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Category Archives: Heritage and Planning
The medina as a historic urban landscape
4 min read Guest author: Sarah Ben Salem (Szent István University) The ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ concept in an approach that was declared by the UNESCO in 2011. It refers to the historical sites that should no longer be considered as … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Heritage and Planning, Placemaking, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Architecture, heritage, Jan Gehl, La Ville Spatiale, Lieux de Memoires, Medina, Old Arabic City, The life between buildings, The social life of cities, The social life of the medina, tourism, Tunis, Tunisia, UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape, urban planning, urban regeneration, Utopies Réalisables, Yona Friedman
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Architectural and urban recycling: challenges and perspectives
Guest author: Amine Mseddi (Szent Istvan University of Budapest) Architectural and urban recycling is seen as an economic and pragmatic approach. In an urban fabric that is already congested, rehabilitating a building, or reusing a surface or entire areas (e.g. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Heritage and Planning, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Architecture, energy use, heritage, Le Corbusier, life cycle, regeneration, Retrofitting, sustainability, Technology, Urban decay, urban design, urban planning, urban regeneration, urbanism
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Planning around COP25: call for blog posts
The recent UN climate conference COP25 took place in Madrid last December. The conference fell short of consensus in many areas, although many technical issues were discussed at length. Effective implementation of the Paris Agreement will require significant effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Blogging, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Ecology, Economy, Heritage and Planning, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, disaster, Infrastructure, Resilience, urban design, urban planning
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“Relational” ecology : rethinking relationships between man and the natural environment
Guest authors: Damien Deville (Paul Valéry University) and Pierre Spielewoy (Rouen University & French Natural History Museum) This post is a free translation of an article originally published in the French edition of The Conversation on 21 January 2019. « … Continue reading
Participatory budgeting made in France
Participatory budgeting is increasingly popular among local councils, and is now also adopted by regional and even national governments across the globe. The influential American non-profit Participatory Budgeting Project defines participatory budgeting as such: Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Heritage and Planning, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged environment, participatory budgeting, participatory methods, participatory planning, people, public participation, social justice, Technology, Transparency
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Looking for Aesop in AESOP: call for reflections
AESOP is broad and diverse community of scholars and practitioners at diverse stages in their career(s). The AESOP 2018 conference was a strong, engaged and engaging reflection of this diversity, which finds expression in the different thematic groups and wide range of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Economy, Heritage and Planning, Methodology and ethics, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged AESOP, AESOP YA, Ancient Greece, Ancient World, culture, Impact, inspiration, muse, mythology, philosophy, values, worldviews, writing
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How culture played a role in an environmental campaign
Guest author: Kedar Uttam This post presents an initiative that was undertaken by a civil society movement in Mangalore (South India) to fill the gap of cultural impact assessment which most environmental campaigns in that region miss out. It is … Continue reading
Smarter past, smarter future: lessons for smart cities
The smart city is much discussed as a sustainable urban development model. However, as discussed in former posts on the blog, “smartness” is in the eye of the beholder. Smart cities of the past can help us plan smart(er) cities. … Continue reading
Green Infrastructure and Green City: The lenses to evaluate urban greening
Urban greening and green infrastructure are at the heart of contemporary urban sector discussion in the light of climate change debate. In fact, green infrastructure, in terms of using renewable energy and clean energy, is older concept than urban greening. … Continue reading