Conveners
T_04 GOVERNANCE (O): L9 - Governance
- Mustafa Kemal Bayฤฑrbaฤ (Middle East Technical University)
The Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) policy has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable urban planning, aiming to balance urban development with land conservation by 2050. Rooted in the EU Soil Strategy for 2030 and the Biodiversity Strategy, these policies emphasize land protection and renaturalization but allow for variability in member state implementation. This study provides a comprehensive...
Many cities in the world today are facing the slowdown in economic growth, the reduction in fiscal revenue, and the resulting challenges in public space governance. With the slowdown in China's economic growth, urban construction has also entered the stock regeneration era from incremental development. Community planning and community regeneration based on the built environment require the...
This research aims to explore appropriate metropolitan management mechanisms through the analysis of Indonesian cases. Indonesia has experienced rapid urbanization over the past few decades. Before the turn of the century, nearly 60% of Indonesia's population still lived in rural areas. However, today, the urban and rural population ratios have completely reversed. By 2023, the urban...
Social innovation has long been hailed for its potential to tackle urgent social and economic challenges, particularly in academic and policy circles. It is seen as a means of enhancing local welfare by generating public goods and services while promoting collective empowerment. From a planning perspective, social innovation is viewed as a transformative tool capable of reshaping social...
Rural development, aimed at reducing the disparities between urban and rural areas, remains a significant global challenge under climate change, land conflicts, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. UN-Habitat has proposed enhancing urban-rural linkages as a means to address this issue. In China, rural revitalization has been promoted as a national strategy through enhancing the flow...
