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Container and Magnet: A New Theory on the Concrete Function of Contemporary Cities
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
68-73
Received:
30 May 2022
Accepted:
22 June 2022
Published:
18 July 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.11
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Abstract: Nowadays, cities have dominated human social life, whether it's Eastern society or Western society. This is why this issue is important. It is because urban life is not only related to the present of mankind, but also to the future of mankind. Recognizing the importance and diversity of urban functions can better guide human production and life. However, studies of the function of cities do not do a good job of explaining why this is the case. This article attempts to answer this question. This article adopts a historical perspective and comparative method, starts from the theory of traditional functionalism, and expounds the general functions of cities in the origin period, the functions of medieval European cities and ancient Chinese cities, the functions of cities after the Industrial Revolution, and the new functions of contemporary cities. On the basis of the traditional functionalism theory, urban typology and urban ecology explanations, two explanatory functions of the city are proposed - container and magnet. Statically, the city is a container of population, technology and institutions, enabling inclusion and integration; dynamically, the city is a magnet that continuously absorbs foreign populations. In a word, the function of the city is a complex of container and magnet.
Abstract: Nowadays, cities have dominated human social life, whether it's Eastern society or Western society. This is why this issue is important. It is because urban life is not only related to the present of mankind, but also to the future of mankind. Recognizing the importance and diversity of urban functions can better guide human production and life. Ho...
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Rethinking Planning and Design Maps: The Potential of Discourse Analysis
Taki Eddin Sonbli,
Philip Black
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
74-86
Received:
24 June 2022
Accepted:
9 July 2022
Published:
18 July 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.12
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Abstract: This paper rethinks the nature of spatial planning and design policy maps and develops a comprehensive analytical framework to help in their analysis. Current research on planning/design maps tends to focus on Western democratic states and also still deals with planning maps as technical tools, or as fixed bearers of a political message. However, planning maps are at once fixed representations, but are also increasingly regarded as being performed and deployed in multiple and often contested ways. The research presented here suggests that studying them as discourse might allow this dual aspect to be apprehended. This conceptual framework understands maps from both planners’ and consumers' perspectives, taking into consideration four dimensions of discourse analysis: text, context, construction and critique. Thus a comprehensive tool is designed to guide the analysis of planning/design maps, dividing it into eight interrelated approaches. This methodology is compatible with a post-structural understanding of maps, and suggests that using discourse analysis can also be an effective analytical tool in the preparation of a plan. It also provides a solid base that planners may depend on, to explore public understanding of plans, assess their reactions and build an understanding of the nature of planning.
Abstract: This paper rethinks the nature of spatial planning and design policy maps and develops a comprehensive analytical framework to help in their analysis. Current research on planning/design maps tends to focus on Western democratic states and also still deals with planning maps as technical tools, or as fixed bearers of a political message. However, p...
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Research on the Dilemma of the Protection of Rural Historical Buildings
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
87-91
Received:
20 July 2022
Accepted:
Published:
22 July 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.13
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Abstract: With the rapid increase of urbanization rate, historical buildings are slowly being replaced by new buildings. In the face of this unavoidable reality, the protection of historical buildings has gradually been paid attention to, and formed a set of procedures for the protection of historical buildings. The use of this set of processes for historical buildings in urban areas can well achieve the purpose of protecting and activating the use of historical buildings. However, due to the different willingness of property owners to protect historical buildings in rural areas, it is difficult to guarantee the protection funds, and the low enthusiasm of public participation, the original process will face different difficulties, resulting in the failure to achieve the purpose of effective protection. This paper attempts to start from the dilemma, analyze its causes, and combined with domestic and foreign research, put forward solutions: establish a scientific evaluation system, implement a monitoring and early warning system, build a clear behavior boundary of property owners, establish and improve legal systems to supervise and urge the performance of protection obligations, expand more sources of funds and incentive mechanisms, and build a bottom-up proactive protection system, Improve the rationality and operability of the protection of rural historical buildings.
Abstract: With the rapid increase of urbanization rate, historical buildings are slowly being replaced by new buildings. In the face of this unavoidable reality, the protection of historical buildings has gradually been paid attention to, and formed a set of procedures for the protection of historical buildings. The use of this set of processes for historica...
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Economic Vulnerability Assessment and Its Influencing Factors in Tourism-Dependent City of Zhangjiajie City, China
Li Jia-jia,
Shao Yun-lin,
Wang Xiang,
Deng Hong-xiang,
Li Ye-yu,
Xie Wen-hai
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
92-99
Received:
27 June 2022
Accepted:
15 July 2022
Published:
22 July 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.14
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Abstract: The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic has caused a huge impact on the tourism industry in Zhangjiajie, and the economic vulnerability of Zhangjiajie as a tourism-dependent city has been exposed. In order to achieve high-quality and sustainable economic development, we took Zhangjiajie City in China as the research object and constructed the economic vulnerability assessment index system of tourism-dependent cities. Then we selected the vulnerability index values of Zhangjiajie 's urban economic system in 10 years from 2011 to 2020 as the research data, and using the improved Critic method, S/R model, obstacle model and other research methods, we quantitatively analyzed and assessed the economic system vulnerability of Zhangjiajie City, revealing the characteristics and main factors contributing to the economic system vulnerability of Zhangjiajie City. The research results show that the economic development of Zhangjiajie has been in a medium and high vulnerability state for a long time. The main obstacles to the sustainable economic development of Zhangjiajie are the small proportion of educational funds, the over-dependence on tourism for economic development, the high proportion of the number of foreign tourists in the total number of tourists, the large elasticity of urban registered unemployment rate, and the low degree of industrial structure diversification. Finally, the suggestions are putting forward, which include increasing investment in education, diversifying tourism forms, diversifying economic and industrial structure, developing cultural and sports industries. These suggestions are helpful to reduce vulnerability of a tourism-dependent city and ensure its high quality and sustainable development of economy.
Abstract: The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic has caused a huge impact on the tourism industry in Zhangjiajie, and the economic vulnerability of Zhangjiajie as a tourism-dependent city has been exposed. In order to achieve high-quality and sustainable economic development, we took Zhangjiajie City in China as the research object and constructed the econom...
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Planning Policy Perspectives on Development of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Practices in Rural Areas: A Tanzanian Diagnosis and Prognosis
Gordian Wilfred Kazaura,
Daniel Wandera Clief Naku
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
100-108
Received:
21 June 2022
Accepted:
21 July 2022
Published:
29 July 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.15
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Abstract: There is good evidence that improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has significant economic and social development benefits. This research used the Opportunities and Obstacles to Development concept (O&OD) from the planning perspective to examine opportunities and obstacles facing the development of WASH practices in rural areas of developing countries with specific reference to Hombolo Village in Tanzania - East Africa. Results from the research reveal those rural areas in countries like Tanzania face enormous obstacles in dealing with WASH related issues. The study has also established that despite of the prevailing obstacles or challenges, opportunities to facilitate the implementation of WASH practices in rural areas do indeed exist and can therefore be harnessed. Such opportunities include the following; first, fighting local people ignorances, cultural mentality and lack of will by providing education on hygiene issues to people in rural areas. As it was observed, hygiene in rural areas like Hombolo village is compromised because many people in these areas are ignorant about hygiene issues, culturally affected and others simply lack the will to keep good hygiene. Secondly, where necessary, support to very poor families with hygiene detergents such as toilet soap should be provided. The findings showed that poverty is a challenge.
Abstract: There is good evidence that improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has significant economic and social development benefits. This research used the Opportunities and Obstacles to Development concept (O&OD) from the planning perspective to examine opportunities and obstacles facing the development of WASH practices in rural areas of developi...
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Investigation and Research on Spatial Types of Maternal and Infant Space in Commercial Space - A Case Study of Beijing
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
109-119
Received:
21 June 2022
Accepted:
8 July 2022
Published:
9 August 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.16
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Abstract: With the release of the three-child policy and the social environment that encourages breastfeeding, the maternal and infant population has become a special group that can not be ignored in society. They need and have the right to own and use public space. At the same time, China's new generation of young mothers is more willing to take their babies into social life as soon as possible to promote their growth. As the commercial space in the city is clean and tidy, with the appropriate temperature, convenient shopping and dining, convenient parking, and complete children's facilities, it has become the first place for mothers to bring their children. However, a series of problems such as the lack of maternal and infant supporting facilities and unreasonable spatial allocation in the current city have led to obstacles to the activities of maternal and infant groups outside. Taking the maternal and infant space in the commercial space as the research object, this paper collates and investigates the distribution of commercial space in Beijing and the relevant information on maternal and infant space in the commercial space. Then, we select 15 typical commercial spaces in Beijing to conduct in-depth research on the location distribution, function setting, and spatial form of maternal and infant spaces. Combined with the current situation and the cognition of the basic behavior law of the maternal and infant population, we take each functional space in the maternal and infant space as a spatial unit, analyze the relationship between each spatial unit, and conduct an integrated study on the spatial types of maternal and infant space, and put forward the basic combination principles of maternal and infant space according to the characteristics of the commercial space, so as to provide feasible suggestions for the rational configuration of maternal and infant space in commercial space.
Abstract: With the release of the three-child policy and the social environment that encourages breastfeeding, the maternal and infant population has become a special group that can not be ignored in society. They need and have the right to own and use public space. At the same time, China's new generation of young mothers is more willing to take their babie...
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Post-Independent Development in Nigeria: The University of Ibadan as a Catalyst for the Development of the Agbowo Community (A Rural Area), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Ogunleye-Adetona Comfort Iyabo,
Fejiro Akpooghene Juan
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
120-132
Received:
5 January 2022
Accepted:
24 January 2022
Published:
5 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.17
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Abstract: Development involves the processes of economic growth, social welfare, and modernization. The Nigerian government in an attempt to develop the country tried the principle of cumulative causation or the growth-pole approach using the University of Ibadan, Oyo State to facilitate development in the Agbowo community, a rural settlement near the university campus. This study was therefore undertaken to find out if the University has impacted the development of the Agbowo community. Primary information required was obtained through the use of questionnaire administration and interviews. The simple descriptive, binary regression statistics were used to summarize and explain the findings. The binary regression analyses revealed a strong relationship between the establishment of the University of Ibadan and socio-economic development in the study area. There is, however, room for additional imputes to improve the functional interdependence relationship or otherwise between the University and the Agbowo community in other to enhance further development. Increasing population in the community, for instance, requires the provision of more houses, healthcare facilities, and other infrastructures. The study, therefore, recommends that the Government, town planning authorities and the University should collaborate/work together in the effort towards improving the status and availability of health facilities, improving the road network of the area, and eventual improvement of the people’s wellbeing and eventual development of the study area.
Abstract: Development involves the processes of economic growth, social welfare, and modernization. The Nigerian government in an attempt to develop the country tried the principle of cumulative causation or the growth-pole approach using the University of Ibadan, Oyo State to facilitate development in the Agbowo community, a rural settlement near the univer...
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The Influence of Climatic Changes on the Spatial Organization of Riverine Territories
Vadimov Vadim,
Samoilenko Yevheniia
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2022
Pages:
133-140
Received:
15 August 2022
Accepted:
30 August 2022
Published:
8 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.urp.20220703.18
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Abstract: Climate change, due to many unknown factors, is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. The main ones among them are: at what speed the processes will take place, what level of climate change is expected at different territorial levels (macro, meso, micro), in different natural and climatic conditions. As well as which regions will be affected, how global climate change will be distributed and which ecosystems will be most vulnerable. The main purpose of this article is to consider possible options of climate stabilization in densely populated riverside areas. The study of the impact of climate change on the riversade areas of Dnipro, the main river of Ukraine, is relevant. The main methods with which the research was conducted were the analysis and logical construction of literature sources. Computer simulations were used to present analyzes related to the factors influencing the urban development of riverside areas. In conclusion it is proposed to develop and implementation of new strategies for adaptation, forecasting, and a new methodology of landscape-oriented spatial planning of riverside urbanized territories based on city-planning clusters.
Abstract: Climate change, due to many unknown factors, is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. The main ones among them are: at what speed the processes will take place, what level of climate change is expected at different territorial levels (macro, meso, micro), in different natural and climatic conditions. As well as which regions will be ...
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