deltas, urbanisation
Delta Urbanism: New Challenges for Planning and Design in Urbanized Deltas
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302 pages
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This issue is dedicated to ‘Delta urbanism’, addressing the need to find special approaches and solutions for spatial planning and urban design in delta regions. The series of recent floods in urbanized delta areas shows the need for a fundamental reconsideration of urban development in delta, coastal and river plain areas.
29 May 2014
This issue of Built Environment is dedicated to ‘Delta urbanism’, addressing the need to find special approaches and solutions for spatial planning and urban design in delta regions. The series of recent floods in urbanized delta areas (New Orleans 2005, Japan 2011, Bangkok 2011, New York 2012, etc.) shows the need for a fundamental reconsideration of urban development in delta, coastal and river plain areas. However, with ‘delta urbanism’ we do not mean that we should focus only on the effects of climate change and on the question of improving flood defence systems.
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Delta-Urbanism: New Challenges for Planning and Design in Urbanized Deltas
Han Meyer -
Urbanized Deltas as Complex Adaptive Systems: Implications for Planning and Design
Ed Dammers, Arnold K. Bregt, Jurian Edelenbos, Han Meyer and Bonno Pel -
Delta Governance. The DNA of a Specific Kind of Urbanization
Luuk Boelens -
Fluidity, Rigidity, and Consequence. A Comparative Historical Geography of the Mississippi and Sénégal River Deltas and the Deltaic Urbanism of New Orleans and Saint-Louis
Richard Campanella -
The Nile Delta – Urbanizing on Diminishing Resources
Cornelia Redeker and Sameh A. Kantoush -
Dichotomous Delta: between the Natural and the Metropolitan: The Case of the Parana Delta, Argentina
Veronica Zagare -
Mekong delta: Living with Water, But for How Long?
Marcel Marchand, Dieu Quang Pham and Trang Le -
The Metropolitan Landscapes of the Pearl River Delta and the San Francisco Bay Area
Peter Bosselmann and Sarah Moos -
Research by Design on the Dutch Coastline: Bridging Flood Control and Spatial Quality
Nikki Brand, Inge Kersten, Remon Pot and Maike Warmerdam -
New Orleans after Katrina: Building America’s Water City
David Wagonner, Nanco Dolman, Derek Hoeferlin, Han Meyer, Pieter Schengenga, Sabien Thomaesz, Jaap Van Den Bout, Jaap Van Der Salm and Chris Van Der Zwet - Publication Reviews
Crossing Boundaries: Architecture and the Influence of Other Disciplines
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15 Apr 2014
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Crossing Boundaries: Architecture and the Influence of Other Disciplines
Bechir Kenzari, Yasser Elsheshtawy -
Architecture as Media Event: Mario Sironi and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution, 1932
Libero Andreotti -
The Mythical East: Architectural Metaphors in Tayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to the North
Yasser Elsheshtawy -
Cooking an Architectural Happy Cosmospoiesis
Marco Frascari -
Windows
Bechir Kenzari -
The Big Architectural Adventure of Giambattista Vico
Donald Kunze -
Building in Memento Mori: Theses on the Photography of Architecture
Nadir Lahiji -
Rooms and the Question of Return in Kafka's Work
Ayad Rahmani -
Architecture as Inspired Machine
Albert C. Smith, Kendra Schank Smith -
Publication Reviews
Peter J. Larkham
Transport Inequalities and Poverty
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15 Apr 2014
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Transport, Inequalities and Poverty
Gabriel Dupuy -
Do Travel Conditions Increase the Social Segregation Caused by Land Price? The Case of Paris Urban Area
Francis Beaucire, Thierry Saint-Gérand -
Differences in Accessibility to the Job Market According to Social Status and Place of Residence in the Paris Area
Sandrine Wenglenski, Jean-Pierre Orfeuil -
Barcelona: Accessibility Changes and Metropolitan Transformations
Manuel Herce Vallejo -
Mobility of the Poor in Two European Metropolises: Car Dependence Versus Locality Dependence
Olivier Coutard, Gabriel Dupuy, Sylvie Fol -
Social and Political Segregation of Urban Transportation: The Merits and Limitations of the Swiss Cities Model
Vincent Kaufmann -
Daily Mobility and Inequality: The Situation of the Poor
Lourdes Diaz Olvera, Dominique Mignot, Christelle Paulo -
Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion in Urban Scotland
Julian Hine -
Rural Transport and Social Exclusion: Developing a Rural Transport Typology
David Gray -
Publication Reviews
Anthony Sutcliffe, John Punter, David Banister
climate change, cities, environment
Climate Change and Cities
08 Apr 2014
With input from a range of academic disciplines and based on the latest scientific knowledge, this issue addresses what climate change means for the urban environment in terms of impacts, risk assessment, adaptation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Although the papers are based on the latest research in the UK, the discussions and findings presented here are intended to have wider resonance.
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Climate Change and Cities
Darryn Mcevoy -
Climate Scenarios and Decision Making under Uncertainty
C.M. Goodess, J. Hall, M. Best, R. Betts, L. Cabantous, P.D. Jones, C.G. Kilsby, a. Pearman and C.J. Wallace -
A Review of Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment
R.L. Wilby -
The Role of Spatial Risk Assessment in the Context of Planning for Adaptation in UK Urban Areas
S.J. Lindley, J.F. Handley, D. Mcevoy, E. Peet and N. Theuray -
Adaptable Urban Drainage: Addressing Change in Intensity, Occurrence and Uncertainty of Stormwater (AUDACIOUS)
Richard Ashley, John Blanksby, Adrian Cashman, Lynne Jack, Grant Wright, John Packman, Lorna Fewtrell, Tony Poole and Cedo Maksimovic -
Increased Temperature and Intensification of the Urban Heat Island: Implications for Human Comfort and Urban Design
Richard Watkins, John Palmer and Maria Kolokotroni -
Thermal Comfort: Climate Change and the Environmental Design of Buildings in the United Kingdom
Jacob N. Hacker and Michael J. Holmes -
Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure
S. Gill, J. Handley, R. Ennos and S. Pauleit - Publication Reviews
density
Density
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08 Apr 2014
This issue approaches the subject of density from diverse perspectives. Starting from its physical definition, the articles explore complementary dimensions of density such as time, language, form, intention, context, information, technology, and complexity. Each of these dimensions suggests different policy and research
questions for professionals, academics and their students working on the built environment. Taken together they broaden the meaning(s) of density and its significance in urban analysis and discourse. Density is much more than a simple absolute quantitative parameter; it is also a powerful relational concept.
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Density: An Overview Essay
Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman -
Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar
Michael Cohen -
Buenos Aires: Involuntary Incentives to Metropolitan Dispersal
Fernando Diez -
Metropolitan Cities: Territory and Governability, the Spanish Case
Albert Arias and Jordi Borja -
Morphology of Density
Roberto Doberti and Liliana Giordano -
Ubiquitous Computing, Informatization, Urban Structures and Density
Graham Clarke and Victor Callaghan -
The Last Days of Low-Density Living: Suburbs and the End of Oil
Rachel Heiman -
Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in Mumbai
Vyjayanthi Rao -
On the Declining Population of the Centre: A Research Note
Shlomo Angel - Publication Reviews
heritage conservation, education
Built Heritage Conservation Education
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08 Apr 2014
The questions central to this issue of Built Environment concern conservation education and how, in facing the myriad challenges associated with conserving built heritage, practitioners and teachers can achieve the best results. Education, conservation and heritage are all contextualized by culture, therefore to be successful built heritage conservation activities must be based upon shared cultural values. Jeff Cody and Kecia Fong identify five key themes, common to all the papers in this issue:
- The necessity of fieldwork as a part of a student’s conservation education;
- The importance of collaboration or partnership as a means of advancing the field of conservation;
- The multi- and/or interdisciplinary nature of conservation efforts;
- The potential disconnect between global norms and local values;
- The significance of community participation in the process of heritage identification and conservation
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Built Heritage Conservation Education
Jeff Cody and Kecia Fong -
An International Perspective to Conservation Education
Jukka Jokilehto -
All Things Useful and Ornamental: A Praxis-based Model for Conservation Education
Frank Matero -
Heritage Preservation Training: An Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Methodology
Koen Van Balen -
Training Conservation Professionals in the Middle East
Aylin Orbasli -
Built Heritage Conservation Education: A Reflection from Peru
Mirna Soto Medina and Luis Villacorta Santamato -
Conservation and Change: Questions for Conservation Education in Urban India
Rahul Mehrotra -
Conservation Education as a form of Community Service in Bangkok
Yongtanit Pimonsathean -
On-site Conservation Training in Cambodia: A Critical Survey of Activities at Angkor
Robert Garland Thomson - Publication Reviews
children, young people
Children, Young People and Built Environments
08 Apr 2014
The ‘place’ of children and young people in society is perhaps more visible and contested than ever before. There are unprecedented levels of public and media debate concerning young people’s behaviour, health, education and leisure time.
With papers drawn from a cross-section of current research, this issue addresses the relationship between young people and built space in different socio-cultural contexts. Importantly, the contributors explore built spaces that are outside the predominant foci of research about young people and built environments: schools, houses and playgrounds. Further, several authors highlight the lack of ‘fit’ between the methods used by academics to foster young people’s participation, and those that can be effectively (and efficiently) employed by built environment professionals to the same end.
It is hoped that the contributors to this issue will help to develop a dialogue between social scientists and built environment scholars and professionals – a dialogue orientated towards understanding and improving young people’s interactions with built places.
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Children, Young People and Built Environments
Peter Kraftl, John Horton and Faith Tucker -
In Search of the Child-Friendly Hospital
Jo Birch, Penny Curtis and Allison James -
Airports for Children: Mobility, Design and the Construction of an Airport Education
Peter Adey -
‘We Change Lives in Here’: Environments for ‘Nurturing’ in UK Primary Schools
Michelle Newman, Andree Woodcock and Philip Dunham -
Children’s Gardens: Answering ‘the Call of the Child’?
Sue Wake -
Children’s Independent Movement in the Local Environment
Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins -
Using GIS to Make Young People’s Voices Heard in Urban Planning
Ulla Berglund and Kerstin Nordin - Publication Reviews
crime, safety, urban
Crime in the City
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08 Apr 2014
This issue focuses on crime in the city with particular reference to the relationship between crime, land use and the urban environment. In their papers, the editor and contributors discuss different aspects of crime risk, crime opportunities, crime prevention and fear of crime.
Following Alex Hirschfield’s scene-setting paper, Danielle Reynald et al. examine the importance of social distance as a barrier to offender movements. Shane D. Johnson et al. take a closer look at crime hotspots and how far they represent stable patterns of crime. Jennifer B. Robinson describes the impact of a major regeneration programme on crime patterns in a North American city. J. Bryan Kinney et al. explore the relationship between urban land use and crime in Vancouver, while Tinus Kruger and Karina Landman investigate how far theories of environmental criminology and situational crime prevention apply outside the West by focusing on gated communities and crime reduction in urban South Africa. Andrew Newton moves away from a concern with crime affecting fixed locations by considering the special factors that apply when measuring and tackling crime on public transport. Finally, Hirschfield and Newton investigate the relationship between burglary and burglary reduction measures in Manchester.
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The Multi-Faceted Nature of Crime
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Do Social Barriers Affect Urban Crime Trips? The Effects of Ethnic and Economic Neighbourhood Compositions on the Flow of Crime in The Hague, The Netherlands
Danielle Reynald, Margit Averdijk, Henk Elffers and Wim Bernasco -
Stable and Fluid Hotspots of Crime: Differentiation and Identification
Shane D. Johnson, Steven P. Lab and Kate J. Bowers -
Crime and Regeneration in Urban Communities: The Case of the Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts
Jennifer B. Robinson -
Crime Attractors, Generators and Detractors: Land Use and Urban Crime Opportunities
J. Bryan Kinney, Patricia L. Brantingham, Kathryn Wuschke, Michael G. Kirk and Paul J. Brantingham -
Crime and the Physical Environment in South Africa: Contextualizing International Crime Prevention Experiences
Tinus Kruger and Karina Landman -
A Study of Bus Route Crime Risk in Urban Areas: The Changing Environs of a Bus Journey
Andrew Newton -
The Crime-Crime Prevention Relationship: A Manchester Case Study
Alex Hirschfield and Andrew Newton - Publication Reviews
sustainable mobility, environment
People plus Technology: New Approaches to Sustainable Mobility
08 Apr 2014
The contributors to this issue interpret mobility as a complex system of social, institutional and technical factors. And technical factors are not just valve heads, catalytic converters and other technologies meant to reduce the environmental impact of mobility without any change of social practices; they also include road surface textures, street layouts, pedestrian precincts, bicycle lanes, speed bumps, underpasses, building designs and all other urban artefacts with an intended or unintended impact on our mobility choices. This issue investigates what can be seen, learned and done when we interpret the challenge of sustainable mobility from this vantage point. The answers do not come as cookbook style advice, but certainly increase our awareness of options that mainstream technical or social ‘fixes’ tend to overlook.
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People plus Technology: New Approaches to Sustainable Mobility
Ralf Brand -
The Role of Human Powered Vehicles in Sustainable Mobility
Peter Cox -
Shared Space: Reconciling People, Places and Traffic
Ben Hamilton-baillie -
Co-evolution of Technical and Social Change in Action: Hasselt’s Approach to Urban Mobility
Ralf Brand -
Urban Transport Systems in Bogotá and Copenhagen: An Approach from STS
Andrés Valderrama and Ulrik Jørgensen -
How Mobility Systems Produce Inequality: Making Mobile Subject Types on the Bangkok Sky Train
Tim Richardson and Ole B. Jensen - Publication Reviews
Australia, cities
The State of Australian Cities
08 Apr 2014
In their introduction, Clive Forster and Stephen Hamnett provide a snapshot of the current state of Australian cities in relation to urban growth, housing, transport, city economies, residential differentiation and social exclusion, together with an overview of Australian city planning policies. Next, Pauline McGuirk presents a synoptic view of contemporary challenges to the governance of Australian cities. Gavin Wood et al. then examine the Melbourne 2030 metropolitan strategy and the potential conflict between aiming to concentrate development around rail stations in ‘Principal Activity Centres’ (PACs), while also ensuring that lower-income households have access to affordable housing in these centres. The focus for Bill Mitchell et al. is the impact on low- and moderate-income workers of declining housing affordability in inner-city regions. Rowland Atkinson and Hazel Easthope examine the role of universities and their staff and students within broader strategic policies to promote both the liveability of cities and their creative milieux. Raymond Bunker suggests that the recent proliferation of economic, infrastructure and metropolitan strategic plans raises concerns about how readily these can be aligned and integrated. Patrick Troy and Bill Randolph propose a number of radical approaches to dealing with Sydney’s domestic water supply and the current crisis in its provision. Garry Glazebrook and Peter Rickwood examine the implications of peak oil and global warming for urban passenger transport in Sydney. And finally, Peter Phibbs provides a case study of Sydney’s cross city tunnel which, on most assessments, has been a fairly spectacular failure as a Public Private Partnership (PPP).
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The State of Australian Cities: An Overview
Clive Forster and Stephen Hamnett -
Building the Capacity to Govern the Australian Metropolis
Pauline Mcguirk -
Community Mix, Affordable Housing and Metropolitan Planning Strategy in Melbourne
Gavin Wood, Christian Nygaard, Mike Berry and Elizabeth Taylor -
The Occupational Dimensions of Local Labour Markets in Australian Cities
Bill Mitchell, Anthea Bill and Martin Watts -
The Creative Class in Utero? The Australian City, the Creative Economy and the Role of Higher Education
Rowland Atkinson and Hazel Easthope -
A Plenitude, Plethora or Plague of Plans?
Raymond Bunker -
A New Approach to Sydney’s Domestic Water Supply Problem
Patrick Troy and Bill Randolph -
Options for Reducing Transport Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Emissions for Sydney
Garry Glazebrook and Peter Rickwood -
Driving Alone: Sydney’s Cross-City Tunnel
Peter Phibbs - Publication Reviews
