The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Historic Urban Space: Areas of Urban Renewal in Istanbul

To study the spatial layout of urban sports parks, the constraint graph model was used to quantitatively analyze the construction of urban sports parks in China. At the same time, theories on the construction and development of urban sports parks and urban renewal at home and abroad were reviewed. The construction status of urban sports parks in China was systematically studied. Foreign case cities were investigated. Finally, the case cities in our country were discussed. The results showed that in addition to the influence of certain policies and economic factors, the development of sports parks was affected by factors such as urban space development, population size and living distribution, urban culture, regional environmental characteristics and the layout of original sports resources. Therefore, the impact of the above factors should be considered in the development of sports parks and their spatial layout. The layout of the sports park should be balanced to meet the diverse needs of the residents.

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“When We Gonna Quit? The 31st Of Never!”

The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190281090.013.14 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rebekah Farrugia ◽

Kellie Hay

Keyword(s):

Urban Renewal ◽

Urban Space ◽

Hip Hop ◽

Textual Analysis ◽

Self Care ◽

Space Filling ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Primary Means ◽

Neoliberal Policies ◽

Individual Ethics

This study combines ethnographic fieldwork and textual analysis of musical tracks to explore the ways that women hip hop emcees are making claims to Detroit: sonically, discursively, and materially. Articulating the larger role this music plays in the effort to mobilize citizens is especially important in the wake of recent tensions tied to Detroit’s myriad problems and its redevelopment strategies post-bankruptcy. This chapter illustrates the ways that this music reclaims urban space, filling it not only with silenced voices but also with the rhythmic, melodic, driving, and gritty sounds of hip hop. It also functions as a primary means for organizing and practicing both community and individual ethics of self-care in a city where neoliberal policies of urban renewal and gentrification are victimizing its population.

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“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya

Food Security ◽

10.1007/s12571-021-01162-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Kiaka ◽

Shiela Chikulo ◽

Sacha Slootheer ◽

Paul Hebinck

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Urban Food Security ◽

Street Trading ◽

Food Economy ◽

City State ◽

Abstract Spaces ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

AbstractThis collaborative and comparative paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the use and governance of public space and street trade in particular in two major African cities. The importance of street trading for urban food security and urban-based livelihoods is beyond dispute. Trading on the streets does, however, not occur in neutral or abstract spaces, but rather in lived-in and contested spaces, governed by what is referred to as ‘street geographies’, evoking outbreaks of violence and repression. Vendors are subjected to the politics of municipalities and the state to modernize the socio-spatial ordering of the city and the urban food economy through restructuring, regulating, and restricting street vending. Street vendors are harassed, streets are swept clean, and hygiene standards imposed. We argue here that the everyday struggle for the street has intensified since and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mobility and the use of urban space either being restricted by the city-state or being defended and opened up by street traders, is common to the situation in Harare and Kisumu. Covid-19, we pose, redefines, and creates ‘new’ street geographies. These geographies pivot on agency and creativity employed by street trade actors while navigating the lockdown measures imposed by state actors. Traders navigate the space or room for manoeuvre they create for themselves, but this space unfolds only temporarily, opens for a few only and closes for most of the street traders who become more uncertain and vulnerable than ever before, irrespective of whether they are licensed, paying rents for vending stalls to the city, or ‘illegally’ vending on the street.

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Spatial and Statistical Analysis of Urban Poverty for Sustainable City Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020858 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 858

Author(s):

Wojciech Kisiała ◽

Izabela Rącka

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Urban Poverty ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Social Aspect ◽

City Development ◽

Residential Properties ◽

City Structure ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact

One of the main pillars of sustainable urban development at the local scale is to control the social aspect of urban equality of socio-economic systems. A number of studies confirm that poverty in urban space is accompanied by negative phenomena, such as high unemployment, social pathologies, increased crime rate, or the high level of the decapitalization of space, including the poor condition of housing and municipal infrastructure. However, there is a gap in defining the relation between urban poverty and city structure to control and preferably minimize social inequalities. The aim of the study was to empirically verify the impact of the location of residential properties in relation to poverty-stricken areas in the city. The research covered the housing market in one Polish city (Kalisz) in the years 2006–2018. By applying GIS technologies, we identified the location of each property in relation to poverty areas. The data was subjected to regression analysis, with the use of the hedonic approach based on exponential models. The analysis of data allowed us to conclude that location in a poorer area does affect the prices of new flats, which is not only a contribution to the development of science, but is also information that could be used by developers or property valuers to establish the prices of flats, as well as city managers to avoid pauperization of urban districts.

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Disruption, destruction and the creation of ‘the inner cities’: the impact of urban renewal on industry, 1945–1980

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926816000730 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 492-515 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

ALISTAIR KEFFORD

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

Urban Renewal ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Industrial Activities ◽

Inner Cities ◽

The Creation ◽

Post War ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACT:This article examines the impact of post-war urban renewal on industry and economic activity in Manchester and Leeds. It demonstrates that local redevelopment plans contained important economic underpinnings which have been largely overlooked in the literature, and particularly highlights expansive plans for industrial reorganization and relocation. The article also shows that, in practice, urban renewal had a destabilizing and destructive impact on established industrial activities and exacerbated the inner-city problems of unemployment and disinvestment which preoccupied policy-makers by the 1970s. The article argues that post-war planning practices need to be integrated into wider histories of deindustrialization in British cities.

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Behind the Web Store: The Organisational and Spatial Evolution of Multichannel Retailing in Toronto

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a3562 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 34 (8) ◽

pp. 1411-1441 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Andrew Currah

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Economic Geography ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Commodity Chain ◽

Multichannel Retailing ◽

Business To Consumer ◽

Economic Landscape ◽

The Impact ◽

The Web

In this paper I address two issues of general relevance to contemporary debates in economic geography: first, the organisational and spatial implications of new information technologies for the economic landscape; and, second, the enduring role of place to digital capitalism. Specifically, I examine the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly pursuing a multichannel strategy by operating an Internet-based web store alongside the existing network of physical retail outlets. I therefore evaluate the organisational implications of the adoption of business-to-consumer e-commerce (e-tailing) technology for six Canadian bricks-and-mortar retailers based in Toronto and assess how the associated changes in business structure have been inscribed upon the urban landscape. The argument is developed in three sections. First, I discuss how the formula for competitive advantage in the new (r)etail markets of the developed world has shifted from a pure play to a multichannel organisational paradigm. Second, I provide a background to the development of Canadian e-commerce and an overview of the empirical methodologies employed during the research. Third, the focus of the paper moves ‘behind the web store’ to spatialise the physical places that constitute the fulfilment infrastructure of e-tailing as sequentially linked stages in Internet commodity chains. I evaluate the impact of the Internet commodity chain upon the geographical organisation of each retailer, and, in particular, consider whether the unique logistical requirements of e-tailing have stimulated spatial processes of disintermediation and reintermediation. It is argued that, when read through the lens of Toronto, e-tailing has incurred limited organisational disruption and is characterised by a distinctive geography of integration between online and offline retailing services within the urban space of the city. I conclude the paper by contextualising the findings within themes for conceptual debate in economic geography.

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Spatiotemporal Variance Assessment of Urban Rainstorm Waterlogging Affected by Impervious Surface Expansion: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10103761 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 3761 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Huafei Yu ◽

Yaolong Zhao ◽

Yingchun Fu ◽

Le Li

Keyword(s):

Spatial Pattern ◽

Urban Renewal ◽

Impervious Surface ◽

City Centre ◽

Impervious Surfaces ◽

Surface Expansion ◽

The Impact ◽

Gwr Model ◽

Runoff Plots

Urban rainstorm waterlogging has become a typical “city disease” in China. It can result in a huge loss of social economy and personal property, accordingly hindering the sustainable development of a city. Impervious surface expansion, especially the irregular spatial pattern of impervious surfaces, derived from rapid urbanization processes has been proven to be one of the main influential factors behind urban waterlogging. Therefore, optimizing the spatial pattern of impervious surfaces through urban renewal is an effective channel through which to attenuate urban waterlogging risk for developed urban areas. However, the most important step for the optimization of the spatial pattern of impervious surfaces is to understand the mechanism of the impact of urbanization processes, especially the spatiotemporal pattern of impervious surfaces, on urban waterlogging. This research aims to elucidate the mechanism of urbanization’s impact on waterlogging by analysing the spatiotemporal characteristics and variance of urban waterlogging affected by urban impervious surfaces in a case study of Guangzhou in China. First, the study area was divided into runoff plots by means of the hydrologic analysis method, based on which the analysis of spatiotemporal variance was carried out. Then, due to the heterogeneity of urban impervious surface effects on waterlogging, a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model was utilized to assess the spatiotemporal variance of the impact of impervious surface expansion on urban rainstorm waterlogging during the period from the 1990s to the 2010s. The results reveal that urban rainstorm waterlogging significantly expanded in a dense and circular layer surrounding the city centre, similar to the impervious surface expansion affected by urbanization policies. Taking the urban runoff plot as the research unit, GWR has achieved a good modelling effect for urban storm waterlogging. The results show that the impervious surfaces in the runoff plots of the southeastern part of Yuexiu, the southern part of Tianhe and the western part of Haizhu, which have experienced major urban engineering construction, have the strongest correlation with urban rainstorm waterlogging. However, for different runoff plots, the impact of impervious surfaces on urban waterlogging is quite different, as there exist other influence factors in the various runoff plots, although the impervious surface is one of the main factors. This result means that urban renewal strategy to optimize the spatial pattern of impervious surfaces for urban rainstorm waterlogging prevention and control should be different for different runoff plots. The results of the GWR model analysis can provide useful information for urban renewal strategy-making.

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Building The Tree Inventory Application for City of East Jakarta

10.31224/osf.io/a5d3z ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Bambang Sulistyantara ◽

Imawan W. Hidayat ◽

A. Nasirudin Taher ◽

Hendrawan

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Urban Ecosystem ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Easy Access ◽

Fundamental Function ◽

Tree Inventory ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Trees are essential elements of an urban space. The presence of trees in urban areas is not only appreciated as physical attribute, but beyond this, it serves a fundamental function in balancing and conserving urban ecosystem. Especially in tropical countries like Indonesia which receive high levels of solar radiation, trees contribute to the protection of urban areas from the impact of excessive micro-climatic conditions. But, the presence of trees sometimes resulted in the accidents for the residences because of broken branches and human injuries. This situation leads the city to prepare a tree inventory system, which is beneficial in giving the information about tree conditions and thus the information that would be useful for tree maintenance activities. The tree inventory on application for the city of East Jakarta was built for this purpose, comprising a tree inventory and easy access to the database. The application connects the database source with the GIS map, so that the users could retrieve information for each kind of data.

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»Reclaiming« the City: A Collective Endeavor

Dimensions ◽

10.14361/dak-2021-0214 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 183-202

Author(s):

Sergiy Ilchenko

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Local Community ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Collective Actions ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Urban Renaissance ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Being Moved

Abstract This contribution elaborates upon the appropriation of urban space in spatiotemporal and procedural interventions in the example of the city of Kharkiv, as well as the impact of urban space on the process of how various groups rediscover and use various parts of the city. Being moved during collective actions - in the sense of feeling urged to move along - goes beyond routine practices by influencing the city and its perception. It seems that these general processions, celebrations, and festive activities of the residents are their contributions to the process of »urban renaissance« - the rebirth of interest in the urban way of life. Since public spaces reflect the historical inheritance of local communities, joint transformative actions such as, »appropriation «, »production«, and »governance« of urban spaces are considered. This article advocates for the practice of domestication of urban space by the local community, as well as the need for the existence of »urban lagoons« - free (unregulated) areas of the city used as resources for urban development and interaction of citizens.

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Algorithm design and analysis of fire rescue problems

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/2083/3/032043 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2083 (3) ◽

pp. 032043

Author(s):

Mengshuang Fu

Keyword(s):

Difference Equation ◽

Urban Space ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Least Square Method ◽

Least Square ◽

Space Environment ◽

Fire Brigade ◽

Rescue Team ◽

The People ◽

The Impact

Abstract With the rapid economic development, the urban space environment is becoming more and more complex, various accidents and disasters occur frequently, and safety risks are increasing. The rescue tasks involved in the fire brigade are showing a trend of diversification and complexity. The fire rescue team always puts the people first and insists on serving the people wholeheartedly. It is the guardian of maintaining social stability in our country and safeguarding the health and safety of people’s lives and property and various disaster affairs. The society needs the participation in the fire rescue team. Aiming at the fire rescue problem, this paper uses the fire rescue call data onto 2016 to 2019 to predict the number of fire rescues / rescued calls based on the difference equation to improve the rescue efficiency of the fire brigade. Taking into account the impact on the domestic epidemiced in 2020 on people’s lives, the adjustment value was introduced to adjust part of the alarm data onto 2020 to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. Finally, the second-order difference equation is used to predict the alarm data onto 2021 through the least square method, which verifies the accuracy of the model.

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