The role of urban parks for the sustainable city

2004 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Chiesura
Keyword(s):  
Urban Parks ◽  
Sustainable City

scholarly journals Setting up the stage for smart sustainable city: international and ukrainian context. The role of smart solutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Anna Pozdniakova ◽  
Iryna Velska
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Steps ◽  
Human Component

The paper analyzes the key steps taken by different cities worldwide and gathered into a clear step-by-step roadmap that can be useful for emerging smart cities. The Roadmap covers three main stages as we see them during the process of development: preparation, formation and spreading stages. We reveal how this is incorporated in the Ukrainian context. Our analysis of smart city solutions from all over the world (based on the BeeSmartCity database) showed that the tech component on its own is not enough to overcome urban challenges within different domains (environment, economy, government etc.), as we see each of the solutions has a human component involved in a form of knowledge generation and sharing, different forms of co-creation and partnership etc. Thus, ICTs are a required but not a sufficient element of building successful citizen-friendly and resilient cities.

Trendy urbanists, innovation laboratories and best practices: in pursuit of ‘progressive’ urban planning in Mexico City

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ryan A. Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The City

This research explores the role of trendy urbanists in best practice uptake within an innovation laboratory in Latin America. Trendy urbanists are the privileged professionals who aspire to be on the cutting edge of urban planning, frequently referencing best practice policies and programmes that they see as supporting ‘livable’ and ‘sustainable’ city building. Taking the case of the Laboratory for the City in Mexico City, I illustrate that the preferred best practices of trendy urbanists are reflective of their own privilege. I conclude that, by relying on best practices and trendy urbanists, innovation laboratories are susceptible to fostering inequitable planning outcomes.

Role of Space Qualities of Urban Parks on Mood Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdieh Pazhouhanfar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Parks ◽  
Mood Change

Reframing the Notion of Sustainable Urban Development in the Middle East

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Samer Bagaeen
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment

In offering reflections on key themes affecting sustainability in the Middle East, this paper explores how an imprecise concept such as sustainability can, co-constituted with other powerful political and economic systems, such as nation building, drive forward new agendas for urban development. Rather than focus on specific empirical findings, the paper reflects instead on some of the assumptions underpinning competing approaches to sustainability highlighting multiple alternate visions of urban sustainability. In doing so, the paper engages with the literature on sustainability, master-planning and real estate development inviting the reader in the process to think about and ponder on the role of vision in the process. The reader is therefore invited to consider the aggregate impact of individual master planned projects on the urban fabric of fast growing cities and to think about how projects such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and the Msheireb downtown redevelopment in Doha demonstrate how sustainability and nationalist discourses are intertwined offering competing visions of what a sustainable city might become while at the same time hiding urban inequalities in plain sight with the help of the ‘forward looking’ facade of sustainability.

Evaluating the legibility of urban parks based on neuroscience and the FVFL model

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasaman Gholami ◽  
Seyed Hassan Taghvaei ◽  
Saeid Norouzian-Maleki ◽  
Rouhollah Mansouri Sepehr
Keyword(s):  
Fixation Duration ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Average Correlation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to quantitatively evaluate the role of landscape values and factors in urban parks experimentally based on neuroscience.Design/methodology/approachIn the first step, ten major parks were selected out of 59 regional and trans-regional parks in Tehran for field study analysis. Next, considering the diversity and abundance of landscape elements in the selected parks, Mellat Park was chosen for the case study.FindingsThe fixation duration of the factors has an average correlation coefficient of 0.5865, −0.5035 and −0.5125 for the overall sketch map, quality and accuracy, respectively. The results indicated that the “quality of people's cognitive maps” has a direct relation to fixation duration on “human-made factors” and an inverse relation to fixation duration on “natural factors” and “human activities and behavioral factors” in the park.Practical implicationsThe results can pave the way for further research in the interdisciplinary fields of landscape architecture and neuroscience.Originality/valueLegibility is a superior quality of urban spaces that profoundly affect how people perceive and behave.

scholarly journals Modern Conceptions of Cities as Smart and Sustainable and Their Commonalities

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna D’Auria ◽  
Marco Tregua ◽  
Manuel Vallejo-Martos
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
New Approach ◽  
H Index ◽  
City Life ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Definition Of

The present work aims to determine the existence of commonalities between two modern conceptions of cities, i.e., smart and sustainable. To accomplish this, the authors carried out a systematic review of the most-cited scientific contributions chosen by the scholars proposing conceptualisation of the two topics, according to the H-index determined by Web of Science. The findings show that the most important contributions representing the antecedents with respect to the concepts of a smart city and a sustainable city can be classified into three groups: labelled as what, how and with, and describing the definitions, the role of technology, and the pillars (in the case of a smart city); the groups labelled as what, how and with depicts definitions, change and challenges, and key features (in the case of a sustainable city). Starting from the conception of a smart city as the evolution of a digital city, the smart city concept not only considers aspects related to technology and innovation but adds the human features of city life. The sustainable city concept can be understood as a new approach through the filter of a new philosophy; it is an equitable and balanced setting of goals in line with the principles of sustainable development. Both concepts cannot be thought of as contrasting; in fact, they share many commonalities. This is because the attention focused on social, environmental and economic issues has framed the debate over sustainability and converged in the definition of a smart city and—obviously—in the notion of a sustainable city. The main contribution of this paper is in considering the smart city as mainly setting the guidelines of a transforming city, while the sustainable city is mostly thought as an approach and a philosophy to modern cities.

scholarly journals What is the role of trees and remnant vegetation in attracting people to urban parks?

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Shanahan ◽  
B. B. Lin ◽  
K. J. Gaston ◽  
R. Bush ◽  
R. A. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Parks ◽  
Remnant Vegetation

scholarly journals Symbiosis of Ornamental Plants and Bird Habitats in Urban Parks: FRIM, Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Sabrina Idilfitri ◽  
Nik Hanita Nik Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Ornamental Plant ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Urban Birds ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Open Access Article

Rapid and unpredicted rate of urbanization have negatively impacted the lowland tropical forests. Introduced species and destruction are activities that bring harm to the sensitive yet precious wildlife and cause them habitats loss; bird family. This research aims to review the role of ornamental plant in providing food and shelter for urban birds in urban park. The research is conducted by the reviewing of literature and questionnaire survey analysis. It hoped that the review will contribute to the knowledge of landscape architecture on consideration as opportunity for birds in urban parks. Keywords: Bird habitats; ornamental plant; urban park; birds’ food and shelter. eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i8.286 

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