The diversity of gentrification in Houston's urban renaissance : from cleansing the urban poor to supergentrification
Gentrification ; Government intervention ; Houston ; Neighbourhood ; Spatial concentration ; Texas ; United States of America ; Urban regeneration ; Urban structure
Neighbourhoods in urban economics : incorporating cognitively perceived urban space in economic models
Belo Horizonte ; Brazil ; Distance from city centre ; Economic activity ; Household ; Minas Gerais ; Neighbourhood ; Real estate market ; Social class ; Urban area ; Urban economy
Quality of life in urban-classified and rural-classified English local authority areas
Indicator ; Local government unit ; Policy ; Quality of life ; Rural area ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom ; Urban area
The demarcation of the urban and rural is contextualised by reference to the transformational politics of the Labour government and its establishment of the sustainable communities initiative. Urban-classified English local authorities register
a lower quality of life than their rural counterparts. Community and economy-related indicators serve to distinguish the reported quality-of-life conditions of rural and urban localities most.
Peri-urbanisation has been recognised as a major spatial development beyond the urban fringes. Agriculture is increasingly affected by urban encroachment, and responds with adaptation strategies and farming activities to cope with the peri-urban
-urbanisation, ex-urbanisation, anti-urbanisation and hidden-urbanisation as main types of peri-urbanisation, variances of farming responses are elaborated for municipal entities in the Copenhagen region. Findings confirm that the differentiation of peri-urban
Learning from Brussels. An irreductive approach to architectural and urban problématiques ?
Urban studies in Belgium
Architecture ; Belgium ; Brussels ; Right to the city ; Urban area ; Urban planning
Au travers de l'exposition intitulée Building for Brussels, Architecture and Urban Transformation in Europe qui s'est tenue à Bruxelles, l'A. propose une approche relationnelle de la ville, à savoir le besoin de raconter les objets de manière encore
Jean Gottman’s pioneer work on the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States became a paradigm of global urabanization. Is it still relevant ? - (NF)
Air quality ; BVOC ; Carbon sequestration ; Heat island ; Town ; Tree ; Vegetation ; carbon sequestration ; computer modelling ; urban heat island
Vegetation has been well recognized for its ability in improving air quality and alleviating global warming. Tree planting has been used to mitigate urban heat island phenomena, sequester carbon dioxide, and help to trap air pollutants on leaves
are health hazards for allergic or other sensitive members of the population. This paper reviews benefits and limited hazards of urban vegetation on air quality, highlighting useful computer simulations for predicting some of the interaction between urban
forestry and the ambient atmosphere. To maximize the beneficial environmental effects of urban forestry, careful design, planning, and cost-benefit analysis would be required.
Scale and the construction of urban space : temporary re-scaling in Lahti, Finland, during the European Union meeting of 2006
Concept ; Congress ; Event ; Finland ; Scale ; Urban area
temporary re-scalings are materialized and embodied in urban spaces. This is illustrated with material related to a European Union meeting that took place in the city of Lahti in 2006.
Trans-urban networks of learning, mega events and policy tourism : the case of Manchester’s Commonwealth and Olympic games projects : Renewing urban politics
Renewing urban politics
England ; Inner city ; Knowledge ; Manchester ; Network ; Olympic Games ; Sporting facilities ; United Kingdom ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
Gramsci in green : neoliberal hegemony through urban forestry and the potential for a political ecology of praxis
A Gramscian perspective and data gathered from 20 in-depth interviews with foresters are used to theorize how rollout policy is deployed through urban forestry (Wisconsin, USA) to extend market hegemony to new geographies. The state's market
-oriented regulatory legitimacy is consolidated through the apparently benign act of promoting urban forestry.
Amsterdam ; Children ; Netherlands (The) ; Play spaces ; Public space ; Recreation area ; Urban area ; Urban history ; children ; public space ; urban history
, this situation started to change after the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1970, the Amsterdam Urban Planning Department created over 700 public play spaces. These spaces were little niches in the urban public domain, specifically designed and constructed
detailed age specific approach and the fruitful collaboration between powerful urban planners and politically dominant socialist politicians.
2011
[b1] Eindhoven University of Technology, Urban Design and Management Systems, The Netherlands
[b2] University of Amsterdam, AISSR/Urban Geographies, The Netherlands
A Wildland-Urban Interface Typology for Forest Fire Risk Management in Mediterranean Areas
Environmental management ; Forest ; Forest fire ; GIS ; Geographical information system ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Mediterranean area ; Preventive measure ; Risk ; Sierra Calderona ; Urban fringe ; Vulnerability ; fire risk ; landscape
character ; spatial planning ; wildland-urban interface
The transitional areas that lie between wildlands and urbanized spaces, generally defined as wildland-urban interfaces (WUI), represent an increasing risk factor in Mediterranean areas; these define a new scenario in forest fire fighting
approaches which are based on local scale characterization of WUI, we propose a progressive multi-scale approach. In order to reach an operative classification of the WUI the methodology was developed in three stages: a regional urban development model
, a landscape character assessment and finally, a WUI typology. The last WUI typology has been based on the identification of different urban morphologies and their context within the type of landscape in which they occur.
of small-scale urban rainstorm waterlogging disasters in different return periods. A grid-based Geographical Information System (GIS) approach, including an urban terrain model, an urban rainfall model and an urban drainage model, was applied to simulate
inundation area and depth. A framework was also developed for coupling the waterlogging risk with the risk planning and management through the exceedance probability curve and annual average waterlogging loss. This is a new exploration for small-scale urban
The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control : Renewing urban politics
Renewing urban politics
Climatic change ; Comparative study ; Ecological footprint ; Firm ; Governance ; Green house effect ; Land use ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom ; United States of America ; Urban economy ; Urban policy ; Urban regime
Austria ; Comparative study ; Czech Republic ; Economic development ; Political regime ; Prague ; Suburbanization ; The 1990's ; Urban development ; Urban settlement ; Urban structure ; Urbanization ; Vienna
This article compares urbanization and suburbanization in the urban regions of Prague and Vienna, during the final decade of communism and the early years of transition to a capitalist society. In the 1980s, patterns of urbanization in the two
Agriculture ; Family farm ; Family income ; Living standard ; Pluriactivity ; Rural geography ; Rural-urban relations ; Slovenia ; Social structure ; Urbanization
For the greater percentage of Slovenian family farms the agriculture is not the main activity and also not the main source of income. The proximity of employments and economic diversification in rural areas and near urban centers allow better access
to the non-agricultural income sources. With this article we wanted to verify the hypothesis that the share of income from agriculture is lower in urbanized areas and higher in less urbanized areas. - (IKR)