Towards a More-than-Human Approach to Smart and Sustainable Urban Development: Designing for Multispecies Justice

The term ‘sustainability’ has become an overused umbrella term that encompasses a range of climate actions and environmental infrastructure investments; however, there is still an urgent need for transformative reform work. Scholars of urban studies have made compelling cases for a more-than-human conceptualisation of urban and environmental planning and also share a common interest in translating theory into practical approaches and implications that recognise (i) our ecological entanglements with planetary systems and (ii) the urgent need for multispecies justice in the reconceptualisation of genuinely sustainable cities. More-than-human sensibility draws on a range of disciplines and encompasses conventional and non-conventional research methods and design approaches. In this article, we offer a horizon scan type of review of key posthuman and more-than-human literature sources at the intersection of urban studies and environmental humanities. The aim of this review is to (i) contribute to the emerging discourse that is starting to operationalise a more-than-human approach to smart and sustainable urban development, and; (ii) to articulate a nascent framework for more-than-human spatial planning policy and practice.

Analisis Kondisi Pemukiman Penduduk Kabupaten/Kota di Indonesia

The settlement is a very important topic and is widely discussed in all countries. This study is a study that discusses the topic of settlement using the literature review method. In this study, we will discuss several articles related to housing and try to compare with the conditions of settlements in Indonesia. The findings of this study are that there are two aspects of empirical research that are not found to be running optimally in Indonesia, namely: aspects of consumption patterns and urban and environmental planning. Meanwhile, the empirical condition that is under the conditions of housing in Indonesia is the limited quality of human resources and types of housing in Indonesia as well as aspects of the interaction between the public sector, the interaction of the private sector to increase settlement growth.

VARIAÇÃO DO ÍNDICE NDVI E DA TEMPERATURA DA SUPERFÍCIE TERRESTRE NA MALHA URBANA DO MUNICÍPIO DE PARACATU –MG ENTRE 1985 E 2005

This research aimed to evaluate, multitemporally, through the index of vegetation by normalized difference (NDVI) and the surface temperature (LST), the expansion of the urban fabric of the municipality of Paracatu (MG), which came to present, during the analyzed period , between 1985 and 2005, urbanization rate above Brazil. A multitemporal layout was prepared containing the results obtained and statistical analyzes were performed to verify if there was a significant difference between the years. There wasa variation of more than 2 ºC in the averages and maximum of your LST. Regarding the variation of the NDVI index, a reduction in vegetation was observed as the urban network expanded. It was possible to conclude that the urban expansion of the municipality of Paracatu, linked to the lack of urban and environmental planning, may be directly related to the variations in LST and the NDVI index, a fact that directly influences the health and well-being of residents.

Prediction and Analysis of Water Resources using Machine Learning Algorithm

Water demand prediction plays an important role in urban and environmental planning, ecological development, decision-making processes and optimum utilization of water resources. A precise water demand prediction has a key job in the forecasting, design, process, and organisation of water resources frameworks. The under stress natural resources and the ever increasing population size makes it dominant to accurately and efficiently forecast water demand in the urban area which is possible by applying data mining techniques on the huge volumes of available water data. This paper focuses on building precise predictive models for water demand prediction using support vector machine which takes care of the nonlinear changeability of water demand at diverse levels for optimal operations

The Tensions of Transparency in Urban and Environmental Planning

Government transparency is generally uncontroversial, intuitively appealing, and held to be a cornerstone of planning practice. This article systematically reviews planning scholars’ treatment of government transparency in the twenty-first century. We find that transparency frequently underpins key theoretical constructs and policy prescriptions, but scholars rarely define or operationalize the term and generally treat it as unproblematic. We then identify how transparency requirements can conflict with the goals of accountability, participation, and inclusion, and we conclude by discussing the implications for assessing the role of transparency in social change.

UNSUSTAINABLE URBAN SPRAWL IN BRASILIA DF - LUZIÂNIA, ÁGUAS LINDAS DE GOIÁS AND VALPARAÍSO DE GOIÁS 2003-2014

This article examines the urban expansion on Brazilian areas: Federal District, Luziânia, ÁguasLindasand Valparaíso de Goiás, in the period from 2003 to 2014. The study was conducted using the technological platform of ArcGis 10.1 which was employed to help in theanalysis of the urban sprawl. The result showed that the urban expansion evolves unsustainably lacking urban and environmental planning. This fact places a considerable risk not only the environmental balance but also the health of the dwellers in these places and surroundings.

MODELLING BELOW- AND ABOVE-GROUND UTILITY NETWORK FEATURES WITH THE CITYGML UTILITY NETWORK ADE: EXPERIENCES FROM ROTTERDAM

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Precise and comprehensive knowledge about 3D urban space is required for simulation and analysis in the fields of urban and environmental planning, city administration and disaster management. In order to facilitate these applications, geo-information about functional, semantic, and topographic aspects of urban features, their mutual dependencies and relations is needed. Substantial work has been done in the modelling and representation of above-ground features in the context of 3D city modelling. However, the belowground part of the real world, of which utility networks form a big part, is often neglected. Existing data models for utility networks are generally very domain-specific and, therefore, not suitable either. This paper describes a 3D data modelling approach for integrated management of below-ground utility networks and related above-ground city objects. This approach consists of manipulating first the structure of existing utility data in the commonly used Feature Manipulation Engine ETL software in order to make the data compliant to the CityGML Utility Network ADE data model. Subsequently, workspaces are created that take care of storing the CityGML data into the free and open-source 3D City Database, which has been extended in order to manage utility network data, too. Moreover, the research shows the suitability of the extended 3DCityDB to perform graph-based topological operations by means of the PostgreSQL pgRouting extension. Lastly, the results are visualized in typical GIS applications, e.g. QGIS and ArcGIS.</p>

Recovering troubled cities through public spaces and libraries

The Caracas Metropolitan Strategic Plan 2020 (CMSP2020) is an instance of urban and environmental planning that seeks to construct a collective ‘city pact’ for Caracas, currently among the most troubled and violent cities in Latin America. Its main idea is to recover the city through the rescue of its public spaces, by centering on six strategic axes for transforming Caracas: accessibility and mobility; public safety, public spaces and housing improvement; environmental sustainability; productivity and entrepreneurship; governability; and the development of a constructive and responsible citizenship. This model, partly inspired by Medellin’s Library Parks, may be useful for other large cities in the region that suffer similar socio-political fractures, as well as accessibility, mobility, environmental, productive, governance and safety issues.