Intensive residential densification: impact on the urban morphology of Santiago de Chile

Santiago de Chile´s areas of growing centrality are currently under residential densification processes, which vary in degrees of intensity and forms of impact in the urban environment. As a result of a weak conduction of residential densification, the structural-radical transformation of the urban fabric has resulted in urban space degradation. However, residential densification is a form of urban growth that, well designed and planned, allows optimizing infrastructures and building a more complex and inclusive city. This work aims to understand to what extent urban morphology shapes these processes of urban transformation in 15 selected areas of 25 hectares; proposing typologies of residential densification based on the intensity of the process and the state of transformation of the urban fabric. Density (dwellings/hectare) is understood in systemic relation with those parameters that determine urban compactness and configure public space: lot subdvision composition, setbacks, building footprint and height, floor area ratio and mixed use index, among others. The impact of intensive densification on urban space would have three main effects: (1) the standardized tower radically fragments the fabric structure and skyline, to the extent multiple and dispersed vertical operations transform lot geometry, abruptly increase building height and lower land occupation; (2) triggers a "residentialization" effect, unbalancing existing diversity of activities and contributing to undermine urban vitality; and (3) impairs the quality of public space, by introducing exogenous typological elements (such as setbacks) and reducing contact between private space and the street.

“The street is ours”. A comparative analysis of street trading, Covid-19 and new street geographies in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kisumu, Kenya

Food Security ◽

10.1007/s12571-021-01162-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Kiaka ◽

Shiela Chikulo ◽

Sacha Slootheer ◽

Paul Hebinck

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Urban Food Security ◽

Street Trading ◽

Food Economy ◽

City State ◽

Abstract Spaces ◽

The Impact ◽

AbstractThis collaborative and comparative paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the use and governance of public space and street trade in particular in two major African cities. The importance of street trading for urban food security and urban-based livelihoods is beyond dispute. Trading on the streets does, however, not occur in neutral or abstract spaces, but rather in lived-in and contested spaces, governed by what is referred to as ‘street geographies’, evoking outbreaks of violence and repression. Vendors are subjected to the politics of municipalities and the state to modernize the socio-spatial ordering of the city and the urban food economy through restructuring, regulating, and restricting street vending. Street vendors are harassed, streets are swept clean, and hygiene standards imposed. We argue here that the everyday struggle for the street has intensified since and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mobility and the use of urban space either being restricted by the city-state or being defended and opened up by street traders, is common to the situation in Harare and Kisumu. Covid-19, we pose, redefines, and creates ‘new’ street geographies. These geographies pivot on agency and creativity employed by street trade actors while navigating the lockdown measures imposed by state actors. Traders navigate the space or room for manoeuvre they create for themselves, but this space unfolds only temporarily, opens for a few only and closes for most of the street traders who become more uncertain and vulnerable than ever before, irrespective of whether they are licensed, paying rents for vending stalls to the city, or ‘illegally’ vending on the street.

The Nine Forms of the French Riviera: Classifying Urban Fabrics from the Pedestrian Perspective.

Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age ◽

10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5219 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alessandro Araldi ◽

Giovanni Fusco

Keyword(s):

Spatial Patterns ◽

Urban Space ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Urban Form ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

Spatial Relations ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Urban Fabric ◽

Central Cities ◽

French Riviera

The Nine Forms of the French Riviera: Classifying Urban Fabrics from the Pedestrian Perspective. Giovanni Fusco, Alessandro Araldi ¹Université Côte-Azur, CNRS, ESPACE - Bd. Eduard Herriot 98. 06200 Nice E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Keywords: French Riviera, Urban Fabrics, Urban Form Recognition, Geoprocessing Conference topics and scale: Tools of analysis in urban morphology Recent metropolitan growth produces new kinds of urban fabric, revealing different logics in the organization of urban space, but coexisting with more traditional urban fabrics in central cities and older suburbs. Having an overall view of the spatial patterns of urban fabrics in a vast metropolitan area is paramount for understanding the emerging spatial organization of the contemporary metropolis. The French Riviera is a polycentric metropolitan area of more than 1200 km2 structured around the old coastal cities of Nice, Cannes, Antibes and Monaco. XIX century and early XX century urban growth is now complemented by modern developments and more recent suburban areas. A large-scale analysis of urban fabrics can only be carried out through a new geoprocessing protocol, combining indicators of spatial relations within urban fabrics, geo-statistical analysis and Bayesian data-mining. Applied to the French Riviera, nine families of urban fabrics are identified and correlated to the historical periods of their production. Central cities are thus characterized by the combination of different families of pre-modern, dense, continuous built-up fabrics, as well as by modern discontinuous forms. More interestingly, fringe-belts in Nice and Cannes, as well as the techno-park of Sophia-Antipolis, combine a spinal cord of connective artificial fabrics having sparse specialized buildings, with the already mentioned discontinuous fabrics of modern urbanism. Further forms are identified in the suburban and “rurban” spaces around central cities. The proposed geoprocessing procedure is not intended to supersede traditional expert-base analysis of urban fabric. Rather, it should be considered as a complementary tool for large urban space analysis and as an input for studying urban form relation to socioeconomic phenomena. References Conzen, M.R.G (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland : A Study in Town-Planning Analysis. (London, George Philip). Conzen, M.P. (2009) “How cities internalize their former urban fringe. A cross-cultural comparison”. Urban Morphology, 13, 29-54. Graff, P. (2014) Une ville d’exception. Nice, dans l'effervescence du 20° siècle. (Serre, Nice). Yamada I., Thill J.C. (2010) “Local indicators of network-constrained clusters in spatial patterns represented by a link attribute.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(2), 269-285. Levy, A. (1999) “Urban morphology and the problem of modern urban fabric : some questions for research”, Urban Morphology, 3(2), 79-85. Okabe, A. Sugihara, K. (2012) Spatial Analysis along Networks: Statistical and Computational Methods. (John Wiley and sons, UK).

Property Value, Urban Quality and Maintenance Condition: A Hedonic Analysis in the City of Naples, Italy

Advanced Engineering Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.11.560 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 560-565 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Vincenzo del Giudice ◽

Francesca Torrieri ◽

Pierfrancesco de Paola

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Property Values ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Property Value ◽

Standard Requirement ◽

The Impact ◽

The article examines the relationship between property value and level of conservation of public urban space. While many studies have examined the effect of proximity of open space, parks, and trees on property value, there has been few examination of how projects of urban revitalization and ordinary and extraordinary maintenances of public spaces can influence property values. While intuition can suggest that a low level of quality and maintenance of a public space can negatively affect property value, even if the standard requirement of public spaces and services are meet, this yet to be empirically proven.We proposes the application of a new econometric models for quantitative analysis of the characteristics of real estate property (Generalized Additive Model), to assess the impact of maintenance condition on property values, due to the better prevision that these functions can obtain in a real estate market context.The control of the formal and logical adequacy of the proposed theoretical model is referred to the case study under analysis, in the city of Naples. The results obtained show that a well preserved urban environment influences property price by approximately 6%. The experimental test of the model has provided results that, by reason of their formal consistency with the results obtained in other contexts, can be considered representative of the effectiveness of the methodology proposed.

Illegal Use of Loading Bays and Its Impact on the Use of Public Space

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12155915 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (15) ◽

pp. 5915 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sara Ezquerro ◽

José Luis Moura ◽

Borja Alonso

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Surface Area ◽

Urban Space ◽

Quantitative Assessment ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Vehicle Type ◽

The City ◽

Very High ◽

Freight Vehicles

Loading bays are public spaces reserved for the operation of freight vehicles, and it is well known that there are significant problems concerning their use due to non-compliance with existing regulations. Unlawful use of loading bays leads to double parking, or to parking on the pavement or in restricted areas. This article has two objectives: Firstly, the study and analysis of the use of loading bays (type of demand, parking duration, illegal use, etc.), as well as their use according to their morphology. Secondly, the quantitative assessment of the influence of illegal use with regard to the efficient use of public urban space. Illegal use is quantitatively assessed by calculating the number of loading bays that are used inappropriately and the surface area (m2) of public space used incorrectly. In the analysis carried out in the city of Santander (Spain), it can be observed that the urban morphology of loading zones influences their use: The greater the capacity of the loading zone, the less efficient is its use. Moreover, it is observed that the degree of illegal use within loading zones is very high and that illegally excessive parking durations have a greater impact on the use of the ground space than vehicle type.

A economia urbana e os artistas de rua: performance, mobilidades e conflitos em um espaço público turistificado

GeoTextos ◽

10.9771/geo.v17i1.44684 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

Author(s):

António Cláudio do Nascimento Silva ◽

Daniel Paiva

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Urban Economy ◽

The Public ◽

Sensory Experiences ◽

Historic Centre ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Este artigo pretende refletir sobre a complexa relação entre os artistas de rua, as suas performances e o espaço urbano. Para esta reflexão, baseamo-nos num estudo desenvolvido na Baixa lisboeta, localizada no centro histórico da cidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Metodologicamente, o estudo implicou observação sombreada com recurso a caminhadas e à videografia entre 2016 e 2021, bem como um conjunto de 15 entrevistas realizadas a artistas de rua em 2018. Conceptualmente, o estudo recorre ao crescente corpo de bibliografia no âmbito da geografia sensorial e da etnomusicologia, nomeadamente em relação aos artistas de rua e às suas performances, e a sua intersecção com questões económicas, os aspetos da urbanidade, a influência do turismo e as experiências sensoriais. Os nossos resultados desvendam o processo de territorialização dos locais de performance na Baixa lisboeta, o impacto das performances artísticas no espaço público, e a relação dos artistas de rua com os agentes formais da economia urbana. Concluímos o artigo com uma breve reflexão sobre a importância do turismo para a expansão do busking.AbstractURBAN ECONOMY AND STREET ARTISTS: PERFORMANCE, MOBILITY, AND CONFLICT IN A TOURISTIFIED PUBLIC SPACEThis article reflects on the complex relationship between street artists, their performances and urban space. For this reflection, we draw upon a study conducted in the Baixa, located in the historic centre of the city of Lisbon, Portugal. Methodologically, the study involved shadowed observation, including walks and videography, which took place between 2016 and 2021, as well as a set of 15 interviews with street artists which were conducted in 2018. Conceptually, the study draws upon the growing body of works within the scope of sensory geography and ethnomusicology, namely regarding street artists and their performances, and their intersection with economic issues, aspects of urbanity, the influence of tourism and sensory experiences. Our results reveal the process of territorialization of performance sites in Lisbon’s Baixa, the impact of artistic performances in the public space, and the relationship of street artists with the formal agents of the urban economy. We conclude the article with a brief reflection on the significance of tourism for the expansion of busking.

Private control and public openness. The development of London’s public spaces since the Mayor’s 2009 manifesto

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.5204/jps.v1i1.15 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 129

Author(s):

Camilo Vladimir De Lima Amaral

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Planning Process ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Critical Approach ◽

Policy Document ◽

Lived Spaces ◽

Space Production ◽

The Impact ◽

This research aims to analyse the ongoing privatization of public spaces in London. It also seeks to explore the impact of the 2009 Mayor’s policy document named ‘A Manifesto for Public Space - London’s Great Outdoors’ in this process. The manifesto argues in opposition to the growing ‘corporatisation’ and exclusion of privately controlled spaces and in favour of spaces that are open ‘for all Londoners’ and with a planning process overseen by the Public Sector. In order to understand if these goals were achieved, an initial inventory listed all the developments after 2009. The projects’ examination made it possible to identify the most important cases in each group. This article analyses whether these developments are private public spaces or whether they remain genuinely public, thus examining the manifesto’s effectiveness on London’s lived spaces. In order to do that, a critical approach was constructed upon the literature review, in order to confront the ideas of public space with the spatial experience. This dissection demonstrated how recent complexity of urban space production has created new phenomena in the city, that can be assembled in the concepts of Velvet Ground, Tangled Orbits and Repeated Compulsion of Space Consumption. The concepts clarify the relationship between social control, the democratic openness of public space, and citizenship. The study concludes that a new form of privatized space is taking over the city, and the proposed policies were unable to stop this tendency.

Editorial

ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽

10.30822/arteks.v4i1.364 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. i-iv

Author(s):

Johannes Widodo

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Simulation Software ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

Impact Factors ◽

Critical Position ◽

Anthropological Perspective ◽

Architectural Styles ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Writing is an indispensable part of research culture, and publication is one way to disseminate ideas and to push forward the scientific discourse in the pursuit of new knowledge, from theoretical- to praxis- levels. Especially for young scholars, writing and publishing in academic journals shall become a natural habit, not just for chasing credit points or impact factors, but for strengthening the true desire in finding new knowledge, ethically and scientifically. There are four different categories of articles in this issue. First category is on the correlation between ecological-environmental aspects and tourism in rural-traditional contexts, where the writers have shown their critical position towards cultural & natural conservation. Second category is on architectural styles and typology which are more descriptive. Third category is related to the climatic comfort and simulation. And the fourth category is on human activities in urban space. The article by Anna Pudianti and Vincentia Reni Vitasurya is looking into the ecological footprints in relation to village tourism in Yogyakarta from the anthropological perspective. Similar interest to village tourism and cultural-environmental conservation in Nias is shared by Anugerah Septiaman Harefa. Likewise, Rachmat Budihardjo is looking into the impact of tourism to the typological adaptation of the traditional architecture in Bali. Dessy Anggaini and Dwita Hadi Rahmi wrote about “Indisch-style” based on typological inventory in Yogyakarta. Anneke Clauvinia Patriajaya and Yohanes Karyadi Kusliansjah are lamenting on the transformation of urban street character in Surabaya. Tine Abrianti and Purnama Salura wrote the sacred poetic of religious architecture in Jakarta. Rivena Elbes and Ai Siti Munawaroh article is on thermal comfort study on a library building in Lampung. Leonardus Murialdo Fransiskus Purwanto presented his analysis on heat transfer by a thermal simulation software. Finally, Raden Rangga Ilham Irfandian and Herman Wilianto presented their study on lifestyle aspect in urban public space in Bandung. This journal edition demonstrates the diversity of interests and approaches among young scholars. Although the level of criticality and the level of theoretical discourse can still be improved further, but these articles have shown a good promise for a higher level of scholarly pursuits.

Socio-technological Factors and Changing Urban Spaces

Space and Culture ◽

10.1177/1206331220910675 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 120633122091067

Author(s):

Aslı Ulubaş Hamurcu ◽

Fatih Terzi

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Urban Space ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

First Century ◽

Urban Public Space ◽

Technological Factors ◽

New Information ◽

Information And Communication ◽

In the Information Age, it is becoming crucial to understand the socio-technological factors and their possible outcomes so as to fulfill the upcoming spatial needs of the society. Thus, it is aimed to put forward how socio-spatiality is changing along with the developments in new information and communication technologies (nICTs) in the twenty-first century, and how socio-technological factors are affecting urban space in terms of the formation of new urban functions/uses or spaces that will habit/suit/house these dynamics within the city. The outcome of the study shows that there are three phases by which urban (public) space is expected to change according to the impact of socio-technological factors.

The impact of revitalization on the evolution of urban space on former iron and steel works areas in Ruhr region (Germany)

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies ◽

10.1515/environ-2015-0005 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 31-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marta Chmielewska ◽

Marius Otto

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Iron And Steel ◽

Functional Changes ◽

Object Of Study ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Iron And Steel Works ◽

The Impact ◽

Ruhr Region ◽

Steel Works

Abstract The aim of the paper was to consider the extent of the impact of revitalization on the evolution of post-industrial sites, which manifests itself in morphological and functional changes of urban space. Research was performed on three former iron and steel works areas located in the Ruhr region in Germany: one of the Thyssen's ironworks in Duisburg - Meiderich, the area of steelworks complex Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte in Oberhausen and the area of the iron and steel works Phönix in Dortmund - Hörde. Methods were applied specific to urban morphology. For each object of study a comparative analysis of the town plan was carried out. Town plans were compared before and after the revitalization process and special attention was paid to land use. This allowed us to observe morphological and functional changes which occurred as a result of the revitalization of the study areas. The research showed that the revitalization of post-industrial space may be conducted in many different directions but irrespective of that it has a huge impact on the evolution of urban space in both a morphological and a functional way. The extent to which revitalization affects morphological and functional structure of urban space depends on the future plan for the spatial development of the site and its attitude to its post-industrial heritage.

THE IMPACT OF MIGRANT PEASANTS ON THE URBAN SPACE (HO CHI MINH CITY — GÀNH DẦU)

Municipal economy of cities ◽

10.33042/2522-1809-2021-3-163-94-102 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (163) ◽

pp. 94-102

Author(s):

S. Ilchenko

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Urban Space ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Ho Chi Minh City ◽

Urban Residents ◽

City Center ◽

Community Interactions ◽

Background: This article uses the term “way of living” in its connection with “place identity” to analyze the impact of new urban residents (migrant peasants) on the urban space transformation. In the thematic study of the spatial development of the Ho Chi Minh City center, the configuration of the influence of the key actors (state and community) is analyzed. The architectural environment of the Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) is considered in the context of the similarity of its development (consequences of development) to the transformation of the space of Ukrainian cities. Methods: Observations and theoretical discourse on the recent changes in the city’s spatial organization are used to create a detailed description of several quarters of the city center on which the study focuses. This description allows us to understand the nature of changes in the urban environment, which is expressed in the continuous (daily) deconstruction of the historical environment, and the main drivers of this process. Turning to the hypothesis of the influence of the new residents’ “way of life”, which is different from the one of the urban residents, the study was supplemented by the analysis of the spatial organization and neighborhood of the fishing village of Gành Dầu in the province of tỉnh Kiên Giang. Results: The study of the space-community interactions of this sustainable rural settlement determines the similarity of the “rural identity” of local residents with the “urban identity” (autochthonous urban population of Ho Chi Minh City) in terms of perception and use of the common space. Therefore, differences in lifestyle (urban/rural) are not the main source of influence on the gradual changes in urban morphology and the loss of authentic buildings. In the context of this study, the impact of “consumer identity” as a manifestation of a “fluid society” (characterized by instability and uncertainty) that is in the process of constant change is more noticeable. It is important to emphasize that the influence of the local community (with any type of identity) on the transformation of the urban space occurs only through the informal spatial practices, and is not the only or determining factor. Conclusions: Due to the similarity of the processes of the spatial development of the Vietnamese and Ukrainian cities, this study provides a significant comparative example for the analysis of the urban environment transformations. This study helps to introduce a new research program that addresses the gap between the architectural analysis of the interaction between the (substituted) community-space and research in other scientific fields.