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Place-Based Urban Planning

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 12319

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Stéphane Roche

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Research Center for Geospatial Data and Intelligence, Laval University, Québec, QC G1V0A6, Canada
Interests: citizen science; geospatial intelligence; public engagement; smart city; spatial reasoning; urban technologies
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Prof. Dr. Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

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Research Center for Geospatial Data and Intelligence, Laval University, Québec, QC G1V0A6, Canada
Interests: human-environment interactions; inclusive mobility; palatial information systems; sensor networks; geosimulation of geographic dynamics
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Dr. Rob Feick

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School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Interests: citizen participation in smart city; volunteered geographic information (VGI); methods to extract place-based knowledge from big geodata; spatial multicriteria analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent studies have demonstrated that the intelligence of a city depends on its citizens’ ability to understand (from the Latin "intelligentare") events or phenomena that characterize its internal dynamics and external relations. Urban intelligence can be linked to how places comprising a city enable citizens to realize their capacities to identify (where, when, who, and what), to analyze, to provide contextual meaning, and to react in a relevant way, ideally in a time compatible with the event or the phenomenon or in real time if necessary. Places have long been linked to feelings of belonging, meaning, and attachment, related to individuals’ interactions and social exchanges in an urban location. In a digital society, places can mediate how information is used and exchanged between people who share a sense of place-based belonging. In this light, sense of place is a property of the relationship between perception and action and social construction processes within place-based experiences. Formalizing and representing how a place shapes the functional, symbolic, and emotional characteristics of citizens' urban experiences and mediates information exchange is a major challenge for urban planning and development in smart cities.

For this Special Issue, we are interested in either empirical or conceptual/theoretical contributions linking methods for characterizing and mapping sense of place, smart technologies, and the understanding of complex urban dynamics or any key urban processes, including, but not limited to:

  • Place-based knowledge extraction methods;
  • Public participation using placed-based technologies;
  • Characterizing sense of place for understanding urban dynamics;
  • Multiscale representation and mapping sense of place;
  • Platial analysis methods for smart cities;
  • Platial information systems;
  • Uncertainty and fuzziness of platial representation;
  • Emerging technologies of place-based urban data processing (deep/machine learning and geosemantic algorithms).

Contributions at the intersection of land planning, urban studies, urban geography, and geospatial sciences are especially welcome, but contributions from other human–urban fields that forefront the sense of a place and platial thinking are also highly welcome. Regional and scalar diversity in contributions are also desired.

Proposed titles and abstracts (250 words) can be submitted by September 30, 2022 to the guest editors (stephane.roche@scg.ulaval.ca) for possible feedback, if prospective authors so desire, before preparing their manuscripts. 

Prof. Dr. Stéphane Roche
Prof. Dr. Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi
Dr. Rob Feick
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • place-based knowledge
  • platial analysis
  • place-based GIS
  • sense of place and smart city
  • space versus place discussions

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Exploring Gender Differences through the Lens of Spatiotemporal Behavior Patterns in a Cultural Market: A Case Study of Panjiayuan Market in Beijing, China
by Bing Han, Jianming Yang, Guanliang Liu and Ziwen Sun
Land 2023, 12(4), 889; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040889 - 15 Apr 2023
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Markets are more than commercial places with high mobility, greatly contributing to urban vitality, social inclusion, and even local identity, which have all been studied extensively. However, as one of the market types, the cultural market contains a highly gendered feature in our [...] Read more.
Markets are more than commercial places with high mobility, greatly contributing to urban vitality, social inclusion, and even local identity, which have all been studied extensively. However, as one of the market types, the cultural market contains a highly gendered feature in our contemporary cities that has rarely been explored. Therefore, this article presents a survey that uses spatiotemporal behavior mapping (STBM) to collect gender-related behavior patterns across four sites, five activity layers, four age groups, and three time dimensions in Beijing Panjiayuan cultural market, China. Our results show that all sites are generally dominated by males. Although mobility is higher on weekends than weekdays, the number of women decreases and the number of men increases at the weekend, resulting in a higher gender ratio. The gender ratio in the 19–36 and 54+ year groups synchronized decline with mobility, whereas other age groups did not appear to be significantly affected. More specifically, in the buying and common activities layers, the ratio of men to women at the two sites with higher mobility increased, and vice versa. It is the first study to present the effect of spatial mobility on gender differences in a cultural market by using objective spatiotemporal data. Our findings provide a scientific basis for the optimization and design practice of culture-related spaces to create a more equal and inclusive urban environment. Full article
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Concatenating Daily Exercise Routes with Public Sports Facilities, Bicycle Lanes, and Green Spaces: A Feasibility Analysis in Nanjing, China
by Yan Chen, Bing Zhang, Mingke Li, Ryan Zhenqi Zhou and Zhen Xu
Land 2022, 11(12), 2251; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122251 - 09 Dec 2022
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Public sports facilities have the potential to improve their functions as active living infrastructures (ALIs) in combination with bicycle lanes and green spaces. A favorable sequence of exercise intensities in different scenes is important for individuals to take physical activity scientifically. Our research [...] Read more.
Public sports facilities have the potential to improve their functions as active living infrastructures (ALIs) in combination with bicycle lanes and green spaces. A favorable sequence of exercise intensities in different scenes is important for individuals to take physical activity scientifically. Our research aimed to explore the feasibility of promoting and consolidating this sequence using reasonable daily exercise routes concatenated by public sports facilities, green spaces, and bicycle lanes. Taking 25 major public sports facilities in Nanjing as an example, we obtained the cycling routes from open-source data and delineated the facilities’ cycling catchment areas to assess the coordination of bicycle lanes and facilities. Further, we evaluated the potential interactions between facilities and green spaces by checking the spatial intersections between park entrances and the above routes. The results revealed that with the integration of bicycle lanes, public sports facilities could provide services to most residential areas, and potential interactions between the facilities and parks existed already. Therefore, it was feasible to design reasonable daily exercise routes coupled with the existing facility layout. Moreover, the service gaps and potential interactions were affected by the layout of the facilities, the density of the bicycle lanes, the configuration of green spaces, and the official planning proposals. This research advances the understanding of how public sports facilities can be pivotal to the cooperation of ALIs with other infrastructures. Full article
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Understanding Place in Place-Based Planning: From Space- to People-Centred Approaches
by Gabriela Quintana Vigiola
Land 2022, 11(11), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112000 - 08 Nov 2022
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Place-based planning has been applied in the past two decades, and it has started being incorporated into planning policy in the past decade in the Global North. On the other hand, bottom-up approaches applied in the Global South, for example, in informal settlements, [...] Read more.
Place-based planning has been applied in the past two decades, and it has started being incorporated into planning policy in the past decade in the Global North. On the other hand, bottom-up approaches applied in the Global South, for example, in informal settlements, embed place-based concepts from their conception. One of the roots of this slow incorporation of place-based planning into policies is the lack of agreement on what a place is and how and by whom it is created. This paper applies a desktop study to answer the following: what are the different approximations of the topics of place and place-making? And how is the concept of place investigated in informal settlements? This paper discusses the different conceptions of place and identifies the two main perspectives toward place-making: space-centred and people-centred approaches. These perspectives share goals but differ in focus on how and by whom places are constructed. This paper also analyses how the topic of place has been addressed when discussing informal settlements and the fundamental disparity in the literature forming the concepts of place (mainly arising from the Global North) and the process of constructing places in the Global South, and how the latter can help inform place-based planning. Full article
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The Identification of Stakeholders’ Living Contexts in Stakeholder Participation Data: A Semantic, Spatial and Temporal Analysis
by Amal Marzouki, Sehl Mellouli and Sylvie Daniel
Land 2022, 11(6), 798; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060798 - 28 May 2022
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Stakeholders’ Participation (SP) aims to involve stakeholders in decision-making processes about significant choices affecting their organizations, cities, or communities. Stakeholders’ participation is maintained through SP processes (SPPs) that may be traditional (e.g., physical assemblies) or online (e.g., online forums). Whether traditional or online, [...] Read more.
Stakeholders’ Participation (SP) aims to involve stakeholders in decision-making processes about significant choices affecting their organizations, cities, or communities. Stakeholders’ participation is maintained through SP processes (SPPs) that may be traditional (e.g., physical assemblies) or online (e.g., online forums). Whether traditional or online, the purpose of SPPs is to collect and analyze data in a way that it would bring a benefit to a given decision-making process. In SPPs, stakeholders try to communicate (a part of) their living contexts, i.e., to present their objectives, daily problems, intentions, and issues they are facing within their environment. A major challenge of decision-makers is then to ensure that the living contexts of stakeholders are considered in SPPs for an effective implementation of project and policies. This paper focuses on the specific issue of the “stakeholders’ living context identification” and attempts to account for how stakeholders implicitly identify their living contexts in their SP comments. Based on a qualitative analysis of SP data from four case studies in two countries, this paper identified a set of semantic, spatial, and temporal patterns allowing to capture the stakeholders’ living contexts in SPPs data. Moreover, a conceptual model emphasizing the importance for decision-makers to capture and understand semantic, spatial, and temporal dimensions in SPPs is proposed. Full article
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