The role of smart parking in achieving the urban sustainability of Mosul city

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maha Akram ◽  
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Mayasa Aloobaidi ◽  
Luma Mohamed ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Smart Parking ◽  
The City

The technological and digital developments witnessed in the twenty-first century have affected the components of cities, including the transport sector, as it represents an important factor and influences the development of social life.It is also the most important engine for progress and achieving urban sustainability with its environmental and economic indicators. many studies, especially in developing cities , including Mosul, and many studies have tended to find smart and innovative solutions to avoid and address this problem within the concept of sustainability, hence the importance of paper in the role of smart parks as one of these solutions to the problem of crowding Traffic and in accordance with the concepts of sustainability and urban , the paper approach adopteds analytical patterns of parks and smart access to study applied by selecting the appropriate style and apply it to the city of Mosul to achieve urban sustainability and contributes to the improvement of the urban image of the city according to sustainability indicators.

scholarly journals Lost in Transition? Directions for an Economic Geography of Urban Sustainability Transitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Fastenrath ◽  
Boris Braun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The City

Socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption are receiving increasing attention in the academic world and also from political and economic decision-makers. There is increasing demand for resource-efficient technologies and institutional innovations, particularly at the city level. However, it is widely unclear how processes of change evolve and develop and how they are embedded in different socio-spatial contexts. While numerous scholars have contributed to the vibrant research field around sustainability transitions, the geographical expertise largely has been ignored. The lack of knowledge about the role of spatial contexts, learning processes, and the co-evolution of technological, economical, and socio-political processes has been prominently addressed. Bridging approaches from Transition Studies and perspectives of Economic Geography, the paper presents conceptual ideas for an evolutionary and relational understanding of urban sustainability transitions. The paper introduces new perspectives on sustainability transitions towards a better understanding of socio-spatial contexts.

How ‘Democratic’ Was the Pauline Ekklēsia? An Assessment with Special Reference to the Christ Groups of Roman Corinth

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Welborn
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
First Century ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
House Churches ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
New Research ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
The City

Several recent studies have argued for the importance of democratic practices and ideology for a proper understanding of the issues and debates reflected in Paul's Corinthian correspondence. This new perspective stands in tension with older scholarship which emphasised the role of patronage in the structure and dynamics of the house churches that made up the ekklēsia of Christ-believers at Corinth. This essay draws upon new research into the political sociology of Greek cities in the early Empire, which highlights evidence of the continuing vitality of democratic assemblies (ekklēsiai) in the first and second centuries, despite the limitations imposed upon local autonomy by Roman rule. Special attention is devoted to the epigraphic evidence of first-century Corinth, whose political institutions and social relations were those of a Roman colony. The essay seeks to ascertain whether the politics of the Christ groups mimicked those of the city in which they were located or represented an alternative.

scholarly journals Measuring Progress toward Urban Sustainability: Do Global Measures Work for Arctic Cities?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Berman ◽  
Robert W. Orttung
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

The International Organization for Standardization recently responded to a growing global interest in cities by developing an index for measuring urban sustainability (ISO 37120). We address how well this standard applies to Arctic cities, and potential modifications that might improve its performance. After briefly discussing the goals of sustainability indicators, we examine the extent to which Arctic cities’ remote location, cold and changing climate, and thin, largely resource-based economies may create different sustainability challenges. We then critically examine the content of ISO 37120 and the context in which it was created. We place the index within a broader discussion of urban sustainability indicators and examine the extent to which it really addresses sustainability. We then analyze how well the ISO 37120 accounts for the characteristic features of Arctic cities that produce unique sustainability challenges. Our findings show that only half of ISO 37120′s 128 indicators actually measure future-oriented concerns. We suggest that, while the ISO 37120 may be a useful starting point in quantifying Arctic urban sustainability, the index should only be used as a foundation for a more in-depth analysis. To better represent Arctic cities, the ISO 37120 would need to include indicators that situate cities within their regional contexts, addressing both remoteness and the underlying basis of the Arctic city economy. The index should also measure the role of Indigenous populations, and chart the extent to which cities are working to increase levels of sustainability.

scholarly journals A Framework for Measuring Urban Sustainability in an Emerging Region: The City of Duhok as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5402
Author(s):  
Azad Hassan ◽  
Zeenat Kotval-K
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

The City of Duhok in Iraq, as one of the Kurdistan Region’s (KR) main cities, is concerned about sustainability but lacks the measures to guide urban policies. This study bridges this gap and offers an example of the use of urban sustainability indicators in an emerging region that experiences rapid urbanization and growth. The substantial objective of this study was to develop a functional framework of indicators to assess and measure urban sustainability for the city after KR’s declaration of autonomy in 1991 until 2010. That is, we limited our investigation to examining previous research, which decisively contains the approach to “measuring urban sustainability”. The study followed a three-step approach to examine urban sustainability as an integration of a few other relevant studies. The study concluded with two facts: First, the lack of progress on urban sustainability in the first decades resulted from the destabilized era that left the city administratively fragmented. Second, the political and economic watershed led to steady progress towards urban sustainability post-2005. The study highlights nine urban sustainability indicators, from a total of 39 indicators, that played an important role in navigating the general trend of urban sustainability in the city and how they can be used to promote future sustainable practices.

The Restaurant

Migrant City ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 225-253
Author(s):  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
First Century ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
East End ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Vast Range

This chapter explains how migrants have impacted the eating habits of all sections of the population in both social and geographical terms. While the evolution of modern London remains inconceivable without the role of migrants, the chapter shows that they may have had a more profound impact upon eating out than any other aspect of the history of the city. In the first place they have opened and staffed some of the most famous restaurants in the world. But this only tells one side of the story because settlers from Europe and beyond have, at the other end of the scale, also opened up establishments which serve up the dishes that characterize mass consumption, from the first fish and chip shops in the East End to the Chinese and Indian restaurants of the post-war period and the vast range of foreign food establishments which exist in the global capital of the twenty-first century. While, on the one hand, these restaurants cater for the ethnic majority, which increasingly became a vanishing concept, many migrants have also opened up restaurants for their countrymen as such establishments form a key part of local ethnic economies.

scholarly journals Displaying and Celebrating the "Other": A Study of the Mission, Scope, and Roles of Ethnic Museums in Los Angeles

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris ◽  
Carl Grodach
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

In the last thirty years, ethnic museums have mushroomed in American cities. Although this is certainly a national phenomenon, it has been particularly evident in Los Angeles. In this paper we examine the genesis and evolution of these emerging institutions. We survey the mission, scope, and role of ethnic museums in Los Angeles, and we contrast them with the stated mission and scope of "mainstream" museums in the city. We further present case studies of three Los Angeles ethnic museums. The museums vary considerably in the ways they perceive their role in the community, the city, and the nation and in the preservation and display of ethnic culture. At their best, ethnic museums serve to make new art and histories more accessible and visible and provide a forum in which to debate contemporary issues of politics and identity. The paper highlights some of the tensions faced by ethnic museums as they seek to define their audience and role(s) in multi-ethnic, twenty-first century Los Angeles.

Varieties of green: On aesthetic contestations over urban sustainability pathways in a Copenhagen community garden

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862090280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Laage-Thomsen ◽  
Anders Blok
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
The City

Alongside kindred civic-driven and place-based urban greening initiatives, studies document an upsurge over the last decade in urban gardening and alternative food initiatives across a range of Euro-American settings. Meanwhile, historical and cultural inquiries into urban design, planning and politics suggest that the place and role of ‘nature’ in the city is now undergoing significant shifts. In this article, we deploy a case study of a civic-driven permaculture garden in Copenhagen in order to suggest a novel analytical grid of the imaginative and material domain of public aesthetic norms shaping current-day tensions over interventions in and valuations of the fabric of multiform green-spaces in the city. Reading across existing literatures, we model this domain along two structuring axes – of ‘orderliness’ versus ‘wildness’ and ‘pastoral nature’ versus city-nature ‘imbrication’ – and illustrate the usefulness of the resulting grid for making sense of internal debates and external criticisms in the Copenhagen permaculture gardening case. By assisting us in explaining how and why this garden struggled to carve out a legitimate space in a city otherwise committed to urban nature, we argue that attention to variable urban-green aesthetic commitments helps recast questions of urban sustainability politics in important ways.

scholarly journals Enhancing Urban Sustainable Indicators in a German City—Towards Human-Centered Measurements for Sustainable Urban Planning

World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Caroline Kramer ◽  
Madeleine Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Indicator Approach ◽  
City District ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Indicators

This contribution demonstrates how more human-centered measurements for sustainable urban planning can be created by enlarging the traditional set of urban sustainability indicators. In many municipal reports, sustainable indicators concentrate on environmental issues, by collecting data at an aggregated spatial and temporal level using quantitative methods. Our approach aims to expand and improve the currently dominant quantitative–statistical methods by including perception geographical data (subjective indicators following the social indicator approach), namely additional indicators at spatial and temporal levels. Including small-scale city district levels and a temporal differentiation produces more process assessments and a better representation of everyday life. Based on a survey we conducted at district levels in the city of Karlsruhe, we cover three sustainability dimensions (ecological, social, economic) and analyze (1) how citizens are mobile in a sustainable way (bike use) and (2) how they perceive and react to heat events in the city. We argue for taking people’s perception and the spatiality and temporality of their daily activities better into account when further developing urban sustainability indicators and when aiming for a sustainable, human-centered urban development.

scholarly journals The Role of Stakeholders in the City Branding Policy “Madiun Karismatik” Madiun City Government

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
Bagus Wiyono ◽  
Andre Rahmanto ◽  
Prahasitiwi Utari
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
City Region ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Internal Stakeholders ◽  
The City

Conducting branding is now increasingly needed in government management. The main purpose of city branding is to bring out the regional identity and place a certain positioning of the area in order to compete with other regions. For a city branding strategy to be successful, it must involve various stakeholders in the city / region. City stakeholders are defined through the ABCGM concept, namely Academics, Business Sector, Communities, Government, and Media. Madiun City as one of the developing cities in the western part of East Java Province also develops city branding as a way to increase regional competitiveness in front of other regions. Madiun Charismatic was chosen to be the tagline for the city branding of Madiun. This study aims to determine the role of internal stakeholders of Madiun city in implementing the city branding strategy of Madiun City. The research method used is a case study method and uses data collection techniques through interviews, observation, and document searches. The results showed that the internal stakeholders of the city of Madiun have different roles in supporting this city branding policy. The involvement of the five internal stakeholders of the city of Madiun in this city branding program also complements one stakeholder with another so that it has a positive effect on the development of the city of Madiun.

scholarly journals PHYTODESIGN AS A MEAN OF GREENING AND A DETAILED OF THE SUBJECT-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
O. Oleshko ◽  
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Yu. Petrovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Area ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
The City

This study sheds light on the concept of phytodesign and its tasks, outlines its main functions, as well as the role of landscape design in the formation of the subject environment. The modern trends in landscaping of urban areas, the main directions and means of landscaping are revealed, in particular the function of plants in the city environment. In view of the increasing population density, the increase in the number of vehicles, there is a constant search for innovative solutions in the organization of urban greening. Phytodesign has long gone beyond the premises and is actively penetrating the streets of the city, complementing small architectural forms, street furniture, fences and elements of city infrastructure. The role of landscaping, as a systemof conservation, extension and improvement of plantations in cities and villages, is becoming increasingly important, especially in the area of sanitation. Specialists of various profiles work in this direction: ecologists, botanists, chemists, physicians, landscape designers, agronomists and many others, offering innovative solutions for technologies of both plant cultivation and space management. In view of the increasing population density, the increase in the number of vehicles, there is a constant search for innovative solutions in the organization of urban greening. The work of a modern designer with plants in general is manifested in several directions: landscape design, green construction, phytodesign. If landscape design and green construction are large-scaled and sometimes dominate the formation of the spatial environment of a city or a separate local area,then the phytodesign is less extensive and complements the elements of the spatial environment. Today, researchers are increasingly focusing onthe aesthetic properties of phytodesign. It becomes an element of the general concept of creating a new natural and anthropogenic environment with the most comfortable living conditions; energy source for bioclimatization and greening of indoor and outdoor environments.An important factor affecting the mental comfort of the urban resident is the level of quality of the environment -a sufficient level of landscaping a favorable ecological state, maintaining human connection with nature. As a result of urbanization, human beings have become contaminated in the local environment, therefore urgent measures are needed to restore the quality of the air environment based on the natural mechanisms of ecological metabolism involving plants. Vegetation as an environment –the restorative system provides and regulates the composition of the air, the degree of its pollution, the climatic characteristics of the territories, reduces the influence of the noise factor and is a source of aesthetic recreation, which in turnensures the comfort of living in the city. Landscaping aims to increase the flow of oxygen and reduce the level of pollution of the atmosphere of the city, in addition, landscaping affects the formation of aesthetic appearance of the environment. The workof a modern designer with plants in general is manifested in several directions: landscape design, green construction, phytodesign. If landscape design and green construction are large-scaled and sometimes dominate the formation of the spatial environmentof a city or a separate local area, then the phytodesign is less extensive and complements the elements of the spatial environment. Once phytodesign was exclusively for the interior, nowadays its active appearance in the urban environment is absolutely normal in both public spaces and in addition to small architectural forms, street furniture, fences, infrastructure and protective structures.

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