scholarly journals Reviving the Urban Core: Ludhiana City, Punjab, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Aman Randhawa ◽  
Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
City Population ◽  
City Core ◽  
Implementation Tool ◽  
The City

The urban cores are considered as the most crucial clusters of the contemporary urban cities as they are the foremost economic growth poles that cater to the needs of the city population. These clusters are facing urban development issues like congestion, longer travel distances and time, pollution, etc., hence, transforming into a non-livable environment. Smart development has been identified as a world-wide solution to the existing urban development issues which focuses on promoting a sustainable and livable environment with the integration of ICT; acts as an implementation tool. Ludhiana; regarded as the Manchester of India, is the most industrialized city of the northern India. The city has a strong economic base due to the presence of commercial hub and small and large manufacturing industries which have acted as a catalyst for rapid urbanization. The city has witnessed immense population growth over the last 5 decades which has led to issues such as pollution, environment degradation,, emergence of slums and failure of physical and social infrastructure; thus failing to be a livable city. The paper intends to identify the urban development issues in Ludhiana city core and provide appropriate strategies based on the Smart Development principles.

scholarly journals Formation and maintenance of the territorial balance in the conditions of high-rise construction in the city

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01034
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kisel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
City Development ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The City

High-rise construction results in the need of planning of infrastructure facilities, taking into account the increase in loading, as high-rise construction allows to place considerably bigger number of residents in the limited territory. For this purpose it is necessary to estimate the required and actual level of providing the population with each particular type of the facilities of social infrastructure. The compliance of required and actual level of providing can be characterized as the territorial balance, while the discrepancy acts as the territorial imbalance. The article is devoted to the development of such instruments of planning of urban development, which will allow to create the qualitative urban environment, founded on the territorial balances. Namely, it is devoted to the calculation of level of providing the population with the facilities of social infrastructure, to the determination of level of the imbalance in absolute and relative units and also to the ranging of imbalances on urgency of their elimination. The size of the imbalance is of great importance for planning and realization of managerial influences from the executive authorities, operating the city development. In order to determine the urgency of realization of actions for the construction of facilities of social infrastructure it is offered to range the imbalances according to their size, having determined the deviation size from balance, which is so insignificant that it does not demand any managerial influences (it can be characterized as balance) and also the groups of the imbalances, differing in urgency of managerial influences, directed to the decrease and elimination of the revealed imbalance.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 16, ISSUE 1 : 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

Our environment today is changing because of the rapid urbanization and this scenario has intensified as we face the climate change affect. The challenges and issues that we experience today are more complex, multifaceted and are becoming more visible and frequent. Cities are vulnerable and at the same time have to play significant roles in tackling climate change through various actions of preparedness, mitigation and adaptations. Cities are complex systems combining spatial and non-spatial elements. A system, which consists of interconnected and interdependent elements, can only function well if these elements interact with each other. These elements comprise physical environment, social, infrastructure and economy. The interaction among the elements enable the city to function as a whole. In this context, to achieve a sustainable and resilient city requires a collaborative effort from various disciplines and interrelated expertise to address each element. The increase on the awareness and interest in the related research areas have witness the upsurge on the efforts towards achieving sustainable and resilient cities. Every day new studies and findings emerged from scientists, researchers, academics and scholars deliberating on ways to mitigate, prevent and prepare for the future risks that may pose impact to our cities either physically, socially or economically.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Busch
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Density Growth ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The City

The epilogue looks at Austin in the twenty-first century, as the city has become a model of sustainable urban development based largely on its active and vociferous environmental community. These sustainability policies incentivized higher density growth in the urban core, which caused intense gentrification in many long-time minority communities. Minority environmental groups were unable to convince Austin’s political or environmental leaders that gentrification was an environmental issues, and thus many residents were displaced. The epilogue ends with some suggestions for mitigating the deleterious effects of the possessive investment in whiteness for Austin’s minorities.

scholarly journals Barriers to Mid-Rise Development in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Brown
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
The City

In 2005 the Ontario Provincial Government introduced the Greenbelt Act, a piece of legislation that essentially capped Greenfield development in the Greater Toronto Area. In response to this policy some developers began to “leap-frog” the Greenbelt and secure development land north of the protected area, while others began to look inward to the built urban and suburban centres for intensification opportunities. Although supported by Provincial and Municipal interventionist policies there has been little intensification in the urban core. The City of Toronto's 2010 Avenues &ly ten projects have been completed. This paper, through a literature review including international sources and case studies and current policies, will examine the barriers to intensification. In addition, a qualitative key informant study of Greater Toronto Area developers and other professionals involved in midrise development will be pursued in order to establish what are the barriers to intensification. KEY WORDS: City of Toronto, Mid-Rise, Avenues, Intensification, Zoning, Places to Grow, Policy, Infill, Urban, Development

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 16, ISSUE 1 : 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

Our environment today is changing because of the rapid urbanization and this scenario has intensified as we face the climate change affect. The challenges and issues that we experience today are more complex, multifaceted and are becoming more visible and frequent. Cities are vulnerable and at the same time have to play significant roles in tackling climate change through various actions of preparedness, mitigation and adaptations. Cities are complex systems combining spatial and non-spatial elements. A system, which consists of interconnected and interdependent elements, can only function well if these elements interact with each other. These elements comprise physical environment, social, infrastructure and economy. The interaction among the elements enable the city to function as a whole. In this context, to achieve a sustainable and resilient city requires a collaborative effort from various disciplines and interrelated expertise to address each element. The increase on the awareness and interest in the related research areas have witness the upsurge on the efforts towards achieving sustainable and resilient cities. Every day new studies and findings emerged from scientists, researchers, academics and scholars deliberating on ways to mitigate, prevent and prepare for the future risks that may pose impact to our cities either physically, socially or economically.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL USING GIS-ANALYSIS ON THE EXAMPLE OF TOMSK

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Anastasia Moskovchenko ◽  
Mariya Kozina
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Gis Analysis ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Administrative District ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Land Plot ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

This study presents the results of the application of information technology to assess the urban development potential of the territory on the example of the city of Tomsk. A two stages GIS analysis of the territory of a large administrative district of the city of Tomsk was carried out. At the first stage, an assessment was made of the needs of the territory of the Oktyabrsky District for social infrastructure facilities. The second step, based on the results of the assessment, was the procedure for finding a land plot for the construction of a general education institution (school) in the residential quarter. Information systems used to search for a land plot for school construction are described and analyzed. Prospects for the development of a GIS resource were identified, in which data on social infrastructure elements for the entire city of Tomsk and the Tomsk region will be combined in a map format using data from GIS analysis methods.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Fairness of Urban Lakes’ Distribution Based on Spatialization of Population Data: A Case Study of Wuhan Urban Development Zone

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 4994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wu ◽  
Shen Yang ◽  
Xu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Central City ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Population Data ◽  
City Center ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Development Zone ◽  
Urban Lakes ◽  
The City

Lake reclamation for urban construction has caused serious damage to lakes in cities undergoing rapid urbanization. This process affects urban ecological environment and leads to inconsistent urban expansion, population surge, and uneven distribution of urban lakes. This study measured the fairness of urban lakes’ distribution and explored the spatial matching relationship between service supply and user group demand. The interpretation and analysis of Wuhan’s remote sensing images, population, administrative area, traffic network, and other data in 2018 were used as the basis. Specifically, the spatial distribution pattern and fairness of lakes’ distribution in Wuhan urban development zone were investigated. This study establishes a geographic weighted regression (GWR) model of land cover types and population data based on a spatialization method of population data based on land use, and uses population spatial data and network accessibility analysis results to evaluate lake service levels in the study area. Macroscopically, the correlation analysis of sequence variables and Gini coefficient analysis method are used to measure the fairness of the Wuhan lake distribution problem and equilibrium degree, and the location entropy analysis is used to quantitatively analyze the fairness of lakes and Wuhan streets from the perspective of supply and demand location entropy. Levels improve the accuracy of the research. Results showed that (1) the area covered by lakes in Wuhan urban development zone is 1007.96 km2 within 60-min of walking, accounting for 30.6% of the total area of the study area. This area can house 5,050,275 people, accounting for 60.8% of Wuhan’s total population. (2) The lakes in the central city area are less fair than the lakes outside the Third Ring Road. (3) The service level of North Lake is the highest among all the lakes in the study area, and that of Hou Lake is the lowest. (4) The spatial layout of the fairness of the lakes’ distribution is roughly distributed in circles. The fairness level collapses toward the city center, indicating that the closer to the city center, the lower the fairness level.

scholarly journals Barriers to Mid-Rise Development in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Brown
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
The City

In 2005 the Ontario Provincial Government introduced the Greenbelt Act, a piece of legislation that essentially capped Greenfield development in the Greater Toronto Area. In response to this policy some developers began to “leap-frog” the Greenbelt and secure development land north of the protected area, while others began to look inward to the built urban and suburban centres for intensification opportunities. Although supported by Provincial and Municipal interventionist policies there has been little intensification in the urban core. The City of Toronto's 2010 Avenues &ly ten projects have been completed. This paper, through a literature review including international sources and case studies and current policies, will examine the barriers to intensification. In addition, a qualitative key informant study of Greater Toronto Area developers and other professionals involved in midrise development will be pursued in order to establish what are the barriers to intensification. KEY WORDS: City of Toronto, Mid-Rise, Avenues, Intensification, Zoning, Places to Grow, Policy, Infill, Urban, Development

scholarly journals The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802093649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J Rogerson ◽  
Bob Giddings
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Future ◽  
City Core ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Similar Growth ◽  
City Centres

Recent debates over the content and theoretical orientation of urban studies act as a strong reminder that the nature and existence of the city as a form of spatial urban agglomeration is changing. They have acted positively as a heuristic to inspire critical analysis of urbanisation and helped to illuminate the considerable empirical variation over time and space in urban agglomeration forms. However, in shifting the focus onto the planetary reach of urbanisation, such debates risk deflecting attention away from the city core at a time when it too is being subjected to transformation. The city centre has been taken for granted as critical attention has been given to the impact of development and enterprise in extending the city outwards. The recent proliferation of public and policy interest in the future of the city centre as the archetypal expression of urban agglomeration has not been matched by similar growth in academic and theoretical accounts of its transformation. Drawing on the examples of two city centres, and placing them in the context of the recent debates of urban agglomeration theory, this article seeks to initiate deeper analysis and dialogue about the future of the urban core, including how it is being articulated and by whom. It argues for a greater analytic understanding of the ways in which the city centre as a physical and emotional entity has been so resilient, and advocates for stronger engagement with initiatives seeking to reactivate the city centre as a crucial epicentre of urban agglomeration.

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