Virtual Only | Special Session: Transitions In Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil

Virtual Only | Special Session: Transitions in Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil

Special Sessions/Forums/Side Events Virtual Room 3

Nov 09, 2021 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM(Asia/Qatar)

20211109T1330 20211109T1500 Asia/Qatar Virtual Only | Special Session: Transitions in Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil Port city regions are key locations in the post-oil transition and merit specific attention from planners. Located at the edge of water and land, ports are gateways to nations and continents, they are industrial and often petroleum hubs with important negative externalities for the neighboring urban and rural spaces. Port cities are hubs of global services and decision-making with a long tradition of resilience, with an astounding capacity to bounce back after disasters and to adapt to political, economic, social or other challenges. The larger port city region has come to host port functions in often non-continuous ways in the absence of clear institutional and planning frameworks. This session argues that planning post-oil port city regions, due to their complexity, can be paradigmatic for sustainability transitions in other areas of activity. It argues for an integrated consideration of spatial forms-such as port, water, road and rail infrastructure or urban areas-, social structures, including political and legal frameworks-and cultural patterns, often expressed in architectural and urban form as well. It further posits that planning the post-oil transition requires an evolutionary approachi and collaboration among diverse stakeholders and the creation of shared values as a foundation for planning. This session calls for contributions that explore sustainability transitions past, present and future in port cities from around the world. We are specifically interested in contributions that take a longitudinal, transdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach in view of planning the futur ... Virtual Room 3 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Doha, Qatar ajuurinen@xtalks.com

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Port city regions are key locations in the post-oil transition and merit specific attention from planners. Located at the edge of water and land, ports are gateways to nations and continents, they are industrial and often petroleum hubs with important negative externalities for the neighboring urban and rural spaces. Port cities are hubs of global services and decision-making with a long tradition of resilience, with an astounding capacity to bounce back after disasters and to adapt to political, economic, social or other challenges. The larger port city region has come to host port functions in often non-continuous ways in the absence of clear institutional and planning frameworks. This session argues that planning post-oil port city regions, due to their complexity, can be paradigmatic for sustainability transitions in other areas of activity. It argues for an integrated consideration of spatial forms-such as port, water, road and rail infrastructure or urban areas-, social structures, including political and legal frameworks-and cultural patterns, often expressed in architectural and urban form as well. It further posits that planning the post-oil transition requires an evolutionary approachⁱ and collaboration among diverse stakeholders and the creation of shared values as a foundation for planning.

This session calls for contributions that explore sustainability transitions past, present and future in port cities from around the world. We are specifically interested in contributions that take a longitudinal, transdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach in view of planning the future of ports, cities and their regions, connecting spatial, institutional, social, economic or cultural perspectives. Planning for the future can be based on best practices, but it also needs to critically assess failures. We need to study the role of planning in transitions and at times of crisis, as the COVID-19 has just reminded us. The session argues that the historical resilience of port cities is embedded in a maritime mindset or port city culture, a strong and dedicated collaboration among diverse groups of public and private actors from different backgrounds around shared values. It is therefore important to assess, find and reinforce these shared values in light the challenges of today. The importance of close port-city-region relations, and shared values, has been emphasized by various scholars and organizations (e.g. OECD, AIVP, RETE). While the economic effects of port city collaborations have been studied, an examination of socio-spatial impacts and the integration of port and city regions and the role of planning therein is still missing. Today, many ports are carefully assessing stakeholder involvement in the port to address challenges of climate change, but such transitions also involve frictions and solutions towards resolving them are not yet clearly emerging. Port city regions need to find new ways to connect stakeholders in values-based negotiation.

The session asks: How has planning facilitated, hindered or led transitions in port cities over time? How have port and city actors from around the world started to tackle development towards zero-emission, zero-waste shipping, circular economy principles, and sustainable urban development? How will port city regions evolve after the current crisis at a time when political leaders and societies embrace nationalistic ideas effectively countering the globalization that makes ports thrive? How can planning facilitate innovative and creative practices that emerge in port cities, ranging from makers districts to new legal systems, addressing social, economic and environmental aspects simultaneously? What kind of (online) tools-deliberation, gaming-have been used to facilitate interaction among port city region stakeholders. The goal of the session is to gather and discuss case studies from around the world in an interactive session, to compare and contrast them and to collect them in a dedicated special issue.

Chair: Carola Hein

Does maritime mindset facilitate the processes of industrial symbiosis (IS) in port city regions?

Lucija Ažman Momirski

Re-imagining port cities beyond oil. Visions from the future

Paolo De Martino

Planning for continuity and effective use of space on the border between a port and a city

Karolina Krosnicka

Planning for transition in port cities: What role for port authorities?

Jose Sanchez

Networking urban blue spaces in small port cities in Poland

Justyna Bres

Reimagining the 15-minute City from a Gender PerspectiveView Abstract

Research Paper2: Well-being and health. Al-Fereej: caring for living conditions 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Asia/Qatar) 2021/11/09 10:30:00 UTC - 2021/11/09 12:00:00 UTC

“The city is an organised memory, and in history women are forgotten” Hannah Arendt The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 60 to 80 million couples worldwide currently suffer from infertility. According to The Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction, infertility currently affects about 10 to 14 percent of the Indian population, with higher rates in urban areas where one out of six couples is impacted. With increasing literacy rates (87% in 2018) among women in India, Women today are attracting higher paying jobs which are structured around busy schedules and tight deadlines. This in turn has led to sedentary lifestyles, increased consumption of tobacco, erratic meal schedules which in turn has led to health issues like diabetes, increased blood pressure and obesity. Indian Cities need to respond to this increase in health issues and stress among women by provided more recreational spaces which are accessible, safe and equitably distributed. UN Habitat’s recent report titled “Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future” point towards the increased health and well-being due to good access of urban greens. The ongoing CoViD-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the existing inequalities in our cities and has also given rise to a greater degree of localisation due the reduced needs of long distance mobility. The pandemic has also given rise to new concepts of urbanism in the form of the “15-minute city” developed by Franco-Colombian scientist Carlos Moreno and popularised by Mayor Hidalgo for Paris. On closer analysis of the “15 minute city”, it is clear its implementation can lead to further ghettoisation of cities in the global south which have limited access to public transport and other amenities. It is thus important to rethink the “15 minute city” with a Gender inclusive lens. Ana Falu’s theoretical hypothesis for understanding gender in cities states that: • The city is not experienced or lived in the same way by men and women. • Urban assets are not equally accessible, neither equal in quality and supply to all citizens. • Due to these inequalities, women face great vulnerabilities than men. We use Ana Falu’s theoretical framework as a gender lens to understand distribution of open spaces using parameters such as per capita open space, proximity to open space, accessibility and safety. The city of Bangalore is considered as a case, a city with 22.2% women’s participation in labour (highest when compared to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta). The research work will attempt comparative socio-spatial ward mapping with the above mentioned parameters. Finally, we highlight the provision of green spaces is inadequate mainly in newly developing peripheries which house a large number of working women. The study also points to the fact that much of the open spaces are not fully accessible. Addressing this challenge will require incentivising land owners with higher FSIs or other similar mechanisms in turn mandating them to provide larger area for public parks which are accessible to all. We argue that provisioning for open spaces in Indian cities need to go beyond the logics of per capita open space to spatial logics centered on access and proximity. Indian Cities have given women a sense of freedom and independence unlike its rural counterpart widely documented in Shilpa Phadke’s case study of Mumbai “Why Loiter?”. As Jane Jacobs said “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”, it is time women are included in creating our cities of the future.

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Does maritime mindset facilitate the processes of industrial symbiosis (IS) in port city regions?View Abstract

Research Paper: Special Sessions/Forums/Side Events 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Asia/Qatar) 2021/11/09 10:30:00 UTC - 2021/11/09 12:00:00 UTC

Private and public actors encounter difficulties in implementing the technological and organisational design of industrial ecology (IE) due to its complex nature. In some cases, IE is even regarded as the basis of the circular economy. IS is a sub-area of IE that focuses on the study of industrial networks in which resources are shared and valorised. IS is an outstanding concept in industrial ecology that focuses on networks of actors and consists of disparate units that share and valorise unused resources such as materials, energy, information, services or technologies in order to increase the circularity of the industrial system. IS engages “traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water and by-products. The keys to industrial symbiosis are collaboration and the synergistic possibilities offered by geographic proximity”. Opinions differ among researchers on the need for geographical proximity for industrial symbiosis to succeed: it is ‘neither necessary nor sufficient’ to IS, which extends the perimeter of IS to non-physical flows such as information, knowledge, technologies and services. Two models of industrial symbiosis exist: the self-organized industrial symbiosis model and the planned industrial symbiosis model. The obstacles to the implementation of IS are the lack of exchange of information between actors, the lack of cooperation and trust between actors and the lack of awareness among local communities. The ports are the place with the highest concentration of chemical, fuel and energy production facilities, a strategic area for energy supply, many times with a decive (petro)chemical sector and a focal point for the development of IS, as a large number of objects from different industrial sectors are concentrated here. Social and institutional pressure on ports to reduce their environmental impact is increasing, as is the possible depletion of some resources. Collective maritime thinking (we all belong to the port, the port belongs to us), typically developed in port city regions and increasing identification with port development and port processes, could reduce the above-mentioned obstacles to IS implementation. Typically, local actors could act to create local physical and governmental conditions that favour the emergence and further development of IS in a particular regional industrial system. To test this premise, the following questions must be answered: What is maritime mindset? How is it structured? Is maritime mindset something that refers to a particular employment or social structure? Does maritime mindset influence the actors in the IS business models? Does the maritime mindset build cooperation between actors, increase their trust and enable better communication? Is maritime mindset a value that has evolved from the past into the future? The aim of the paper is to show that social and cultural links between actors (citizens, stakeholders, employees, owners, etc.) have an important influence on such complex systems as port cities and technological innovations such as IS.

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