scholarly journals Evaluating The Conversion Of Employment Areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The City

Toronto is a thriving city where growth is occurring amid challenges of affordability and lack of space. Tensions are arising as the result of competing interests and are evidenced in the struggle of competing land uses. In fact, employment areas in former industrial districts are becoming increasingly threatened by this relentless growth. Many developers find these areas attractive for mixed use developments; however, the City of Toronto is making efforts to protect them from these uses to keep them exclusively for economic and business activity. This paper proposes a guideline to evaluate conversion proposals. It draws from relevant literature and similar cases to assess through a questionnaire approach the worthiness of future proposals for conversion. The intention is that any member of a community can reach a conclusion based on his or her answers to the guideline.

scholarly journals Evaluating The Conversion Of Employment Areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The City

Toronto is a thriving city where growth is occurring amid challenges of affordability and lack of space. Tensions are arising as the result of competing interests and are evidenced in the struggle of competing land uses. In fact, employment areas in former industrial districts are becoming increasingly threatened by this relentless growth. Many developers find these areas attractive for mixed use developments; however, the City of Toronto is making efforts to protect them from these uses to keep them exclusively for economic and business activity. This paper proposes a guideline to evaluate conversion proposals. It draws from relevant literature and similar cases to assess through a questionnaire approach the worthiness of future proposals for conversion. The intention is that any member of a community can reach a conclusion based on his or her answers to the guideline.

scholarly journals Conflicts in mixed use neighbourhoods : case study : King-Spadina

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhani Sharan Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
The Public ◽  
Residential Population ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The City

This research paper focuses on the phenomenon of mixed use neighbourhoods, specifically in the case of the King-Spadina neighbourhood located in the City of Toronto. This paper will examine the benefits of mixed use neighbourhoods and the issues that arise when two or more incompatible land uses are located within a given geographical area. The focus of this paper is on the case study area of the King-Spadina neighbourhood which is home to the [sic] Canada’s largest Entertainment District, an area which previously served as one of Toronto’s industrial cores. Since the elimination of traditional land use restrictions in the area the King-Spadina neighbourhood has seen an influx of redevelopment in both residential and commercial. This paper seeks to address the current conflicts associated with having a concentration of entertainment facilities located within a community with a residential population. Through a rigorous research process, this paper aims to address how enhancing the public realm can create a more enjoyable mixed use neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Evidencia de un cambio de uso de suelo anunciado. La ocupación mixta no prevista en las vialidades primarias. Zona metropolitana de Xalapa

UVserva ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Lilly Areli Sánchez Correa ◽  
Ma Guadalupe Noemi Uehara Guerrero ◽  
Arturo Velázquez Ruiz ◽  
Eva Acosta Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Residential Use ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

ResumenLa lectura de la ciudad a través del tiempo permite mostrar una dinámica vinculada a los intereses vocacionales de usos de suelo; destacando el cambio generado en las vialidades principales. La investigación que se realiza sobre una vialidad primaria en un fraccionamiento, muestra el registro de los cambios experimentados en ese eje vial que originariamente fue producto de un proyecto urbano con uso generalizado habitacional, evidenciando ahora la incontrolable inercia provocada por el ímpetu comercial y de servicios coexistiendo con agonizantes viviendas esporádicas subsistentes en un paisaje lineal modificado, agregándose la conflictualidad vecinal entre la lucha por la permanencia del uso habitacional y el nuevo uso comercial. Como un referente de la creación de fraccionamientos similares, se trata de demostrar el imprevisible cambio de uso de suelo para fines comerciales, por lo que se concluye en la propuesta previsora de mezcla de usos, acorde a los actuales requerimientos urbanos.Palabras clave: Cambio de uso de suelo; corredor comercial; uso mixto; vialidad primaria; residentes. AbstractObserving the city over time allows present a dynamic linked to the vocational interests of land uses; highlighting the change generated along main roads. This research carried out on a primary road in a housing development, records the changes experienced in that road that originally was the product of an urban project with exclusively residential use, showing the uncontrollable inertia caused by the commercial activities momentum coexisting with dying sporadic dwellings subsisting in a modified linear landscape, adding a conflict between neighbours for the permanence of residential use and the new commercial uses. As a benchmark for the creation of similar developments, it demonstrates the unpredictable change in land use for commercial purposes, which is why it is proposed a mix of uses, according to current urban requirements.Key words: Land use Change; Commercial Corridors; Mixed use; Primary Roads, Residents.

System of Green Resilience Eco-Oriented Land Uses in Urban Socio-Ecosystems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández ◽  
Mir Sayed Shah Danish
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
The City

This chapter analyzes the system of green resilience eco-urban land uses oriented in urban social-ecological systems. It reviews and analyses the relevant literature in green social-ecosystem resilience concepts and presents a discussion in relation to sustainable development and ecological sustainability. It further discusses and gives an in-depth overview of the urban social ecosystems as a working structural and functional unit, describes decision support tools that could be applied to sustainable green land uses and development, and offers some strategies for engaging in urban ecosystems, ecological sustainability, and adaptive development. It is concluded that urban land use through the innovative pro-environmental solutions can, in a natural way, support the system of green resilience eco-oriented urban land uses in urban eco-systems and serve to improve the quality of life in the city.

scholarly journals Conflicts in mixed use neighbourhoods : case study : King-Spadina

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhani Sharan Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
The Public ◽  
Residential Population ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The City

This research paper focuses on the phenomenon of mixed use neighbourhoods, specifically in the case of the King-Spadina neighbourhood located in the City of Toronto. This paper will examine the benefits of mixed use neighbourhoods and the issues that arise when two or more incompatible land uses are located within a given geographical area. The focus of this paper is on the case study area of the King-Spadina neighbourhood which is home to the [sic] Canada’s largest Entertainment District, an area which previously served as one of Toronto’s industrial cores. Since the elimination of traditional land use restrictions in the area the King-Spadina neighbourhood has seen an influx of redevelopment in both residential and commercial. This paper seeks to address the current conflicts associated with having a concentration of entertainment facilities located within a community with a residential population. Through a rigorous research process, this paper aims to address how enhancing the public realm can create a more enjoyable mixed use neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Analysis of Land Uses In Iraqi Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Nabil T. Ismael ◽  
Areej Muhy Abdulwahab
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Residential Use ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The City

Abstract—Land use plans in Iraqi cities are traditional and don’t seek to be sustainable and therefore could have negative impacts on the city from the environmental, economic, social and urban aspects. Consequently, the research aims to analyze the current and future of the land use for a set of Iraqi cities to reach the indicators of the gap between traditional and sustainable plans when planning for land uses.  The research conclusion is that most Iraqi cities are highly urban sprawl, both in reality and in the future expansion of the city. That is because it consumes a lot of agricultural land, cities with low population densities that are unsustainable, and most land uses are unsustainable focusing on reducing the agricultural and green lands in the city and increase residential uses (single type with very low density), and expand the areas of the streets that depend on the automated transportation more than sustainable transportation.  The research suggests that sustainable land uses in Iraqi cities should be as follows:   Residential use: vertical housing pattern 30 %, horizontal housing pattern 15 %.   Mixed use 12 %.   Green, open and recreational areas 22 %.   Sustainable transport 13 %.   Public, community and government services 8 %.   

Verdichten mit «Greening», oder was wir von Singapur lernen können (Essay)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Urs Gantner
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
City State ◽  
Vertical Greening ◽  
The City

Densification by greening, or what we can learn from Singapore (essay) Singapore, a city-state with a high population density, wants to give its population, its tourists and its economy a living and livable city and has developed the concept of the Garden City. Parks, nature reserves, forest, green corridors, trees, botanical gardens, horizontal and vertical greening of buildings, as well as popular participation, are all important for this vision of the city. Singapore is counting on dense construction alongside “greening” and biodiversity. Let us be prepared to learn from Singapore's example! Our land is also a non-renewable resource. To protect our ever more limited agricultural land, we should renounce any extension of building land, and free ourselves from the expanding carpets of suburban development. Let us build multiple urban neighbourhoods with mixed use and more biodiversity. Let us develop new types of communal gardens. Urban gardens in the widest sense – from private gardens to garden cooperatives, to parks and botanical gardens – are a part of our living space. The city should be our garden.

scholarly journals Temperature-Related Mortality in Helsinki Compared to Its Surrounding Region Over Two Decades, with Special Emphasis on Intensive Heatwaves

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Reija Ruuhela ◽  
Athanasios Votsis ◽  
Jaakko Kukkonen ◽  
Kirsti Jylhä ◽  
Susanna Kankaanpää ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Hospital District ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Temperature Ranges ◽  
Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
The City ◽  
Related Mortality

Urbanization and ongoing climate change increase the exposure of the populations to heat stress, and the urban heat island (UHI) effect may magnify heat-related mortality, especially during heatwaves. We studied temperature-related mortality in the city of Helsinki—with urban and suburban land uses—and in the surrounding Helsinki-Uusimaa hospital district (HUS-H, excluding Helsinki)—with more rural types of land uses—in southern Finland for two decades, 2000–2018. Dependence of the risk of daily all-cause deaths (all-age and 75+ years) on daily mean temperature was modelled using the distributed lag nonlinear model (DLNM). The modelled relationships were applied in assessing deaths attributable to four intensive heatwaves during the study period. The results showed that the heat-related mortality risk was substantially higher in Helsinki than in HUS-H, and the mortality rates attributable to four intensive heatwaves (2003, 2010, 2014 and 2018) were about 2.5 times higher in Helsinki than in HUS-H. Among the elderly, heat-related risks were also higher in Helsinki, while cold-related risks were higher in the surrounding region. The temperature ranges recorded in the fairly coarse resolution gridded datasets were not distinctly different in the two considered regions. It is therefore probable that the modelling underestimated the actual exposure to the heat stress in Helsinki. We also studied the modifying, short-term impact of air quality on the modelled temperature-mortality association in Helsinki; this effect was found to be small. We discuss a need for higher resolution data and modelling the UHI effect, and regional differences in vulnerability to thermal stress.

Olmsted's Police

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Thacher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Informal Controls ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The City ◽  
Shared Environments

The urbanization of nineteenth century America led to enormous changes in American criminal justice, as the rise of this dramatically more complex kind of human settlement posed new problems for legal regulation. Some of those problems are familiar. Many reformers emphasized the way cities eroded traditional controls on predatory crime, and they viewed modern police forces, public prosecution, and the modern penitentiary as a means of substituting formal social control for the informal controls of the past. But cities posed a different problem as well. In the city people made their homes in dense mixed-use environments that had not yet been sorted out and segregated along the lines of the modern metropolis, and when they ventured out of them they came together in the crowded streets, squares, and parks that proliferated in the nineteenth century. This complex environment made new demands on their behavior, as conduct that would have bothered no one in sparsely occupied rural spaces became problematic in the densely shared environments of the city. This change did not involve the collapse of old strategies for controlling familiar forms of bad behavior; it involved a shift in what sort of behavior counted as “bad” in the first place. The continued evolution of the urban environment, in turn, depended upon the ability of criminal justice institutions to grapple with these challenges. Shared environments require those who use them to develop and enforce rules to regulate the sharing.

scholarly journals Economic and ecological space “Kuyalnitskiy”: organizational and investment support for development

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Oleg Rubel
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Service Market ◽  
Protected Object ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The City

Introduction. Kuyalnyk estuary has a remarkable medical and health potential of national importance, its unique properties are of international value, which predetermines recognition of respective areas as protected areas. In addition, proximity of Kuyalnyk estuary to the city of Odesa causes expansion of not only cooperation vectors with representatives of business groups in Odesa region, as  well as creating demand in service market at this area. However, presently, economiс-ecological potential of Kuyalnyk estuary area is not used properly, which significantly affects social and infrastructural level of this area, and decreases investment attraction of this resort. Aim and tasks. In this paper it is proposed to consider theoretical and methodological principles of developing ecologically oriented business activity at the stage of planning protected object: Natural National Park (NNP) “Kuyalnitskiy”; to analyze tools for cooperation with economic private sector representatives, which will ensure protected areas development as a multifunctional space. Results. This paper substantiates ways to develop regional program of targeted economiс-ecological support for entrepreneurial activity development in the areas of Ukrainian nature reserve fund; it is suggested implementing public-private policy that allows developing future Natural National Park “Kuyalnitskiy” as innovative area – “space” aimed at streamlining processes of nature management, creating new formats of business activity, improving ecological-economic situation in the region, creating conditions for sustainable development. Conclusions. Taking into account dual economic and regulatory status of Kuyalnyk estuary, it is necessary to plan such vectors of business activity that can simultaneously meet the needs of sanatoriums and have environmentally friendly format that will consider reasonable level of anthropogenic load at this area. The proximity to the city of Odesa will ensure development and market demand for various types of economic-ecological business activities, as well as appropriate level of “neighbourhood urban planning”.

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