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{"title":"Planning, history … and the environment?","authors":"J. R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2248729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2248729","url":null,"abstract":"We occasionally remind ourselves that Planning Perspectives’ subtitle states that it is ‘an international journal of history, planning and the environment’. Most of that needs little clarification. The journal’s international character is shown, issue by issue, by its contents and editorial board. There is also no doubt about its commitment to planning and history, given that the planning process studied historically is a required feature in the articles that we publish. Where the reminder is perhaps necessary stems from inclusion of the words ‘the environment’. When preceded by the definite article, a focus on the environment would seem to imply something rather different from what is normally seen in this journal – at least with regard to that term’s contemporary meaning and emotive associations. It might well suggest planning historians pursuing a critical ecological agenda, taking their place alongside other scholars interested in issues such as climate change, disease control, deforestation, desertification, landscape conservation, urban environmental quality, and equitable resource distribution. These, it must be confessed, are not themes commonly articulated in the pages of Planning Perspectives. Yet planning interventions are inherently concerned with environmental matters even if the focus for many planning historians has more often been on the scale of the plan and the vision of the planning process rather than environment per se. The study of environmental regulations, for example, is demonstrably important for planning history, whether the subject concerned is nineteenth-century sanitary reform, interwar suburbanization and green belts, linearity and urban growth, colonial and neo-colonial exploitation of resources, sustainability and smart growth principles, resilience and environmental justice, or a host of other issues. Two questions perhaps worth asking therefore are, first, what was originally meant when the word ‘environment’ was included in the journal’s sub-title? and, secondly, what could or should it mean today? The first question, unlike the second, is relatively easy to answer. Environmental debate was very different when Planning Perspectives was launched in the mid-1980s. Understandings of environment from that time were primarily linked to alerting a sceptical public about the dangers of an imminent environmental crisis and the need for global ecological security. Prior to the publication of the Brundtland Report and the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – two landmark events dating from 1987 and 1988 respectively – environmentalist thought generally lacked the direction, conceptual sophistication, and evidence-backed clarity that it has latterly achieved. Against that background, it was perhaps inevitable that there would be a degree of imprecision about what might appear in the journal under the environmental banner; a lack of clarity that, incidentally, had a useful permissiveness for a n","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42268047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On balance: architecture and vertigo","authors":"Amy Butt","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2248728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2248728","url":null,"abstract":"economic urgencies, in particular the postwar increase of private car ownership and the subsequent rise of car traffic in the city. Responses to this situation included the construction of the subway, the demolition in 1939 of the elevated railway line ‘EL,’ the public debate and political rift over the above-ground Midtown Manhattan Expressway and the under-ground Mid-Manhattan underpass proposed by Robert Moses, and the proposals for new lighting systems and covered walkways. At the same time, the fragmented urban structure of small buildings, which surrounded the avenue at the beginning of the twentieth century was replaced by towers with curtain walls occupying one block each. This transformed the Avenue of Americas into a skyscraper boulevard, somewhat contradicting the supposed Pan-American identity. The new transformation also highlighted the delicate relationship between the skyscrapers and the surrounding urban fabric. To visualize her analysis Barioglio presents useful axonometric views of this urban transformation at the end of the book. Interestingly, the book also portrays the actors that were directly involved in the transformation, including the Rockefellers. In this context, it also focuses on the pivotal contribution of associations promoting and protecting the interests of the property owners, such as the Sixth Avenue Association and the Avenue of the Americas Association. Finally, ‘Avenue of Americas’ opens new research questions on the ‘delirious’ transformation of New York, the capitalist city par excellence Highlighting both the symbolic and physical conversion of 6th Avenue, drawing and retracing its multiple nuances and contradictions, Barioglio’s book is a unique case study to dissect American history, including the discussion and experimentation of regeneration models for the post-war city. The book is written from the perspective of an outsider with European/Italian cultural background. As such, it contributes to an understanding the multi-faceted trajectories and flows of urban design ideas and provides ground-breaking new reflections on the role of policies, socio-economic aspects and regulatory instruments in the decision-making processes of New York.","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cities alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and the roots of Urban Renaissance","authors":"J. Monclús","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2248730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2248730","url":null,"abstract":"chapter 5 ‘Thrills of Gravity’ which looks at the ‘ilinx’ of the ferris wheel and rollercoaster as precursors to contemporary adventure tourism which reframes ‘high-rise architecture as a playground’ (161), where architecture is complicit in turning ‘the experience of the abyss into a packaged thrill’ (173) consumed as part of the experience economy. Chapter 6 maintains this focus on architectural design, insightfully drawing a line which posits that ‘if weightlessness is a central tenet of modernism, and depthlessness the main attribute of postmodern space, a condition of groundlessness appeared to define the edgy architectural landscape at the dawn of the new millennium’ (198), playful and liberatory but vulnerable to commercial appropriation. In fact this tension between architecture and experience permeates On Balance, and this is addressed directly in the final chapter 7 ‘Architectures of Vertigo’ which takes an in-depth look at the architectural ‘edge’ as a spatial condition, as a signifier of luxury and power, and as a site where the ‘pursuit of intense individual experiences’ (229) are integral to tourist economies ‘reducing the abyss to a themed experience’ (229). Through these accounts of spatial experiences On Balance also makes us aware of the history of vertigo as a story of great loss, as these practices are continually co-opted by neoliberalism or subsumed within the experience economy. I do not hold out hope that I will grow comfortable on the edge of the abyss, balancing on beams or dancing on cornices. Vertigo remains an experience which unexpectedly overwhelms me, and one which, as Deriu puts forward, occurs all the more frequently in spaces which unthinkingly adopt a language of height or transparency in a manner which can be considered ablest and ageist. Vertigo is, as Goethe found, an experience that is ‘troubling’. It is the sensory and bodily experience of estrangement, it untethers certainties and I must bring myself back to a world that no longer seems as solid as it once did. But vertigo can also hold an edifice in a state of suspension, revealing the seemingly intractable and implacable to be precarious and vulnerable to change. It offers the fleeting promise that architectural reality could be subtly but substantially remade, that it might be possible to overturn the weight of entrenched patterns of spatial injustice or at least challenge their foundational assumptions. As this book insightfully concludes, the unsettling experience of vertigo is one that may help us acknowledge our own unstable position enabling us to rethink the ways in which we imagine and inhabit our environments. Vertigo threatens to trouble us, but we cannot deny that there is cause to be troubled.","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42247037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Manila’s Architectural Heritage 1571-1960. Volume 1 The Center: Intramuros, Binondo, San Nicolas, Tondo","authors":"I. Morley","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2248731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2248731","url":null,"abstract":"gence of history and traditional knowledge. Mehaffy then embarks on a genuinely ambitious philosophical digression, which somewhat distracts from the main purpose of the book (section III), followed by arguments on the link between the New Urban Agenda and the principles of Jacobs and Alexander (section IV). Finally, in section V he recapitulates around five key lessons with corresponding ‘hopeful examples’: the first, connectivity, is illustrated by the city of Portland, Oregon; the second, opportunities for all, by the exceptional experience of Medellín/Colombia; the third, adaptation, by Alexander’s own project for the Eishin School in Tokyo; the fourth, environmental sustainability, by Freiburg/Germany; and the fifth, system reformwith the example of the plans for the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in which the author was involved. Despite the scepticism and mistrust that may be aroused by some superficial readings or those that seek to apply Jacobs’ or Alexander’s principles literally to current urban realities, re-reading them, as Mehaffy acknowledges, allows us to test their ideas, verify them, modify them, combine them with others and, if they seem useful, proceed to apply them constructively or, failing that, revise them as convenient.","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45908752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue of the Americas. New York, biography of a street]","authors":"L. Z. Marchi","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2248727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2248727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41654690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vision and practice: the 1967 Robson Report on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government","authors":"B. Bansal","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2241434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2241434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46950686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching: the socio-spatial production of colonial logistics","authors":"Azmah Arzmi, J. Wahid","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2235669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2235669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46992250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium","authors":"Yanning Xiang, Y. Loo, Jonathan Hale","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2230553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2230553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43939830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behind the metropolis: understanding Grand Paris through the history of its regional plans","authors":"Frédéric Pousin, Nathalie Roseau","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2225248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2225248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The emergence and evolution of workers’ villages in early New China","authors":"Yiping Zhang, Yves Schoonjans, Gisèle Gantois","doi":"10.1080/02665433.2023.2222286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2222286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46569,"journal":{"name":"Planning Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}