scholarly journals Digital Urban Regeneration and Its Impact on Urban Renewal Processes and Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
New Development ◽  
New Buildings

Urban renewal is one of the main motivations of city regeneration. Urban renewal strategies mainly relate to demolishing old buildings and redeveloping new buildings instead, improving buildings and deteriorated areas, infilling new buildings within existing urban fabric, integrating new communities into old and rolling-down areas, and so on. In parallel to this situation, the modern world is in the wake of the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a merger of physical and digital spaces and is consequently affecting cities and their quality of life. Therefore, urban regeneration must take into consideration these digital innovations and harness the emerging technological changes into new development of urban renewal processes and decision-making approaches. This editorial introduces the topic of digital urban regeneration, by discussing possible methodologies and decision-making approaches and presents the thematic issue on “embedding digital technologies into urban renewal processes and development.”

scholarly journals Landscape as Urban Regeneration: Learning from The High Line & Seoullo 7017 Skypark

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 050-060
Author(s):  
Romi Bramantyo Margono ◽  
Siswanti Zuraida
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New York ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Industrial Needs

Industrial Revolution has a significant contribution to forming the global cities. Many developments happened dictated by Industrial needs simultaneously with increasing number of populations by urbanization. One part of development to support industrialization and urbanization is infrastructures. Infrastructures such as street for cars and train railway. The development of infrastructures is affecting health, social, economic, and environment of citizen. It is also responsible for the decline of quality of life in many global cities. As time goes by, another significant shift happens in many global cities. Infrastructure becomes outdated, industry leaves, the local economy deflates, residents flee and the community implodes. It leaves many derelict infrastructures, other facilities of industry, and diverse impacts. To tackle this situation, Urban Regeneration concept was introduced. Furthermore, landscape also can be used as a tool of urban regeneration concept that intended to improve quality of life in the cities. According to this situation, there are two projects that represent landscape project as urban regeneration. The first project is The Highline project in New York by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf that revitalizing previous railway and Seoullo 7017 Skygarden in South Korea by MVRDV that revitalizing previous highway. The aim of this paper are to presents more insight and elaboration about how urban regeneration implemented in the cities from two landscape projects example and describe some critical review of both projects.

scholarly journals The Research of Environmental Accessibility in Riga Churches

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Kristiana Romanovska-Grinberga ◽  
Andra Ulme
Keyword(s):  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Guidelines And Standards ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Christian Denomination

The topic of the research is the environmental accessibility of churches in Riga. It is equally important both in Latvia and worldwide. Environmental accessibility is generally perceived as removing obstacles for people with special needs. According to the universal design and its principles public spaces should provide equal accessibility for every member of society. The Laws and Constitution of Latvia provides equal rights for all citizens. Environmental accessibility problems most commonly occur in cultural monuments, which include some of the churches. In modern world Christianity is a tradition, words and rituals of God, as well as social assistance. This is the reason why it is crucial for it to be comprehensive, so that everyone could use provided services independently and be equally involved in the church’s activities. This research analyses problems that occur in existent urban environment and examines 86 churches located in Riga. Observation and digital analysis methods are used in order to acquire measurements. Results are provided using graphical method. The subjects of the study are Christian denomination churches, that have been mentioned in Article 51 of the Latvian Civil Law, it includes Evangelical Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Orthodox Believers, Old Believers, Methodists, Seventh-day Adventists and Moses Believers (Judaism). Taking into consideration statistics and modern situation the study also includes some of the most widespread and active Christian denominations: Baptists, Pentecostals, Mormons, New Generations, Anglicans, New Apostles and Christians of the Evangelical Faith. The purpose of the research is to provide an overview of the current situation, as well as determine problems in environmental accessibility and guideline integration into sacred buildings. Research also aims to provide possible solutions for improving the quality of life of people with functional limitations. The study reflects on the significant shortcoming of churches located in Riga in meeting the guidelines and standards of public buildings. New buildings are more often to meet accessibility requirements and regulations, however, chosen solutions often lack practicality or do not provide easy usage.

scholarly journals Multiparametric Analysis of Urban Environmental Quality for Estimating Neighborhood Renewal Alternatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalit Shach-Pinsly ◽  
Stefan Bindreiter ◽  
Idan Porat ◽  
Shai Sussman ◽  
Julia Forster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Water Infiltration ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The City

The neighborhood renewal process is an important opportunity to update the built environment; however, major changes to the built environment might decrease spatial performance and environmental quality. In these processes, there is a need to evaluate urban renewal alternatives, especially the quality of the environment, to understand the performance of the newly designed built environment. The quality of the built environment depends on a variety of aspects (such as walkability, energy level, security, open spaces, water permeability, etc.), several of which can be assessed using diverse measurements and evaluation models. Current new technological developments, based on GIS, enable the evaluation of diverse aspects of environmental quality and promote urban renewal decision-making processes. Urban renewal needs to harness these models in the decision-making approaches to improve assessment processes of urban renewal alternative estimations that consider future performance and quality of the built environment. In this article, we present a 3D-GIS multiparametric scenario analysis for neighborhood renewal alternatives estimation to evaluate the performance and quality of the built environment as part of the decision-making process. The multiparametric approach will include an evaluation analysis of several aspects of environmental quality, including walkability, accessibility, sense of security, energy, shade, water infiltration, visibility, and more. The analysis results will indicate the level of performance for each aspect as indices for environmental quality. The multiparametric scenario analysis for neighborhood renewal will be conducted on three renewal alternatives for one neighborhood in the city of Hatzor HaGlilit, Israel.<p>In this article, we present a 3D-GIS multiparametric scenario analysis for neighborhood renewal alternatives estimation to evaluate the performance and quality of the built environment as part of the decision-making process. The multiparametric approach will include evaluation analysis of several aspects of the environmental quality, including walkability, accessibility, sense of security, energy, shade, water infiltration, visibility, and more. The analysis results will indicate the level of performance for each aspect, as indices for environmental quality. The multiparametric scenario analysis for neighborhood renewal will be conducted on three renewal alternatives for one neighborhood in the city of Hatzor-HaGlilit, Israel.</p>

Overcoming Bias in the Deliberations of Distributed Teams

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 444-448
Author(s):  
Marc L. Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Distributed Teams ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Naturalistic Environment ◽  
Geographically Distributed

Human decision making is subject to a variety of cognitive and affective processes that can significantly impact the nature and quality of the resulting decisions. While commonly referred to as decision making ‘biases’, these processes evolved to satisfy important needs of our genetic ancestors. For example, heuristics that reduce the time and effort required to make decisions may be beneficial in a naturalistic environment that rewards speed and efficiency over precision or perfection. Unfortunately, the modern world has different performance criteria and our cognitive processes have not evolved fast enough to adapt. One example is the geographically distributed team, composed of individuals who communicate using technologies such as email, telephone, and videoconferencing to accomplish business-related objectives. While speed remains important in this environment, precision and accuracy are often the most relevant performance metrics. This paper presents a detailed description of several cognitive and affective processes that are particularly troublesome for geographically distributed teams when deliberating to reach a team consensus and outlines some technological and procedural interventions that can improve the quality of their decision making.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE ECONOMISTS-INTERNATIONAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (158) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
O. Berveno ◽  
G. Stadnyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Effective Work

In today's world issues of educational quality are becoming increasingly important. Today the quality of train-ing is determined by its readiness for effective professional activity, the ability to adapt to rapidly changing and un-certain conditions of the modern world, professional skills, as well as the ability to use the acquired knowledge in solving professional problems. In modern research on the peculiarities of training specialists for future employment, considerable attention is paid to various aspects of economic education. The process of continuous improvement of professional training of higher education seekers requires a constant search for new tools, methods and tools to im-prove the educational process, and, accordingly, research on this issue. The purpose of the article is to analyze the features, trends, competencies and new tools in preparing future international economists for effective work. The four main areas of employment of international economists include: international institutions and organizations; interna-tional corporations and other structures of international business; domestic business structures; public authorities and public institutions. In the modern period, the competence approach is the most important factor in ensuring the quality of higher education. Competences are formed comprehensively, in the process of all forms and activities of the applicant. Innovative education involves its focus on obtaining innovative skills of applicants, which involves their gradual involvement in research, project development and more. Dissemination of the results of the fourth industrial revolution ("Industry 4.0") and the emergence of an era of innovation, when advanced technologies radically change entire sectors of the economy and society as a whole, requires skills to apply these technologies in various fields of international economics. The peculiarity of the analyzed educational program "International Economy" is the focus on the requirements and needs of the urban labor market, the needs of the urban economy through constant interac-tion with stakeholders. Keywords: educational and professional program, creative abilities, competence approach, cross-cultural com-ponent.

Is Artificial Intelligence a New Dawn or Challenge for Corporate Decision Making?

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-42
Author(s):  
Maria Igorevna Nikishova ◽  
Mikhail E. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
The Board Of Directors

The Fourth Industrial Revolution provides companies with new opportunities, and business picks up allies represented by technologies that can change mechanisms of corporate decision making in corporations. Rapid development of technologies, which allows working more efficiently with information, can lead to the creation of a new system of stakeholder interaction, thanks to better analytics, transparency, and speed of decisions. In this regard, the analyst based on big data with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is able to significantly affect the quality of decisions. How can the application of AI for analysis of big data be able to influence the decision-making process and to what extent can it influence the system of corporate relationships? To answer this question, the authors will try to describe how transformation of decision-making methodology at the Board of Directors level under the influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the development of AI technologies and big data, and what are the opportunities, limitations, and risks of the decision-making process with AI.

The Great Enrichment:A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Third ◽  
China And India ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Average Person ◽  
Social Scientific

From 1800 to the present the average person on the planet has been enriched in real terms by a factor of 10, or some 900 percent. In the ever-rising share of places from Belgium to Botswana, and now in China and India, that have agreed to the Bourgeois Deal—“Let me earn profits from creative destruction in the first act, and by the third act I will make all of you rich”—the factor is 30 in conventional terms and, if allowing for improved quality of goods and services, such as in improved glass and autos, or improved medicine and higher education, a factor of 100. That is, the reward from allowing ordinary people to have a go, the rise at first in northwestern Europe and then worldwide of economic liberty and social dignity, eroding ancient hierarchy and evading modern regulation, has been anything from 2,900 to 9,900 percent. What needs to be explained in a modern social science history is not the Industrial Revolution(s) but the Great Enrichment, one or two orders of magnitude larger than any previous change in human history. The article takes seriously the lesson of comparative history that Europe was not unique until 1700 and argues that ideas—specifically Bourgeois liberal ideas—not capital or institutions, made the modern world.

scholarly journals Homo ex machina. Artificial Intelligence in a Brave New World—A Glimpse from Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Access To Data

Abstract There is no area of human activity that would function today without the involvement of AI technologies. AI, a driving force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, penetrates modern human life with ever-increasing intensity. As it is claimed, it brings about decision-making efficiency and performance accuracy that has never existed before. At the same time, artificial intelligence creates far-reaching dangers to almost every aspect of the modern world. From the legal point of view, the most eminent ones include: the bias stemming from the inherited historical data that AI tends to repeat and multiply, the problem of the lack of transparency (the “black-box society”) that makes it impossible for a human being to understand how AI arrived at a decision, and the elimination of the human being from the decision-making process, which rises the issue of appropriateness and legitimacy. AI can only be developed when sufficient amount of data is available, and hence the article elaborates on the fundamental role that data plays for the modern world, and how transnational corporations set global rules in relation to collection and access to data in a process that lacks democratic accountability and questions the position of states. The article ends with presenting the UE attempts to address the issues that arise in relation to the unrestricted access to data, invasion of privacy and threats posed by artificial intelligence. It also elaborates on the prominent position that the artificial intelligence holds on the EU political agenda and presents political and legislative actions undertaken by the European Union in this regard.

Evaluation of the Academic Setting in Spain 1This study was financed by the University of Oviedo.

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.

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