The Urban Environment and 'Quality of Place'
When people, companies, or industries can live or locate anywhere or, at least, choose from a multiplicity of different places, the question of where to locate becomes increasingly contingent on the particular attributes of any given location – that is, on the quality of the place. That place seems to matter more provokes both renewed interest in the attributes of ‘good’ places and new interest in concepts, processes and practices of place making as an integral part of urban development, redevelopment and regeneration. This track seeks papers focusing on following themes:
- Neighbourhood environmental quality and ‘liveability’
- Dereliction and contaminated land: impacts and prospects
- Public realm, green spaces and civic health
- Surveillance, anti-social behaviour, community safety and exclusion
Contact: Steve Tiesdell [Email: s.tiesdell@lbss.gla.ac.uk]
The Urban Environment and 'Quality of Place'
1. Susanna Alves: Neighbourhood Outdoor Spaces: What do they Represent as Part of a Vital Urban Environment for Older People? [To be presented by Professor Catherine Ward Thompson]
2. Simonetta Armondi: Development, Territories, Institutions Through Immediacy and Mediation: Rethinking Middle Cities in Italy
3. Glen Bramley: (iii) Back to Basics: the Cost of Clean Streets in Different Physical & Social Circumstances
4. Karen Buurmans: "To know the Path is to Rule the System": Frame - Pattern - Circuit Analysis
5. Dr Nicola Dempsey: Are High Quality Neighbourhoods Socially Cohesive? Methodological Challenges of Unpacking Multidimensional Concepts
6. Barbara Golicnik: (i) Quality of Place Through Quality of Life: Exploring Spatial and Non-Spatial Attributes of Places Using GIS
7. Peter Haratonik: Social Media and the New Urban Landscape
8. Ina Klaasen and Wendy Tan: 24/7 Environments: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration from an Urban Planner's Perspective
9. Sarah Anne Lappin: Promoting a sense of P.L.A.C.E.
10. Kathryn Lessey: Constructing City Identity: The Role of the Built Environment in Supporting Urban Place Identity
11. Claudio de Magalhães: Defining and Delivering Quality in Urban Environments
12. Maria Joäo Matos: The Mountain in the City – New Urban Landscape?
13. Helle Nørgaard: Cities, Risk and Safety
14. Nil Pasaoglulari Sahin: An Assessment of Quality of Life in Residential Environments: Case of Selimiye Quarter in Walled City of Nicosia, North Cyprus
15. Christopher Platt: Rethinking Red Square [To be presented by Roderick Kemsley]
16. Maija Sipilä: Green Spaces – Liveable Places by Collaborative Planning?
17. Hans Teerds: Landscape as Public Domain
18. Steve Tiesdell: Towards an Urban Renaissance? Public Policy, Urban Design and Central Glasgow