Papers by Keyword: Urban Planning

Abstract: The paper presents the results of work dedicated to the problem of redevelopment historical parks, as well as attracting the attention of investors to the problem of reconstruction and creation of a modern urban park with necessary infrastructure. The current state of the park were examined and proposed zoning of the territory with the historical component. In the project used visual, graphical and analytical methods obtaining and processing information.

Abstract: The city is a complex, constant and incomplete process. Dynamic changes in the demographic and spatial growth of the modern city, affect its functional organization. Consequently, cities with the specific expansion both vertically and horizontally, change the urban concept over the time. In this regard, the paper will highlight the problem of spatial segregation and alienation of the population which is the idea of a functional city, as it continues to exist through the concept of polycentric cities. This was a clear message that the rationality of the organization of the city did not offer good results. This principle of urbanism is characterized as a new form of organizing the social differences and creation of segregation, contrary to the idea of urbanism that turns the city into a single homogeneous entity eliminating differences. Along with the aforesaid, the neoliberal globalization process, emphasizing the hierarchical divisions, deepens and inaugurates a new concept of the divided city. Due to the extreme inequalities, the town itself produces a new urbanism that is reflected in the significant spatial divisions and forms of behavior in cities. Socio-economic polarization and inequality pollute the space giving birth to a new idea of a city. The city becomes a complex process and structure that is imprisoned in the model of duality between conflicting social spaces. All this implies an unbreakable bond between the divided society and the divided city.

Abstract: In order to have a proper impression of a city, observer needs to move and participate in the city’s life. One of the most important functions of the image of our surroundings is to enable orientation and guidance of movement towards a certain goal. Urban structures that are reflected through disposition and appearance of streets, through a specific landscape arrangement, and ultimately through specific dimensioning and shaping of architecture, can often help to create a place that is easy to read. The increase in vividness of a space enables easier visual identification as well as orientation in space. That type of visual stimulation is expressed through orientation reaction, which stimulates easier adjustment of the subject to a certain space. Perception is defined as the level of sensitivity to visual stimuli in space, which are often connected to the level of interest of the subject. This research aims to identify the role of reference points in terms of the subject’s movement and orientation in the process of understanding both the unknown and the known surroundings.

Abstract: The article studies the development of an integrated residential housing in Russian metropolises. One of the pressing issues of the modern real estate market development in a metropolis is the need for stirring up investment processes in the housing sector. Study of the problems associated with the formation of integrated residential development and social orientation of housing, are hampered by a number of factors, primarily related to the lack of the mechanism of management of investments into an integrated housing in the metropolitan area, a rather complicated structure of the public administration system, lack of clarity combined with a certain duplication of functions conferred on authorities, unclear mechanism of interaction between the participants of the investment process, and many others.While studying problems of the formation of the residential development for a large city, authors used the methods of logical analysis, synthesis and comparison. A systematic approach, methods of scientific abstraction and expertise have allowed authors to identify the main problems and specific features of the large Russian cities’ residential areas development; on this basis they formulated the main principles of urban planning policy in the sphere of housing construction, and grounded the necessity of developing a monitoring system of integrated development.

Abstract: With the development of building a socialist harmonious society and urbanization，building a new socialist countryside has become the focus of town planning.The industrial resources of Dou-long port,residents’ living environment and infrastructure are analyzed in detail in this paper. Some reasonable means of settlement are given according to the situation presented in Dou-long port’s development such as Distribution of scattered residential areas, road congestion, waste of land resources. After planning,you can achieve a radical improvement in the quality of life of residents.What more Dou-long port’s dirty and messy environment will be changed greatly.

Abstract: Investments in land constitute an essential element in sustainable development of land. Investments can be problematic as they often lead to taking up of agricultural land, which is then irrevocably lost. One of the possible ways of protecting agricultural land is to offer investments in sites, which were already used in the past. This paper is concerned with the connection between derelict and unused sites – which may be described as brownfields – and their cataloguing as part of the land-use (urban) planning process and determination of their function in land-use (urban) plans. The paper deals with the issue of urban planning in the Czech Republic and relevant legislation and cites examples of various solutions and their effects.

Abstract: If sustainable life on Earth is the goal (today), the Mankind cannot head towards it living in cities that are not sustainable. Localities that have lost the ability, unduly frequent in our cities, call the nature and causes of the phenomenon to be revisited. Once perceived in a city context, brownfields appear as places where the city failed: the communication, both material and social-cultural values´ exchange – that is the fundamental principle of a city - reduced and finally stopped between the locality, its surroundings and the polis. Identified as a platform for the communication, public space creates the basic framework of a city – the metropolitan structure. Vital public space claims to be the base of sustainable development of a city thus: the paper verifies the hypothesis and provides essential description of functions and types of public space. Principles and methods of its formation are demonstrated on examples in a nutshell. Eventually, the paper contributes both to the positive and to the normative theory of urban public space. Richly documented both in literature and the author's own work, commonly accessible reality of the built environment is the platform of explorative research plan of the paper. New, revising conclusions do not result from new findings on the situation, but from new perspectives on familiar issues. The same platform allows easy verification of hypotheses and new explanations.

Abstract: The article covers the problems of the shaping of the environment as well as living conditions in urban areas. Social needs, which are changing in time, make it necessary to adapt urban development to contemporary functional requirements. Such actions are particularly difficult in downtown areas where the interference concerns well located and preserved architectural and urban complexes. Directing attention to the areas of strict center of Czestochowa is not accidental. It is a city of importance to Polish history. It also belongs to the culture-creating sites for the nation. From so well preserved urban complexes there are required solutions arising from the uniqueness of the place and the role it fulfills – in this case: the city of pilgrimage, an academic center and a tourist destination. The search for strategy and tactics of quality raising of the downtown areas should cover both the urban context and historical and contemporary background of the city. The paper presents examples of attempts to acquire urban space in reference to the main urban assumption of the city of Czestochowa.

Abstract: In contrast to China’s rapid urbanization, the development of urban planning technologies remained relatively lagged behind. By taking quantitative analysis urban planning as a starting point, the research discusses the scope and content of planning at various levels as well as the possibility of data acquisition so as to choose the applicable planning analysis models. Agent-based modeling (ABM) has become an important subject recently in urban planning due to its top-down approach. This study discusses the building of a analysis Agent-based model for urban planning and design in a bid to provide direct and visual method for planning practices. We built a planning model with the software Repast S which was proved being useful in escaping green space planning. From running this Agent model the dynamic visualization of disaster evacuation process could be simulated.

Abstract: Based on the analysis of the healthy connotation of green-travel and the impact of environment on the travel mode, the paper researches the relationship between the healthy community and the green travel and sparkplugs the planning of the green travel oriented healthy community. Additionally, it discusses the method how to lead healthy travel, optimize healthy behavior and improve healthy consciousness from four points of elements analysis, spatial layout, green-travel system construction and policy support.