sebastien Darchen

This chapter analyses the densification process of a former industrial neighbourhood in the inner city of Montreal known as Griffintown within the South-West Borough and the role of compulsory acquisition in this process. The methods of data collection included semi-structured interviews with selected stakeholders involved in the densification process. The chapter has shown that social sustainability for the area has been promoted through initiatives happening outside the compulsory acquisition process. It also analyses which planning tools were applied for the densification of the area. As stated by Breux and Bedard some large-scale redevelopment initiatives in Montreal in the early 2000s such the new Casino project and the Griffintown densification were large enough to be considered as an "Urban Project". The Ministry of Quebec Transport agreed to finance 50 per cent of a new housing project of 103 dwellingsto be located in Griffintown and completed in 2019.

Darchen, Sebastien and Tremblaay, Diane-Gabrielle (2010). La thèse de la «classe créative» : Revue des écrits et perspectives de recherche. In Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Rémy Tremblay (Ed.), La classe creative selon Richard Florida : Un paradigme urbain plausible? (pp. 17-37) Quebec, Canada: Presses de l'Université du Québec. ... La classe creative selon Richard Florida : Un paradigme urbain plausible?

The video game industry is a creative industry, however we know little of the policy framework that sustains this sector. In this article we compare two Canadian case studies (Toronto, Montreal) with two Australian case studies (Brisbane, Melbourne). Through the different levels of maturation within these video game hubs we can identify and contrast different policy models. We describe the different case examples as follows: Montreal is a leading video game hub internationally and Toronto is an emerging hub in Canada; Australia is considered as a contender on the international scale, as Melbourne is the leading video game hub in Australia and Brisbane is a former leading hub (recently experiencing decline). Our research is based on interviews with policy advisors at the City and State levels as well as game developers. We also provide an extensive analysis of relevant policy documents to demonstrate the evolution of the policy, specifically the financial incentives made available. T...

ABSTRACT This paper analyses how social sustainability is implemented in private-led regeneration processes and which understanding of the “social” foregrounds the implementation of sustainability in Montreal. The case studies are two new residential projects led by the private sector participating in the transformation of the Southwest Borough in Montreal. The analysis is based on six components used to evaluate the operationalisation of social sustainability for new residential projects as well on the analysis of opportunities to negotiate the “social” in the implementation of sustainability. The two case studies, Griffintown and the Bassins-du-Nouveau Havre projects are examples of brownfield regeneration in a former industrial area along the Lachine Canal known as the South West Borough. We have used semi-structured interviews with the stakeholders as the main source for data collection, a review of press articles and an analysis of the principal planning documents related to each project. If the second example is more convincing in regards to the operationalisation of social sustainability, there is a lack of incentives for developers to integrate social sustainability principles in their development in the Montreal context. Planning instruments should impose more constraints on developers and municipalities should have more financial resources to negotiate with developers what the “social” should be.

Planning education is often criticized for being " too theoretical " and subsequently producing graduates who lack the requisite technical skills for the job market – who, in other words, are not " work ready. " It is assumed that employers will prefer graduates with technical and procedural know-how. This article reports on an employer workshop to evaluate the urban planning studio courses at the University of Queensland in Australia. The results were surprising. The attending employers agreed that procedural planning skills can be learned " on the job " while the university environment is an opportunity to develop critical and spatial thinking.

Hundreds of electronic festivals around the world have been cancelled. Some events have gone underground. In one case, more than 1,200 people were charged over an illegal rave party in Brittany that violated France's COVID restrictions. Electronic dance music uses specific spaces in a city, so it's heavily affected by both cultural and planning policies. Our new book, Electronic Cities, studies these scenes. The contributors focus on 18 cities across the world as case studies in the development of electronic music. The world of DJs has been studied before, but not the impacts of city policies on such a global scale. The book shows electronic music is not well integrated in cultural policies and gets little support. Music city policies often do not include this music genre.

Home-based work is becoming an increasingly popular form of work in cities, fuelled by technological advances, lifestyle preferences, demographical change and rapid evolution of the knowledge economy. In many cities, particularly those planned and developed with intentional separation of land uses, this return of economic activities to residential neighbourhoods brings along both lifestyle opportunities and spatial challenges. Attempts to formulate appropriate urban planning responses are hindered by the limited understanding of home-based workers' needs and aspirations, as well as their impacts on the built environment. Responding to this knowledge gap, this paper presents the results of a survey focused on urban planning implications of home-based work within the City of Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia). The findings provide strong evidence of home-based workers' preferences for neighbourhoods that integrate residential amenities with place-making initiatives to enhance economic performance, networking and collaboration. Several urban planning recommendations are provided in three separate scenarios to facilitate the formulation of strategies prompting a gradual evolution of residential neighbourhoods towards live/work urban environments.

This paper analyses the contextual and external factors enabling the emergence and implementation of planning innovations in a regeneration context. It draws upon sustainability transitions theory to define the concept of planning innovation. The paper is based on semistructured interviews with urban stakeholders involved in the redevelopment process of the Lyon Confluence regeneration project. The case study of Lyon Confluence is the largest regeneration scheme in Europe and features several planning innovations related to environmental sustainability. The main finding is that planning innovations rely on both contextual and external factors. While contextual factors were essential in generating planning innovations in the case study; external factors relating to the development of actors’ networks operating at different scales enabled new financing opportunities for innovation.

As stated in the Introduction, the 12 case studies presented in the book provide
responses to 8 of the 17 sustainability goals stated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development presented by the United Nations. This does not mean that the
planning innovations analysed in this edited volume are the only answers to the
sustainability challenges presented in the 2030 agenda. The planning innovations
analysed should be considered as avenues for change but they are the not the only
solution to a given sustainability challenge. In that sense, the book highlights the
prevalence of contextual factors in shaping planning innovation in a given context.
One of main research questions that this edited volume aimed at answering was:
Has the concept of sustainability made a difference in urban planning practice?

Overarching aim As the world becomes more and more urbanised, it is urgent to propose solutions to solve current sustainability challenges for the three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability. This edited volume focuses on the politics of sustainability by examining the socio-political, economic and institutional context of urban sustainability innovations and how this shapes the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability in the implementation of innovative solutions. As the book analyses the procedural side of sustainability it offers a new perspective on the implementation of sustainability that will be useful and attractive to both planning professionals and academics. The analysis of sustainable solutions to current challenges is centred on the concept of innovation. Innovative solutions are part of a sustainability transition process. This process is characterised by contextual factors that are city-specific. But this process, in a globalised world, can also be influenced by external factors (such as urban policies or planning models applied in other contexts) and/ or the networks in which a city might be involved that facilitate the circulation of planning solutions from one context to another. The book's structure is based on the recognition that planning solutions for sustainability cross three arenas: the social arena, the environmental arena and the urban economic arena. Finally, the book analyses to what extent planning innovations can be transferred from one context to another: we thus reference the transferability of innovations. Defining urban sustainability Why is yet another book on urban sustainability needed? Thirty years after the Brundtland report, planners still focus on sustainability. Sustainability is considered

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The regeneration of inner-city areas is a global challenge. Inner cities in France certainly have their problems, but the nation also has a good record of successful major urban regeneration projects. We have analysed three of these initiatives to understand what factors contribute to good regeneration outcomes.

A B S T R A C T This paper focuses on the development of Hong Kong's cultural economy and its translation into urban space. On the one hand it focuses on recent economic development and planning strategies to develop a post-colonial identity based on the international cachet of attracting creative industries. On the other hand, it considers the development of grassroots initiatives that herald the potential articulation of Hong Kong as a culturally dense global city. These grassroots initiatives are analyzed from the perspective of their problematic relationship with urban space, and how urban planning both supports and hinders cultural development. The paper argues that top-down planning is in large part catalytic, yet at the same time can run counter to the development of genuine artistic expression. It stresses the importance of 'middleground' actors in facilitating the development of spaces for artistic creation, particularly in their productive interlocking with different forms of artistic expression and public policy initiatives. The middleground can be conceived of as a relational space produced by various processes, actors and structures operating at different scales between institutional actors and the interests of 'underground' creativity. The article concludes by problematizing the role of middleground actors and underlines the value of 'unpacking' the middleground in order to account for the contested and negotiated processes it embodies. Renewed attention to these processes will contribute to enhancing the development of sites of artistic expression in Hong Kong and other emergent contemporary contexts.

A B S T R A C T A city can be divided into areas that are served by transit and those that are not. In this study, the former is referred to as " transit-served areas (TSAs) ". To quantify, monitor and visualise the TSAs of the Southeast Queensland (SEQ), this study analyses half-year smartcard data between 2012 and 2013 from TransLink, the transit agency for SEQR For scenarios are prescribed and four corresponding metrics (the minimum, actual, random and maximum travels) are calculated, which reflect transit riders' different levels of elasticity of distance travelled (EDT) relative to the cost of travel within or between TSAs and how transit riders could possibly travel as EDT varies. The total trips generated by or attracted to TSA and the temporal and spatial variations of these metrics across days are used to monitor TSAs, especially transit trips within or between them. The results indicate that transit trips attracted to, and generated by TSA and transit trips between TSAs vary significantly over time and across space. Across the scenarios, the temporal variance tends to be larger as EDT becomes more inelastic. The above results provide useful references for decision-makers to understand better the ranges of transit demand (by TSA) across the space and time when EDT is a variable.

This paper analyses the emergence and evolution of the video game 'hub' in Brisbane (Australia). The aim is to determine if agglomerations of video game companies have necessarily the attributes of a creative cluster. Policy implications are then discussed. The research methodology included semi-directed interviews with policy advisors and video game developers in Brisbane. It also included an analysis of the main policy documents related to the video game industry in Brisbane. The conclusion is that the video game industry for Brisbane is embedded in the technology sector and these agglomerations do not have yet the attributes of a creative cluster. The advent of new platforms based on the internet for the production of games has enabled small-scale companies to produce games successfully outside the main geographic cluster. The video game 'hub' in Brisbane has become specialised in mobile phone games. It functions more like a 'networked community' rather than as a spatially-bounded industry cluster. The paper suggests developing flexible ways to accommodate creative workers in the city when they need to be physically there. The recent spread of co-working spaces in Brisbane appears as an adequate policy answer in the context of a mid-sized city.

This article analyses the governance arrangements underlying the regeneration process of a central area in Los Angeles from the 1970s until now. The Arts District is emblematic of this rising interest from developers in central places that were just 45 years ago either 'no man's land' or illegally occupied by artists. The analysis applies three main governance models that have been used in contemporary research to explain urban regeneration processes – Private type; Bottom-up; and Consensus-building – to look at the following research question: Are these models sufficient to characterise regeneration processes in the network society context? Data for the analysis were collected through semi-structured interviews with social actors as well as from policy documents related to adaptive re-use. The main finding is that the governance arrangements during the main phase of the regeneration of the area do not fit with the governance models uti-lised for the analysis. A group of new entrepreneurs are active in re(scaling) processes: they use 'spaceless' interactions – professional networks at the national scale – to influence the evolution of the area. The ANT framework is used to analyse why and how these networks play in the regeneration process. The innovative regeneration process is like a 'translation' process where professional networks play an important role in 'enrolling actors' but also in 'circulating the trans-lation', thus establishing this regeneration model at the national scale in America.

This article analyses the governance arrangements underlying the regeneration process of a central area in Los Angeles from the 1970s until now. The Arts District is emblematic of this rising interest from developers in central places that were just 45 years ago either 'no man's land' or illegally occupied by artists. The analysis applies three main governance models that have been used in contemporary research to explain urban regeneration processes – Private type; Bottom-up; and Consensus-building – to look at the following research question: Are these models sufficient to characterise regeneration processes in the network society context? Data for the analysis were collected through semi-structured interviews with social actors as well as from policy documents related to adaptive re-use. The main finding is that the governance arrangements during the main phase of the regeneration of the area do not fit with the governance models uti-lised for the analysis. A group of new entrepreneurs are active in re(scaling) processes: they use 'spaceless' interactions – professional networks at the national scale – to influence the evolution of the area. The ANT framework is used to analyse why and how these networks play in the regeneration process. The innovative regeneration process is like a 'translation' process where professional networks play an important role in 'enrolling actors' but also in 'circulating the trans-lation', thus establishing this regeneration model at the national scale in America.

Richard Florida propose dans sa thèse du développement économique en milieu urbain dite de la «classe créative» une conception innovante de la notion de capital humain en se fondant sur ce qu'il nomme le capital créatif. Dans le cadre de cette article, nous nous attachons à mieux cerner la définition de la notion de capital créatif proposée par l'auteur ainsi que les attributs qu'une ville doit posséder afin d'attirer ce capital et de le mettre en valeur. Notre objectif est d'expliciter la méthodologie utilisée afin de valoriser la ...

ABSTRACT Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to review sustainable planning literature and investigate a major development in an Australian regional city, looking for broad sustainable insights to improve urban growth management. Design/methodology/approach ‐ First, the authors sketched the backdrop to Ipswich and looked for the drivers propelling its rapid growth. They then generated a sustainability framework from the urban regeneration literature. In the empirical phase, they analysed a major development ‐ the Icon project. They evaluated three of five regeneration domains using secondary sources, site observations and interviews with stakeholders and experts. Findings ‐ First, each city's situation is unique, so the authors proffer no simplistic development formula. Internally, cities, including Ipswich, are spatially fragmented. Second, urban regeneration extends temporally and spatially beyond the project site boundaries or deadlines. Diminished property-driven regeneration neglects the social dimensions to sustainable housing or relegates it to an afterthought, but community participation is insufficient. Government needs to seed or drive (directly or via incentives) substantive social transformation. Projects supported with credible community social development are less risky, but, in competing for investment funds, local government can rush approve unsuitable projects. Research limitations/implications ‐ The analysis focused on the planning and urban design aspects of the project. Only limited demographic, economic and social analyses were conducted, and the study would also benefit from interviews with a broader sample of experts. Practical implications ‐ Sustainable urban regeneration needs to consider not only the unique mix of regional growth drivers and constraints, but also specific local precinct characteristics. Intelligently configured community consultation should inform but not dilute design leadership. Originality/value ‐ This work investigates appropriate urban responses to growth pressure for sustainable outcomes in fast-growing regional cities.

1 Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier les concepts sur lesquels s' appuie la thèse de la classe créative développée par Richard Florida quant à l'analyse des dynamiques économiques contemporaines, notamment en ce qui a trait à sa définition du capital humain (ou des talents, pour reprendre ses termes) en tant que facteur déterminant du développement économique en milieu urbain. Pour ce faire, nous nous intéressons à deux points en particulier, soit l'origine de la théorie et son apport en ce qui concerne les ...

Réalisée dans le cadre d'une recherche portant sur les représentations de la relance et du déclin de Montréal, cette bibliographie répertorie les articles parus dans les journaux spécialisés traitant du domaine des affaires et de la promotion économique (Les Affaires, Commerce, Forces, Affaires Plus, Gestion, PME). La bibliographie a été réalisée en vue de dégager les principales représentations qui ont été mises en avant eu égard à la santé économique de la région de Montréal depuis les années 1960 chez les élites ...

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Le cas de Saint-Laurent1 est typique de ces territoires de proche banlieue où les pratiques d'aménagement et de promotion visent à favoriser une transition économique vers les secteurs de la haute technologie. L'objectif, dans le cadre de ce chapitre, est de caractériser ces pratiques pour la période la plus récente (1980-2000) en les comparant avec celles qui ont caractérisé la période antérieure de développement du territoire (1950-1980). En ce qui concerne la périodisation, nous nous intéressons à la phase de forte industrialisation du ...