scholarly journals The Role of Urban Landscape Planning in Neighborhood Physical Reconstruction (Case Study: District 4 Area 11)

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-370
Author(s):  
M Hosseini ◽  
M Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Study District

Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Mixter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
Maya Collapse ◽  
The City

To remain in place in the immediate aftermath of the ninth-century Maya collapse, Maya groups employed various resilient strategies. In the absence of divine rulers, groups needed to renegotiate their forms of political authority and to reconsider the legitimizing role of religious institutions. This kind of negotiation happened first at the local level, where individual communities developed varied political and ideological solutions. At the community of Actuncan, located in the lower Mopan River valley of Belize, reorganization took place within the remains of a monumental urban centre built 1000 years before by the site's early rulers. I report on the changing configuration and use of Actuncan's urban landscape during the process of reorganization. These modifications included the construction of a new centre for political gatherings, the dismantling of old administrative buildings constructed by holy lords and the reuse of the site's oldest ritual space. These developments split the city into distinct civic and ritual zones, paralleling the adoption of a new shared rule divorced from cosmological underpinnings. This case study provides an example of how broader societal resilience relies on adaptation at the local level.

scholarly journals FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela R. Magalhães ◽  
Natalia S. Cunha ◽  
Selma B. Pena ◽  
Ana Müller
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Tree Species Composition ◽  
Center Region ◽  
Sustainable Landscape

Abstract This paper explores the role of landscape planning as a tool for rural fire prevention. It presents a methodology for a fire resilient and sustainable landscape model (FIRELAN) that articulates the ecological and cultural components in a suitable and multifunction land-use plan. FIRELAN is a conceptual and ecologically based model that recognizes river basin’ land morphology, microclimate, and species combustibility as the fundamental factors that determine fire behavior and landscape resilience, along with the ecological network (EN) for achieving ecological sustainability of the landscape. The model is constituted by the FIRELAN Network and the Complementary Areas. This network ensures the effectiveness of discontinuities in the landscape with less combustible land-uses. It also functions as a fire-retardant technique and protection of wildland-urban interface (WUI). This model is applied to municipalities from Portugal's center region, a simplified landscape severely damaged by recurrent rural fires. The results show that land-use and tree species composition should change drastically, whereas about 72% of the case study needs transformation actions. This requires a significant increase of native or archaeophytes species, agricultural areas, landscape discontinuities and the restoration of biodiversity in Natura 2000 areas. The EN components are 79% of the FIRELAN N area, whose implementation ensures soil and water conservation, biodiversity, and habitats. This paper contributes to the discussion of the Portuguese rural fires planning framework, highlighting the role of this model implementation towards a new landscape by giving explicit indications of adequate land-uses in rural areas. The FIRELAN model can be replicated in any situation.

scholarly journals Seasonal Activity of Urban Bats Populations in Temperate Climate Zone—A Case Study from Southern Poland

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1474
Author(s):  
Joanna Kohyt ◽  
Ewa Pierzchała ◽  
Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan ◽  
Krzysztof Piksa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Migration Corridor ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization

Municipal greenery can mitigate the negative impact of urbanization on biodiversity, including bats, by providing a migration corridor, food base and roosts. Our study aimed to evaluate the species composition and diversity, test the differences in activity between seasons, and identify the atmospheric conditions influencing the bats’ activity in the Planty Park (Cracow). Fieldworks were conducted in 2016 and 2017. We recorded 10 species, two new for this part of Poland: the Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) and the Savi’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii). Taxa were divided into three ecological guilds. Myotis group’s activity was insufficient to perform statistical analyses. The activity of Nyctalus, Eptesicus and Vespertilio group peaked in late summer. A similar insignificant trend was observed for Pipistrellus and Hypsugo. Temperature enhanced the activity of Nyctalus, Eptesicus and Vespertilio group in spring and early summer, while cloud cover suppressed their activity in autumn. Temperature also enhanced Pipistrellus and Hypsugo group activity in spring and autumn, but it suppressed their summer activity. Our study is one of the first to investigate temperate urban bats’ phenology and may serve as a preface for further research to introduce detailed urban landscape planning recommendations.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF BUILDINGS FACADES OF ON URBAN LANDSCAPE (CASE STUDY: OLD CONTEXT OF SARI)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (AGSE) ◽  
pp. 1347-1356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Alishah ◽  
Abdollah Ebrahimi ◽  
Faezeh Ghaffari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape

scholarly journals The Role of Urban Governance in the Urban Worn Texture Regeneration Process, Case Study: District 12 of Tehran

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Milad Amini ◽  
HamidReza Saremi ◽  
MohammadBagher GHalibaf ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Regeneration Process ◽  
Study District

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman
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