scholarly journals Spatial Characteristics of Urban Waterfronts: Evaluations on the Historical Waterfronts of Istanbul

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Serengül Seçmen ◽  
Handan Turkoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Urban Waterfront ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Physical Accessibility

In the second half of the 20th century, urban waterfront development began in North America and spread around the world. During the development process, urban waterfronts were assigned various functions, however following their spatial transformation, various problems such as weak interaction with water, weak physical accessibility, and the loss of historical identity have occurred directly affecting open spaces. Since the 19th century, the transformation of Istanbul waterfronts has occurred in parallel to the urban development process but without being a part of holistic planning approach. In time, the loss of open spaces, the lack of qualities such as the spatial interaction with water, the weak accessibility by public transportation and the lack of diversity for recreational activities have grown into common problems. This article discusses the results of a study focused on the spatial characteristics of open spaces especially referring to historical waterfronts (Eminönü, Karaköy, Kadıköy, Üsküdar, Beşiktaş) in consideration with the qualities of ‘water-based environment’, ‘connectivity and continuity’, ‘imageability’, ‘compatibility’ and ‘looseness’.

scholarly journals Spatial Characteristics of Urban Waterfronts

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Serengül Seçmen ◽  
Handan Türkoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Urban Waterfront ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Physical Accessibility

In the second half of the 20th century, urban waterfront development began in North America and spread around the world. During the development process, urban waterfronts were assigned various functions, however following their spatial transformation, various problems such as weak interaction with water, weak physical accessibility, and the loss of historical identity have occurred directly affecting open spaces. Since the 19th century, the transformation of Istanbul waterfronts has occurred in parallel to the urban development process but without being a part of holistic planning approach. In time, the loss of open spaces, the lack of qualities such as the spatial interaction with water, the weak accessibility by public transportation and the lack of diversity for recreational activities have grown into common problems. This article discusses the results of a study focused on the spatial characteristics of open spaces especially referring to historical waterfronts (Eminönü, Karaköy, Kadıköy, Üsküdar, Beşiktaş) in consideration with the qualities of ‘water-based environment’, ‘connectivity and continuity’, ‘imageability’, ‘compatibility’ and ‘looseness’.

Design of a cable-stayed footbridge adaptable to various urban areas

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Clerici ◽  
Silvia Mirabella
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Reduced Mobility

<p>The present paper relates to the design of a cable-stayed footbridge, composed by ready made elements and with span suitable to various urban and building areas. At present, in order to find a solution to traffic problems, local governments look for many ways to alleviate city’s main roads, increasing public transportation and designing dedicated underground pedestrian routes. Although this subways already built are not really used by pedestrians, which prefer wide-open spaces, such as skyways also designed for people with reduced mobility. In this context the described footbridge, with access ramps designed in accordance with accessibility standards, represents not only a good solution for cycle and pedestrian mobility problems, but it is also easy to transport and to be installed, due to its modular elements. The access ramps are suspended to pilons with inclination depending by the required bridge lengths and they can be assembled in different configurations in order to be well integrated also in limited space areas. Finally a particular focus is dedicated to cables, with dismountable end terminations designed to reduce transportation space and costs</p>

scholarly journals Geographical Change of the Japanese National Land in the 200 Years Using INŌ’s Map with GIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Yuji Murayama ◽  
Yuki Iwai
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Survey Line ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 19Th Century

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> This presentation discusses the regional changes quantitatively in the 200 years through the overlay analysis of the present map and the INŌ’s map made by Tadataka INO in 1821 (Figure 1). INO surveyed the coastline and major roads on foot. He investigated not only survey lines, but also various geographic information such as rivers, lakes, mountains, village names, castles, temples, administrative boundaries, etc. Visualizing all of the 214 sheets of the INŌ’s large-scale map with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we can analyse the national land condition seamlessly at the end of the Edo era.</p><p>Methodological point of view, we have serious problems including the scale, projection, identification of geographic features and so on, when we compare the old map with the present. In this connection, digitalizing the INŌ’s map as the GIS data is very useful to examine the spatial transformation scientifically during the 200 years. The digital INŌ’s map was constructed by employing the geo-reference function of GIS with the triangulation method. The survey line was converted into the line feature of vector data, and the place names were converted into the point feature of raster data. The distance of the survey line was measured by GIS-based geometric operation.</p><p>We obtained the following findings. The distributions of villages, ports, and facilities in western Japan were denser than those in eastern Japan in the 19th century. This was caused not only by the difference in natural environment and landform but also by socioeconomic factors including the locations of the castle towns and industrial activities. The regional structure has been dramatically transformed by the modernization of the political system, transportation system, and industrial development in reclaimed areas (Figure 2). It is concluded that most parts of changes in regional characteristics have been attained by overcoming the natural constraints. However, the difference in the political system has also been influential to the formation of the present regional system.</p>

Managing Risk in a New Telecommunications Service Development Process through a Scenario Planning Approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Hyeon Ahn ◽  
Ann Skudlark
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Managing Risk ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Gaining Insight

Managing risk in a new product and service development process is one of the major challenges for many business managers. A scenario planning approach was incorporated into a new telecommunications service development process in order to understand the uncertainties shaping the future economic, business and technological environments. Understanding the major drivers for uncertainties helped in gaining insight and thereby generated new strategies for reducing risks and taking advantage of opportunities from uncertainty. In order to demonstrate the process and value of the approach, it was applied to a new telecommunications service concept, the Phoneweb service, which allows Internet access through telephones rather than a computer interface.

A multiobjective optimization model for locating affordable housing investments while maximizing accessibility to jobs by public transportation

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Zhong ◽  
Alex Karner ◽  
Michael Kuby ◽  
Aaron Golub
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Dispersion Model ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Location Model ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Transit Accessibility ◽  
Housing Units

This paper develops a new optimal location model for siting affordable housing units to maximize the accessibility of low-income workers to appropriate jobs by public transportation. Transit-accessible housing allows disadvantaged populations to reduce their reliance on automobiles, which can lead to savings on transportation-related expenditures. The housing location model developed here maximizes transit accessibility while reducing the clustering of affordable housing units in space. Accessibility is maximized using a high-resolution space-time metric of public transit accessibility, originally developed for service equity analysis. The second objective disperses subsidized housing projects across space using a new minimax dispersion model based on spatial interaction principles. The multiobjective model trades off accessibility maximization and affordable housing dispersion, subject to upper and lower bounds on the land acquisition and construction budget. The model is tested using data for Tempe, AZ including actual data for vacant parcels, travel times by light rail and bus, and the location of low-wage jobs. This model or similar variants could provide insightful spatial decision support to affordable-housing providers or tax-credit administrators, facilitating the design of flexible strategies that address multiple social goals.

scholarly journals Effect of spatial characteristics on campus open space uses of youth: Example of KTU Kanuni CampusGençlerin kampüs açık mekân kullanımlarına mekânsal özelliklerin etkisi: KTÜ Kanuni Kampüsü örneği

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 2417
Author(s):  
Tuğba Düzenli ◽  
Elif Merve Alpak ◽  
Ali Özbilen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Friendship Relations ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Positive Effect

It is necessary to assess the environment in terms of the development of young people; Young people need to spend time in appropriate places to speed up the development process and increase the influence of the youth process on personality development. When assessed from the perspective of environmental design, university campuses are one of the most important places where young people's friendship relations intensify and social roles begin to develop as well as to acquire skills related to their professions. In this study, open spaces of Karadeniz Technical University Kanuni Campus were first classified in terms of the characteristics (mobility, naturalness, openness) that should be possessed by the youth places determined in the literature and then the use of youth was observed in these places. 3 of them were high in terms of the determined characteristics and 3 were low. A total of 6 campus locations were observed and how young people used the spaces. As a result, it was found that spaces with higher levels of characteristics were more successful, more used by younger people, and group use was more intense. In other words, mobility, naturalness and openness were found to have a positive effect on campus.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetGençlerin gelişimi açısından çevreyi değerlendirmek gereklidir; gençlerin gelişim sürecini hızlandırmak, gençlik sürecinin kişilik gelişimine etkisini arttırmak için uygun mekânlarda zaman geçirmeleri gerekir. Çevre tasarımı açısından değerlendirildiğinde, meslekleriyle ilgili donanımlarını kazanmaları yanında gençlerin arkadaşlık ilişkilerinin yoğunlaştığı ve sosyal roller geliştirmeye başladığı önemli mekânlardan biri de üniversite kampüsleridir. Bu çalışmada da Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Kanuni Kampüsü açık mekânları önce literatürden belirlenen genç mekânlarının sahip olması gereken özellikler (hareketlilik, doğallık, açıklık) bakımından sınıflandırılmış, daha sonra bu mekânlarda gençlerin kullanımları gözlemlenmiştir. 3’ü belirlenen özellikler bakımından yüksek, 3 ü düşük olmak üzere toplam 6 kampüs mekânında davranış gözlemi yapılmış, gençlerin mekânları nasıl kullandığı incelenmiştir. Sonuçta özellikler açısından düzeyleri yüksek olan mekânların dahabaşarılı olduğu ve daha çok genç tarafından kullanıldığı ve grup kullanımının yoğunluktaolduğu ortaya çıkmıştır. Yani hareketlilik, doğallık, açıklık özelliklerinin kampüs mekân kullanımını olumlu yönde etkilediği belirlenmiştir.// Annotate Highlight

scholarly journals CONTRASTING GLOBAL IMAGERY TO LOCAL REALITIES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WATERFRONTS OF MALAYSIA’S CAPITAL CITIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Quentin Stevens ◽  
Marek Kozlowski ◽  
Norsidah Ujang
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
City Centre ◽  
City Image ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Ecological Performance ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
Urban Waterfront ◽  
Social Use

Urban waterfront redevelopments are often about image-making for economic and political gain. This article analyses three major recent waterfront projects within the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area: Kuala Lumpur City Centre, the River of Life, and Lake Putrajaya. All have been important in projecting an image of a modern, developed, postcolonial Malaysia. The article examines these waterfront landscapes in relation to three key themes: their contribution to the overall city image, to economic development, and to ecological performance. The article draws upon policy documents, project plans, interviews with local policymakers, designers and academics, field observation of the current physical development, land use and social use of the three waterfront precincts, and a mental mapping survey of users' cognitive images of how these precincts fit within the overall city image. Analysis shows that the appearance, use and development process of these three waterfront projects draw heavily on international models. The article suggests several waterfront sites and uses within the three projects that indicate a more authentic local paradigm for urban waterfront development.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SURAKARTA REGIONAL REGULATION NUMBER 2 YEAR 2008 ABOUT DISABILITY EQULITY OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITY ACCESSIBILITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Kuni Nasihatun Arifah
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Accessibility ◽  
Transportation Facilities

The fulfillment of Human Rights is one of the indicators of a Legal State, Indonesia as a State of law mandated in the body of the 1945 Constitution of the State's obligation to fulfill human rights for every citizen of his country without exception including to the disabled, disabled is one of the citizens who are prone to discrimination. Perda Kota Surakarta No.2 Year 2008 about disability equality regulates the rights and obligations of the disabled and the obligation of government in realizing equality of disability including physical accessibility in public transportation and public service. In order to implement the regulation, regulation can be implemented. The form of impelemntasi aksebilitas public transportation facilities in Surakarta is with the BST (Bus Trans Surakarta) , halte bus and bus Begawan Abiyasa. After  implementation is run, there is an effort to increase Accessibility that is with the supervision of local regulations, the construction of tirtonadi terminal, and coordination.Hambatan that the Government in the effort to fulfill the right of accessibility Public transportation is a matter of funds and coordination between agencies.The result of the research shows that the implementation of the rights of  Perda No.2 of 2008 on disability equality in Surakarta through three processes namely socialization, coordination and implementation and supervision and assessment, all of which have been running well but still require a lot of improvement especially in terms of coordination of implementation.

scholarly journals The Need of Green Open Spaces as the Effect of Urban Waterfront Development in Sungai Bilu, a Stream Corridor Neighbourhood in Banjarmasin

2019 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 03015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanny Maria Caesarina ◽  
Nadia Humaida ◽  
Muhammad Faiz Amali ◽  
Muhammad Wira Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
River City ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Urban Waterfront

Banjarmasin which is known as “the thousands river city” has avery close relationship with the waterfront. However, the pressure toupgrade the quality and quantity of urban areas has urged the localgovernment to do some new projects by sacrificing some natural cityelements. This has transformed Banjarmasin’s urban waterfront and riversin many ways. This study conducted to know the effect of urban waterfrontdevelopment in forming the green space in a stream corridorneighbourhood. For this purpose, green neighbourhood elements have beenused to indicate: how the waterfront development has affected theneighbourhood; the respond of local residents of the urban waterfrontdevelopment; and as the result is the urgent need of green spaces in theneighbourhood of stream corridors. The contents of these indicators areillustrated by analysing a stream corridor neighbourhood in Banjarmasincalled Sungai Bilu. This article was based on post evaluation andunderlying ideas of how the urban waterfront transformation has affectedthe need of public green open spaces in the neighbourhoods.

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