scholarly journals Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ann Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Local Food Movements

This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of land in growing urban areas with a view to profiting from re-zoning and exiting the market well before development occurs.   It uses  a case study of the struggle in Edmonton, Alberta over a city food and agriculture strategy and the protection  of prime food producing land in the northeast from urban development.  The article shows how local food activists were able to mobilize citizens in support of local food and preservation of the land and were able to initiate a process of linking land use decisions to a food and agriculture strategy. However, the power of development interests and the planning process resulted in a strategy which was weak on preserving land for food and the adoption of a land development plan which preserves little land  and threatens the future of existing food producers in the area.  The article argues that new forms of land grabbing in North America pose challenges to movements seeking to preserve local food production.

scholarly journals Designing a Transit Oriented Development with a Trackless Tram System—Case Study Bulawayo

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. p117
Author(s):  
Vinnet Ndlovu ◽  
Peter Newman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Land Development ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Two Phases

The need for a mid-tier transit system and the opportunities created by 21st century transit technologies like Trackless Trams System (TTS) has been analysed in an earlier paper to show TTS could be a leapfrog solution for the future of sustainable urban development in developing cities. This paper outlines how the TTS can be created as a part of Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Informed by literature, this study identified four factors that are important for enabling transition towards TOD. Using three of these factors a framework for assessing and evaluating TOD is formulated. The study then applies the formulated framework to the potential corridors that could potentially enable a transition towards a successful TOD for Bulawayo and enable the TTS to be delivered in a partnership with urban land development. The findings do reveal that most of the station precincts that are closer to the CBD have a higher potential to enable transition to TOD. This could suggest that the TTS could be implemented in two phases, the first phase covering the high impact station precincts.

Land readjustment as an alternative land development tool for peri-urban areas of Ethiopia

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achamyeleh Gashu Adam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development System ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Land Readjustment

Purpose – The rapid urban population growth in Ethiopia is causing an increasing demand for urban land, which primarily tends to be supplied by expropriation of peri-urban land. The process of urban development in Ethiopia is largely criticized for forced displacement and disruption of the peri-urban local community. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to introduce how Ethiopia’s urban development system could be built on the participatory and inclusive approaches of land acquisition. Design/methodology/approach – The study has employed questionnaire survey results, focus group discussion with panel of experts and previous research reports to examine the peri-urban situations and then to show why an alternative land development approach is needed to be introduced in the urban land development system of Ethiopia. Desk review on land readjustment was also made to explore best lessons from other countries applicable to the peri-urban contexts of Ethiopia. Findings – This study has explored that land readjustment is potentially an appropriate land development tool to alleviate peri-urban land development limitations in Ethiopia. Practical implications – Researchers, policy makers and government bodies that are interested in peri-urban land would appreciate and consider implementing the adapted land readjustment model as an alternative land development tool. Consequently, the local peri-urban landholders’ rights would be protected and maintained in the process of urbanization. Originality/value – Although land readjustment has the potential to achieve participatory peri-urban land development, awareness of the method in the Ethiopian urban land development system is inadequate. This study contributes to fill this gap and create an insight into the basic conditions for the adaption of the tool.

scholarly journals Railway and urban development in Patras: Towards the improved participation of local governance in complex planning problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Theodora Papamichail
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Test Planning ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Planning Problems ◽  
Complex Planning

In recent years, the topic of integrated infrastructure and urban development requires the bottom-up approach in addition to the formal planning policies. This is specifically true for complex institutional frameworks, which need the enforcement of the interested public. Due to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, infrastructure networks have already been dramatically influenced by the fragmented decision-making among the different planning levels and actors. The case study presented in the paper relates to the improvement of a railway system in Patras, Greece (in narrow terms), but, in broader terms, the case study elucidates the informal planning procedure (called the Test Planning process) behind the railway improvement as such. The idea of using such a procedure in Patras emerged due to the different interests of various actors concerning the railway integration into the urban fabric in last two decades. However, it seems there is an absence of an effective cooperation between the initiators of this procedure and the local authorities. Research methodology is developed in several steps. Firstly, the broader problem and the potential of infrastructure development will be presented. Secondly, the Test Planning process will be presented shortly. In the end, the importance of local government in such a collaborative procedure will be mentioned and the case of local actors in Patras in the different phases of the Test Planning process will be under a critical scope towards the existing situation and the benefits in future steps.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Urbanisation Dynamics with the Use of the Fuzzy Set Theory—A Case Study of the City of Olsztyn

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Biłozor ◽  
Iwona Cieślak ◽  
Szymon Czyża
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Fuzzy Set Theory ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Peripheral Areas

Quantitative, qualitative and structural changes in land use that occur in a given location over time are a manifestation and a measure of urban development. Urbanisation is a process of spatial diffusion that spreads from the urban core to peripheral areas. Urban development is linked with human activities in a specific location and in a given period of time. In the context of spatial management, urbanisation is a process where less intensive land-use types are replaced by more intensive forms of land use. The demand for new land for residential development, the search for alternative locations for housing construction and the development of sustainable land management plans require new methods that support decision-making in the process of land conversion in peri-urban areas. The aim of this study was to develop a methodology for identifying and localising the boundaries of urban development with the use of the fuzzy set theory and to analyse the rate of changes in land use based on data for 2005–2010–2017. The proposed method supports the identification and localisation of urbanised areas and an evaluation of the degree of urbanisation in the interval [0,1]. The case study was conducted in the Polish city of Olsztyn.

Mülteciler ve Hatay’da geleceğin plansız inşası

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Zehra Güngördü ◽  
Erhan Kurtarır
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Integration Strategy

Birleşmiş Milletler verilerine göre mültecilerin ağırlıkla kentsel alanlarda yaşamaktadır. Günümüzde de mültecilerin görece daha insani koşullarda yaşama imkanı bulacaklarına inandıkları küresel kentlere doğru göç ettikleri görülmektedir. Bu çalışma kent mültecileri konusunda şehir planlama pratiklerinin görmezden geldiği mülteci sorununa dikkat çekmeyi hedeflemektedir. Bu amaçla, mültecilerin Hatay’daki koşulları, yerel dinamikler ve bir toplumsal entegrasyon stratejisi olarak mülteci çocuklarının eğitimi konusu ele alınması gerektiği hatırlatılmakta ve bu amaca ulaşmak için gerekli planlama erkinin sorumlulukları tartışmaya açmaktadır. Çalışmanın örnek kenti olarak Hatay ve kentin mekânsal stratejik planlama süreci seçilmiştir.ENGLISH ABSTRACTRefugees and future in Hatay without a planAccording to UN data’s, refugee distribution on world wide shows us most of the refugees are living in urban areas. It can be seen that today refugee’s migrating into the direction of global cities to find better living condition. This paper aims to draw attention to the urban refugee problematic which is overlooked by urban planning practices today in Turkey. For this purpose, conditions of refugees in Hatay, local dynamics and education of refugee children will be evaluated as social integration strategy and needed responsibility of planning authority in order to reach that goal will be discussed. Hatay and it’s spatial strategic planning process has been selected as the case study of this paper.

scholarly journals Planning for Development of Favorable District for the Elderlies; Case Study: Kerman Arg District

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Hashem Vazirizadeh ◽  
Ismaeil Shieh
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Increase Life Expectancy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aging Period

By increase of age group of people older than 60 years and problems of aging period, it seems necessary to provide favorable environmental conditions in order to increase life expectancy of this group. One of the public spaces which had been much underlined in traditional urban development and has double importance for the elderly and receives less attention today is the district. This paper, aiming at planning urban districts tailored to the needs of the elderly, provides required criteria in district planning through descriptive-analytical method. Finally, by offering components of: familiarity, readability, dignity, accessibility, convenience, security and beautification in the district planning process of Kerman Arg district, these components are applied.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of Densification of the City in the Neoliberal Economy - a Case Study: the Surroundings of the Eastern Part of the Former Airport Runway Rakowice-Czyżyny in Cracow

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Hołuj ◽  
Artur Hołuj
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Airport Runway ◽  
The City

Abstract The article is a case study of land use planning in the surroundings of the eastern side of the runway of the former airport Rakowice-Czyżyny in Cracow. The area was chosen because it is an example reflecting the history of many urban spaces that are well connected externally, well equipped in infrastructure, and favourably located in the city. They are now the scene of an intense market game, which arrogates to itself the almost unlimited right to determine the land use. Therefore, a study was conducted to verify the knowledge in that field. The analysis was based, inter alia, on differentiated source materials (including historical ones), a survey of press materials (mostly local ones), interviews with residents, the field analysis carried out in the research area and data analysis (primary market of real estate). The chosen example allowed the authors to confirm the theorems on the growing threats to the spatial order in a situation of struggle between supporters of neoliberal urbanism and broadly defined new urbanism. The latter cannot exist without spatial planning but since1990 in Poland we have been able to observe a crisis in this area. It leads to chaotic, too concentrated development in urban areas. This demonstrates that while the criticism of the new urbanism is in some dimensions justified, it cannot be used to legalize voluntary land development. This possibility of social and political permission for arbitrariness generates an “appetite” for space understood primarily as an economic good.

scholarly journals MAPPING OF FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CAMPINA GRANDE COUNTY - PB: A SPATIAL MULTICRITERIA APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Barros Ramalho Alves ◽  
Hiran de Melo Filho ◽  
Bárbara Barbosa Tsuyuguchi ◽  
Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino ◽  
Patrícia Hermínio Cunha Feitosa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pixel Analysis ◽  
The Government

Abstract: The social and economic impacts caused by floods in urban areas are diverse and increase as the land becomes gradually impervious. Due to the increasing urbanization of cities, it is necessary to implement a better planning process and optimize the urban spaces management and occupation. Thus, the government needs to gather reliable and useful data for the decision-making process. Therefore, the GIS plays an important role among urban planning instruments. Given the current situation in Campina Grande County, Paraiba State, Brazil - an area continually facing disturbances caused by occasional and concentrated rainfalls - the current study aims to map the areas seen as the most susceptible to floods, by using a MCDA GIS-based model (Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis). There are five quantitative criteria considered in the analysis: slope, altitude, roads with drainage infrastructure, distance from water bodies and land use. It is a pixel by pixel analysis based on predetermined assumptions. Fuzzy functions were developed and overlay operations were performed. The results were consistent with historical records and with previous studies about the county, thus adding reliability to the model, which can be considered a potential management instrument for the case study area, as well as for cities facing similar issues.

scholarly journals TOWN PLANNERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SPORTS FACILITIES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF 13 STATES’ MAIN SPORTS FACILITIES IN MALAYSIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maassoumeh Barghchi ◽  
Dasimah Omar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
State Level ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Key Informant

Sport is defined as recreation and is considered as the symbol of developed degree of a country and economic development. However, globalisation and dramatic growth of urbanisation highlight the importance of sport and sports facilities in cities. On the other hand, there is a recent trend in some countries to build sports facilities not only for their intended sporting purpose but also for the twin aim of stimulating urban areas. In Malaysia, sports and sports facilities have improved rapidly over the past years. There is also currently tremendous interest in sports and a wave of sports investment. This research aims to examine town planners‟ perceptions of sports facilities and urban development focusing on the main sports facilities at State level in Malaysia. It is based on quantitative research via postal questionnaire survey and key informant interviews. The research reveals new trend of sports investment and sports facilities construction started in the mid-1990s. The findings of this research elaborate new considerations for town planners to determine the type of local environment for a new sports facility. Further, it may assist to review and provide specific guidelines and principles for sports facilities in Malaysia to follow the global trend in the future.

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