Nowadays, in the urban studies field, we experimented with a lack of effectiveness in the explanations based on consolidating paradigms for several dynamics ongoing on European territories. In this issue of Ciudades, we propose a reflection about scales as an analysis tool for planners and researchers in the contemporary city. Among them, we focus on those intermediate scales (sub-regional, inter-municipal, and district/neighborhood) as 'giusta distanza' (adequate dimensions). This scale is needed to detect (i.) trends in the transformation of the post-metropolitan territories (ii.) weaknesses in their development patterns and (iii.) new interpretative figures for phenomena that would not be visible in the analysis based on conventional scales. Therefore, different contributions will support the debate on the effectiveness - and the risks - related to the images and descriptive readings of the contemporary urban spaces based on these "meso" or intermediate dimensions, disconnected from the current institutional borders. This task is even more relevant at this moment, in which urban and regional planning deals with the governance of urbanized regions and the transformation of extended metropolitan areas.

Special Issue: Explorando las escalas intermedias. Prácticas y experiencias en las dimensiones territoriales no institucionales

M. Paris
2020-01-01

Abstract

Nowadays, in the urban studies field, we experimented with a lack of effectiveness in the explanations based on consolidating paradigms for several dynamics ongoing on European territories. In this issue of Ciudades, we propose a reflection about scales as an analysis tool for planners and researchers in the contemporary city. Among them, we focus on those intermediate scales (sub-regional, inter-municipal, and district/neighborhood) as 'giusta distanza' (adequate dimensions). This scale is needed to detect (i.) trends in the transformation of the post-metropolitan territories (ii.) weaknesses in their development patterns and (iii.) new interpretative figures for phenomena that would not be visible in the analysis based on conventional scales. Therefore, different contributions will support the debate on the effectiveness - and the risks - related to the images and descriptive readings of the contemporary urban spaces based on these "meso" or intermediate dimensions, disconnected from the current institutional borders. This task is even more relevant at this moment, in which urban and regional planning deals with the governance of urbanized regions and the transformation of extended metropolitan areas.
2020
Universidad de Valladolid
978-84-1320-076-7
Hoy en día, muchos paradigmas interpretativos consolidados dentro de los estudios urbanos ya no son eficaces para explicar la dinámica heterogeneidad de los territorios. En este número de la revista Ciudades se propone una reflexión sobre el tema de las escalas como instrumentos de análisis y trabajo de la ciudad contemporánea. Entre ellas, se destaca el papel asumido por las escalas intermedias (sub-regional, intermunicipal y de distrito/barrio) como ‘giusta distanza’ (dimensiones adecuadas) para detectar (i.) algunas tendencias en los procesos de transformación del territorio post-metropolitano, (ii.) ciertas debilidades en sus patrones de desarrollo y (iii.) nuevas figuras interpretativas para unos fenómenos que serían indescifrables a través de un enfoque basado en escalas convencionales. Los distintos artículos contribuyen al debate sobre la eficacia –y los riesgos– relacionados con las imágenes y las lecturas descriptivas del territorio contemporáneo basadas en estas dimensiones “meso” o intermedias, desvinculadas de los límites institucionales actuales, y sobre la necesidad de este trabajo ahora que las políticas territoriales parecen impulsar la trasformación de la ciudad difusa
Intermediate scale
Post-Metropolis
Metropolitan governance
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
Ciudades23_numero completo_lite.pdf

accesso aperto

: Publisher’s version
Dimensione 7.35 MB
Formato Adobe PDF
7.35 MB Adobe PDF Visualizza/Apri

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11311/1152623
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact