DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2015
This paper will review the theory and practice of green belts as instruments of urban containment... more This paper will review the theory and practice of green belts as instruments of urban containment in a European context. It will point to the emphasis given to the compact city in the European Spatial Development Perspective. It will then review and compare some of the practices in different parts of Europe. Particular emphasis will be given to a comparison of policy and implementation in Scotland and the Netherlands. The analysis will show that green belts are used to pursue a number of policy aims: they are not exclusively a tool to manage landscape resources. Furthermore they have social and economic impacts as well as landscape impacts. There are also important questions about the relation between policy and implementation. Finally recommendations are made for a more active design and management approach to planning land at the edge of the city as part of strategic spatial planning practice.
... consumption, economies of scale and an interventionist state managing demand Within a general... more ... consumption, economies of scale and an interventionist state managing demand Within a generalsocial contract. ... Viewed in this light a number of the traditional elem~n.tsf the ideology of ... Scotland's 'Claim of Right', prepared by a steering committee chaired by the father figure of ...
This book is a collection of 12 papers emerging from a 1993 seminar,“Challenges in Urban Manageme... more This book is a collection of 12 papers emerging from a 1993 seminar,“Challenges in Urban Management,” held in Britain. The challenges, and chapters, are organized into five sections, reflecting the diversity of management issues in the capitalist city.“Reading the City” offers various cultural takes on contemporary trends in urban politics and culture.“The City Economy” is an updated look at urban political economy via essays on public poli-Faking. Provision and maintenance of urban infrastructure is discussed in the third section ...
The Festivalisation of Edinburgh: Constructing its Governance was published in Scottish Affairs 3... more The Festivalisation of Edinburgh: Constructing its Governance was published in Scottish Affairs 30.1. It showed how the city council, Scottish Government and the events, festivals and tourism industries worked in partnership as a growth coalition. This follow-up article describes some of the results they achieved. It focuses on Edinburgh's August and Winter Festivals, as these are the largest scale festival events. It also analyses the project that sought to re-imagine West Princes Street Gardens. It explores the meaning of ‘festivalisation’ both through its direct impacts on the use of urban space, but also in its relation to the commodification of public space and austerity urbanism. Festivalisation has normalised the flow of value from local public spaces to geographically dispersed asset owners. However, opposition emerged from some local residents and community councils, with the long-established civic amenity charity, the Cockburn Association, playing a catalytic role. The Covid pandemic disrupted this process in 2020, opening up further debates about the role of festivals and tourism in the recovery.
Prologue The Jesuits' maxim " Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the ... more Prologue The Jesuits' maxim " Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the man " probably explains my own passion for places and civic life. I grew up in the Harpurhey district in the north of Manchester in the 1940s and 1950s, before much of it was demolished in the slum clearance programme in the early 1970s. As a child I moved in quite a small area, the terraced streets that connected my home to my school, and to the shops to which I was dragged by my mother. The streets, back alleys and pockets of waste ground were where I played. Aunts and uncles lived nearby. A sense of place and identification with that place was strong. Linked to that identity was a source of pride in the place. That was evident at the everyday level of women (never men) scouring with a kind of pumice stone the pavement adjacent to their front doors that opened directly to the street. At the larger scale there was pride in the city of Manchester; " What Manchester does today, London does tomorrow " was an oft-repeated phrase. Upon this platform was built my trust in the civic authorities. Manchester city council educated me, housed relatives, and ran the buses that took me to the city centre, with its swaggering buildings from the days of Cottonopolis, but also dank bomb sites left from the war. Thus, for me, the personal and the civic were closely intertwined with each other and with the place that I came from. This ontology is the lens through which I approach civic identity, civic pride and c civic trust. I will seek to analyse and connect the underlying concepts, explore why I feel we are experiencing a crisis of civic trust, and end with a call for action. Civic identity " Civic " means that people are connected to each other through sharing a place. As we shall see this simple statement has some complex ramifications. For now, it is enough to observe that the origins of the civic idea are generally accepted as being in the Greek city states. Peter Hall in his magisterial book Cities in Civilization explained how the polis developed around 700BC as an economic, political and communal unit, originally based on " a self-sufficient and self-governing group of villages " (p.35). It was " a group …
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2015
This paper will review the theory and practice of green belts as instruments of urban containment... more This paper will review the theory and practice of green belts as instruments of urban containment in a European context. It will point to the emphasis given to the compact city in the European Spatial Development Perspective. It will then review and compare some of the practices in different parts of Europe. Particular emphasis will be given to a comparison of policy and implementation in Scotland and the Netherlands. The analysis will show that green belts are used to pursue a number of policy aims: they are not exclusively a tool to manage landscape resources. Furthermore they have social and economic impacts as well as landscape impacts. There are also important questions about the relation between policy and implementation. Finally recommendations are made for a more active design and management approach to planning land at the edge of the city as part of strategic spatial planning practice.
... consumption, economies of scale and an interventionist state managing demand Within a general... more ... consumption, economies of scale and an interventionist state managing demand Within a generalsocial contract. ... Viewed in this light a number of the traditional elem~n.tsf the ideology of ... Scotland's 'Claim of Right', prepared by a steering committee chaired by the father figure of ...
This book is a collection of 12 papers emerging from a 1993 seminar,“Challenges in Urban Manageme... more This book is a collection of 12 papers emerging from a 1993 seminar,“Challenges in Urban Management,” held in Britain. The challenges, and chapters, are organized into five sections, reflecting the diversity of management issues in the capitalist city.“Reading the City” offers various cultural takes on contemporary trends in urban politics and culture.“The City Economy” is an updated look at urban political economy via essays on public poli-Faking. Provision and maintenance of urban infrastructure is discussed in the third section ...
The Festivalisation of Edinburgh: Constructing its Governance was published in Scottish Affairs 3... more The Festivalisation of Edinburgh: Constructing its Governance was published in Scottish Affairs 30.1. It showed how the city council, Scottish Government and the events, festivals and tourism industries worked in partnership as a growth coalition. This follow-up article describes some of the results they achieved. It focuses on Edinburgh's August and Winter Festivals, as these are the largest scale festival events. It also analyses the project that sought to re-imagine West Princes Street Gardens. It explores the meaning of ‘festivalisation’ both through its direct impacts on the use of urban space, but also in its relation to the commodification of public space and austerity urbanism. Festivalisation has normalised the flow of value from local public spaces to geographically dispersed asset owners. However, opposition emerged from some local residents and community councils, with the long-established civic amenity charity, the Cockburn Association, playing a catalytic role. The Covid pandemic disrupted this process in 2020, opening up further debates about the role of festivals and tourism in the recovery.
Prologue The Jesuits' maxim " Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the ... more Prologue The Jesuits' maxim " Give me the boy until he is seven and I will give you the man " probably explains my own passion for places and civic life. I grew up in the Harpurhey district in the north of Manchester in the 1940s and 1950s, before much of it was demolished in the slum clearance programme in the early 1970s. As a child I moved in quite a small area, the terraced streets that connected my home to my school, and to the shops to which I was dragged by my mother. The streets, back alleys and pockets of waste ground were where I played. Aunts and uncles lived nearby. A sense of place and identification with that place was strong. Linked to that identity was a source of pride in the place. That was evident at the everyday level of women (never men) scouring with a kind of pumice stone the pavement adjacent to their front doors that opened directly to the street. At the larger scale there was pride in the city of Manchester; " What Manchester does today, London does tomorrow " was an oft-repeated phrase. Upon this platform was built my trust in the civic authorities. Manchester city council educated me, housed relatives, and ran the buses that took me to the city centre, with its swaggering buildings from the days of Cottonopolis, but also dank bomb sites left from the war. Thus, for me, the personal and the civic were closely intertwined with each other and with the place that I came from. This ontology is the lens through which I approach civic identity, civic pride and c civic trust. I will seek to analyse and connect the underlying concepts, explore why I feel we are experiencing a crisis of civic trust, and end with a call for action. Civic identity " Civic " means that people are connected to each other through sharing a place. As we shall see this simple statement has some complex ramifications. For now, it is enough to observe that the origins of the civic idea are generally accepted as being in the Greek city states. Peter Hall in his magisterial book Cities in Civilization explained how the polis developed around 700BC as an economic, political and communal unit, originally based on " a self-sufficient and self-governing group of villages " (p.35). It was " a group …
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