Archive d’étiquettes pour : suburban development

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1160 | 572 | Searching the balance: spatial planning lessons for Ukrainian agglomerations | Eugenia Maruniak, Sergyi Lisovsky

As in other countries, urban and suburban development issues in Ukraine remain complex and controversial. On the one hand, the problem of excessive population concentration in large cities located in regions relatively far from hostilities is still unresolved. Most of such cities was showing unsustainability patterns during the prewar period. On the other hand, the rapid growth of the suburban areas often led to excessive pressure on the environment and urban infrastructure. Some attempts to regulate the relations between cities and suburban areas appeared after 2014 in the course of reforms and decentralization processes, but were not completed. Some contribution to improve urban and suburban planning has been made within the framework of European projects aimed at integrated development concepts delivery._x000D_
Today, the situation remains unstable and unpredictable due to the consequences of russian aggression and the displacement of large flows of people. It is also clear the post-war recovery will require and create opportunities for the widespread implementation of innovative planning approaches. The presentation, using the example of a few large Ukrainian agglomerations, will perform the analysis of problems and development approaches over the past decade, as well as the planning prospects based on sustainability and successful European cases._x000D_

Eugenia Maruniak, Sergyi Lisovsky
Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

 
ID Abstract: 572

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1160 | 292 | Future socio-spatial suburban development in the context of the back-to-the-city movement. Evidence from six functional urban areas in Poland. | Katarzyna Kajdanek

This presentation investigates the reasons for the back-to-the-city movement, as they pertain to suburban quality of life, and the ensuing potential for socio-spatial transformations of suburban areas. This qualitative study, which employs a qualitative method based on a two-pillar conceptual framework, focuses on returnees from suburbia to six major cities in Poland. The first pillar is reurbanization in its residential aspect, particularly the process of re-emigration from suburban areas to the central city. (Glatter, Siedhoff 2008; Ourednicek 2015). The second pillar is a life-course view on the return to the city, emphasising its temporal, multi-scalar, and social dynamics as they unfold over a lifetime (Bernardi et al. 2019). (Elder et al. 2003; Falkingram et al. 2020; Mulder&Hooimeijer 1999, Coulter&van Ham 2013). Some quantitative and qualitative study on selective in-migration in Polish and Czech cities has already been conducted. (Haase et al. 2012). However, as an example of an ECE country, return mobility from suburbs to inner-cities in Poland remains an unstudied occurrence. Thematic coding was used to uncover connections between psychological dispositions, life domain performance, societal subsystems, and the experience of fleeing the suburbs for the city in the study’s empirical material, which consisted of 46 semi-structured interviews. _x000D_
The presentation shows how complex features of suburban liveability in Poland (determined by macro-processes such as spatial planning and housing policies, as well as mezzo-level contexts such as pollution, transportation, and public service availability) contribute to housing stress, create potential for future small-scale change in the suburbs, and gives visibility to residential actors, such as: urbanites by choice (Buzar et al. 2007), urbanites by necessity, transitory urbanites (Haase et al. 2012), temporary suburbanites (Kopecna, Spackova 2012).

Katarzyna Kajdanek
University of Wrocław, Institute of Sociology

 
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1160 | | The Past is the Key to the Future: Application of Past Patterns in Spatial Planning and Perspectives for the Suburban Development in Europe | Robert Szmytkie (1)

The development of suburban zones has been a major issue in urban geography and urban planning for many years. Ideas to deconcentrate cities were sought in the face of increasing urban density as early as the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Many of these solutions have contributed to the creation of living spaces even today. The issue of intensive suburban development is increasingly becoming a challenge for contemporary urbanization processes and spatial planning in Europe. Therefore, can the solutions used in the past be the key to sustainable suburban development in the future?
We look forward to presentations on the theory and practice of urban planning, morphology, and suburban development, using quantitative and qualitative geographic research methods. The proposed session would provide a platform for sharing experiences from different areas of Europe.

Robert Szmytkie (1)
(1) University of Wrocław

 
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