Modern Industrial Cities. Bruce M. Stave, editor; Optimization in Locational and Transport Analysis. Alan G. Wilson, Jose D. Coelho, Sally M. Macgill, and Huw C. W. L. Williams; Land Use in America. Richard H. Jackson; Urban Development in Modern China. Laurence J. C. Ma and Edward W. Hanten, editors; China: Urbanization and National Development. C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, editors; Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco. Janet L. Abu-Lughod; The City in West Europe. D. Burtenshaw, M. Bateman, and G. J. Ashworth

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Risa M. Palm ◽  
Robert G. Cromley ◽  
James S. Fisher ◽  
Sen-dou Chang ◽  
Laurence J. C. Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Transport Analysis ◽  
The City

Optimal Land Use Analysis Using Lindenmayer Grammars

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Urszula Żukowska ◽  
Grażyna Kalewska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
L System ◽  
L Systems ◽  
The City

In today's world, when it is so important to use every piece of land for a particular purpose, both economically and ecologically, identifying optimal land use is a key issue. For this reason, an analysis of the optimal land use in a section of the city of Olsztyn, using the L-system Urban Development computer program, was chosen as the aim of this paper. The program uses the theories of L-systems and the cartographic method to obtain results in the form of sequences of productions or maps. For this reason, the first chapters outline both theories, i.e. the cartographic method to identify optimal land use and Lindenmayer grammars (called L-systems). An analysis based on a fragment of the map of Olsztyn was then carried out. Two functions were selected for the analysis: agricultural and forest-industrial. The results are presented as maps and sequences in individual steps.

scholarly journals Sustainable urban development through an application of green infrastructure in district scale – a case study of Wrocław (Poland)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyna Surma
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Engineering Application ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Urban District ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods

Abstract The main goal of this article is to investigate sustainable urban development of the Central European city (Wrocław/Poland) through an environmental engineering application of SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) measures to managing stormwater in city sections with various land use in the same watershed area (the Ślęża River Valley). The author presents a study made in three different parts of the city (single housing district – Oporów, multihousing district – Nowy Dwór, public service district – Stadion), which were constructed in different historical periods. The analyses were supported by city masterplan, GIS software (Quantum GIS 1.7.4) and calculations made according to up-to-date specific regulations. They demonstrate the current sustainable stormwater management scenarios for areas of different land use, historical periods and function in the city. The proposed research method aims to compare sustainable urban development of the new urban district with the quarters, which had been built before the term “sustainability” became common in water and land development practice. The conducted study can be practically used as a supportive tool for urban planning authorities in Poland. The paper investigates a novel in the Polish realities method of assessment sustainability of the area through green infrastructure application in district scale.

scholarly journals Territorial dynamics and boundary effects in a protected area of the Central Iberian Peninsula

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Heras ◽  
Paloma Fernández-Sañudo ◽  
Nieves López-Estébanez ◽  
María Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Boundary Effect ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Mountain Landscape ◽  
New Crops ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
The City

AbstractWe analysed the main changes in land use over a 21 year period within the perimeter of a Protected Natural Area (PNA) and outside this perimeter. The area is characterised by its Mediterranean mid-mountain landscape and its piedmont, which extends almost as far as the city of Madrid. We employed cartography of land use and plant formation from 1980 and 2001. We identified land uses and their changes in this time period in order to determine the principal territorial dynamics (scrub encroachment, urban development, forest encroachment, new pastures and new crops). Subsequently, we performed a comparative analysis between the changes inside and those outside the protected area. The results show that there is a boundary effect between the protected area and the surrounding zone, which is more notable in the areas where urban development has intensified. This kind of research serves to establish whether or not a PNA contributes to protecting and conserving natural resources as compared to what occurs in the unprotected surrounding area, which tends to be subjected to more aggressive dynamics.

scholarly journals Comprehensive environmental evaluation of an urbanized territory (using the example of Zavodoukovsk city, Russia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 02114
Author(s):  
Marina Podkovyrova ◽  
Olga Volobueva ◽  
Larisa Gilyova
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Urbanized Territory ◽  
The City

The article presents the technique and the result of a comprehensive evaluation of urban land use, ensuring the receipt of complete and reliable information about the urban development, socio-economic and environmental conditions of urban land resources that allows forming the maximum possible sustainable development of the city for the future.

scholarly journals Legal regulation of land granting for construction in cities with federal status

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Voskresenskaya ◽  
Nikolay Zhilskiy ◽  
Emma Shariapova
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The City

The article considers special aspects of the provision of land parcels for construction, which are determined by constitutional and legal status of the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol. A number of objective circumstances determine the uniqueness of the legal status of cities of federal status. The land and urban planning legislation comprises the basis for the legal regulation of the provision of land for construction. The authors have educed the need to update the general plans of the city of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, which is caused by the expansion of borders by means of the surrounding areas. In the cities with federal status, there are legal problems associated with the lack of land use and development of recommendations or rules. The lack of coherence in planning and implementation of urban development in the cities and the adjoining subjects of the Russian Federation - the Moscow and Leningrad regions – is an urgent problem in the development of cities with federal status.

scholarly journals GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY BASED SOIL LOSS ESTIMATION FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF BUTWAL SUBMETROPOLITAN CITY, NEPAL

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B3-2020 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
U. K. Mandal ◽  
K. Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The City ◽  
Soil Unit

Abstract. Geo-spatial technology was attempted to estimate the potential and actual soil loss and its correlative interpretation with physiographic soil units and land use and cover types in Butwal sub-metropolitan city, Central Region of Nepal. Among several empirical and physically based soil erosion models, widely used RKLS and RKLSCP, Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) were employed to estimate the potential and actual soil loss in the present investigation, respectively. Five years of rainfall, topographic contour-spot height and soil map were basically used as source of information for in-depth investigation. Butwal sub-metropolitan located at foothill of Chure/Siwalik range was found highly sensitive or prone to soil erosion. A total of 32.68 and 1.83 million tons soil was potentially and actually estimated annually being lost from the city. Erosion rates were found highly correlated with the slope of physiographic soil unit. 60.93% of the total potential soil loss was mainly contributed only by physiographic-soil unit 12 with the spatial extent of 34.10% of the city area. This unit was characterized by steeply to very steeply sloping mountainous terrain having dominant slope greater than 30° and loamy skeletal as dominant soil texture. Significant difference was found in the estimation of RKLS and RKLSCP indicating the substantial reduction contribution of soil loss by land use/cover types predominated by forest. after agriculture. Thus physiographic-soil unit 12 having soil loss highest must be given higher priorities for soil conservation and optimum urban land use planning required for sustainable urban development. Lower percentage of actual soil to the potential loss indicated the fact of contribution of cover management and erosional control practice factor in reducing soil erosion in existing situation.

COMPLAINING ABOUT LIVED SPACES: RESPONSES TO THE URBAN LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF NORTHERN SONG KAIFENG

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lik Hang Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
Northern Song ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Lived Spaces ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article explores the understudied issue of urban problems in pre-modern China and examines the responses to the negative impact of urban development on life in the populous city of Kaifeng in the Northern Song (960–1127). Although writers, painters, and historians have portrayed the capital city's splendor for centuries, various urban problems emerged as medieval China became a more urbanized society. This article investigates Ouyang Xiu's (1007–1072) accounts of how extreme weather conditions adversely affected the lives of Kaifeng residents. These experiences, which he discussed in letters and poems, are associated with longer trends that result in climatic anomalies and disasters in the city. Ouyang Xiu also complained about living costs and medical services in Kaifeng. These reflect the difficulties in maintaining good urban provisions and services in a city of this scale.

scholarly journals Do Administrative Incentives for the Containment of Cities Work? An Analysis of the Accelerated Procedure for Binding Land-Use Plans for Inner Urban Development in Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Dillmann ◽  
Volker Beckmann
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Contaminated Sites ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
German Government ◽  
Development Section ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

In order to reduce land conversion for settlement and traffic purposes, the German government introduced in 2002 the 30 ha per day objective and since then established a number of policies and projects in order to achieve this goal in 2030. On 1 January 2007, an amendment of the Federal Building Code came into force, which introduced an accelerated procedure for binding land-use plans for inner urban development (section 13a). The aim of this amendment was to simplify and accelerate the planning law for projects to support inner urban development. This paper seeks to answer the question of whether or not the accelerated procedure contributes to increased inner urban development by providing incentives for the reuse of vacant developed land, which are often contaminated sites. Based on the example of the city of Stralsund in the rural region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, we explore the quantitative land development in the inner and outer area from 1990 to 2018 and calculate costs savings for developers and public authorities. The results reveal that, although the accelerated procedure has been widely applied in the city of Stralsund since 2007, its effect on increased inner urban development has been very limited. The magnitude of the cost advantage is rather small, so that the accelerated procedure is often not regarded as decisive for the decision of inner versus outer development. The accelerated procedure has reduced the administrative burden for developers and public administration; however, in order to reach the 30 ha per day objective, more tailored policy instruments are needed.

scholarly journals Assessing Urban Land use Change in New Braunfels, Texas from 2013 to 2020

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayowa Lasode ◽  
Ikechukwu Esobi ◽  
Chijioke Anyanwu ◽  
Damilola Lasode
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The City

Urban cities are the major drivers of economic growth and development. Economic growth and development however results in considerable land cover land use dynamics. This study assessed the dynamics in land cover land use that have occurred in New Braunfels, Texas in the last 7 years (2013 - 2020) to observe areas in the city that had experienced considerable shifts in land cover and land use. A 30-meter resolution Landsat images were used to examine possible changes in land cover land use. New Braunfels was observed to have experienced significant changes in land use especially in developed areas. This change can be attributed to the influx of people into the city, contributing to the need for increased urban development. Analysis of this study shows that about 16% (about 553 hectares) of forest land cover class and 28% (about 1,139 hectares) of grassland class in time 1 (August 31, 2013) changed to built-up land use class in time 2 (November 5, 2020). A limitation to this study was that of the spatial resolution of images used. Higher spatial resolution images could impact the producers, users, and overall accuracy assessment. Results from this study can aid in supporting better decision-making for sustainable urban development and climate change mitigation.

scholarly journals Performance, poverty and urban development: Kigali’s motari and the spectacle city

Afrika Focus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
William Rollason
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
National Development ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City

In this paper I explore tensions and conflicts over poverty reduction and urban development in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital in terms of theories of performativity. On one hand, motorcycle taxis offer large numbers of young men good livelihoods – reflecting the government of Rwanda’s stated commitment to poverty reduction, especially amongst youth; on the other, motorcycle taxi drivers suffer harassment at the hands of city authorities and police, who are keen to eradicate motorcycle taxis from the urban scene altogether. I interpret this tension as a conflict over the appropriate performance of development in the city; I argue that in pursuit of urban development, the city itself becomes an image, projected in order to attract the investment which will give body to the simulated spectacle that Kigali present. Conflicts between the city and motorcycle taxi drivers erupt because motorcycle taxis cannot perform to the aesthetic standards of the new Kigali. In conclusion, I suggest that the rendition of Kigali’s development as image has broader lessons for studies of development in general. Specifically, these conflicts expose the operation of images and their performance as political resources, conferring intelligibility and legitimacy in the spectacle of national development.

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