scholarly journals ELEMENTS OF THE UBRANSCAPE IN TOKYO

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Ewa Maria Kido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Imperial Palace

Tokyo Metropolis (Tōkyō-to) of 13 mln people, crowded, colored, noisy, made of very freely designed buildings, with railway loop line separating the inner center from the outer center – from one side is similar to other large metropolises in Japan, and from another – being a capitol and having the Imperial Palace as its symbolical center, is unique. This article discusses elements of urbanscape, such as transportation infrastructure – roads and railways; junctions and city centers – neighborhoods; urban interiors – streets and squares; border lines and belts – rivers, parks; dominant urban structures, outstanding elements – landmarks, and characteristic sights, that contribute to aesthetic appeal of the landscape of Tokyo. The conclusion is that although both European cities and Tokyo have well-functioning centers, as well as subcenters of the polycentric metropolises, their forms are differing because they reflect local urban planning, aesthetics, and culture.

Solar Urban Planning in European Cities - Approach and Results of The IEE Project Polis

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Lindner ◽  
Andreas Hermelink ◽  
Ms Angela Saade ◽  
Ms Estefanía Caamaño-Martín ◽  
Ms Joana Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
European Cities

Leisure Places Downstairs: A Pleasure or a Failure?

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
M. Asselineau
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Frequency Noise ◽  
Low Frequency Noise ◽  
Community Noise ◽  
The Core ◽  
European Cities ◽  
New Buildings

One of the urban environment challenges is to manage to locate such leisure places as cinemas, restaurants, or even discotheques, as close as possible to living quarters. While this can be reasonably achieved in brand new buildings, with careful acoustical and urban planning and engineering, it often proves tricky, or even impossible, to achieve in the kind of older buildings that usually are to be found at the core of European cities. Whenever any benefit results from the presence of such leisure places close to homes, the neighbourhood can much more readily accept the acoustical implications. However, when no thought is given to the acoustical problems, the technical and relational efforts needed to correct the situation often prove to be beyond the capabilities of the operators. Over the years, the authorities have tried to brush up community noise regulations so that they can cope with the new trends that include low frequency noise involving music.

scholarly journals The Style As a Factor of Office Building Concentration Locations in European Cities

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Anna Bocian
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Office Building ◽  
City Development ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Development Plans

Abstract Where should office building concentrations be located in cities? What kind of factors has an influence on its locations? The aim of the research is to examine factors of office locations in cities. Selected office building concentrations in European cities were investigated as case studies. The research method was the spatial decision paradigm. The style, one of the main elements of the paradigm, was selected to answer the research question. The style was defined a composition of existing urban structures. Basic elements of urban composition in selected European cities were examined closely. Research results are conditions of office building concentration locations in European cities in term of urban composition. Such knowledge should be a base of decision-making processe during preparing master plans and city development plans.

scholarly journals THE CREATIVE WORK BY BIRUTĖ PALUKAITYTĖ-KASPERAVIČIENĖ, ONE OF THE FIRST LITHUANIAN URBAN PLANNERS / BIRUTĖS PALUKAITYTĖS-KASPERAVIČIENĖS, VIENOS PIRMŲJŲ LIETUVOS URBANISČIŲ, KŪRYBINĖS VEIKLOS PALIKIMAS

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violeta Lakštauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
Urban Structures

The article presents Birutė Palukaitytė-Kasperavičienė, one of the first urban planners in Lithuania. The article discloses the implemented projects by the urban planner, which received the letters of honor and different awards by the Soviet government. The peculiarities of urban structures created by this author are examined. The works by the urban planner are disclosed in the context of architecture and urban planning trends that prevailed in the Soviet period. A question is raised whether today, when discussions on the Soviet heritage conservation take place, we can identify the author’s work as a valuable feature of urban structure? Pristatoma Birutė Kasperavičienė – viena pirmųjų Lietuvos urbanisčių. Straipsnyje pateikiami įgyvendinti urbanistės projektai, tarybų valdžios įvertinti garbės raštais ir premijomis. Nagrinėjami autorės kurtų urbanistinių struktūrų savitumai. Atskleidžiama urbanistės kūryba tarybiniu laikotarpiu vyravusių architektūros ir miestų planavimo tendencijų kontekste. Keliamas klausimas, ar šiandien, vykstant sovietinio palikimo išsaugojimo diskusijoms, galime identifikuoti autorės kūrybą kaip miesto urbanistinės struktūros vertingąją savybę?

scholarly journals CLASSIFICATION OF LITHUANIAN TOWNS AND DEFINITION OF THEIR FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE USED FOR URBAN PLANNING PURPOSES

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Zigmas Jonas Daunora
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Urban System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Ecological Requirements

Comprehensive planning of towns and townships takes a wider scale in the country. Therefore, there appears an urgent need to revise or review some conceptions of planning methodology that should be accepted after various alternatives consideration. According to our opinion: a) classification of centres of a settlement system (towns and townships) requires self-determination and equal understanding which, from one side, should reflect more precisely the existing diversity of development between the centres and their functions and, from the other side, the rank granted to these centres should meet the EU criteria; b) the functional structure of towns and townships, reflected by diversity in the purpose of their territory use and its indefinite character during the process of residential area modernization which takes place under market conditions, forces to give upa detailed setting of plot purpose and look for a more universal model of land- use purpose specification which could be applicable not only for planning of rural agricultural territories but for urban planning of residential areas as well. Proposals presented in the paper (Tables 1 and 2) respect the systematic conception of settlement network, accepted in Lithuania and in the other EU countries and based on the hierarchy of elements and development dependency allowing application of sustainability and balance principles for the system element development. They are prepared taking into account new urban planning conceptions and reflecting the following factors: changing business and production conditions as well as growing qualitative safety, service and ecological requirements for a residential environment; increasing importance of economic factors and resulting need for a more rational land use and broader urban internal integration when developing public transportation and urban system for a common space use; respect to stable urban structural elements of residential areas (urban framework) as well as to local cultural identity and historically formed compositional peculiarities; advantages of the functional and social diversity and polycentric character of urban structures.

scholarly journals THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOWN-SHIELDS’ PLANNING IN BISHOPRICS OF LIVONIA DURING THE 13TH–14TH CENTURIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 795
Author(s):  
Silvija Ozola
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Traditions of the Christianity centres’ formation can be found in Jerusalem’s oldest part where instead of domestic inhabitants’ dwellings the second king of Israel (around 1005 BC–965 BC) David built his residence on a top of the Temple Mount surrounded by deep valleys. His fortress – the City of David protected from the north side by inhabitants’ stone buildings on a slope was an unassailable public and spiritual centre that northwards extended up to the Ophel used for the governance. David’s son, king of Israel (around 970–931 BC) Solomon extended the fortified urban area where Templum Solomonis was built. In Livonia, Bishop Albrecht obtained spacious areas, where he established bishoprics and towns. At foothills, residential building of inhabitants like shields guarded Bishop’s residence. The town-shield was the Dorpat Bishopric’s centre Dorpat and the Ösel–Wiek Bishopric’s centre Haapsalu. The town of Hasenpoth in the Bishopric of Courland (1234–1583) was established at subjugated lands inhabited by the Cours: each of bishopric's urban structures intended to Bishop and the Canonical Chapter was placed separately in their own village. The main subject of research: the town-shields’ planning in Livonia. Research problem: the development of town-shields’ planning at bishoprics in Livonia during the 13th and 14th century have been studied insufficiently. Historians in Latvia often do not take into account studies of urban planning specialists on historical urban planning. Research goal: to determine common and distinctive features of town-shield design in bishoprics of Livonia. Research novelty: town-shield plans of Archbishop’s and their vassals’ residences and capitals in Livonian bishoprics subjected to the Riga Archbishopric are analyzed. Results: study formation of Livonian town-shields’ layout and structure of the 13th and 14th centuries. Main methods: inspection of town-shields in nature, analysis of archive documents, projects, cartographic materials.  

scholarly journals Autonomous Road Vehicles: Challenges for Urban Planning in European Cities

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Gavanas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges

Autonomous vehicles will significantly affect mobility conditions in the future. The changes in mobility conditions are expected to have an impact on urban development and, more specifically, on location choices, land use organisation and infrastructure design. Nowadays, there is not enough data for a real-life assessment of this impact. Experts estimate that autonomous vehicles will be available for uptake in the next decade. Therefore, urban planners should consider the possible impacts from autonomous vehicles on cities and the future challenges for urban planning. In this context, the present paper focuses on the challenges from the implementation of autonomous road vehicles for passenger transport in European cities. The analysis is based on a systematic review of research and policy. The main outcome of the analysis is a set of challenges for urban planning regarding the features of urban development, the local and European policy priorities, the current lack of data for planning and the potential for autonomous vehicles to be used by planners as data sources. The paper concludes that tackling these challenges is essential for the full exploitation of the autonomous vehicles’ potential to promote sustainable urban development.

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