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This study considers how changes to the post-socialist urban planning framework have affected the treatment of public open space in the transformation of existing mass-housing areas and newly developed multi-story housing areas for the city of Nis, Serbia. The study focuses on quantitative and qualitative changes as well as the physical characteristics of public open spaces, evaluating environmental...
This article uses the narrative tool of a walk through Tianjin Eco-City, China, as an entry point in raising and discussing key questions in contemporary eco-city research. Eco-city projects are becoming increasingly prevalent in policy and political-economic discourses in a variety of locations as new urban spaces where blueprints for low carbon economies can be trialled. In light of this, the article...
Cities across the world are starting to recover space, previously devoted to cars, for other uses. The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the removal of space in urban settings and to provide some analytical results showing that it is possible to remove streets from a city without worsening traffic excessively.We have created an abstract grid network composed of 100 nodes and bidirectional...
Recent developments in the retail sector in Turkey have created a dynamic environment, with different resilience strategies of actors forming the sector providing a new context in which to discuss urban transformation. The developments have contributed to the public’s awareness regarding multifaceted problems in the retail sector, many of which have a negative impact on urban space. Retailers, citizens...
Due to the complex nature of the city, neither scientific studies nor perceptions can thoroughly address its substance. Each study reveals part of the city’s synthesis, whereas other parts remain undiscovered. What is revealed is highly dependent on not only the interpreter (subject) per se but also the interpreter’s perspective and scientific system. This system includes ways of measuring and mapping...
Calls for the institution of fiscal regulations in Africa abound. At the urban level, they hinge on well-known contentions that taxes generate substantial local government revenue for infrastructural development and tend to curtail the problem of ‘unearned income’. Based on empirical evidence from Sekondi-Takoradi, an oil city in Ghana, this paper shows that the nature of regulation, especially the...
The crucial objective of the paper is an analysis of the gated community phenomenon in the local context of the formation of the middle class in Poland, in order to understand how these estates function, not as physical objects, but rather as socio-cultural constructs. The paper uses the local framework to describe the social reality of Polish gated communities, employing critical discourse analysis...
This article examines the relationship between perceived territorial boundaries and actual spatial activity. The methodology used includes a combination of mental maps and interviews for examining perceptions of territorial boundaries, with tracking technology (GPS) and activity diaries to track the actual use of space. This methodology was implemented in a pilot study with a sample of 18 women living...
The sustainability of cities highly depends on city center viability and shopping street resilience. With the increasing number of shopping centers and their strong impact on existing retail systems, the major urban challenge has become maintaining a balance in the market. When shopping centers appeared, shopping streets began suffering from the negative influence of these new centers. Turkey, as...
Development of gated communities in Turkey is associated with the neo-liberal restructuring of the economy towards urban-focused economic strategy-making, the rise of new urban consumer groups, and the diversion of capital to assist markets and property development with state taking an active role in securing markets and defining the elements of place-marketing via a socio-spatial and -economic reorganization...
This paper evaluates the quality of housing in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. 1,951,603 refugees live in Jordan, and one fifth live in thirteen refugee camps established following Arab–Israeli conflicts in 1948 and 1967. These camps are characterised by poor living conditions and associated health, social and environmental problems. However, there is scant empirical evidence regarding the quality...
This paper analyses urban development in Maputo, comparing colonial and post-colonial development in the city. The focus is on the city’s dualistic structure, as determined physically, socially and economically by Jenkins (2000a). This structure is identified as consisting of a poor belt (characterised by poverty, the absence of property rights, deficient sanitation conditions and a process of gentrification)...
Despite the plethora of studies on the behavior and values of consumers, research in the social sciences tends to sideline the role of the cultural dimension of consumption in the assessment of vitality and resilience of urban retail systems. However, given the tendency for retailers to make consumers a key element in their strategies, the cultural approach seems to be a valuable alternative to firm-centric...
Retail trade is a private-sector activity: its structure and location result mainly from the action of individuals and firms in a given time and space. However, planning and regulations, which translate the way collective interest relates to private interest, have a significant effect on the activity.When examining the relationship between retail and urban space in the last three decades, in what...
Urban development is very susceptive to economic cycles. Can resilience theory be used to analyze these cycles and to find appropriate answers to minimize their impacts? Business rotation is part of a healthy economy; however, prolonged phases of devaluation can have serious economic consequences. The purpose of this paper is to apply resilience theory to the area of urban revitalization in a US southwest...
In the cities of East Central Europe high-status gated residential enclaves emerged after the collapse of communism symbolizing the new dimensions of social segregation brought about by the post-socialist transition. Due to the highly liberalised housing market and the infiltration of global capital the proliferation of gated neighbourhoods became possible. The aim of this paper is to analyse the...
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...
This study examines the density of polluting industry by neighborhoods in Baltimore over the long term, from 1950 to 2010, to determine if high pollution burdens correspond spatially with expected demographic and housing variables predicted in the environmental justice literature. For 1960–1980 we use data on heavy industry from Dun and Bradstreet directories and for 1990–2010 the US EPA’s Toxics...
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