on the implementation of landscape planning measures are pointed out.
A participatory approach to spatial and environmental planning in different national perspectives
Development strategy ; Environmental management ; Geographical information system ; Participation ; Planning ; Project ; Socio-economic indicators ; Strategic planning
The paper describes experiences with Stra.S.S.E. Project (Strategic Spatial Planning and Sustainable Environment) that was aimed at enhancing a participatory approach to spatial and environmental planning. Four teams from three partner countries
divided the roles and tasks in the project. The main goals of the project, obtained by participatory processes, were oriented at developing strategic planning methodologies for the project-areas by using, as monitoring tools, a set of environmental, social
Integrated planning of public passenger transport between the city and the region: the case of Ljubljana
Connectivity ; Infrastructure ; Ljubljana ; Public transport ; Regional planning ; Settlement ; Slovenia ; Suburbanization ; Transport ; Transport network ; Urban region
The article draws attention to the connection between transport planning and the settlement pattern and consequently the need for comprehensive planning of both the settlement and transport system. It primarily focuses on the suburbanization
of Ljubljana and the state of public passenger transport in the Ljubljana Urban Region. The analysis shows the need for comprehensive planning that could be realized in the form of the concept of a polycentric layout of the region with interconnected centers
This article offers a concise review of the theoretical debate on landscape and the geographical area (planning) carried on within geographical studies during the twentieth century. - (NF)
J. Gréber, architecte-urbaniste français connu pour ses réalisations en Amérique du Nord, a été l'architecte des villes d'Ottawa et Hull lorsqu'il a réalisé en 1950 le Plan de la capitale nationale. Ces deux villes industrielles avaient jusqu'à
cette date connu une croissance spontanée et incontrôlée. Il faudra attendre le tournant du 21e siècle, lorsque ce plan sera réalisé en grande partie et qu'il sera réactualisé, pour assister à toute une polémique sur l'héritage de Gréber. Après un survol
The Urban West and the Rural Rest: Framing in Dutch Regional Planning in the 1950s
Agriculture ; Core-periphery ; Historical geography ; Industry ; Netherlands (The) ; Regional planning ; Regional planning authority ; Rural area ; Twentieth Century ; Urban area ; Urban-rural dichotomy ; northern Netherlands ; peri-urban landscape
; planning history ; regional economic policy
This paper draws on the case of Dutch regional planning in the 1950s to investigate how ‘urban space’ and ‘rural space’ have traditionally been perceived as opposing concepts. During this decade, politicians, planners and policy-makers constructed
Education for active citizenship in spatial-planning processes : from teacher to student
Citizenship ; Education ; Planning ; Project ; Slovenia ; Spatial system ; Sustainable development ; Teacher ; Teaching of geography
guidelines for how information on spatial values and spatial planning can improve the learning process for geography and related subjects. Special attention was directed toward teacher education because teachers spend the most time with young people during
Visualising postcode data for urban analysis and planning : the Amsterdam City Monitor
Problèmes liés à l'utilisation et à la visualisation de données concernant des espaces de petite superficie, difficilement identifiables au plan administratif, et politiquement peu ciblées. La méthode identifie des concentrations spatiales que l'on
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[b1] Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, Univ., Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Vers de nouvelles articulations entre plan territorial, plan d'urbanisme et projets urbains
Canada ; Civic debate ; Decision making process ; Discourse ; Land reform ; Montréal ; Planning project ; Public sector ; Quebec ; Regulation ; Town ; Urban planning ; Urbanism
s'appuie sur de récents débats publics tenus à Montréal sur le plan d'urbanisme de la ville, sur des plans et règlements des arrondissements ainsi que sur le projet urbain Griffintown.
[b1] Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou, Chine
[b2] Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Geography and Planning, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat- Sen Univ., Guangzhou, Chine
[b3] East Asian Planning and Development in the School of City and Regional Planning, Univ., Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
Cultural landscape ; Italy ; Landscape ; Planning ; Sustainable development ; Urban planning ; Urbanism
The acceleration of the global changes shows new landscapes as the result of local planning practices and design that no longer seem able to draw the society through the design of urban form. The contribution reflects the value of the landscape
Premier article : les cinquante premières années de l'Association occidentale de science régionale, la fabrication d'une image de marque (L.J. Gibson, R.L. Monahan, D.A. Plane). Deuxième article : la science régionale a quelque chose de remarquable
, et spécialement l'Association occidentale de science régionale (R.S. Franklin, D.A. Plane, W Gill).
China's changing regional development : trends, strategies and challenges in the 12th five-year plan (2011-2015) period
China ; Chongqing ; Competitiveness ; Industrial park ; Planning ; Producer services ; Regional development ; Regional integration ; Role of the State ; Scale ; Territorial planning ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Zoning
industries de services avancés aux entreprises à Hong Kong et Shenzhen : étude des luttes pour une meilleure intégration (C.T. Gabriel, S.X.B. Zhao). 6. Gros plan sur le plus grand espace spécialisé dans une fonction : une nouvelle approche et une nouvelle
pratique de l'aménagement du territoire dans le douzième plan quinquennal chinois (J. Fan, W. Sun, Z. Yang, P. Fan, D. Chen). 7. L'intégration de la région urbaine du Delta de la Rivière des Perles (X. Ma).