Experimenting with New Urban Planning Strategies under Conditions of Radical Modernization

Abstract

This article explores the need to experiment with the new urban planning strategies of changing cities under the conditions of radical modernization. Radical modernization is conceptually explored as a combined frame for macrosociological (global) processes of rational specialization and microsociological processes of individualization. The meaning of local spaces is becoming extremely dynamic because of both of these sociological processes of re- scaling, which in turn lead to a new appropriation of urban spaces. This urban transformation takes place both within the urban core and in the new in-between locations of city-regional development. The challenge, as far as planning is concerned, is to respond to processes of modernization and individualization. Experimental planning strategies should be linked more directly with the actual changes of urban activities and should attempt, from this position, to establish experimental strategies for social integration. Within the framework of processes of regional identity formation, “soft sources” of strategy building, such as social and cultural infrastructures and elements of heritage and landscaping, may have a far-reaching impact because of their symbolic and emotional value.

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