Marginalisation versus Urbanisation

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Side Event Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space

• Marginalisation versus Urbanisation
• How to achieve a balanced development in the
  Alpine Space?

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Spatial planning in the Alpine Space

• A common presentation of

DIAMONT Data Infrastructure for the Alps
Mountain Orientated Network Technology GENDERALP
Raumentwicklung für Frauen und Männer PUSEMOR
Public Services in Sparsely Populated Mountain
Regions QUALIMA Quality of Life Improvement by
Supporting Public and Private Services in the
Rural Areas of the Alps
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The DIAMONT objectives
Scientific Expertise
Practical Experience
Participation
Conceptual Structural Support to SOIA
Stimulation and Steering of Sustainable Regional
Development
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Support to SOIA
steering tools
Main trends identified by Delphi-Experts
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Structure of DIAMONTs presentation
Urbanisation as a main trend in Alpine spatial
development

• Endogenous and exogenous driving forces
• The existing spatial structure
• The influence of protection and conservation
  policies
• The influence of postmodernism
• A virtual future for the Alps?

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Trends
Drivers/ Pressures
Responses
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De-Agrarisation
De-Agrarisation
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Aging
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Aging
Aging
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Mobility and Immigration
Moblity Migration
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Global Socio-Economic Trends
From agrarian society via industrial and service
society to a society of elderly people an aging
society?
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The Globalisation of Rurbanity
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The Rise of Post-Suburbia
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Centrality Reversal

• Cyta city, cité, ciudad, cittá, cyta
• New cities in the periphery
• Supply, consumption, leisure, work place

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Relationship Mountains-Piedmont
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Agglomerations and Metropolitan Regions
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Fractalisation of Alpine Space
homogeneous inner surface (D2), fractal border d
0.75 f 0.5
(Frankhauser 2003)
Die Semiotik der Form
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Globalisation of Alpine Architecture
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The Rurban Patchwork
Urbanscape Patchwork City
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The Future The Virtualisation of the Alps?
Winter and summer under one roof
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In the future
The Alpine population will not be the same
and they will not live the same way
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At the End More Than One Question-Mark
How will urbanisation change life and space?

• .multi-culti-Alps?
• senior residence Alps?
• European sunsnow-belt?
• post-suburban rurbanity?
• postmodern architecture everywhere?
• virtual realities?