Sustainable Urban Landscapes and Open Spaces: Case Studies & Strategies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabeha Fatima ◽  
Yasif Eqbal
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Open Spaces

scholarly journals SURVEYING TO GAUGE STAKEHOLDERS' PARTICIPATION IN URBAN HERITAGE CONSERVATION

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 1097-1104
Author(s):  
M. E. Siguencia Avila ◽  
D. Avila Luna ◽  
M. A. Hermida
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Sample Composition

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Attention to the conservation of urban areas has been already raised in international legal instruments since 1962 and recently gained momentum with the adoption of the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL) in 2011 (henceforth referred as the <i>2011 Recommendation</i>). Considering heritage areas as drivers of economic growth but also targets of development pressures, many cities have adopted the tools provided in the <i>2011 Recommendation</i> depending on their specific geographic and socio-economic contexts testing various systems to innovate in matters of urban heritage conservation and sustainable development. The present research targets the reporting of the process of implementation of the <i>2011 Recommendation</i> through the creation of a survey to gauge the participation of stakeholders in worldwide case studies to establish a comparative framework. The methodology used for the survey originates from a specific case, Cuenca in Ecuador, and the secondary data collection from 101 additional case studies. The hypothesis is that the questionnaire can compile data as a tool to compare the processes for the implementation of the <i>2011 Recommendation</i> and to find trends in the cases where stakeholders have become skilled at conserving urban heritage. The design of the survey demonstrates the feasibility to carry out an exploratory validation method (COSMIN) to use significant evidence coming from active stakeholders. The survey as developed becomes a powerful tool to be adapted in different contexts and as a scientific method to reach a proper statistic confidential level, margin error and to control bias in the sample composition.</p>

scholarly journals Historical Intimacy in Malay Urban Core Configurations: A Comparative Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e020
Author(s):  
Illyani Ibrahim ◽  
Shireen Jahn Kassim ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Principle ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Urban Heat

This paper analyses the historical pre-Colonial configurations of a series of urban cores in Malay sites along the Straits of Melaka. The objective of this research is to identify the pattern and variations of each pre-Colonial royal urban core from the perspective of urban design principle such as “intimacy” and “walkability,” which can affect in a long term sustainable parameters such as the reduction of “urban heat island”. This traditional character is increasingly disappearing due to urbanisation. There is a difficulty to reconstruct the urban core of these case studies because of their past layouts’ degree of organic character, particularly in terms of randomness. This paper argues that such configurations reflect the degree of “intimacy,” which was ruptured during the Colonial eras. Patterns were identified using available maps and lithography related to the case studies. The findings indicate that the Malay royal urban core does obey the urban design principles of intimacy and walkability. The “intimacy indices” for a historical Malay city are as follow: distance from palace to mosque (170 metre), padang/open spaces (130 metre), settlement (310 metre), market (195 metre), and aristocrat houses (60 metre). This finding can be used to inform the baseline for the preparation of the Malay principles guidelines.

scholarly journals A Critical Examination of Senior Housing: Promoting Equity Through Ensuring Safe Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 398-398
Author(s):  
Zach Kilgore ◽  
Michael Appel ◽  
Michele Waktins ◽  
Claudia Sanford ◽  
Dennis Archambault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract As affordable senior housing communities aimed to address the health and well-being concerns of residents in the COVID-19 pandemic, special attention to safety during renovation had to be addressed. This paper offers case studies from members of a city-wide advocacy group, Senior Housing Preservation-Detroit. Eighty one percent of covid deaths in the City of Detroit are those 60 and above; 81.2% of deaths have been among African Americans (Detroit Health Department, 2021). With the grief and challenge in a city hit early on in the 2020 pandemic, these case studies will highlight how Covid-19 affected planned projects in senior buildings, how stakeholders such as developers, staff and residents responded and key considerations for future emergencies affecting senior housing communities. This paper offers critical perspectives applicable to many urban landscapes in order to raise awareness to policy makers, and practitioners.

The fragmentation of urban landscapes: global evidence of a key attribute of the spatial structure of cities, 1990–2000

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomo Angel ◽  
Jason Parent ◽  
Daniel L Civco
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Car Ownership ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Multiple Regression Models ◽  
Global Evidence

The fragmentation of urban landscapes – or the inter-penetration of the built-up areas of cities and the open spaces in and around them – is a key attribute of their spatial structure. Analyzing satellite images for 1990 and 2000 for a global sample of 120 cities, we find that cities typically contain or disturb vast quantities of open spaces equal in area, on average, to their built-up areas. We also find that fragmentation, defined as the relative share of open space in the urban landscape, is now in decline. Using multiple regression models, we find that larger cities are less fragmented, that higher-income cities are more fragmented, that cities with higher levels of car ownership are less fragmented, and that cities that constrain urban development are less fragmented. We recommend that making room for urban expansion in rapidly growing cities should take into account their expected fragmentation levels.

scholarly journals Generating Change : Sustainable Adaptive Reuse of Urban Power Plants In-Depth Case Studies and Planning Implications for the Hearn, Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Smith
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Post Industrial

Cities across the western world are making the transition away from coal energy, and towards greener methods of power generation; as a result, abandoned power plants, including Toronto’s Richard L. Hearn Power Generation Station, are now features of many post-industrial urban landscapes. Largely out of use since 1983, the Hearn has seen a variety of redevelopment concepts over the last 30 years, but recent initiatives to revitalize Toronto’s Waterfront and industrial Port Lands have spurred renewed interest in the site. In order to provide direction for the Hearn’s impending redevelopment, indepth case studies of two adaptively-reused urban power plants, London’s Battersea Station and Austin’s Seaholm Plant, were performed via document analysis and key informant interviews. Salient themes, issues, and commonalities shared by all three cases were identified and explored, and used to formulate a series of seven development recommendations for the Hearn.

scholarly journals The regaining of public spaces to enhance the historic urban landscape

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Bolici ◽  
Matteo Gambaro ◽  
Cristiana Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Urban Complex

<p>Open spaces in the urban landscapes suffer from deterioration caused by man that leads to two major outcomes: on one side they are abandoned because of newer contemporary needs, on the other hand they tend to be “cannibalized” in the attempt to satisfy our society. This has caused a progressive retraction of urban open spaces that have become residual spaces with no shape and no name.<br />This course of crisis has damaged the identity of places and this is more acute in historic urban landscapes that are recognised as cultural heritage and world heritage. The historic urban landscape approach suggested by UNESCO recognises public spaces’ importance for society and promotes the acknowledgement of public spaces and their dynamism aiming to the integration of preservation, social development and economic targets.<br />To understand how “historic urban landscapes” are taking care of their public spaces, a few Management Plans of UNESCO’s World Heritage cities have been compared. Only Italian UNESCO sites with an “urban complex” characterisation have been considered, this means a limited part of a city with homogenous characteristics from a spatial, historic and cultural point of view. We have focused our attention on the specific interventions for the management of open spaces, in order to identify the major targets and their executive tools, projects and actions.<br />In the light of the above-mentioned analyses, we propose some strategies to fight the decline of public spaces (streets, squares, gardens, etc.) and to enhance these spaces with great attention, trying to improve their fruition and comfort according to their historic and cultural values.<br />The need to identify design strategies to enhance public spaces within the historic urban landscape is included in the research and test activities carried out in the UNESCO site of Mantova and Sabbioneta. This site is an excellent area of applicability because of its urban shape, molded in years by the Gonzaga family. Together with the UNESCO Mantova e Sabbioneta office, we have involved citizens in the requalification design to activate regaining process and test the applicability of our analyses in the city of Mantova, a very articulated and complex reality, starting from the fruition of its places and according to its morphological, environmental, cultural and perceptive aspects.</p>

scholarly journals Child-Friendly Urban Landscapes : The Meaning of Child-Friendly Urban Open Spaces and the Opportunities for Implementing Initiatives in Hungary

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Péter István Balogh ◽  
Ildikó Réka Báthoryné Nagy ◽  
Anita Reith ◽  
Vera Takácsné Zajacz ◽  
Viktória Teremy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Child Friendly

scholarly journals Generating Change : Sustainable Adaptive Reuse of Urban Power Plants In-Depth Case Studies and Planning Implications for the Hearn, Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Smith
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Post Industrial

Cities across the western world are making the transition away from coal energy, and towards greener methods of power generation; as a result, abandoned power plants, including Toronto’s Richard L. Hearn Power Generation Station, are now features of many post-industrial urban landscapes. Largely out of use since 1983, the Hearn has seen a variety of redevelopment concepts over the last 30 years, but recent initiatives to revitalize Toronto’s Waterfront and industrial Port Lands have spurred renewed interest in the site. In order to provide direction for the Hearn’s impending redevelopment, indepth case studies of two adaptively-reused urban power plants, London’s Battersea Station and Austin’s Seaholm Plant, were performed via document analysis and key informant interviews. Salient themes, issues, and commonalities shared by all three cases were identified and explored, and used to formulate a series of seven development recommendations for the Hearn.

URBAN LANDSCAPES IN TRANSITION, LESSONS FROM INTEGRATING BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT MODELLING IN PLANNING

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250002 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULLA MÖRTBERG ◽  
ANDREAS ZETTERBERG ◽  
BERIT BALFORS
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Impact Prediction ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Landscape Ecological ◽  
Sustainability Assessments ◽  
The City

Sustainable urban development has been widely recognized as requiring energy and transport efficient urban growth, while ecological issues are often not well integrated in sustainability assessments and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). In order to achieve such integration, methods and tools based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in a Landscape Ecological Assessment (LEA) framework were developed and integrated in planning in four case studies in and around the city of Stockholm, Sweden. This involved the application of recently developed methods for impact prediction and for integration into the planning processes. The aim of the study was to compare the case studies concerning strengths and weaknesses of LEA and its GIS-based components. The methodology enabled identification of important structures in the landscape to support biodiversity, across administrative borders. The LEA facilitated discussions on consequences of alternatives for localisation of built-up areas, infrastructure and other developments as well as management. The GIS-based LEA approach could thus contribute to a sustainable urban development with consideration of the landscape-level biodiversity values integrated with energy-efficient urban growth trajectories.

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