scholarly journals Enhancing resilience in a post-industrial city through the urban regeneration of the downtown district. A case study of part of downtown Lodz called Nowa Dzielnica

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022114
Author(s):  
Anna Aneta Tomczak ◽  
Sylwia Krzysztofik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Heat Islands ◽  
Heat Islands ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract Lodz is a post-industrial city in central Poland, the third largest in terms of population and with the largest area of downtown districts in the country. The regeneration of historical districts is one of the main challenges of the local urban policy here, as in many other post-industrial cities. Urban regeneration is understood as cohesive changes implemented in terms of social, economic and spatial conditions on degraded areas, according to mechanisms introduced by the Urban Renewal Act. Another consideration is climate change, which requires an in-depth approach to design objectives so that they include certain solutions increasing the city’s resilience to climatic events. In accordance with the European Union’s policy, in 2013, the Polish Council of Ministers adopted the Strategic Adaptation Plan for sectors and areas sensitive to climate changes until 2020, looking forward to 2030. The implementation of this plan was entrusted to the Ministry of the Environment, in partnership with 44 cities with a population of over 100,000 residents, including Lodz. The city’s adaptation plan to climate changes until 2030 indicates that the most vulnerable areas of the city are those of high-intensity residential development. These areas are particularly vulnerable to the phenomena of urban heat islands, urban flooding, storms, and smog. The article shows the planning assumptions for the part of the centre called Nowa Dzielnica (New District). It is an interesting example of implementing local spatial policy at district scale, but also on a much larger scale than usually adopted in local plans. The Nowa Dzielnica downtown section was described in a sequence of four local land use plans. This constitutes an example of spatial management at local government level, which may define the direction of changes for downtown districts in other post-industrial cities. It serves as a good example of implementing changes for centres where both urban regeneration and resilience urban planning constitute important elements of urban policy.

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration: From the Arts `Feel Good' Factor to the Cultural Economy: A Case Study of Hoxton, London

Urban Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post Industrial

This paper seeks to examine critically the role of culture in the continued development, or regeneration, of `post-industrial' cities. First, it is critical of instrumental conceptions of culture with regard to urban regeneration. Secondly, it is critical of the adequacy of the conceptual framework of the `post-industrial city' (and the `service sector') as a basis for the understanding and explanation of the rise of cultural industries in cities. The paper is based upon a case study of the transformation of a classic, and in policy debates a seminal, `cultural quarter': Hoxton Square, North London. Hoxton, and many areas like it, are commonly presented as derelict parts of cities which many claim have, through a magical injection of culture, been transformed into dynamic destinations. The paper suggests a more complex and multifaceted causality based upon a robust concept of the cultural industries as industry rather than as consumption.

Rust Belt Chic: Deindustrialization, place and urban authenticity

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286
Author(s):  
James Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emergent Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract In the context of deindustrialization and urban decline, America's industrial heartland came to be re-imagined as the 'Rust Belt'. Synonymous with outmoded and decrepit landscapes, identities and practices, the term has operated as a form of stigma, as places such as Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh became symbols of industrial, institutional and individual failure. However, in the contemporary period 'Rust Belt' is increasingly accompanied by an apparently incongruous term: 'chic'. Focusing on the narratives and essays of a younger, educated and predominantly white demographic, the article explores discourses of 'Rust Belt Chic', examining the social, cultural and political significance of this emergent phenomena thinking through the ways in which it constructs the past, present and future of deindustrialized landscapes. It is argued that within these narratives the region is valued for its liminality, for its proximities to the industrial past and a sense of history and tradition, along with its distance from what is seen as the failures of the post-industrial city. The article considers this reappraisal of the region and its material and symbolic significance in the context of deindustrialization and urban regeneration, examining how claims about the region are used to articulate a particular form of urban 'authenticity'.

scholarly journals Assessment of urban planning concepts for the development of post-industrial cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 01026
Author(s):  
Maria Grishina ◽  
Yulia Medyanik ◽  
Elena Rakhmatullina ◽  
Elena Matveeva ◽  
Khayrullina Albina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
List Type ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Planning Concepts ◽  
Post Industrial

This article is devoted to an overview study of the implemented concepts of the development of modern post-industrial cities. In the study of the issue of the feasibility of the implemented concepts, many domestic and foreign publications on the research topic are given.The authors of this article made an attempt to predict the possible results of the realization of the implemented concepts of the development of post-industrial cities in the long term of their development. The chosen goal is achieved by solving the following tasks: to compare the strategies of urban development being implemented; to identify the signs of an industrial and post-industrial city; identify the strengths and weaknesses of the concepts; describe the positive and negative consequences after the implementation of the concepts of sustainable development of post-industrial cities.

scholarly journals Contributory Economies,

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Cathy D Smith ◽  
Michael Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Design Activism ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Project Procurement

This paper will deploy French philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s neo-Marxist notion of the contributory economy to explore conceptions and practices of ‘DIY (Do It Yourself) urbanism’, with a specific focus on disused interior spaces. Reference will be made to contemporary design and architectural discourses on DIY urbanism and design activism, particularly in relation to the Renew Newcastle scheme in Newcastle, Australia. Although Renew is now a recognised model for urban regeneration, it began in 2008 as a socially-orientated experiment within the unoccupied shopfronts and tenancies of this rapidly transforming post-industrial city. Its DIY urbanism occurs alongside established institutional and commercial entities and as such, it could be superficially understood as an extension of, rather than an alternative to, mainstream project procurement models. Here, Stiegler’s invocations of contributory economies, driven by an ethic of care or cura, suggest a way of understanding Renew Newcastle’s urbanism as a participatory economy coexistent with the same capitalistic economy that prompted the urban decline it addresses.

scholarly journals Conversion of Industrial Hall Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Peřinková ◽  
Markéta Twrdá ◽  
Lenka Kolarčíková
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Ostrava as a post-industrial city has many brownfields, black fields and industrial areas. Brownfields are one of the most important problems, which today’s cities have to solve. Regeneration of them and then reintegration back to the city organism are very time-consuming and expensive. Theme conversion of listed industrial hall buildings, the assessment made solutions, converting three historic buildings, the former power station. Looking at the history of the buildings, the technical condition before reconstruction. Using qualitative analysis used to evaluate the progress of our selected objects. Using the principles of similar objects in other post-industrial cities and their historic buildings.

Coming Back Home to Live and Not Die: A Human Geography of a Working-Class Black Gay Male Navigating the Local Higher Education Pipeline

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592098729
Author(s):  
Amalia Z. Dache ◽  
Keon M. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Education Pipeline ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Narrative Mapping

The purpose of this study is to illustrate how in the span of three decades, a working-class Black gay male college student residing in a post-industrial city navigated college. Through a postcolonial geographic epistemology and theories of human geography, we explore his narrative, mapping the terrain of sexual, race and class dialects, which ultimately led to Marcus’s (pseudonym) completion of graduate school and community-based policy research. Marcus’s educational human geography reveals the unique and complex intersections of masculinity, Blackness and class as identities woven into his experiences navigating the built environment.

scholarly journals Urban Heat Islands and Thermal Comfort: A Case Study of Zorrotzaurre Island in Bilbao

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6106
Author(s):  
Irantzu Alvarez ◽  
Laura Quesada-Ganuza ◽  
Estibaliz Briz ◽  
Leire Garmendia
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Heat Islands ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Climate Index ◽  
Physiological Equivalent Temperature ◽  
Heat Islands ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

This study assesses the impact of a heat wave on the thermal comfort of an unconstructed area: the North Zone of the Island of Zorrotzaurre (Bilbao, Spain). In this study, the impact of urban planning as proposed in the master plan on thermal comfort is modeled using the ENVI-met program. Likewise, the question of whether the urbanistic proposals are designed to create more resilient urban environments is analyzed in the face of increasingly frequent extreme weather events, especially heat waves. The study is centered on the analysis of temperature variables (air temperature and average radiant temperature) as well as wind speed and relative humidity. This was completed with the parameters of thermal comfort, the physiological equivalent temperature (PET) and the Universal Temperature Climate Index (UTCI) for the hours of the maximum and minimum daily temperatures. The results demonstrated the viability of analyzing thermal comfort through simulations with the ENVI-met program in order to analyze the behavior of urban spaces in various climate scenarios.

scholarly journals Participatory Air Quality and Urban Heat Islands Monitoring System

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mohamed Anis Fekih ◽  
Walid Bechkit ◽  
Herve Rivano ◽  
Manoel Dahan ◽  
Florent Renard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Urban Heat Islands ◽  
Heat Islands ◽  
Urban Heat
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