scholarly journals Food‐productive green infrastructure: Enabling agroecological transitions from an urban design perspective

ua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Bohn ◽  
Dong Chu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Design Perspective

scholarly journals Green infrastructure in high-rise residential development on steep slopes in city of Vladivostok

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Kopeva ◽  
Olga Ivanova ◽  
Olga Khrapko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The World ◽  
Green Walls ◽  
Steep Slopes ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study is to identify the facilities of green infrastructure that are able to improve living conditions in an urban environment in high-rise residential apartments buildings on steep slopes in the city of Vladivostok. Based on the analysis of theoretical sources and practices that can be observed in the world, green infrastructure facilities have been identified. These facilities meet the criteria of the sustainable development concept, and can be used in the city of Vladivostok. They include green roofs, green walls, and greening of disturbed slopes. All the existing high-rise apartments buildings situated on steep slopes in the city of Vladivostok, have been studied. It is concluded that green infrastructure is necessary to be used in new projects connected with designing and constructing of residential apartments buildings on steep slopes, as well as when upgrading the projects that have already been implemented. That will help to regulate the ecological characteristics of the sites. The results of the research can become a basis for increasing the sustainability of the habitat, and will facilitate the adoption of decisions in the field of urban design and planning.

Urban Design

Urban Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Gruebner ◽  
Layla McCay
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Design Perspective

The features of the urban built environment influence the daily activities and health behaviors of people living in cities. Thus, it is possible to design cities in ways that can reduce poor health and support the well-being of urban residents. Urban design is the framework that gives form and shape to the components of the urban physical environment, including streets, residences, retail outlets, and industrial facilities. In giving form to the urban physical environment an urban design perspective creates an opportunity to shape cities and, in so doing, to shape how cities influence the health of their populations. This chapter introduces an urban design perspective and offer examples of how an urban design lens can help us understand urban health to the end of improving the health of urban populations.

Tracing objects of a lost room in suburbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-625
Author(s):  
Gul Kacmaz Erk ◽  
Tevfik Balcioglu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeBringing product design and architectural design together, this article looks into the extraordinary use of everyday objects in urban and suburban spaces in The Lost Room mini-television series (2006). The study questions the accepted meanings of products and spaces in relation to their physicality, perception and use. Through multi-layered analysis of the relationship between objects, (architectural and suburban/urban) spaces and their users, the article opens up a discussion about the purpose, meaning and influence of designed products and places.Design/methodology/approachIn this context, this qualitative research makes use of moving images (as representations of products and spaces) to propose a critique of contemporary design via (sub-)urban design practices.FindingsUsing irony and metaphor to question the habit of object possession, accumulation and fetishism, the series challenges blind loyalty to contemporary beliefs. The Lost Room is not concerned with new forms or new designs. Instead, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of both objects and spaces in relation to one another. By transforming our understanding of space, the series also reveals humans' spatial limitations. The Lost Room is a unique small screen “product” in which people's relationship to the designed world is interrogated by having mass-produced objects and the built environment constantly in the foreground.Originality/valueFilm analysis from a design perspective is not new; however, this is the first time The Lost Room is brought to the attention of architects and designers via scholarly work. Film theorists and cinemagoers may also benefit from the unique design perspective outlined in the article.

scholarly journals GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY IN URBAN DESIGN Nile Corridor in Great Cairo as a Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (40) ◽  
pp. 1055-1066
Author(s):  
Amal Abdou ◽  
Iman Abd Elgawad ◽  
Tarek Tarek Fouad
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure

scholarly journals Urban design for mobilities – towards material pragmatism

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole B. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
The Cross

Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, to present a critique of mainstream transport thinking based on the so-called ‘mobilities turn’, and secondly to connect this to a design perspective. The aim is thus to establish this reflection based upon a theoretically informed discussion. In this paper, we shall explore the potential for a better understanding of contemporary urban challenges through the cross-disciplinary approach of ‘mobilities design’. The paper investigates how this notion is based on an understanding of materialities and social action that is framed under the heading of ‘material pragmatism’. The paper critically discusses transport versus mobilities and uses the combination of urban design and mobilities not just to argue for a pragmatic approach to urban transformation, but also to illustrate how such a different frame of understanding is better suitable for the ‘kind of a problem a city is’ to paraphrase the well-known urban scholar Jane Jacobs.

scholarly journals Justification for ‘Scrapping the Sky’ A Comprehensive International Review of Skyscrapers/High-Rise Buildings from an Urban Design Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Tamas Lukovich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
International Review ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Design Solutions

Abstract The magic ‘vertical’ has always been a spiritually distinctive preoccupation of architecture throughout history. The paper intends to examine, from a series of perspectives, if the high-rise in principle is a good thing. The focus is on urban design implications, however engineering challenges and their design solutions are inseparable aspects of the problematic. It is also to further demystify some ideologies still attached to their widespread application. It concludes that there is a new awareness evolving about high-rise design that is superior to previous approaches.

scholarly journals Beyond Beauty or Urban Design of Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Thorsten Bürklin ◽  
Michael Peterek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Resource Economy ◽  
Land Water

In recent years, urban spaces all over the world have been effectively staged, sometimes all too obviously, and urban design has often concentrated on the implementation of "beautiful" lighthouse projects and globally oriented lifestyle urbanism. However, beauty – also in the broader sense of a beautiful experience – cannot be an end in itself in urban planning. An urban design of responsibility has to be committed to all residents and address the pressing challenges of our time, for example: the almost unlimited consumption of land, water and energy; floods and heatwaves due to climate change; lack of decent living conditions for large parts of the population. Against this background, five strategic guidelines for the integrated and responsible planning of our cities have been developed. These include "comprehensive" and integrated neighbourhoods, a mobility turnaround, interconnected blue and green infrastructure, a circular resource economy and space sharing, and the exploitation of the opportunities of digitalisation for a social and ecological city.

A SIRN View on Design Thinking—An Urban Design Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 829-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juval Portugali ◽  
Egbert Stolk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Perspective
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