scholarly journals When a Patio Becomes a City

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Palacios Labrador ◽  
Beatriz Alonso Romero
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Demographic Growth ◽  
Over Time

In the 1950s, the city of Casablanca underwent a surge in demographic growth. Having become a strategic port during the French protectorate, it quickly had to accommodate more than 140,000 new arrivals from the countryside. The most extensive urban development project in the city was Carrières Centrales, introduced as a case study in the CIAM IX by the GAMMA team. Michel Écochard, Candilis and Woods reinterpreted the traditional Moroccan house in a compact horizontal fabric as well as in singular buildings. This became the typology not only for a house, but for the whole city. A revisit to Carrières Centrales 65 years after its construction provides an understanding of the metamorphosis that the urban fabric has undergone over time. The critical analysis in this research aims to uncover the main architectural and social parameters that have influenced its transformation. To achieve this goal, fieldwork was carried out during a research trip in October 2018. The work involved contacting local professors, accessing the archives of the University of Casablanca, interviewing the residents, and redrawing and graphing all the architectural elements that had changed since their construction. The urban fabric of Carrières Centrales was found to have evolved in a way that supports the following hypothesis: if an urban model imported into a developing country does not adapt to the changes in the life of its residents, it is considered a failure.

scholarly journals Indicators of the Housing Stock in Zagreb from 1945 until the late 1960s

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Lidija Bencetić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
World War ◽  
The City ◽  
Demographic Growth

This paper uses Zagreb as a case study for assessing the development of a socialist city and the housing issues that this development implied. After World War II, Zagreb experienced steep demographic growth owing to a large influx of rural population, and to a lesser extent as a result of natality increase. In 1946, the city had about 270 thousand inhabitants, and in 1969 about 570 thousand. Due to the accelerated industrial development, it needed new workforce, but lacked housing, and its infrastructure was not sufficiently developed to meet the needs of all its residents. Housing construction was based on both social and private initiatives, whereby socially funded projects were multi-storey buildings and the privately funded ones single-storey houses. Due to these private constructions, that is, houses with one storey only, Zagreb resembled a village rather than a city. In assessing the housing construction of Zagreb and its urban development in general after World War II, we are inclined to agree with Davor Stipetić’s statement that Zagreb arose as an architectural enterprise that lacked planning in its development.

scholarly journals THE STRATEGY OF URBAN DEVELOPiIETIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi ◽  
Shaema Abbas Al kubaisy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Th6 research deals with the impact of historical citadel on urban development for city cantersand their importance in shaping the urban areas of lhe city, as an attempt to delinethe bestpossible strategies for urban development of historical cities and in particular (citadel cities),which represents a tourist attraction on both global and local levels.Erbil city has been selected, as a case study for this research, since this fortress citadelhaving nowadays a comprehensive urban development, which creates an interactive effecifor the urban fabric of the citadel and the urban fabric of the city of Erbil itself , significantlyin sha.ping the city.of lrbil through centuries and an additional importance for curre;uy beini,a capital of lraq's Kurdistan region and also an urban center which has a tourist atirac{ioifor the northem region in lraq.

scholarly journals THE STRATEGY OF URBAN DEVELOPiIETIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi ◽  
Shaema Abbas Al kubaisy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Th6 research deals with the impact of historical citadel on urban development for city cantersand their importance in shaping the urban areas of lhe city, as an attempt to delinethe bestpossible strategies for urban development of historical cities and in particular (citadel cities),which represents a tourist attraction on both global and local levels.Erbil city has been selected, as a case study for this research, since this fortress citadelhaving nowadays a comprehensive urban development, which creates an interactive effecifor the urban fabric of the citadel and the urban fabric of the city of Erbil itself , significantlyin sha.ping the city.of lrbil through centuries and an additional importance for curre;uy beini,a capital of lraq's Kurdistan region and also an urban center which has a tourist atirac{ioifor the northem region in lraq.

scholarly journals Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safa H. Ashoub ◽  
Mohamed W. Elkhateeb
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Road Development ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This article builds on theoretical foundations from enclave urbanism, authoritarian planning and neoliberal urbanisation to explore contemporary socio-spatial transformation(s) happening in Cairo, Egypt. Relying on a nationwide road development project, inner-city neighbourhoods in Cairo are turning into urban enclaves, whereby populations are being separated by a multiplicity of transport-related infrastructure projects. As these rapid planning processes are occurring, our article aims to explain why these developments are crucial and unique in the context of the post-Arab Spring cities. We argue that the new road infrastructure is creating a spatially and socially fragmented city and transforming the urban citizenry into a controllable and navigable body. We use an inductive approach to investigate the effects of the new road infrastructure and its hegemonic outcomes on the city. On a conceptual level, we propose that the enclaving of the city is a containment method that has erupted since the mass mobilisations of the Arab Spring. In doing so, we use qualitative analysis to explain empirical evidence showing how the city is being transformed into nodes of enclaves, where communities are getting separated from one another via socio-spatial fault lines.

scholarly journals En aksjonsforskningsstudie av samarbeid i grensesoner – betydningen av deltakernes forventninger

2020 ◽  
pp. 573-597
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Stenshorne ◽  
Janne Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Action Learning ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Learning Study ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Resource Teachers ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
School Based ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

Based on a specific, school-based development project this article reflects on the participants’ experiences of the process. Experiences are discussed with particular emphasis on expectations from three school leaders, teachers, resource teachers and the university mentors. These participants all joined with different experiences and possibilities. In this case, the mentors from the university are also the researchers. The participants worked across their professional boundaries. Cultural historical activity theory is the framework for gathering and analyzing data and for the collaboration between the participants. Narratives in this action learning study show how expectations support practitioners` involvement and motivation for improvement, which in turn contributes to changing the school practices. Furthermore, when different actors cross boundaries and meet over time in a third space, the dialogue is challenged and refined, and creativity and knowledge trigger new insights and understanding.

Designing Dynamic Logotypes to Represent Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Jéssica Parente ◽  
Tiago Martins ◽  
João Bicker ◽  
Penousal Machado
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

This work explores how data can influence the design of logotypes and how they can convey information. The authors use the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, as a case study to develop data-driven logotypes for its faculties and, subsequently, for its students. The proposed logotypes are influenced by the current number of students in each faculty, the number of male and female students, and the nationality of the students. The resulting logotypes are able to portray the diversity of students in each faculty. The authors also test this design approach in the creation of logotypes for the students according to their academic information, namely the course and number of credits done. The resulting logotypes are able to adapt to the current students, evolving over time with the departure of students and admission of new ones.

scholarly journals Utica’s urban centre from Augustus to the Antonines

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 66-96
Author(s):  
Imed Ben Jerbania ◽  
J. Andrew Dufton ◽  
Elizabeth Fentress ◽  
Ben Russell
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Since 2010, a team from the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine and the University of Oxford1 has been investigating Utica’s monumental centre, located at the tip of the promontory on which the city is built (fig. 1). The range and scale of architectural elements littering this area were remarked upon by most antiquarian investigators of the site. Nathan Davis, working at the site in 1858, noted that, despite the fact that it “had been ransacked for building materials”, this part of the city was covered with “marble and granite shafts, capitals, and cornices, of every order, size, and dimension”.2 Alfred Daux even observed that local residents referred to the largest building of the zone as the “Dar Es Sultan” (Palace of the Sultan), such was its magnificence.3 Aerial photographs commissioned by A. Lézine in the 1950s (fig. 2) show the area at the head of the promontory almost completely robbed out during and immediately after the Second World War, giving it a rather desolate aspect.

scholarly journals Building Virtual 3D City Model for Smart Cities Applications: A Case Study on Campus Area of the University of Novi Sad

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Jovanović ◽  
Stevan Milovanov ◽  
Igor Ruskovski ◽  
Miro Govedarica ◽  
Dubravka Sladić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Airborne Lidar ◽  
3D City Models ◽  
3D City Model ◽  
City Model ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
City Models

The Smart Cities data and applications need to replicate, as faithfully as possible, the state of the city and to simulate possible alternative futures. In order to do this, the modelling of the city should cover all aspects of the city that are relevant to the problems that require smart solutions. In this context, 2D and 3D spatial data play a key role, in particular 3D city models. One of the methods for collecting data that can be used for developing such 3D city models is Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), a technology that has provided opportunities to generate large-scale 3D city models at relatively low cost. The collected data is further processed to obtain fully developed photorealistic virtual 3D city models. The goal of this research is to develop virtual 3D city model based on airborne LiDAR surveying and to analyze its applicability toward Smart Cities applications. It this paper, we present workflow that goes from data collection by LiDAR, through extract, transform, load (ETL) transformations and data processing to developing 3D virtual city model and finally discuss its future potential usage scenarios in various fields of application such as modern ICT-based urban planning and 3D cadaster. The results are presented on the case study of campus area of the University of Novi Sad.

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPACES SUSTAINING CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINA’S INCREASINGLY GLOBALLY FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENTS: USING A CASE STUDY OF PUTUO IN SHANGHAI

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The City

This paper explores what it means for a public space to embody the city within rapid urban change in contemporary urban development and how a space can accomplish this by embracing the culture of the city, its people and its places, using the particular case of Putuo, Shanghai in China. The paper employs mapping and empirical surveys to learn how the local community use the act of communal dance in everyday public spaces of this neighborhood, and seeks not to find generalizable rules for how humans comprehend a city, but instead to better understand how local inhabitants and their chosen activities can influence their built environment. The findings from this emphasize the importance to identify how public spaces can help to define cities with China’s emerging global presence, whilst addressing the ways in which local needs and perspectives can be preserved.

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