The comprehensive evaluation of China's urbanization and effects on resources and environment
China ; Entropy ; Environment ; Impact ; Index ; Methodology ; Resource management ; Sustainable development ; Urban growth ; Urbanization
This paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for the urbanization level in China in terms of four aspects of urbanization connotation: population, economy, society, and land. A comprehensive measurement is carried out
for the Chinese urbanization between 1981 and 2006 based on the Entropy method. Moreover, the effects of urbanization on resource and environment are examined to promote the healthy development of urbanization.
Developing countries ; Health ; Informal sector ; Informal settlement ; Large town ; Poverty ; Segregation ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban immigration
The seven articles deal with the urban agglomerations in Latin America with case studies from Bogotá and Barranquilla (Colombia), the urban development and segregation in greater Istanbul, the health challenges in megacities with examples from India
and China, the transformation processes in Yangon/Myanmar, the informal urbanisation in major cities of Tanzania, the contested space in low-income settlements of Dhaka (Bangladesh), the migrants workers and mega-urban development in China’s Pearl River
Content and densities of soil organic carbon in urban soil in different function districts of Kaifeng
Carbon ; China ; Climatic change ; Henan ; Land use ; Soil ; Soil properties ; Suburbs ; Town ; Urban area
Urban soil, forming along with the development of city, has unique properties of soil organic carbon. On the basis of field investigation and laboratory analysis, soil organic carbon (SOC) of Kaifeng city was studied, and the results showed
that the characteristics of SOC were different not only among function districts in urban area, but also between urban area and suburbs. The variances of SOC in urban area were more complicated than that in suburbs.
2010
[b2] Dep. of Urban and Environmental Science, College, Xuchang, Chine
Urban expansion and transportation : the impact of urban form on commuting patterns on the city fringe of Beijing
Accessibility ; Beijing ; China ; Commuting ; Journey to work ; Socio-economic system ; Urban development ; Urban fringe ; Urban structure ; Urban transport
2010
[b2] Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, Univ., Beijing, Chine
[b3] Dept. of Urban and Environmental Planning, Univ., Groningen, Pays-Bas
Urban renaissance as intensification : building regulation and the rescaling of place governance in Tokyo's high-rise Manshon boom
Japan ; Land ; Power ; Real estate development ; Regulation ; Role of the State ; Urban administration ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban planning
2010
[b1] Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Univ., Toronto, Canada
[b2] Dept. of Urban Engineering, Univ., Tokyo, Japon
[b3] Dept. of Urban Engineering, Univ., Tsukuba, Japon
Reorienting urban development ? Structural obstruction to new urban forms
Environmental degradation ; North America ; Structuration theory ; Toronto ; Urban change ; Urban density ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology ; Urban sprawl
China ; Garden ; Guangdong ; Hedonistic model ; Housing cost ; Landscape ; Local amenities ; Price fixing ; Shenzhen ; Urban geography ; Urban landscape ; Urban park
The paper presents a hedonic analysis of the amenity and disamenity effects arising from the heterogeneous urban landscape in a Chinese city. The study focuses on the central built-up area of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. A three-dimensional
model is applied to estimate the effects of these urban landscape features. Residential gardens were the most attractive landscape and urban villages had disamenity effects. The visibility of landscape was more valued than the accessibility.
Horse keeping in urban and peri-urban areas: new conditions for physical planning in Sweden
between municipalities, which may create a legal insecurity for the involved stakeholders. The study illustrates a planning problem where the planning tools for managing this issue have been built on the urban-rural dichotomy, providing unclear planning
Performing resistance ? Re-reading practices of urban cycling on London's South Bank
Cycling ; Daily life ; England ; London ; Mobility ; Neighbourhood ; Public space ; Redevelopment ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban practice ; Urban regeneration
The paper focuses on the urban cycling practices of bike trails and BMX in order to illustrate that these practices are perhaps not as resistant as previous accounts have argued. Using ethnographic methods, it discusses the practice and reception
Presence-experiences - the eventalisation of urban space
Cultural studies ; Denmark ; Event ; Participation ; Place ; Semiotics of space ; Urban area ; Young people
Following M. Foucault on eventalisation and H.M. Gumbrecht on presence-events, the A. focuses on subcultural and subpolitical groups trying to capture urban commercial spaces and to reverse or reveal their symbolic meaning. Using the oppositional