The regenerative approach encourages human communities to re-connect with the essence of place and advocates becoming indigenous to place, again. Nothing new, but values forgotten in contemporary life. This paper explores how to implement the regenerative development goal of drinkable cities. Recent legal breakthroughs by Indigenous communities are advancing “Rights of Nature”. What if their river basin guardianship model expanded globally to maintain the “health and well-being” of all rivers? To understand how sacred connections were lost in Europe, a post-colonial lens explores Ireland’s connections with place, people and language. Adventures to keep “old ways” alive, involving Dublin’s River Dodder kingfisher, are remembered through autoethnography. Bioregionalism requires cities work with all communities of their river basin, through a nested approach. Following natures patterns, work from Curitiba, Brazil, demonstrates how cities can organize fractally; communities within communities. Municipalism envisages a citizen-led fractal network of ecological neighbourhoods communicating through local assemblies. Inspiring multilevel governance examples exist in Rojava and Spain. Swiss, Danish and Dutch water regeneration projects show clean, safe, loved nature spaces are possible within cities. A Dutch woman’s impactful work helps urban citizens imagine drinking the river water that their cities located themselves on and around, again. Let life flow.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
The study investigated the impact of climate change on land use dynamics in the peri-urban region of Nigeria, focusing on Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area (L.G.A.) in Lagos State. Integrating both primary and secondary data, the study deployed a structured questionnaire which was administered among 125 respondents across three peri-urban communities in Ibeju-Lekki: Imobido, Idaso, and Ilege. Geographic Information System (GIS) tools, alongside Landsat 7 and 8 imagery, were used for comprehensive land use and land cover (LULC) analysis. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was employed to quantify temporal changes in vegetation cover, revealing notable shifts in land use patterns. Findings underscore significant LULC changes within Ibeju-Lekki, reflecting the extensive influence of climate change on land management and urban planning in rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas. The study highlights the necessity for integrated, adaptive land use policies that address climate-induced challenges and promote sustainable development. These insights offer policy recommendations aimed at enhancing resilience in land use systems, fostering a model for sustainable urban expansion in similar coastal communities.
Transportation engineering, Urbanization. City and country
This article examines the phenomenon of the urbanization of the Kazakh language through its reflection in song lyrics. Since the early 2000s, Kazakhstan has been undergoing a process of urbanization, that is, the migration of people to cities. This phenomenon is not limited to a mere change in the habitual living environment of Kazakh citizens but leads to its complete transformation. In this regard, observing the way the citizens perceive the urban environment and integrate into the new surroundings from the linguistic viewpoint becomes one of the most relevant issues. Language factor plays a crucial role in easing and accelerating the process of integration into the city space. However, the transformation of the linguistic environment among people who have recently settled in cities is, in itself, a complex phenomenon. At the same time, observing linguistic perception in the adoption of urban environments by Kazakhstan’s residents is one of the most relevant issues today. In this regard, the article seeks to answer the following question: What is the image of the city in the mind of a Kazakhspeaking resident who has recently moved to an urban area? In accordance with this research goal, the article attempts to demonstrate the process of urbanization through the analysis of Kazakh-language song lyrics. The corpus for this study consists of Kazakh-language song texts that were popular in Kazakh pop music from 2014 to 2025. The study analyzes the frequency of city names in the lyrics, the dominant patterns in the description of Kazakhstani cities, and attitudes toward the urban environment. The article considers the impact of urbanization on musical culture and its stylistic movements, the reflection of the urban rhythm of life in song lyrics, and the cultural phenomena inherent to the cityscape. The research uses methods of statistical analysis, descriptive analysis, semantic analysis, and comparative analysis.The research findings reveal the social nature of the urban settlement process in Kazakhstan and offer a novel perspective on urbanization. The analysis of society’s attitude toward urbanization based on song lyrics contributes to deepening the theoretical understanding of sociolinguistic processes.
Most of the global population have shifted to urbanization with advancements in technology. With this transition comes the responsibility of applying these technologies to promote sustainable development practice. Since energy demand is highest in the urbanized areas, it is important that proper assessment and management of energy resource is considered in policy-making and urban planning. This study investigated the estimation of cooling energy demand in Iloilo City Proper, Philippines using a 3D city model integrated with building attributes including building functions and year of construction, while also taking into consideration meteorological factors in the area. The proposed method used the application SimStadt2.0, following the German computation standard DINV18599. Building functions and year of construction were extracted from available building attributes data and satellite images respectively, using the free and open-source software QGIS. A CityGML Level of Detail 1 was generated from 3Dfier using building footprints and LiDAR point cloud data, along with the extracted building attributes of the 5,426 buildings. Meteorological data from INSEL 8 were also considered in the estimation of cooling energy demand in SimStadt2.0. Results showed a monthly energy demand of 12.33 kWh to 313,530.08 kWh in the study area. The estimated energy demand values were higher than the standard mean for different building functions in the country, but within the expected range of values for each season. Urban Heat Islands (UHIs), analyzed using Land Surface Temperature (LST) values, also have significant correlation to areas with higher cooling energy demands. However, inconsistencies can imply the need for further investigation.
Rapid urbanization and increasing demand for efficient public transportation have highlighted the need to understand public perceptions of service quality. Traditional evaluation methods may not fully capture user experiences and perceptions, and the emerging large-scale social media data offers dynamic user-generated information for new insights. To address this, this study explored the perceived service quality of the Shanghai metro system using a data-driven approach based on user-generated content from Dianping.com. We analyzed 52,087 online reviews by employing the structural topic model (STM) to identify key service quality attributes and their impact on user satisfaction. Our findings reveal eleven significant topics: 'Self-expression', 'Transfer', 'Amenity', 'Shopping Mall', 'Check-in', 'Operation', 'Security Check', 'Staff', 'Environment & Facility', 'Design', and 'Peak & Commuting'. Polarity analysis indicates that 'Self-expression', 'Check-in', and 'Design' are viewed positively, while 'Security check', 'Commuting', and 'Transfer' are perceived negatively. Temporal dynamics of topics demonstrated that the users prioritized and focused more on aesthetic and attitude than the physical environment of transport services. Furthermore, hierarchical clustering reveals distinct spatial patterns, with stations in residential areas emphasizing commuting and travel needs, business district stations focusing on design and operational aspects, and other stations highlighting cleanliness and security concerns. These findings provide practical insights into enhancing urban transport management by aligning service offerings more closely with user preferences and improving sustainable urban development.
Urbanization. City and country, Political institutions and public administration (General)
El presente artículo pretende dar cuenta de ciertas experiencias proyectuales en la construcción de trampolines y plataformas de salto durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX, en las ciudades de Río de Janeiro, Roma y Weston-super-Mare. La conexión entre estas tres latitudes y los proyectos llevados a cabo en cada una de ellas, radica en el fomento de hitos de modernidad para promover los nuevos patrones culturales de ocio y entretenimiento de la época. Estos patrones derivaron en la construcción y difusión de proyectos que funcionaron como objetos de atracción publicitaria de la administración pública. En este contexto, el acceso masivo de la ciudadanía a las piscinas y balnearios permitió a los proyectistas trabajar dentro de diversos campos de expresión formal con sus obras. Aquí se ponen en relieve los contextos espacio-temporales que propiciaron estas oportunidades, indagando tanto en las particularidades técnicas que las posibilitaron como en los resultados simbólicos obtenidos.
This paper attempts to analyse the trends of urbanization based on three-decade census data during 1991, 2001, and 2011 in Nagaur city. Various dimensions of urbanization have been studied through charts and diagrams. For this purpose, the urban parameters such as the growth rate of the urban population, gender dynamics, literacy rate, density, work, and economic structure of the Nagaur city have been examined. Results show that in these last three decades the urban structure of Nagaur city has been changed due to rapid industrialization and rural to urban migration. Urbanization in Nagaur has been relatively slow compared to many developing megacities. As per data released by Govt. of India, Nagaur is an Urban Agglomeration coming under the category of Class I UAs/Towns. According to trends, Nagaur is at the acceleration stage of the process of urbanization. Rapid urbanization raises many issues that might have both positive and negative impacts on the environment. In this situation, monitoring urbanization is vital for planners, management, government, and non-government organizations for implementing policies to optimize the use of natural resources and accommodate development at the same time minimizing the impact on the environment.
While advances in participatory planning have led in many cases to the more inclusive rebuilding of informal settlements, the debate regarding participatory planning has focused largely on the improvement of current informal settlements without asking “what next”. Declining living conditions following settlement consolidation, however, provide evidence of the potential shortfalls of temporary participatory approaches. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of a former informal settlement in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, this paper analyses the erosion of resident participation in neighbourhood development over 40 years. Comparisons between residents’ accounts of neighbourhood formation, mostly in the 1980s, and contemporary experiences show a gradual decrease in resident engagement. The data collected in 2016–2017 highlight this diminishing local participation and suggest that the disappearance of earlier local practices of engagement is linked in various ways to the failure of formally supported practices of citizen participation. The paper shows what can be learnt from residents’ memories of transforming informal settlements.
<p><em>Puerto Norte</em> may be analysed as a large-scale urban project and as one of most relevant urban policy interventions in Rosario City. Part of the bibliography that studied these projects, found in the instruments, and in the possibilities of capturing urban surplus value, the alternatives to counter possible regressive processes, product of its implementation. Upon these results, this paper endeavours to revisit instruments, through the analysis of their formulation and implementation process, to examine the modalities according to which the actors network operates from its own resources, strategies and differential capabilities, in the areas of agreement generated. The possibility of focusing the scope on actors and processes allows to illuminate new nuances about how the porous borders that are settled between the public and private spheres are, which also changes with time.</p>
Cities. Urban geography, Urbanization. City and country
La crisis surgida a partir de la pandemia de COVID-19 permite, a la vez que obliga, a repensar todo lo que se daba por definido en políticas y gestión en dos sentidos: modifica las agendas públicas, reconfigurando las directrices y planos de acción y, paralelamente, actúa como un revelador de las capacidades necesarias para la gestión de políticas en contextos altamente inciertos. Por lo tanto, constituye una inigualable oportunidad para revisar las agendas de políticas locales y las capacidades necesarias para gestionarlas (Meijer y Webster, 2020; Oszlak, 2020; Mazzucato y Kattel, 2020). Además de una oportunidad, es una exigencia urgente. No parecería haber tiempos en la ciudadanía para nuevas esperas.
El artículo propone avanzar en la caracterización de la agenda urbana emergente en América Latina a raíz de las vicisitudes generadas por la pandemia de COVID-19, y de las capacidades públicas para llevarlas adelante. Plantea el estado de situación de los temas de agenda y las capacidades locales en la región e infiere lineamientos para su fortalecimiento. Se apoya en la revisión de la bibliografía de referencia y en información de tipo secundaria. Se aporta una perspectiva vincular, novedosa entre las agendas públicas y las capacidades necesarias.
This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the importance of job and firm dynamics. In turn, these dynamics are shaped by the broader characteristics of urban systems. A number of conclusions are drawn. First, agglomeration effects are quantitatively important and pervasive. Second, the productive advantage of large cities is constantly eroded and must be sustained by new job creation and innovation. Third, this process of creative destruction in cities, which is fundamental for aggregate growth, is determined in part by the characteristics of urban systems and broader institutional features. The paper highlights important differences between developing countries and more advanced economies. A major challenge for developing countries is to reinforce the role of their urban systems as drivers of economic growth.
Sustainable urbanization is a challenge to human beings in the modern era of technology. Cities all over the world are facing several problems due to urbanization and industrialization. Urban problems could be assessed through development of indices of urban sustainability on the basis of its three dimensions: environment, economics and social. The present study was conducted to identify indicators to develop indices for assessment of sustainability in some populated cities of Punjab. The study focused on the indicators based on environmental, economic and social development to develop a rational indicator system on the basis of secondary data collected from 2004 to 2014. A total of 40 indicators were identified to assess the urban sustainability progress in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala and Faisalabad cities. The result of the sub-indices indicated that poor performance was evident in the environmental sector, rather than in the economic and social sectors. The cities scored between 0.27 and 0.58 in environmental dimensions, showing a decreasing trend from 2004 to 2014. The declining trend of indices was due to population influx, rapid urbanization, reduction in green areas, industrialization, high level of atmospheric and water pollutants. In case of the economic sector, an increasing trend was observed which indicates the gradual improvement in living standards of people. In the social dimensions of the indicator system, less variations were observed among the cities and ranged between 0.49 and 0.58. Overall, the results of the urban sustainability index showed score was ranges between 0.41 to 0.52. None of the Punjab cities attained the position as a sustainable city (0.75) Lahore (0.52) and Faisalabad (0.52) were ranked as moderately sustainable cities, whereas, Rawalpindi (0.48), Gujranwala (0.47) and Multan (0.41) were ranked as weak sustainable cities. The study highlighted that the urban sustainability indicator system could be useful to determine the existing sustainability in cities of the developing countries for better resource management practices.
The negative impacts of rapid urbanization in developing countries have led to a deterioration in urban air quality, which brings increasing negative impact to its surrounding areas (e.g. in China). However, to date there has been rare quantitative estimation of the urban air pollution to its surrounding areas in China.We thus evaluated the impact of air pollution on the surrounding environment under rapid urbanization in Chinese prefectures during 1999 – 2011. We found that: (1) the urban environment generated increasing negative impact on the surrounding areas and the PM2.5 concentration difference between urban and rural areas was particularly high in large cities. (2) Nearly half of the Chinese prefectures (156 out of 350) showed increased impact of urban PM2.5 pollution on its surrounding areas. Those prefectures were mainly located along two belts: one from northeast China to Sichuan province, the other from Shanghai to Guangxi province. Our study demonstrates the deterioration in urban air quality and its potential impacts on its surrounding areas in China. We hope that the results presented here will encourage different approaches to urbanization to mitigate the negative impact caused by urban air pollution, both in China and other rapidly developing countries.
El presente trabajo se desarrolla desde el reconocimiento del lenguaje gráfico como instrumento de mediación y parte inescindible del proceso proyectual arquitectónico en sus distintas aproximaciones.
Estos argumentos ponen en relación la práctica del proyecto arquitectónico y su enseñanza aprendizaje, con el lenguaje gráfico en su función constitutiva de principios fundantes del proyecto arquitectónico.
La gráfica como instrumento de mediación no desarrolla un papel meramente auxiliar o facilitador de la acción proyectual (digamos inocuo o ingenuo), sino que por ser parte de la misma, produce un cambio en la estructura misma de dicha acción. El pensamiento proyectual necesita ser develado y expresado por el dibujo para tener existencia.
El lenguaje gráfico se constituye en el instrumento central de mediación, que posee un lugar privilegiado en la toma de conciencia, visualización e interiorización, en la enseñanza - aprendizaje proyectual y en el proceso proyectual en sí mismo.