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Articulo – Journal of Urban Research is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the exploration of urban issues through the lens of a wide range of social science approaches. The Journal embraces a multidisciplinary perspective on the transformation of social, environmental and economic issues of cities and city regions. Publishing both theoretical and empirical articles, the Journal is an international forum that brings together academics and practitioners working on urban issues in cities around the world to present ground breaking and relevant research. See the Unread | oldest firstMetropolitan narratives in transition / Narrations métropolitaines en transition
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research - Documents the 07.05.2024 at 02:00:00 AM - Favorize || Read/Unread
Purpose
What is a metropolis? An institutional perimeter, an accumulation of networks and flows, an extraordinary concentration of overarching urban functions, activities and human and non-human habitats. All at once. But a metropolis is also a sensitive and lived space, the physical (infrastructures), geographical (hydrography, topography) and symbolic (representations) meeting of several scales (landscape, use, etc.) and the result of a permanent tension between the ordinary and the spectacular, the local and the global, the living and the non-living. How else to plan and project such complexity than by telling its story? If storytelling has established itself as one of the privileged tools of territorial design over the last thirty years or so, what about metropolitan narratives in the age of transitions? Narratives provide the material from which a planning vision, a project or an experiment can be developed or even told a posteriori. In an anthropocentric world, human narratives...
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What is wrong with urban regeneration practices? Towards a Foucauldian analysis of urban regeneration documents.
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research - Documents by Anthony Ximenez the 05.03.2024 at 02:00:00 AM - Favorize || Read/Unread
Urban design practices are hard to analyse and critique. In this paper, we suggest that part of the difficulty can be alleviated if one problematises them as having a “positivity”. That Foucauldian notion refers to the discursive rules that must be met in order for a statement to be considered as “knowledge” in a specific discipline and at a specific time in history. We then describe the “archaeological” method that Foucault developed to analyse “positivities”. Applying this method to the analysis of a multidimensional diagnosis document produced by a team of consultants in the first stage of an urban regeneration project, we describe the discursive rules of construction that seem to underlie the reasoning displayed in the document. The findings cannot be generalised but they provide strong hypotheses for future inquiry into urban regeneration discursive practices.
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Introduction
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research - Documents by Thomas Buhler the 05.03.2024 at 02:00:00 AM - Favorize || Read/Unread
For the past fifty years, the analysis of urban planning discourses, and of discourses of city dwellers and citizens, has given rise to many monographs as well as rare comparative and critical studies, both in English and in French. The growing accessibility of textual data has given new relevance to these by-now-classic approaches. Online media, websites, social networks, and planning documents (Buhler and Lethier, 2019) are making new analyses possible.
On the one hand, computer-aided text-analysis methods and tools (Lebart and Salem, 1994) have continuously been developed and become more accessible to the academic community. Free open-source tools such as IRAMUTEQ (Ratinaud, 2009) and TXM (Heiden et al 2010) have, for example, greatly facilitated access to software for processing these semantic corpora. On the other hand, the diversity of media used opens the way for analyses which, drawing inspiration from approaches developed in the field of cultural studies, attempt to understa...
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Conformist singularities. Standardized discourses on the local specificities of urban projects
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research - Documents by Matthieu Adam the 05.03.2024 at 02:00:00 AM - Favorize || Read/Unread
This article addresses a paradox: whereas urban projects are meant to have a specific local (historical, geographical, and cultural) color, the projects themselves and the discourse about them are highly standardized. Collected through semi-structured interviews, the discourses of the designers (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, promoters, and project managers) of two urban projects in France are scrutinized using discourse analysis (textual statistics) and content analysis (qualitative approach). First, the study reveals the uniformity of these actors’ discourse: textual statistics show a striking similarity in discourse across the two sites even if the differences among professions are more apparent. Second, it highlights the role of local specificities within this uniformity: the qualitative analysis shows that the discourse remains standardized despite its purpose to highlight singularities. Finally, the paper reveals how the actors themselves perceive this parad...
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Planning for climate change with the best of intentions... Analyzing content of plans and planner’s rationale for adaptation
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research - Documents by Saray Chavez the 05.03.2024 at 02:00:00 AM - Favorize || Read/Unread
In France, local urban plans (PLUi) can convey drivers for climate change adaptation, e.g. greening and limitation of soil sealing to reinforce stormwater management. However, translating adaptation measures into plans is not always easy for planners to effectively communicate adaptation. We create an analysis method, specifically designed for the sustainable development project (PADD), a key document of the PLUi, in order to understand its adaptation approach. The PADD examined is that of the PLUi of Nantes metropolis in France. The first part of the method has been published; here, we develop the last two steps of the method, which consist of a thematic analysis applied to the corpus and a cross-analysis of results. The findings reveal seven major intentions for adaptation. Specific actions were more difficult to identify; however, four areas of practical application emerged: vegetation, water, soil and building. Furthermore, we questioned local planners to get a complete sense of...