TO DEVELOP A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN ARE IN THE EARLY ADOLESCENT AGE GROUP

The present study was undertaken to assess the parenting styles of mother and father of early adolescent and its influence on personality development. The investigation took place in the municipal boundaries of Udaipur city. The total sample of the research consisted of 360 respondents who belonged to middle income group. The sample selected comprised of early adolescents (120) in the age range of 11-13 years and their father (120) and mother (120). Few recommendations for parents of early adolescent were developed which can be useful for further researches.

Generating automatic warning proposals

<p>A warning system is a complex chain, which builds on different applications leading to a customer friendly product. The goal of the product is to deliver useful information to the end-user, giving indication of the severity of the event and what best to do in order to avoid damages and/or injuries/fatalities. In-between the different production steps are a number of processes, which can be altered to improve the products; for example by including probabilistic information or by producing impact-oriented warnings.</p><p>As MeteoSwiss is renewing its warning system, it opens up the possibility to include the above-mentioned information. Furthermore, it also offers the option to automatize the warning generation chain. One key part of this process are the automatically generated first guesses of warning regions. These regions display the danger level of any given hazard based only on the meteorological situation; hence, no predefined regions will be used to generate the warning products. As of now, MeteoSwiss used a set of predefined regions on which the danger level was indicated. These regions were not necessarily defined to best represent weather phenomena but rather often municipal boundaries.</p><p>However, how to produce meaningful regions is not trivial and it requires discussions with the forecasters as there are a number of parameters to tune. Tuning the regions is needed as no forecasting system is perfect and ideally, the automatically generated first guesses compensate for these short-comings. However, realistically speaking, before achieving a fully automatic warning system, there will be an intermediate phase when first guesses will likely have to be manually adjusted by the forecasters.</p><p>We will present our work and first results of automatic warning proposals based on COSMO-2E and feedbacks thereof we got from discussions with the forecasters.</p>

No free rides: winners and losers of the TTC U-pass

This paper explores the financial gains and losses for students from the U-Pass scheduled to be implemented by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) at universities in Toronto, Ontario in fall 2019. The U-Pass offers students unlimited travel on the TTC for $70 per month, but students are unable to opt-out. Toronto already has high existing student transit ridership and fares that are not integrated across municipal boundaries, setting a context in which U-Pass impacts different students in different ways. This study uses data from the 2015 StudentMoveTO survey to determine the financial losses and gains from students across different campuses, commute modes, and geographies. Students that benefit live within the City of Toronto and use TTC to get to school, while those expected to experience welfare losses either live outside of Toronto or live close enough to their campus to walk or bike to school. 1. An article about U-Pass in Toronto, used the key words: transit fares, student travel, equity

No free rides: winners and losers of the TTC U-pass

This paper explores the financial gains and losses for students from the U-Pass scheduled to be implemented by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) at universities in Toronto, Ontario in fall 2019. The U-Pass offers students unlimited travel on the TTC for $70 per month, but students are unable to opt-out. Toronto already has high existing student transit ridership and fares that are not integrated across municipal boundaries, setting a context in which U-Pass impacts different students in different ways. This study uses data from the 2015 StudentMoveTO survey to determine the financial losses and gains from students across different campuses, commute modes, and geographies. Students that benefit live within the City of Toronto and use TTC to get to school, while those expected to experience welfare losses either live outside of Toronto or live close enough to their campus to walk or bike to school. 1. An article about U-Pass in Toronto, used the key words: transit fares, student travel, equity

ANÁLISE DOS MEMORIAIS DESCRITIVOS DOS MUNICÍPIOS DO ESTADO DO AMAPÁ – O CASO DE PORTO GRANDE, CALÇOENE E AMAPÁ

O presente trabalho apresenta uma análise dos memoriais descritivos de 3 municípios do estado do Amapá, estes memoriais influem diretamente sobre os limites legais dos municípios, suas áreas de abrangência e materialização de seus perímetros. O objetivo do trabalho é retratar a realidade existente no que concerne às questões relacionadas às divisas municipais utilizando as geotecnologias para a identificação de incompatibilidade no que tange ao memorial descritivo e a base cartográfica existente. Como resultado foi possível identificar várias inconsistências no decorrer da espacialização dos municípios a partir das informações contidas nos memoriais descritivos, mostrando assim, a necessidade de revisão dos limites municipais. Palavras-chave: Limite municipal; Espacialização; Geotecnologias; Cartografia. ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIVE MEMORIALS OF THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE OF AMAPÁ - THE CASE OF PORTO GRANDE, CALÇOENE AND AMAPÁ Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the descriptive memorials of the municipalities of Porto Grande, Calçoene and Amapá in the state of Amapá. These memorials directly influence the legal limits of the municipalities, their areas of coverage and the materialization of their perimeters. To carry out the study, methodological procedures were followed. First, the spatialization of the geodesic landmarks described in the descriptive memorials in the Geographic Information System. Then there was a conference of what was specialized with what was in the description. The objective of the work is to portray the existing reality with respect to issues related to municipal boundaries using geotechnologies to identify incompatibility with regard to the descriptive memorial and the existing cartographic base. As a result, it was possible to identify several inconsistencies during the spatialization of the municipal limits of Porto Grande, Calçoene and Amapá. From the information contained in the descriptive memorials, thus showing the need to revise the municipal limits. Keywords: Municipal boundaries; Spacialization; geotechnologies; cartography.ANÁLISIS DE LAS MEMORIAS DESCRIPTIVAS DE LOS MUNICIPIOS DEL ESTADO DE AMAPÁ - EL CASO DE PORTO GRANDE, CALÇOENE Y AMAPÁResumen: El presente trabajo presenta un análisis de los memoriales descriptivos de los municipios de Porto Grande, Calçoene y Amapá, en el estado de Amapá. Estos memoriales inciden directamente en los límites legales de los municipios, sus áreas de cobertura y la materialización de sus perímetros. Para la realización del estudio se siguieron procedimientos metodológicos. Primero, la espacialización de los hitos geodésicos descritos en los memoriales descriptivos en el Sistema de Información Geográfica. Luego hubo una conferencia de lo especializado con lo que estaba en la descripción. El objetivo del trabajo es retratar la realidad existente con respecto a cuestiones relacionadas con los límites municipales utilizando geotecnologías para identificar incompatibilidades con respecto al memorial descriptivo y la base cartográfica existente. Como resultado, fue posible identificar varias inconsistencias durante la espacialización de los límites municipales de Porto Grande, Calçoene y Amapá. A partir de la información contenida en los memoriales descriptivos, evidenciando así la necesidad de revisar los límites municipales. Palabras clave: límite municipal; Espacialización; Geotecnologías; Cartografía.

Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits

Cities known around the world as sanctuary, solidarity or refuge cities are resisting restrictive national migration and refugee policies and are seeking ways to accommodate migrants and refugees who lack support from the nation state. In this paper I examine urban solidarity approaches in Berlin and Freiburg in Germany, and Zurich in Switzerland. Interviews with key informants reveal that urban solidarity in these cities is not limited to including migrants and refugees living within the city’s boundaries. Rather, urban solidarity reaches beyond municipal boundaries to connect different places and scales in the form of inter-urban solidarity networks and initiatives that aim to enable migrants and refugees who are still abroad to arrive in the city. The complex geographies of urban migrant and refugee solidarity reach far beyond city limits.

Methodological Dimensions of Delineating Peri-urban Areas: The Case of Kolkata Metropolis

In the past few decades, due to urbanization and spatial expansion of cities beyond their municipal boundaries, complex interactions between the city and its surrounding rural areas have occurred, resulting in the formation of peri-urban spaces or zones of transition. There is a plurality of definitions for these peri-urban spaces, due to their diverse character in terms of land and water use, livelihood shifts, demographic and social transitions. Most peri-urban areas, specifically those around large metropolitan cities, are increasingly assuming complex characters, which call for governance structures beyond rural–urban binaries. For any administrative intervention of a serious nature in peri-urban areas, a standard methodology for demarcation of these spaces is required. This article is an attempt to develop and apply such a methodology beyond the existing ones, using government sources of data, in the case of Kolkata Metropolis. This article uses socio-economic and land-use characteristics to achieve this objective. It finds that peri-urban spaces do not necessarily develop uniformly around the city; instead, they are fragmented and could be located both near or relatively far from urban areas.

Mapping as Gap-Finder: Geddes, Tyrwhitt, and the Comparative Spatial Analysis of Port City Regions

Politicians, planners, and mapmakers have long used mapping to depict selected spaces, to document natural and humanmade changes within them, and to identify spaces where planning intervention is needed or can be helpful. Recent innovations involving big data, GIS-based research and digital datasets offer opportunities for maps and mapping that can lead to a better understanding of the interrelation of spatial, social, and cultural elements over time and to facilitate planning. A close analysis of the historic transformation of the built environment (such as land use, land ownership, infrastructures), the development of institutional structures (municipal boundaries) and the narrative that accompanies them (as embedded in maps and plans) through historical geo-spatial mapping can facilitate the identification of ‘gaps,’ where spatial, institutional, or cultural opportunities and challenges exist and where planning can be useful. Such an understanding can provide novel insights into the conditions and complexity of multiple transitions (energy, digital, technological) and provide a better foundation for future design. Our use of geo-spatial mapping to identify ‘gaps’ builds upon the work of Patrick Geddes and Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, who promoted the concept of survey-before-plan. As Tyrwhitt argued in 1950, the consistent overlaying of information can help us see patterns and outliers and derive meaning from huge, complex territories and large amounts of data (Tyrwhitt, 1950b). We can then better identify planning opportunities. Following an analysis of mapping as an analytical tool, we explore questions of sources, time, representation, and scale in the use of mapping at a time of increased availability of data. This article represents an initial effort to analyze the role of mapping as a tool of understanding, communicating, and ultimately planning through the lens of port city regions and their development over time. As a first step, it proposes conducting observations of historical geospatial mapping in port city regions in Europe: the Nieuwe Waterweg in the Netherlands, the Thames in the UK, and the Elbe in Germany. Probing the challenges and opportunities presented by historical sources, questions of representation and scale and data layers, the article concludes by proposing historical geo-spatial maps and mapping as a tool of display and comparative research and as a ‘gap finder.’

Romeins Nijmegen

Summary The Roman period in the history of Nijmegen starts in 19 BC with the construction of a large military camp on the Hunerberg and ends with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. During this period of nearly 500 years the dynamic history of Nijmegen and the surrounding Batavian area was partly determined by well-considered decisions made by Roman emperors and their army commanders in the province. In addition, incoming Germanic tribes, rebelling Romans and natural events such as climate change and two pandemics each determined the course of this history in its own unique way. Since 1914 archaeological research within the municipal boundaries has uncovered the remains of various military fortresses and smaller camps, urban settlements, small hamlets, burial grounds and an aqueduct. The results of these excavations unravel parts of the history of the oldest city in the Netherlands, but much is still awaiting discovery in the Nijmegen soil and in the archaeological depots.