Health-Oriented Community Slow Greenway’s Planning and Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2371-2375
Author(s):  
Fei Lv ◽  
Yu Lei Yan

Slow greenway as the integration of the natural environment and the living, providing both physiological and psychological health security for urban residents. Although some city-level greenways provide urban public space for residents, it exposed its intimacy is inadequate with residents, walking reach ability is not strong and the use is too concentrated. So that the community slow greenway concept becomes. As the end of the city slow greenway, community slow greenway’s planning and design is significance for the extension and widespread of the urban greenway. Rich the slow greenway’s functions with ecological environmental protection, biodiversity maintenance, entertainment participate, activities support, publicity education and others. Take Chunlei town as an example to explore community slow greenway’s specific planning and design methods, from construction points, feature set, pavement form and public service facilities.

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse

In recent years, cars have steadily colonized the sidewalks in downtown Tbilisi. By driving and parking on sidewalks, vehicles have reshaped public space and placed pedestrian life at risk. A variety of social actors coordinate sidewalk affairs in the city, including the local government, a private company called CT Park, and a fleet of self-appointed st’aianshik’ebi (parking attendants) who direct drivers into parking spots for spare change. Pedestrian activists have challenged the automotive conquest of footpaths in innovative ways, including art installations, social media protests, and the fashioning of ad hoc physical barriers. By safeguarding sidewalks against cars, activists assert ideals for public space that are predicated on sharp boundaries between sidewalk and street, pedestrian and machine, citizen and commodity. Politicians and activists alike connect the sharpness of such boundaries to an imagined Europe. Georgia’s parking culture thus reflects not only local configurations of power among the many interests clamoring for the space of the sidewalk, but also global hierarchies of value that form meaningful distinctions and aspirational horizons in debates over urban public space. Against the dismal frictions of an expanding car system, social actors mobilize the idioms of freedom and shame to reinterpret and repartition the public/private distinction.


2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 883-886
Author(s):  
Bo Xuan Zhao ◽  
Cong Ling Meng

City, is consisting of a series continuous or intermittent public space images, and every image for each of our people living in the city is varied: may be as awesome as forbidden city Meridian Gate, like Piazza San Marco as a cordial and pleasant space and might also be like Manhattan district of New York, which makes people excited and enthusiastic. To see why, people have different feelings because the public urban space ultimately belongs to democratic public space, people live and have emotions in it. In such domain, people can not only be liberated, free to enjoy the pleasures of urban public space, but also enjoy urban life which is brought by the city's charm through highlighting the vitality of the city with humanism atmosphere. To a conclusion, no matter how ordinary the city is, a good image of urban space can also bring people pleasure.


Author(s):  
Pedro José García Sánchez ◽  
Erwan Le Méner

In this paper the authors investigate a less documented side of street children’s (bakoroman) lives in Ouagadougou, namely, their encounters with strangers in town. These encounters lead to resources such as relationships, goods, protective time and space, or learning opportunities and punctuate the narratives of the bakoroman. They are one of the main dimensions of their lives in the urban public space as they go back and forth between the street and their homes (institutional and family). As such, these interactions participate in the construction of their biographical trajectories and bifurcations. From minimum reciprocity to relational vigilance, a broad spectrum of interactions delineates the possibilities and limits of an «ethics of fragility». Across these encounters the children create their space in the city, through circumstantial pedagogies of living together. These interactions can be read as resources to regulate urban violence, other than institutional or charitable interventions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Yuniar Rahadian ◽  
Alisha Nuur Salamah ◽  
Verina Dyah Kania ◽  
Vigia Tri Lestari

ABSTRAK Ruang terbuka publik pada dasarnya merupakan suatu wadah yang dapat menampung aktivitas tertentu dari masyarakatnya. Ruang terbuka Publik juga merupakan salah satu identitas citra kota atau kawasan dan indikator kualitas hidup kawasan perkotaan. Mengingat pentingnya peranan keberadaan ruang terbuka publik di dalam suatu kawasan perkotaan, maka sebuah ruang terbuka publik harus memiliki perencanaan dan perancangan sesuai dengan kelengkapan elemen pembentuk fisik kota. Kelengkapan elemen pembentuk kota tersebut juga terkait dengan desain arsitektural agar berfungsi sebagaimana mestinya ruang terbuka publik. Salah satu ruang terbuka publik di Bandung yaitu Alun-alun Cicendo Bandung yang didesain secara arsitektural dan menjadi icon kawasan Cicendo, berfungsi sebagai wadah untuk menampung aktivitas sosial masyarakat di kawasan Cicendo. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji karakretistik ruang terbuka publik berdasarkan elemen-elemen pembentuk fisik kota yang berada di kawasan Alun-alun Cicendo Bandung dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil pembahasan dapat menggambarkan bahwa kawasan Alun alun Cicendo Bandung memenuhi elemen-elemen pembentuk fisik kota dengan desain yang baik. Kata kunci : Ruang Tebuka Publik, Alun-alun, Elemen Pembentuk Fisik Kota. ABSTRACT Open Space basically is a space that can accommodate people’s activity. Open space is one of the city image and a city life quality indicator. The existence of open space in a city has an important role in an urban area so a public space needs proper planning and design with completeness an image of the city elements. The completeness image of the city elements is related to an architectural design so the public space can operate properly. Alun alun Cicendo is one of open space in Bandung that designed architecturally and become an icon of Cicendo, functions as a place to accommodate a social activity. This research aims to review the characteristics of a public space based on the image of the city elements around Alun alun Cicendo Bandung with the descriptive qualitative method. The result can describe that Alun alun Cicendo Bandung complies image of the city elements with a good design. Keywords: Open Space, Square, Image of the City Elements


Author(s):  
Feshchur R. ◽  
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Sosnova N. ◽  

Cities are constantly changing – new and existing facilities are created and reconstructed, existing ones are modernized, and new territories are developed, and, accordingly, public spaces are formed and develop in a certain way. To a large extent, this process is random and does not take place systematically, but this rather happens as a response to the urgent economic, environmental, social or other needs of city residents. Development management in the urban planning system is designed to solve the controversial problem of maintaining integrity and at the same time striving for its transformation. The use of the tools of mathematical modeling, considered in the article, allows one to solve the problems of spatial development of a city and its public spaces in a purposeful way, and to coordinate such a solution with the interests of stakeholders. When forming public spaces of a city one faces the task of streamlining competing development projects (alternative projects) for a particular area of ​​a city, taking into account the importance of their impact on the establishment of a distinctive image of the city and ensuring quality of life of its residents. To solve this problem, it is advisable to use methods of expert evaluation of design decisions, in particular, methods of ranking, valuating, and folding vector-valued criterion into a scalar criterion (integrated indicator of project weight). Ranking means assignment of a certain rank (a number from the natural series) to every project. The most important project is given the highest rank, which corresponds to number "one". The sum of the ranks given by all experts to a particular project can be considered as a generalized value of its weight. The article considers approaches to the assessment of urban public spaces on the basis of various criteria, namely urban, social, economic, environmental ones. The developed models of public space planning are designed for making a reasonable choice from a set of alternative projects subject to implementation, either according to the dominant criterion or according to many criteria in the conditions of resource constraints.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Maimunah Ramlee ◽  
Dasimah Omar ◽  
Rozyah Mohd Yunus ◽  
Zalina Samadi

The success of the revitalization program of urban public space is viewed through attractions that have been identified. This study aims to investigate the perception of users in public space through the on-site survey. In summary, the motivations, behavioural patterns, impressions on the public space as an attraction and the perceived importance of urban public spaces in the development of the city are important attraction for successful public space. The findings of this study will show main attraction in successful revitalization of urban public space based on users perception and can be used in a meaningful way to the users.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Public space; successful attraction; users perception; revitalization


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Maryja Šupa

This article presents the specific rhetoric of social control present in the sections of national and municipal legislation pertaining to conduct in public spaces of Vilnius, Lithuania.Theoretically, the paper utilises M. Foucault’s framework of power modalities both because of Foucault’s engaged questioning of power and the applicability of his insights to the spatial dimensions of the city. The paper bases its interpretive scheme on two premises: a) that law reveals biopolitical and disciplinary aspects of social control; and b) that urban public space presents a valuable case for the analysis of these aspects.A qualitative content analysis of national and municipal legislation has revealed that national legislation is driven by biopolitical objectives and municipal legislation by disciplinary ones. The national legislation focuses the regulation of public space on public order, public calm, and public dignity – public mores that must be upheld in the interest of the population and expanding beyond strictly public space. Disciplinarity is evident in municipal legislation insofar as it breaks space up into governable fragments, imposing painstakingly detailed prohibitions and obligations, and building a hierarchy inside the population between the desired and subnormal subject.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Júlia Pinto ◽  
Antoni Remesar

In the planning and design processes, the urban territories frequently face problems related to the lack of cohesion, not only regarding the morphological fragmentation but also fragilities of social and economic dynamics. The proposed concept of urban cohesion involves these two dimensions – the physical form of the city and the city's socio-economic and socio-cultural dynamics. In introducing this concept our aim is to focus on the idea that public spaces play a fundamental role in those processes, understanding that they are organised in a systematic way. This means that public space is structured in a cohesive system on different territorial scales within the city, forming a "network of networks". Intending to contribute to the strengthening of urban cohesion, the study proposes a method capable of assessing public space networks in terms of their cohesion, not only within the urban structure of the neighbourhood, but also their links to the surrounding networks. This method assumes that the city is formed by diverse territories due to several reasons. Firstly, due to their specific history and genesis, secondly, due to their morphologic characteristics, and thirdly, because of their socio-economic and socio-cultural features. This leads to the key principle that the city is the place of diversity par excellence, and that it is this diversity that gives the city its own character and distinguishes it from other territories. Two cases in the city of Barcelona are analysed. The neighbourhood of Barceloneta, a historic quarter outside the city walls that is now part of its consolidated urban fabric, and the Baró de Viver neighbourhood, an area that can still be considered peripheral to the city.


Author(s):  
Andrew Konove

The introduction outlines the argument and principal contributions of the book. It argues that the Baratillo and the larger shadow economy in Mexico City have been essential to the economic and political life of the city since the late colonial period. The introduction explains how the study contributes to existing scholarship on the informal economy, the state, urban politics, and urban public space in Mexico and Latin America. It includes a discussion of the study’s sources and methods and brief chapter descriptions.


Author(s):  
Renia Ehrenfeucht ◽  
Ana Croegaert

During 2010s, in response to new food truck operators, the city of New Orleans loosened regulations for food truck vending. At the same time the city turned its regulatory eye towards other forms of street vending and introduced a new second line vending ordinance. Using the New Orleans case, we argue that relaxing rather than revising regulations—and subsequently planning for ways to make street vending compatible with other activities—would be more effective and just. The authors participated in and observed 32 second line parades (parades organized and sponsored by African-American historic benevolent societies) during one season to understand how second line vending played out and the potential impacts of the new ordinance. This analysis demonstrates that compliance with the second line ordinance would have restricted vending without resolving identified concerns. New Orleans is an instructive case because the intent was to allow rather than eliminate vending. We argue that increasing compatibility between vending and other street activities makes food and goods available in the spaces were urban residents can most easily access them, and thereby establishes a more effective and just public space.


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