Planning and Place in the City. Mapping Place Identity (2013)

MARICHELA SEPE Planning and Place in the City. Mapping Place Identity Routledge, New York, 2013, 352 p. Englis

City centre regeneration in the context of the 2001 european capital of culture in Porto, Portugal

In 2001, the city of Porto hosted the European Capital of Culture event. ' Porto 2001 ' was a year-long programme of arts, cultural events and urban regeneration activities. The purpose of this article is to discuss the city centre regeneration operation conducted in conjunction with the European Capital of Culture initiative in Porto. My objective is to extract a set of lessons learned that can be useful to other cities pursuing the same designation and strategy. The key finding is that despite rich and well-participated cultural events, too much emphasis was put on attracting public investment to regenerate the public space, replacing infrastructures, and modernizing cultural facilities. This was done at the expense of institutional capacity building and boosting civic creativity.Urban planning, regeneration, city and Culture, Portugal,

Sustainable transportation planning on college campuses

In the last decade, campus planners in the US have been struggling to provide access and mobility without destroying campus qualities as distinct communities. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how college campuses have encouraged a modal shift from cars to other modes, and in particular to bicycling and walking. I report the results of a survey of eight pre-selected bicycle and pedestrian friendly campuses. My argument is that due to their pro-active educational milieu, college campuses are privileged places to communicate sustainability and to help reshape society's transportation patterns.