Comparing the Politics of Urban Development in American and Canadian Cities: The Myth of the North-South Divide

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Aaron A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
The North

The North American Shelter Business, 1860–1920: A Study of a Canadian Real Estate and Property Management Agency

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Doucet ◽  
John Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
North American ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The North ◽  
The Everyday

In this article, Professors Doucet and Weaver examine the North American shelter business between 1860 and 1920. Drawing upon the business records of the Hamilton, Ontario, real estate firm of Moore and Davis, they analyze the construction, ownership, and management of the North American shelter staple—the single-family detached dwelling. Since these activities had significant effects on the everyday lives of urban dwellers, they reveal significant social as well as business patterns. Doucet and Weaver conclude that this firm, and by implication the industry as a whole, preferred the prudent and routine to the innovative and daring, suggesting, in contrast to the work of recent scholars, that continuity rather than change typified urban development during these decades.

Planning of areas in the vicinity of large industrial plants

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Tomasz Bajwoluk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
Planning Space ◽  
Visual Reception

Planning space around large industrial plants affects urban development and significantly impacts the integration of industrial areas with a city’s structure. Large industrial plants act as functional and spatial barriers within the urban fabric. Their immediate areas undergo transformation and are currently becoming sites of various uses. New manufacturing technologies limit the nuisance caused by industry and the siting of plants aids in using the areas around them. The objective of this paper is t present an analysis of the transformation of the existing function-spatial structure, transport layout and compositional relations in the vicinity of selected large industrial plants in Kraków and Skawina. The study covered areas around the north-eastern territory of the Metallurgy Plant in Kraków and selected industrial plants in Skawina. This study was based on original analyses of the existing functio-spatial structure, compositional relationships and transport accessibility. The form of development of areas adjacent to large industrial plants was found to be a product of local determinants. Compositional relationships and functional linkages affected the quality of the space and its visual reception, which in many cases is a natural urban development reserve. Due to the specificity of industrial areas, concentrations of vehicular traffic and dominance within space, it may prove interesting to develop a dedicated form of development for areas near large industrial plants. This form would have to shield against possible nuisances while also offering the potential for a new, attractive and diverse functio-spatial structure. The transformation of and the problems present in these areas are distinctive of many cities in Poland and around the world and require new, cohesive planning principles.

scholarly journals The BBC, the Creative Class, and Neoliberal Urbanism in the North of England

10.1068/a4030 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 2313-2329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Christophers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
International Research ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The North ◽  
Neoliberal Urbanism ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Agendas ◽  
Economics And Politics

The author examines the BBC's plans to move some of its key activities to Salford in the northwest of England. He develops a critique not so much of the plan to move, but of the specific proposals for that move (particularly as advanced by local parties in Salford) and of the economic-geographical claims assembled around them. To make these arguments, the author first identifies parallels between the proposals and Richard Florida's ‘creative class’ formulations. He then draws on a range of critiques of the ‘creative class’ concept to contest the substance of the BBC-Salford plan—which, he argues, reproduces an entrenched neoliberal urban development agenda—and to question the premise that the move will create regional economic value more broadly. Framed against international research into creativity-led development agendas which has typically privileged metropolitan or regional actors, the author argues that, ultimately, the BBC's proposals, while locally situated, are tightly bound up with national economics and politics.

Becoming “Boystown” in Neoliberal Chicago

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex G. Papadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
The North ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City ◽  
Financial Regulatory

The chapter studies the circumstances under which, Boystown, Chicago’s iconic LGBT community/village, emerged in the 1960s, as well as the changing urban forms and structures that have defined it. It situates the Boystown phenomenon within broader urban development events in Chicago in the post WWII era, and explores linkages between local change and urban and financial regulatory frames at the city, regional, state, and national scales. The study focuses on the geographic core of Boystown, which is identified as the North Halsted Street-Broadway Corridor. It traces urban morphological change in the Corridor (its town plan of lots, blocks, streets, and open spaces, built forms, and building- and land-uses), as a means of illuminating the causes, agents, and structural forces that have produced Boystown.

scholarly journals Kastamonu Karaçomak Havzasının Kentsel Gelişim Alanlarında Yeraltı Suyu Beslenimi Açısından Ekolojik Etki Değerlendirme

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Nuriye Ebru Yıldız ◽  
Şükran Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Water Retention Capacity ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Retention Capacity ◽  
The North ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Development Area ◽  
Priority Action

The aim of the study was to evaluate the ecological impact of groundwater recharging in the urban development area in the north of Kastamonu city. In this respect, the urban development area was examined in terms of water permeability, which is one of the functions of the landscape, and the ecological impact assessment was carried out in order to determine the level of change in groundwater recharging and land cover before and after urban development. With the methods used within the scope of the study, negative changes in groundwater and water retention capacity can be revealed as a result of other interventions on urbanization and landscape. On the other hand, it is important that landscape plans, where the ecological processes expressed as landscape function, including groundwater recharging and surface runoff potential, are considered as the priority action area of the multi-layered spatial planning process, rather than the investigation of the mentioned negativities after planning and/or implementation.

scholarly journals Refractions of the National,the Popular and the Global in African Cities

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
African Countries ◽  
African Cities ◽  
The North

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities. Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication.

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