Conceptualising Regeneration in the New Deal for Communities

This paper aims to unpack the term “regeneration”, using a discourse analysis approach to examine the ways in which local actors involved in a New Deal for Communities partnership in Newcastle upon Tyne formulate their understandings of regeneration. The paper finds that “regeneration” is a term that has been taken up and used by local actors who have not considered its meaning in any substantive depth, and argues that this is the result of both the powerful policy discourse surrounding regeneration, and the lack of dialogue locally about the nature of the problems to be addressed. The paper concludes by arguing for regeneration partnerships to be given the time and support to discuss local issues in order to facilitate partnership working and develop an appropriate agenda for regeneration.     

GIUSEPPE PAGANO: A Rationalist caught between Theories and Practices of Fascist Italy

The architecture of a modern building is viewed and defined as a whole: the so-called decorative detail does not exist, only the intelligent and strictly controlled technical detail. The aesthetic basis—both social and technical at the same time—of modern architecture is reproduced in the three-dimensional composition.¹     

Outcomes from Community Engagement in Urban Regeneration: Evidence from England's New Deal for Communities Programme

This article assesses the potential for non-statutory planning tools, Local Landscape Designations (LLDs), to deliver rural development in Scotland. This research is motivated by new Scottish guidance which encourages designations in general, and LLDs in particular, to be more positive, strategic tools for rural development activities. LLDs were originally conceived to protect and enhance significant areas of valued countryside yet they remain neglected in contemporary planning research and policy. A critical assessment of LLDs across Scotland was undertaken using both primary and secondary data. The results reveal a significant mismatch between positive national guidance and local authority policy and planner attitudes, the latter characterised by more protectionist positions and limited strategic planning. Although case study findings in Aberdeenshire reveal that more planning applications in LLDs have conditional approvals as opposed to the wider countryside, key differences have more to do with the subjective views and priorities of planning committees rather than the efficacy of LLDs per se. The article concludes that the current conceptualisation, operation and performance of LLDs needs to be more robust, and better aligned to reflect a positive focus on community and rural development matters in order to differentiate them from wider countryside policies. However, augmenting resources to reflect the increased attention to the landscape agenda in Scotland is a core prerequisite.     

新农村社区建筑节能工作的基本原则与思路

新农村社区属于城市和乡村的混合模式,尚未纳入国家建筑节能标准的强制管理范围。为了保证新农村社区建筑节能工作的健康发展,要明确牢记社会主义新农村建设的宗旨,尊重农民的主体地位,因地制宜、量力而行的原则;合理运用市场、政府和第三方等三大调控力量,构建建筑节能工作平台并规范各种角色的行为,加强技术、资金和制度三大支柱建设。     

美国驻华使馆新馆工程管理与施工技术

新建美国驻华大使馆工程位于北京市第三使馆区,占地面积4万多m^2,由8栋楼构成。业主为美国政府,设计为国际著名的设计公司SOM,总承包商为美国公司ZCJV联合体,北京建工集团是国内唯一的承包商。     

美国纽约市建筑高度控制方法探析

对建筑高度进行控制是土地利用规划的一项重要内容。控制高度不仅有维护建筑和街道采光、通风等功能上的需求,也是保护城市风貌、塑造城市形态的一种手段。在开放的市场环境下,建筑高度受到多种因素的影响,我国目前控制性详细规划在管控建筑高度上也出现明显的失效问题,因此如何合理有效地加以控制并给城市土地开发以一定的灵活性是值得深入研究的问题。论文以纽约市为研究案例,探讨区划技术中建筑高度控制的产生、发展演变和现行的技术手段。并重点阐述在自由市场经济的背景下,区划如何以保障街道和周围环境的采光通风为基本前提,逐步结合对城市空间形态的塑造,将高度控制作为实现更积极的规划意图的工具。     

Participatory Building Communities and the Production of Design Knowledge

Using as my case studies postwar Levittown remodeling and present-day IKEA hacking, I explain how members of participatory building communities find creative expression through modifying standardized commercial products. By sharing their personalized design practices, commenting on each other's ideas, and engaging in a group of like-minded customizers, community members build social capital through the merger of personal and collective intelligence. The ways in which these communities create and perform design knowledge have serious implications for questions of production and expertise within architectural practice.     

Designing New Canadian Communities

This paper concerns the first active response on the national level to the problem of low-cost housing. It attempts to show the coming together of reformers, businessmen, and professionals within the social context of the time to supply unprecedented answers to an existing problem. It focuses particularly on the U.S. Housing Corporation as typical of the early response to the problem of housing in the United States. Of particular concern is the reluctance of the participants to commit themselves to continuing federal housing action.