Climate change, biodiversity and the urban environment : a critical review based on London, UK
Biodiversity ; Climatic change ; England ; Green space ; Habitat ; Heat island ; London ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban climate ; Urban environment ; Urbanization
This article reviews the range of climate-related threats to biodiversity in the aquatic, intertidal and terrestrial habitats of urban-areas. London is used as a case study to illustrate potential impacts, and to contend that green spaces in cities
could be used by planners to counter climate-related threats to biodiversity, as well as to improve flood control and air quality, and reduce urban heat island effects.
Addressing Europe's urban challenges : lessons from the EU URBAN community initiative
Community ; Europe ; European Union ; Partnership ; Social deprivation ; Urban crisis ; Urban district ; Urban policy ; Urban regeneration
Résultats d'une exploitation ex-post de l'initiative communautaire URBAN I mise en place de 1994 à 1999. Si de telles opérations à base spatiale de ce style avaient déjà cours dans quelques Etats, ce n'était pas le cas dans la plupart des pays, pour
Communication of the elderly and requirements to urban reconstruction in Germany. Comparative in Bonn and Dresden
Bonn ; Comparative study ; Demographic change ; Development ; Dresden ; Elderly people ; Germany ; Residential environment ; Urban construction ; Urban development
Today, sustainable urban reconstruction under shrinking conditions constitutes the central challenge of urban development in Germany. Thereby, the qualitative and quantitative demographic change is discussed as a crucial basic framework of urban
reconstruction. Hence, it should be paid more attention to the needs of certain population groups, especially those of the elderly as the relatively strongest growing group. For the urban development, the residential surrounding is identified as the important
starting point to realize the demand-orientated and efficient urban reconstruction supporting communication. - (BJ)
Open space and housing stock quality as urban redevelopment resources
Housing ; Quality of product ; Urban development ; Urban planning
A successful urban redevelopment needs the attention of small-scale conditions of housing stocks and open spaces and the consideration of demand of the inhabitants. It is the aim of a research project at the IÖR to provide some fundamental knowledge
needed for the planning of ecologically-oriented and appropriately-dimensioned redevelopment processes in cities and urban areas. Group-spacific needs concerning housing and open space use were ascertained through polling the populations according to age
Influence of geographical factors on urban land valuation
Economic geography ; Impact ; Land value ; Ukraine ; Urban area
This paper intends to explore the influence of economic geography factors on valuation on urban territories, and consequently - on their land value for the purpose of large-scale evaluation. The A. investigates Ukrainian examples in order to know
Asia ; Developing countries ; Latin America ; Urban growth ; Urban morphology
Nowadays the centre of urban growth is located primarely in the newly modernizing economies of Asia and Latin America, but some of the metropolises of the stagnating developing countries also show astonishing speed of population growth. The article
deals with the phenomenon of urban explosion in the developing countries. - (AM)
of internationalization of retail in the city, classified in three stages of transition. The study describes the changes in the retail trade situation presenting them as a result of the changed urban structure between the central part of the town and the new sub-centres
Geomorphic response of an Appalachian Valley and ridge stream to urbanization
Bank erosion ; Channel geometry ; Grain size distribution ; Human impact ; Sediment load ; Stream ; Tennessee ; United States of America ; Urbanization
This paper reports results of a detailed, field-based study of Second Creek, in Knoxville, Tennessee, undertaken between 1997 and 2001 to monitor the adjustment of a perennial stream decades after the initial urbanization of its catchment
and to better understand anthropogenic influences on bed particle sizes in an urban stream. Channel bank erosion is the dominant adjustment, but aggradation also occurs.