European City Planning on the Eve of American Colonization

The article examines the architectural and spatial environment of cities in Belgium, numerous examples of architectural solutions of buildings, both architectural monuments and future projects that have not yet been embodied. From the point of view of considering the foreshortenings of the city of Belgium proposed in the article, they can be considered as: a historically developed system of social and functional settlement of citizens, modern and future environment, an object of aesthetic perception. Architecture bears a projection of the integrity of the human personality and social interaction between people, as well as the preservation of an integral architectural environment as a whole. The modern architecture of Belgium – NewArt Style – is a set of basic forms and features characteristic of buildings of a certain time and a certain people, manifested in the features of a functional, constructive and artistic order. Each era has created its own style. The historically developed architectural and spatial environment of the cities of Belgium is a valuable object of research, both from a historical point of view and from an architectural point of view. It can be said that every European city has a rich history, reflecting in its characteristic compositional and landscape features, which makes it possible to identify the main problems of preserving the historical part of the city, which occupies most of the territory in the overall city planning and has a significant impact on its modern spatial composition and architecture in the future. This allows modern European architects to identify strategies for the development of a small historical city without violating its architectural and spatial integrity and artistic qualities, as well as to preserve a harmonious and comfortable urban environment.

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Diffusion of European Modern City Planning around 1910: Transferring and Implementation of International Knowledge in Tallinn, Estonia

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144217705345 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 615-624

Author(s):

Karin Hallas-Murula

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Driving Force ◽

City Planning ◽

City Council ◽

European City ◽

Modern City ◽

Cultural Orientations ◽

National Capital ◽

International Knowledge ◽

International Planning

This article examines the implementation of international urban planning in Tallinn in the 1910 within the frame of concepts of transferring knowledge, cultural orientations, borrowing, and synthesizing. This article focuses on the side of the commissioner—Estonian liberal municipal politicians who gained power in Tallinn City Council and became the main driving force in developing modern planning. Among other important actors, the organization of house-owners and some individuals emerged. Actors were highly motivated in implementing international urban planning for they connected the modern planning with ideas of developing Tallinn into modern European city and national capital. The international planning competition was organized in a possible high professional level and it resulted with the project “Greater-Tallinn” by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen in 1913.

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Breeding Better Babies in the Eugenic Garden City: ‘Municipal Darwinism’ and the (Anti)Cosmopolitan Utopia in the early Twentieth Century

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2010.0106 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 267-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Susan Currell

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

City Planning ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Core Beliefs ◽

Garden City ◽

New Town ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

National Body ◽

Practical Level ◽

The Way

Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as city planners. The comparative approach taken in this essay shows that while core beliefs about degeneration and the importance of eugenics to improve the national ‘body’ were often transnational and cosmopolitan, attempts to implement eugenic beliefs on a practical level were shaped by national and regional circumstances that were on many levels anti-cosmopolitan. As a way of assuaging the tensions between the local and the global, as well as the traditional with the modern, this unique and now forgotten experiment in eugenic city planning aimed to show that both preservation and progress could succeed at the same time.

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The Making of the Open-port City of Yokohama from the Viewpoint of the City Planning

The Journal of Localitology ◽

10.15299/tjl.2016.10.16.293 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 293

Author(s):

Na-Young Kim ◽

Jae-Youl Hyun

Keyword(s):

City Planning ◽

Port City ◽

The City ◽

Open Port

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REINTEGRATION OF THE CHORNOBYL NPP EXCLUSION ZONE ON THE BASIS OF THE DESIGN-PLANNING COMPLEX

Ukrainian geographical journal ◽

10.15407/ugz2020.04.011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 11-18

Author(s):

I.I. Ustinova ◽

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M.M. Dyomin ◽

G.V. Aylikova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

City Planning ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Brand Name ◽

Exclusion Zone ◽

Rational Development ◽

Production Complex ◽

Design Planning ◽

Renewable Energy Generation ◽

First Time

The aim of the publication is to determine the prerequisites of and to elaborate on the foundations of the Exclusion Zone reintegration in order to address the issue of rational development of urban-planning documentation complex regarding the legitimacy of said territory exploitation. It is established that for the implementation of the «Radioactive waste management strategy» the production complex «Vector» is being constructed on the Exclusion Zone territory; a powerful park of renewable energy generation is being created to implement the «Chornobyl - a Territory of Change» strategy; a Chornobyl Radiation-Ecological Biosphere Reserve was established to support and increase the barrier function of the zone; in order to promote the Safe Chornobyl brand-name, the tourist traffic is being increased and the conditions for the visitors are improving. In the absence of developed and approved city planning documentation, the listed above causes the problem of legitimacy and rationality of the exclusion zone territory use. The paper for the first time raises the question of the need to elaborate the concept of functional planning of the Chornobyl NPP exclusion zone territory and the development of the design-planning complex (urban planning documentation): from the territory.

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Industrial zones is the place where the green city originates

National Interests Priorities and Security ◽

10.24891/ni.16.10.1857 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 1857-1880

Author(s):

N.N. Krupina

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Green Infrastructure ◽

City Planning ◽

Urban Ecosystem ◽

Environmental Security ◽

Infrastructure Projects ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

Fiscal Incentives ◽

Industrial Zones

Subject. The article updates the scientific view of the environmental protection greening and the special land use regime as a special city planning means of passive sanitary protection of people from the adverse aerial and technological impact and the recovery of the environment we live in. Objectives. I identify the specifics of designing and efficient operation of environmental protection greening as an inseparable part of the urban ecosystem. The article justifies the technique for strategic positioning of respective infrastructure projects in order to ensure the protective effect. Methods. The study relies upon general methods of analysis, systematization of existing viewpoints and published findings, graphic and logic analysis, matrix-based tools to choose an administrative strategy. Results. I analyzed the air-holding capacity of economic activity in regions and the outcome of air quality monitoring as a risk factor for public health. The article pinpoints operational difficulties in the environmental protection greening facilities and strategic approaches to addressing the issues in order to improve the environmental security of industrial zones. I determine new aspects of public relations and groups of criteria to assess the effectiveness of green infrastructure projects. The article provides the rationale for fiscal incentives for investors and public-private partnership of stakeholders. Conclusions and Relevance. Considering national projects, such as Ecology, Demography, Convenient Urban Environment, I emphasize the relevance of recovering and rehabilitating obsolete environmental protection greening facilities situated in industrial zones of industrially developed cities. Green projects should indeed comply with a set of progressive results of fundamental studies carried in various scientific areas. There should be fiscal incentives in terms of taxes and depreciation on special assets as the basis for the private-municipal partnership in green assets management in order to enhance the environmental security of industrial zones.

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