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- Ceccato, Vania, et al.
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Safety and sustainability in a city in transition : The case of Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2011
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 28:1, s. 83-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban experts have long recognised crime and fear of crime as dominant challenges to sustainable cities. A sustainable community is a place free from the fear of crime, where a feeling of security underpins a wider sense of place attachment and place attractiveness. In this article, we follow the recent strand of Western research and suggest a framework for assessing safety, which includes the analysis of the geography of crime, fear of crime and crime prevention. Empirical evidence is based on Vilnius, Lithuania. Findings show that whilst Vilnius' geography of crime shows patterns similar to those found in Western cities, fear of crime shows a complex pattern, playing a minor role when citizens judge their residential quality. Crime prevention incorporates top-down features as well as approaches previously adopted by Western cities. The article concludes with an assessment of the proposed framework and directions for future work.
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- Isendahl, Christian, 1965-, et al.
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Sustainable agrarian urbanism : The low-density cities of the Mayas and Aztecs
- 2013
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Ingår i: Cities. - Oxford : Elsevier. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 31, s. 132-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Mesoamerica. The non-monumental components of these cities differed from the high-density ancient and historical cities in the Old World that are often considered the norm for pre-modern urbanism. Distinctive features include the practice of intensive agricultural cultivation within urban settlements, residential zones that were dispersed and unplanned, and the arrangement of houses into spatial clusters that served as urban neighborhoods. The residential areas of Maya and Aztec cities resembled modern peri-urban zones and informal settlements. Because of the benefits of smallholder intensive urban agriculture, cities thrived for many centuries, and some were successful for millennia. On the basis of this longevity, we argue that these were sustainable cities, and their form and dynamics may hold lessons for understanding contemporary urbanization processes.
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- Kärrholm, Mattias, et al.
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Spatial resilience and urban planning : Addressing the interdependence of urban retail areas
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 36:1, s. 121-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we look at examples of three predominant kinds of Swedish retail places – the pedestrianised city centre, the neighbourhood centre and the regional shopping mall – all of which play important (winning or losing) roles in contemporary retail development. This investigation is based on an empirical study of the Malmö region (in southern Sweden) and the findings suggest that the different retail areas are developing independently following the logic of their own business. They have failed to relate their business to the retailscape of the urban region. We also develop spatial resilience as a concept that can be used to acknowledge the interdependence of different retail areas in discussions of urban and regional planning. We argue that more fluid or associative means of stabilisation seem to be overlooked in the present strategies for retail resilience, leaving more classical network stabilization as the only means of choice.
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- Marcinczak, Szymon
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The evolution of spatial patterns of residential segregation in Central European Cities : The Lodz Functional Urban Region from mature socialism to mature post-socialism
- 2012
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Ingår i: Cities. - Oxford : Elsevier. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 29:5, s. 300-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two themes dominated the study of socio-spatial change in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) after 1990. One was that the development of urban regions in CEE after the demise of socialism is characterized by suburbanization. The second topic raises the issue of growing residential segregation. Unfortunately, studies on patterns of residential segregation are still scarce in the CEE context, in particular those that employ traditional measures of segregation. Relying on solid empirical materials from the 1988 and 2002 National Censuses, the purpose of this paper is to map and analyze the patterns of residential segregation in the Lodz Functional Urban Region, an old industrial urban region in Poland undergoing a rapid deconcentration and shrinkage of the core area. This contribution concludes that the first decade of systemic transition resulted in decreasing residential segregation, as gauged by global measures of segregation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Rizzo, Agatino, et al.
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Iskandar Malaysia
- 2012
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 29:6, s. 417-427
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- Rizzo, Agatino
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Metro Doha
- 2013
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 31, s. 533-543
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Doha, capital city of the Arab emirate of Qatar, has grown from a small, port city to a bustling capital region with global ambitions. Today almost 85% of Qatar’s total population (1.4 out of 1.7 million inhabitants) live in metropolitan Doha, while before 1971 (pre-independence) its total population was 30 times less. Blessed with generous oil and particularly gas reserves, since the 1970s the country has undertaken urban mega-projects and expensive land reclamations which have increased the built up area in the capital region by 60 times. In this article we review Doha’s past and current urban development, highlighting Qatar’s different urban phases. Also, by comparing Doha to Dubai, we investigate the impacts of Qatar’s ‘‘mega-projects agenda’’ on two important government-led developments: Education City and Mshereib Redevelopment.
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- Rizzo, Agatino
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Rapid urban development and national master planning in Arab Gulf countries. Qatar as a case study
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 39, s. 50-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we review past and current master planning efforts in Qatar, highlighting the country's inability to manage rapid urban development. We will argue that the failure to implement sound urban planning in Qatar - and by extension, in the rest of the Arab Gulf Region - is the result of a detachment between the master planning phase - usually sub-contracted to external consultants that are insensitive to Gulf dynamics - and the implementation phase - usually carried out by incapable and redundant local government agencies - all in absence of a serious discussion of ongoing mega-projects.
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- Sarkheyli, Elnaz, et al.
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An Investigation of the Reasons for Non-Compliance with FAR Regulations in Tehran
- 2012
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 29:4, s. 223-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The majority of the Tehran metropolitan region’s problems are associated with building contraventions, which intensified after migration from other parts of the country to the region increased. This migration coincided with a boom in the construction sector and an increase in density selling by the Tehran municipality.Because of the far-reaching consequences of this phenomenon and the Tehran municipality’s inefficient and inappropriate building controls, it is important to identify the reasons and origins of these contraventions so that solutions and mitigation measures can be developed.After conducting a literature review and a questionnaire study, the reasons for the occurrence of one of the most common building contraventions, namely non-compliance with floor area ratio (FAR) regulations, are discussed in this paper. The questionnaire investigated the following indicators: level of awareness, violation of regulations to meet the minimum needs of housing (housing-related motives), violation of regulations with the aim of gaining financial profit (profit-making motives), owners’ income level, the experience and expertise level of the developers, and the quality of supervision and monitoring. The questionnaire was answered by 150 persons whose cases were under investigation in the municipality, and the results were utilized to evaluate each of the above-mentioned indicators. A Pearson correlation test and a path analysis were used to analyze the data. The study revealed that developers’ level of awareness is the most influential factor leading to non-compliance with FAR requirements. Following this indicator, income level and housing-related motives have the greatest influence on non-compliance with FAR regulations.
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