The Contribution of Peri-Urban Characterisation to the Development of Sense of Place Indicators

Žlender, Vita and Brišnik, Rok (2023) The Contribution of Peri-Urban Characterisation to the Development of Sense of Place Indicators. LET IT GROW, LET US PLAN, LET IT GROW. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Resilient Smart Green and Blue Cities. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2023, 28th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 685-697. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Peri-urbanisation is a phenomenon taking place worldwide and affecting not only large cities but also smaller towns and settlements. The diverse set of activities, land uses and processes, which are characteristic for peri-urban landscape, are often poorly regulated and planned by the spatial planning and development policies. This may give way to interests of individual investors, which are rarely supportive of preserving green open spaces to serve the population for their leisure and recreational purposes. In this paper, we focus on the unbuilt spaces of the peri-urban landscape and their role for retaining a sense of place of local inhabitants who use this landscape for their leisure and recreational purposes. This study approaches the sense of place (SOP) as a category of the cultural ecosystem service framework. SOP has previously been highlighted as a specifically difficult category to be directly quantified and assessed with standardised procedures, and is therefore poorly integrated in landscape and management plans. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to set a basis for the SOP indicators development in the peri-urban landscape by (1) exploring and clarifying the notion and spatial characteristics of the peri-urban landscape, (2) identifying spatial planning actions and their influence on the peri-urban land use and functioning, and (3) exploring possibilities for the cartographic representation of SOP in the peri-urban landscape. We conducted a literature review, document analysis and spatial analysis in three case study cities in Slovenia: Ljubljana, Kranj and Koper. Then we developed a framework for peri-urban landscape characterisation and applied it to case studies. We compared results with the characterisation of the peri-urban landscape in formal documents and identified spatial actions and their influence on the peri-urban land use and perception. Finally, we evaluated whether the proposed framework could help in identifying areas according to their SOP potential and in developing SOP indicators for preserving peri-urban open spaces for its users. Our findings can facilitate incorporating information on SOP in a format that can be used by city authorities and spatial planners in the formulation of spatial planning measures and guidelines.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cultural ecosystem services, sense of place, peri-urban landscape, mapping approaches, Slovenia
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2023 13:58
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2023 17:36
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1025

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