Promoting Livability Through Urban Planning: A Comprehensive Framework Based on the “Theory of Human Needs”

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wajiha Tariq Sheikh ◽  
Jeroen van Ameijde
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

A Note from the Editor

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-34 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Utility Regulation ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Development And Aging ◽  
The Many

In developing an issue of PA, especially one based on independent submissions. I am reminded repeatedly of the diversity within anthropology and of the many fields within which anthropology can be used. Topics included in this issue range from agricultural development and aging to urban planning and utility regulation. Reviewing such a variety of manuscripts, all purporting to be in some sense "anthropological," reminds one as well of the rudimentary common features of anthropology. One such feature that unites the articles in this issue is the insistence on determining and meeting human needs in a local context and from the perspective of the population to be served.

scholarly journals CRITICAL STRATEGIES FOR CONSTRUCTION PLAYERS IN THE ADOPTION OF BIOPHILIC CITY CONCEPT IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairul Zahreen Mohd Arof ◽  
Syuhaida Ismail ◽  
Chitdrakantan Subramaniam ◽  
Shamila Azman ◽  
Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Effective Water ◽  
Green City

Around 2.5 billion individuals will be living in urban areas by 2050. Two out of three individuals are going to live in urban communities or other urban focuses, featuring sustainable urban planning and public services. A biophilic city concept which is a sister term of the green city innately affiliates human being to other living organisms. Apart from adhering to human needs, the concept is the economical among other green city concepts. However, biophilic city concept is still an alien term to construction players and the public. The paper aims to propose and evaluate the critical strategies for construction players in the adoption of the biophilic city concept in Malaysia. 173 respondents consisting of government agencies, developers, consultants and contractors were involved in a questionnaire survey. 81 out of 107 strategies were accepted as the critical strategies in adopting the biophilic city concept. Among the strongest strategies are (1) effective water conservation in biophilic city project; (2) acknowledging biophilic city concept adoption publicly; and (3) adequate material resource availability for the biophilic city project. These strategies fall under three different items, namely; (1) sustainability in the biophilic city project; (2) awards and recognition for biophilic city concept adoption; and (3) organisation in the biophilic city project, respectively. Commitment of all construction players are crucial crucial towards inclusive, sustainable urban planning and public services.

scholarly journals The essence of marine and coastal space – an interdisciplinary perspective

Europa XXI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jerzak ◽  
Maxim D. Shrayer ◽  
Karolina A. Krośnicka ◽  
Piotr Lorens ◽  
Jacek Zaucha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Locus Amoenus ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Long Run

Sea space has been undergoing a profound transformation. Although it retains its inspirational function in arts, literature and philosophy, it has been gaining new anthropogenic dimensions in economics and urban planning as a source of satisfying human needs i.e. the provision of harmony, beauty, off-shore energy, and biotech substances. Therefore, in this paper marine space is analyzed from a multidimensional perspective of urban planning, economics, and literature. Maritime space has been a subject of literature from its inception. Without attempting to give an overview of the vast topic, the paper discusses the pronounced presence of sea space in the earliest Western literary sources, such as the Bible and Anglo-Saxon poetry. As a striking case study, Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is analyzed with its complex, dynamic notion of maritime space. Aditionally, the importance of the shore as locus amoenus in a short story by the contemporary writer Maxim D. Shrayer is examined. This notion of locus amoenus is also present in the research related to urban planning. Maritime space attracts people to locate nearby. Development is created as a response to these demands. Both urban planning and economics underline, however, a need of sustainable development of this space. This is crucial in order to secure its positive influence on human well-being in the long run. The three disciplines also point out that maritime space remains in the process of continuous creation and re-development in course of adding new functional and axiological ties between humans and the seas and oceans. Thus, nowadays maritime space covers both sea and terrestrial gateways servicing the sea and the key constituting factor is provided by human beings (homo maritimus) through their economic, social or emotional bond to the sea.

Funktion und Ornament in der postmodernen Baukunst

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Kühn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
European City ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Ästhetische Einheit ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

Als Reaktion auf den Funktionalismus ergab sich in der postmodernen Architektur eine Doppelcodierung von Einfachheit und Komplexität sowie Tradition und Innovation. Damit konnte der Primat von Gebrauch und Nützlichkeit in der Städteplanung durchbrochen werden, aber die postmodernen Verwirklichungen blieben oft Einzelverwirklichungen, ohne das Erbe der alten ›europäischen Stadt‹ als Differenz und Einheit effektiv aufzugreifen. Teilweise wurden organische Verbindungen von Umgebung und Wohnnotwendigkeit berücksichtigt, und auch das Ornament gewann wieder als Zitat oder spielerische Ironie der Stile an Bedeutung. Bis heute scheint jedoch eine radikal phänomenologische Berücksichtigung des Bezuges zwischen Leiblichkeit und Architektur zu fehlen. Denn der bebaute Wohnraum ist nicht nur der affektiv-leibliche Raum der Bedürfnisse und Imagination der Menschen, sondern schlechthin die Weise seiner Kosmoseinverwurzelung. Da die großen ›Metaerzählungen‹ nicht mehr als Sinngebung von Einheit seit der Postmoderne herangezogen werden können, bleibt nur die unmittelbar subjektive Leiblichkeit mit ihren Selbst- und Weltbezügen, um eine erneute sinnlich-ästhetische Einheit ohne ideologischen Allgemeinheitsanspruch stiften zu können. Diese ebenso individuell wie gesamtkulturell zentrale Frage zu unterstützen, dürfte die aktuelle Aufgabe der Baukunst sein. As a reaction against functionalism, postmodern architecture developed a twofold codification using both simplicity and complexity as well as tradition and innovation. Thus, the primacy of use and utility was effectively undermined in urban planning. However, postmodern achievements often remained isolated performances that failed to actively take over the heritage of the ›European city‹ as difference and unity. The organic unity of the environment with housing needs was partially taken into account, as was the ornament taken as a form of quotation or as playful irony referring to styles. A radical phenomenological account of corporeality (›Leiblichkeit‹) and architecture, however, is still lacking today. Housing space, indeed, is not only the affective-corporeal space pertaining to human needs and imagination, but also the way through which the human is rooted in the cosmos. Since the rise of post-modernity the great ›meta-narratives‹ have become unable to provide meaning to such unity. Therefore, the task of producing a new sensitive-aesthetic unity without recourse to the generalizations of ideology, can only be accomplished by referring to immediate subjective corporeality in its relation to self and world. To support this both individually and culturally relevant research could very well be the task of contemporary architecture.

scholarly journals CREATION PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE BUILDING ON THE WORLD PRACTICE EXAMPLE

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
V. Urenev ◽  
◽  
D. Bakhtin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Sustainable Architecture ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
The World

In the last decade, including in relation to architecture, it is widely used the concept of "sustainability". This term correlates with the Sustainable Concep development), adopted by the UN as a strategic direction since the 1980s. The UN Commission on Environment and Development "Our Common Future" is sustainable development is defined as the way in which ―the needs of the present generation are met without limiting the ability of the next generation to meet its needs. " In the article, the authors consider the concept of sustainable architecture, which has been developing in recent years and offers solutions to urban planning and architecture through sustainable development in the field of construction and architecture. Technical opportunities for the development of architecture of the XXI century. are impressive in scale. At the same time, more and more architects have to take into account the significant impact that their projects have on the development of urban and natural environments. Urban architecture is still going by creating high-rise projects and compacting urban development. Modern metropolitan cities, being held hostage to the past path of their development and still little changed approaches to them buildings are gradually becoming a multi-factor problem, threatening the peace and security of residents. One of the ways to solve this problem is the concept of sustainable architecture that has emerged in the last decade. Its use by experts proves thatArchitecture of the XXI century. not only can maximize comfort and safety space for people, but also able to change the appearance of cities and improve their true state. Sustainable architecture allows you to create projects that meet the needs of people and at the same time, they not only take care of the conservation of natural resources, but also improve their condition environment. Well-known British architect N. Foster metaphorically defines the stand architecture as "a way to reach the maximum with minimal means". In the context of these processes, it must be acknowledged that architects can have a significant impact on restoration ecological balance and ensuring a high quality of life for people, creating architectural an environment that satisfies human needs while preserving or even improving the state of nature. Such an architectural environment is sustainable. It should be noted at the outset that the term in the scientific literature is clearly defined missing. This article aims to clarify the definition of sustainable architecture and to specify its basic principles in the analysis of both theoretical works and existing architectural solutions. Because sustainable architecture focuses primarily on technology characteristics of objects, their aesthetic expressiveness and style qualities become certain a problem that is not addressed in this text but is clearly understood by the authors. The term "sustainable architecture" has become widespread, leading to some leveling its value. The absence of clear boundaries in the definition may make it possible to overlook a sustainable architecture that in reality is only indirectly related to resilience. Not only consumers and users can be misled by this definition architectural objects, but investors and participants in the construction process. Along with the term "sustainable architecture" is often used by such concepts as "green architecture", "eco-sustainable construction", "ecological architecture", "low-cost architecture", "high technology architecture", "bioclimatic architecture", "Energy efficient and smart construction". All of these concepts are related in various ways to the technology of construction and operation of buildings, which aims to reduce consumption energy and material resources while maintaining or improving quality buildings and the comfort of their indoor environment. However, not all of them indicate qualitative, generic features of architecture as an aesthetic kind of project activity. The authors show the evolution in the field of construction from energy efficient architecture - to green architecture and further to sustainable architecture. Refine definitions of sustainable architecture, explore principles and criteria for evaluating sustainable architecture of public buildings and structures. The main purpose of the article is to find out the essence of the concept of sustainable architecture, its necessity and perspective in modern urban planning. To accomplish this, some problems need to be solved. Expand the concept of sustainable architecture, explore the principles and criteria for evaluating sustainable architecture, analyze the world experience of creating sustainable architecture in concrete examples, and show the prospects for the development and implementation of the concept of sustainable architecture in the world and in Ukraine. Sustainable architecture is a must for the functional (utility), technical (durability) and aesthetic (beauty) properties. The article provides examples of world-class sustainable architecture projects that create sustainable architectural environments and clearly demonstrate their superiority over traditional objects. The concept of sustainable architecture is very relevant for Ukraine.

From nature to human needs: availability and use of geo-materials in Earth Sciences; an educational approach through the Big History project

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Marina Porta ◽  
Giovanni Grieco ◽  
Adalberto Codetta Raiteri ◽  
Giacomo Diego Gatta ◽  
Marco Merlini Gioncada
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Big History

Communicating the Value of Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Edward TORRENS ◽  
Nicholas Samuel JOHNSON ◽  
Ian STORER
Keyword(s):  
Design Decision ◽  
Card Sorting ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
Sorting Method ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
Fast Moving Consumer Goods ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

Product packaging design is often produced through the practical application of tacit knowledge, rule of thumb and professional connoisseurship. Stakeholders are becoming increasingly demanding that design practitioners provide clarity of reasoning and accountability for their design proposals. Therefore, a better framework for the design of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) is required. This paper proposes a comprehensive taxonomy of ‘design considerations’ to assist the development of low involvement FMCG packaging and aid in rationale communication for design solutions. 302 academic sources were reviewed, inductive content analysis performed to code topics and output validation with academic and industry experts (n=9) through a modified-Delphi card sorting method. The research provides movement towards a comprehensive framework and common dialogue between stakeholders, practitioners and managers to assist in more effectively communicating the value that design can offer to FMCGs. The constructed taxonomy provides a set of 156 ‘design considerations’ to support in objective and informed design decision-making.

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