scholarly journals Disrupting privatization: Enhancing Solo-cultural Interaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrain Man
Keyword(s):  
Living Environment ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Residential Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Community Spaces ◽  
Building Level

As a product of rapid urbanization, residential developments are continuously proliferating in both density and scale. Driven by a capitalistic regime, Toronto's current high-density residential design is becoming homogenous in spatial planning and generating undistinctive spaces. With the existing programmatic configuration are internally and privately focused, these spaces lack the opportunity for community development and divers recreational amenities, transforming the dwelling to another urban Junkspace (non-place). By creating hybridized spaces that bridge private and public zones, this thesis proposes to generate spontaneous social activities and interactions within interstitial spaces. The new composed areas provide a dynamic living environment with direct access to shared recreational activities, integrated outdoor spaces, and creative community spaces, attracting an influx of users from the surrounding neighbourhood. Using strategies of shifting narratives, interstitial spaces, ambiguous voids, and integrated landscapes, the hybrid spaces reinvents the traditional monotony spaces and explores urban pluralism on both community and building level.

scholarly journals Disrupting privatization: Enhancing Solo-cultural Interaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrain Man
Keyword(s):  
Living Environment ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Residential Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Community Spaces ◽  
Building Level

As a product of rapid urbanization, residential developments are continuously proliferating in both density and scale. Driven by a capitalistic regime, Toronto's current high-density residential design is becoming homogenous in spatial planning and generating undistinctive spaces. With the existing programmatic configuration are internally and privately focused, these spaces lack the opportunity for community development and divers recreational amenities, transforming the dwelling to another urban Junkspace (non-place). By creating hybridized spaces that bridge private and public zones, this thesis proposes to generate spontaneous social activities and interactions within interstitial spaces. The new composed areas provide a dynamic living environment with direct access to shared recreational activities, integrated outdoor spaces, and creative community spaces, attracting an influx of users from the surrounding neighbourhood. Using strategies of shifting narratives, interstitial spaces, ambiguous voids, and integrated landscapes, the hybrid spaces reinvents the traditional monotony spaces and explores urban pluralism on both community and building level.

Redevelopment of Rural Settlements in Lizhuang Town, Yibin City, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Yin Pan ◽  
Tiejun Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Urbanization In China

Due to the rapid urbanization in China, the living environment in urban areas improves considerably, while that in rural settlements does not improve remarkably, or even worsens. The purpose of the research is to propose an organizational approach to the improvement of the living environment in the poverty-stricken rural settlements and an architectural design pattern under a variety of requirements in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and socio-economic development in the redevelopment of rural settlements in Yongsheng Village, Lizhuang Town, Yibin City of Sichuan Province in Southwest China. In this redevelopment project, the architects, as the important third party, are not just architects in the traditional sense in that they are involved in the organizational process and architectural design throughout the whole project. The redevelopment project has been completed, and is aimed at providing a scientific redevelopment model and a design method for other rural residents by guiding them in the improvement of their living environment under a variety of restrictions.

scholarly journals José Antonio Corrales. Pueblos de Colonización. La construcción de la sombra

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Nicolás Martín Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Community Life ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Community Buildings ◽  
Community Spaces ◽  
Geographical Context

<p>José Antonio Corrales planned four Colonization Villages between January 1954 and June 1956: Guadalimar, Vegas del Caudillo, Villafranco del Guadiana and Llanos del Sotillo. Corrales progressively built the shade in his colonization villages, protecting the outdoor spaces from the sun converting them into a place of relationship and gathering for its inhabitants. Llanos del Sotillo culminates a process, where his aim is masterfully achieved. Shade pursued in the orientation and urban layout, in the section of its streets, public galleries or under community buildings. The shade is also sought in the deepest thresholds of homes, becoming places where the boundaries between outside and inside fade and blur the division between public and private space, into greater wealth and complexity, enhancing community life under its shade. Years later in Elviña, Corrales presented us with community spaces, a sort of “streets in space” through which the dwellings could be accessed, as a partial evolution of his villages adapted to the geographical context, in this case searching for the sun and shelter from the rain. The sun and its shade mark and reveal community life in these works.</p>

scholarly journals Streetscapes as Surrogate Greenspaces During COVID-19?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie K. Fischer ◽  
Divya Gopal
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activities ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Urban Greenspaces ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Sociocultural Characteristics ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
Lower Income Countries

In 2020, the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) globally led to severe crisis, disruption and hardship in both private and public life. In such times of distress, access to urban greenspaces is essential for physical and mental wellbeing. However, globally implemented lockdowns deprived many people of freely visiting greenspaces. Inequality in access to urban greenspaces was apparent at global scales. Consequently, many people took to streets for outdoor activities due to its easy accessibility. We, therefore, aimed to study the usage and relevance of streetscapes for outdoor activities during a crisis. We hypothesised that streetscapes supported diverse outdoor activities, functioning as surrogate urban greenspaces. We distributed an online questionnaire to over 400 international respondents. Our results clearly showed that people used streetscapes during this period for a variety of activities, many of which were also reported as their main physical activity. Walking was the most frequent activity in streetscapes globally, and independent from sociocultural characteristics. Other activities reported such as jogging and cycling also aligned generally with main physical activities of people, but differed between countries and people's sociocultural background. In summary, more than one third of respondents from lower-income countries reported not having had access to a greenspace, whereas 8% reported the same in high-income countries. Our results highlight the important role of streetscapes in facilitating people's regular physical activities during the pandemic. Recognising streetscapes as important public outdoor spaces within residential neighbourhoods could help counteract the inequality in greenspace access, an issue that seems more relevant than ever before.

Open Building for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Urban Community

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Li-Chu Lin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Daily Movement ◽  
Unit Space ◽  
Space Layout ◽  
Building Level

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Asia and North America has raised much concern from all angles and reflections on nowadays living environment that resulted in public health, especially the high−density urban residential complexes. The so−called community infection at Amoy Gardens apartment in Hong Kong was such a case that is worth further study. However, under the trends of globalization and sustainable development, SARS could be the first alert of unknown outbreak−type fatal epidemic to the coming biomedicine age. Main findings of the investigation in Amoy Gardens by the Department of Health, Hong Kong, which has been mostly corroborated by World Health Organization (WHO), pointed that environmental factors played a major role in this outbreak. They are, in fact, related to community design, building design and facility management. In this respect, open building theory is conceived of ideas for solution. Three directions are discussed in this study: 1) “territorial depth” at urban tissue level and building level, 2) utility lines at building level and infill level, and 3) space layout by zoning at building level. In conclusion, design principles for new buildings are suggested; (1) Creating territorial depths in urban tissue and building complex by hierarchical circulations so as to separate people's daily movement and reduce unnecessary human contacts. In addition, the deeper territory expands, the fewer the dwelling units will be preferred. (2) Planning unit space layout with envelope zone following fluid dynamics and solar control physics so as to avoid gaseous infection to people living in the neighborhood among multi−story buildings. (3) Constructing buildings with open−system interfaces between building level and infill level or between infill elements themselves, so that stopgap renovations could easily be done. (4) Separating service lines between building level and infill level. And locating maintenance shafts at accessible public space

Study on Evaluation of Rural Human Settlement in Changchun

2014 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
pp. 566-571
Author(s):  
Jing Lv ◽  
Jing Miao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Rural Planning ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Rural Living ◽  
The Status ◽  
Improvement Measures

In addition to a large number of city diseases are exposed out,the country has also gradually appeared all sorts of problems in the process of rapid urbanization,such as ecological condition has destroyed,widespread lack of public infrastructure,the rural traditional culture is gradually dying,etc.This article from the perspective of urban and rural planning analyzes the living environment of rural people in Changchun area which in central status of the big agricultural province Jilin by the status of rural living environment assessment to find out the problems existing in the countryside and propose improvement measures for the problem.

Research on Urban Productive Landscape Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2460-2463
Author(s):  
Kai Wang ◽  
Zong Yang Wang ◽  
Zheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Basic Production ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The City

China is undertaking an unprecedented development of rapid urbanization, and a large number of rural people are pouring into cities. It is estimated that the proportion of China's urban population will reach 60% in 2030. In fact, China's ecological environment has already been severely damaged. To be specific, large areas of river basin have been polluted, and a great deal of farmland has been replaced. However, current landscape planning and design are not trying to solve these urban issues, on the contrary, it costs huge in pursuit of one-sided visual effects. It merely accelerates the deterioration of our living environment. Thus, returning to the basic production of land, returning to the original landscape design as the art of survival, bringing food planting back to people's daily lives, and creating a productive landscape in the city are the strategies of survival for human being. The article focuses on urban productive landscape, which reflects several issues, such as agricultural production, current urban lifestyles, environmental quality, etc. It summarizes that the urban productive landscape plays a positive role and has a great potential in terms of enhancing the environmental, social, and economic status. Problems faced in the specific process of implementations and corresponding solutions are also given in the end.

scholarly journals Implementation of the German Prevention Act: Municipal Public Health Units as a Bottleneck?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Arnold ◽  
D Starke ◽  
B Szagun
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
District Level ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Prevention Act

Abstract Background The German Prevention Act (PrävG) came into force in 2015. As a federal law, it remains vague with regard to municipal structure. The municipalities, as those public health units that have direct access to the living environment, play a central role in the implementation of health promotion and prevention. The evaluation by the National Prevention Conference in 2019 showed that the involvement of the municipal public health services (ÖGD) has not yet been sufficiently achieved. A major problem is the heterogeneity of ÖGD units in Germany's federal structure, about which little information is available. Methods In order to fully capture this heterogeneity for the first time, a systematic online screening was carried out. For this purpose, the websites of all 358 ÖGD units were screened independently of two researchers according to structural conditions. Results 70% of all municipal ÖGD units are located at district level, 18% at city district level and 12% cumulatively. Population varies from 35,000 to about 1.5 million inhabitants. The allocation of the ÖGD units to youth service planning and social welfare varies in the federal states from 18.7% to 94.4%, within regulatory agency and veterinary office from 27.8% to 79.2%. Conclusions The heterogeneity makes the establishment of municipal standards difficult. Due to the diverse administrative allocation, different levels of policy-making must be considered on the way to health in all policies. The political classification reflects in roughly equal parts an ÖGD orientation towards health protection or social determinants of health, as recommended for the PrävG. A one-sided orientation towards health protection was shown by the temporary suspension of the use of financial resources for prevention in the course of the 2nd pandemic law to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. For the announced reform of the German ÖGD it is necessary to homogenize essential structural characteristics and to prevent a one-sided orientation. Key messages The heterogeneity of municipal health services makes it difficult to implement the German Prevention Act. In the course of the upcoming ÖGD reform, essential structural characteristics should be homogenized and a one-sided orientation of the municipal ÖGD units towards health protection should be avoided.

Environment as the risk factor for tuberculosis in Malaysia: a systematic review of the literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Adibah Mohidem ◽  
Zailina Hashim ◽  
Malina Osman ◽  
Farrah Melissa Muharam ◽  
Saliza Mohd Elias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Transmission Risk ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Strong Conclusion ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
De Medicina

AbstractObjectiveThe probability for transmission risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) usually occurs in high density communities, crowded and enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation. Rapid urbanization which includes substandard housing leads to various sanitation and health problems. To investigate the prevalence and incidence of TB by focusing on its environmental risk factor in Malaysia.ContentDatabases search of Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus, MyJournal, Biblioteca Regional de Medicina (BIREME), BioMed Central (BMC) Public Health, Medline, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE) OVID, and Web of Science (WoS) was performed, which include the article from 1st January 2008 until 31st August 2018 using medical subject heading (MeSH). Articles initially identified were screened for relevance.SummaryOut of 744 papers screened, nine eligible studies did meet our inclusion criteria. Prison and housing environments were evaluated for TB transmission in living environment, while the other factor was urbanization. However, not all association for these factors were statistically significant, thus assumed to be conflicting or weak to end up with a strong conclusion.OutlookUnsustainable indoor environment in high congregate setting and overcrowding remained as a challenge for TB infection in Malaysia. Risk factors for transmission of TB, specifically in high risk areas, should focus on the implementation of specialized program. Further research on health care environment, weather variability, and air pollution are urgently needed to improve the management of TB transmission.

scholarly journals Optimization Analysis of the Residential Window-to-Wall Ratio Based on Numerical Calculation of Energy Consumption in the Hot-Summer and Cold-winter Zone of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6138
Author(s):  
Haiqiang Liu ◽  
Zhihao Zhang ◽  
Xidong Ma ◽  
Weite Lu ◽  
Dongze Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cold Winter ◽  
Optimization Analysis ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Different Types

Along with the rapid urbanization and economic growth of China over the past decades, the thermal comfort needs of the people in this region have risen dramatically, and at the same time, promoting building energy efficiency is cited as part of the major projects in the 14th five-year plan for energy efficiency improvement. In addition, the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has plunged people into long-term panic, and promoted the entire construction industry to think about a healthier and more sustainable living environment. To respond to the imbalance between energy supply and demand, an optimization analysis based on energy use is developed, assessing the energy efficiency of the window-to-wall ratio (WWR) design and calculating the energy consumption of three different types of residential buildings for both cooling and heating loads as well as for year-round loads. Owing to its harsh climate and huge energy consumption, in this study, the Hot-summer and Cold-winter (HSCW) zone of China was chosen as the experimental setting for the optimization analysis of WWR. Then, in the three main types of residential buildings, including detached houses, multi-story dwellings and high-rise dwellings, a correlation between WWRS and energy consumption in the cooling season, heating season and year-round was built. The comparisons between the WWRS and energy consumption for different types of residential buildings are presented. The design optimization recommendation for WWRS are proposed. It has significant positive meanings for the development of green and sustainably designed residential buildings that offer high levels of thermal comfort and energy efficiency.

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