scholarly journals Benefiting from Industrial Heritage: Toronto Distilery District Urban Transformation Example

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sülün Evinç Torlak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Improvement ◽  
The City

It is a common fact that the confinement and to become unfunctional of the historical factories due to they have remained behind of technological improvement, not been managed effectively and polluted to the environment. However, their falling into disuse the demolition and the destruction of these buildings cannot be accepted. A lot of factories in Türkiye that have been able to reach today from the industrial background had been demolished for their land value, and a few of them had been re-functioned by transforming. These plants as contributes to the economic development of the countries and bears the stamp of the past, also could be re-evaluated and transferred to future generations by preserving their original identities. With the transformation of a historical plant, not only an industrial heritage would be protected but also this act would contribute to the economic development and cultural significance of the urban, and improve the quality of life. On this issue, there are lots of examples in Western countries. In this study, a succesful transformation sample from Canada-Toronto has been handled. In Distillery Region where has a significant role in the establishment, enrichment and physical embodiment of the city of Toronto, the regeneration/transformation process has been achieved thus the region has been redounded to tourism industry. In the study, the development of Distilery and its meaning for the urban is stated, the transformation process and its effect on urban is discussed and at this issue some suggestions are made while determining the deficiencies in Türkiye.

scholarly journals COLLIDING URBAN TRANSFORMATION PROCESS: THE CASE OF HISTORICAL PENINSULA, ISTANBUL

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demet Mutman ◽  
Hulya Turgut
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Golden Horn ◽  
Spatial Restructuring ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The City

Over the last three decades, the disruptive quality of urban and social restructuring processes in Turkey has been intensified by the government’s decision to embrace the concept of urban transformation as a tool to boost the Turkish economy and development. In this respect, many cities have experienced a rapid urban transformation, practicing more of a top to down approach in implementing an urban planning and design, and at the same time undervaluing the potential of a participatory process for a common future and for the improvement of the quality of social and urban life. The article examines the process of “social and spatial restructuring” for the old-city housings of the city of Istanbul, as part of a larger urban transformation phenomenon. The research comparatively analyses three different urban transformation projects from the city of Istanbul's historically valued Golden Horn area and focuses on missions, actors and roles of the projects in terms of the social and spatial restructuring phases. As all three cases in this respect reclaims an upgrading of the quality of urban environment of the historic neighbourhoods; the mission is to expose the local multidimensional structure of these transformations via comparative discussion of their potentials, capabilities and limits in respect to the dynamics of urban transformation and community participation.

Urban renewal and citizenship: the quality of life in British cities, 1890-1990

Urban History ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Meller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This paper juxtaposes two key themes: the concept of citizenship and ideas on urban renewal over the past century. The aim is to explore the interaction of cultural changes and the physical environment of cities. The concept of citizenship represents a cultural response to social change which itself has changed dramatically over the past century. Urban renewal has taken many forms. Yet behind all the growing technical expertise in dealing with the physical environment, there are specific social responses to the city which legitimize action. By looking at citizenship and urban renewal together, it is possible to establish a perspective on how the urban environment has been manipulated over the past century, often in ways which have barely interfaced with the social demands of many sections of the community.

Economic Lirowth and Human Rights in Brazil: The First Nine Years of Military Tutelage

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Brady Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

This is an interim, summary and provisional judgment on the Brazilian experiment of the past nine years, that is, since the military took power on April 1, 1964. To try to give an impression of the results of the interaction among the values of political democracy, equality, and economic growth, and the present levels compared with those of 1964 as well as what appear to be the trends. I have chosen six “indicators”:(1)the autonomy and integrity of the legal system;(2)torture and police brutality;(3)freedom of the mass media;(4)income distribution patterns;(5)education distribution patterns; and(6)the quality of life of the people of the city of greater São Paulo.

Death and survival in the city: approaches to the history of disease

Urban History ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Luckin
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
History Of Disease ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Elusive Concept

Now that the debate about the standard of living during the first half of the nineteenth century appears to have entered a relatively quiescent phase, historians have begun to turn their attention towards the more elusive concept of the quality of life. The incidence of fatal and non-fatal disease is clearly central to research of this type and so, too, is a delineation of the physical context in which infections have flourished and in which those who have been afflicted by them have lived. Although there has been a tendency to underestimate the ferocity of epidemics in rural areas in the period after about 1750, historians working on disease in the modern period are inevitably most usually concerned with processes which are specifically urban in character. And urban historians, especially those interested in such topics as the development of utilities, the growth of administrative bureau-cracies or the spatial segregation and different life experiences of the classes, can undoubtedly benefit from a knowledge of patterns of infection in the past.

scholarly journals Reconfiguring the public and the private: Noc-Noc arts festival, Guimarães, Portugal

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Sarmento ◽  
Marisa Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
The City

In the past decades many cities have experienced growing pressure to produce and stage cultural events of different sorts to promote themselves and improve economic development. Culture-led development often relies on significant public investment and major private-sector sponsoring. In the context of strained public finances and profound economic crisis in European peripheral countries, local community low-budget events that manage to create significant fluxes of visitors and visibility assume a particular relevance. This paper looks at the four editions (2011–2014) of Noc-Noc, an arts festival organized by a local association in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, which is based on creating transient spaces of culture by transforming numerous homes, commercial outlets and other buildings into ephemeral convivial and playful ‘public’ environments. By interviewing a sample of people who have hosted (sometimes doubling as artists) these transitory art performances and exhibitions, artists and the events’ organizers and by experiencing the four editions of the event and engaging in multiple informal conversations with the public, this paper attempts to discuss how urban citizens may disrupt the cleavages between public and private space permitting various transgressions, and unsettling the hegemonic condition of the city council as the patron of the large majority of events.

Critical success factors for the digitalization of smart cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Balasubramaniam Krishnan ◽  
Seetharaman Arumugam ◽  
KoilaKuntla Maddulety
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Digital Integration ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The City

In the ‘industry 4.0’ era, the phenomenon of digitalization of smart cities has gained increasing prominence, as it has the potential to address the problem of resource optimization and the pressure of demand of the growing urban population. In the past, smart city initiatives may not have created desired impacts as these initiatives were limited in scope, focusing on physical digital integration of the underlying systems of cities and of their citizens. This article examines the success factors that affect the digitalization of smart cities based on secondary research. To achieve smart cities’ core objectives of increasing quality of living, providing efficient and optimal services, thereby making the functioning of the city smart through digitalization, it is essential to look at these critical success factors, namely, sustainability, ecosystems and digital citizen. The article points out important elements such as lack of governance of sustainability, methods and processes to enhance participation of digital citizens and inadequate knowledge about structures and value creation through ecosystems that would need to be addressed while digitalizing smart cities. Given the required policy attention and focus, these factors would be expected to make smart cities sustainable, improve the quality of life of citizens and create new economic opportunities, while digitalizing them.

scholarly journals Forecasting of Economic Efficiency of the City-Forming Enterprise in the Monotown

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Gurieva ◽  
Viktor Barhatov
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Is Development ◽  
The City

Research objective is development of the forecast of scenario conditions of increase of economic efficiency of the city-forming enterprise of the monotown for further social and economic development of the region for 2014-2016. For achievement of a goal a number of tasks is solved: consideration of theoretical prerequisites to concept economic efficiency; research of features of economic efficiency of the city-forming enterprise in the monotown; choice of a method of forecasting; forecasting of economic efficiency of the city-forming enterprise. When carrying out research scenario approaches and expert methods of forecasting are used. The main versions of the forecast – option 1 (conservative), option 2 (moderate and optimistical) and option 3 (forced) – are developed on the basis of a uniform hypothesis of external conditions and differ with models of behavior of the enterprises of the monotown, and as with prospects of increase of their efficiency. It is established that at realization of all versions of the forecast economic efficiency of the city-forming enterprise of the monotown increases. However quality of this increase in considered scenarios of the forecast of social and economic development of the region variously. As the most acceptable the moderate and optimistical option is recognized, so at its realization economic efficiency will increase on the average 0,7 items above, than in option 1. The moderate and optimistical option is more focused on innovations, assumes carrying out transformations in development of the human capital and science, and also active modernization of the enterprise.

scholarly journals Quality of urban space as a factor of Almaty’s sustainable economic development

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
N. K. Nurlanova ◽  
F. G. Alzhanova ◽  
Z. T. Satpayeva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Sustainable Economic Development ◽  
The City

In Kazakhstan, in recent years, there has been an intensification of urbanization processes due to the uncontrolled migration of rural population to cities. In this regard, there arise the number of problems related to ensuring the quality of life in cities.The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of urban space and its role in sustainable economic development on Almaty example. When assessing the quality of space in Almaty’s districts, there were calculated the groups of indicators that reflect the basic characteristics of a modern city: safety, comfort, ecology, diversity, modernity, business environment, quality of life, social development and human capital. Data from open sources were used: Department of statistics of Almaty, Committee on legal statistics and special accounts of the General prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Department of emergency situations of Almaty.The study concluded that the spatial development of Almaty is uneven. Four types of territories were identified in the city structure: the historic center, integrated with the adjoining business center; microdistricts of mass housing development (sleeping areas); old areas of low-rise buildings and private households; new annexed areas that are characterized by unregulated individual housing construction. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that the quality of urban space is an important factor in the sustainable economic development of the city, in particular business.It was also concluded that it is necessary to develop a universal system of urban development indicators for use on an ongoing basis by representatives of business and the Akimat of Almaty in order to more fully identify the problems of urban space development, develop and implement strategic plans for the city’s development, as well as urban researchers.

scholarly journals Geographical Analysis of Educational Services in the City of Fallujah during the Ottoman Period to the End of the Monarchy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Razzaq Mohammed Jabbar Mohammadi ◽  
Khalid Sabaar muhamad alshajiri
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy Quran Recitation

The study of educational life in the past is a fundamental pillar that contributes to the development of educational services in general and those of the city of Fallujah in particular. This paper covers the Ottoman period through to the Iraqi Monarchy. Before the creation of the Al-Asifia School, education was largely restrucied to small teaching circles to young children in matters related religion (limited to Holy Quran Recitation and Islamic Jurisprudence. However, the period of the Iraqi monarchy witnessed the establishment of ten school, five of them preparatory and three primary, in addition to two Islamic schools.This study explores the state of education at this time and assesses the quality of the schools. The most important recommendation of this research is that fact that policymakers must calculate and evaluate the longer term advantages and disadvantages when planning to implement new educational service matrices. Keywords:Ottoman era, English occupation, monarchy, schools, kataeb

The Grid Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Francesco Rotondo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Places ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
The City

The pattern of the grid city now seems dated and far from the metropolisation phenomena that characterize contemporary cities. In fact, as already happened in the past, the grid cities manage to evolve favoring the needs of its contemporary inhabitants. In this chapter, the authors try to understand some phenomena that characterize the transformation of the urban form of the grid city, highlighting its own ability to evolve between tradition and innovation. During these 200 years, the grid city, its buildings, and its public spaces were created, lived, and processed in multiple ways: built, replaced, drawn, renovated, restored. Here, the authors do not want to describe these planning and building tools, but they want to discuss the possible implications of the different transformation modes used in the grid city can have on urban and architectural perception of the physical space, the quality of life, and viability of these central places for the city's identity. The city of Bari, on the Adriatic Coast, in the South of Italy, is used as a case of study to represent concepts developed in the chapter.

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