scholarly journals Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Porębska ◽  
Krzysztof Barnaś ◽  
Bartosz Dendura ◽  
Olga Kania ◽  
Marta Łukasik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Central District ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

AbstractThis paper presents the geography of the historic central district of Kraków, Poland before, during and after the first wave of the 2020 pandemic. It describes how the disneyfied main part of the UNESCO heritage site of universal values turned into a ghost town as functional changes were turning into physical ones amid restrictions. From the results of pre-pandemic processes (that, as we argue, turned the city into its disneyfied version), to the lockdown (that later revealed itself to be but the first one in a row), to the post-lockdown recovery, these changes are presented in modified figure-ground diagrams with accessibility being defined by both tangible and intangible properties. The results are set against the background of the city’s current policies regarding economic recovery, mobility and accessibility to urban green areas. As an attempt to address the present vulnerability of the once resilient historic city centres—of which Kraków Old Town is a luminous example—this paper tends to be a voice in the debate on the post-2020 planning and the strategies we will need to face the subsequent waves of this, or other, pandemics as well as consequences of climate change.

scholarly journals A New Framework for the Regeneration Process of Mediterranean Historic City Centres

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Tanrıkul ◽  
Şebnem Hoşkara
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres ◽  
New Framework

For thousands of years, cities have evolved with changing needs. Cities are like living organisms, which are exposed to transformations as a result of changing needs and requirements. City centres are one of the attractive, essential, and vital parts of the city that are also affected by these changes. Specifically, historic city centres, which refer to the origins of the city, will be discussed within this context. Urban design aims to shape our cities with better quality and provide better places for everyday life. In addition, urban regeneration can be utilized as generic public policy for solving problems and providing physical improvements for these cities. Although the problems that emerge in each city are similar, sometimes they change circumstantially. As a result, the planning, implementation, and management of urban regeneration projects as well as their sustainability can produce serious complications. This article focuses on the process of urban regeneration, historic city centres, and the Mediterranean region and aims to develop an applicable regeneration framework for historic city centres limited to the Mediterranean region. First, the main problems of these cities are described. Next, characteristics of historic city centres and associated problems of the Mediterranean region are explained. Subsequently, the concept of urban regeneration is clarified, and the processes involved are discussed. Finally, an applicable urban regeneration framework for historic Mediterranean city centres, developed by the authors, is explained with the goal to reduce social segregation while incorporating the contributions of views from both local inhabitants and stakeholders in the process. The methodology of the overall research presented in this article is mainly based on a critical review of primary and secondary documents from the literature through a comparative and exploratory approach.

scholarly journals Potential for using ornamental bushes for greening the city of Novosibirsk: in case of the genus Syringa L.

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 00024
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Gizhitskaya ◽  
Elena M. Lyakh
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Current System ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Regulatory Limits ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The City

Species composition, quantity participation and spreading of ornamental bushes in current system of Novosibirsk green areas are determined. Upper zone (“Verkhnyaya zona”) of Academgorodok is not taken into research as far as it is a cultural heritage site and a significant site of landscape architecture of the 20th century. Special attention is given to participation of lilac species and cultivars (Syringa vulgaris L., Syringa amurensis Rupr., Syringa josikaea J. Jacq. ex Rchb.). It is pointed out that 62 species of bushes are used in the city, including 3 species of lilac, however their quantity participation is not enough and does not satisfy regulatory limits. Twenty six cultivars from the collection Syringa vulgaris L. of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS are recommended additionally. Three cultivars, ‘Nadezhda’, ‘Pamyat’ o S. M. Kirove’ and ‘Olimpiada Kolesnikova’, successfully tested in urban environment are highly recommended. Besides, it is recommended to use wider Syringa amurensis Rupr., and to introduce late-flowering Preston hybrids (Syringa x prestoniae Mc. Kelvey (S. reflexa x S. villosa)), curretly absent in green urban areas, in urban greening in Siberia.

scholarly journals Identification of Landmarks in the Historic District of Banda Hilir, Melaka, Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Khairul Amin Mirsa Hussain ◽  
Norsidah Ujang
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

Landmark is one of the key elements that shape the image and identity of historic cities. It is evident that new and unfit developments have diluted the dominance of landmarks in Banda Hilir, Melaka. This paper examines visitors’ identification of landmarks in the historic district of the city and its influence on their imageability. The study adopted mental mapping technique to gather images regarded as landmarks and its corresponding characteristics. Results from the study indicate that visitors identified both buildings and open spaces as landmarks. Size, façade, colour and scale of buildings and structures influence their identifications. This study denotes the importance of landmarks in preserving the image and identity of Banda Hilir as a world heritage site, despite the addition of new structures.Keywords: landmark; historic city, imageability, place identity, Banda HilireISSN 2398-4279 © 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.

Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Yanshuo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Trompe L'oeil ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The People ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

This article discusses how Chinese cities are transforming in visually radical ways to reconfigure their historic memories. In the midst of ‘creative city campaigns’ sweeping over China, which emphasize the discovery and exploitation of the creative-historic-cultural elements of urban pasts, Chengdu, one of China’s ‘New First-tier Cities’, epitomizes the pivotal role that visual culture plays in facilitating urban change. Grounded in critical analysis of both indigenous urban-making strategies within China and Chinese cities’ borrowing of western visual practices, this article investigates how Chengdu, as an emerging metropolis in globalizing China, introduces trompe l’oeil-style photographic installations on the site of its famous Kuanzhai Alleys (Kuanzhai xiangzi) transformation project. Urban planners in Chengdu take advantage of trompe l’oeil (‘trick-the-eye’), a post-Renaissance Western artistic innovation, to blur the boundaries between memory and reality. By transforming a vernacular architectural heritage site in Chengdu into a modern interactive cultural Disneyland, urban planners create embodied interactivity on the current tourist site of the Kuanzhai Alleys. While tourists indulge in the enchanting pleasure of a bygone urban past revived through visual tricks on the site, the people of Chengdu criticize the transformed district for failing to represent the authentic memories of the city. By revealing how the Kuanzhai Alleys becomes a site of contested urban experiences, the article probes the role of artistic creations in mediating memory and reality, the past and the present in fast-changing Chinese cities.

scholarly journals Study on formation of urban tissue in Bhaktapur in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anri Kido ◽  
Naohiko Yamamoto ◽  
Masaya Masui ◽  
Yasushi Takeuchi Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
User Community ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Neighborhood Boundaries ◽  
Community Facilities ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

This paper makes a study of street patterns and organization of dwelling units of the historic city of Bhaktapur, a World Heritage Site in Kathmandu Valley. Spatial syntax is used to analyze the street patterns, which shows the western part of the city as structured along its main street while the eastern part more nucleated with squares as centers of the settlement. With this clue that suggests the development phase of Bhaktapur city, the patterns of dwelling clusters of the eastern part are studied. The study taking into account of specific settlement culture of Newars, the traditional inhabitants of the Valley, then makes a typological differentiation of the dwelling clusters that are also related to development phase of the settlement. The paper then studies the location of the shrine of Ganesa—an essential religious feature of the neighborhood. Further, user households of other community facilities, such as pati—the resting place, and hiti—the water fountain, are identified and the respective user community compared with respect to the neighborhood boundaries.

scholarly journals Traffic calming in historic city centres - a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022106
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zalewski ◽  
Jacek Chmielewski ◽  
Jan Kempa ◽  
Bertha Santos ◽  
Jorge Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Traffic Calming ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres ◽  
Significant Attention

Abstract The aim of the paper is to compare the existing transport service solutions in the city centers of Bydgoszcz (Poland) and Hasselt (Belgium) that use the widely understood idea of calming the movement. The method of elaboration consisted of analyzes of the literature on the subject of the article, analyzes of available documents and local visits. The solution has been operating in Hasselt since September 2018, and in Bydgoszcz also since September, but 2019. Analyzed solutions in terms of traffic calming goals in these areas, implemented principles, methods used and traffic calming measures that are to lead to a consensus between traffic and the accessibility of the area and making centers living areas. The analyzes carried out confirm that the primary effect of leading to obtain areas centers as areas of “livable city" is to eliminate traffic not associated with a given area, the implementation of restrictions on the availability of cars while maintaining accessibility to public and residential buildings and creating preferences in terms of accessibility for pedestrians, bicycles and public transport. In both cities significant attention was paid to shaping public spaces for pedestrians and development of street fronts with facilities for attractive functions for center users and tourists. Analyzed examples of Bydgoszcz and Hasselt show that the implementation of a separated cycling infrastructure in the historic structure of centers is very difficult. For achievement of “livable city", special emphasis is placed on functional solutions and forms of pedestrian areas, taking into account the requirements of conservation protection, aesthetics and road safety.

IMPROVING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA AS A DIRECTION FOR THE SPATIAL POLICY OF OPOLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Magdalena ŚLIWA
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Downtown Area ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

The city centre is a most valuable, historically formed area of living and commercial space. However, urbanistic policies of cities do not pay enough attention to maintaining or creating appropriate living conditions for the inhabitants of city centres, while still protecting and taking into account the aesthetic and design-related assets. A chaotic management of historic city centres and the lack of appropriate spatial regulations lead to frequent conflicts and eventual withdrawal of inhabitants from the area. This article aims to identify problems specific to city centres and to show that improving the living conditions thereof is possible, which will definitely lead to city centres keeping their housing function and encourageresidents to settle within.

scholarly journals CITY BREAK TOURISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – CASE STUDY OF SARAJEVO AND MOSTAR

2015 ◽  
pp. 370-376
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Functional Nature ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

Urban tourism in general with multi-functional nature has a long tradition. Culture and its heritage is confirmed as one ofthe most important motivation for city trips. A large number of tourists are usually attracted by historic city centres. Elements such as the welcoming attitude of locals and market trends are becoming more important for tourists. Cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina can offer both culture and an asset of mentioned positive intangible elements.City break travel has become one of the key drivers of the European tourism growth in recent period. Nowdays, city break tourism is a very important part of the tourist market in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, our knowledge of this important market segment remains relatively poor. Little empirical data specifically relating to city break trips currently exists. In order to set the context for the research, this paper first defines city break tourism and analyzes its main characteristics in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A case study approach is used, with the tourist offers in Sarajevo and Mostar being the main focus of the research. As a research framework, comparisons between the mentioned cities and a suggestion for the city break itinerary will be given.

Regeneration of a historic city block: the example of the relocation of the historic Atelier building to the cloister area of the Congregation of the Resurrection in Krakow

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogusław Podhalański ◽  
Anna Połtowicz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Steel Structure ◽  
City Block ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Heritage Building ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

Abstract The article discusses a project that features the relocation of the historic Atelier building, built by Krakow-based architect Wandalin Beringer (1839–1923) who was active in the early twentieth century, and the regeneration of a plot belonging to the Congregation of the Resurrection since 1885, which is located at 12 Łobzowska Street in Krakow. The method includes cutting the entire structure off at the foundation and then after reinforcing it with a steel structure transporting it in its entirety to the new location. The project included two possible variants of moving the building in a straight line, either by 21 or 59 metres and evaluates two projects of further regeneration, the adaptive reuse of the building as an exhibition and religious space as well as a proposal for the remodelling of the nearby plot that belongs to the Congregation into a space for meditation and as a recreational park. The aim of these measures is to prevent the demolition of this building, now over a century old, as a result of which a forgotten element of the cultural heritage of the city will be saved. This project was based on the results of analyses of the cultural and historical conditions of Krakow. The block of buildings in which the Atelier in question is located is a very attractive location, near to the very centre of Krakow, adjacent to residential, service and educational buildings. It is directly adjacent to the Monastery Complex of the Congregation of the Resurrection, listed as a heritage building under conservation protection (municipal registry of heritage buildings). In the second half of the twentieth century, the building was used as a workroom by artists such as Xawery Dunikowski and later by the sculptress Teodora Stasiak. The case of the Atelier may provide an inspiration for discussion as well as raising awareness among citizens and city authorities to avoid future situations in which cultural heritage may become forgotten or demolished.

Development of the automated information system «clean district» for control of cleaning of streets in the city of Krasnoyarsk

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
A. Popov ◽  
O.N. Lopateeva ◽  
A.K. Ovsyankin ◽  
M. M. Satsuk ◽  
A. A. Artyshko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Central District ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
Automated Information System ◽  
The City

Among the measures aimed at the effective performance of public services in a modern urban environment, one of the main is the quality control and efficiency of the work performed. Timely street cleaning is hampered by several groups of problems, including the lack of a single automated information system (AIS) control of the work performed. In this regard, there is a need to improve and automate this area. This approach will allow you to combine high performance due to the speed of the system and effective quality control of street cleaning. The purpose of this work is the study and analysis of existing information systems (is), allowing to automate the process of quality control and operational performance of the above tasks. On the basis of the conducted researches, to develop is, having coordinated with the customer (administration of the Central district of Krasnoyarsk) requirements and functionality which allow to automate this process.This article presents the main aspects of the design and software solutions for the implementation of the algorithm in the form of AIS, designed to automate the process of monitoring the cleanliness of streets in the city. The development of AIS was conducted in the PhpStorm integrated development environment in the PHP programming language.

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