scholarly journals Putting local communities in the driving seat of residential urban development processes: a study in Cairo, Egypt

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Galal Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Development Processes

Sustainable Urban Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Suharto Teriman ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Severine Mayere
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Planning Development

Sustainable development has long been promoted as the best answer to the world’s environmental problems. This term has generated mass appeal as it implies that both the development of the built environment and its associated resource consumption can be achieved without jeopardising the natural environment. In the urban context, sustainability issues have been reflected in the promotion of sustainable urban development, which emphasises the sensible exploitation of scarce natural resources for urbanisation in a manner that allows future generations to repeat the process. This chapter highlights attempts to promote sustainable urban development through an integration of three important considerations: planning, development and the ecosystem. It highlights the fact that spatial planning processes were traditionally driven by economic and social objectives, and rarely involved promoting the sustainability agenda to achieve a sustainable urban future. As a result, rapid urbanisation has created a variety of pressures on the ecosystem upon which we rely. It is believed that the integration of the urban planning and development processes within the limitations of the ecosystem, monitored by a sustainability assessment mechanism, would offer a better approach to maintaining sustainable resource use without compromising urban development.

Local Communities and Capability Evolution: The Core of Human Development Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Biggeri ◽  
Andrea Ferrannini ◽  
Caterina Arciprete
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Processes

scholarly journals CHANGING PERIPHERY OF THE BALTIC CITIES: LITHUANIAN CASE

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matas Cirtautas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Baltic

Urban sprawl is one of the dominant types of urban development in the world. Although outer growth started from the outset of cities, urban researchers, planners and policy makers are highly concerned about its current extent. Recent development of the Baltic cities and especially trends of their suburban growth have been analysed only partly, because of the relative novelty of the phenomenon and well-established dominance of western cities in the field. This paper attempts to fill this gap and presents a research on conditions and consequences of extensive development of Lithuanian cities. Evidences from the recent growth of the Baltic cities show that decline and sprawl take place simultaneously in major urban regions with possible long-term consequences on their spatial structure. Therefore, this article advocates a need to revise urban policy in the Baltic countries and promote coordinated development of urban and suburban areas in the context of prevailing negative demographic trends and limited capacity of central and local governments to interfere in urban development processes.

scholarly journals DINÁMICAS DE URBANIZACIÓN TURÍSTICA EN EL LITORAL DE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Lorena Soledad Beier ◽  
Salvador Antón Clavé ◽  
Hernán Pedro Vigier
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
The Impact

El objetivo del presente trabajo es discutir el papel y el alcance del turismo en los procesos de urbanización del litoral en Argentina y, por extensión, en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se identifican grupos de ciudades según su dinámica turística de acuerdo a los cambios y continuidades demográficas y económicas que han experimentado durante el periodo 2001 - 2010. Los resultados obtenidos permiten entender de manera contextualizada la naturaleza y funcionalidad turística y urbana de las diferentes ciudades del litoral de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Así, se han identificado seis grupos de ciudades según los procesos de cambio que ha provocado en ellas el turismo y se ha evidenciado la diversidad, complejidad y dinamismo que presenta cada tipo de conglomerado según sus características particulares. Todo ello ha permitido visualizar la diversidad de destinos que existen en el litoral de la provincia según su situación urbana particular y su evolución turística reciente. Por último, se ofrecen evidencias empíricas que respaldan la concepción que el turismo no solamente tiene efectos diferenciales en los procesos de urbanización, sino que, en función de las circunstancias locales, genera dinámicas específicas que deben explicarse a partir del conocimiento de la realidad económica y la identidad de cada lugar. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role and the impact of tourism in Argentina´s and thus Latin America´s coastal urban development processes. Hence, groups of cities with different tourism dynamics are identified according to their demographic and economic changes and continuities during the period 2001-2010. The results allow us to understand in a contextualized way the nature and tourist and urban functionality of the different cities in the littoral of Buenos Aires. Thus, six groups of cities have been identified according to the processes of change that tourism has caused in them and the diversity, complexity and dynamism that each type of cluster presents according to its particular characteristics has been evidenced. All this has allowed to visualize the diversity of destinations that exist in the littoral of the province according to its particular urban situation and its recent tourist evolution. Finally, empirical evidence is offered that supports the conception that tourism not only has differential effects on urbanization processes, but especially taking into account local circumstances, generates specific dynamics at the local level that must be explained from the knowledge of the economic reality and the identity of each place.

scholarly journals Low carbon urban development in Serbia: Challenges and opportunities on the local level

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Milica Bajic-Brkovic ◽  
Visnja Sretovic ◽  
Matija Brkovic
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Legal Constraints

Development of low carbon urban environment stands among the highest priorities countries, cities and regions are faced with. Despite all the efforts, initiatives and concrete actions taken on the international, regional and national level, many countries experience very low or almost insignificant change on a local level. The situation in Serbia resembles these widely recognized dynamics. While on one hand, the responsible ministries and governmental bodies in Serbia have made a visible progress in meeting the challenge of developing low carbon environment over the past decade, it is a fact that actions on a local level aimed at redirecting the current trends and introducing a more responsible development into their cities and towns are very rare and rather sporadically taken. This paper focuses on a local level, and is concerned with the specific challenges and opportunities recognized there. The medium and small towns in Serbia are of primary interest, since their potential for change is least developed and recognized. The paper explores the challenges they deal with, namely, the perceptive, institutional, and legal constraints and goes on to investigate how these constraints could be overcome, or reduced. On the other hand, there are some opportunities that local communities have on hand. The paper takes to the light their strengths, and presents how they could be integrated into the development processes, and employed in order to further empower local communities in making their towns and places more carbon sensitive.

scholarly journals Consultants as intermediaries: Their perceptions on citizen involvement in urban development

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
EW Stapper ◽  
M Van der Veen ◽  
LB Janssen-Jansen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Insight Into

Planning consultants are increasingly hired to organize citizen participation processes for urban development projects. However, the ways in which planning consultants engage in and perceive the involvement of citizens in urban development projects remain relatively understudied. This article opens the black box of consultancy employees’ perceptions toward citizens in urban development processes. Employees from two consultancy firms in the Netherlands were interviewed, and several focus groups were organized. This research shows that consultants have wide-ranging views concerning the ways of incorporating citizens’ interests in urban development projects. With the use of Q-methodology, a typology of how consultants engage with citizens is proposed. Furthermore, we show that the different perceptions of consultants lead to a different approach in identifying the needs and problems of citizens. This finding gives insight into the context in which decisions about urban development are made.

scholarly journals The Use of Big Data in Regenerative Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska ◽  
Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Regenerative Approach ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Regenerative Development ◽  
Regenerative Design ◽  
Development Paradigm

With the increasing significance of Big Data sources and their reliability for studying current urban development processes, new possibilities have appeared for analyzing the urban planning of contemporary cities. At the same time, the new urban development paradigm related to regenerative sustainability requires a new approach and hence a better understanding of the processes changing cities today, which will allow more efficient solutions to be designed and implemented. It results in the need to search for tools which will allow more advanced analyses while assessing the planning projects supporting regenerative development. Therefore, in this paper, the authors study the role of Big Data retrieved from sensor systems, social media, GPS, institutional data, or customer and transaction records. The study includes an enquiry into how Big Data relates to the ecosystem and to human activities, in supporting the development of regenerative human settlements. The aim of the study is to assess the possibilities created by Big Data-based tools in supporting regenerative design and planning and the role they can play in urban projects. In order to do this, frameworks allowing for the assessment of planning projects were analyzed according to their potential to support a regenerative approach. This has been followed by an analysis of the accessibility and reliability of the data sources. Finally, Big Data-based projects were mapped upon aspects of regenerative planning according to the introduced framework.

Sustainable Urban Development

2018 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Nicola Boccella ◽  
Irene Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
The City

The concept of participation in sustainable urban development practices is actually more and more popular in Europe and all over the world. In parallel, there is a rapid growth of urban design and planning projects including local communities in urban development planning activities. According to such concepts, this chapter, starting from the description of the results of field and desk researches carried out by ‘La Sapienza' University of Rome and related to communities involvement strategies currently available in Europe, describes and analyses a case study based on a concrete application of theoretical and methodological approaches, and two more cases of possible application of an integrated methodology. All the projects described concern the city of Rome.

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