scholarly journals Walkability as the key element of urban planning within the Healthy Cities concept (systematic review)

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Nadezhda A. Vosheva ◽  
Natalya N. Kamynina ◽  
Ekaterina O. Korotkova ◽  
Dmitriy V. Voshev
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

The purpose of the study. The purpose of this work is the exploration and generalization of scientific researches on walkability to determine its advantages as an element of public policy in human-centered cities. Over the past fifty years, the world community has actively discussed the issue of healthy and sustainable urban development planning, which has gained particular relevance with the recent World Health Organization publication of the “Healthy Cities: An Effective Approach to a Rapidly Changing World” concept (2020). One of the Healthy Cities approach goals is to promote healthy urban planning and design centered on human well-being (unlike prevalent in the past vehicle orientation), and the main component of such planning is pedestrianization or walkability. The systematic reviews and meta-analyses reporting method (PRISMA) were used in the review. The search was carried out in the bibliographic databases Elibrary, PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar. The study of the structure, types, and relationship between pedestrianization and the type of urban planning revealed the global advantages of creating walkable areas, such as maintaining the physical, mental and social health of citizens, increasing social capital, and improving the city’s ecological and economic atmosphere. Conclusion. Thus the promoting walkability was concluded to be a public policy as a relatively simple and highly effective way to benefit in the short, medium, and long term. This fact ultimately makes pedestrianization one of the most important tools for healthy urban planning and design.

scholarly journals The role of urban planning and design in responding to climate change: the Brisbane experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kozlowski ◽  
Yusnani Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the responses from the urban planning and design professions in Brisbane to the impacts of climate change and the implications of the 2011 flood. In the past decade, the ramifications of climate change have already left a scar on some of the urban regions round the world. The Australian continent has been regarded as one of the most affected regions in terms of climate change implications. The 2011 Queensland floods of historic proportion, which came after a decade of extreme drought, raised many questions about the future development of cities. For the past decades, Queensland’s economy was largely based on property-led development. The flood plain land situated along Brisbane River has been developed and overburdened with building infrastructure contributing to the magnification of the flood events. Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology is based on identification of the problem and the major objective. To address the objective, this study concentrated mainly on the use of qualitative research methods. The major qualitative research methods include literature review, qualitative analysis and observations. Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, has been selected as the case study area. Findings – The paper revealed strong regional and city-wide planning directives addressing climate change which has not yet been fully been translated at the local-neighbourhood level. Originality/value – This paper provides a deep insight analysis and evaluation of the design and planning measures currently used to combat the impacts of climate change.

scholarly journals Historical Places and Identity of the Cities: Khuzam Palace Museum, Jeddah

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Marwa Abouhassan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Jeddah City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Physical Elements

Place identity refers to a cluster of ideas about identity and place in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and environmental psychology. Place identity has become a significant issue in the last 25 years in urban planning and design. Place identity concerns the meaning and significance of places for their inhabitants and users, and how these meanings contribute to individuals' conceptualizations of self. Place identity also relates to the context of mogdernity, history, and the politics of representation (Proshansky et al., 1995).Jeddah went through dramatic changes in the last 70 years after demolishing the old city wall and oil booming, which affected the identity, traditions, and lifestyle (Shiber, 1967). In order to eliminate the lack of city identity and change the people's attachment to Jeddah's new urban development, this paper will take Khuzam Palace Museum as a case study to express the relationship between the past and present in the city. The paper will have an analytical review of urban memory, place identity, and place attachment elements. At the end, the paper will set some recommendations to consider using and respecting the community memories from the past that related physical elements and social interaction that have to express into new forms of place-making in the future development to increase the identity and the sense of belonging in Jeddah city.

scholarly journals Emergent Urbanism & Beyond: Times of Transformation and Paradigm Shifts with a Twist on Heritage Urbanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Tigran Haas ◽  
Krister Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

This paper is the product of reflections on the consequences of the latest discoveries of Emergent Urbanism that the authors identify as the specific issue dominating today's urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning, and derive from economic, social and spatial processes of structural change. In the paper we reflectively also discuss ideas about urban heritage, urban planning & design, and how heritage and planning & design can contribute to urban development. Urban heritage is understood as an infrastructure comparable with other infrastructures that provide an arena for urban planning & design and urban social and economic development. Moreover, the paper includes a remodeled and novel, short discussion and standpoint about five contemporary urban planning & design ideals that dominate the contemporary planning & design discourse, and their different views of the past and urban heritage. The paper concludes that in any given situation and context, the dominating urban planning & design ideal define the specific urban heritage, and, thus, influence how we will understand the past—today and in the future but also the paper maintains that, we must equally recognize how forces of economic, social and spatial structural change contribute to shaping the contemporary urban landscape.

scholarly journals Public health and well-being in public open spaces through climate responsive urban planning and design

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Active Lifestyles ◽  
Controlled Environments ◽  
Public Open Spaces

The urban fabric enables people to move between climate-controlled environments (such as home and indoors work) and non-controlled ones (such as parks and beaches). The planning and design of urban spaces, on the other hand, largely define the way we live and affect our health as it can, for instance, promote or hinder active lifestyles and social cohesion (Owen, 2009; Speck, 2012). But even when the cities have compact built form and provide key features and infrastructure conducive to healthy lifestyles, local climate can indirectly dictate and restrict the use of public open spaces if the weather is prohibitive (Tavares & Swaffield, 2017). Climate responsive urban planning and design is, therefore, key to secure a healthy urban lifestyle (Barton, Thompson, Burgess, & Grant, 2015; Kent et al., 2017; Mouratidis, 2017) especially in light of frequency and severity of extreme weather events.

scholarly journals Urban planning, policymaking and scenarios of land uses' design

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. e020002
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

This paper is aimed to analyze the implications between urban planning, policymaking and scenarios of land uses’ design. The analysis assume that urban planning and design contribute to the quality of a city’s land uses and landscapes that are related to factors that improve qualitatively urban areas and the upgrading neglected areas. It begins analyzing the urban design and planning and its relationships with the urban land uses, policymaking and strategies to resume in design scenarios. It is concluded that urban planning, policymaking and design of land uses are relevant activities to manage urban land resources to achieve sustainable urban development.   Keywords: Design, land uses, policy making, scenarios, urban planning.

scholarly journals Re-thinking Urban Planning for Singapore’s Extended Lifespan Population of 2050: A League of Its Own

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Siew Yeong Yew
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
World Health ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Extended Lifespan ◽  
City State

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Organization’s Healthy Aging and Age Friendly Environment are comprehensive guidelines in ascertaining global standards for betterment of aging populations. However, as an economically established and highly organised city-state, Singapore has its own separate set of criteria regarding successful aging. This paper explores the contexts of living, working, and playing in Singapore’s current 65 and over population and the population over the age of 65 by 2050. The study demonstrates that these elderly life contexts are not only dissimilar to those on which the UN and WHO guidelines are based, but are uniquely Singaporean. These life, work and play contexts of an aging population also generate a new set of criteria that impact the model in urban planning and design for the tropical island-state. In this paper I argue that Singapore’s current 65 and over population is not the typical aging population, but one characterised by an extended lifespan with autonomy, employability, and vitality. These characteristics will be even more prominent for the country’s over the age of 65 by 2050 population, which will be comprised of the current Gen X and Millennials. To maintain sustainability and adaptability, urbanisation strategies in Singapore need to take into consideration these different generations of an aging population, which necessitate that planning and design recognise sets of criteria unique to each generation.

scholarly journals Multifunctional public open spaces for sustainable cities: Concept and application

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Zivkovic ◽  
Ksenija Lalovic ◽  
Milica Milojevic ◽  
Ana Nikezic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Public Open Spaces

The idea that multifunctional open spaces support sustainable urban development has been widely accepted in theory and intensively used in practice of urban planning and design. It is based on the assumption that multifunctional spaces bring a wider spectrum of environmental, social and economic benefits to urban areas. And yet, multifunctionality of space is still a vague and diffuse concept that needs further clarifications. Besides that, different academic disciplines understand and use this concept in different ways. This makes the application of the concept difficult to assess and manage in relation to different aspects of urban sustainability. Through the literature review, this paper analyses and compares how the concept of multifunctionality is used in various spatial disciplines (urban planning and design, landscape architecture) in order to better understand and relate its different dimensions, applications and expected benefits for sustainable development. Based on this, a new, relational and multidimensional conceptualisation of the multifunctionality of public open spaces is proposed for analysis and assessment of urban design solutions. It is further applied and discussed in relation to students projects from ?Ecological urban design studio? from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, as visions for development of multifunctional public open spaces in modernist mass housing area of ?Sava Blocks? in New Belgrade, Serbia.

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