MIXED-USE HIGH RISE IN THE UK: AN URBAN RENAISSANCE?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONY WOOD
Keyword(s):  
High Rise ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Uk

Sluisbuurt Amsterdam: werelderfgoed en hoogbouw

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-212
Author(s):  
JAAP EVERT ABRAHAMSE ◽  
MENNE KOSIAN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Northwestern Part ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
History Of

‘Sluisbuurt’ Amsterdam: world heritage and high-rise buildings On the northwestern part of the Zeeburgereiland, an island in the IJ, the municipality of Amsterdam is developing the Sluisbuurt quarter: a mixed-use neighbourhood with shops, offices, catering and education and no less than 5,500 residential units, some of which are high-rise. The Sluisbuurt soon proved controversial because of the visibility of the towers from the Amsterdam city centre and from the rural area around Waterland. In this article we discuss the planning and the history of the island.

scholarly journals Mixed-use development in a high-rise context

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena M. Generalova ◽  
Viktor P. Generalov ◽  
Anna A. Kuznetsova ◽  
Oksana N. Bobkova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article deals with an actual problem of finding techniques and methods to create a comfortable urban environment. The authors emphasize that in the existing conditions of intensive urban development greater attention should be given to spatial concentration based on and more compact distribution of population in urban space. It is stressed that including mixed-use facilities into urban realm results in a significant improvement of living environment qualitative characteristics. The paper also examines modern approaches to constructing a «compact city» for comfortable and convenient living with a mixed-use tall building development. The authors explore the world's experience of designing tall mixed-use buildings and reveal modern trends in their construction. The statistics given is based on the data analysis of a group of tall mixed-use buildings consisting of more than 400 objects, constructed in 2007-2016. The research shows functional and architectural peculiarities of this typology of tall buildings and investigates a mechanism of creating zones of mixed-use tall building development in the urban structure. In conclusion, the authors consider prospects of development and major directions of improvement of mixed-use tall building parameters for a reasonable territorial urban growth and creation of high-density and comfortable building development.

scholarly journals Finding and Counting Difficult to Reach Population Groups in the UK (and other Developed Countries)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Carr-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Illegal Immigrants ◽  
Hidden Populations ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Institutional Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Military ◽  
Complete Count

BackgroundCensuses are meant to provide a complete count and basic information about all households and individuals in a country. After decades of complacency, it has begun to be realised that this can no longer be guaranteed. Several of the presentations at the Edinburgh in March 2018 demonstrated methods which the ONS were developing to resolve many of the problems; but those methods do not solve the problem of those who, for a variety of reasons, cannot or do not want to be counted. ObjectivesThis paper sets out to document the possible size of the ‘hidden’ populations in the UK and demonstrate that they are predominantly poor. Methods (including data)Estimates of the numbers are provided (globally and in the UK) in difficult-to-reach categories: homeless/street children, care homes/hospitals, military, prisons, refugees and illegal immigrants, gypsies/travellers, urban slums.With the exception of the military, the majority in each group are poor. FindingsThe paper then reviews approaches to counting and describing the various categories: grosso modo, those in institutions can already be headcounted but apart from relevant institutional status, gender and perhaps age, we have no other information about them; but the main problem is that, in many cases, there is potential double counting with their (temporarily) broken household. for both Refugees/ Illegal immigrants and Gypsy/ Traveller Population, the main problem is the reluctance of the former to complete forms or be interviewed and of the latter to acknowledge their own ethnic identity in high rise blocks where lifts are not always working, there will certainly be some unsurveyed and uncensored people; and the Grenfell Towers experience shows that there is not always a secure count of the numbers ConclusionsThe issue of ‘hidden’ or missing populations in the UK has to be taken much more seriously.

scholarly journals Volume-planning and town-planning organization of mixed residential development in the complex development of the territory

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 04017
Author(s):  
Leonid Yablonskii
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
High Rise ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Complex Development

The study is devoted to the issues of forming the concept of a mixed residential environment. The relevance of the research topic is due to the growth in housing construction in commuter belts of megacities and adjacent territories. Relevance of the study is also substantiated by such prerequisites as uneven distribution of housing among various categories of citizens, problems of territory insecurity with the whole complex of infrastructure necessary for the population, problems of significant territorial remoteness of jobs from places of residence. Moreover, a faceless, depressing and largely anti-human environment is created during the development of large territories due to the architecturally unattractive, heterogeneous, non-ergonomic high-rise high-density buildings. All the above-mentioned reasons cause the necessity for searching for new methods of organizing residential development that is comfortable for citizens and cost-effective for the developer. The scientific novelty of the study is to justify and define an integrated approach to understanding mixed residential development, to propose the principles, methods and tools of mixed residential development in the integrated development of the territory in the commuter belts of the metropolis, based on the most progressive foreign analogues studied. Also, scientific novelty lies in studying the index of mixed use according to the world analogues of the projects of Integrated Territory Development and recommendations on implementing this approach in Russia when planning projects of the Integrated Territory Development (ITD).

scholarly journals Socioecological Aspects of High-rise Construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 03065
Author(s):  
Michael Eichner ◽  
Zinaida Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The University ◽  
Social And Environmental Risks

In this article, the authors consider the socioecological problems that arise in the construction and operation of high-rise buildings. They study different points of view on high-rise construction and note that the approaches to this problem are very different. They also analyse projects of modern architects and which attempts are made to overcome negative impacts on nature and mankind. The article contains materials of sociological research, confirming the ambivalent attitude of urban population to high-rise buildings. In addition, one of the author’s sociological survey reveals the level of environmental preparedness of the university students, studying in the field of "Construction of unique buildings and structures", raising the question of how future specialists are ready to take into account socioecological problems. Conclusion of the authors: the construction of high-rise buildings is associated with huge social and environmental risks, negative impact on the biosphere and human health. This requires deepened skills about sustainable design methods and environmental friendly construction technologies of future specialists. Professor M. Eichner presents in the article his case study project results on implementation of holistic eco-sustainable construction principles for mixed-use high-rise building in the metropolis of Cairo.

Pavements in the sky: the skybridge in tall buildings

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony Wood
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Collapse ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Structural Systems ◽  
List Type ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Vertical Evacuation ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The Uk ◽  
World Trade Center Towers

Since the World Trade Center Towers collapsed in full view of the watching world (FEMA, 2002), the improved safety of tall buildings has become of prime importance globally (Pearson, 2001). International groups such as the UK-based ‘Safety in Tall Buildings Working Group’ (Roberts, 2002), and Arups High Rise (Wainwright, 2002) which are considering these safety implications have made recommendations for improvement in three general areas: structural systems, especially with respect to progressive collapsefire proofing, to structure and fabricevacuation systems, concentrating specifically on vertical evacuation systems such as elevators and stairs.

The Topological City

2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 1985-2000
Author(s):  
Simon Kringas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Dimensional Network ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Alternate Configuration

The Topological City is a design concept for a three-dimensional city in China. To accommodate future populations, cities need to be dense, diverse and ecological. Minimising the physical dimension reduces the consumption of material and energy and the destruction of ecological and agricultural landscapes. Mixed-use cities reduce the time, energy and congestion of travel. The integration of natural systems improves environmental quality and supports biodiversity. Ultimately however, the quality and functionality of contemporary urban life relies on dynamics of economic, social and intellectual interaction. The design form of a city must facilitate exchange between heterogeneous and changing programs while minimising energy and maximising habitat. High-rise construction is the dominant morphology of modern cities. Generated by an extrusion from the ground toward the sky, high-rise adds significant density but results in circulatory dead ends, structural inefficiency and habitat disconnectedness. High-rise is not interactive, energy efficient, or ecological. The Topological City proposes an alternate configuration of the urban environment. Drawing on the theory of place and connection known as ‘topology’, it constructs a three-dimensional network of vertical and horizontal towers, connected and activated by circulation. The Topological City is dense, diverse, ecological and interactive, suggesting a potential new direction for sustainable urban form.

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