Informality and the development and demolition of urban villages in the Chinese peri-urban area
Beijing ; China ; Demolition ; Guangzhou ; Informality ; Land ; Land market ; Land use ; Outer conurbation area ; Property right ; Real estate development ; Shanghai ; Urban area ; Village
The impact of urban sprawl on social segregation in Beijing and a limited role for spatial planning
Beijing ; China ; Community ; Northern China ; Public service ; Residential segregation ; Social geography ; Social segregation ; Transport ; Urban planning ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization
of public services and transport infrastructures in the peri-urban regions, has increased residential segregation between low-income and high-income residents and between local residents and migrants. It concludes that the role of spatial planning is limited
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[b1] Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking Univ., Beijing, Chine
Elderly people ; Germany ; Green space ; Leipzig ; Netherlands (The) ; Quality of life ; Retirement migration ; Saxony ; Social geography ; Urban area ; Urban planning ; Urban shrinking ; Well-being ; Zeeland
environnementale, l’écologie urbaine et péri-urbaine ainsi que la planification spatiale. Pour ce faire, ils prennent en compte les critères que sont l’accessibilité, la conception de l’environnement urbain et des équipements, la sécurité et l’orientation et la
de l’exemple de celles situées en milieu urbain et péri-urbain de la ville de Lagos au Nigéria. Les résultats indiquent un faible niveau de connaissance de l’impact de ce genre de culture et que leur choix est influencé par une variété de facteurs. Il
Globalization ; Large city ; Right to the city ; Urban geography ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urban society ; Urbanization
In Le Droit à la Ville (1968), Lefebvre projects the urban trajectory of his day into the sci-fi imaginary of Asimov's remarkable Foundation series. In La Révolution Urbaine (1970), Lefebvre had already begun hinting at a new reality, not only
an urban society, but of planetary urbanization. Today, four decades on, Asimov's extraterrestrial universe seems closer to home than ever, and closer to Lefebvre's own terrestrial prognostications : planetary urbanization is creating a whole new spatial
world (dis)order. The article tries to rethink theoretically the urban question and the question of urban politics in our era of planetary urbanization, working through the political role of the urban in the light of recent ‘Occupy’ mobilizations.
This article considers wastelands or anomalous spaces of urban nature as an interdisciplinary terrain that extends from renewed interest in urban biodiversity to alternative conceptions of landscape authenticity. It is suggested that a more
theoretically nuanced and historically grounded conception of the intersections between critical cultural discourses and recent advances in urban ecology might provide a useful counterpoint to narrowly utilitarian approaches to urban nature.
The travels of critiques of neoliberalism. Urban experiences from the “borderlands”
Concept ; Critical geography ; Epistemology ; Governance ; Neo liberalism ; Portugal ; Role of the State ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Urban theory ; Urbanization
Using the case of a state-led urban regeneration program implemented in Portugal since 2000, the Polis Program, this article discusses the hegemonic status of neoliberalism as a theoretical concept and as an analytical framework and on discussions
about the travels of dominant critiques of neoliberalism beyond the sites of epistemological production. It argues that the current analytical overinvestment in neoliberalism may obscure important drivers of contemporary urbanization and that recourse
to a diversity of concepts may be a more profitable line of inquiry. It suggests that current efforts at epistemological renewal within urban studies benefit from taking up cities in the “borderlands” of urban theory as relevant cases in their own right.
The article contends that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism. It argues that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization. The paper then elucidates three areas where
vertically oriented research is emerging. These encompass : the links between Google Earth and urbanism ; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel ; and the links between verticalized
Cities within the city : do-it-yourself urbanism and the right to the city
Activism ; Appropriation of land ; Australia ; Citizenship ; Creativity ; Local policy ; Right to the city ; Sydney ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
The article asks to what extent such practices constitute a new form of urban politics that might give birth to a more just and democratic city. In answering this question, it considers these so-called ‘do-it-yourself urbanisms’ from the perspective
of the ‘right to the city’. After critically assessing that concept, it argues that in order for do-it-yourself urbanist practices to generate a wider politics of the city through the appropriation of urban space, they also need to assert new forms of authority
in the city based on the equality of urban inhabitants. This claim is illustrated through an analysis of the do-it-yourself practices of Sydney-based activist collective BUGA UP and the New York and Madrid Street Advertising Takeovers.
Watering our cities : The capacity for Water Sensitive Urban Design to support urban cooling and improve human thermal comfort in the Australian context
Australia ; Climatic change ; Comfort ; Evapotranspiration ; Green infrastructure ; Heat island ; Impact ; Infiltration ; Town ; Urban climate ; Urban cooling ; Urban ecology ; Vegetation ; Water resources
This paper draws on existing literature to demonstrate the potential of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) to help improve outdoor human thermal comfort in urban areas and support Climate Sensitive Urban Design (CSUD) objectives within
the Australian context. WSUD provides a mechanism for retaining water in the urban landscape through stormwater harvesting and reuse while also reducing urban temperatures through enhanced evapotranspiration and surface cooling. Research suggests that WSUD
Australian urban environments for landscape irrigation and soil moisture replenishment to maximize the urban climatic benefits of existing vegetation and green spaces.
Spatial correlations between urbanization and river water pollution in the heavily polluted area of Taihu Lake Basin, China
Anhui ; China ; Lake ; Population growth ; River ; Urban development ; Urban growth ; Urbanization ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Watershed
This article analyses the spatial correlations between urbanization and river water pollution in the heavily polluted area of Taihu Lake Basin, China. The results show that the urban township units have the highest level of urbanization and highest
pollution, but the best water quality; meanwhile the suburban units have lower level of urbanization, but higher pollution and worse water quality. However, the rural units have the lowest level of urbanization and lowest pollution, mainly affected
by upstream pollution, but worst water quality. Lastly, urban and rural planning committees should gradually resolve the issue of pollution control lagging behind urban life and urban development, giving priority to construction of centralized sewage treatment
Digitizing the dragon head, geo-coding the urban landscape. GIS and the transformation of China’s urban governance
China ; Geographical information system ; Governance ; Guangdong ; Knowledge ; Shenzhen ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban landscape
Through an in-depth case study of Shenzhen, this article analyzes how urban GIS has been transformed from a practice involving internal organizational workflow automation, into a more active dimension of the governance of urban spaces-reflected
in the expanding practice of “geo-coding” the urban landscape. It demonstrates that GIS practices constitute a particular form of geographic rationality that seeks to govern at a distance while simultaneously regulating the urban environment, intersecting
with the broader transformations of China’s urban governance. It concludes that these developments have been largely government-centric rather than citizencentric, yet they provide possibilities for new forms of spatial knowledge production for citizen
Technifying public space and publicizing infrastructures : exploring new urban political ecologies through the square of General Vara del Rey
Architecture ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Political ecology ; Public space ; Spain ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban planning
The article explores new ways of integrating technology, nature and infrastructures into urban public spaces. It is done through a case study, the design of this square of Madrid, which is offered here as a model to explore a novel urban political
ecology. Through the double movement of ‘the technification of public space’ and ‘the publicization of infrastructures’, the square aims to rethink the political ecology of urban public spaces. The transformation of infrastructures into fully visible
, public and political agents provides a useful model to address the growing proliferation of infrastructural and technological elements onto contemporary urban surfaces and to open up the possibility of new forms of civic participation and engagement.
A smooth ride ? From industrial to creative urbanism in Oshawa, Ontario
Canada ; Creative city ; Local development ; Ontario ; University ; Urban economy ; Urbanism
development. Planners and policymakers that mistake the complexities of economic restructuring for a smooth urban transition put the cities at risk of creating new problems out of efforts to improve local conditions.
A note on the average density function in urban analysis
Distance from city centre ; Population density ; Spatial structure ; Urban area
It is argued that the density function, commonly used in the study of urban spatial structure, is more appropriately described as the ‘marginal density function’. From such a marginal density function, it is possible to derive two types of average
of the urban context. The two types of average density function are examined for different underlying forms of the marginal density function. Of the two types, the second has a greater applicability than the first in the analysis of urban spatial structure.
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[b2] School of Social and Political Sciences: Urban Studies, Univ., Glasgow, Royaume-Uni