Programme
17thTG meeting Planning & complexity
Emerging Patterns in the Built Environment: Analytical Tools & Responsive Governance
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17th TG meeting Planning & complexity
Emerging Patterns in the Built Environment: Analytical Tools & Responsive Governance
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Wednesday, November 7 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba |
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8:45 AM |
Registration and morning coffee |
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9:15 AM |
Opening & Icebreaker |
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10:00 AM |
Keynote lecture: Prof. Ehud Meron, Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben-Gurion University Discussant: Dr. Sayfan Borghini |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee break |
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11:30 AM |
Session 1: Theorizing urban complexity Chair: Itzhak Benenson From the Synthesis of Form to Sequences – the development of Christopher Alexander’s thinking on handling complexity in the built environment | Yodan Rofe Planning and rationality: a multi layered perspective within a complex environment | Gert de Roo and Camilla Perone Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Modeling… What Comes Next? | Itzhak Benenson, Yonatan Almagor, Daniel Czamanski |
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1:00 PM |
Lunch break |
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2:00 PM |
Session 2: Patterns in a complex urban world Chair: Ward Rauws How to visualize urban complexity, diversity and uncertainty through the impact analysis of Airbnb on contemporary cities | José-Miguel Fernández-Güell Patterns of Un-Secured Areas in the Built Environment | Dalit Shach-Pinsly When contradicting patterns of public space collide: The case of Palestinian Israeli towns | Maisa Totry-Fakhoury |
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3:30 PM |
Coffee break |
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4:00 PM |
Beersheva: A conversation with The Southern District Planner and with the City Architect |
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5:00 PM |
A tour in Beersheva as an evolving metropolitan center |
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7:00 PM |
End of the first conference day: out for dinner (own expense) |
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Thursday, November 8 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba |
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8:30 AM |
Morning Coffee |
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9:00 AM |
Session 3: Towards responsive governance Chair: Gert de Roo Agile Governance: Opportunities and barriers for the adoption of IoT data in Manchester’s urban governance | Ulysses Sengupta, Deljana Iossifova, Amir Khorasani, and Robert Hyde A political-economic geography of informality | Tomer Dekel |
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10:00 AM |
Session 4: Adaptive cities Chair: Jenni Partenan Anti-Adaptive Urbanism | Nurit Alfasi Getting grip on Adaptive Planning | Ward Rauws |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee break |
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11:15 AM |
Workshop: Emergent patterns of informal urban structures |
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1:00 PM |
Short lunch break |
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1:30 PM |
Moving to Tel-Aviv via Jerusalem: A bus trip to Jerusalem |
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3:30 PM |
A meeting with Jerusalem's city planners |
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4:00 PM |
A tour in the Old City of Jerusalem |
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7:00 PM |
Dinner at a local restaurant (own expense) |
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9:00 PM |
Starting our way to Tel-Aviv |
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10:00 PM |
Expected arrival to Tel Aviv |
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Friday, November 9 | Tel Aviv university, Tel Aviv |
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9:00 AM |
Morning Coffee |
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9:30 AM |
Session 5: Planners and planning: Coping with complexity Chair: Yodan Rofe Planning for self-organization with complementary system of rule based and case based planning | Jenni Partenan Planning from emerging patterns: the role of planners | Paulo Silva Action and the city: Emergence, complexity, planning | Stefano Moroni and Stefano Cozzolino |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee break |
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11:30 AM |
Session 6: Modelling and measuring complex urban structures |
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Chair: Paulo Silve Urban movement: Between street networks complexity and cognitive simplification of distance | Itzhak Omer Urban Structure and Complexity: Mathematical Modeling to Inform Policy | David Burg Urban life cycles – when and where power laws? | Dani Broitman, Itzhak Benenson, Daniel Czamanski |
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1:00 PM |
Wrapping up and going to lunch (own expense) |