Measuring transit oriented development: a spatial multi criteria assessment approach for the City Region Arnhem and Nijmegen

Abstract The bulk of the scholarly literature on city-regions and their governance is drawn from contexts where economic and political systems have been stable over an extended period. However, many parts of the world, including all countries in the BRICS, have experienced far-reaching national transformations in the recent past in economic and/or political systems. The national transitions are complex, with a mix of continuity and rupture, while their translation into the scale of the city-region is often indirect. But, these transitions have been significant for the city-region, providing a period of opportunity and institutional fluidity. Studies of the BRICS show that outcomes of transitions are varied but that there are junctures of productive comparison including the ways in which the nature of the transitions create new path dependencies, and way in which interests across territorial scales soon consolidate, producing new rigidities in city-region governance.

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Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020972654 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 004209802097265

Author(s):

Matthew Thompson ◽

Alan Southern ◽

Helen Heap

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Social Economy ◽

Future Research ◽

City Region ◽

Anchor Institutions ◽

Urban Economic Development ◽

The Social ◽

Social Economies ◽

The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

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State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing

Territory Politics Governance ◽

10.1080/21622671.2021.1913217 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Liuqing Yang ◽

Wen Chen ◽

Fulong Wu ◽

Yi Li ◽

Wei Sun

Keyword(s):

City Region ◽

The City

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Punching out: exploring justifications for employment land conversions in the GTA

10.32920/ryerson.14654913.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

David Cogliano

Keyword(s):

Smart Growth ◽

Land Conversion ◽

Transit Oriented Development ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Planning Framework ◽

Support Employment ◽

Research Findings ◽

The City

The current planning framework in the Province of Ontario is based on principles of “smart growth” including transit oriented development, intensification, and a focus on building complete communities. While the advancement of these principles has been positive in certain cases, the literature identifies that industrial lands may face redevelopment pressure as smart growth principles are adopted. This paper provides the opportunity to assess the extent of which this is the case in the context of the City of Markham. A content analysis of twelve employment land conversion applications provides for an on-the-ground case study of how the planning framework in Ontario, informed by smart growth principles, is leveraged by developers to support employment land conversions. Research findings include conflicting interpretations, among stakeholders, of planning policy goals related to employment land. Recommendations include the need for a more consistent articulation of policy goals and a rethink of traditional zoning strategies for industrial lands.

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Perancangan Kawasan Perkotaan Di Pulau Bali Sebagai Konektivitas Industri Pariwisata Yang Terintegrasi Pada Sistem ‘’Smart City Development’’

Jurnal Ilmiah Vastuwidya ◽

10.47532/jiv.v2i1.80 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 93-97

Author(s):

I Made Agus Mahendra

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Spatial Vision ◽

Development Planning ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

City Development ◽

City Region ◽

Environmental Goals ◽

Almost All ◽

The City

City Development Planning can be described as a decision-making process to realize economic, social, cultural and environmental goals through the development of a spatial vision, strategies and plans, and the application of a set of policy principles, tools, institutional participatory mechanisms, and regulatory procedures. Connectivity between cities is needed for a Bali island which is the best tourism destination in Indonesia. Good connectivity between cities can contribute greatly to tourism destinations in each city / region. In the future it will be a great work if the development of urban areas on the island of Bali is the integrated tourism industry path connectivity in the Smart City Development system. Smart city is a dream of almost all countries in the world both in the provincial and urban spheres. With Smart City, various kinds of data and information located in every corner of the city can be collected through sensors installed in every corner of the city, analyzed with smart applications, then presented according to user needs through applications that can be accessed by various types of gadgets. Through the gadget, users can also interactively become data sources, they send information to data centers for consumption by other users.

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Integrated Multimedia City Data: Exploring Learning Engagement and Greenspace in Glasgow

Built Environment ◽

10.2148/benv.46.4.574 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 574-598

Author(s):

Catherine Lido ◽

Phil Mason ◽

Jinhyun Hong ◽

Nadiia Gorash ◽

Obinna C.D. Anejionu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Lifelong Learning ◽

Household Survey ◽

Area Deprivation ◽

City Region ◽

Learning Engagement ◽

Educational Stakeholders ◽

Educational Engagement ◽

Travel Diaries ◽

Infrastructure Allocation ◽

The City

This paper showcases a holistic, data-led, analytical approach to complex research questions about the associations between learning engagement and green spaces, and uses this exemplar to reflection, and make recommendations relevant to, future implementation of CIM approaches to aspects of urban inclusion. This research offers a holistic picture of educational engagement, digital use, sustainability, cultural and civic participation, and transportation, employing data from diverse strands of the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project in the Glasgow city region. This includes a household survey, individuals' travel diaries and GPS trails around the city, linked to other urban administrative datasets on area deprivation and greenspace. Triangulated findings from iMCD data indicate that greenspace is generally positively related to adult learning engagement (in particular, less formal learning), highlighting the value to urban planners of considering varied types of data capture for lifelong learning, with linkage to more objective measures of active mobility (e.g. walking) around the city. iMCD, in line with CIM approaches, offers an interdisciplinary bridge to address healthy ageing and educational inclusion. Insights generated in a CIM-based context can help education policymakers, city planners, and other educational stakeholders reconsider resource and infrastructure allocation, for instance, in promoting lifelong learning engagement for adults in urban settings.

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Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City

Taking Back the Boulevard ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479809806.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 168-194

Author(s):

Jan Lin

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Urban Policy ◽

Private Investment ◽

Right To The City ◽

Transit Oriented Development ◽

Family Networks ◽

Social Violence ◽

Accumulation By Dispossession ◽

The Right ◽

The City

Examines the impacts of the sharpening gentrification process in Northeast Los Angeles and its socioeconomic and racial overtones as immigrant working class Latino/a families are increasingly threatened by displacement through rent increases, evictions, and socially traumatic uprooting of multi-family networks. Gentrification is tied to neoliberal local state efforts in Los Angeles to incentivize private investment through urban policy strategies like transit-oriented development, transit villages and small lot housing development. I argue the creative frontier of urban restructuring in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate for the rights of those threatened by housing displacement and eviction, address community and environmental impacts of new high-density housing projects, and campaign for more socially just housing and urban planning policies in Los Angeles. There is also examination of the plight of the homeless and rehabilitating gang members

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THE CITY-REGION A MODERN ACTOR TO COMPETE IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF GLOBALIZATION

From free trade to globalization uncovering the mist of 21st century ◽

10.2307/j.ctvc2rnzx.14 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 407-442

Keyword(s):

City Region ◽

The City

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Competitiveness and Polycentrism for SMEs in Bogotá Region, Colombia

Handbook of Research on Increasing the Competitiveness of SMEs - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9425-3.ch003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 54-79

Author(s):

Luis Armando Blanco ◽

Fabio Fernando Moscoso Duran ◽

Julián Marcel Libreros

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Spatial Structure ◽

Economic Geography ◽

Self Organization ◽

New Economic Geography ◽

City Region ◽

Central Thesis ◽

The City ◽

Edge Cities

This chapter studies the dynamics of Bogotá Region based on the New Economic Geography and the recent works on economic development in two big dimensions: the economic and the spatial structure; that is, productivity and polycentrism. The central thesis, supported on an econometric exercise for SMEs in 20 cities in Bogotá-Sabana region, is that with greater strength in the interior of Bogotá and less in the city region, a transition from monocentrism to functional polycentrism is consolidating. Krugman's Edge Cities model concludes that polycentrism comes from a process of spontaneous self-organization and produces a territorial order according to the mysterious ZIP law and consistent with efficiency, equity, and sustainability.

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