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Policymakers and planners are now aware that historic cities require regulatory mechanisms if they are to maintain and enhance the fabric upon which their historicity and economic vitality is based. Tensions over land use, changes in the nature of local economies, and the continued consumption of historic assets place considerable pressures on those distinctive features that make historic cities...
The main aim of this article is to put forward various factors, forces, and decisions which have diversified the tendency of urban growth and which have shaped the urban pattern of the city of Gazimagusa (Famagusta)Gazimagusta in Turkish, Famagusta in English. Turkish version will be used within the text.The paper begins with a brief historical review of the evolution of the urban pattern of the city...
This article presents a synopsis of innovative actions towards sustainable development in European cities. It draws many examples from a European overview of Urban Innovations, the major part of an action-oriented research programme on Urban Innovations in the European Union. The programme has been introduced and managed by the author at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working...
In terms of wide-scale human welfare and sustainability, the conditions of life in urban squatter settlements have enormous significance. They comprise some 30-70% of the housing stock in many cities and towns in developing countries. Their scale is attributed to the inadequacies of housing finance systems and land development, along with the pressing realities of demographic growth and mass poverty...
This paper examines the use of urban space by dairy production activities in two areas of Mexico City with different degrees of urbanization (east and south). These activities have adapted to the recent urban conditions, from an original rural state. Dairy production is carried out in the house area, and producers pay for urban services as other residents. In the eastern zone, the activity is the...
Like many cities in the USA suffering from structural decline, in recent decades the city of Detroit has applied a 'pro-growth' agenda involving the encouragement of development within the core city. More specifically, entertainment and sports-related schemes have been the focus of this agenda in recent years. However, the use of such schemes to achieve broader regeneration aims presents problems...
The immense growth of cities, especially in developing countries, is resulting in the urbanization of both poverty and environmental degradation to a greater degree than ever before. This paper examines the processes of growth and degradation in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region (GCMR), currently the world’s tenth largest mega-city. It reviews the region’s growth and selected environmental issues...
Given Girne's limited growth potential, tourism is its most important activity Consequently, growth has both negative and positive impacts upon the environment and its values. It is therefore important that the tourism industry remains positive and sustainable in every way it interacts with the environment. For this to happen, a strategy that takes into consideration all related aspects has to be...
The paper discusses the validity of the ''urban versus rural'' dichotomy in scientific literature, statistics and urban planning practice, especially in empirical studies developed around the issue of vegetable and animal farming inside and around cities. Santiago's rural-urban interface is presented as a case study. Sample results extracted in early 2003 have shown that farming mixed with other land...
Both advocacy and performance measurement ends of the city planning spectrum have advanced the approach of measuring and monitoring urban indicators as a practical means to lofty planning goals. Urban and regional indicator projects aim to generate synergistic utility out of measures of urban quality and progress, trying to transform assessment measures into strategic levers for system change. This...
The concept of sustainability typically encompasses social, economic, political and environmental components. This paper focuses on the measurement of factors that help predict whether a region is moving toward or away from environmentally sustainable paths. Examples of natural capital are provided along with the rationales for using a natural capital approach. Indicators assist in the assessment...
Aboriginal and Indigenous people are among the world’s poorest of the poor, and are forming increasing proportions of urban centres throughout the world. Little information is currently gathered on urban Aboriginal and Indigenous populations, and almost no systems exist that examine their quality of life or importance to urban sustainability. An indicators system was developed by the Centre for Native...
The Childe thesis is fundamental to the urban ecology theoretical framework, explaining the development of communities as a result of the interplay between the dynamics of population, organization, environment, and technology. This perspective is consistent with sustainability, ecosystem, and bioregional principles that recognize the importance of local response to local conditions. In the face of...
Perth, the capital of Western Australia, despite its apparent remoteness, is now widely regarded as being one of the world’s most attractive cities. Set between ocean and hills, its convivial Mediterranean climate, low-density development and casual, laid-back style, have proved appealing to successive waves of migrants and today attract increasing numbers of short term visitors and tourists. However,...
In a set of US urban areas, this study documents patterns of association between multiple measures of sustainability policies and outcomes on the one hand and indicators of three principal political culture theories on the other. Five dimensions of urban sustainability attributes are examined (environmental, public health, economic utility, sprawl, and local government plans and policies) as well...
This paper shows the results of a study carried out on the central area of Irbid, Jordan in order to assess the effect of the modern urbanization process on the degradation and loss of the city’s heritage. This type of work comes as a result of the need to study the interaction between modern and heritage landscapes, which are in a direct physical contact with each other, and thus to address the problems...
Mexico City has long been known as one of the world’s largest mega-cities. Although, the city’s growth rates have slowed since the 1980s, this process is not manifested evenly in spatial terms. Peripheral municipalities continue to grow at higher rates, including those municipalities in the southern part of the Federal District that contain its remaining conservation land. This growth is largely,...
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...
In the aftermath of the recent boom and bust of US real estate, both a refinement and a deeper understanding of real estate valuation methods have become critical concerns across a number of broad urban-related academic fields. Out of this we see three major trends in the field of real estate valuation research: (1) the expansion of spatial econometrics; (2) the recognition of the differences between...
With the rise of interest in urban sustainability, the question of nature is front and center. This review suggests bridging between three distinct research paths concerned with urban areas and nature: urban ecosystem services, urban metabolism and urban political ecology to forge new thinking to transition from the sanitary city of the twentieth century to the sustainable city of the twenty-first...
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