Beyond the Edge: Australia's First National Peri-Urban Conference La Trobe University Oct 2013

1. Territories-in-between:
the diversity of peri-urban development in Europe
Vincent Nadin & Alex Wandl
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

2. Territories-in-between:
the diversity of peri-urban development in Europe
Vincent Nadin & Alex Wandl
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

3. Delft looking North from Neue Kirk, 2011, VN
Nordeinde, Delft

4. Tirol, AW
Shetland Islands, VN
Peak District near Castleton 2011, VN

5. Growth rates of urban agglomerations 1970 – 2011
Source: UN World Urbanisation Prospects 2011
http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps

6. Growth rates of urban agglomerations 2011 - 2025
Source: UN World Urbanisation Prospects 2011
http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps

7. Average annual rate of change of urban population 1950 - 2020
6.00
5.00
Country & proportion urban
population
4.00
Australia 89%
3.00
United Kingdom 80%
Netherlands 85%
2.00
Brazil 84%
China 54%
1.00
—
UN Population Division (2012) World Urbanization
Prospects 2011 Revision, File 6

8. population change 1950 - 2015
120,000
Netherlands
100,000
United Kingdom
Australia
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
1950
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Source: UN Population Division

9. population change 1950 - 2015
3,000,000
China
2,500,000
India
Netherlands
2,000,000
United Kingdom
1,500,000
Australia
1,000,000
500,000
0
1950
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Source: UN Population Division

10. Beijing
Shanghai
Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Source: Jinghuan He, TU Delft

11. Shanghai planning history – strategies
Source Jinghuan He, TU Delft

12. Shanghai planned development in 1959 vs actual development in 1984
N
0
3
6
9km
Legend
Development that conforms to the
plan
Planned development without
implementation
Unplanned development
Source: Jinghuan He, TU Delft
12

13. Shanghai planned development in 1986 vs actual development in 1997
N
0
3
6
9km
Legend
Development that conforms to the
plan
Planned development without
implementation
Unplanned development
Source: Jinghuan He, TU Delft

14. Shanghai planned development in 1999 vs actual development in 2010
N
0
3
6
9km
Legend
Development that conforms to the
plan
Planned development without
implementation
Unplanned development
Source: Jinghuan He, TU Delft

15. population, economic growth, and
prosperity
competition between ‘local
governments’
multi-level & sector cooperation
tools that assume control
speculation
public attitudes
Who wins and loses?

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18. Source: CEC (2010) Fifth Report on Social, Economic and
Territorial Cohesion, Luxembourg: OOPEC, p. 67

19. RS
Shifting conceptualisations of the core of Europe
Blue Banana (Brunet 1989)
Golden Triangle (Williams 1993)
Central Regions (CEC 2001h)
Coastal sprawl
accessible rural areas
accessible rural areas
HE
Pentagon (Schön 2000, CEC 2007b)
Source: Dühr, Colomb and Nadin 2010
European Spatial Planning

20. city urbanisation
fringe
post-modern
edge city
spread city Randstad
ring city
shadowland
peri-urbancittà diffusa
development
Annähernd Perfekte Peripherie
Stadtlandschaft
middle landscapes
Tussenland
hybrid geographies
territories of a new modernity
Zwischenstadt
accessible rural areas

21. city urbanisation
fringe
post-modern
edge city
spread city Randstad
ring city
territories-inshadowland
peri-urbancittà diffusa
development
between
Annähernd Perfekte Peripherie
Stadtlandschaf
middle landscapes
t
hybrid geographies
territories of a new modernity
Tussenland
Zwischenstadt
21

22. 22

23. monocentric polycentric
corridor dispersed
23

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25. 25

26. 26

27. dispersed
27

28. 28

29. threats
‘the ignored challenge … that
threatens the very culture of
Europe’
European Environment Agency 2010
opportunities
29

30. Source: Thomas, D.
(1963) London's
Green Belt: The
Evolution of an
Idea, in the
Geographical
Journal, Vol. 129,
No. 1 (Mar., 1963),
pp. 14-24
The 1947 Finger Plan for
Copenhagen, Regional Planning
Office
contain design
landscape concede
30

31. containment

32. regional design
Principles of Spatial Development in the Austrian OstRegion (around Vienna). Source: Planunggemeinschaft Ost

33. landscape
Source: lwl.com

34. concede
1. New houses 2003-07
2. Areas of >10% pop growth
Source: Sara King, TU Delft
from Ireland Environmental Protection Agency & Urbis
Spatial Data Warehouse, UCD
34

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36. policy strategy
incentives zoning
36

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7
3
7
37

38. conclusions

39. Land use change
hotspots
1990-2006
Source: ESPON Synthesis Report 2013, p. 44
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