Hasil untuk "Urbanization. City and country"

Henco Bekkering, Jiaxiu CAI, Joran Kuijper et al.

Chinese cities have been expanding since the early 1980s under trends of rapid modernization, urbanization and globalization. Since then they have changed dramatically, and have in the process lost many of their traditional environments and spatial characteristics. Urban planners and designers have been and are facing unprecedented challenges in China. They not only have to learn to understand the constantly emerging new urban mechanisms, and seek balance among stakeholders, but they also need to cope with the political pressures and the changing context under often extreme time pressure. In such circumstances, future- and design-oriented analysis based on a designerly way of thinking is useful - if not indispensable - for understanding the existing city and deciding on its transformations in a responsible and accountable way that is communicable among designers and with the public. This is especially so, in light of the growing awareness - also in China - of the value and importance of local urban identity, that is always - at least partially - based on history. In this atlas the Delft method of historical morphological analysis is applied to the city of Wuhan, valuing the importance of and finding meaning in the local urban identity of a city with a population over 11 million with a floating population of 14 million. The series of maps show the urban development, covering a century and a half.

JUN ZHANG

AbstractCities have expanded both territorially and demographically at an unprecedented speed during the recent intense process of urbanization in China. This article investigates the material, discursive, and social dimensions of an infrastructural process that has been interwoven with the discourse and practice of urban development in the city of Guangzhou since the 1990s. It takes a 2007 public hearing concerning the short supply of taxis on workdays as an entry point into the politics of urban infrastructure, threading together long‐term changes in urban forms, the ritual dimensions of the public hearing, and taxi drivers' downward mobility. The issue at the heart of this public hearing is a pattern of traffic flow caused by intense urbanization in the late Reform period that has led to important structural tensions in everyday life. Yet, under the official ideology of urban development, these structural tensions are de‐humanized and rendered a mere technical issue of supply and shortage. In present‐day China, infrastructural projects are regarded as technological solutions to a wide range of social and political issues in the process of urbanization; yet their material results often simply make these issues invisible instead. [Infrastructure; Urbanization; Taxi; Class; Mobility; China]

Apostolos Lagarias

The present research concentrates on the urbanization at the edges of the city, the outskirts of metropolitan areas, which can be considered the examples of complex, fractal urban structures, revealing dynamic processes of growth and transformation. The basic methods for the estimation of fractal dimension are presented, with the focus on the interpretation of the calculated values. Fractal dimensions can be used as indicators of urban sprawl, revealing the degree of fragmentation of the urban landscape. The exploration of the above notions is based on the application in an area at the outskirts of Thessaloniki, Greece. The important changes observed between 1960 and 1990 on the urban spatial structure of the area under investigation, are discussed in the light of fractal analysis.

Patrick Mullins

Pol C. Lim Francis

Abdallah Abualkishik, Marwan Alshar'e, Ahmad Kayed et al.

Haifeng Yao, Zhipeng Li, Stefan Geisen et al.

Pamela Zeplin

G. OLIVIER, F. BRESSAC

Yoshiko Tsuruta, Keiji Sato

Shinya Maesako, Hiroki Kobayashi, Tetsunobu Yoshitake et al.