scholarly journals Crisis of the city as an idea on the example of structural transformation of housing development. Urban agriculture as an antidote for suburbanization

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 00055
Author(s):  
Justyna Kleszcz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Dense Tissue ◽  
The City

The paper aims to present the phenomenon of transgression of contemporary urban living space as the main manifestation of the crisis of urbanity idea through forming new spatial units defining the city in relation to extra-urban functions. Due to the rapidly progressing process of urbanization, cities are beginning to occupy every available space in large parts of the world. That is why the idea of a closed city is becoming rapidly outdated, and open forms adopted by them and connected with the rural landscape have caused the problem of defining a new concept of contemporary urban-rural space. Although often reasons for this phenomenon are seen only in the progressing suburbanization interrupting the continuity of urban structures, this problem is much more complex and related to the search for an alternative to the outdated form of the city. The paper includes an analysis of the phenomenon, one of the manifestations of which is the emergence of downtown and suburban housing estates that combine urban features with food production. Examples of implementation illustrate the analysis of transformations, which gave rise to the new idea of urban living. The designed estates are both an element disrupting the city's dense tissue, but also becoming a determinant of the next level of self-sufficiency of urban inhabitants - both structural, functional, energetic and also nutritional from potentially adverse external conditions.

A Transgressive Approach Towards Agritectural Space – The Idea of Agricultural-Urban Use Settlements

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Kleszcz
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Planning Concepts ◽  
The City

Abstract The article aims at presenting the phenomenon of transgression of the modern urban space through the formation of new spatial units defining the city in relation to its productive sphere. Due to the gradual departure from the notion of an enclosed city to one that is open and connected to the form of the surrounding countryside, the problem of defining a new notion of modern urban-rural space emerged. One of the first manifestations of this phenomenon is the emergence of new forms of housing that combine urban features with food production. Analysis of examples such as EVA-Laxmeer in Culemborg, Agromere in Almere, Cannery in Davis, Detroit and Philadelphia allowed for the verification of architectural and planning concepts related to urban values as a form of urban development of new agricultural forms. These phenomena can be understood both as a process of tearing the compact tissue of a city or, in the case of a less orthodox approach towards the built environment, as a process of network layering towards self-sufficiency of various structural, functional, energy-related and food production related characters within the unfavourable external conditions.

Traditional Living Space of Organic Update along the River of Xiangtan City

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 1746-1749
Author(s):  
Ning Zou
Keyword(s):  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The City

Based on the historical evolution of traditional Xiangtan City, elements, morphology of living space, that update the traditional urban living space, and propose for the city of Xiangtan traditional organic living space along the updated policy.

Dining in the City: Dietary Shifts in Indian Rock Agamas across an Urban–Rural Landscape

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashank Balakrishna ◽  
Anuradha Batabyal ◽  
Maria Thaker
Keyword(s):  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Dietary Shifts ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Rediscovery of Social Reality of the City and the Village: Methodological Novations of the Study of Life Space Dynamics

2014 ◽  
pp. 228-235
Author(s):  
C. I. Ildarhanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Space Localization ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City

The world sociological thought pays more attention to the dynamics of urban-rural relations within the modernization of the living space. Their achievements are highlighted in the paper. Social problems of rural society that is changing and is being changed under the influence of development of network relations with the city are suggested to be analyzed in the context of living space of a new quality that is forming in the modern world. Sociological vision of the concept is presented on the base of international urban-rural theoretical constructs, explaining formation of a new establishing space by specifics of social capital, influence of living environment on space configuration, and historical retrospective of rural society institualization under the conditions of globalization and development of network relations. The difference between concepts 'living environment' and 'living space' is explained in the broader context of the second one. Unlike subjects it includes actors with their various ties like internet, new types of mobility of people, goods and capitals towards the city that go far and far outside local of inhabiting and are not restricted just by subjective world of place of inhabiting. Social space localization in definite living environment, according to the author's viewpoint, possesses important social and cultural value. Living space analysis is structured by differentiation of social groups based on social and cultural causality. The author brings value and cultural basis of changes in social actions of citizens of a modern village and traces the role of social and cultural environment on development of network processes in a rural territory. It is underlined how demographic resources of a rural society lead to the lost of relations that are formed on a community type rather than on a society type. Processes of urbanization of a rural area and rurbanization of the society are given in an axiological perspective. Three dimensions of sustainability of urban-rural relations are described: including economic, social and environmental spheres. The author supposes that evaluation of social capital of each of spatial communities study of social norms, values and behavioral standards will promote prognosis of the potential of modern rural-urban space as a base for institualization of new urban-rural relations. Attention has been drawn to the necessity to develop new urban-rural dichotomy and oppose not rural/urban spaces but areas, both urban and rural, that change and are being changed under the influence of introspection.

scholarly journals Dialectic contradictions of global and local within the city transformations. (Case study of Russian cities)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Kukina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Speed Of Propagation ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The City

The results of morphological analyses of the urban structures more and more attract attention with the aim of understanding the processes and laws of transformation of the city fabric. Comparison of the case studies representing different regional cultures gives reasons to presume the presence of global trends as well as local features. Their dialectical contradictions lead to a unique urban form very often. Thus, recent global conversion caused very similar urban problems as well as methods for their solution characteristic to the whole world. Popularization rate of the past is comparable to the speed of propagation of a certain fashion lifestyle. As the result - reversal of thinking to find local uniqueness of each settlement and this tendency again step by step became global. From other side universal morphological conceptual apparatus built on factual analysis allows to trace the objective process of urban transformation and to give some forecasts concerning changes in their structure. Assumptions must be considered with the adjustment for the modern scale. Never the less contemporary cities - Krasnoyarsk, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Irkutsk demonstrate building and fabric adaptation, redevelopment, additive processes, contrast with transformative processes, agricultural residual (areas of town dachas in Russian urban tradition), augmentative redevelopment, different scales of changes of use, loft-cycle (second, re- use) development, street markets concretion, other, characteristic not only for the historic heritage areas but for the modern city as well. Russian cities in our days demonstrate urban-rural fringe development - somewhat even similar to “cocktail-belts” but with the local eclectic Siberian architecture.

scholarly journals A Study on the Approach of Sustainable Development on Traditional Cultural Landscapes Surrounding Metropolitan Shanghai

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Shi ◽  
◽  
Dianhong Zhao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Planning ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City ◽  
Driving Source

At present, the area of urban built-up areas in Shanghai has been effectively controlled, and the once neglected rural landscape has attracted much attention. This study focuses on the methodology of effectively utilizing cultural landscape resources and promoting further harmonious development of urban-rural relations in Shanghai. As a category of cultural heritage, cultural landscape is an indispensable resource for urban development. During the process of urban and rural planning, local cultural landscapes need to be regarded as the driving source of urban development. For a long time, Shanghai, as an international metropolis, has lain particular emphasis on historical relics in the built-up areas of the city. However, since the cultural landscape resources surrounding the built-up areas have been neglected, the image of Shanghai lacks an echo with nature and the countryside. This study examines features of cultural landscapes in Shanghai and puts forward several issues in the conservation and sustainable development of cultural landscape resources, so as to provide the basis for heritage protection, urban and rural planning and tourism planning in Shanghai in the future.

scholarly journals Poblamiento y espacio regado en el sureste de la Huerta de Murcia. Efectos de la DANA de los días 12 y 13 de septiembre de 2019

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Muñoz Garre ◽  
José María Gómez Espín
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Drainage Networks ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
River City ◽  
Del Rio ◽  
The City ◽  
Local Base ◽  
Modelo Económico

En el llano de crecida del Segura, en la Depresión Prelitoral, se asientan la Ciudad y Huerta de Murcia. Del siglo IX al XIX, la pequeña agrociudad estaba fosilizada por el río y la huerta. La regulación del Segura y el cambio de modelo económico (más industrias y servicios) facilitan el desarrollo poblacional, así como la expansión de la ciudad y de las pedanías a costa de la huerta.  La hipótesis de partida es que la mayor parte del paisaje histórico, construido en la relación río-ciudad-huerta, es hoy un espacio rural periurbano de escaso valor económico, pero de alto valor patrimonial. Y que el sector sureste de la Huerta de Murcia conserva su valor socioeconómico, al permitir al agricultor-regante vivir del cultivo de la tierra. La DANA de los días 12 y 13 de septiembre de 2019, plantea la vulnerabilidad de este espacio y de las gentes que viven en él, por el modo de ocupación del poblamiento, la distribución de las redes de riego y drenaje, el trazado de grandes infraestructuras y la localización de equipamientos. A pesar del Plan de Defensa contra Avenidas, continua la rotura de las motas del río (trenques) y la inundación del llano por los turbiones de cuencas vertientes de los flancos que convergen al nivel de base local. Esta situación de crecida e inundación obliga a una reordenación del territorio. City and Huerta of Murcia are settled on the Segura floodplain, in the Murcian Prelitoral Depression. From IX to XIX centuries, the small agro-city was constrained by the river and the Huerta. The regulation of Segura River and the change of economic model (more industries and services) eased population development, as well as the expansion of the city and districts at the expense of the Huerta. The initial hypothesis is that most of the historical landscape, built in the river-city-garden connection, is today a peri-urban rural space of little economic value, but of high heritage value. Likewise, southeastern sector of Huerta de Murcia retains its socioeconomic value, by allowing the irrigating farmer to live off the cultivation of the land. The 12-13 September 2019 ‘cold front’ shows the vulnerability of this space and people, due to the way of occupation of the population, the distribution of irrigation and drainage networks, the layout of large infrastructure and equipment location. Despite the Flood Defense Plan, the breaking of the river's hillocks (trenques) and the flooding of the plain by the rainwater of watersheds that converge at the local base. This flood situation forces a reorganization of the territory.

Paradise City

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-78
Author(s):  
Chris Coltrin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Traditional Conception ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The City

Abstract In a century defined by the rise of cities, the early nineteenth-century painter John Martin broke artistic precedents and represented heavenly Paradise as a space premised on urban living. Though he did not entirely reject the more traditional conception of Paradise as a garden, he merged the rural vision of Paradise with urban structures and spaces. Martin’s widespread popularity, combined with the contentious discourses regarding the nature of the city, ensured that his representations engaged a set of public debates regarding the nature of urban life in profound ways. Martin’s paintings and prints suggested that God not only tolerates cities, but that God builds them and resides in them. In essence, his paintings and prints revealed an urban heaven that helped make a political and religious case for urban life in general.

Verdichten mit «Greening», oder was wir von Singapur lernen können (Essay)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Urs Gantner
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
City State ◽  
Vertical Greening ◽  
The City

Densification by greening, or what we can learn from Singapore (essay) Singapore, a city-state with a high population density, wants to give its population, its tourists and its economy a living and livable city and has developed the concept of the Garden City. Parks, nature reserves, forest, green corridors, trees, botanical gardens, horizontal and vertical greening of buildings, as well as popular participation, are all important for this vision of the city. Singapore is counting on dense construction alongside “greening” and biodiversity. Let us be prepared to learn from Singapore's example! Our land is also a non-renewable resource. To protect our ever more limited agricultural land, we should renounce any extension of building land, and free ourselves from the expanding carpets of suburban development. Let us build multiple urban neighbourhoods with mixed use and more biodiversity. Let us develop new types of communal gardens. Urban gardens in the widest sense – from private gardens to garden cooperatives, to parks and botanical gardens – are a part of our living space. The city should be our garden.

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