The article presents the results of a field research led in the perspectives of applied urban development in the Fez suburbs. It focuses on the following issues: identifying causes of flooding in the studied areas and its context ; evaluating
adopted strategies in urban development and potential risk increasing ; apprehending their potential to manage urban drainage and reduce flooding in the district. It then discusses alternative conceptions, including social and spatial approaches to reduce
the future impact of urban flooding on people and the environment.
A global solution to local urban crises? Comparing discourses on business improvement districts in Cape Town and Hamburg
Cape Town ; Concept ; Discourse ; Financing ; Germany ; Governance ; Hamburg ; Private sector ; Service ; South Africa ; Urbanarea ; Urban crisis ; Urbanism ; Western Cape
within different urban and national contexts, it highlights the links the discourses on BIDs establish, with notions of international best practices and international showcases; the way BIDs reframe notions of public space; and the way BIDs
on the technical, administrative and legal aspects regarding the management of trees in all urbanareas of the country.
This article reviews the history and advances in the field of Urban Forestry in Colombia. It provides an analysis of the results of the survey conducted within the country’s environmental authorities. It aims at providing a diagnosis
Applied climatology ; Bioclimatology ; Climatic index ; Human bioclimatology ; Perception ; Poland ; Recreation area ; Tourism ; Urban climate ; Warsaw
Bioclimatología ; Bioclimatología humana ; Clima urbano ; Climatología aplicada ; Percepción ; Polonia ; Turismo ; Varsovia ; Área de ocio ; Índice climático
of the bioclimate of urbanareas for tourism and recreation purposes.
votes cast by tourists in the course of leisure activities in Warsaw's Old Town area. This validation revealed that, while weather perception does not only depend on meteorological factors, usage of UTCI is an appropriate approach to the study
Human capital and employment growth in German metropolitan areas : new evidence
Employment ; Germany ; Graduates ; Labour market ; Metropolitan area ; Professional qualification ; Professional training ; Regional disparities ; Secondary education ; Urban economy ; Urban growth
Alemaña ; Calificación profesional ; Crecimiento urbano ; Desnivel entre las regiones ; Economía urbana ; Empleo ; Enseñanza secundaria ; Formación profesional ; Mercado laboral ; Área metropolitana
Informality and the development and demolition of urban villages in the Chinese peri-urbanarea
Beijing ; China ; Demolition ; Guangzhou ; Informality ; Land ; Land market ; Land use ; Outer conurbation area ; Property right ; Real estate development ; Shanghai ; Urbanarea ; Village
Sustainability analysis of the urban ecosystem in Guangzhou City based on information entropy between 2004 and 2010
China ; Ecosystem ; Entropy ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Pollution control ; Socio-economic system ; Sustainable development ; Urbanarea
This paper analyzes the ability of the urban ecosystem in Guangzhou City to sustain development from the perspective of entropy. The research was carried out in 3 steps. First, an evaluation index system that considers the ability of the urban
ecosystem for sustainable development was formed based on the structures and functions of the urban ecosystem and the change in the entropy of the urban socioeconomic ecosystem. Second, the sustainable development ability assessment model for the urban
ecosystem was built using information entropy. Last, by combining the time series variation of the evaluation indicators with the entropy weights, this paper analyzed the influence of the combined factors on the sustainable development ability of the urban
ecosystem in Guangzhou and suggested some measures to promote the sustainable development of the urban ecosystem in Guangzhou.
Activism ; California ; Canada ; Municipality ; Neighbourhood ; Ohio ; Ontario ; Ottawa ; Right to the city ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urbanarea ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Woman
Spatial development of producer services in the Chinese urban system
China ; Economic development ; Industry ; Location ; Metropolitan area ; Regional analysis ; Service ; Spatial distribution ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban system
Análisis regional ; China ; Desarrollo económico ; Desarrollo urbano ; Distribución espacial ; Economía urbana ; Industria ; Localización ; Servicio ; Sistema urbano ; Área metropolitana
2013
[b1] Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, Univ., Hong Kong, Hong-Kong
Nuevo marco normativo de ordenamiento territorial en Mendoza : su aplicación en el área metropolitana
Argentina ; Economic development ; Land policy ; Land use ; Large city ; Mendoza ; Metropolitan area ; Social development ; Territorial planning ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Zoning
Aprovechamiento del suelo ; Argentina ; Desarrollo económico ; Desarrollo social ; Metrópoli ; Ordenación del territorio ; Planificación urbana ; Política territorial ; Política urbana ; Zonaje ; Área metropolitana
This article analyses the Land Management and Land Use Law of Mendoza, Argentina and its effects in metropolitan area. It involves the following steps : 1-Analysis of the overall structure of the law regarding procedural steps of the territory
management process ; 2-Identify the advantages and disadvantages of the content of the law for the management of the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza and ; 3-Construction of proposals for the management of the Metropolitan Area within the future regulation
Negotiating public space for livelihoods : about risks, uncertainty and power in the urban poor’s everyday life
Bangladesh ; Dhaka ; Institution ; Livelihood ; Local market ; Power ; Public space ; Risk ; Social geography ; Street vendors ; Urbanarea ; Vulnerability
This paper discusses the changing geographies of risk and uncertainty with regard to the negotiations of access to public space for urban livelihoods in an environment where informal institutions dominate. A partly ethnographic account of everyday
for minimising risk and uncertainty concerning access to urban public space.
Accessibility ; France ; Multi-agent system ; Simulation ; Spatial interaction ; Urbanarea ; Urban dynamics ; Urban network ; Urban system
This article analyses the theoretical principles in interurban simulation models. To this end, it compares models made of systems of differential equations multi-agent models designed to simulating the differentiated dynamics of urban entities over
The function and foundations of urban tolerance : encountering and engaging with difference in the city
Citizenship ; Difference ; Risk ; Social geography ; Social inequality ; Social interaction ; Urbanarea
This article proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the function and foundations of urban tolerance. It analyses the strategies that endeavour to impose a mode of social interaction, which treat difference as illegitimate and understand
2013
[b1] Urban Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Univ., Glasgow, Royaume-Uni
Environmental degradation ; Historical geography ; Industrial city ; Industrial pollution ; Metallurgy ; Montana ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Urbanarea
The paper argues that both the physical material of the environment as well as the social imagination of the environment are important actors in the production of urban space. The paper shows how toxic smelter smoke and the complex social
imagination of that smoke shape the contours of urban space. The production of smelter smoke presents a complex set of opportunities and challenges for the continuing development of the urban landscape. Material nature matters in the everyday urban experiences
Reduced channel morphological response to urbanization in a flood-dominated humid tropical environment
Channel geometry ; Flood ; Impact ; Land use ; Puerto Rico ; Stream ; Stream flow ; Tropical zone ; Urbanization
This study investigates the long-term effects of urbanization on channel morphology in the humid sub-tropical region of Puerto Rico, an area characterized by frequent high-magnitude flows, and steep coarse-grained rivers. Grain size, low-flow
channel roughness, and the hydraulic geometry of streams across a land-use gradient that ranges from pristine forest to high density urbanized catchments are compared. Decades of development has resulted in increased fine sediment and anthropogenic debris
in urbanized catchments. Overall, this study indicates that the morphologic changes that occur in response to urban runoff are less in channels that are already subject to frequent large magnitude storms. Furthermore, this study suggests that developing regions
in the humid tropics shouldn't rely on temperate analogues to determine the magnitude of impact of urbanization on stream morphology.
Change analysis of rice area and production in China during the past three decades
of the decreased area and production were located in Southeast China, especially, in regions of rapidly urbanization in Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang. This implies that rice production increase may be due to area expansion and other non-area factors, but reduced
to get a series of spatial distributions of rice area and production and to analyze the pattern of spatial and temporal changes. Spatially , most of the increased area and production were in Northeast China, especially, in Jilin and Heilongjiang ; most
rice production could largely be attributed to rice area decrease.