A NEW MODEL OF URBAN REGENERATION AND ECONOMIC REVITALISATION: THE I.D.E.A. DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO

In the 21st century globalized economy, innovation is a crucial factor within strategies targeted at growing and sustaining competitiveness of regions and cities. The emerging trend of innovation-led urban planning initiatives provides strong evidence of how cities are implementing strategies to promote innovation mainstreaming. Hence, these innovationoriented policies are currently translated into the creation of innovation districts, becoming part of the urban settlement dynamics towards regeneration processes. This paper intends to explore the new paradigm of urban development initiatives driven by the increasing demand of innovation. Accordingly, innovation districts will be investigated by identifying the role, as well as the influence, of the different actors who nurture and accelerate the innovation process at urban level. The I.D.E.A. District case study will be examined, by pointing out the policies and planning initiatives undertaken in Downtown San Diego. Findings from this research will evaluate the effectiveness of the new generation of urban planning initiatives in supporting urban growth strategies. Additionally, the level of public private partnership effectiveness in supporting the development of innovation districts will be highlighted. Useful lessons can be drawn in encouraging planners and policymakers towards implementing these new innovation-oriented urban regeneration initiatives within urban growth strategies, important for enhancing competitiveness and for improving liveability by providing solutions for a more efficient land use.

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Cities and the Political Geographies of the “New” Economy

New Urban Spaces ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190627188.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 171-205

Author(s):

Neil Brenner

Keyword(s):

Urban Growth ◽

New Economy ◽

Urban Regeneration ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

The Political ◽

Growth Strategies ◽

Political Strategies ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

Political Geographies

This chapter develops a scalar reinterpretation of contemporary political strategies to promote urban regeneration through the clustering of so-called new economy industries specialized in the production and deployment of advanced informational and communications technologies. In contrast to much of the hyperbole that has surrounded the new economy concept, this analysis of European trends suggests that urban growth strategies oriented toward such firms and sectors have generally involved rescaled, broadly market-disciplinary approaches to the regulation of uneven spatial development that seriously exacerbate, rather than resolve, the crisis tendencies and contradictions of post-Keynesian capitalism. However, despite their destabilizing macroeconomic consequences and the often vague, ideologically slippery spatial visions attached to projects to promote a new economy, such neoliberalizing regulatory rescalings continue to play a key role in the production of new urban spaces and new forms of urbanization.

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Overcoming stereotypes of renewable energy

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2019-4-124-136 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 124-136

Author(s):

Victor D. Gazman

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Energy Generation ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Financial Instrument ◽

Promising Direction ◽

Investment Projects ◽

Power Stations ◽

New Generation ◽

The Impact

The article considers prerequisites for the formation of a new paradigm in the energy sector. The factors that may affect the imminent change of leadership among the energy generation are analyzed. The variability of the projects of creation and functioning of power stations is examined. The focus is made on problematic aspects of the new generation, especially, storage and supply of energy, achieving a system of parity that ensures balance in pricing generations. The author substantiates the principles of forming system of parities arising when comparing traditional and new generations. The article presents the results of an empirical analysis of the 215 projects for the construction of facilities for renewable energy. The significance and direction of the impact of these factors on the growth in investment volumes of transactions are determined. The author considers leasing as an effective financial instrument for overcoming stereotypes of renewable energy and as a promising direction for accelerated implementation of investment projects.

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Multi-Temporal Built-Up Grids of Brazilian Cities: How Trends and Dynamic Modelling Could Help on Resilience Challenges?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020748 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 748

Author(s):

Iana Rufino ◽

Slobodan Djordjević ◽

Higor Costa de Brito ◽

Priscila Barros Ramalho Alves

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Cellular Automata ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Spatial Pattern ◽

Urban Growth ◽

Spatial Information ◽

Dynamic Modelling ◽

Urban Models ◽

Extreme Hazards

The northeastern Brazilian region has been vulnerable to hydrometeorological extremes, especially droughts, for centuries. A combination of natural climate variability (most of the area is semi-arid) and water governance problems increases extreme events’ impacts, especially in urban areas. Spatial analysis and visualisation of possible land-use change (LUC) zones and trends (urban growth vectors) can be useful for planning actions or decision-making policies for sustainable development. The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produces global spatial information, evidence-based analytics, and knowledge describing Earth’s human presence. In this work, the GHSL built-up grids for selected Brazilian cities were used to generate urban models using GIS (geographic information system) technologies and cellular automata for spatial pattern simulations of urban growth. In this work, six Brazilian cities were selected to generate urban models using GIS technologies and cellular automata for spatial pattern simulations of urban sprawl. The main goal was to provide predictive scenarios for water management (including simulations) and urban planning in a region highly susceptible to extreme hazards, such as floods and droughts. The northeastern Brazilian cities’ analysis raises more significant challenges because of the lack of land-use change field data. Findings and conclusions show the potential of dynamic modelling to predict scenarios and support water sensitive urban planning, increasing cities’ coping capacity for extreme hazards.

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Planning for Growth: Contradictions in the Framework of Economic and Urban Development from the “Spanish Miracle” (1959-1973)

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144220983336 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 009614422098333

Author(s):

Juan Luis De las Rivas Sanz ◽

Miguel Fernández-Maroto

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Growth ◽

National Level ◽

Growth Period ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Economic Planning ◽

Local Planning ◽

Municipal Governments ◽

Planning Framework ◽

Planning Policies

In the postwar period, the strong economic growth in Western countries coincided with the configuration of their modern urban planning systems. This article aims at exploring to what extent the targets of the economic planning that was broadly adopted in this growth period conditioned the performance of urban planning tools by analyzing the case of Spain. During the so-called “Spanish miracle” that started in the early 1960s and lasted until the mid-1970s, there were notable contradictions between economic and spatial planning policies and between the performance of the national and the municipal governments. It is concluded that the lack of an integrated approach to regional and urban planning policies at national level combined to the gap with the actual local planning framework, illustrated through the example of three cities, can help to understand the patterns of urban growth in a context of an expanding economy.

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Obstacles on the Path to Urban Greatness: Competing Plans for the Creation of Greater Lviv (“Wielki Lwów”)

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144217705351 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 661-671

Author(s):

Nadja Weck

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Development ◽

Future Development ◽

Practical Experience ◽

European Countries ◽

Comprehensive Plan ◽

The Future ◽

Imperial Capital ◽

New Generation ◽

The City

Like in many other provinces, during the Habsburg period, the main point of orientation for Galicia was Vienna. This also applies to architecture and urban development. Galicia’s technical elite applied the theoretical and practical experience it gathered in Vienna to the towns and cities of this northeastern Crown land. Ignacy Drexler, born in 1878 in the Austro-Hungarian Lemberg, was a representative of a new generation of engineers and architects who did not necessarily have to spend time in the imperial capital to earn their spurs. Increasingly, besides the more or less obligatory stay in Vienna, other European countries became points of reference. Drexler did not live to see the realization of important aspects of his comprehensive plan for the city, but his ideas and the data he compiled were indispensable for the future development of his hometown. They shape urban planning in Lviv to this day.

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Study on the comprehensive computational thinking transformation of urban planning discipline in the era of big data

Proceedings of the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress ◽

10.47472/egla4460 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Haixuan Zhu ◽

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Xiaoyu Jia ◽

Pengluo Que ◽

Xiaoyu Hou ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Computer Science ◽

Research Methods ◽

Data Storage ◽

Computational Thinking ◽

Rural Planning ◽

Human Beings ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Thinking Mode

In the era of big data, with the development of computer technology, especially the comprehensive popularization of mobile terminal device and the gradual construction of the Internet of Things, the urban physical environment and social environment have been comprehensively digitized and quantified. Computational thinking mode has gradually become a new thinking mode for human beings to recognize and govern urban complex system. Meanwhile computational urban science has become the main discipline development aspect of modern urban planning. Computational thinking is the thinking of computer science using algorithms based on time complexity and space complexity, which provides a new paradigm for the construction of index system, data collection, data storage, data analysis, pattern recognition, dynamic governance in the process of scientific planning and urban management. Based on this, this paper takes the computational thinking mode of urban planning discipline in big data era as the research object, takes the scientific construction of computational urban planning as the research purpose, and adopts literature research methods and interdisciplinary research methods, comprehensively studies the connotation of the computing thinking mode of computer science. Meanwhile, this paper systematically discusses the system construction of urban computing, model generation, the theory and method of digital twinning, as well as the popularization of the computational thinking mode of urban and rural planning discipline and the scientific research of computational urban planning, which responds to the needs of the era of the development of urban and rural planning disciplines in the era of big data.

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CHANGING OF PARADIGM IN MILITARY-POLITICAL THINKING IN THE DOCTRINES AND STRATEGIES OF MILITARY SECURITY OF UKRAINE OF THE 20th AND 21th CENTURIES

Almanac of Ukrainian Studies ◽

10.17721/2520-2626/2021.28.19 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 120-126

Author(s):

Mykhailo Tsiurupa

Keyword(s):

Security Policy ◽

Military Strategy ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Political Thinking ◽

Main Thesis ◽

Political Response ◽

Military Security ◽

The Creation ◽

New Generation ◽

The Military

The time limits of the life of one generation are about 25-30 years, so lived in the struggle for building its own state and its armed defence, this time for Ukraine goes down in the history of the first generation of creation and attempts to comply with four military doctrines (1993-2004-2012-2015), in which our own defence course was proclaimed. The theoretical basis of these official documents of significance were certain paradigms of military-political thinking, according to which Ukraine did not consider it a continuation of politics. The direction and principles of military policy (defence or security policy in European terminology) for modern Ukraine from the mid-20s of the XIX century, as well as 100 years ago, again came to the fore in connection with the implementation of previously abstract concepts " annexation "," occupation "," war ", which allegedly did not exist for our country in recent history. But today they have been embodied or, in the image of Franz Kafka, "reincarnated" into threatening forms of Russia's military practice against our state, the end of which is not yet visible in the near future. The military-theoretical and political response was the "Military Strategy of Ukraine" in 2021, which "opened" a new generation of paradigms of militarypolitical thinking. The main thesis is the belief that the protection of sovereignty and strengthening of military security is the military-theoretical and political response was the "Military Strategy of Ukraine" in 2021, which "opened" a new generation of paradigms of military-political thinking. The main thesis is the belief that the protection of sovereignty and strengthening of military security is the creation of a "comprehensive defence system" with the integration of all forces of the state and civil society, law enforcement agencies and volunteers, administrative regions and territorial communities. The military-theoretical and political response was the "Military Strategy of Ukraine" in 2021, which "opened" a new generation of paradigms of military-political thinking. We will prove that this is a philosophy of military security instead of the previously expressed doctrinal military-political ideas of entrusting a matter of national importance to the forces of the defence sector. The new generation of public life Ukraine will begin with a new paradigm of militarypolitical thinking, the central idea of which is the transition from hopes for the political levers of defence for international cooperation to the creation of a system of comprehensive national security with the synergistic potential of Ukrainianity.

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A Research on the Distributed BGP Protocol for the Dual-Layer Distributed Controller

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.687-691.2582 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 687-691 ◽

pp. 2582-2586

Author(s):

Jing Jing Zhou ◽

Jun Wei Ruan

Keyword(s):

Data Center ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Future Internet ◽

Basic Structure ◽

Mobile Internet ◽

Reform Process ◽

Speed Up ◽

Standardization Process ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

New Generation

Emergence and development of cloud computing, mobile Internet, and other relative technologies speed up the reform process of data center. The increasing demand on internet band width, diversity of Internet businesses, and Individualization of service delivery, etc. are imposing higher demands on the new-generation data center. Faced with the increasingly complicated Internet environment, traditional IP-based data center Internet structure has gradually exposed its limitations. In order to adapt to future Internet businesses, people engaged in this industry hold a mainstream opinion that “it’s time to give creative thinking over the basic structure of the Internet and adopt new design concept of the” and begin to pose high requirements on the features and functions of the future Internet system and structure. In recent years, emergence of software defined network (SDN) has provided a direction for development of future Internet. The idea of SDN originates in the Clean Stater4J Project, and with the in-depth development and research of technologies, the SDN structure has gone out of the laboratory and successfully stepped into the industrial circle. Having received wide recognition from both the academic and the industrial fields, the industrialization process of SDN and the standardization process of relative technologies have been pushed forward.

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