scholarly journals Urban voids: identifying and optimizing urban voids potential as a revitalization source in enhancing developing countries’ city income

2022 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omnia Mamdouh Hashem ◽  
Sherine Mohy-Eldin Wahba ◽  
Tarek Ibrahim Nasr-Eldin

AbstractThis study attempts to remedy the issue of urban voids, which are one of the possible choices for extra interactive spaces. As a city with a great civilization history, Egypt is also home to many urban voids, mainly buffer zones. This generates the research problem that urban voids result from managing isolated planning sites irrespective of the context and away from the community. Few studies tackled the impact of public spaces on city life; they were mainly theoretically oriented and focused on piazzas without highlighting other spaces or conducting empirical investigations. The study determines that voids could be a testing ground to establish a framework of how these spaces can be reused. Revitalizing urban voids goal is to reconnect these useless spaces with context, achieve users’ needs, integrate technologies with the space to revitalize the city, and increase its income through combining theoretical findings, empirical study, and questionnaires, which generate a framework that helps the planners and designers in developing urban voids and maximizing its efficiency. Currently, adaptive redesign is a hot topic to discuss, and this may be the moment to realize that following the updated design components, meeting community needs, and using technology will always reinvigorate the void.

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Iman Hegazy

Public spaces are defined as places that should be accessible to all inhabitants without restrictions. They are spaces not only for gathering, socializing and celebrating but also for initiating discussions, protesting and demonstrating. Thus, public spaces are intangible expressions of democracy—a topic that the paper tackles its viability within the context of Alexandria, case study Al-Qaed Ibrahim square. On the one hand, Al-Qaed Ibrahim square which is named after Al-Qaed Ibrahim mosque is a sacred element in the urban fabric; whereas on the other it represents a non-religious revolutionary symbol in the Alexandrian urban public sphere. This contradiction necessitates finding an approach to study the characteristic of this square/mosque within the Alexandrian context—that is to realize the impact of the socio-political events on the image of Al-Qaed Ibrahim square, and how it has transformed into a revolutionary urban symbol and yet into a no-public space. The research revolves around the hypothesis that the political events taking place in Egypt after January 25th, 2011, have directly affected the development of urban public spaces, especially in Alexandria. Therefore methodologically, the paper reviews the development of Al-Qaed Ibrahim square throughout the Egyptian socio-political changes, with a focus on the square’s urban and emotional contextual transformations. For this reason, the study adheres to two theories: the "city elements" by Kevin Lynch and "emotionalizing the urban" by Frank Eckardt. The aim is not only to study the mentioned public space but also to figure out the changes in people’s societal behaviour and emotion toward it. Through empowering public spaces, the paper calls the different Egyptian political and civic powers to recognize each other, regardless of their religious, ethnical or political affiliations. It is a step towards replacing the ongoing political conflicts, polarization, and suppression with societal reconciliation, coexistence, and democracy.


Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko

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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 01054
Author(s):  
Rafał Graczyk ◽  
Artur Nawrowski ◽  
Ryszard Nawrowski

The publication deals with the issue of lighting public spaces in small towns near the impact of a large urban agglomeration. Indicated the possibility of shaping the illumination of the space based on nodal points. The illumination of a representative example of the city of Lubon located in the Greater Poland was analyzed. The work summarizes the conclusions in the field of lighting and urban problems in the area of shaping public spaces, including nodal points.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 465-469
Author(s):  
Bai Tao Mao

A city high-rise building of the environmental balance, and its prominent position in the image and the place has a special symbol. However, high-rise buildings developed to reduce the symbolic value that it has attributed to the relevant system of architectural forms. As more and more dense urban high-rise buildings stand, we should be carefully evaluated: its ecological evvironment, will be the effect? Because of its height and volume, a high-rise building than in the top or bottom is likely in terms of physical environment on the social environment and the impact is much greater. Disturb the existing high-rise buildings in varying degrees between the various functions of the city, increasing the city high-rise buildings in the moment, how to properly control the rapid of high-rise buildings in order to maintain a sustainable ecosystem, is a question worth considering.


2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Svetlana G. MALYSHEVA ◽  
Elena V. SHLIENKOVA

The architectural and planning features of wooden fortresses of the city of Samara, built next to each other with a time interval of 120 years, are considered. The origins of one of the unique spatial characteristics of Samara, a special historical code of development of its territory, are analyzed, when at each new stage of development in the city a new center was formed with a consistent movement higher and higher along the watershed from the arrow of the Volga and Samara rivers. The emergence of this spatial expansion is justifi ed by the construction of a second wooden fortress as a new urban center, but not in the place of the burnt fi rst fortress, but in the neighboring territory after 200 m. Since at the moment both fortresses have not survived, with the exception of basement fragments , the authors analyze the possibilities of a new reading of the “memory of the place” and the restoration of the cultural and genetic code of the city that was lost in due time. The article proposes an algorithm for the development and subsequent comprehensive implementation of the historical and cultural strategy of urban development, based on the creation of unique models of public spaces that can connect the past and the present in a new spatial paradigm. The concept of an interactive platform is considered with the aim of promoting a sociocultural project and drawing public att ention to the problem of the irretrievable loss of the historical and cultural heritage.


Author(s):  
Marta Dischinger ◽  
Vera Helena Moro Bins Ely

In spite of the advances in high technological research creating devices to support spatial orientation of visually impaired persons, they still confront a difficult situation in public urban spaces, which are seldom accessible to them. Design solutions aiming to improve their accessibility means to enhance their perception and understanding of space, to increase their possibilities of orientation and of taking independent decisions, and also to enable them participate in the city life. For a design of this kind it is necessary to understand their rights as citizens, and their particular needs and problems arising from the reduction, or absence of vision. To reach understanding of the problem, from another frame of reference that is not visual, it is essential to develop special research methods to analyse urban spaces, and to obtain first-hand information about spatial experiences of visually impaired persons.


Author(s):  
Zeyad Ali Ismael ◽  
Saba Jabbar Nemaa ◽  
Jathwa Abd-Al Kareem Ibrahem

The cities of the world suffer from the horizontal expansion resulting from the large increase in population, and the consequent increase in the energy demand and food and increase the introduction of carbon dioxide. Therefore, the cities do not meet the needs of their residents, resulting in a set of designed planning problems for the cities urban environment and poor infrastructure and the absence of accounts for energy consumption or the amount of renewable energy produced. Due to the lack of research and studies on this subject, the research problem has resulted from the scientific need to reach the ecological footprint leads to the sustainability of the city urban design. The research has identified the following objectives: To study, understand and provide scientific knowledge about the ecological footprint with its various components, as well as to reach the variables that affect them, which lead to the sustainability of the city urban design. This will be addressed through the study of the sustainable urban design of the city to the most important problems in the cities and the study of the ecological footprint and its components and components, ending with the practical application of the ecological footprint in the sustainability of urban design of the city to reach the most important indicators of the impact of ecological footprint on the sustainability of the city urban design.


Author(s):  
Asmaa Habib Nima

This study examined the impact of strategic renewal on entrepreneurial performance through an exploratory study of banking services in the city of Baghdad. This study aims to determine the impact of context, content and process on entrepreneurial performance represented by strategic orientation, resource orientation, management structure and entrepreneurial culture. A question was distributed to 52 managers of private banks in the city of Baghdad. The research attempts to answer a number of questions, the body of the research problem (Is there a correlation and influence between the dimensions of strategic renewal and pioneering performance, in order to analyze the data obtained from the questionnaires, quantitative methods were used such as the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, simple correlation potential and equation modeling) The results showed that the elements of the strategic renewal activities have a significant impact on the entrepreneurial performance .Finally, the study recommends that the management should improve the strategic renewal activities by applying the appropriate activities for the company's work to obtain the leading performance.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
M.Y.Tiyas Tinov ◽  
Raja Muhammad ` Amin ◽  
Auradian Marta

The research problem in this study was initiated with the interim decision of the ConstitutionalCourt No. 63/PHPU.D-IX/2011 which basically instruct the Regional Election Commission ( ElectionCommission ) to implement the Pekanbaru City Ballot Re ( PSU ) in all regions of the city ofPekanbaru . Therefore, this study sought to describe the impact of the issuance of the policy is forinterested parties . This study used a qualitative approach to the sources of information and dataobtained from in-depth interviews of infroman research and study documentation . This study obtainthe result that the Constitutional Court policies impact not only to the policy target group RegionalElection Commission of Pekanbaru , but also impacts outside the target groups such as the mutationof the Civil Service in the local government area in Pekanbaru . Then the impact of other policies arecosts to be borne either by the government or indirectly by the public costs of delays Voting Re-Election of Regional Head and Deputy Head of Pekanbaru .Key words :Policy Impact , Revote ( PSU )


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