scholarly journals History of slums in the city of Baghdad (1921-1958)

2018 ◽  
Vol 224 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdul Wahid Abdul Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Residential Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

The research on the history of residential squatters in the city of Baghdad (1921-1958) dealt with a number of historical facts and incidents with a social and demographic dimension that passed through the city of Baghdad during the period of the royal era, especially agricultural migration from the countryside to the city resulting in social and economic problems. Especially for the establishment and construction of residential slums in and around the outskirts of Baghdad. The first axis came as an input to take a brief history of the urban development of Baghdad. The second axis included the neighborhoods and slums of the residential communities in Baghdad, 1921-1958.

scholarly journals Sustainable and Adaptive Re-use of the Old Industrial Buildings as Cultural Buildings in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Wu Xiaoyu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

With the rapid expansion of the city in China, more and more old industrial buildings in cities become idle and abandoned. However, Old industrial buildings are carrying the history of a city and reflecting the urban development process so that renewal of the old industrial buildings has great value in the sense of cultural, aesthetic, ecological, economic, and sustainable development. How to reuse those buildings is worth studying. This paper, based on the principle of Adaptive Renewal and sustainable reuse, takes two typical successful cases to discuss how to reuse these old industrial buildings into culture ones in China.

scholarly journals POTSDAMER PLATZ - MYTEN OM MIDTEN

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (109) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Martin Zerlang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Heart Beat ◽  
World City ◽  
Western World ◽  
German Capital ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potsdamer Platz ◽  
The City

POTSDAMER PLATZThe city square has been the organising centre for urban development in the western world, but the history of Berlin can be told as a quest narrative, the search for such an organising centre. This article tells the story of Potsdamer Platz, which can be viewed as the centre of the Prussian (and later German) capital. In the age of the Baroque Potsdamer Platz was connected to one of the new geometrical squares (an Octogon), which emphasised the aristocratic order. In the age of Romanticism the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel used it in his efforts to reshape the city as a panoramic cityscape. In the Weimar Republic Potsdamer Platz gained a mythical status. It became the symbol of Berlin as a “world city”; and writers, painters and filmmakers excelled in artistic comments on this symbol. The Wall put an end to the glorious history of this “heart of Berlin”, but shortly after 1989 planners and politicians embarked on a project to make the city’s heart beat once again. In the age of Postmodernism, however, the city square has become a history of making exteriors into interiors, of replacing the physical space by mediated space, of “Disneyfication”; and as this article shows, this tendency also characterises the new and renewed Potsdamer Platz.

scholarly journals The Convergence between Tradition and Modernity and between Innovative Design and the History of Culture- Irbid City as a Inspection

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1103-1108
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Space Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Municipal Administrators ◽  
The City

The aim of this paper is to present the reader with the practices, the challenges and the benefits of the changing patterns in urban planning. There is a necessity to implement measures that focus on the population’s needs, and to merge the potential of urban planning and the townspeople’s memories in response to the phenomenon of the redevelopment of downtown. The opportunity of the insertion of municipal administrators, developers, designers and most importantly townspeople in the process, ensures the commitment to arising outcomes and enhances the potential of urban planning. Also, the process should have a restricted number of clear goals to avoid losing the space potential and the connections to the memories of the city’s residents. Redeveloping cities’ downtowns have been a critical issue to tackle as the need arises to revive and modernize the old parts of the cites, usually ending with the destruction of the history and the space memories in those parts leading to the loss of its connection with the city’s residents and erasing the spirit of the city piece by piece. One example of such approaches is observed on the reconstruction of Beirut, Lebanon Central District (BCD), starting from 1991 and the reconstruction of Al-Abdali which is one of the most strategic and old locations in the city of Amman, Jordan in 2004 For this reason, this paper is devoted to discuss information, which can form the basis for the urban development. And set theoretical ground rules for cooperation with the public and allowing for their participation in the urban development process.

scholarly journals Building Preservation Case Study of Pancasila Building in Pasuruan City

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Lalu Mulyadi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
City Development ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

Some cities in Indonesia have a long history of city development, in East Java, for example the cities of Surabaya, Malang, Blitar, Kediri and Pasuruan are cities that have a history of urban development that still maintains the identity of the city. old buildings or colonial buildings, these buildings can still be suspected through the characteristics of building shapes and the use of ornaments that are characterized by European buildings. For this European building to be preserved, it is necessary to conduct a feasibility study of the aesthetic value contained in the building. The case study taken in writing this article is the Pancasila Building in the city of Pasuruan. The method used is descriptive analysis topically. To support the discussion in this article, field observations and literature studies were conducted. The findings in this study were to determine the physical identity of the building and the meaning of building ornaments.

Edilizia residenziale nel paesaggio urbanistico di Tolemaide in Cirenaica

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-152
Author(s):  
Jerzy Żelazowski
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Military Administration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jewish Revolt ◽  
The City

The article presents the private houses of Ptolemais’ inhabitants in the context of the history and urban development of a city with a thousand-year-long history. Four periods can be distinguished in the history of Ptolemais: the first since the creation of the city’s final spatial development plan in the 2nd century BC until the Jewish Revolt in 115–117 AD; the second in the 2nd–3rd centuries AD under the sign of development and growing aspirations of Ptolemais; the third in the 4th century AD until the first half of the 5th century AD, when the city served as the capital of the province of Libya Superior; and the fourth, from the end of the 5th century AD until the mid-7th century AD, in which Ptolemais, after a short period of crisis related to the nomad invasions, flourished again until the appearance of the Arabs, marking the end of the ancient city, although not the end of settlement in its area. Within this historical framework, changes in the city’s buildings and the transformation of private houses can be identified, and various cultural influences associated with the arrival of new residents at different times with their baggage of experience or with the more or less significant presence of representatives of the civil and military administration of the Roman Empire can be seen.

scholarly journals Revisiting architectural landmarks

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 03040
Author(s):  
Natalia Kosenkova ◽  
Denis Litvinov ◽  
Yelizaveta Kosenkova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Development History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Pattern ◽  
City Structure ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This paper discusses the urban development history of Samara and the nuances of how its urban pattern was formed. The paper highlights the key milestones in the history of the city’s development, addresses how the unplanned and planned cities were structured, and considers the city’s main historic squares. It also analyzes the part the city squares play in modern Samara. The definition of the term architectural landmark provides the basis for several primary classifications of architectural landmarks, identifying the historic landmarks of Samara. Also considered is the part that the primary architectural landmarks played in forming the historical and modern urban environment as well as how that part changed as the city grew and developed. The paper also addresses the effect that later development has had on the historic landmarks. Keywords: city, urban development, architectural landmarks, city structure, planned city.

scholarly journals Sociological aspects of improving the contaminated territories of Saratov

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Marina V. Kalinnikova ◽  
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Irina N. Sosina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Parks And Recreation ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Land Disputes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
The City

The article discusses the problems of urban development of the contaminated territories of Saratov aimed at improving this territory. Particular attention is paid to the substantiation and necessity of using in sociological studies of a modern city such a concept as a socio-territorial community, which is interpreted as a form of social life, where a certain set of individuals has the same type of relationship to a specific territory. Glebutchev ravine was chosen as a contagious model polygon. Throughout almost the entire history of the city, the contaminated areas have been a zone of uncomfortable living attracting the poorest segments of the city’s residents. Urban development of these territories is associated with a number of social and environmental problems, for example, with the need for mass resettlement, demolition of illegal buildings, settlement of land disputes, etc. In the course of analyzing the materials of the author’s sociological survey of macrophotography, the bulk of the residents (65%) note the need of improving the ravine. At the same time, 30% of respondents want to improve living conditions by building a shopping and entertainment center, 45% want to see only pedestrian and transport accessibility and 35% believe that the creation of parks and recreation areas is necessary.

Remembering the river: Flood, memory and infrastructural ecologies of stormwater drainage in Mumbai

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110233
Author(s):  
V. Chitra
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Water Drainage ◽  
River Flood ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

Mumbai’s storm water drainage system is rapidly transforming as incidences of heavy rainfall rise. Its transformation is built on the idea of conserving the city’s ‘rivers’ that were lost to urban development. While this move to recuperate a heritage of rivers seems like a step in the right direction, Mumbai’s drainage system was largely cobbled together over time through piecemeal interventions in an estuarine landscape. This article shows how by engineering a history of rivers, the city’s planning authorities set in motion an agenda to train the expansive estuarine and improvisational systems into governable riverine channels contained within the state’s developmental visions. It focuses on one major channel, the Mithi, to show how the rationality of disaster preparedness, the emergent calculus of carrying capacities, as well as infrastructure are braided into constructed ecological histories to inscribe a new hydrological order on the city. For Mumbai’s engineers, these changes introduce new scalar logics and alter the nature of the drainage assemblage. Mithi’s transformation is emblematic of how articulations of nature, technology and urban development are emerging from the anxieties of climate change.

scholarly journals Dubai Before Dubai: The Pietiläs and the City Coastline

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Garcia Rubio ◽  
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Tiziano Aglieri Rinella ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Land Consumption ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

This paper will attempt to highlight the land reclamation as an instrument of urban planning. To achieve this goal, Dubai will be considered as a case study and, specially, Reima and Raili Pietilä’s proposal for the Deira Sea Corniche Competition as a visionary proposal which anticipated the creation of artificial islands in the city. Describing the history of the Dubai’s coastline and analyzing the Pietiläs’ project for its innovative and -at the same time- contextual ideas, the paper will not only offer a new way to approach urban design in Dubai but also to consider the value of land reclamation as a tool for urban development -with its strengths and weaknesses- in order to avoid land consumption and to allow the preservation of most part of the coastline.

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