scholarly journals Strip plazas in the suburbs: a redevelopment framework for convenience centres

Author(s):  
Natalie Elizabeth Hickey

Convenience centres are a prominent retail form in the suburban communities of Toronto. Built to satisfy the goods and service needs of the people who inhabit the suburbs, convenience centres were first built in the post-war era, and consist of one-story retail units connected by a shared canopy. They have one or more rows of parking adjacent to the street and are designed to create a convenient experience for drivers. Convenience centres in Toronto typically occupy real estate along the Avenues and major arterial roads: areas designated in the City of Toronto Official plan to support future intensification, density, and housing. Therefore, the research in this project describes a set of recommendations in the form of a framework for redevelopment of convenience centres. It also outlines a case study for a site in Scarborough, Ontario, in which this framework was applied. Key words: retail; strip plaza; convenience centre; suburbs; redevelopment; Toronto;

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Elizabeth Hickey

Convenience centres are a prominent retail form in the suburban communities of Toronto. Built to satisfy the goods and service needs of the people who inhabit the suburbs, convenience centres were first built in the post-war era, and consist of one-story retail units connected by a shared canopy. They have one or more rows of parking adjacent to the street and are designed to create a convenient experience for drivers. Convenience centres in Toronto typically occupy real estate along the Avenues and major arterial roads: areas designated in the City of Toronto Official plan to support future intensification, density, and housing. Therefore, the research in this project describes a set of recommendations in the form of a framework for redevelopment of convenience centres. It also outlines a case study for a site in Scarborough, Ontario, in which this framework was applied. Key words: retail; strip plaza; convenience centre; suburbs; redevelopment; Toronto;


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Pedro Jiménez-Pacheco

This article is based on the premise that it is possible to apply Henri Lefebvre’s critical-theoretical apparatus to complex urban processes as a pedagogical case study. From previous knowledge of Lefebvrian thought, the article provides an overview of what Lefebvre called “the science of the use of social space”, supported by a transdisciplinary methodological plurality. The starting point is that neoliberal social space is produced, prepared, and led to the imminent urban post-neoliberalism, in the midst of this movement, a sophisticated planning system appears, with the old promise of service tradition, egalitarian ethics and pragmatic orientation. But in practice, it only reproduces the impotence of being inside a wave of localized surplus-benefits that expels human residues, avoiding any reaction. The Lefebvrian apparatus and a part of its theoretical tradition guide the research on Barcelona as a paradigm of global real-estate violence. This urban phenomenon is examined in central Barcelona, in order to rescue it from the pessimism of its own inhabitants, from the harsh perception that urban centrality no longer reproduces life. In this way, the article puts into operation an analytical tool designed to sabotage the real-estate circuit through a renewed right to the production of radical social space.


2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (18-19) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Ofelia Brown ◽  

This case study describes an initiative by a computer engineer to develop an innovative teaching method. The company providing financial support has as their sole motivation the altruistic purpose of improving education in Peru. After enacting the program, the people involved decided to form a non-profit association in order to collect donations and assure the resources that will allow the project’s expansion. The story unfolds in the city of Lima, Peru, in May of 2005.


2020 ◽  
pp. 54-98
Author(s):  
Abhishek Kaicker

In 1638 the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan embarked on his most ambitious architectural project: the building of a new Delhi in his own name. Beginning with a discussion of the development of a distinctly Mughal discourse of sovereignty centered on an ideal of the ruler’s heaven-granted fortune to rule (daulat), this chapter shows how the new city of Shahjahanabad was an enunciation of the discourse of sovereignty in bricks and mortar. A site of imperial power, Islamic piety, commercial prosperity, and urbane pleasure, the city was built to mediate an idealized relation between the king and the people. The second part of this chapter traces the unintended consequences of this act: the growth of a prosperous city, in which the forces of commerce caused the rise of new elites and the growth of a large and unruly underclass.


2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Emilio Lucio-Villegas ◽  
Daniel García Goncet ◽  
Louise Cowe
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2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
P. SCHRIPPE ◽  
F.S.B. MEDEIROS ◽  
C.D. SCHIMITH ◽  
A.D. WEISE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syamsuddin

Earthquakes often cause fatalities to human being. Unfortunately, the event of earthquakes cannot be forecasted. But, the hazard risk due to these earthquakes could be reduced if the geological, seismic and physical surface conditions are known. This reduction plays an important role in disaster mitigation. This paper discusses the development of a method for hazard risk analysis due to earthquakes. The development is based on the input parameters of the hazard and vulnerability components of a site being investigated. Each parameter is then rated, so the total rating of hazard and vulnerability input parameters is obtained. The comparison between the applied rating and the total rating of hazard and vulnerability input parameters results in an index of each input parameter, consecutively. Thus, the multiplication of indexes, (hazard and vulnerability), results in a hazard risk index. Based on the proposed hazard index, a case study in the city of Mataram of Lombok Island has been conducted. The result shows that the city of Mataram has a medium hazard risk index. This means that if an earthquake occurs in the city of Mataram, a medium scale of fatalities may be experienced by the city. However, this index should be considered as an early warning system in disaster mitigation. So, the real condition of the city should be evaluated in order to increase the degree of preparedness due to the event of earthquakes that could occur at any time.


Author(s):  
Anggi Septiyanti

The title of this research is "Political Marketing in Pilkada (Case Study: Victory of the Herman Deru-Mawardi Yahya Pair in the Election of the Governor of South Sumatra 2018 in the City of Palembang)". This study examines the phenomenon of political marketing as a strategy in a campaign. This paper elaborates and discusses how the political marketing process carried out by the successful team of the couple Herman Deru-Mawardi Yahya in Palembang City. The findings obtained from this study indicate that the political marketing process carried out by the success team of Herman Deru-Mawardi Yahya in Palembang City was very structured and managed to get the voice of the people of Palembang City. The political marketing process carried out by the success team of Herman Deru-Mawardi Yahya in the city of Palembang is first, showing the political products of this couple to the community such as spreading the vision and mission program of this couple to the entire Palembang City community. Secondly, to promote the people of Palembang City both through direct interaction and through print media, electronic media, and social media carried out directly by successful teams. Third, determine prices in the campaign, both in the campaign funding process and to build the price of the image of the couple. Fourth, the location of the campaign which was not only focused on one place but spread throughout the corner of the city of Palembang, because there was no major campaign in the city of Palembang.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yankel FIJALKOW

This article proposes a theoretical point of view in order to show the importance of the collective memory and the urban narrative in the strategic approach of the urban project. The capacity of a municipality to build a local narrative joining the past, the memory and the project, is examined in the second part of the article, in a case study of a collectivity confronted with the project of the Grand Paris and strong socio-spatial transformation since 1950. The conclusions of thirty deep interviews, conducted on the people involved in the city organization allow to differentiate legitimated and rejected places in the spaces of remembering, and the difficulties of this kind of municipalities to be pro active in the Grand Paris project.


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-117
Author(s):  
Pío Alejandro García Izaguirre ◽  
Saida De los Ángeles Argüello Mendieta

Se presenta el estudio de caso: Economía Indígena  de Wasakín, municipio de Rosita, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte (RAAN), a 480 Km al noreste de Managua,  Nicaragua. La población está constituida por seis familias tuahka, el resto están enlazados con la etnia  tuahka y mísquitu. La población aproximada es de 2,100 habitantes, conformados por 185 familias, prevalece la identidad  tuahka y mískitu. Se asentaron aproximadamente en 1733 en el río Bambana, a 13.5 Km. de la ciudad de Rosita en el reinado de   Eduardo I  (1728-1762). Se identificaron el modelo de economía, las actividades productivas, cultura, la percepción del pueblo en referencia al modelo de su economía. La investigación fue cualitativa con métodos de la Antropología Cultural. Los habitantes viven de la agricultura rudimentaria, madera, ganadería, artesanía de bambú y servicios de medicina tradicional, comercio, caza, pesca y recolección. Existe pobreza y el Estado ha fomentado tradicionalmente el paternalismo con donaciones realizadas por cada gobierno.SummaryWe present a case study on Indigenous economy in Wasakin, municipality of Rosita, North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), located at 480 km northeast of Managua, Nicaragua. The population is constituted by six Tuahka families, the rest are linked with the Tuahka-Miskitu ethnic group. The population is approximately 2,100 people, made ​​up of 185 families; the tuahka and miskitu identity prevails. These families settled approximately in 1733 in the Bambana River, at 13.5 km from the city of Rosita, during the reign of Edward I (1728-1762). The economic model was identified, as well as the productive activities, culture, and the perception of the people in reference to its economic model. The research was qualitative and linked with methods of cultural anthropology. The people live from the rudimentary agriculture, wood, cattle-raising, bamboo crafts, traditional medicine services, trade, hunting, fishing and gathering. There is poverty and the State has traditionally fostered paternalism with donations made by each government.


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