Project (M.P.P.) - Simon Fraser University, 2007. / Theses (Master of Public Policy Program) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor: Kennedy Stewart -- Master of Public Policy Program. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

<p>Översättning från engelska till italienska av Davide Ponzini.</p><p>Svensk titel i översättning: Återanvändningen av ett kasernområde i Sverige: Visborg, Gotland</p>

Reliable and precise information about possible floods, related water levels and inundation areas are needed even in urban areas to minimize potential damages. An important requirement for this issue is to adapt the stage-discharge relations to the changing constraints which could arise from morphology and hydrology. This paper reconsiders the use of historical hydrologic data in urban areas which have fundamentally changed even concerning the river beds, cross sections and floodplain areas. By means of a historical approach the flood statistics have been updated with surprising results.

Stakeholder participation and perceptions by urban practitioners is a study area that requires further research, particularly in socially innovative living concepts where quality of life and social sustainability are key considerations for end-user stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge of these innovations by focusing on urban practitioners’ perception of end-user participation in innovations of living such as co-housing, sharing communities and cooperatives that have been built recently responding to societal needs and growing concerns over social sustainability in urban areas. This study answers research questions of perception of urban practitioners towards the participation of end-user stakeholders, practitioners’ perception in its use of organisational learning, and their interpretation regarding the distribution of power between all stakeholders. Through the lens of a theoretical background based on stakeholder theory and shared value creation, power, empowerment and sharing of power, adaptive and resilient organisations concepts; and adaptive organisational learning processes. Semi-structured interviews with practitioners, employed in the cities of Malmö and Copenhagen, were conducted, transcribed and then interpreted by the authors through an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology that was used to interpret data. Findings suggest that most perceive a value in stakeholder participation and those practitioners exposed to end-user stakeholder participation have a higher comprehension of its potential value. Respondents agreed that the municipality remains a key stakeholder in the shaping process, even though this was not part of initial questioning. Finally, there is a notion of an interplay between power and financial resources that still controls the development process. The paper concludes while there is a perceived value of the processes and knowledge sharing on the process of end-user stakeholders not all perceive the benefits. The authors recommend further development in this area to increase comprehension, knowledge sharing of the possibilities and barriers to innovations of living.

Megaprojects, as a part of neoliberal urbanism, have become an important element of cities worldwide. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, the megaproject Santa Cruz Verde 2030 represents this type of project. The ambitious plan seeks to transform the city’s oil refinery into an urban quarter. However, since its announcement in summer 2018, no critical public discussion has taken place, although the project is expected to reconfigure the city’s waterfront and its tourist model. In this context, it is particularly the stakeholders’ point of view that is neglected. We thus offer a qualitative analysis of five interviews with local stakeholders from the real estate sector, politics, urban planning and an environmental association. The analysis shows that the interviewees feel insufficiently informed by the project’s initiators. The project is interpreted as an elitist symbol of how the project’s initiators understand urban development. While some of the stakeholders want to accelerate the whole process, others call for a more integrative and participative planning approach. Moreover, the observed marketing campaign is directly linked to the upcoming elections. The interviewees observe a simple top-down planning process, which contradicts the promises of the initiators to enable civic participation and integration.

in English Amsterdam is a unique combination of hydraulic engineering and built environment, urban design and city image, multiculturalism and neoliberalism, toleration and integration, commerce and business, culture and identity, individualism, and public decision-making among European cities. This thesis tries to explore Amsterdam's urban development in the contexts of urban planning, decision making, institutional policies and public participation. Moreover, this research studies the image of Amsterdam as a UNESCO world heritage site, the history of its urban development, its demography and immigrant population, and its municipal structure. The municipality of Amsterdam as the main actor of urban planning and development policies is studied for answering the research question: How does the municipality involve citizens in its urban development projects? To answer this question, of the seven districts of Amsterdam, the youngest district with the highest number of urban renewal projects is chosen: The Nieuw- West district, which is also the greenest and second-largest district of Amsterdam. By using content analysis from the municipality's website project information and Arnstein's ladder of participation in the methodology, the public participation framework and function is studied. The urban...

This thesis seeks to address a research gap concerning the relationship between the Localism Act 2011 and planning’s central purpose of achieving sustainable development. In addition it uses a physical example in urban space to illustrate the main arguments, and in doing so adds to the growing literature on the various outcomes since the Localism Act was enforced across England in 2011. The thesis asks four inter-related questions: Firstly, regarding the theoretical bases of sustainability and localism from the various ontologies of ‘scale’ and ‘the natural’; secondly, regarding the general conflicting assumptions within localism and sustainable development; thirdly, regarding the ways in which sustainable development is inherently multi-scalar; and lastly how our case study example highlights the need for policy-makers to examine the often overlooked trade-offs which exist in normative sustainable development models. The thesis also demonstrates the role that site-specific research can play in grounding theoretical and policy discussions. The research is situated in the rapidly changing sub-region of East London, particularly in the shadow of the 2012 Olympic regeneration of Stratford and the Borough of Newham. We take the example of a failed upgrade due the Localism Act, of a multi-scalar and multi-functional ‘Greenway’ to consider the relationship between localism and sustainable urbanism in the context neo-liberalism. Methods comprise site-based analysis in the form of walking, photography and note-taking, the analysis of national, metropolitan and local planning documents, as well as interviews with officials related to policy and design in the area and local residents. The research finds that national and metropolitan conceptions of sustainable development are weighted differently to those at local scales. In addition the Localism Act exacerbates planning capacities between Local Authorities and the communities they serve. There are some opportunities for neighbourhood planning but these are dependent on local capacities, widening already-existing socio-spatial inequalities. The thesis concludes by destabilising the widely used idea of sustainable development as a ‘balance’ between social, economic and environmental needs. Viewing sustainability through a scalar lens, in our case using a physical site and the policy of Localism, we are able to reveal the material differences between sustainable development agendas which have been criticised for masking over conflict in a post-political manner for the continuation of ‘status quo’ economic development trajectories.

In den letzten Jahren hat eine Fachdiskussion begonnen, wie die Flächeninanspruchnahme von Siedlung und Verkehr gemessen und wie die amtlichen Flächenstatistik um qualitative Aspekte der Flächennutzungsentwicklung ergänzt werden kann, welche Rolle hochauflösende topographische Geobasisdaten dabei spielen und wie Analyseergebnisse leicht verständlich visualisiert werden können. Vorliegender Band vereint dazu Antworten, die auf dem 2. Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium 2010 gegeben wurden. Die Beiträge umfassen die Themen Trends der Flächennutzungsentwicklung in Deutschland, Flächenerhebungsprogramme, topographische Datengrundlagen, Regionalstatistik, indikatorbasierte Beschreibung der Flächennutzungsstruktur, Prognose der Entwicklung sowie die Ergebnisvisualisierung, beispielsweise auch im neuen internetbasierten Monitor der Siedlungs- und Freiraumentwicklung (IÖR-Monitor).:Informatorische Instrumente in der Planung Helfen informatorische Instrumente beim Flächensparen? Anforderungen an ein Informationsmanagement zur Unterstützung einer flächensparsamen Entwicklung Stefan Siedentop ....................................................................................3 Regionalisierte Trends der Flächeninanspruchnahme – Anforderungen an ein qualifiziertes Monitoring Fabian Dosch, Gisela Beckmann ............................................................19 Was tun mit den Daten? Kommunale Strategien zur Nutzung von Geoinformationen in der Stadtplanung Marc Wolfram ........................................................................................37 Kartogramme – Wege zu einem tieferen Verständnis räumlicher Zusammenhänge Markus Burgdorf ...................................................................................55 Datengrundlagen und Flächenerhebungsprogramme Neue Grundlage der amtlichen Flächennutzungsstatistik: ALKIS® – Chancen und Probleme Jürgen Schauer .....................................................................................67 Potenziale und Probleme des ATKIS Basis-DLM im Flächennutzungsmonitoring Tobias Krüger .......................................................................................79 Flächenerhebung und -statistik in CORINE Land Cover – Aktuelle Ergebnisse und Programmentwicklung Manfred Keil, Annekatrin Metz, Michael Bock, Thomas Esch, Simon Nieland, Stefan Feigenspan .......................................................93 Flächenerhebung und -aktualisierung im Rahmen von GMES Land Monitoring Marek Tinz ..........................................................................................109 Arealstatistik der Schweiz – Methodik und aktuelle Ergebnisse Anton Beyeler .....................................................................................111 Entwicklung von Indikatoren Zersiedelung der Landschaft – Indikator und erste Ergebnisse Werner Ackermann, Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft ...................................129 Monitoring von Kleinstrukturen – Berechnung des Anteils von Wiedererholungsflächen auf der Basis von ATKIS Ralf Neukampf .....................................................................................143 Bodenversiegelung, Grünvolumen, Biotopwertigkeit – Praktische Erfahrungen des Umweltmonitorings in Potsdam Steffen Tervooren, Annett Frick ..........................................................155 Fragmentierung von Waldökosystemen und deren Auswirkung auf das Vorkommen des Schwarzstorches – erste Analyseergebnisse auf Grundlage des ATKIS Basis-DLMs Raul Köhler, Katja Oehmichen, Britta Eggers ......................................169 Monitoring der Siedlungs- und Freiraumentwicklung Konzept, Funktionalität und erste exemplarische Ergebnisse des Monitors der Siedlungs- und Freiraumentwicklung (IÖR-Monitor) Gotthard Meinel, Ulrich Schumacher ....................................................183 Indikatoren zur Freiraumstruktur sowie zum Landschafts- und Naturschutz – Ausgewählte Ergebnisse des IÖR-Monitors Ulrich Walz, Ulrich Schumacher ...........................................................201 Analyse und Visualisierung der Siedlungsentwicklung mit SEMENTA®-CHANGE Robert Hecht, Hendrik Herold, Gotthard Meinel ..................................217 Statistikangebote und Prognose Auf dem Weg zu einer rasterbasierten Regionalstatistik in Europa Ingrid Kaminger ..................................................................................237 Regionalisierte Wohnungsprognosen – Grundlage für Flächenbedarfsberechnungen Irene Iwanow .....................................................................................249 Autorenverzeichnis .............................................................................265