Reviews: Urban Development Models, Urban Networks: The Structure of Activity Patterns, the Politics of Environmental Policy, Urban Systems Models

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-364
Author(s):  
J B McLoughlin ◽  
N Thrift ◽  
T O'Riordan ◽  
M Batty
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Systems Models

Milano, Expo 2015: problemi irrisolti e potenzialitŕ di sviluppo

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 153-161
Author(s):  
Valeria Erba ◽  
Stefano Di Vita
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Urban And Regional Development

The global crisis is highlighting the limitations of the relationships, not to be taken for granted, between major events and urban and regional development. The difficulties so far encountered in these relationships in Milan in the run up to the 2015 Expo are quite significant. Analyses of the progress of the projects and the acquisition of opinions from leading protagonists of local institutions provide an update on the strengths and weaknesses of this major Milan event, drawn for previous editions of the Forum. At the same time they identify some of the potential for the renewal of traditional urban development models in major events, seen in terms of their regional metropolitan dimension.

scholarly journals Resilience of Urban Network Structure in China: The Perspective of Disruption

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 796
Author(s):  
Shimei Wei ◽  
Jinghu Pan
Keyword(s):  
Network Structure ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Maximum Load ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Location Service ◽  
Popular Subject

In light of the long-term pressure and short-term impact of economic and technological globalization, regional and urban resilience has become an important issue in research. As a new organizational form of regional urban systems, the resilience of urban networks generated by flow space has emerged as a popular subject of research. By gathering 2017 data from the Baidu search index, the Tencent location service, and social statistics, this study constructs information, transportation, and economic networks among 344 cities in China to analyze the spatial patterns of urban networks and explore their structural characteristics from the perspectives of hierarchy and assortativity. Transmissibility and diversity were used to represent the resilience of the network structure in interruption scenarios (node failure and maximum load attack). The results show the following: The information, transportation, and economic networks of cities at the prefecture level and higher in China exhibit a dense pattern of spatial distribution in the east and a sparse pattern in the west; however, there are significant differences in terms of hierarchy and assortativity. The order of resilience of network transmissibility and diversity from strong to weak was information, economic, transportation. Transmissibility and diversity had nearly identical scores in response to the interruption of urban nodes. Moreover, a highly heterogeneous network was more likely to cause shocks to the network structure, owing to its cross-regional urban links in case of disturbance. We identified 12 dominant nodes and 93 vulnerable nodes that can help accurately determine the impetus behind network structure resilience. The capacity of regions for resistance and recovery can be improved by strengthening the construction of emergency systems and risk prevention mechanisms.

Cittŕ europee nella rete globale

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Roberta Cucca ◽  
Costanzo Ranci
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Central Economic

This paper considers various types of social impact from the economic growth process experienced by several European urban systems, shortly before the spread of the crises still in progress. The collection opens with an essay that transversally analyses several mechanisms that show economic growth and social inequality as connected or disconnected to one other. This line of thought is further developed by reconstructing four cases of more specific study (Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lyon and Monaco) that describe contexts that are similar because they play a certain central economic role in their respective national contexts and hold powerful transnational positions, but which belong to different welfare models. A portrait emerges marked by several common features and many points of differentiation, confirming the initial hypothesis, i.e., the importance of examining development models for cities.

scholarly journals Data-driven approaches to derive parameters for lot-scale urban development models

Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 102374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Löwe ◽  
Manfred Kleidorfer ◽  
Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Development Models

scholarly journals Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy and urban development

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Coisnon ◽  
Walid Oueslati ◽  
Julien Salanié
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Targeting

Fläche unter Druck: Sozial-ökologische Dimensionen der Flächennutzung in deutschen Wachstumsregionen

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-373
Author(s):  
Jonas Lage ◽  
Leon Leuser
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Land Consumption ◽  
Urban Development Policy ◽  
German Cities ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
Gain Access

Deutsche Städte werden immer dichter bebaut ‐ zum Nachteil von vielen Stadtbewohner(inne)n. Damit eine hohe Lebensqualität gewährt werden kann, muss Stadtentwicklung öffentliche Räume stärken. Denn gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flächen wie Parks oder Plätze können wesentliche Bedürfnisse nach sozialem Austausch oder Naturerfahrungen befriedigen und die Städte so lebenswerter machen.The paper discusses the trend of ongoing land consumption in German cities and their implications for socially inclusive and ecological urban development models. Highlighting how land use in Germany has changed since 1990, we focus on housing and mobility ‐ the two sectors that have had the most impact on land consumption nationwide. Our analysis of ten demographically growing cities in Germany shows land consumption to be driven not only by demo-graphic growth itself, but also by modes of living and transportation that are exclusive to certain privileged groups. In the cities we studied, these developments would seem to benefit the few, but affect the lives of everyone. Based on these results, we sketch out various ideas and approaches that could support a socially inclusive and ecological urban development policy. Supporting a cultural shift from a private luxury model to one based on public welfare is crucial to reducing land consumption and ensuring that all members of the population can gain access to “the good life”.

scholarly journals Connecting cities and their environments: Harnessing the water-energy-food nexus for sustainable urban development

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Chan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThousands of years of development have made the production and consumption of water, energy, and food for urban environments more complex. While the rise of cities has fostered social and economic progress, the accompanying environmental pressures threaten to undermine these benefits. The compounding effects of climate change, habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation (in addition to financial constraints) make the individual management of these three vital resources incompatible with rapidly growing populations and resource-intensive lifestyles. Nexus thinking is a critical tool to capture opportunities for urban sustainability in both industrialised and developing cities. A nexus approach to water, energy, and food security recognises that conventional decisionmaking, strictly confined within distinct sectors, limits the sustainability of urban development. Important nexus considerations include the need to collaborate with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, and to “re-integrate” urban systems. This means recognising the opportunities coming from the interconnected nature of cities and metropolitan regions, including links with rural environments and wider biophysical dynamics.

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