Playing the City: Public Participation in a Contested Suburban Area

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maaike Lauwaert
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Response to Disasters and Moving from Emergency to Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Geys Elseyidissa ◽  
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Zein Hbous
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Great Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

After any disaster that happens, whether natural or war, all governments and organizations accelerate to respond at all levels, humanitarian and others, to restore the damage. If this disaster is huge, it will result in a great change so that what comes after it does not resemble what it was before. In this study, it will be discussed how to respond effectively and how local and foreign authorities can cooperate to achieve the required response. Measuring the effectiveness of disaster response is not by the speed of this response, despite its importance, but the nature of intervention and its effects on the lives of people. It’s important to measure whether this intervention leads to the strengthening of urban aspects and increases the public participation and whether it gives stability to the city and population or not, and to what extent this intervention defines the future of this city in general.

scholarly journals Public Perceptions and Practices of Recycling in the City of Laramie in Wyoming

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upendra B. Bom ◽  
Shashidhar Belbase ◽  
Reni Bibriven Lila
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Quantitative Result ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Diversion Rate ◽  
High Level ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The City

Managing household solid waste is an urban problem in recent years. To tackle this problem, recycling is one of the most effective methods applicable in waste management. Recycling in the city of Laramie in Wyoming has a history that dates to 1983 with the establishment of Ark Recycling center. Laramie officially started its curbside recycling services in September 2011 and In April 2012, the city declared its long-term goal to achieve 40% diversion rate by 2030. The study involved a mail-back survey to understand public participation landscape and factors affecting recycling behaviors and attitudes of residents in Laramie. Quantitative result of the survey responses, civic engagement score, recycling importance score recycling satisfaction and recycling behavior scores were created to understand these attributes. In addition, three key informant interviews were conducted to explore efforts of the city, the University of Wyoming and the Ark Regional Services. Findings of the study show that more than 80% of the survey respondents indicated environmental concern was the major motivation to join recycling with high level of recycling importance and satisfaction. The Study further uncovered hints that Laramie needs to introduce an aggressive educational policy, incentive policies and a Master Plan to meet its 40% waste diversion rate by 2030 by maintaining stronger public participation in its planning process and community outreach programs.

Aftershock of a vaccination gap: the measles epidemics in Tirana, 2018 (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dritan Ulqinaku ◽  
Gentian Vyshka
Keyword(s):  
Suburban Area ◽  
First Year ◽  
Acute Increase ◽  
The City

UNSTRUCTURED Tirana, capital of Albania, has seen an acute increase in the measles cases during 2018, with a total figure surpassing 1000 of patients. The outbreak happened while the country was only witnessing very few and isolated cases for several years, as to have officially declared the disease as eradicated. Several reasons might have led to the outbreak of this epidemic, with a clear vaccination gap in the years 1997-1998. Authors discuss this undervaccination as well as other factors detectable in this group of patients, such as a peak in the first-year age infants and the prevalent distribution in the suburban area of the city, actually inhabited from a large number of internally migrated people.

TRANSFORMAÇÕES NO MODELO DE CORRIDAS DE RUA NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO NA “PROVA RÚSTICA TIRADENTES”

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jeferson Roberto Rojo ◽  
Fernando Augusto Starepravo ◽  
Felipe Canan ◽  
Fernando Marinho Mezzadri ◽  
Marcelo Moraes e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Recovery Rates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racing Model ◽  
The City

TRANSFORMAÇÕES NO MODELO DE CORRIDAS DE RUA NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO NA “PROVA RÚSTICA TIRADENTES” Resumo: O presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar as principais transformações ocorridas nos mais de 40 anos da “Prova Rústica Tiradentes”, corrida de rua realizada na cidade de Maringá. Foram realizadas 8 (oito) entrevistas semiestruturadas com corredores que participaram de diversos momentos da história desta prova. Constataram-se transformações em relação à participação do público, estrutura do evento, perfil dos participantes, desempenho dos atletas, além do início de cobrança de taxas de inscrições. A título de conclusão o artigo aponta que estas transformações são advindas da mudança no perfil dos participantes da prova maringaense. Palavras Chaves: Pedestrianismo; Corrida de Rua; Eventos Esportivos. Changes in street racing model in Brazil: a study in "Tiradentes Rustic Proof" Abstract: This study aimed to analyze the main changes that occurred in more than 40 years of " Tiradentes Rustic Proof " street race held in the city of Maringá. They were held eight (8) semi-structured interviews with runners who participated in various moments in the history of this event. Changes were noted in relation to public participation, structure, the profile of the participants, the performance of athletes and the beginning of recovery rates of enrollment of participants. In conclusion the article points out that these changes are coming from the change in the profile of the maringaense race participants. Key Words: Hiking; Street race; Sporting Events.

Franz Bergel, 13 February 1900 - 1 January 1987

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Keyword(s):  
Suburban Area ◽  
German Language ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
The City

Franz Bergel was born on 13 February 1900 in the Alsergrund quarter of Vienna and lived there until 1908 when the Bergel family (parents, Franz and his younger brother, Otto, born in 1904) moved to permanent residence in the Viennese suburban area of Doebling. His father was born and brought up in Hungary of peasant forebears and only came to Vienna at the age of 16 where, with his elder brother, he established a wine-importing business specializing in Hungarian wines. Presumably he was a native Magyar speaker because, according to Franz, although he spoke the Viennese dialect fluently, he never really mastered the German language. In marked contrast, Franz’s mother was born in Teplitz- Schönau (now Teplice) in Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia); she was bilingual in Czech and German although German was always the language of the Bergel family, and I doubt whether Franz Bergel could speak either Czech or Magyar with any fluency. Unlike her husband, Franz’s mother came of bourgeois stock, her family having a variety of business and professional interests. Her father was a successful carpet manufacturer who, unfortunately, fell victim to an incurable and incapacitating disease that confined him to a wheelchair and forced him to give up his business in the late 1880s. Undaunted, his wife—Franz Bergel’s grandmother—moved with her husband and family to Vienna where she developed a small but successful business selling Bohemian glass and porcelain. Also in Vienna lived her sister, Hedwig (Franz’s great-aunt), who was married to a Bohemian maker of wickerwork furniture and other goods whose business in Austria was so successful that he and his family settled in Vienna and lived in rather opulent circumstances on the outskirts of the city. Franz’s mother lived during the latter part of her girlhood with her Aunt Hedwig; indeed, it was while living there that she met the young Hungarian wine merchant, Moritz Bergel, whom she later married.

scholarly journals Research on public perception and participation in the relic park——taking Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty city wall relic park as example

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04058
Author(s):  
Zhengwang Wu ◽  
Jingyi Ye
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Shang Dynasty ◽  
City Wall ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City

The city wall relic park in Zhengzhou is a city park built on the Shang Dynasty city Wall site. As Zhengzhou is chosen as the eighth ancient capital of China, it is gradually recognized by the public. However, due to the lack of protection, development and utilization of the site, the historical value and cultural value of the Shang Dynasty Wall in Zhengzhou have not been fully shown. The construction of the city wall relic park is related to the soft inheritance and protection of the historical heritage. The spiritual inheritance of the historical heritage mainly depends on the spiritual transmission of the public. The public has the most direct feeling and understanding of it, so it is necessary to introduce public participation. In this paper, the scientific evaluation method Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is used to discuss the problem found by the public when using the city wall space. Suggestions and public participation strategies are given on the construction of the city wall relic park. We need to think about if there is public participation in the site now and how to let the public participate in planning, construction and management of the relic park. In order to make the city wall become the city’s leisure living room, to build the brand of Zhengzhou, and make it famous across the whole country, it’s urgent to put forward countermeasures for the development problem of Zhengzhou.

scholarly journals Development and assessment of development strategy alternatives in strategic environmental assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Marina Stenek ◽  
Bojana Nardi ◽  
Nenad Mikulić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
The City

Development and evaluation of alternatives is a key process in the strategic environmental assessment (SEA), which enables improvement of the environment, informed decision-making, greater transparency and better opportunities for public participation. It is also the most challenging part of the assessment, because the alternatives are often avoided or considered to the extent to meet the legal requirements. The absence of alternatives in the assessment process significantly diminishes the contribution of SEA to the environmental protection system. The paper will outline the generally applicable methodology for the development and assessment of alternatives in the SEA process, on the example of the Development Strategy of the City of Solin, which is based on the development of the environmental alternative, which significantly contributes to the development of sustainable strategic solutions.

scholarly journals Simulations of organic aerosol concentrations in Mexico City using the WRF-CHEM model during the MCMA-2006/MILAGRO campaign

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3789-3809 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Li ◽  
M. Zavala ◽  
W. Lei ◽  
A. P. Tsimpidi ◽  
V. A. Karydis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Organic Aerosol ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Background Site ◽  
Organic Components ◽  
Early Afternoon ◽  
The City

Abstract. Organic aerosol concentrations are simulated using the WRF-CHEM model in Mexico City during the period from 24 to 29 March in association with the MILAGRO-2006 campaign. Two approaches are employed to predict the variation and spatial distribution of the organic aerosol concentrations: (1) a traditional 2-product secondary organic aerosol (SOA) model with non-volatile primary organic aerosols (POA); (2) a non-traditional SOA model including the volatility basis-set modeling method in which primary organic components are assumed to be semi-volatile and photochemically reactive and are distributed in logarithmically spaced volatility bins. The MCMA (Mexico City Metropolitan Area) 2006 official emission inventory is used in simulations and the POA emissions are modified and distributed by volatility based on dilution experiments for the non-traditional SOA model. The model results are compared to the Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (AMS) observations analyzed using the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) technique at an urban background site (T0) and a suburban background site (T1) in Mexico City. The traditional SOA model frequently underestimates the observed POA concentrations during rush hours and overestimates the observations in the rest of the time in the city. The model also substantially underestimates the observed SOA concentrations, particularly during daytime, and only produces 21% and 25% of the observed SOA mass in the suburban and urban area, respectively. The non-traditional SOA model performs well in simulating the POA variation, but still overestimates during daytime in the urban area. The SOA simulations are significantly improved in the non-traditional SOA model compared to the traditional SOA model and the SOA production is increased by more than 100% in the city. However, the underestimation during daytime is still salient in the urban area and the non-traditional model also fails to reproduce the high level of SOA concentrations in the suburban area. In the non-traditional SOA model, the aging process of primary organic components considerably decreases the OH levels in simulations and further impacts the SOA formation. If the aging process in the non-traditional model does not have feedback on the OH in the gas-phase chemistry, the SOA production is enhanced by more than 10% compared to the simulations with the OH feedback during daytime, and the gap between the simulations and observations in the urban area is around 3 μg m−3 or 20% on average during late morning and early afternoon, within the uncertainty from the AMS measurements and PMF analysis. In addition, glyoxal and methylglyoxal can contribute up to approximately 10% of the observed SOA mass in the urban area and 4% in the suburban area. Including the non-OH feedback and the contribution of glyoxal and methylglyoxal, the non-traditional SOA model can explain up to 83% of the observed SOA in the urban area, and the underestimation during late morning and early afternoon is reduced to 0.9 μg m−3 or 6% on average. Considering the uncertainties from measurements, emissions, meteorological conditions, aging of semi-volatile and intermediate volatile organic compounds, and contributions from background transport, the non-traditional SOA model is capable of closing the gap in SOA mass between measurements and models.

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