scholarly journals Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city: Role of landscape connectivity and green space characteristics in a metropolitan area

2019 ◽  
Vol 670 ◽  
pp. 941-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Heylen ◽  
R. Lasters ◽  
F. Adriaensen ◽  
M. Fonville ◽  
H. Sprong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Landscape Connectivity ◽  
The City

Providing an Attractive Environment for People to Engage in Health Activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Hung-Pin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Parks and green spaces have been allocated for city residents to offer them healthier natural environments. However, people living in cities may have less opportunity to engage with the natural environment since parks seem to be passive locations of activity. We investigated how to proactively enhance the attraction of green space to improve people's health. First, we surveyed how 683 city residents were engaged in physical activities. From them, 30 people were recruited for depth interviews. Results showed that the park environment and the health activities that feature ‘inner-attraction' could enhance the frequency and persistence of the city residents to engage in healthy activities. We also evaluated the service experience and attraction of 40 users in a 3-month program in the Daan Forest Park of Taipei City in Taiwan. Using the culture probes method, we found that the experience cycle and the use of social media enhanced the park's inner and inter attraction, and that the role of the park was transformed from a passive green space provider to an active service operator.

scholarly journals The Strategic Dimension of the Straits Area According to the New National Metropolitan Spatial Planning and to the European Space: Strategic Corridor Platform Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 198-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Moraci
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City

For some time now, following the constitutional reform, the debate on the metropolitan city has been reignited. The topic has been at the centre of attention given that cohesion policies attribute to metropolitan cities a key role in planning and the constitutional reform seems to have given an answer to the spending review which wipes out the provinces and formally identifies the European Strategy under the form of a programmatic suitability of intermediate metropolitan level. This level should counterbalance the municipal egoism which provides a distorted interpretation of subsidiarity which has marked planning since the revising of Title V. Very few are acquainted with the implications and complexities of these entangled mechanisms which will fail if all conditions are not met whether they be effective, nominal or opportunity related. This explains why the term Metropolitan City is preferred to conurbation, agglomeration or metropolitan area. Metropolitan Area and City do not coincide the area is in a portion of territorial recognition which entails attractive and competitive factors, the city is identified as such only if within the territorial organization that explains why the creation of both must be ensured: the city must be promoted in terms of competition, with or without a demographic dimension, by fostering the shared political project and by creating relational and productive conditions to attract and offer services and what else is necessary. What makes the difference is how to build and what to build. The strategy and the role of the future Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria and Messina stem from two different regulations and from the attempt to integrate interregional functions through the project I put forward: the strategic corridor platform of the Straits area. The platform is a non-confined territorial dimension which encompasses the two metropolitan cities and shares relational functions and understandings with the vast territory. It fully exploits the possibilities and available reforms in order to organize and provide the territory with competitive and functional dimensions so as to compete in Europe and in the Mediterranean. The prototype-project, the first part of the study has already been published, fosters an idea of governance and urban system which will devise, through future cohesion policies and multidimensional strategies, a single strategic vision of the territory able to dialogue at a local and Euro-Mediterranean level with the new scale economies and meet the challenges of 2020-2050. Without going into detail, the project proposes and organizes the intangible functions of the Area (new assets and networking) so as to satisfy the demand for services and infrastructures physical and non-physical (functional and international indicator).

Providing an Attractive Environment for People to Engage in Health Activities

2019 ◽  
pp. 1671-1689
Author(s):  
Hung-Pin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Parks and green spaces have been allocated for city residents to offer them healthier natural environments. However, people living in cities may have less opportunity to engage with the natural environment since parks seem to be passive locations of activity. We investigated how to proactively enhance the attraction of green space to improve people's health. First, we surveyed how 683 city residents were engaged in physical activities. From them, 30 people were recruited for depth interviews. Results showed that the park environment and the health activities that feature ‘inner-attraction' could enhance the frequency and persistence of the city residents to engage in healthy activities. We also evaluated the service experience and attraction of 40 users in a 3-month program in the Daan Forest Park of Taipei City in Taiwan. Using the culture probes method, we found that the experience cycle and the use of social media enhanced the park's inner and inter attraction, and that the role of the park was transformed from a passive green space provider to an active service operator.

Urban Transport Issues in Cotonou: Analysis and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 850-851 ◽  
pp. 1118-1122
Author(s):  
Fousseni Gomina Mama ◽  
Zhong Zhen Yang ◽  
Boukon’la Ayedun Akimbi Akpado ◽  
John Kawie Zogar
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Exceptional Case ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Household Mobility ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The City

This paper analyzed the urban mobility and mode of transportation within Cotonou, by diagnosing the current problems of transport through the role of each transports actors, demographic. Based on the survey which highlights the characteristics '' household-mobility in Cotonou, this research revealed, on one hand, the large gap between the transport infrastructures and the transport demand, and in the other hand, the exceptional case of mobility in this metropolitan area, where the motorcycles largely dominate the other mode of transport in the city, including public buses which implementation has failed. In the end, some recommendations have been made and proposals formulated in aim to respond efficiently to the urban transport problem in Cotonou.

scholarly journals MENGANALISIS PERAN RUANG TERRBUKA HIJAU TERHADAP KONDISI LINGKUNGAN KOTA AMBON

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Ngurmasa Refialy ◽  
Robert Oszaer ◽  
Yosevita Theodora Latupapua
Keyword(s):  
Air Temperature ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Spearman Correlation ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Air Humidity ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The City

This study aims to analyze the role of Green Open Space on Environmental Protection in Ambon City. The method of data collection is done by collecting primary data in the form of micro climate measurements (temperature and air humidity) at each RTH location. Micro climate data is then processed using microscope office excel, to get the results of comparison tabulations and graphs. After the data tabulation value was obtained statistically analyzed by correlation test. this technique aims to determine the effect of green space on air temperature and green space on air humidity in various types of green open spaces. To analyze the effect of Green Open Space on the preservation of the environment of the city of Ambon, a Spearman correlation correlation tool with Pearson control was performed. The results showed that the results of the microclimate measurements carried out on the Green Path each way Dr. Malaiholo, Pattimura road, Piere Tandean road, Dr. Leimena, shows the air temperature and average humidity of Dr. Malaihollo 32.3 ℃ and RH 68.5%, Pattimura road 33.2 ℃ and RH 61.0%, Jalan Piere Tandean 32.5 ℃ and RH 64.0%, Jalan Dr. Leimena 33.0 ℃ and RH 56.7%. Based on the results of the Convenience Analysis, the four green lines are classified as uncomfortable because the average is in the value of> 27.

Social housing policy in the metropolitan area of Athens during the period 1922–2012

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nikolina Myofa
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
European Model ◽  
The City

Abstract The aim of this survey is to present the Greek social housing model as a part of the southern European model through an Athenian case-study. Several characteristics of the Greek housing model are unique, and the analysis of the Athenian case provides an example that emphasizes those characteristics. Moreover, this survey intends to contribute to filling the gap in the relevant urban history and geography bibliography and, more specifically, to describe the Greek social housing model and the role of the city of Athens in the planning and distribution of social housing. This survey is based mainly on secondary data (literature review) but also on primary sources.

scholarly journals Requirements and Policies for Managing Villages in Tehran Metropolitan Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadamin Khorasani
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Physical Dependence ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Public Transportation System ◽  
The City

Due to the spatial proximity to and spatial-physical dependence on cities, the villages of the cities have many facilities, constraints, opportunities and challenges that are not so extreme in other villages. The main objective of this research is to identify the features of villages located in the metropolitan areas of Iran and provide strategies for managing the problems and challenges of these villages, with emphasis on the villages of Tehran Metropolitan Area. The most important policy recommendations presented in this study are: considering an efficient public transportation system for servicing these villages; a strategic look of the municipality's collection on the issue of employment of people in the city villages which are increasingly migrating into Tehran to provide their livelihoods; the issue of green space in the metropolitan villages and their perspective, which is directly available to the villagers, but the municipality of Tehran can take steps in order to improve the indices related to green space and rural landscape in city areas by adopting due measures; Development of an intermediate facility in Tehran with the aim of preventing the city from spreading to the surrounding area and the villages therein; and finally, regionalism's strategy as the most reasonable, operational and efficient management strategy for investigating and managing the challenges of Tehran metropolitan area villages.

scholarly journals Air Pollution in Kolkata: Emerging Challenges and Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Karmakar
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Spatiotemporal Change ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
The City ◽  
Post Period ◽  
Land Use Functions

In 2016 WHO reported that Kolkata is the second most polluted city in India behind Delhi. Albeit the number of registered vehicles in Kolkata is much less compare to Delhi. Kolkata has encountered a decade long battle against change of old vehicles and fuel types. So, this paper made an attempt to explore the dynamics of air pollution in the city specially pre and post period of vehicle and fuel change in the city. The objectives of the paper include looking at spatiotemporal change of air pollution the city. Besides, the paper additionally illuminates on the role of land use functions and pollution in the city. The analysis shows that after the implementation of regulatory measures air pollution in the city reduced to some extent but effects of the measure gradually diminished. It is found that land use function as well as dynamics of metropolitan area plays crucial role in the air pollution of the city.

scholarly journals Linear Landscape Spaces in the Planning Structure of the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.2) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
Luidmyla Shevchenko ◽  
Natalia Novoselchuk ◽  
Volodymyr Toporkov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Layout Structure ◽  
Landscape Ecological ◽  
The City

The article is aimed to show up the role of linear landscape spaces in the layout structure of a city. The current urban environment of existence of human shows a mix between nature, urbanized informative space, advanced innovative technologies, design elements. The authors accentuate importance of creation harmonious ecological and esthetically attractive environment of a city for human life and activities basing on the proper compatibility of these constituents. Basing on the selected methodology of research the authors analyze the available historiography material, world analogues of the investigated objects and their project conceptions. The article presents the existing theoretical conceptions of the urban development starting from the treatises of the ancient Greek philosophers up to project urban conceptions of the future cities basing on the linear landscape spaces. Position of the objects under research is outlined in the system of the green space. The system includes the objects under investigation as its integral part. The authors are educed the most widespread varieties of objects. The authors show the most widespread varieties of objects under research in the layout structure of modern cities. Particular attention of the authors is addressed to the linear parks, embankments, boulevards and parkways that play an important role in life and activity of a city and its habitants. Importance of proper implementation of project conceptions for such spaces has been shown by means of different spheres of design - landscape, ecological, ergonomics, urban and graphic.  

Gastrointestinal parasites of coyotes (Canis latrans) in the metropolitan area of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
pp. 1023-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Liccioli ◽  
S. Catalano ◽  
S.J. Kutz ◽  
M. Lejeune ◽  
G.G. Verocai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Disease Ecology ◽  
Canis Latrans ◽  
Gastrointestinal Parasites ◽  
Habitat Characteristics ◽  
Zoonotic Parasites ◽  
The City ◽  
Toxascaris Leonina ◽  
Urban Coyotes

Disease ecology is a relevant but relatively unexplored subject of research in urban coyotes ( Canis latrans Say, 1823). In fact, this carnivore may play a role in the circulation of parasites that can have implications on the health of humans and domestic dogs, but can also be affected by pathogens transmitted from domestic reservoirs. To investigate the gastrointestinal parasites of urban coyotes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, we analyzed 61 carcasses and 247 fecal samples collected within the metropolitan area, including city parks, in 2009–2010. We found nine parasite taxa: Toxascaris leonina (Linstow, 1902), Uncinaria stenocephala (Railliet, 1884), Ancylostoma caninum (Ercolani, 1859), Pterygodermatites affinis (Jägerskiöld, 1904), Trichuris vulpis (Froelich, 1789), Echinococcus multilocularis Leuckart, 1863, Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800), genus Giardia Kunstler, 1882, and genus Cystoisospora Frenkel, 1977. Factors related to coyote ecology, habitat characteristics, and dog management likely influence the community of coyote parasites in an urban environment, and need to be taken into account to assess the actual role of this carnivore in the maintenance of parasites in the city landscape. Further research is needed to assess the current risk for transmission of potentially zoonotic parasites (e.g., E. multilocularis, T. crassiceps, Giardia sp.) among coyotes, dogs, and humans.

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