Discussing Intrinsic Association between the Urban Function Zoning and the City Fast and Efficient — Case of Urumqi

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2318-2321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Jie Chen ◽  
Xiang Hong Hu ◽  
Yao Qi ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Heng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Urban Function ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Functions

In view of the overall space of Urumqi, use of overall space is not sufficient, detail partition in the major functional divisions is imperfect, land functional structure is irrational, city operation is not efficient, traffic congestion, air pollution is serious, etc, use optimizing the urban functional divisions method, study on inter-relate between the city urban functions zoning and urban effective and efficient, through its intrinsic link explore optional ideas to find a perfect urban planning.

Introducing environmental-justice analysis into urban planning practices in the city of Bottrop, Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Kristina Ohlmeyer ◽  
Mathias Schaefer ◽  
Madeleine Kirstein ◽  
Dietwald Gruehn ◽  
Stefan Greiving
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Weather Extremes ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
The City ◽  
Environmental Burdens

An analysis of the provision and accessibility of urban green infrastructure was carried out and combined with the spatial exposure of social-welfare recipients to noise, air pollution and weather extremes in the city of Bottrop, Germany. We found out that social-welfare recipients tend to live in areas where the exposure to multiple environmental burdens is higher compared to other statistical districts in the city. Ultimately, there is a real impact of our conceived indicators, since they were integrated into an obligatory ‘sustainability check’, which was adopted by the city assembly of Bottrop in June 2020.

scholarly journals A Systems Dynamics Approach to Explore Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution Link in the City of Accra, Ghana

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Armah ◽  
David Yawson ◽  
Alex A. N. M. Pappoe
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Systems Dynamics ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Downsizing Strategy for Cars, Beijing for People Not for Cars: Planning for People

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asim Farooq ◽  
Mowen Xie ◽  
Edward J. Williams ◽  
Vimal Kr. Gahlot ◽  
Du Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Small Block ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Beijing, the capital of China, is increasing enormously relative to its economy, pollution, population and dependency on private vehicles. Most of the Chinese cities are built and being built as a car-centric city. Six million cars are registered in Beijing, and with passage of time the attraction of private vehicles increases. Increasing in infrastructure the selection towards private vehicle is boosting. Municipality of Beijing is busy to use the conventional ways to solve the congestion problem rather than the smart solution, what megacities need to adopt. Beijing is second-worst in length of communing time.   This paper addresses the traffic congestion problem in the central part of the Beijing by using “Mixed Use Small Block Concept”, where the network of roads spreads like veins in a human body, and the accessibility around center is dependent on vehicle. The aim is to recover the areas from cars and give it to residential and improve their accessibility by changing the mode of travel from car to walking and cycling, and provide clear boundaries and redesign the area by using Small Block Mixed use concept. Combining the public transportation, urban planning design and Non-Motorized Transportation priority will lead the city towards livability.The right to access every building in the city by private motorcars actually the right to destroy the city.” Mumford.

Planning, traffic and the city: railway development in colonial Delhi,c.1899–1905

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
RAGHAV KISHORE
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Political Security ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:This article examines how the management of railway traffic was problematized in urban plans for colonial Delhi after the 1890s. It reveals how Delhi was reconstituted as a space of circulation in municipal plans attempting to combat railway-induced ‘traffic congestion’. Yet, even as new gardens, localities and footpaths were envisaged as enabling smooth flows of traffic and generating a commercially healthy city, policing anxieties and concerns over political security dominated in such plans. Finally, this article shows how the process of railway-inspired ‘urban planning’ was itself driven by a contestation between different ‘scales’ of the colonial state.

scholarly journals Air Pollution: Its Causes and Consequences With Reference To Kathmandu Metropolitan City

2014 ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilli Raj Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The City

Rapid increase in human and vehicular population along with a continuous increase in primary energy consumption in Kathmandu metropolis results in continuous increase in TSP, PM10 SO2, CO, NO2 and other air polluting dust smog and gases. Emissions from automobiles, factories and domestic heating, cooking, refuse burning in Metropolitan areas have created air pollution which has threatened the well being of the city dwellers. Housing congestion, traffic congestion and various commercial activities have produced high amount pollutant emissions in various forms which have ultimately polluted the surrounding environment and adversely affected human health in the metropolis.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ttp.v8i0.11509 The Third Pole: Journal of Geography Vol.8-10, pp. 27-33: 2010

scholarly journals Designing an Environmental Zone in a Mediterranean City to Support City Logistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Ros-McDonnell ◽  
María Victoria De-la-Fuente-Aragon ◽  
Diego Ros-McDonnell ◽  
Manuel Cardós Carboneras
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
City Centre ◽  
City Logistics ◽  
European Directives ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The City ◽  
Mediterranean City ◽  
Historical Centre

<p>European cities are facing enormous challenges in accessibility and livability terms due to several European directives, which are compulsory in the mid/long term, traffic congestion levels are still increasing, and air pollution and noise disturbs citizens’ lives. This work presents the study carried out in a Mediterranean city to define an Environmental Zone with traffic restrictions for vehicles in the historical centre of the city of Cartagena (Spain) by exploring different urban logistics measures to tackle main problems caused by freight deliveries and pickups in the city centre. These solutions aimed to enhance the efficiency of vehicles, and to reduce both traffic congestion the environmental impacts caused by freight delivery in the city in order to improve urban sustainability.</p>

scholarly journals URBAN FACILITIES FOR A THOUSAND THINGS. COLLECTIVE FORM PROJECTS IN THE SOUTH OF GRANADA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Luis Rivas Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
The South ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Functions

In the current socio-economic context, and particularly in the cities of southern Europe,one of the essential objectives of urban planning is the production of a public space as acollective good that qualifies, shapes and makes sense of urban functions. In thecomposition of "the public" the role of collective urban facilities is key. A tour of certainbases that could help redefine the understanding of public urban facilities is proposed. Theaims are to make the opportunities profitable and the instruments for its correct urbaninsertion flexible, to rescue benefits from the private sphere and to reactivate thegeography and the harmonic readings that the landscape inherited. They are all argumentsthat are exposed and fed by the project and planning experiences in the city of Granada.They offer a readjustment of the meaning of the project and introduce the possibility ofmore useful urban facilities.

scholarly journals URBAN ENVIRONMENT DESIGN: NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES BASED ON THE BIOSPHERE COMPATIBILITY PARADIGM (PART 2)

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
V. A. Ilyichev ◽  
V. I. Kolchunov ◽  
N. V. Bakaeva ◽  
A. A. Kormina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
City Life ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
Urban Function ◽  
The City

Statement of the problem. New challenges of our time significantly affect the methodology of urban planning. The development of new principles of city life, regulating the biosphere compatibility of cities and the development of human capital, should be considered an urgent scientific task that requires identifying the patterns of functioning of urban elements of planning structures (residential areas). Results. The paper develops the methodological foundations of urban planning, design and evaluation of design options for residential planning units of the city (quarter, neighborhood, residential area) on the principles of the paradigm of biosphere compatibility of cities and settlements that develop people. A conceptual model of the functional and planning organization of the territory- the hierarchy of city functions - is proposed. An algorithm for evaluating variants of residential area planning projects based on the index of urban function provision has been developed. For each of the functions of the city, the necessary and sufficient composition of indicators for evaluating design decisions is identified. The article discusses the prospect of quantifying the social well-being of the population of residential areas of a biosphere-compatible city as an alternative condition for the formation of a comfortable urban environment.Conclusion. The numerical evaluation of the design solution and a comparative analysis of the level of favorability of a residential neighborhood using the principles of the biosphere compatibility paradigm show what changes are required in the composition of urban planning solutions not only to achieve the quality of the material environment of life, but also human development in all respects.

scholarly journals Pandemics, cities and Public Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Gouveia ◽  
Claudio Kanai
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Susceptibility To Infection ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
The City

Abstract Public Health and urban planning, which were once strongly connected, now go separately and are practically united only in sanitation policies. New and old health threats brought by urbanization and highlighted by the current pandemic emphasized the close relationship between health and the urban environment. Measures to control the current SARS-Cov-2 pandemic resulted in cleaner urban environments, particularly with lower levels of air pollution in many cities due to drastic reduction in economic activity and mobility patterns. COVID-19 is also related to air pollution by possibly increasing susceptibility to infection and the lethality of the disease. Both aspects are discussed in view of the recent literature and empirical data for the city of Sao Paulo. In preparing for the post-pandemic, health should be back at the center of decisions regarding urban life and urban planning and Public Health re-connected.

scholarly journals CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE A POLUIÇÃO DO AR EM CURITIBA-PR FACE A SEUS ASPECTOS DE URBANIZAÇÃO

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inês Moresco Danni-Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
The City

O presente texto aborda as feições morfo-estruturais assumidas por Curitiba diante de seu crescimento urbano e dos Planos Diretores a ela aplicados neste século, na perspectiva de suas interações com as questões de qualidade do ar da cidade. Considerations about air pollution in Curitiba-PR in vew of its urbanization Abstract This paper is concerning about the morpho-estructural characters given to Curitiba by its urban growing and its urban planning in this century, under the perspective of their interaction with the city air quality problems.

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