scholarly journals University campuses in Russia: architectural and urban development typology

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (06) ◽  
pp. 1826-1839
Author(s):  
Aleksey Vladimirovich Popov ◽  
Olga Ivanovna Syrova

The purpose of the present study is to develop a typology of university campuses reflecting all their diversity. The main attention is paid to the peculiarities of the location of the university campuses relative to the settlements, as well as their spatial planning arrangement. In general, depending on the spatial planning arrangement, three types of university campuses are defined and analyzed, namely, dispersed, dissected, and compact (local). The features of university complexes located in the metropolitan areas, largest, and large cities, as well as in medium and small cities, and outside of large settlements in the suburban area have been determined depending on the location of campuses relative to settlements. Besides, the authors have identified the ways of spatial planning development of existing university complexes and justified improving the spatial planning arrangement of university campuses. In general, four ways of the spatial development of existing universities are identified: purchasing facilities in the adjacent territory to expand the existing campus; placing the necessary additional facilities in the adjacent and other areas of the city, that is, integrating into the urban environment; creating an additional campus in a remote territory (often in the suburbs); and moving all or part of the university facilities to a new campus with a full-fledged infrastructure in another area of the city or suburb. The article provides examples of university campuses (complexes) in Russian cities for all the types considered, provided with the attached graphic schemes.

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo

As large cities become unaffordable, some people in the urban middle class are moving to small cities but risk replicating gentrification and its harms. Based on a qualitative research project on Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, this paper examines the narratives that middle-class urbanites construct to make sense of this migration, their new urban environment, and their place within it. These narratives describe their decision to move (migration) and their everyday lives in the city (settlement). Most importantly, their narratives are shaped by their social positions as both displaced residents and gentrifiers and as both consumers and producers of space. But despite being self-aware gentrifiers, their settlement narratives lack reflections on their own displacement from New York City, and instead emphasize how they try to mitigate gentrification’s harms. The paper concludes with a discussion of what makes gentrifiers in small cities distinct from those in large ones.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2b) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
B.A. Rogozhin ◽  

The influence of the cultural environment of the city on the formation and development of the personality of the outstanding scientist, Nobel Prize winner І.І. Mechnikov. The conditions and condition of the city that existed during his stay in Kharkiv were studied. The activity of educational institutions and cultural life of citizens is described. in it. It is concluded that the cultural urban environment and conditions of education are a necessary factor for the success of a creative personality. The university as an educational system contributes to this.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (139) ◽  
pp. 20170946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan R. Frank ◽  
Lijun Sun ◽  
Manuel Cebrian ◽  
Hyejin Youn ◽  
Iyad Rahwan

The city has proved to be the most successful form of human agglomeration and provides wide employment opportunities for its dwellers. As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: how will automation affect employment in cities? Here, we provide a comparative picture of the impact of automation across US urban areas. Small cities will undertake greater adjustments, such as worker displacement and job content substitutions. We demonstrate that large cities exhibit increased occupational and skill specialization due to increased abundance of managerial and technical professions. These occupations are not easily automatable, and, thus, reduce the potential impact of automation in large cities. Our results pass several robustness checks including potential errors in the estimation of occupational automation and subsampling of occupations. Our study provides the first empirical law connecting two societal forces: urban agglomeration and automation's impact on employment.


2018 ◽  
Vol 239 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
R.B. Bryukhov ◽  
K.E. Kovalenko

Urbanization continues. There is an outflow of population from small cities and towns to large ones. According to some estimates, 60% of the world's population will live in cities by 2060 (now 50%). The middle class is growing, and there are more and more people who buy cars. Consequently, the load on urban infrastructure and roads is increasing. The high number of traffic jams leads to negative consequences: the delay in the delivery of goods, the late arrival of people to work, etc. On the other hand, despite the best efforts of manufacturers, transport continues to pollute the atmosphere. Technologies continue to develop rapidly, new business models, rules of doing business in transport and ways to use it are emerging. Recently, there has been the emergence of such innovations as car sharing (the use of cars that are freely available in the city), various types of taxis that can be called up using a mobile phone, and improved urban public transport. In addition, the most current urban trends are the development of pedestrian areas in large cities, non-motorised transport, and bicycles.


1927 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-597
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman

Legislative Apportionment. The problem of the representation of large cities or metropolitan districts in state legislatures is becoming increasingly difficult and acute. The number of states in which a single center of population is with each census approaching a size which entitles it, on the basis of its inhabitants, to a controlling proportion of the representatives in the state legislature grows steadily as the current of population toward the city continues to flow. Certain states have dealt with this situation by frankly and openly discriminating against these metropolitan areas by specifying that they shall never be entitled to more than a fixed percentage of the representatives. The constitutions of certain other states do not permit this, however, but require that after each decennial census a total fixed number of members in the legislative body shall be allotted equally to districts of equal population. If this is done the metropolis is guaranteed under each apportionment the increase in representation to which its proportionate increase in population entitles it. And the answer volunteered to this problem by several state legislatures has been steadily to refuse to reapportion the state.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Francesco Alberti ◽  
Raffaele Paloscia

The upgrading of riverfronts is a theme that has long played a central role in the renewal programs of large, medium and small cities throughout Europe. The case study presented in this paper is Florence, whose Roman origins and development, from the Middle Ages to today, are closely linked to the Arno River, which runs from east to west. After briefly reviewing some salient moments in the history of the relationship between the city and the river, the paper illustrates some research and projects carried out within the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, focused on the role that Arno can still play in the future of the Florentine metropolitan area, as a catalyst for interventions aimed at improving urban sustainability, livability and resilience to climate change.


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-489
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Coloma ◽  
Marta Garcia ◽  
Raúl Guzmán

Small cities with less than 200,000 inhabitants do not usually suffer from chronic congestion problems. However, private vehicles are used excessively, making it necessary to implement measures to encourage further use of public transport and pedestrian mobility to make it more sustainable. Bypasses improve level of service (LOS) by removing cars from the city center, leading to significant reductions in overall travel time. Most studies so far have been conducted in large cities suffering chronic congestion problems, so the aim of this research is to analyze the effects of bypasses in small and non-congested cities through the construction of a traffic model in Badajoz (Spain), starting with the allocation of the origin-destination travel matrix derived from surveys and traffic counts conducted at the southern and eastern accesses. The traffic model describes the mobility in potentially-capturable future southern traffic relationships and allows insights into different alternatives in the construction of a new high LOS road. This research concludes that small cities with no chronic congestion problems should plan bypasses as close as possible to the city, since they are the most economical, produce greater traffic capture, greater time savings, and eliminate the largest number of CO2 emissions from the urban center. The more distant alternatives have a higher LOS, however, these are longer and more expensive solutions that also capture less traffic and thus eliminate less CO2 emissions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Andrey Pozdnyakov ◽  
Tatyana Tsurik

The article deals with the problem of the improvement of public spaces in large cities on the example of Kursk. The author suggests using the existing infrastructure of the city to create a comfortable environment and increase its recreational opportunities for local residents and tourists. The study is aimed at creating a system of comfortable public spaces using the ecological, historical and cultural resources of the city, where the parks and squares of Kursk play a key role. The practical use of this concept contributes to the improvement of the city’s image and the development of a comfortable urban environment.


Author(s):  
Inna Makarchuk ◽  
Julia Kolodich ◽  
Ekaterina Shevchuk

In the scientific literature, the problem of reconstruction of urban industrial zones was considered by scientists mainly in terms of architecture and construction (Sedin V. L., Kravchunovskaya T. S., Kovalev V. V., Bronevitsky S. P. and others), the economic aspect - less attention was paid. Foreign scientists Pacer R., Aruninta A., Ha S., Dardya M., Davis T., Margolis K. studied the concept of "redevelopment" quite widely, both theoretically and on the basis of examples of specific cities.Over the last decade, the deindustrialization of large cities has become widely known. As a result of reduced production, large-scale degrading industrial areas with unused buildings, warehouses and related infrastructure. The spatial structure of such zones requires a consistent transformation based on multi-purpose analysis. In this regard, there is a need for work on the reconception of industrial zones, their adaptation to modern conditions of the city and sustainable development. Development is a good practice all over the world. Development has a multifaceted effect: improving the architectural and planning development of the city, the emergence of new land resources, real estate, jobs, transformation and development of the transport network, reducing pendulum migration, solving environmental problems and of course attracting large numbers of tourists.Relevance of research. The development of industrial territories is the re-profiling of obsolete industrial and administrative buildings in accordance with the needs of the modern market and social development. Since tourism is an industry that requires a strong material fund, it is obvious that the use of redevelopment of industrial areas is in order to develop tourist infrastructure.Field of application of results. The obtained results can be used in substantiation and implementation of redevelopment of industrial territories as a way to create new means of tourist interest.The aim of the study. The positive and negative aspects of redevelopment are analyzed, as well as the expediency of use and the need for optimization in the future are substantiated.The subject of the research is the consideration of problematic issues, obstacles and motivational levers in the implementation of redevelopment projects of industrial zones.Thus, the development of industrial zones can be a motivating incentive for investors only if the municipality is interested in this process. It is the redevelopment that offers a comprehensive solution to the issues related to the transformation of unclaimed industrial facilities or irrationally used areas into new, investment-attractive tourist facilities. 


Nordlit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Siri Skjold Lexau

<p>The article investigates the development of a central area in the city of Bergen from the mid 1960s onwards, called Nygårdshøyden. Lying between two harbour areas, Puddefjorden and Vågen, this topographic ridge was pointed out for necessary university expansion. The architectural firm Andersson &amp; Skjånes’ ambitious plans for a university campus which would totally eradicate the existing urban structure, was approved by the municipal government and the university administration. </p><p>New, effective and flexible building systems had been introduced at university campuses all over the world. In Bergen, some of the buildings originally planned as academic centres were erected according to the plan by Andersson &amp; Skjånes. Others were modified and adapted to changing architectural ideals. The present situation shows clearly how the critique of huge-scale, late-modern architecture had an impact on further developments. Economic and aesthetic aspects combined with an increasing demand for the preservation of historical structures led to modifications of the huge master plans. The dynamics of inserting new architecture into historic neighbourhoods also represent advantages on different levels, creating a diversity of spaces and volumes.</p><p>The proximity of the university area to the city centre and its urban features represents a quality for students and employees. In the end, large parts of the street pattern of the university area were kept, corresponding with the rest of the city’s building structure. A substantial part of the existing buildings of the area were transformed and adapted to university needs, and new buildings have been raised partly as infill and extension projects. In this way, the planning and development of Nygårdshøyden can tell us a lot about urban development and changing ideals through the last 50 years. In addition, as always when we are looking back, we see that priorities and criteria for preservation or demolition of existing urban structures change all the time.</p>


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