Spatial fragmentation as an opportunity for resilience building through urban acupuncture: Learning from Tehran and Bucharest

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Abstract

The rapid urbanization of metropolitan environments worldwide has led to increasing spatial fragmentation. Disconnected spaces have revealed spatial and social voids that reduce the adaptive capacity of a region. However, these spaces also offer latent potential for urban resilience. Accordingly, this study reveals how urban acupuncture promotes resilience in leftover spaces to reduce or embrace spatial fragmentation. This paper reviews spatial fragmentation and urban resilience from descriptive-analytical and normative perspectives. It proposes urban acupuncture to locate critical spatial structures and processes on a small scale. The study develops a conceptual framework around fragmentation and urban acupuncture. It investigates the assumptions behind the concepts of spatial fragmentation and proposes a dialectical framing of vacancy based on resilience and urban acupuncture, along with a reassessment of leftover space as a planning tool. The framework’s application is demonstrated in Tehran and Bucharest. As a result, spatial fragmentation significantly influences urban resilience to prevent expansion. Urban acupuncture opens the possibility of developing optimistic scenarios by considering leftover spaces and the broader opportunities they generate for urban resilience. Depending on the urban context, this strategy can be applied through a single intervention in a specific place or a network of coordinated interventions in different locations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationXXIX International Seminar on Urban Form
Subtitle of host publicationISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective: 6th June – 11th September 2022, Łódź–Kraków
EditorsAnna Agata Kantarek, Małgorzata Hanzl, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka
Place of PublicationŁódź
PublisherLodz University Press
Pages1144-1156
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)978-83-67934-03-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventISUF 2022: XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form: Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation. A Multidisciplinary Perspective - Various venues, Łódź/Kraków, Poland
Duration: 6 Sept 202211 Sept 2022
Conference number: ISUF 2022
https://isuf2022.org/

Seminar

SeminarISUF 2022: XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityŁódź/Kraków
Period6/09/2211/09/22
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Keywords

  • leftover space
  • resilience
  • spatial fragmentation
  • urban acupuncture

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