Our contribution is part of the broader attempt to focus on the specificities/responsibilities of urban planning expertise for creating or contrasting (by design) the conditions of spatial in/justice in cities and territories, and then to be able to operationalize spatial justice (as suggested by Cozzolino and Jonkman in the Conference 2022). The contribution is focused on a deep small-scale interventions analysis as a way for verifying essential components of justice in space. The proposed working hypothesis derives from the critical comparison of various specific interventions focusing on conditions of justice in space in which we try to define the “spatial qualities of a just space” according to: - Availability (of public space, goods, resources) - physical and non-physical Accessibility (i.e., physical and cultural barriers), - Responsiveness to the needs of local communities (inclusive/exclusive sociality, ...) - Habitability (I can feel comfortable there ...) - Healthiness and Safety (I can stay there without taking risks…) These specific spatial conditions produce significant positive effects on users/inhabitants which are enabled by that. It means that people are not forced or limited in any way but they can freely meet, exchange, build up new relationships, and, last but not least, participate in the social life/community. Within these research evidences, the main idea is to share this practical “knowledge and tools for Social Justice design” at the small scale within the international scientific community in order to: - consider these learnings within an appropriate scale and repeatability in urban design, - formalize addresses of spatial justice, less as wishful thinking and more in terms of practical changes. From one side, the research highlights how those interventions are explicitly connected to the individual perspective of each planner, who can simply decide (as usual) to say yes or no (Forester 1995); from the other one, it underlines the need to share Spatial Justice.
Designing the Just City: the promising life of the small urban spaces / De Leo, Daniela; Altamore, Sara. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno AESOP Annual Congress 2022 tenutosi a Tartu, Estonia).
Designing the Just City: the promising life of the small urban spaces
De Leo, DanielaWriting – Original Draft Preparation
;Sara AltamoreWriting – Original Draft Preparation
2022
Abstract
Our contribution is part of the broader attempt to focus on the specificities/responsibilities of urban planning expertise for creating or contrasting (by design) the conditions of spatial in/justice in cities and territories, and then to be able to operationalize spatial justice (as suggested by Cozzolino and Jonkman in the Conference 2022). The contribution is focused on a deep small-scale interventions analysis as a way for verifying essential components of justice in space. The proposed working hypothesis derives from the critical comparison of various specific interventions focusing on conditions of justice in space in which we try to define the “spatial qualities of a just space” according to: - Availability (of public space, goods, resources) - physical and non-physical Accessibility (i.e., physical and cultural barriers), - Responsiveness to the needs of local communities (inclusive/exclusive sociality, ...) - Habitability (I can feel comfortable there ...) - Healthiness and Safety (I can stay there without taking risks…) These specific spatial conditions produce significant positive effects on users/inhabitants which are enabled by that. It means that people are not forced or limited in any way but they can freely meet, exchange, build up new relationships, and, last but not least, participate in the social life/community. Within these research evidences, the main idea is to share this practical “knowledge and tools for Social Justice design” at the small scale within the international scientific community in order to: - consider these learnings within an appropriate scale and repeatability in urban design, - formalize addresses of spatial justice, less as wishful thinking and more in terms of practical changes. From one side, the research highlights how those interventions are explicitly connected to the individual perspective of each planner, who can simply decide (as usual) to say yes or no (Forester 1995); from the other one, it underlines the need to share Spatial Justice.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
