scholarly journals Conceptual Urban Planning a Prerequisite for Physical Urban Planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Varesi ◽  
Mahmoud Mahmoudzade
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The City

<span lang="EN-US">In the contemporary urban order the rational connection between the physique of the city and its non-physical elements is a major concern. Whatever happens in the existence of a city like the social, cultural, economic and political interactions are the inevitable realities through which the qualification and quantification nature of the city are determined. All occurrences in these realities, the constituent elements, are subject to the structural process which can be regulated as one of the social organization (non-physical) in urban settings, namely the social organization of the city, economic organization of the city and the political organization of the city. These organizations have the ranking in importance according to the city scale. The objective here is to identify these organizations and their contributions in conceptual urban planning. The adopted method here is descriptive-analytic. In a comparative comparison between the physical and non-physical needs of human regarding an urban setting reveals that the non-physical aspect has priority with high importance since its effect on the citizens’ satisfaction is specific and direct.</span>

The Shape of the Secular City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The City ◽  
Biblical Faith ◽  
Modes Of Existence

This chapter describes the shape of the secular city, illustrating two characteristic components of the social shape of the modern metropolis: anonymity and mobility. Not only are anonymity and mobility central. They are also the two features of the urban social system most frequently singled out for attack by both religious and nonreligious critics. The chapter demonstrates how both anonymity and mobility contribute to the sustenance of human life in the city rather than detracting from it, why they are indispensable modes of existence in the urban setting. It also shows why, from a theological perspective, anonymity and mobility may even produce a certain congruity with biblical faith that is never noticed by the religious rebukers of urbanization.

Accounting for Noise Pollution in Planning of Smart Cities

2016 ◽  
pp. 149-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.W.A. Hammad ◽  
A. Akbarnezhad ◽  
D. Rey
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
The Impact

The incorporation of sustainable design measures in urban planning and development has been steadily increasing in the recent years. Achieving a sustainable urban environment requires accounting for the economic, environmental and social impacts of the development involved. An important factor affecting the social and environmental sustainability of urbanised areas which is commonly overlooked in urban planning is the noise pollution level. Despite the proven impacts of noise pollution on the general wellbeing of individuals within an urban setting, there remains a lack of systematic methods to integrate the impact of noise within the design of urban areas. This chapter seeks to raise awareness of the issue of noise pollution in urban settings while proposing novel approaches for its incorporation as a design parameter in planning the layout of smart cities.

scholarly journals Refugees Hosting Other Refugees: Endurance and Maintenance of Care in Ouzaii (Lebanon)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batoul Yassine ◽  
Howayda Al-Harithy ◽  
Camillo Boano
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Spatial Mechanisms ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

Abstract This article examines the socio-spatial mechanisms that emerge when refugees host other refugees. It argues that there is an underlying social infrastructure of care that impacts the refugees’ choice of destinations and modes of survival. When refugees host other refugees from close networks of relatives and neighbours, they create their own spatial clusters. In the process, the social infrastructure of care offers one mode of security to vulnerable refugees. Care as a concept and an approach is related to ideas of endurance and maintenance. It facilitates multiple dimensions, from space, to affection and to the everyday. It is able to reconfigure a life possible, life-enduring and a life meaningful in an urban setting. We focus on Ouzaii in Beirut, Lebanon. Ouzaii has been a destination for multiple displaced groups over different periods of time. Ouzaii currently hosts an approximate 10,000 Syrian refugees. They chose Ouzaii as their destination after they were helped by existing refugees who offered shelter and access to jobs. The resultant socio-spatial practices, flourishing businesses and leisurely facilities are evidence of successful social networks that form an infrastructure of care. They also play a role in the reconstitution of Ouzaii itself. We conclude with reflections on how urban informality may offer refugees an alternative right to the city while allowing them to escape the gaze of the humanitarian-aid apparatus that can signify their vulnerability by reducing them to only being aid recipients. Instead, they form protective socio-spatial networks that have proved to be powerful in sustaining their livelihoods, guarding them from possible social discrimination or political threats.

From Census Tract to Neighborhood Planning

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Wesley Nakajima
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Planning Policies

In recent years, applied anthropologists in urban research have begun to focus attention upon the process of urban planning. Traditionally, urban planners in the United States were drawn from architecture, engineering, and geography. These planners were primarily concerned with the physical environment, land use, and architectural design. A problem with their planning policies was that they reflected planners' strong physical interests and seemingly neglected to consider the human society for which planning was being done. In recognition of this problem, the applied anthropologists can make a significant contribution to the evaluation and development of more comprehensive, humanistic planning policies. The socio-cultural perspective of the anthropologists complements that of the "physical" planners. Furthermore, applied anthropology concepts and methodology, which facilitate direct observation of a population within its environment, function to articulate the social with the physical elements of a plan. In doing so, human behavior patterns and felt needs can be related to the physical environment, land use, and architectural design and can thus improve the overall quality of urban planning.

CERAMIC INDICES OF AZTEC ELITENESS

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Garraty
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Basin Of Mexico ◽  
The Social ◽  
City State ◽  
Relations Of Power

This article explores the complex, multidimensional nature of Aztec social organization and, specifically, the concept of “eliteness,” as it applies to the Aztecs. I discuss both why we can speak of Aztec “elites” and how we can monitor them using ceramic data. I argue it is possible to distinguish elites archaeologically by identifying the ceramic attributes and variables that best reflect feasting behavior, one of the primary practices the Aztecs used to socially construct and reproduce unequal relations of power, wealth, and estate. Ceramics thus served as one of the primary media through which politically and socially charged “communication” occurred among the Aztecs. I define and evaluate six ceramic indices of eliteness using Late Aztec ceramic data (ca. a.d. 1350–1520) from Teotihuacan, an Aztec period altepetl (city-state) located in the northeastern Basin of Mexico. I use the most effective eliteness indices to interpret the intrasite spatial patterning of elite residences at Late Aztec Teotihuacan and infer some observations about the social and political organization of the altepetl.

scholarly journals Depois do Estatuto da Cidade: ordem jurídica e política urbana em disputa, Porto Alegre e o urbanizador social

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betânia De Moraes Alfonsin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Absolute Property ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Dispute ◽  
The City

A partir da constatação de que os programas de regularização fundiária possuem uma natureza curativa, sem capacidade de prevenir a irregularidade, procura-se demonstrar aqui que os instrumentos trazidos pelo Estatuto da Cidade, embora necessários, são insuficientes para responder ao desafio colocado às cidades brasileiras, situado no campo da capacidade institucional de se construir uma política urbana e habitacional que combine às políticas de regularização fundiária mecanismos que previnam a produção cotidiana de assentamentos informais, por meio da oferta de lotes regulares a preços baixos. Argumenta-se que a ordem jurídico-urbanística brasileira preconizada pelo Estatuto da Cidade não apresenta garantias efetivas de implementação, vislumbrando-se um longo processo de disputa jurídico-política entre os interessados na manutenção da velha ordem jurídica nucleada pelo direito absoluto de propriedade, e os defensores de uma emergente ordem jurídica que garanta a função social da cidade e da propriedade. O artigo analisa o caso da cidade de Porto Alegre, na qual foi formulado um instrumento inovador de política urbana e habitacional, chamado de Urbanizador Social.Palavras-chave: Estatuto da Cidade; política habitacional; regularização fundiária; planejamento urbano; função social da propriedade. Abstract: Based on the evidence that the programs of land regularization have a curative nature, not having the capacity to prevent irregularity, we try to show in this study that the instruments provided by the City Statute, although necessary, are not enough to respond to the challenge faced by brazilian cities. This challenge is related to the institutional capacity of making an urban and housing policy that matches to the land regularization policies mechanisms to prevent the everyday production of informal settlements, through the offer of regular lots with low prices. We argue that the Brazilian juridical-urbanistic order provided by the City Statute does not present effective guarantees of implementation. One foresees a long juridical-political dispute process between the ones who are interested in maintaining the old juridical order cored by the absolute property right and those who defend an emergent juridical order that guarantees the social function of city and property. This article analyses the case of Porto Alegre city, where an innovative urban and housing policy called Urbanizador Social (Social Urbanizer) was created. Keywords: housing policy; land regularization; urban planning.

scholarly journals The city marketing strategies of Porto Digital

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Tarciso Binoti Simas ◽  
Sônia Azevedo Le Cocq de Oliveira ◽  
Carlos Maviael de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Actor ◽  
The City

Porto Digital was a policy implemented in 2000, and managed by a social organization (SO) with the initial objectives of inserting Pernambuco into the technology scenario and contributing to the revitalization of the district in the city of Recife known as Bairro do Recife. Over the past two decades, this SO has established itself as a central actor in urban planning, by associating state-of-the-art concepts into the debate on innovation. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how these narratives have been used as city marketing. This was an explanatory research on the construction, evolution and main impacts of Porto Digital, enabled through the collection of bibliographic, documentary, interview and observational data. It may be perceived that a gentrification process has taken place with identity manipulation, an exodus of part of the population and the valorization of real estate chiefly for the consumption of companies. It may be understood that the instrumentalization of this innovation debate as city marketing has both boosted businesses and served as a smokescreen for social problems.

Traditional Urban Planning Approaches and Sustainable City

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Syful Islam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Planning Approaches

The quality of city life and well being of city dwellers is central goal of urban planning approaches. Nevertheless, unsystematic and short-term planning approaches of cities have produced incomprehensible sprawl, which deteriorates social, economic and ecological sustainability of the city. The need to alleviate or remove these problems systematically for improving the social, ecological, spatial and economical components of the city is contemporary issue, though most of the planning systems do not yet explicitly address those issues of sustainability. This paper considers Urban planning as a key term as it has the capability to reveal the implications of land use strategies, policies and programmes for the social, economic and physical components of environment. In addition, all the traditional urban planning approaches have outlined to explore their soundness in the sustainable city planning, discuss the main approach followed for sustainable city planning, and outline emerging approach in both theory and sustainable city planning practice.

A case of urban integration: Vienna's port area and the Ottoman merchants in the eighteenth century

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
David Do Paço
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Port Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Abstract Studying the Ottoman subjects in eighteenth-century Vienna helps to understand better the process of integration of the different districts of the city in a fast-changing context, especially around its Danube port area. Despite the withdrawal of the Ottoman empire from central Europe after 1683, Ottomans were fully a part of the history of Vienna and their presence has to be explored within the specific urban dynamics of a city: the reconfiguration of its economic sectors and social places, the tensions at play between the socio-economic groups by which a city was made and the evolution of its urban planning. Focusing on the Ottoman merchants operating in Vienna allows us to identify and to analyse the workings of the port area of the fourth largest city in Europe and to explore the social spaces of Viennese markets, streets, courtyards and coffeehouses.

scholarly journals Application of Low-carbon Urban Theory in Urban Planning

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma Jingjuan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Abstract: At present, the pace of construction and development in China is getting faster and faster. The development of industrialization has also promoted the social productive forces of our country and the economic level of our country. In addition,the industrialization has greatly promoted the development of our country. The development of urban and rural integration.The area of the city is growing, and the number of people living in the city is growing, and there is a growing trend.

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