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In this essay, the history of the Brussels architecture school La Cambre is sketched. It was established in 1928 under the guidance of Henry Van de Velde as an avant-garde elite school, but in the 1960s a certain academism emerged. This led to almost two decades of ideological and political battles, with Maurice Culot, Léon Krier and Robert Delevoy as the main protagonists. In 2011, La Cambre was integrated into the University of Brussels.

In this essay, the history of the Brussels architecture school La Cambre is sketched. It was established in 1928 under the guidance of Henry Van de Velde as an avant-garde elite school, but in the 1960s a certain academism emerged. This led to almost two decades of ideological and political battles, with Maurice Culot, Léon Krier and Robert Delevoy as the main protagonists. In 2011, La Cambre was integrated into the University of Brussels.

Despite continuous research efforts, the role of the European Union regard­ing spatial planning remains unclear. This article proposes to employ the concepts of soft spaces and soft planning to better comprehend how Euro­pean spatial planning finds its way into the national planning systems. The EU contributes to the creation of soft spaces, differing from administrative entities, while at the same time, it acts as a driver of soft planning, focusing – both for strategic and legal reasons – on coordination, cooperation and mutual learning, rather than 'hard', regulatory planning. The article claims further that instead of depicting the connections between the EU and its member states, research should pay increased attention to the encounter of European and domestic planning within a country. The scales, actors and instruments that deal with EU inputs within a country might prove to be crucial factors that ultimately determine the impact of EU policies on spatial planning. To illustrate the encounter of European and domestic planning in the light of soft and hard planning, the article introduces a conceptual framework and thereby provides an outline for further empirical research. ; The paper is published by the European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD). The previous version of the journal was host by Nordregio. The same version of the paper can also be found in NordPub.

This dissertation explores affordable housing options in Canada's westernmost Province, British Columbia in the 21st century. The projects are carried out based on corporations between provincial housing programs, the architects' and communities' commitment as well as the private building sectors. The aim of this dissertation is to emphasise the role and impact of architecture on gentrification, from an art historical perspective. The depicted case studies will be examined in context of the neighbourhood they are placed in, which are either in the process of urban transition or already gentrified. The premise is to elaborate more on the question: What role does architecture play in the process of gentrifying neighbourhoods and how does affordable housing fit in this scenario? Findings show that despite the lack of constitutional right to affordable and liveable housing in Canada there are significant architectural projects that help to meet the needs and desires of low to middle income tenants and home owners. Since origins of affordable housing can be traced back to Europe's late 19th and early 20th century a brief overview will be given on the emergence of the idea of housing settlements, arts-and-crafts-movement, Red Vienna and housing politics under the Weimar Republic.

In this article, we demonstrate that the ocean is a space of politics and explore the what, who, and how of ocean governance. We first sketch the governance architecture and examine challenges and shortcomings concerning political authority. Starting from a definition of "ocean governance," we highlight that two fundamentally different regulatory approaches are applied to the ocean: a spatial ordering on the one hand and a sectoral segmentation on the other. States are the central actors regulating the use and protection of marine areas, but state sovereignty is stratified, with diminishing degrees of authority farther from the shoreline. As vast marine spaces are beyond the exclusive control of any given territorial state, political authority beyond areas of national jurisdiction must first be created to enable collective decision-making. Consequently, a multitude of authorities regulate human activities in the ocean, producing overlaps, conflicting policies, and gaps. Based on recent contributions to the fast-growing ocean governance research field, we provide a thematic overview structured along the dimensions of maritime security, protection of the marine environment, and economics to unveil patterns of authority in ocean governance.

Para la arquitectura, la década de los sesenta y siguientes quedó como el momento de grandes acontecimientos que tuvieron la intención de cambiar los paradigmas sociales, políticos, económicos e ideológicos dominantes en sociedades industrializadas y desarrolladas. Movimientos y corrientes contraculturales que se añadieron al extenso y complejo panorama ideológico que Charles Jencks representó en su gráfico en el año 1971. Con el paso del tiempo, el cambio de milenio y la consolidación de una arquitectura global, dejaron de expresar acciones o pensamientos colectivos, para ser sustituidos por nombres propios de arquitectos o de las principales empresas productoras de la arquitectura. El texto de este artículo reflexiona críticamente sobre esta cuestión y aprovecha la capacidad de determinadas ideas que sugieren investigaciones actuales publicadas en este número, para proponer un entramado cultural que transitaría al margen de las arquitecturas representativas del pensamiento global. ; For architecture, the Sixties and following decades were times of great events that had the intention of changing the social, political, economic and ideological paradigms dominant in industrialized and developed societies. Countercultural movements and currents were added to the extensive and complex ideological panorama that Charles Jencks represented in his flowchart in 1971. With the passage of time, the change of millennium and the consolidation of a global architecture, ceased to express collective actions or thoughts, being replaced by the names of the architects themselves, or the main companies producing the architecture. The text of this article reflects critically on this question and takes advantage of the capacity of certain ideas that current research evokes, to propose a cultural framework that would move to the margin of the architecture representative of global thought.

Real estate development is a highly regulated, high value industry: this book examines0its efficiency, its role in shaping the built environment and its relationship with planning and planners. It considers issues such as the role of the state development and property markets and whether it is valid to blame the planning systems for dysfunctional housing markets. It also provides a useful grounding into development companies' decision making and how the property development process, financing and pricing system operates in a market economy. It explains the UK's Development Led system and Development Appraisals, before comparing various alternative international systems to see how they treat, or prioritise, Real Estate and Development Interests. It questions which policies might lead to high levels of speculative activity and if so, whether this is sustainable, in political, economic or environmental terms. It looks to the future to see whether the planning system can prevent future property bubbles and identifies key lessons and implications for planning and property markets.