The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area
<div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">As urban societies seek to redefine themselves fo...
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| author | Giuseppe Roccasalva Amanda Pluviano |
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| description | <div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">As urban societies seek to redefine themselves following the decline of manufacturing, they are left with physical and social transformations supported by successive stages of industrial growth and shrinking. At the same time, new paradigms are developed in urban planning to address the challenge of cities that are declining and cities whose population is rapidly rising. As such, these attempts raise the need to understand the impact of the street network on how cities thrive or shrink, additionally to social, cultural and economic changes. This paper uses space syntax methodology and a comprehensive mapping of industrial distribution to analyse the evolution of Turin (capital of car manufacturing in Italy) and its relationship to industry from 1920 to the present. </span></p> <p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">The paper focuses on the morphological clustering of industrial sites and how alternative concepts for planning development may be generated. The analysis showed that industry began within the urban core along the primary routes of global-scale movement. However, as a new era of economic production took place at the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, the street network and industry followed a different spatial logic. Industrial activities spread along the periphery in island clusters in close proximity to global arteries of movement. Turin’s centre, on the other hand retained a backbone of integrated streets that enabled its reinforcement when industry relocated. The analysis of their historic development shows that new concepts should be informed by <span>quantitative analysis of the evolution of the urban street network and its effects on economic activity, </span>such that the configurational logical described may provide the basis for future guideline policies.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98636425ce1d4ded907c9c5e0e73fcbe2024-04-02T02:00:05ZengUniversità di Napoli Federico IITeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment1970-98891970-98702012-11-015372010.6092/1970-9870/1221835The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan AreaGiuseppe Roccasalva0Amanda Pluviano1Politecnico di Torino, SiTI /Laq-TIP (High Quality Lab-Territorial Integration Project), Faculty of ArchitectureThe Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL<div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">As urban societies seek to redefine themselves following the decline of manufacturing, they are left with physical and social transformations supported by successive stages of industrial growth and shrinking. At the same time, new paradigms are developed in urban planning to address the challenge of cities that are declining and cities whose population is rapidly rising. As such, these attempts raise the need to understand the impact of the street network on how cities thrive or shrink, additionally to social, cultural and economic changes. This paper uses space syntax methodology and a comprehensive mapping of industrial distribution to analyse the evolution of Turin (capital of car manufacturing in Italy) and its relationship to industry from 1920 to the present. </span></p> <p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">The paper focuses on the morphological clustering of industrial sites and how alternative concepts for planning development may be generated. The analysis showed that industry began within the urban core along the primary routes of global-scale movement. However, as a new era of economic production took place at the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, the street network and industry followed a different spatial logic. Industrial activities spread along the periphery in island clusters in close proximity to global arteries of movement. Turin’s centre, on the other hand retained a backbone of integrated streets that enabled its reinforcement when industry relocated. The analysis of their historic development shows that new concepts should be informed by <span>quantitative analysis of the evolution of the urban street network and its effects on economic activity, </span>such that the configurational logical described may provide the basis for future guideline policies.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p>http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/1221Urban morphology, Configuration analyses, Industrial development, Econometric analyses |
| spellingShingle | Giuseppe Roccasalva Amanda Pluviano The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment Urban morphology, Configuration analyses, Industrial development, Econometric analyses |
| title | The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area |
| title_full | The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area |
| title_fullStr | The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area |
| title_short | The Clustering Effect of Industrial Sites: Turning Morphology into Guidelines for Future Developments within the Turin Metropolitan Area |
| title_sort | clustering effect of industrial sites turning morphology into guidelines for future developments within the turin metropolitan area |
| topic | Urban morphology, Configuration analyses, Industrial development, Econometric analyses |
| url | http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/1221 |
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