scholarly journals The Battle of the Bulb

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Susan Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
Street Protest

Albany Bulb, a former landfill, is a thirty-one-acre battleground for the Bay Area’s competing progressive movements for social justice, environmental conservation, and politically engaged art. Street protest, lawsuits, regulatory jockeying, anarchist camp-ins, and art have all been deployed in the name of saving this oddball spit of land from and for its users of many species. Drawing from information collected over sixteen years of visits to the Bulb, including scores of hours of interviews beginning in 2013, this essay brings together work from an interdisciplinary team of UC Berkeley students and Bulb residents to apply techniques of ethnography, contemporary archaeology, oral history, participatory mapping, mobile apps, botany, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to the study of the Bulb.

Handbook of Soils for Landscape Architects

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Keefer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
Soil Components ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Soil Surveys ◽  
Concise Description

Written in a clear, accessible style, this book covers the fundamental aspects of soil science with an emphasis on topics useful to landscape architects and professionals in related fields. The book begins with a discussion of soil surveys developed in different countries, followed by a concise description of soil components and how the interactions between air, water, and nutrients affect plant growth. It examines methods for controlling erosion, particularly in light of modern irrigation techniques. It describes the chemistry of plant growth, devotes four chapters to macro- and micro-nutrients, and features a detailed discussion of ways to diagnose and correct plant disorders. It also looks at the engineering aspects of soils and includes a detailed list of references for further information. Written by an experienced teacher with an extensive background in landscape architecture, this volume will be an invaluable source for students and researchers in architecture, horticulture, and urban planning.

The Politics of Planning

2012 ◽  
pp. 738-758
Author(s):  
J. Phillip Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

This article examines the political aspect of urban planning. It discusses Robert Beauregard's opinion that planning should not reject modernism entirely or unconditionally embrace postmodernism, and that planners should instead maintain a focus on the city and the built environment as a way of retaining relevancy and coherence, and should maintain modernism's commitment to political reform and to planning's meditative role within the state, labor, and capital. The article suggests that planners should also advocate utopian social justice visions for cities which are not so far-fetched as to be unrealizable so that planning can then attach itself to widespread values such as democracy, the common good, or equality.

Environmental area conservation through urban planning: case study in Dhaka

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Kasphia Nahrin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Groundwater Depletion ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Content Type

Purpose There are some environmentally critical areas (ECAs) in cities such as flood flow areas, agricultural land, canals, rivers, water bodies, forests and hills that need to be conserved from land transformation. The purpose of this paper is to review the compliance, challenges and significance of urban planning, and to develop a contextual framework of urban planning for environmental area conservation to improve the urban environment in case study city Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a qualitative thematic analysis of the available relevant literature. Findings This research identified non-compliance of the contemporary urban plans such as indiscriminate land conversion activities in the ECAs. Conflicting interests between the urban plans concerning protection of the conservation areas and business interests of the community people and the real estate development companies are identified as the major challenges. Dhaka faces several environmental problems such as loss of biodiversity and ecosystem, waterlogging, flooding, pollution, reduction of vegetation, groundwater depletion, temperature increase and a reduction in agriculture and fishing because of land conversion in the ECAs. Practical implications Urban planning with effective conservation area management, conflict resolution through communication and participation, creation of economic opportunity to generate income from the ECAs and assessment of the conservation strategies and interventions might ensure environmental conservation in Dhaka. Originality/value The conceptual framework of urban planning for environmental conservation is innovative as this could be a basis for other cities in Bangladesh and in other developing countries.

Oral History Interviewing

2014 ◽  
pp. 299-314
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Janesick
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Research Orientation ◽  
Digital Era

Oral history interviewing is a viable qualitative research orientation for many qualitative researchers in various disciplines. Oral history is the collection of stories, statements, and reminiscences of a person or persons who have firsthand knowledge of any number of experiences. It offers qualitative researchers a way to capture the lived experiences of participants. The techniques of oral history are those of the qualitative researcher, including interviews, document analysis, photographs, and video. The current digital era offers many opportunities to address issues and possibilities for the oral historian as qualitative researcher. Three major issues that emerge are those of social justice, arts-based approaches to oral history, and transdisciplinarity. Possibilities are endless in terms of using digital techniques for data presentation, data analysis, and dissemination. The power of oral history is the power of storytelling. By using current technology and working in a transdisciplinary context, oral history may now be more readily accessible and available to a wider population thus moving toward social justice.

Sun Up in a Sundown Town

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Ariel Beaujot
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Shared Stories

Hear, Here, a place-based oral history project in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin, launched in the spring of 2015 during a rash of shootings of black men by police across America. This article explores the local context of race panic in a former sundown town—or a city that has purposely maintained itself as white—after two black narrators shared stories of their experiences with racism. The essay explores the role of public historians doing social justice work in modern America, the issues that some publics have with such work, and ways in which to deal with controversies and criticisms.

scholarly journals Priority targets for environmental research in the Sinos River basin

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (4 suppl) ◽  
pp. 1245-1247 ◽  
Author(s):  
FR. Spilki ◽  
JG Tundisi
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Research

The Sinos River Basin is often mentioned as a highly degraded watershed. A series of impacts on water quality, soil and air has been reported in this environment on a recurring basis over the years. This situation of environmental degradation has its origins in a process of huge economic development uncoupled from environmental conservation concerns. The intense consequent urbanization observed for the municipalities within the watershed was not preceded by urban planning proper zoning. The time has arrived for initiatives in scientific research in the Sinos River basin that are applicable to a more efficient and integrated management and recovery of the basin. In this article, a set of targets for research is suggested which the authors consider as the main priorities for the next few years, aiming for better knowledge and better management of the watershed. Some are still in course, while others have to be initiated as soon as possible.

scholarly journals The 1966 Tashkent earthquake and the people of Tashkent

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalanov Komil Kulahmatovich ◽  
Isropilov Murodjon Bohodirovich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Tashkent Earthquake ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this article, the authors examine and analyze the memories of eyewitnesses of the Tashkent earthquake of April 26, 1966 and its details, consequences and situation using the method of "oral history" from a sociological point of view.  This topic, which is one of the few studies conducted in Uzbekistan on the basis of the "oral history" method, focuses on the development and transformation of modern urban planning in the country.  In the process of writing the article, the results of observation, document analysis, in-depth interviews and focus group research were also addressed.

scholarly journals Greening And Landscaping Of The City Streets

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Nabiev M.N. ◽  
◽  
Mirzaolimov A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Green Plants ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

Landscape architectural objects, such as architectural and urban planning objects, cannot be realized without a project. The beauty and splendor of our cities and villages will apply not only to the architecture of buildings and structures under construction, but also to the architecture of open spaces, ie landscape architecture, to the design of objects. It should be noted that the appearance of trees and shrubs, which are recommended as green plants, is carefully selected, and it is not just a matter of adapting the plants to local natural conditions.

scholarly journals Crossing the Threshold between Spatial Installation Art and Interior Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caley Wiki
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ordering Systems ◽  
Selection Of

<p><b>This thesis explores opportunities to challenge how the nature of spatial installation art might be conceived within the medium of habitable architecture. It explores how spatial installation can take a shift in spatial qualities from space that is occupied to space that is inhabited. It focuses specifically on precedents and opportunities for the use of architectural vocabulary along with materiality, context, ordering systems, and identities to engage the occupant with spatial experience that challenges the boundaries between art and interior architecture. The intent of this thesis is to investigate how such vocabularies can be applied to interior architecture in order to formulate architectural space that society actively interacts in and through. The macro approach embraces multi - functionality allowing freedom for the space to metamorphose when confronted with a new set of social demands by the inhabitant without the space actually needing to physically change.</b></p> <p>The thesis investigates the threshold between the realms of conceptual spatial art and programmed habitable architectural space. It examines how an ‘installation’ can respond to multiple programmatic requirements and the requirements of habitation, as a means of redefining our presumptions of interior architecture. This thesis investigates the liminal boundaries defining a construction as a work of architecture versus a work of art by considering interior architecture as a vital transition between architecture and art. As a site for this investigation the thesis explores ‘interior architecture’ opportunities along a pedestrian pathway in Wellington, one which is spatially contained by urban buildings on either side. The selection of this site for an investigation of interior architecture immediately challenges traditional presumptive boundaries between interior architecture, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Such a site provides a critical vehicle for investigating the nature of program and habitability within a constructed installation space that crosses the boundaries into architecture.</p>

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