GIS analysis of basketball courts and healthy stores relationship for young population in the city of Sкopje

From a sustainable material management perspective, vacant houses represent material stock and still have potential in the circular economy. This article addresses two aspects of understanding and managing vacant houses: the difficulty of understanding their spatial and temporal patterns and the management of the social costs behind the phenomenon of vacant houses. These aspects are approached by combining a 4D GIS analysis with expert interviews and additional qualitative tools to assess the spatial and temporal dimension of vacant houses. Furthermore, this manuscript presents a tool to estimate the obsolete dwelling material stock distribution within a city. The case of the city of Kitakyushu demonstrates the relationship that exists between the historical trajectories of housing norms and standards, such as comfort, cleanliness, safety, and convenience, and the dynamics of the built material stock and demography for three selected neighbourhoods. The results show that the more locked-in a district is in terms of “obsolete norms and codes”, the more likely it is that the obsolete stock is dead, and consequently, urban mining should be considered. The article concludes that a revisiting of the norms and standards of convenience and other domains is one of the prerequisites of the transition toward a circular built environment and the prevention of obsolete stock accumulation.

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importance of community action in the process of implementing an educational institution and its impact on extension activities

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss8.2490 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 50-62

Author(s):

Tânia Márcia de Freitas

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Educational Institution ◽

Local Population ◽

Community Action ◽

Local Context ◽

Regional Innovation Systems ◽

Young Population ◽

Regional Innovation ◽

Promising Strategy ◽

The City

The Federal Institutes of Education (IFs) are intended to collaborate with the regional innovation systems, encouraging after roduction of knowledge and innovative technologies and activities constituting promising strategy for Brazilian regional development. One way to measure whether the institute's purpose is being fulfilled is through outreach activities with the community with a view to local and regional economic and social advancement. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze the process of implementing an IF, as well as its impact on the community. Methodologically it was Documentary research was carried out on the process of community participation in the implementation of the IF in the city, as well as interviews were conducted to ascertain the view of this determining actor regarding the return to society, also contemplating extension actions. It was concluded that the engagement of the local population in the choice of the city was fundamental, causing other cities in the region to join efforts to capture the institute, just as it generated a positive impact in the entire region by providing an opportunity for qualification, which before it was carried out distantly, causing the success of the young population or even the lack of training of this public for financial reasons. As for the extension actions, the institute analyzed performs them according to the local context, filling the gaps, as the purpose of its creation.

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Human | Wildlife, Stitching The Fabric : Connectivity Strategies For Identified Gaps in Toronto's Ravines

10.32920/ryerson.14648040 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vincent Racine

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Landscape Connectivity ◽

Public Lands ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Buffer Analysis ◽

Close Proximity ◽

The City ◽

Environmentally Significant Areas

This Master’s Research Project (MRP) examines landscape connectivity strategies for the ravine system in the City of Toronto, CA. A workshop with natural environment specialists from the City of Toronto was organized to gather practitioner-based information as to which gaps should be prioritized in the ravine system. This GAP Analysis was complemented with a Geographic Information System (GIS) - based buffer analysis looking at connectable green spaces in close proximity to Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs). Based on both the workshop and GIS analysis, 16 gaps were investigated through which 4 typologies were created. Interviews were then conducted with professionals from comparator cities: Edmonton (CA), Vancouver (CA), Minneapolis (US), Copenhagen (DK), and Stockholm (SW) to compare into how waterfront cities use policies, partnerships and design interventions to connect waterfront public lands. Based on interviews and additional policy scans, connectivity strategies were created for all 4 typologies as a means to improve landscape connectivity in the City of Toronto.

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Elementos clave para la introducción de la perspectiva de género en las infraestructuras ciclistas

Hábitat y Sociedad ◽

10.12795/habitatysociedad.2020.i13.06 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 87-105

Author(s):

Anna Obach Lapieza ◽

María Ramos Sanz

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Geographic Information System ◽

Urban Design ◽

Road Safety ◽

Elderly Care ◽

Participatory Approach ◽

Gender Mainstreaming ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

The Moment ◽

The City

Gender mainstreaming generated a wide diversity of innovative measures and interventions in new areas not explored until the moment. This is the case of mobility policies, linked to the sustainable urban design and the measures for the environment’s improvement. The literature review and the analysis of the cities’ experiences, allow us to establish some criteria to audit the level of inclusivity of transport infrastructures. In the case of cycling infrastructures, the following criteria have to be taken into account: security, ensuring road safety elements and adequate lighting; conciliation, connecting areas of the city linked to child care, elderly care, daily shopping and personal dealings, through Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis; apply an inclusive and participatory approach, from the comprehension that there is a diverse citizenship with multiple needs and that these have to be taken into account during the design of these policies; and the visibility of cyclist women, as a tool of empowerment and promotion of the use of the bicycle..

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The valens aqueduct of constantinople: hydrology and hydraulics

Water History ◽

10.1007/s12685-020-00254-4 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Crapper

Keyword(s):

Fifth Century ◽

Weather Data ◽

Climate Modelling ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Engineering Analysis ◽

Industry Standard ◽

Digital Elevation ◽

Elevation Model ◽

The City ◽

Standard Software

Abstract A hydrological and hydraulic engineering analysis has been carried out on the Valens aqueduct system constructed from around AD 345 and serving Constantinople. A GIS analysis of previous field observations combined with a digital elevation model confirmed the aqueduct’s likely route and slope. Macrophysical Climate Modelling revealed that contemporary weather data was an appropriate proxy for the time of the aqueduct’s construction, and modern flow data was obtained for some of the springs that fed the aqueduct. Existing, previously documented remains, especially at intakes, were considered, and the industry standard software HEC–RAS was used to simulate the performance of the aqueduct system with a view to understanding the amount of water it could have delivered to the city, the seasonal variation in supply and the most likely configuration of the aqueduct, where this was not clear from existing archaeology. It was concluded that the most likely configuration for the aqueduct system was a fourth and a fifth century channel continuing separately and in parallel to the city walls, which might have delivered flow the range of 0.73 m3/s in the driest month of October to 1.73 m3/s in the wettest month of March over an average year.

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Rediscovering the rural landscape of Carthage's hinterland: a reassessment of the Carthaginian Countryside survey

Libyan Studies ◽

10.1017/lis.2016.5 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 117-127

Author(s):

Rachael A. Sycamore ◽

Brian G. Buchanan

Keyword(s):

Rural Landscape ◽

Multiple Time ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Time Periods ◽

Legacy Data ◽

The City

AbstractThis article discusses a GIS analysis of the results of the Carthaginian Countryside survey conducted by Joseph Greene from 1979 to 1983. The 136 sites identified by the project constitute one of the largest datasets of site locations recorded in the hinterland of Carthage from multiple time periods. The results of this survey have not generally been integrated into modern studies of the region because the project was never fully published and has not been digitised. This paper discusses the challenges of working with legacy data and the importance of using GIS to both preserve and analyse the Carthaginian Countryside survey. The results presented here reveal new insights into the antiquity of the rural landscape around the city of Carthage and the importance of revisiting legacy datasets to contextualise current research.

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An Examination of the Distribution of White-Collar Worker Residences in Tokyo and Osaka during the Modernizing Period

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi8090375 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 375 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Takashi Kirimura

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Geographic Information System ◽

Statistical Data ◽

White Collar ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

City Center ◽

Private Companies ◽

White Collar Worker ◽

White Collar Workers ◽

The City

This paper sheds light on the residences of white-collar workers in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan in the modernizing period using historical statistical data and telephone directories from a historical geographic information system (GIS) analysis. We examined the differences between the distribution of white-collar workers and the progress of suburbanization by comparing the respective unemployment censuses and telephone directories of Tokyo and Osaka. The analysis shows that in 1925, there was a tendency for many white-collar workers to live in certain city sectors, as well as in the city center. However, this trend had changed by the mid-1930s, when data show that private-sector white-collar workers tended to live more in areas with a relatively low population density. Compared to Osaka, Tokyo was relatively suburbanized with white-collar workers in private companies.

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Human | Wildlife, Stitching The Fabric : Connectivity Strategies For Identified Gaps in Toronto's Ravines

10.32920/ryerson.14648040.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vincent Racine

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Landscape Connectivity ◽

Public Lands ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Buffer Analysis ◽

Close Proximity ◽

The City ◽

Environmentally Significant Areas

This Master’s Research Project (MRP) examines landscape connectivity strategies for the ravine system in the City of Toronto, CA. A workshop with natural environment specialists from the City of Toronto was organized to gather practitioner-based information as to which gaps should be prioritized in the ravine system. This GAP Analysis was complemented with a Geographic Information System (GIS) - based buffer analysis looking at connectable green spaces in close proximity to Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs). Based on both the workshop and GIS analysis, 16 gaps were investigated through which 4 typologies were created. Interviews were then conducted with professionals from comparator cities: Edmonton (CA), Vancouver (CA), Minneapolis (US), Copenhagen (DK), and Stockholm (SW) to compare into how waterfront cities use policies, partnerships and design interventions to connect waterfront public lands. Based on interviews and additional policy scans, connectivity strategies were created for all 4 typologies as a means to improve landscape connectivity in the City of Toronto.

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Suitability of Seagrass Ecosystem for Marine Ecotourism in Padang City, West Sumatera Province

Forum Geografi ◽

10.23917/forgeo.v32i1.5306 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 88-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Try Al Tanto ◽

Aprizon Putra ◽

Dedi Hermon ◽

Harfiandri Damanhuri

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Coastal Region ◽

Local Communities ◽

Gis Analysis ◽

Thalassia Hemprichii ◽

Suitability Index ◽

Seagrass Ecosystem ◽

Seagrass Ecosystems ◽

Marine Ecotourism ◽

The City

Seagrass ecosystems are exciting parts of the tropical coastal region that are potential for ecotourism activities. Marine ecotourism sector in the city of Padang has begun to develop within last few years. This development has not only positive impacts but also negative threats to the environment. Therefore, carefully select the most suitable areas for this purpose is important. This article aims to propose the potential areas for seagrass ecotourism in Padang city based on Geographic information system (GIS) analysis. We used spatial analysis to develop the seagrass ecotourism suitability index that is also potentially applicable to other areas. The results of the analysis show that area of the seagrass ecosystem in Nirwana beach (23.75 ha), Cindakir beach (2.56 ha), and Pasumpahan island (5.46 ha) with a total area of the seagrass ecosystem overall in Padang City (31.78 ha). These areas have been overgrown by Thalassia hemprichii with coverage >50 – 75 % in Nirwana beach, 25 – 50 % in Cindakir beach and Pasumpahan Island. The suitable areas for seagrass ecotourism were found on the beach of Nirwana (covers 84% as very suitable), Cindakir beach (covers 73 % as moderately suitable) and Pasumpahan island (covers 78 % as moderately suitable). We found that activities of local communities decreased the suitability of Cindakir beach and Pasumpahan island because these activities increase the abundance of mud in the substrate of waters.

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