scholarly journals Residential Segregation from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the Netherlands

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clé Lesger ◽  
Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen

A case study of three early modern Dutch cities (Alkmaar, Delft, and Amsterdam) using geographical information systems and confronting earlier historical, sociological, and geographical models finds clear patterns of segregation below the level of the city block, thus necessitating block-face mapping. The remarkable continuity in patterns of residential segregation is best explained by the workings of the real-estate market, allowing the well-to-do and middle classes to realize their preferences. In Amsterdam, the merchant elites were able to use their political dominance to plan a scenic and expansive residential environment free from noisy and odorous activities.

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Stelian Rusu

AbstractAs toponymic means of inscribing urban space, street names have been addressed mainly by human geographers, who have articulated the field of critical place-name studies. In this paper, I continue the endeavor started in the previous issue published in Social Change Review of reading street names through sociological lenses. Whereas in the first part of this two-part contribution the analysis was made from functionalist and conflictualist perspectives, this second and final part employs social constructionism and the utilitarian theoretical tradition in making sociological sense of street nomenclatures. First, conceiving of street names as forming discursively constructed linguistic landscapes, the paper shows how urban namescapes – the “city-text” – are written, erased, and rewritten to reflect the shifting political powers. Second, the paper examines the neoliberal processes of place branding and toponymic commodification by which street names are turned into sought-after urban commodities with transactional value on the real estate market. The paper concludes by inviting sociologists to join the conversation on street names, which should become an important topic of sociological reflection.


Author(s):  
I. Kuznetsov ◽  
E. Panidi ◽  
A. Kolesnikov ◽  
P. Kikin ◽  
V. Korovka ◽  
...  

Abstract. Medical geography and medical cartography can be denoted as classical application domains for Geographical Information Systems (GISs). GISs can be applied to retrospective analysis (e.g., human population health analysis, medical infrastructure development and availability assessment, etc.), and to operative disaster detection and management (e.g., monitoring of epidemics development and infectious diseases spread). Nevertheless, GISs still not a daily-used instrument of medical administrations, especially on the city and municipality scales. In different regions of the world situation varies, however in general case GIS-based medical data accounting and management is the object of interest for researchers and national administrations operated on global and national scales. Our study is focused onto the investigation and design of the methodology and software prototype for GIS-based support of medical administration and planning on a city scale when accounting and controlling infectious diseases. The study area is the administrative territory of the St. Petersburg (Russia). The study is based upon the medical statistics data and data collection system of the St. Petersburg city. All the medical data used in the study are impersonalized accordingly to the Russian laws.


Author(s):  
Monika Siejka

One of the main tasks of real estate management in the area of the municipality is making decisions concerning the location of investments on a local scale. These decisions should be taken with the principle of sustainable development. For such an action obliges Poland's membership in the European Union. Poland as a member of the EU is obliged to implement the rules in force in the Member States. Bearing in mind that any investment impact directly or indirectly on the economic development of the municipality, is therefore a significant impact on the local real estate market. Investments that have a negative impact on the environment can contribute to a reduction in the activity of the local real estate market. While performing tasks related to the economic development of the region and the increase in quality of life, increases the activity of the local real estate market. The work was carried out research on the dynamics of changes in the local real estate market in the area of the municipality Skrzyszow in the Malopolska province in Poland, in connection with the construction of the reservoir.


2001 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa MOURA

O processo de construção e aprovação do novo conjunto de leis relativas ao zoneamento de uso e ocupação do solo em Curitiba oferece elementos para uma análise dos conflitos de interesses que regem a constituição de um arcabouço legal e da luta simbólica que traduz na elaboração de um discurso que não se realiza nos termos da lei, mas que se cristaliza no imaginário dos citadinos. Tentando analisar esse processo e identificar dispositivos passíveis de serem generalizados como eficazes no controle de ocupação e uso do solo de outras cidades-modelo, na busca do protagonismo nos movimentos de inserção na reestruturação econômica internacional, este texto examina e sumariza observações quanto: ao apoio da lei no reforço à modelização urbana de Curitiba; à ausência de mecanismos e instrumentos que contemplem suas relações com o espaço metropolitano; aos efeitos socioambientais decorrentes da aplicação da lei; às questões referentes à constitucionalidade e à observação de princípios democráticos; às disposições referentes à ampliação da atratividade ao capital internacional; a sua abertura à participação da sociedade civil e à legitimidade de seus resultados. Urban land use regulation: discussion about the Curitiba’s case Abstract In 1999, a new land use law was approved in Curitiba. Its construction and approval process offers elements to discuss the meaning of a legal frame in the reinforcement of a hegemonic power around a metropolitan space, and the creation of conditions to attract the international capital, mainly from the real estate market. Trying to analyse this process, identifying elements possible to be generalised in the land use regulation of protagonists’ cities, this study examines and summarises observations on the topics: law for highlight the city-model; the lack of metropolitan instruments; conflicts between Instruments and particular interests; urban and social effects; constitutionality and observation of democratic principles. Finalising, the study intends to discuss that the dispositions included in the law and its illegitimate participation procedures have resulted in a refusing among society segments.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison L. Bain ◽  
Loren March

This article offers a multiscalar, sociohistoric account of the spatial struggles of Toronto artists from 1970 until the present to secure affordable living and work space downtown that foregrounds the contemporary role of the cultural philanthropist–developer. It argues that the cultural capital of artists to identify and embody authenticity facilitated temporary spatial claims that supported the development of a local art scene on Queen Street West, but one that became dependent upon, yet vulnerable to, the sociospatial unevenness of cultural philanthropy. Benevolence in arts and culture is not distributed evenly across time and space. Instead, as the case study of the 401 Richmond arts hub reveals, benevolence in its alliances with the real estate market and property development is concentrated in individualized commitments to particular neighborhoods, buildings, and local relationships, which temporally and operationally constrains its policy–transforming potential.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Justyna Tanaś

Abstract The market for land for single-family housing is one of the most important segments of the real estate market. Over the last several years, we have witnessed the development of this market in the suburban areas of large agglomerations. This is connected with the intensified migration of people from the centers of big cities, and with the development of housing in suburban zones. The aim of this paper is to present the structure of the territorial origin of buyers purchasing plots designated for single-family housing in Poznań and its suburbs (with division into buyers derived from the city of Poznań, from the Poznań poviat (district), the Wielkopolska voivodeship (province), the rest of the country, and from abroad). The analysis covers the years 1995-2010.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Giuliano Orsi Marques de Carvalho ◽  
Olívia De Campos Maia Pereira ◽  
Marcos Antonio dos Santos

O texto aborda a cidade de Palmas, a última capital brasileira construída no século XX, com sua divisão sócio-espacial explícita. Estruturado em três partes, o trabalho procura entender o papel da violência primeiramente no tocante ao projeto urbanístico de 1989, enfocando a contradição entre discurso e prática; em segundo lugar, o processo de produção da cidade planejada pelo poder público e toda uma sorte de ações, muitas vezes truculentas, visando a construção do projeto; e, em terceiro lugar, a relativa autonomia do mercado imobiliário frente às características do plano original. Num prisma teórico analítico da arquitetura e do urbanismo, o texto versa aspectos históricos da criação da cidade e a violência do processo de espacialização.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Palmas; violência; projeto urbanístico; cenarização; mercado imobiliário.   ABSTRACT The text is about the city of Palmas, the last Brazilian capital built in the 20th century with its explicit social-spatial division. This work, structured into three parts, intends to comprehend the role of the violence in relation to the city’s urbanistic plannig from 1989, trying to focus the contradiction between speech and practice; the second part focuses on the planned city process of production managed by the public power and all the whole sort of actions, sometimes in a savage way, aiming at the construction of the project; and, finally, the relative autonomy of the real estate market towards to the features of the original plan. In a theoretical and analytical view of the urbanism and architecture, the text deals with historical aspects of the city creation and the violence of the space process.   KEYWORDS: Palmas; violence; urban planning; scenery; real estate market.   RESUMEN El texto es sobre la ciudad de Palmas, la última capital brasileña construida en el siglo XX, con su división socio espacial explícita. Estructurado en tres partes, el trabajo busca entender el papel de la violencia primeramente en relación al proyecto urbanístico de 1989, enfocando la contradicción entre discurso y práctica; la segunda parte, el proceso de producción de la ciudad planeada por el poder público y toda una cantidad de acciones, muchas veces violentas, pretendiendo la construcción del proyecto; y finalmente, la relativa autonomía de los mercados inmobiliarios en dirección a las características del plano original. En un modo teórico analítico de la arquitectura y urbanismo, el texto discurre sobre los aspectos históricos de la creación de la ciudad e la violencia del proceso del espacio.   PALABRAS CLAVE:  Palmas; violencia; proyecto urbanístico; escenario; mercado inmobiliário.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandras Krylovas ◽  
Natalja Kosareva ◽  
Laura Gudelytė

The article analyses the data concerning the real estate market of last years in Vilnius. The approach of dichotomous diagnostic operators as general testing tool creation from the empirical data is used and deterministic clusterization of catchments is provided. Based on this analysis, questionnaire concerning the information about catchment is constructed for the evaluation of aggregated appartment price.


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