Citizen Participation in Chinese Urban Planning: Learning from Shenyang and Qingdao

2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 1503-1506
Author(s):  
Chong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Resource Recovery ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Commercial Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
International Experts ◽  
Renewal Project

This article reviews two projects with citizen participation in China: the resource recovery project in Shenyang and Taidong facade renewal project in Qingdao. In Shenyang, the international experts’ team motivated about 600 inhabitants to separate bioorganic garbage with satisfying result. In Qingdao, the cooperation between the government and the voluntary artists’ organization effectively completed the facade renewal project of Taidong commercial area. These two projects are able to demonstrate that citizen participation helps improve the quality of Chinese urban space under present conditions, and that the push of the authority and the moderation of the specialists are the key factors for successfully integrating the strength of the citizens into planning practice.

scholarly journals The state of property development in Turkey: facts and comparisons

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 85-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seda Demiralp ◽  
Selva Demiralp ◽  
İnci Gümüş
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Public Construction

AbstractIn this article, we investigate economic and political developments in Turkey’s construction sector over the last decade and consider their implications. We find that during the first term of the government of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), thanks to administrative and economic incentives, both private and public construction rose considerably. Despite the construction sector’s contribution to growth, there is also evidence of a transfer from the industrial sector toward the construction sector, which led to significant decline in the trend growth of the industrial sector in the era prior to 2006. Such evidence disappears in the post-crisis period, when the growth of private construction slows. However, overcentralization, clientelism, an absence of transparency, and limitations on citizen participation in urban planning remain as problems that need to be addressed through urban reform.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

scholarly journals Urban social security survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 04038
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Samoylova ◽  
Alireza Majorzadehzahiri
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Neighborhood Level

The article is devoted to security topics, which is one of the key requirements for improving the quality of life. The article presents the results of a study aimed at improving the safety of people in the area of the largest cities. Questionnaires were prepared and data were collected among residents of the study area on identified security problems as a result of field observations of the vicinity of Tehran (Iran). The study area is Lashkar district in Tehran 8 and east of Tehran where security is very low and the environment is relatively worn and width. The method of this research is descriptive-research. For the purpose of analyzing and assessing the security at the neighborhood level, a set of indicators are used, such as quality of passages, lighting, texture compaction, openness and closure of space, physical form. The following tables are presented in the article: Types of Security, The four theories of crime and violence in urban space, in the context of Swat Lashkar District. The study presented specific proposals (Solutions and Suggestions to create security in the Lashkar neighborhood) for measures of urban planning policy of the study area in Iran.

THEODOR FISCHER: PLAN AND BUILDING REGULATIONS MUNICH 1904

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 6-18
Author(s):  
Vasily Filippov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
World War ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Expansion Plan ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

The issues of preserving the urban planning heritage of Russian cities and the proposed methods of its preservation are discussed. The study of the morphology of Russian cities is presented as an example of a scientific approach to the description of the urban environment as a possible object for conservation. The history of the expansion plan and urban planning regulations for Munich, created by Theodor Fischer and based on the task of the morphology of urban space, adopted in 1904 and current for 75 years, regardless of the government in Germany, is described. The plan and regulations became the basis for the development of the city, its restoration after World War II and the preservation of its urban environment.

scholarly journals Analysis of disaster resilience of urban planning facilities on urban flooding vulnerability

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyong Park ◽  
Hoo Oh ◽  
Jeong-hun Won
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Urban Flooding ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Commercial Area

Rainfall continues to increase due to the influence of global warming and is resulting in an increase in flood damage. The purpose of this study is to propose an approach for reducing urban flood damage and improving urban resilience. Urban flooding vulnerability analysis used land use and building characteristics as evaluation indicators. Disaster resilience analysis of urban planning facilities focused on urban and spatial aspects. The results of these analyses were overlapped to analyze whether urban planning facilities were properly located in areas vulnerable to urban flooding. The result of mapping the two results showed that there are some urban planning facilities with low resilience in the Red Zone, the central commercial area of Changwon, which has the highest vulnerability. This zone should have the appropriate placement of high-resilience facilities, such as disaster prevention facilities and space facilities. This study proposes a method to minimize flood damage in urban space. This system can cope with and systematically manage flood damage by increasing disaster resilience through appropriate land use planning and site selection for urban planning facilities.

scholarly journals Culture in Health Care in the Republic of Serbia

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Ivan Stevanović ◽  
Milena Gajić-Stevanović ◽  
Jovana Aleksić
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Health Care Employees ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Care System

Summary Culture encompasses entire societies, influences everything we feel, see, do and believe and shape the way we approach the world around us. Culture is an inseparable part of human existence and as such an important part of health and health care. The aim of this paper was to present specific forms of culture in health care that have influence on the quality of health care system, as well as to investigate in which capacity is work on culture in the health care system in Serbia represented. National and international literature and documentation was processed using analytical methods - observation and comparative method. Health culture as responsibility of health care users and culture in health care as responsibility of health care employees are key factors in improving the health system in Serbia. The most important step has been made with the strategic plan of the Government of the Republic of Serbia in 2010, however, everyone has to accept and understand the importance of culture in health care and apply its rules into the practise.

scholarly journals Corona Virus (COVID-19) “Infodemic” and Emerging Issues through a Data Lens: The Case of China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinling Hua ◽  
Rajib Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Humanitarian Emergency ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Strict Regulation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a humanitarian emergency, which started in Wuhan in China in early December 2019, brought into the notice of the authorities in late December, early January 2020, and, after investigation, was declared as an emergency in the third week of January 2020. The WHO declared this as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 31th of January 2020, and finally a pandemic on 11th March 2020. As of March 24th, 2020, the virus has caused a casualty of over 16,600 people worldwide with more than 380,000 people confirmed as infected by it, of which more than 10,000 cases are serious. Mainly based on Chinese newspapers, social media and other digital platform data, this paper analyzes the timeline of the key actions taken by the government and people over three months in five different phases. It found that although there was an initial delay in responding, a unique combination of strong governance, strict regulation, strong community vigilance and citizen participation, and wise use of big data and digital technologies, were some of the key factors in China’s efforts to combat this virus. Being inviable and non-measurable (unlike radioactive exposure), appropriate and timely information is very important to form the basic foundation of mitigation and curative measures. Infodemic, as it is termed by WHO, is a key word, where different stakeholder’s participation, along with stricter regulation, is required to reduce the impact of fake news in this information age and social media. Although different countries will need different approaches, focusing on its humanitarian nature and addressing infodemic issues are the two critical factors for future global mitigation efforts.

scholarly journals Iniciativa legislativa del gobierno y técnica normativa en las nuevas leyes administrativas (leyes 39 y 40/2015)

2016 ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Piedad García-Escudero Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Better Regulation ◽  
Legislative Agenda ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Regulatory Impact ◽  
The Government

El artículo examina las novedades que las nuevas grandes leyes administrativas de procedimiento y régimen jurídico (Leyes 39 y 40/2015) introducen en la regulación de la iniciativa legislativa por el Gobierno, en concreto en la elaboración de los proyectos de ley, que incluye un trámite de consulta pública y participación ciudadana. Se analizan asimismo las nuevas medidas en favor de la calidad de las leyes y la coherencia del ordenamiento, como la planificación normativa, la aplicación de los principios de buena regulación y la evaluación ex ante y ex post que afectará no sólo a los reglamentos, sino también a los anteproyectos de ley.This essay analyses the new rules introduced by the recent Spanish administrative laws of procedure and organization (39 and 40/2015) in the proposal of bills by the Government, in particular in the elaboration of draft legislation, which includes a process of public consultation and citizen participation. Are also examined the new measures tending to improve the quality of laws, such as legislative agenda, application of the principles of Better Regulation and ex ante and ex post regulatory impact assessment.

scholarly journals The uses of Peunayong culinary riverwalk for open space: an observation

2021 ◽  
Vol 881 (1) ◽  
pp. 012068
Author(s):  
S Dalila ◽  
I Caisarina ◽  
I M Burhan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Public Open Space ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Banda Aceh

Abstract The role of public open space as one of the city elements can give its own character, and in general has the function of social interaction for the community. Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk is one of the public open spaces that is used as a waterfront recreation area in Banda Aceh City. The location of the Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk is on the riverbank of the Krueng Aceh river which flows through the center of Banda Aceh City and is a strategic area of the city as the center of the Old City. Before transformed into a Culinary Peunayong Riverwalk, this area is abandoned and used as a slum empty space due to the impact of different orientations. Currently the river transportation orientation route is starting to be abandoned which causes increased access to circulation route on the land. The construction of Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk has shift the image of the city to be much better. However the government of the city is still yet optimally developed the Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk which can be seen from the availability of several facilities that have not been fulfilled, for instance is the lacking of parking lot which force the visitors to use the road as a parking lot and results in traffic jam. This is one of the causes of the poor quality of Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk as a public open space and will have an impact on the quality of urban space and the image of the city as a whole. With those problems at hands, this article will discuss further regarding the quality of Peunayong Culinary Riverwalk as a successful public open space based on four PPS criteria, namely uses & activities; access & linkages; comfort & image; and sociability [9]. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data from this research were obtained from the results of field observations and will be analysed by coding.

scholarly journals Gated Neighborhoods, Privatized Amenities and Fragmented Society: Evidence from Residential Experience and Implications for Urban Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
David Shaw ◽  
Ke Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Planning System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Experience ◽  
New Evidence

Nowadays, urban space has become more fragmented and largely consists of many unconnected enclaves. The significance of neighborhood amenities to resident’s quality of life has been identified in the recent literature. However, studies have inadequately explored the real experience of residents in their use of neighborhood amenities under the gated urban form. Since the 1990s the urban environment of many Chinese cities has been re-shaped by the large creation of gated neighborhoods. Based on a case study in the city of Shenzhen, this paper draws upon evidence of residential satisfaction with local amenities to reveal a significant variation between different neighborhoods. The outcome of the enlarged social differentiation is a result of imbalanced micro-level urban development. The findings also provide new evidence demonstrating the increased fragmentation of society as the consequence of urban privatization. By linking the planning process with the social outcome, this paper reflects on the current strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese urban planning system.

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