scholarly journals Small forms in the landscape of modern urban city parks

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Albina Mokina ◽  
Anna Mokina ◽  
Evelina Vereshchagina

Today, the culture of modern parks and landscaping is relevant and rapidly developing. A modern park is not just a green area for recreation in the spatial environment of the city, it is a zone of comfort, aesthetics, ecology, engineering innovations, landscape design, sports and walks, a world of interests, it is a harmony of nature, space, small architectural forms. The article analyzes a number of modern Russian parks from the point of view of the spatial organization, mass and cultural recreation places, the scale of territories and volumes, recreational areas for their intended purpose, landscaping and regional aspects. The author also considers the methods of creating an aesthetically harmonious territory, built with smooth transitions from human-made objects to wildlife. The task is to identify the main trends in the organization of the spatial environment of the city park, taking into account the aesthetics of the architectural complex, to track how effectively regional projects of landscaping are implemented in practice. A modern park is a comfortable public all-year-round universal space.

Author(s):  
N. A. Plakhotna ◽  

The article examines the architectural and spatial environment of cities in Belgium, numerous examples of architectural solutions of buildings, both architectural monuments and future projects that have not yet been embodied. From the point of view of considering the foreshortenings of the city of Belgium proposed in the article, they can be considered as: a historically developed system of social and functional settlement of citizens, modern and future environment, an object of aesthetic perception. Architecture bears a projection of the integrity of the human personality and social interaction between people, as well as the preservation of an integral architectural environment as a whole. The modern architecture of Belgium – NewArt Style – is a set of basic forms and features characteristic of buildings of a certain time and a certain people, manifested in the features of a functional, constructive and artistic order. Each era has created its own style. The historically developed architectural and spatial environment of the cities of Belgium is a valuable object of research, both from a historical point of view and from an architectural point of view. It can be said that every European city has a rich history, reflecting in its characteristic compositional and landscape features, which makes it possible to identify the main problems of preserving the historical part of the city, which occupies most of the territory in the overall city planning and has a significant impact on its modern spatial composition and architecture in the future. This allows modern European architects to identify strategies for the development of a small historical city without violating its architectural and spatial integrity and artistic qualities, as well as to preserve a harmonious and comfortable urban environment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Triyuni ◽  
Gede Ginaya ◽  
Dwi Suhartanto

Denpasar city is an urban-multicultural city throughout its history when diverse ethnics settled in the city due to various interests, such as business trade, labors, politics, missionaries.  Those factors have made Denpasar get more and more populous city and it affects to the utilized space in the urban city. For instance, space for offices, business, open space of city park, and resident purposes. Regarding the spatial utility in the municipal city, however, there are few people are aware on the essence of catuspatha spatial concept. In fact, the existence of crossroad or catuspatha with a statue or shrine in the urban-multicultural city has a unique and distinctive characteristic. Its essence as a local wisdom maintains the spatial forms and spatial meanings. This study is aimed at revealing the spatial form and meaning in the main crossroads in Denpasar city with the concept of catuspatha which can be proposed as another cite of Denpasar heritage city to support the development of cultural tourism in Bali. By applying the descriptive qualitative research method, the data, both primary and secondary, were collected through participant observation, interview, and literature study. 


Author(s):  
V. O. Malashenkova ◽  
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S. R. Petrovska ◽  
O. L. Chorna ◽  
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The article is devoted to the modern principles of architectural and spatial organization of campuses, creating the image of the University using the architectural appearance of the University campus. It were explored ways of creating a comfortable spatial environment and urban development strategy for the successful educational space of the University, the principles of creating new typological objects for the needs of modern educational technologies, integration of the learning process into the social life of the city, exchange of information between specialists and their communication with residents of the city was considered. The article touches upon the issue of constructing of modern University campuses, project strategies for achieving better quality of education, and conditions for the harmonious development of the individual were discussed. Using the example of the Vienna University of Economics campus, we consider the method of forming an intra-block pedestrian space with the definition of main characteristics of buildings that make up the University campus. The combination of landscape and architectural structures is the hallmark of every University. One of the main planning ideas of a modern campus is to form a single architectural and spatial environment. Attention is focused on interesting objects of the urban environment as centers of architectural compositions. The principles and experience of creating a humane public space with the preservation and renovation of historical landscape and recreational areas in the center of Vienna were described. The research is carried out in order to find the optimal type of spatial organization of the University campus that meets modern requirements.


Author(s):  
Jasminka Rizovska Atanasovska ◽  
Iskra Apostolovska ◽  
Nikolčo Velkovski ◽  
Vlatko Andonovski ◽  
Divna Penčić

The City Park in Skopje was established in the early 20th century. There are not many historical dataabout its establishment. Only modest documentation could be found, for the period between the twoworld wars.At the beginning of the 20th century in Skopje a couple of avenues and green areas have been built. Thebigger green area was the one on the location where today’s City Park is built. It was called “Islahane”,after the craft school around which it was established. Its establishment is connected with Hafiz MehmedPasha and the period of Ottomans domination in Macedonia. Built in 1905, it spread out over 16 000m2 and was organized in a classical, geometric style, with trees, shrubs, floral elements and pathways.It was founded on where today’s City Park is located.Through the years it has changed until it got today’s dimensions and borders. The biggest change inits structure was made in the ‘70s of the 20th century when the basic main project for the City Parkwas made. In the last ten years intensive work on its reconstruction has been done, so there is morerelevant data for the Park for this recent period of time.Besides its establishment, this paper presents the current state of the Park, its main characteristics andfunctions. It gives a review of the vegetation and other park elements, as well the state of its overallarea and the changes that have occurred to date.


Author(s):  
Odile HEDDEBAUT ◽  
Floridea DI CIOMMO

Within the framework of the “City-HUB” FP7 European research project 27 interchanges were studied in nine European countries. It investigated how transport interchanges work from the point of view of governance and the organization of facilities. On this basis a typology of interchanges has been defined for classifying the interchanges and selecting the key elements for improving the interchanges location, construction, and organization of an interchange. The paper focus on the implementation of the City-HUB interchange typology to the case study of Lille European Metropolis (MEL) where two contingent railways stations Lille Flandres and Lille Europe were analysed as a potential unique interchange. Indeed, the article is related to the creation of a joint interchanges able to attract more public transport users than private users such as it is now the case. These two main railways interchanges have different territorial and transport functions (i.e. one is oriented to regional traffic and the other one to national and international traffic). Urban planners and transport authorities would like to connect both stations creating a unique interchange. A key point of the Lille’s City-HUB analysis is related to the involvement of the stakeholders. Their involvement is at the origin of the interactions between City-HUB and its socio-economic and urban context. We demonstrate that combining transport and land use planning policies could boost commercial development, new business offices or housing. The urban City-Hub overcomes its role of transport infrastructure for being a “place”.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3856


Author(s):  
Halyna Koznarska ◽  
Volodymyr Didyk

The article investigates the species streets and squares of Lviv, highlights the principles of their location and establishes their significance for the perception of the urban environment. Particular attention is paid to the formation of streets during the reconstruction. Emphasis is placed on the importance of viewing platforms for the formation of the city's silhouette and the perception of its image. Viewpoints are an integral part of the spatial composition of the city. With their professional location, the city acquires greater aesthetic perfection. The environment becomes more comfortable and attractive from an aesthetic point of view. Accordingly, the architectural value of the space grows, the city acquires compositional expressiveness, a unique image is created. At the beginning of the study, the viewpoints of the city were divided into two main groups: viewing streets and viewing platforms. Each of these groups is important for the formation of the overall composition of the city. Several viewing streets were explored and the focus was on their visual connections. Species sites in Lviv were analyzed in the following locations: Vysokyi Zamok mountain; the tower of the church of St. Olga-Elizabeth; Town Hall Tower; ferris wheel in B. Khmelnytsky Park. Their significance for the perception of the image of the city is determined. Lviv has a unique history and architecture. The location on a hilly terrain adds to the city's attractiveness and charm. For centuries, our architects have made sure that the city is perceived as a holistic compositional system with its dominants and visual connections. Now Lviv is being renewed and developing at a very fast pace as a European city. Therefore, it is very important that the new building does not distort what was created by many generations of architects, but only adds attractiveness and individuality. View points are important for the formation of the attractiveness of the image of the city, so special attention should be paid to the preservation of existing view streets and areas and the organization of new ones. During the formation of species points, the following features should be taken into account: 1) When forming new elements of the city it is necessary to take into account the location of existing viewing streets and areas. It is very important that the new objects do not obscure the existing visual connections that have been formed over the centuries and play the most important role in the perception of the image of the city. 2) When building the areas under inspection - to coordinate the form with the environment. So that the high-rise buildings of the new areas do not distort the view of the city from the historic environment. 3) When placing new observation decks, take into account the orientation relative to the sides of the world, so that the observer can inspect the color picture, not just the silhouette. The spatial organization of viewpoints will not only improve the aesthetic qualities of the city, highlight individual features, improve the perception of the image as a whole, but can also be used to attract tourists.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (157) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
M. Votinov

The article describes the features of the study of transport infrastructure, which is due to the transformation of socio-economic conditions that cause a change in the role and place of man in the modern world, diversify and lead to a rapid change in his needs in the material and spatial environment. All this determines the need to recon-sider the existing approaches to the architectural and spatial organization of the city environment. The formation of the architectural environment taking into account the different needs of different social groups became the main in architectural and urban planning. However, so far, unfortunately, very little attention is paid to the humanistic and artistic aspects of the formation of the material and spatial environment of modern man, containing the transport and pedestrian infrastructure of the city. Although these objects and problems of formation of the archi-tectural environment the citizen faces daily. New and rather complex problems caused by the action of scientific and technological progress and the development of motorization of the population, which can be formulated as «transport and city», «car and city», «architecture and transport», are becoming more and more important. Rapid spatial growth of cities, a multiple increase in the urban population and the area of built-up areas, extensive de-velopment of suburban areas raise both the problems of organizing transport systems and the problems of parking and storage of individual vehicles. As the territories develop with the help of the city's transport infrastructure, it is becoming increasingly clear that nature's resources are not coping with the extensive use of its lands. The total number of cars tends to increase significantly. Mass motorization creates a huge number of interre-lated problems: social; economic; environmental; sanitary and hygienic, etc. Large and largest cities, which were built in the early to mid-twentieth century in anticipation of the devel-opment of mainly public transport to serve passengers, are not designed to increase the growth of the fleet of indi-vidual vehicles. Individual vehicles are increasingly absorbing the open spaces of the city, making it difficult for people to come into contact with the natural environment. Today, cars are stored in the most inappropriate places: on sidewalks, lawns and even on playgrounds. The population of cities is increasingly feeling the crisis of the architectural environment, covering places for car storage, the inconvenience of using parking lots, the constant conflicts of movable and immovable vehicles. Street injuries are growing. The impact of vehicles, in particular their parking, often leads to the dehumanization of urban spaces, discomfort and the ecological crisis of the urban environment. Keywords: transport, transport and pedestrian infrastructure, modern city, humanization.


Author(s):  
A. V. Shutka ◽  
E. I. Gureva

The paper studies the architectural, functional, planning, spatial, compositional, conceptual, aesthetic, landscape features of the city park. The design principles of the city park are developed in the new socio-economic conditions of highly urbanized territories. The formation process is considered for the three-dimensional structure of the city park with regard to the spatial organization of the landscape. Five design principles of the city park formation are proposed based on the analysis and experience in this area.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Cecília Avelino Barbosa

Place branding is a network of associations in the consumer’s mind, based on the visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place. Food can be an important tool to summarize it as it is part of the culture of a city and its symbolic capital. Food is imaginary, a ritual and a social construction. This paper aims to explore a ritual that has turned into one of the brands of Lisbon in the past few years. The fresh sardines barbecued out of doors, during Saint Anthony’s festival, has become a symbol that can be found on t-shirts, magnets and all kinds of souvenirs. Over the year, tourists can buy sardine shaped objects in very cheap stores to luxurious shops. There is even a whole boutique dedicated to the fish: “The Fantastic World of Portuguese Sardines” and an annual competition promoted by the city council to choose the five most emblematic designs of sardines. In order to analyze the Sardine phenomenon from a city branding point of view, the objective of this paper is to comprehend what associations are made by foreigners when they are outside of Lisbon. As a methodological procedure five design sardines, were used of last year to questioning to which city they relate them in interviews carried in Madrid, Lyon, Rome and London. Upon completion of the analysis, the results of the city branding strategy adopted by the city council to promote the sardines as the official symbol of Lisbon is seen as a Folkmarketing action. The effects are positive, but still quite local. On the other hand, significant participation of the Lisbon´s dwellers in the Sardine Contest was observed, which seems to be a good way to promote the city identity and pride in their best ambassador: the citizens.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ankita Pandey

Guwahati derives its name from the Assamese word “Guwa” means areca nut and “Haat” means market. However, the modern Guwahati had been known as the ancient Pragjyotishpura and was the capital of Assam under the Kamrupa kingdom. A beautiful city Guwahati is situated on the south bank of the river Bramhaputra. Moreover, It is known as the largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in North East India. It has also its importance as the gateway to the North- East India. Assamese and English are the spoken languages in Guwahati.  In 1667, the Mogul forces were defeated in the battle by the Ahom forces commanded by Lachut Barphukan. Thus, in a sense Guwahati became the bone of contention among the Ahoms, Kochas and the Moguls during the medieval period.  Guwahati the administrative headquarters of Lower Assam with a viceroy or Barbhukan was made by the Ahom king.  Since 1972 it has been the capital of Assam. The present paper will discuss the changes happened in Guwahati over the period of late 1970s till the present time. It will focus on the behavior of people, transformed temples, Panbazar of the city, river bank of Bramhaputra, old Fancy Bazaar, chaotic ways, festivals and seasons including a fifth man made season etc. It will also deal how over the years a city endowed with nature’s gifts and scenic views, has been changing as “a dirty city”. Furthermore, it will also present the insurgencies that have barged into the city. The occurrence of changes will be discussed through the perspective and point of view of Srutimala Duara as presented in her book Mindprints of Guwahati.


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