scholarly journals Urban Landscape Patterns of Iași City. Analysing City Relations Between Urban Land use, Topography and Inhabitants Pressure Upon Urban Morphology

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Lucian Ionut ROȘU ◽  
Ana Maria OIȘTE
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Topographic Features ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
City Relations ◽  
The City

The quality of urban environment has increasingly been regarded as an important matter, being analysed from different points of view (quality of life, economic trends, accessibility to major facilities etc.). In this study case, we use Iași Municipality for analysing city-wide relationships betwen anthtropogenic factors (landuse, connectivity, population density, occurence of urban facilities) and natural ones (topographic features transformed into landslide susceptability). The indicators taken into consideration, appended into an factorial analyses are predictors for changing environment in a dynamic context. Connectivity is the most influent factor, having the capability to reshape the structure of density of population or occurence of facilities whence they modify the shape of the entire city. The landscape patterns of Iași city reveal a different image upon landuse of the city, creating an integral display upon the urban area analysed.

scholarly journals The Role of Urban Morphology Design on Enhancing Physical Activity and Public Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadegh Fathi ◽  
Hassan Sajadzadeh ◽  
Faezeh Mohammadi Sheshkal ◽  
Farshid Aram ◽  
Gergo Pinter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The City

Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health. The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in reducing mental disorders and overall health. The structure and shape of the city are considered as one of the factors influencing happiness and health in urban communities and the type of the daily activities of citizens. The aim of this study was to promote physical activity in the main structure of the city via urban design in a way that the main form and morphology of the city can encourage citizens to move around and have physical activity within the city. Functional, physical, cultural-social, and perceptual-visual features are regarded as the most important and effective criteria in increasing physical activities in urban spaces, based on literature review. The environmental quality of urban spaces and their role in the physical activities of citizens in urban spaces were assessed by using the questionnaire tool and analytical network process (ANP) of structural equation modeling. Further, the space syntax method was utilized to evaluate the role of the spatial integration of urban spaces on improving physical activities. Based on the results, consideration of functional diversity, spatial flexibility and integration, security, and the aesthetic and visual quality of urban spaces plays an important role in improving the physical health of citizens in urban spaces. Further, more physical activities, including motivation for walking and the sense of public health and happiness, were observed in the streets having higher linkage and space syntax indexes with their surrounding texture.

scholarly journals Intervención pública en el paisaje urbano en Madrid. Un informe = Public intervention in the urban landscape in Madrid. A report

2019 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Antonio Díaz Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Commercial Landscape ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumenEl objeto de este texto es la exposición y análisis de los procedimientos de intervención pública en el paisaje urbano de la ciudad de Madrid. El objetivo último de ese análisis es identificar el modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid.  Este texto se centra en la exposición analítica de documentos oficiales antes que en sus conclusiones definitivas, por lo que le corresponde la denominación de Informe.  Este informe se organiza en dos partes: una exposición teórica que enmarca el posterior análisis de instrumentos administrativos de intervención en el paisaje.  Se concibe como parte de la investigación de Tesis Doctoral titulada “Transformación Reciente del Paisaje Comercial en el Centro Histórico”, acotada en un marco temporal de apenas diez años, marcado por la crisis y la desregulación económica, y en un marco territorial limitado al centro histórico de Madrid. Esa investigación se enmarca en una reflexión general sobre la relación entre actividad económica y paisaje urbano. El interés de este informe para la investigación es sobre la utilidad de ese modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid como parámetro para valorar la rentabilidad de los esfuerzos públicos y privados en la mejora de la calidad del paisaje urbano.AbstractThe purpose of this text is the exhibition and analysis of public intervention procedures in the urban landscape of the city of Madrid. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify the public model for the urban landscape in Madrid. This text focuses on the analytical exposition of official documents rather than on their final conclusions, for which reason the denomination of Report corresponds. This report is organized in two parts: a theoretical exposition that frames the subsequent analysis of administrative instruments of intervention in the landscape. It is conceived as part of the Doctoral Thesis research titled "Recent Transformation of the Commercial Landscape in the Historic Center", bounded within a period of just ten years, marked by the crisis and economic deregulation, and in a territorial framework limited to the historic center of Madrid. This research is part of a general reflexion on the relationship between economic activity and urban landscape. The interest of this report for the investigation is about the utility of that public model for the urban landscape in Madrid as a parameter to assess the profitability of public and private efforts in improving the quality of the urban landscape.

scholarly journals URBAN LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Collado Capilla ◽  
Sonia Gómez-Pardo Gabaldón
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Landscape Assessment ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Strategic Element ◽  
The City

URBAN LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT Vicente Collado Capilla1 and Sonia Gómez-Pardo Gabaldón21Servicio de Infraestructura Verde y Paisaje. Generalitat Valenciana. Ciutat Administrativa 9 D'Octubre-Torre 1, C/ Castán Tobeñas 77, 46018 Valencia; 2Servicio Territorial de Urbanismo. Provincia de Valencia. Generalitat Valenciana. Prop I, C/ Gregorio Gea, nº 27, 46009 Valencia. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]  Key words: urban_landscape, streetcape, landscape_value, andscape_assessment, landscape_preferences. The urban landscape assesment as an important element in the quality of life and the sustainable development of the city constitutes an incipient field of investigation from a new perspective that adds meanings and values. An analysis of the different methodological developments and national and international experiences in the assessment of these landscapes will highlight its importance as a strategic element to improve the quality of the city. It starts from the concept of assessment as a system where tangible and intangible values ​​are considered by the population and the experts. These include among other formal, economic, environmental, social, cultural issues (…) and the relationships between them. Consideration of the opinions of experts from different points of view such as urbanism and architecture but also environment, economy, geography, history, archeology, sociology, social assistance, etc. Together with the preferences expressed by the population regarding the spaces they inhabit on a daily basis and their aspirations, strengthen the sense of belonging and the identity of the place as key elements in the perception of the urban landscapes that allows to contribute new qualities, integration criteria and ​​contemporary values to any type of intervention. These are strategies and intervention procedures that start from the complexity of the city as a system and incorporate the perception that citizens have or will have of their immediate environment.  References: Czynska Klara and Pawel Rubinowicz (2015). ´Visual protection Surface method: Cityscape values in context of tall buildings´. SSS10 Proceedings of the 10 th International Space Syntax Symposium. Paquette Sylvain (2008). Guide de gestion des paysages au Québec. Université de Montréal Pallasmaa, Juhani (2005). The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses. New York: John Wiley. Ministry of Environment and Energy The National Forest and Nature Agency (1997). International Survey of Architectural Values in the Environment. Denmark . The Landscape Institute and Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (2013). Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment. Third Edition, London: Routledge.

scholarly journals TIGHT OR FLEXIBLE? THE DEGREE OF DETAIL OF LOCAL LAW REGULATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON A QUALITY OF URBAN SPACE – SELECTED CASES FROM POZNAN

space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2020 (46) ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Wojciech Skórzewski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Local Law ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Local spatial development plans, are one of the most important urban landscaping tools. Their goal is, on the one hand, to protect urban space including, inter alia, prevention of creation of illconsidered developments, that are bad to the urban landscape, the environment or the local communities. For this purpose, there is a number of restrictions introduced into local spatial development plans. On the other hand, the role of local plans is also creating the space, so they should be conducive to projects with high-quality architecture, that are often unconventional and innovative, adding new value to the architectural landscape of the city, which could be blocked by too strict regulations. The trick is to create regulations in a way that can help reconcile that two goals.

scholarly journals « Rabat, a Metropolitan City », Between Displayed Image, Reality of Image and Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Hassan Kharmich ◽  
Mouna Sedreddine
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Urban Model ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Embodying for a long time the image of an administrative capital where the functionary dominate, where the urban setting is aging and where quality of life is declining, the city of Rabat has recently embarked on a frantic race to reinvent a new image: a modern, innovative and qualitative image.In order to achieve this, several projects and programs of development, embellishment and construction, has been initiated with a common feature which is greatness (large theater, high towers, large stations, large arteries, new centralities, etc.). This greatness aspect is visible through the importance of the areas involved, the volumes and the shapes designed, the modes of transport developed, the means and resources deployed in add to the promotion of architectural signatures of the renowned architects, and the modes of governance and project management. Henceforth, Rabat shows its ambition as a city of culture, as a green city and as a “city of light”.  The time of Rabat, as administrative city, is over.However, the image displayed and publicized seems controversial compared to the reality of certain urban spaces, often with high heritage value, that develop on the margins of programs and projects initiated. Real deficits are observed in terms of basic equipment and services, in terms of transport network and in terms of urban coherence and social cohesion. Everything contributes to an urban image with two facets: one more qualitative, more modern and more elitist, while the other is more spontaneous, more vulnerable and more devalued.Faced with this identity transition and this double temporality, what image and identity do we want for Rabat? What vocations do we claim for this city which aspires to become a national and international metropolis? What developments should be advocated for a capital with such a rich and diversified history? What relationship can be established between the local identity and the global identity of the city? How does the citizen apprehend his living spaces in the face of such universal urban model, where social connections as well as the spatial relationship mutate towards new practices?These questions will be enlightened through the confrontation of major projects underway and urban realities, through the analysis of the new urban model which is universal, modern and generating a new image and a new urban identity, as well as through the impact of these major projects both on the urban landscape and quality of life. It’s with these considerations in mind that this paper is drawn up: « Rabat, a metropolitan city », between displayed image and reality of image and identity.

scholarly journals Visibility Analysis of the Oriental Pearl Based on Digital Landscape Simulation – View from East Daming Road of Shanghai

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-5/W7 ◽  
pp. 299-303
Author(s):  
S. Liu ◽  
S. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
City Image ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
The North ◽  
The City ◽  
Digital Landscape

As the demand for visual quality of environment increases, visual analysis therefore plays progressively important role in current urban landscape construction and management. Guided by the City Image theory, this paper presents a covered scene index “X” to describe the visibility of the target scene, and formulates a digital analysis model based on ArcGIS and 3D simulation. This method is applied to the viewpoint analysis from the East Daming Road of the North Bund to the Oriental Pearl in Shanghai and optimized solutions are proposed according to the results. It turns out that this simple and objective technique can serve as a good tool for the reference of urban landscape planning and management.

Perception of the Visual Quality of High-Rise Buildings in the Urban Landscape by the Users: The Case of Istanbul

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feran Asur ◽  
Kubra Yazici
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
The City ◽  
Regression Tests

The image of many cities in today's world has been influenced by the growing globalization along with rapidly developing demographic, technological, and economic movements. From the perspective of the last two decades, the increased high-rise development in the world is clearly visible. In recent years, modern high-rise buildings have impacted the city landscape and have become a major issue in terms of the landscape protection of a city like Istanbul with a historical peninsula silhouette. In this study, which discusses the aesthetics of the man-made environment, various factors have been evaluated by the users based on the formal aesthetic dimension in the 4th Levent area, where high-rise buildings are dense. In this context, this study aims to determine the factors that increase preferences in urban landscapes, user preferences, and the attitudes of different social groups towards the place. The main method of the study, which is based on visual landscape assessment techniques, is the visual survey technique which is administered with visuals and which is used for determining the user's perception of the place. 95 individuals participating in the survey were asked to evaluate formal aesthetic parameters for 15 selected high-rise buildings. One-way ANOVA, correlation and regression tests were employed to analyze the data collected through the survey. The findings and conclusions are thought to provide significant resources to city stakeholders in future urban landscape studies.

scholarly journals Research on Greening Design Based on Urban Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04036
Author(s):  
Zheng Jia-Xin ◽  
Tu Hao-Ran ◽  
Lee Kun-Fa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The City

Garden landscape is the basic construction of a city, which can effectively improve the ecological environment of a city, highlight the urban cultural characteristics and the quality of life of the residents. The landscape design project uses the internal space of the garden to improve the quality of the city, protect the ecological environment, improve the greening of the city and improve the quality of the urban living environment, and continue to develop green landscapes to improve the urban environment and improve the living comfort of living.

scholarly journals TAMAN KOTA DI SURABAYA SEBAGAI URBAN PARKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Muhd. Arief Al Husaini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Large City ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Interaction Space ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The City ◽  
City Park

Title: Urban Parks in Surabaya Surabaya is one of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia. Large cities are generally high mobility and limitations in the city. The limitations related to the urban landscape such as the availability of land, air quality, and social interaction space. It is an impact on the quality of life in the city. In order to achieve the quality of life and the need for interaction space, providing plenty of Surabaya city park. The park has many levels, but to a large city should already have a garden level of urban parks. Therefore, it will be analyzed whether the parks in Surabaya is considered urban parks. Analysis of city park in Surabaya through comparing review of literature on urban parks and facts on the ground. The research of parks uses, parks that can represent surabaya's park, taman bungkul dan taman apsari. The results of the analysis concluded that the park has not belonged to urban parks.

scholarly journals Valoración de la Calidad Visual del Paisaje Urbano de Interés Patrimonial = Valuation of the visual quality of the urban landscape of patrimonial interest

2020 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Josué Eliseo Llanque Chana
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
The City

ResumenLos centros históricos latinoamericanos, unas de las creaciones más interesantes de nuestra cultura, se enfrentan a profundas mutaciones físicas, sociales, funcionales, medioambientales y sobre todo paisajísticas. El paisaje del espacio público como lugar descubierto, generalmente rodeado de edificios, decorado por estatuas, fuentes, áreas de estancia, vegetación, etc., y destinado al embellecimiento de una ciudad, ha sido concebido para que los ciudadanos se reúnan a percibir la ciudad y a observar el espectáculo arquitectónico de sus principales edificios monumentales. El objetivo de la presente investigación es proponer una nueva metodología para la valoración de la calidad visual del paisaje urbano en áreas de interés patrimonial, considerada desde la visión, que se complementa con otros atributos físico-ambientales, visual-estéticos y socio-psicológicos. Adicionalmente, la calidad visual constituye un componente de la calidad ambiental y de la vida urbana que fomenta el sentido de pertenencia de las personas con su medio natural y construido. Su aplicación a los espacios patrimoniales latinoamericanos lo convierten en una nueva herramienta metodológica para su adaptación.AbstractThe historical centers of Latin America, some of the most interesting creations of our culture, face profound physical, social, functional, environmental and especially landscape changes. The landscape of the public space as a discovered place, generally surrounded by buildings, decorated by statues, fountains, living areas, vegetation, etc., and intended to beautify a city, has been conceived so that citizens come together to perceive the city and to observe the architectural spectacle of its main monumental buildings. The objective of this research is to propose a new methodology for the assessment of the visual quality of the urban landscape in areas of heritage interest, considered from the perspective, which is complemented with other physical-environmental, visual-aesthetic and socio-psychological attributes. Additionally, visual quality constitutes a component of environmental quality and urban life that fosters people's sense of belonging to their natural and built environment. Its application to Latin American heritage spaces make it a new methodological tool for its adaptation.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document