scholarly journals Urban planning, policymaking and scenarios of land uses' design

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. e020002
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

This paper is aimed to analyze the implications between urban planning, policymaking and scenarios of land uses’ design. The analysis assume that urban planning and design contribute to the quality of a city’s land uses and landscapes that are related to factors that improve qualitatively urban areas and the upgrading neglected areas. It begins analyzing the urban design and planning and its relationships with the urban land uses, policymaking and strategies to resume in design scenarios. It is concluded that urban planning, policymaking and design of land uses are relevant activities to manage urban land resources to achieve sustainable urban development.   Keywords: Design, land uses, policy making, scenarios, urban planning.

scholarly journals Multifunctional public open spaces for sustainable cities: Concept and application

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Zivkovic ◽  
Ksenija Lalovic ◽  
Milica Milojevic ◽  
Ana Nikezic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Public Open Spaces

The idea that multifunctional open spaces support sustainable urban development has been widely accepted in theory and intensively used in practice of urban planning and design. It is based on the assumption that multifunctional spaces bring a wider spectrum of environmental, social and economic benefits to urban areas. And yet, multifunctionality of space is still a vague and diffuse concept that needs further clarifications. Besides that, different academic disciplines understand and use this concept in different ways. This makes the application of the concept difficult to assess and manage in relation to different aspects of urban sustainability. Through the literature review, this paper analyses and compares how the concept of multifunctionality is used in various spatial disciplines (urban planning and design, landscape architecture) in order to better understand and relate its different dimensions, applications and expected benefits for sustainable development. Based on this, a new, relational and multidimensional conceptualisation of the multifunctionality of public open spaces is proposed for analysis and assessment of urban design solutions. It is further applied and discussed in relation to students projects from ?Ecological urban design studio? from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, as visions for development of multifunctional public open spaces in modernist mass housing area of ?Sava Blocks? in New Belgrade, Serbia.

A Crowdsourcing Approach in Urban Design

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham Abusaada ◽  
Abeer Elshater
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
The Creation

This chapter examines the problem of excessive similarity when designing new cities. It focuses on the generating of innovative ideas through urban design paradigms. The purpose of this work is to support the efforts of planners and designers toward the creation of new cities based on the concept of cities of singularity. This chapter is a bibliographic review of some conventional Western paradigms in urban planning and design. Based on this work, the three initial singularities of cities can be sketched as being architecturally singular (artwork-like/artistic and organic), societally singular (social, economic, and transcultural), or technologically and informationally singular (smart) in nature. The analytical reading depends on content analysis—which follows the potentiality of exploring the meaning of singularity and its characteristics, indicators, and principles. It collects the interrelationships of the old and new paradigms. The outcomes provide a framework for creating ‘cities of singularity' based on a crowdsourcing approach.

scholarly journals Urban Design Strategy from the Perspective of Low-Carbon City Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wei Qian
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Low Carbon City

<p>The economy growth has improved the development of cities. In cities' continuous development and construction process, carbon emissions are also gradually increasing, causing serious environmental pollution and energy shortage. At present, low-carbon urban planning and design has become the demand of contemporary urban construction, and sustainable low-carbon economy has become the inevitable choice of urban planning. Based on this, this article briefly introduces the concept of low-carbon city planning and the principles of urban design from the perspective of low-carbon city. By analyzing the existing problems in current urban planning, this article proposes urban design strategies from the view of low-carbon city planning, seeking to make contributions to the improvement of urban planning levels.</p>

scholarly journals Emergent Urbanism & Beyond: Times of Transformation and Paradigm Shifts with a Twist on Heritage Urbanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Tigran Haas ◽  
Krister Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

This paper is the product of reflections on the consequences of the latest discoveries of Emergent Urbanism that the authors identify as the specific issue dominating today's urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning, and derive from economic, social and spatial processes of structural change. In the paper we reflectively also discuss ideas about urban heritage, urban planning & design, and how heritage and planning & design can contribute to urban development. Urban heritage is understood as an infrastructure comparable with other infrastructures that provide an arena for urban planning & design and urban social and economic development. Moreover, the paper includes a remodeled and novel, short discussion and standpoint about five contemporary urban planning & design ideals that dominate the contemporary planning & design discourse, and their different views of the past and urban heritage. The paper concludes that in any given situation and context, the dominating urban planning & design ideal define the specific urban heritage, and, thus, influence how we will understand the past—today and in the future but also the paper maintains that, we must equally recognize how forces of economic, social and spatial structural change contribute to shaping the contemporary urban landscape.

scholarly journals Artistic Factor in Modern-Day Urban Planning and Design in Lithuania

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Dalia Dijokienė ◽  
Agnė Vėtė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract The issue of city modelling is very essential these days and it is important to analyse the legal framework and its practical implications in the process of city modelling. However, the practice of urban design in Lithuania is based on two-dimensional solutions and the artistic factor is overlooked. The article reviews the legal basis of Lithuanian urban planning and design and their practical implications and emphasizes the necessity of artistic factor during the process of city modelling.

scholarly journals Walkability as the key element of urban planning within the Healthy Cities concept (systematic review)

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Nadezhda A. Vosheva ◽  
Natalya N. Kamynina ◽  
Ekaterina O. Korotkova ◽  
Dmitriy V. Voshev
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

The purpose of the study. The purpose of this work is the exploration and generalization of scientific researches on walkability to determine its advantages as an element of public policy in human-centered cities. Over the past fifty years, the world community has actively discussed the issue of healthy and sustainable urban development planning, which has gained particular relevance with the recent World Health Organization publication of the “Healthy Cities: An Effective Approach to a Rapidly Changing World” concept (2020). One of the Healthy Cities approach goals is to promote healthy urban planning and design centered on human well-being (unlike prevalent in the past vehicle orientation), and the main component of such planning is pedestrianization or walkability. The systematic reviews and meta-analyses reporting method (PRISMA) were used in the review. The search was carried out in the bibliographic databases Elibrary, PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar. The study of the structure, types, and relationship between pedestrianization and the type of urban planning revealed the global advantages of creating walkable areas, such as maintaining the physical, mental and social health of citizens, increasing social capital, and improving the city’s ecological and economic atmosphere. Conclusion. Thus the promoting walkability was concluded to be a public policy as a relatively simple and highly effective way to benefit in the short, medium, and long term. This fact ultimately makes pedestrianization one of the most important tools for healthy urban planning and design.

scholarly journals Space Syntax Applied in Urban Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Akkelies van Nes ◽  
Claudia Yamu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Trafalgar Square ◽  
Dutch City

AbstractIn this chapter, we discuss the application of space syntax in consultancyforurbanplanningdesign and practice. First, we present the scientific challenges to tying general understandings and theoriesto urban planning and design practice. Some elementary principles for communicating results from research and theories to practitioners are demonstrated. We further explain the principles for successful master planning and the principles for designing vital and safe public realms related to the use of space syntax. This is followed by a discussion on how to avoid common errors when planning for vital neighbourhoods and cities. We present examples from practice where space syntax has played a major role. These include regenerating Trafalgar Square in London, evaluating various proposals for a new road link in the Dutch city of Leiden, developing strategies for the whole province of North Holland, and densification strategies in the Norwegian town of Bergen. In the conclusion, we discuss major pitfalls when applying space syntax to urban design and planning projects in practice. Exercises are provided at the end of the chapter.

Urban design for mental health in Tokyo

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-300
Author(s):  
Layla McCay ◽  
Emily Suzuki ◽  
Anna Chang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
City Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Population Mental Health

Tokyo is one of the most populous urban areas in the world, with a city population of over 13 million people and a metropolitan area extending to 36 million people. Urban planning has not traditionally focused on mental health in Tokyo. A policy review alongside interviews with urban practitioners examined how Tokyo applies the key principles of urban planning and design for population mental health, and extracts lessons. Tokyo could further leverage the urban environment to improve mental health by increasing awareness among architects and planners; removing barriers to commuting by bicycle; developing waterways and station pavilions for green space, physical activity and positive social interactions; and optimizing the workplace for mental health. Other cities could learn from Tokyo’s empowering of residents to green their neighbourhoods, and its largely pedestrianized roads that prioritize greenery, walkability, bikeability, and social activities. Thinking is growing around interior placemaking, from shopping malls to offices.

scholarly journals Urban Design and the Role of Placemaking in Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions. Learning From the Bibliotheca Degli Alberi Case Study in Milan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Boros ◽  
Israa Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

Nature-based solutions' (NBS) relevance for tackling environmental challenges has been on the frontiers of urban regeneration mechanisms since the beginning of the 2010s. There is an increasing interest in applying NBS in urban planning and design to build support and engagement for sustainable urban development. However, NBS's operational use as deliberate design interventions is not widely reflected in the scientific discourse, more evidence is needed on how functional and viable aspects of urban nature can be conceptualized in urban design. This calls to explore the ways urban design can advance their understanding as part of place-specific, designed urban spaces. Through an ex-post analysis, the authors examined the design and implementation process of an exemplary NBS project, the Biblioteca degli Alberi park in Milan, part of one of the largest, recent urban regeneration projects in Europe. In a synthetic analysis, design drivers, enablers, and deficiencies are discussed, which affect the park's performance both from human-centered and nature-based perspectives. The park's case demonstrates design actions and considerations affecting all stages of the life-cycle of an NBS, from the creative design phase to the development, use, and management phases, and how urban design can create conditions for amplifying the multifunctional potential of urban ecosystems. The results highlight the importance of integrating an urban ecology perspective in the entirety of the design process when implementing NBS, consequently for a successful re-scoping of urban design and planning practices to infuse human-centeredness with “nature-basedness.”

How Modern Financial Support Drives Innovative Urban Planning and Construction: Grey Relation Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Li Jianzhong ◽  
Wang Mancang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Grey Relation Analysis ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Construction ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Relation Analysis ◽  
And Function ◽  
Grey Relation

Finance is the core of the economy. For the construction of modern and innovative city, the development and function of finance can not be ignored. The research on urban planning and design based on financial support has become a hot topic. Based on this, the Grey relation analysis was used to study the modern financial support driven innovative urban planning and design. First of all, the progress of the innovative urban construction was expounded, and the progress of the research on the financial support innovative urban construction was introduced; then the content and financial planning of the innovative urban construction planning were put forward; in addition, taking the innovative urban planning and design project in Chongqing as an example, different urban areas and traffic design were introduced. The results of Grey relation analysis show that Chongqing has high comprehensive innovation value.

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