Living in the urban renaissance? Opportunity and challenge for 21st-century Glasgow

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Mark Livingston ◽  
Julie Clark
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the rebirth of post-industrial Glasgow as a desirable urban centre, which has undergone a radical change in reputation and profile within a relatively short period. Successful urban boosterist strategies have left the imprint of event- and culture-led regeneration clearly legible on the urban fabric and we review city centre revitalisation, safety and neighbourhood change as factors in an apparently growing appetite for urban living. However, the urban environment is shaped by a combination of strategic planning, national and supranational economic forces. Asking who benefits, as Glasgow grapples with the challenge of economic transition, requires consideration of these wider drivers, including tenure structures, demographic shifts and the decentralisation of poverty. Along with Glasgow’s successes, the vulnerabilities of a consumption-based economy and a relatively elite-orientated development strategy mean that the challenge of how the city will support and protect its most vulnerable citizens remains.

City Profile: Khon Kaen, Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-289
Author(s):  
Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha ◽  
Bharat Dahiya
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Khon Kaen ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
The City

This city profile focuses on the patterns of growth, challenges and urban renewal in Khon Kaen Metropolitan Municipality located in Thailand’s north-eastern region. It is presented in the global, Asia-Pacific regional and Southeast Asian context, where the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable urbanization are in a flux. After the Second World War, Khon Kaen emerged as a regional urban centre due to the Thai government’s anticommunist campaign and it being military base to US camps in the US-Vietnam War. As the city rapidly urbanized, it faced diverse challenges, ranging from an influx of rural migrants to environmental degradation. Today, Khon Kaen’s urban challenges are different. As the economy shifts from manufacturing to services, metropolitan government leaders and their constituents seek to transform Khon Kaen into a smart city with a transit-oriented development strategy. Climate change has also affected the city, causing devastating floods and prolonged droughts. Residents in squatter settlements are highly vulnerable to these climate-induced disasters and are under constant threat of eviction. Informed by the development trajectory outlined above, this city profile starts by laying out the global, Asia-Pacific regional and Southeast Asian context, and then discusses Khon Kaen’s rise to prominence as a regional economic and logistic hub in Thailand’s north-eastern region. The city’s current conditions, such as its geographical, historical, economic, social, environmental and administrative and governance contexts, are considered. Then, contemporary challenges of sustainable urban development are explained. This city profile culminates in a discussion of future development strategies for Khon Kaen as a bellwether secondary city in Thailand.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF VILNIUS STREET NETWORK/VILNIAUS GATVIŲ TINKLO FORMAVIMAS

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Pranciškus Juškevičius
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Network Development ◽  
City Development ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Network Expansion ◽  
City Street ◽  
The City

The planning of city street network expansion faces a new problem in Lithuania—indetermination of the city development. The model of street network and its loading has demonstrated the possible variant of relatively balanced development of urban street network. But in spite of this it does not close the increasing gap between the need for street network capacities and possibilities available. The main strategic trend in street network development is gradual forming the street network subsystem of the highest category. It should be supplemented by the reconstruction of the existing crossings as well as by creating new regulation equipment of high quality. One of the components of street network development strategy is the restriction of traffic and parking in the city centre and old town.

scholarly journals In the shadow of the urban regeneration megaproject: Urban transitions in downtown Łódź, Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Jarosław Kazimierczak ◽  
Piotr Kosmowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Community ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Abstract The Nowe Centrum Łodzi project that was completed in 2007 in Łódź, Poland is one of the biggest contemporary large-scale urban (re)development projects in Europe and the largest project of this type in Central Europe. The principal goals of the mega-project in question include the regeneration of degraded post-industrial and post-railway land in the city centre of Łódź and the enhancement of competitiveness and the metropolitan position of the city. The authors seek to identify spatial and functional changes at a mezo-scale, i.e. in the so-called immediate neighbourhood of the urban regeneration megaproject (URMP), which have accompanied the implementation of the Nowe Centrum Łodzi project over the years 2013–2016. The other aim was to classify urban areas neighbouring the URMP based on features of spatial and functional transformation identified in these areas. The studies allowed the researchers to identify three categories of urban area in the immediate neighbourhood of the URMP which revealed differences in spatial and functional transformations. We indicated that the transformation of the immediate neighbourhood of the URMP involved not only the local authorities responsible for the overall improvement of the quality of public space but also other users, inter alia, residents, local urban activists, the business community, public institutions, and NGOs, that in most cases complemented efforts initiated by the Municipality. From the methodological point of view the authors use a case study including desk research, an urban planning inventory, and direct observation.

scholarly journals Urbanization drives the evolution of parallel clines in plant populations

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1845) ◽  
pp. 20162180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken A. Thompson ◽  
Marie Renaudin ◽  
Marc T. J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Snow Cover ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Freezing Damage ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Urbanization Gradients ◽  
The City

Urban ecosystems are an increasingly dominant feature of terrestrial landscapes. While evidence that species can adapt to urban environments is accumulating, the mechanisms through which urbanization imposes natural selection on populations are poorly understood. The identification of adaptive phenotypic changes (i.e. clines) along urbanization gradients would facilitate our understanding of the selective factors driving adaptation in cities. Here, we test for phenotypic clines in urban ecosystems by sampling the frequency of a Mendelian-inherited trait—cyanogenesis—in white clover ( Trifolium repens L.) populations along urbanization gradients in four cities. Cyanogenesis protects plants from herbivores, but reduces tolerance to freezing temperatures. We found that the frequency of cyanogenic plants within populations decreased towards the urban centre in three of four cities. A field experiment indicated that spatial variation in herbivory is unlikely to explain these clines. Rather, colder minimum winter ground temperatures in urban areas compared with non-urban areas, caused by reduced snow cover in cities, may select against cyanogenesis. In the city with no cline, high snow cover might protect plants from freezing damage in the city centre. Our study suggests that populations are adapting to urbanization gradients, but regional climatic patterns may ultimately determine whether adaptation occurs.

scholarly journals Zmiany sieci hotelowej w aglomeracji krakowskiej po II wojnie światowej

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 258-269
Author(s):  
Michał Malarz
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Post War ◽  
Stagnation Period ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Economic Nature ◽  
State Enterprises ◽  
The City

Hotel infrastructure belongs to the most important components of leading agglomerations economic base. It enables evolution of different types of tourist features, including business tourism. Cracow belongs to leading national centres and is treated as the cultural capital of the country. As seen this way, all its functions should be continuously developed for strengthening its position in European and world scale. An important premise in the realization of the above objectives is hotel base quality, its organization, management and price competitiveness.Changes of the economic system in Poland have created conditions for development of individual business, including tourism business. Progress of demonopolization and ownership transformations conditioned creation of private enterprises sector and privatization of state enterprises. Access to capital for private investors and its optimal utilization brought about emergence of independently operated hotel enterprises. Poland’s openness and integration with the EU structures evoked foreign investor interest. International brands appeared on the market, hotels in their structures used capital, know-how and modern tools brought by hotel business leaders.The present shape of Cracow agglomeration hotel network is the effect of many changes, equally of political, social, cultural and economic nature. The process, which has lasted for over 60 years, consisted of the post-war stagnation period, revival in the period of centrally planned economy (1970s and 80s), and dynamic development over the last two decades. The presented analysis shows that the most attractive location for hotel infrastructure is the old city centre, with concentration of 58 objects, representing nearly 50% of agglomeration and suburban area hotels. It shows the importance of development strategy for this type of infrastructure, which may influence the economic base of the city, individual districts, areas and households.

scholarly journals Concrete Island: Lost Sites and Hidden Heritage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zackary Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business District ◽  
The City

<p>In cities like Auckland, suburban sprawl has led to the introduction of extensive elevated motorways that create barriers and cuts across the ordering elements of the city. Urban planner Roger Trancik refers to the areas beneath and adjacent to these urban motorways as “lost sites”, considered ‘unbuildable’ even though they occur within the central business district. This research investigation looks at how architecture can help return a sense of place identity and cultural significance to otherwise placeless zones defined by elevated urban motorways.  The central Auckland site for this design-led research is the Central Motorway Junction (CMJ), commonly referred to as ‘spaghetti junction’ — a site physically and environmentally inappropriate for housing development, but large and high profile enough to contribute significantly to Auckland’s ‘cultural hub’.  The proposed programme for this investigation is a new facility to house Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’s stored collections. Arguably New Zealand’s most valuable cultural holdings, only 3% of Te Papa Tongarewa’s collections are on display at any time. The rest of the museum’s stored collections are completely hidden from public view within its back of house facilities and warehouse structures in Wellington.  Due to Wellington’s location on major fault lines, studies are underway to permanently move the stored collections to Auckland, where they will remain removed from the public eye. This design-led research investigation proposes that once these collections are relocated to Auckland, if they are made visually accessible to the public, they could provide a vital extension of the cultural hub for the city centre.  The investigation proposes to architecturally inhabit one of Auckland’s most prominent lost sites, the Central Motorway Junction, in a way that celebrates its iconic elevated motorway as a viable urban context capable of actively contributing to urban re-vitalisation and cultural consolidation.  The thesis investigation examines the city’s motorway infrastructure as a framework for a new typology for architecture that actively uses the ‘motorway typology’ to establish architectural and place identity. Simultaneously the investigation explores how expansive elevated motorway sites can provide significant footprints for new public buildings to enhance the cultural identity of the urban centre.</p>

scholarly journals Changing places and evolving activism: communities in post-industrial Glasgow

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Steve Rolfe ◽  
Claire Bynner ◽  
Annette Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Local State ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Community History ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the interactions between the changing nature of Glasgow and contemporary community activism. Utilising three case studies of community activism in very different neighbourhoods, we investigate the ways in which differences in community history and capacity, as well as relations with the local state, shape forms of activism. Examining local activism in this way helps to understand and explain the boundaries and nature of communities within the city, and provides insights into complex processes of deindustrialisation and urban change, which have transformed Glasgow in recent decades. Whilst there are changes emerging from rapid demographic shifts in some areas and the growth of online activism, the wider picture is one of evolving continuity, as Glasgow’s long history of community activism persists into the 21st century.

scholarly journals Adaptation of Post-Industrial Areas as Hydrological Windows to Improve the City’s Microclimate

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4488
Author(s):  
Rafał Blazy ◽  
Hanna Hrehorowicz-Gaber ◽  
Alicja Hrehorowicz-Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Natural Result ◽  
City Structure ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Post-industrial areas in larger cities often cease to fulfill their role and their natural result is their transformation. They often constitute a large area directly adjacent to the city structure and are exposed to urbanization pressure, and on the other hand, they are often potential hydrological windows. The approach to the development strategy for such areas should take this potential into account. The article presents the example of Cracow (Poland) and post-industrial areas constituting the hydrological and bioretention potential in terms of the possibility of their development and the legal aspects of the development strategies of these areas.

scholarly journals ІМПУЛЬСНЕ МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ ЛОКАЛЬНИХ КЛАСТЕРІВ

World Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (8(36)) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Павлів А. П.
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Local Cluster ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City ◽  
Local Levels

The perspective of urban fabric transformation is formulated in connection with the reduction of the influence of industrial factors and the development of a highly informatized society.A key element of the practical implementation of the impulse development strategy of the city in the 21st century is the prediction of the development of a basic urban unit of a post-industrial city, which in this work is called the local cluster. The phenomenon of impulse development of urban fabric is analyzed, the system of laws and principles that transform urban complexes into post-industrial ones is outlined. It has been found that the impulse strategy, in modern conditions, should be made of two components and contain both city-wide and local levels of management and modeling. The level of local clusters, that is being discussed, involves the presence of a combination of impulse factors, the content and names of which are presented in this work.

scholarly journals Ephemeral events and their traces in the urban structure: Zagreb's 1987 Universiade

ZARCH ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 92-105
Author(s):  
Lea Petrović Krajnik ◽  
Damir Krajnik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Social Program ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Policy Strategy ◽  
Short Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The City

Organizing a mega event, even an ephemeral one, can leave many material and non-material traces in a city and a host region and can be a means of bringing to life development visions and urban policy strategy. During preparations for the event itself, numerous interventions are carried out that are directly or indirectly related to the event. Depending on the type and concept of the event itself, the interventions in the city and its region can become part of their permanent heritage, thus improving the long-term quality of life of their inhabitants. The aim of this paper is to show how a large sports event, the 1987 Zagreb Summer Universiade, contributed to the development of the city and the host region, and to the implementation of the urban policy strategy of the time. Although Zagreb has a long history of urban planning, emphasis here is placed on the spatial planning documentation of the second half of the 20th century that preceded the organization of this large sports event. This paper looks at interventions carried out during the preparatory phase of the event that were directly or indirectly related to the temporary event itself as well as at the cultural and social program related to the Universiade. It may be concluded that the 14th Summer Universiade was a significant sports and cultural event that served as an instrument for carrying out numerous projects aimed at constructing new and improving existing sports facilities, accommodation capacities and the urban renewal of the city centre. Since most of the interventions would not have been carried out in such a short period of time were it not for the Universiade, it can be said that the Universiade was a means of realizing urban development policies and renewing Zagreb. The event left a lasting legacy of elements of infrastructure, suprastructure and ecostructure that the inhabitants of the city and the region continue to use for the same purposes.

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