scholarly journals People, Place & Landscape : A Bottom-Up, Adaptive, Catalytic Approach to Tower Renewal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariana Cancelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Renewal Project

The process of improving poor, declining urban neighbourhoods is essential for the health and well-being of individuals as well as the prosperity of cities and nations. Despite the clear practical and ideological reasons for doing this, throughout history, governments and planners have struggled to find workable solutions. Today, it is becoming increasingly clear that in order to achieve equitable, substantive and sustainable improvements in poor urban neighbourhoods, the solutions must be layered and account for the interrelatedness of social, economic, and physical realms. Given the complexity of this process, this research suggests that bottom-up, adaptive and catalytic approaches to urban renewal can help planners to achieve substantive and sustainable change. Further, as contemporary urban theory suggests, the notions of landscape and place are uniquely well-suited mediums for supporting and producing change in a complex world. The Mayor's Tower Renewal Project in the City of Toronto, is an urban renewal initiative that demonstrates both the importance and complexity of urban renewal. As such, it provides an opportunity to understand how bottom-up, adaptive, and catalytic approaches which engage the urban landscape can result in significant improvements to the conditions of a declining urban area. Based on this analysis this research paper offers a new lens for thinking about and reacting to the process of urban revitalization in a way that produces equitable, long-lasting and meaningful change.

scholarly journals People, Place & Landscape : A Bottom-Up, Adaptive, Catalytic Approach to Tower Renewal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariana Cancelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Renewal Project

The process of improving poor, declining urban neighbourhoods is essential for the health and well-being of individuals as well as the prosperity of cities and nations. Despite the clear practical and ideological reasons for doing this, throughout history, governments and planners have struggled to find workable solutions. Today, it is becoming increasingly clear that in order to achieve equitable, substantive and sustainable improvements in poor urban neighbourhoods, the solutions must be layered and account for the interrelatedness of social, economic, and physical realms. Given the complexity of this process, this research suggests that bottom-up, adaptive and catalytic approaches to urban renewal can help planners to achieve substantive and sustainable change. Further, as contemporary urban theory suggests, the notions of landscape and place are uniquely well-suited mediums for supporting and producing change in a complex world. The Mayor's Tower Renewal Project in the City of Toronto, is an urban renewal initiative that demonstrates both the importance and complexity of urban renewal. As such, it provides an opportunity to understand how bottom-up, adaptive, and catalytic approaches which engage the urban landscape can result in significant improvements to the conditions of a declining urban area. Based on this analysis this research paper offers a new lens for thinking about and reacting to the process of urban revitalization in a way that produces equitable, long-lasting and meaningful change.

Looking Past Disorder

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-81
Author(s):  
Justin T. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The City ◽  
Renewal Project ◽  
Urban Renewal Project

By the 1830s, the urban renewal project discussed in the previous chapter only further revealed the intractable messiness of the urban landscape. A decade of gentrification exacerbated anxiety about whether the city’s sites and edifices could compete with surrounding topographical and human congestion. The champions of improvement sought to ease their doubts by commissioning images that abstracted, obscured, or shrank into insignificance the disorder surrounding urban landmarks. Yet even as these ideal representations of the city proliferated, Bostonians questioned whether their fellow spectators saw moral landmarks as intended. A middle-class culture of novels, guidebooks, periodicals, plays, and other sources introduced a new typology of spectators—the connoisseur and the poseur, the vista seeker and the speculator, the libertine and the sentimentalist—who revealed their true characters through their divergent reactions to the city’s monuments, parks, galleries, paintings, and sculptures.

scholarly journals Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marques ◽  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
W Hatton ◽  
D Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mammalian Predators ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

scholarly journals Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marques ◽  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
W Hatton ◽  
D Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mammalian Predators ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

scholarly journals Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marques ◽  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
W Hatton ◽  
D Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mammalian Predators ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

scholarly journals Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marques ◽  
Jacqueline McIntosh ◽  
W Hatton ◽  
D Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mammalian Predators ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

New Model to Promote Well-Being in Work Areas of an Aerospace Industry Facility in Mexicali

2022 ◽  
pp. 150-172
Author(s):  
Carlos Raul Navarro Gonzalez ◽  
Juan Ceballos-Corral ◽  
Olivia Yessenia Vargas-Bernal ◽  
Gustavo Lopez Badilla ◽  
Judith M. Paz-Delgadillo
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrial Operations ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

This investigation was made to evaluate the health and well-being of workers who made activities in the manufacturing processes of an aerospace industry installed in the city of Mexicali and based on the evidence presented in certain stages of a production line. The cost-benefit of applying ergonomic methods was analyzed, developing a descriptive model, which involved important aspects. Said aspects analyzed were (1) work methods, (2) training of employees in the operational area, (3) evaluation of times and movements of industrial operations, and (4) working conditions as the relationship of workers with supervisors and managers.

scholarly journals Noise Pollution Near Health Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Predrag Ilić ◽  
Ljiljana Stojanović-Bjelić ◽  
Zoran Janjuš
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Banja Luka ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. The primary aim of this study was to determine noise pollution in the urban part of the city of Banja Luka in Jovana Dučića Street (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)) by evaluating noise levels in the street. The aim of this research is also to compare the measured noise levels in the street with legislation. The measured values exceeded the level of noise allowed. Results indicated that noise level values in this area near health institution are alarming.

scholarly journals Prioritizing Street Tree Planting Locations to Increase Benefits for All Citizens: Experience From Joliette, Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Sousa-Silva ◽  
Elyssa Cameron ◽  
Alain Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Tree Canopy ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Species At Risk ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Street Tree ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

As the climate continues to warm and the world becomes more urbanized, our reliance on trees and the benefits they provide is rapidly increasing. Many cities worldwide are planting trees to offset rising temperatures, trap pollutants, and enhance environmental and human health and well-being. To maximize the benefits of planting trees and avoid further increasing social inequities, a city needs to prioritize where to establish trees by first identifying those areas of greatest need. This work aims to demonstrate a spatially explicit approach for cities to determine these priority locations to achieve the greatest returns on specific benefits. Criteria for prioritization were developed in tandem with the City of Joliette, Canada, and based on nine indicators: surface temperature, tree density, vegetation cover, resilience, tree size and age, presence of species at risk, land use type, socioeconomic deprivation, and potential for active transportation. The City’s preferences were taken into account when assigning different weights to each indicator. The resulting tree planting priority maps can be used to target street tree plantings to locations where trees are needed most. This approach can be readily applied to other cities as these criteria can be adjusted to accommodate specific tree canopy goals and planning constraints. As cities are looking to expand tree canopy, we hope this work will assist in sustaining and growing their urban forest, enabling it to be more resilient and to keep providing multiple and sustained benefits where they are needed the most.

scholarly journals A Critical Examination of Senior Housing: Promoting Equity Through Ensuring Safe Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 398-398
Author(s):  
Zach Kilgore ◽  
Michael Appel ◽  
Michele Waktins ◽  
Claudia Sanford ◽  
Dennis Archambault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract As affordable senior housing communities aimed to address the health and well-being concerns of residents in the COVID-19 pandemic, special attention to safety during renovation had to be addressed. This paper offers case studies from members of a city-wide advocacy group, Senior Housing Preservation-Detroit. Eighty one percent of covid deaths in the City of Detroit are those 60 and above; 81.2% of deaths have been among African Americans (Detroit Health Department, 2021). With the grief and challenge in a city hit early on in the 2020 pandemic, these case studies will highlight how Covid-19 affected planned projects in senior buildings, how stakeholders such as developers, staff and residents responded and key considerations for future emergencies affecting senior housing communities. This paper offers critical perspectives applicable to many urban landscapes in order to raise awareness to policy makers, and practitioners.

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