The ‘Chinese model’ and the future of rural-urban development

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
The Future

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

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.

scholarly journals Current and Future Land Use Characters of a National Central City in Eco-Fragile Region—A Case Study in Xi’an City Based on FLUS Model

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Dingrao Feng ◽  
Wenkai Bao ◽  
Meichen Fu ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Yiyu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Pattern Change ◽  
Land Use Dynamics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Xi’An City

Land use change plays a key role in terrestrial systems and drives the process of ecological pattern change. It is important to investigate the process of land use change, predict land use patterns, and reveal the characteristics of land use dynamics. In this study, we adopted the Markov model and future land use (FLUS) model to predict the future land use conditions in Xi’an city. Furthermore, we investigated the characteristics of land use change from a novel perspective, i.e., via establishment of a complex network model. This model captured the characteristics of the land use system during different periods. The results indicated that urban expansion and cropland loss played an important role in land use pattern change. The future gravity center of urban development moved along the opposite direction to that from 2000 to 2015 in Xi’an city. Although the rate of urban expansion declined in the future, urban expansion remained the primary driver of land use change. The primary urban development directions were east-southeast (ENE), north-northeast (NNE) and west-southwest (WSW) from 1990 to 2000, 2000 to 2015, and 2015 to 2030, respectively. In fact, cropland played a vital role in land use dynamics regarding all land use types, and the stability of the land use system decreased in the future. Our study provides future land use patterns and a novel perspective to better understand land use change.

scholarly journals Planning for 1000 Years: The Råängen Experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
Peter Pelzer ◽  
Roger Hildingsson ◽  
Alice Herrström ◽  
Johannes Stripple
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Situation ◽  
World Class

While traditional forms of urban planning are oriented towards the future, the recent turn towards experimental and challenge-led urban developments is characterized by an overarching presentism. We explore in this article how an experimental approach to urban planning can consider the long-term through setting-up ‘conversations with a future situation.’ In doing so, we draw on a unique experiment: Råängen, a piece of farmland in Lund (Sweden) owned by the Cathedral. The plot is part of Brunnshög, a large urban development program envisioned to accommodate homes, workspaces, and world-class research centers in the coming decades. We trace how Lund Cathedral became an unusual developer involved in ‘planning for thousand years,’ deployed a set of art commissions to allow reflections about values, belief, time, faith, and became committed to play a central role in the development process. The art interventions staged conversations with involved actors as well as publics geographically and temporally far away. The Råängen case illustrates how long-term futures can be fruitfully brought to the present through multiple means of imagination. A key insight for urban planning is how techniques of financial discounting and municipal zoning plans could be complemented with trust in reflective conversations in which questions are prioritized over answers.

scholarly journals Tangible Remains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Solange Marie Lochore Thorp
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Future Projection ◽  
The Future ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Additive Design ◽  
Art School

<p>This design led research advocates for an architecture indicative of the preceding history; that engages in an active dialogue with the site. Developed through shifting scales and media, the thesis investigates how architecture can give expression to the singularities of site. The milieu of erasures and the enduring traces are drawn to the surface and manifested across three design phases: 1 Chinese Garden, present condition; 2 Art School, past reflection; 3 Artist Colony, future projection. Through a process of editing, fragments are extended and retracted between the phases as more intense programs are introduced. The final design outcome is the result of an additive design methodology, developed across the course of the thesis. The design methodology is a model for combining sites in contemporary urban development; a model for co-existence of past and present into the future.</p>

scholarly journals Autonomous Road Vehicles: Challenges for Urban Planning in European Cities

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Gavanas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges

Autonomous vehicles will significantly affect mobility conditions in the future. The changes in mobility conditions are expected to have an impact on urban development and, more specifically, on location choices, land use organisation and infrastructure design. Nowadays, there is not enough data for a real-life assessment of this impact. Experts estimate that autonomous vehicles will be available for uptake in the next decade. Therefore, urban planners should consider the possible impacts from autonomous vehicles on cities and the future challenges for urban planning. In this context, the present paper focuses on the challenges from the implementation of autonomous road vehicles for passenger transport in European cities. The analysis is based on a systematic review of research and policy. The main outcome of the analysis is a set of challenges for urban planning regarding the features of urban development, the local and European policy priorities, the current lack of data for planning and the potential for autonomous vehicles to be used by planners as data sources. The paper concludes that tackling these challenges is essential for the full exploitation of the autonomous vehicles’ potential to promote sustainable urban development.

scholarly journals Urbanisation et environnement: la ville du present et du futur

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis TSIOMIS
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Environmental Dimension ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
The City

Abordagem interdisciplinar da cidade na perspectiva do urbanismo, da arquitetura e dos arquitetos. Novos conceitos e noções para o tratamento da cidade considerando a dimensão ambiental. Relação entre desenvolvimento urbano e meio ambiente. Urbanismo, projeto urbano e desenvolvimento sustentável. Urbanization and the environment: the city of the present and of the future Abstract Interdisciplinary approach of the city under the urbanism, architecture, and architects’ perspective. New concepts and notions for treating the city, considering the environmental dimension. Relationship between urban development and the environment. Urbanism, urban project, and sustainable development.

Even governmentality begins as an image

Focaal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (61) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Baxstrom
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Virtual Object ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

This article considers the complexity of contemporary urban life in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through an analysis of planning and the plan itself as a thing in this environment of multiplicity. It argues that the plan functions as a vehicle for action in the present that does not require a singular vision of the future in order to succeed. Plans in the context of governance and urban development gesture to “the future,” but this gesture does not require “a future” in order to function in a highly effective manner. The evidence presented indicates that the primary effectiveness of the plan largely relates to its status as a virtual object in the present. Such virtual objects (plans) bind subjects to the conditions of the present within the desires and limits asserted by the institutions seeking to dominate contemporary life in the city, but this domination is never absolute, singular, or complete.

Urban Development of Conflict Zones: The Case of Gaza City

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Yousef J. M. Abukashif ◽  
Müge Riza
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Map Analysis

Worldwide, an increasing number of cities and regions are confronted with conflict and tension. These conflicts have an impact on shaping and planning the built-environment, as well as the future development of the area. This article focuses on Gaza City and its development process throughout its political conflicts, with an emphasis on the last two decades (2000-2018). The main objective is to comprehend the urban development in the case of conflict through analyzing the development of Gaza City, as well as questioning the determinants of urban development. This information is obtained through aerial maps, thermal maps and GIS map analysis. The findings reveal a general shortage of housing units and lack of safe housing locations, as most areas in Gaza City are under threat of war, as well as high prices of land due to the unavailability of unconstructed lands and high costs of construction materials. This study argues that urban development in Gaza City was not led by planning through local authorities, rather it was shaped by conflict. This article concludes with recommendations that could be beneficial in developing lasting solutions to urban development in Gaza City

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