Stephan Pauleit and Jürgen H. Breuste
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199563562
- eISBN:
- 9780191774713
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563562.003.0004
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology
Land uses represent the different anthropogenic activities in a given area such as housing, commercial activities, transport, recreation, and farming. Surface cover is the physical result of land use ...
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Land uses represent the different anthropogenic activities in a given area such as housing, commercial activities, transport, recreation, and farming. Surface cover is the physical result of land use as process. Ecosystem services, such as climatic energy exchange and hydrology, are clearly related to land use and land cover in urban areas. Therefore, urban planning and regulations that influence the spatial pattern and intensity of land use can have huge implications for the ecology of cities. The mapping of structural types/urban morphology types is presented in this chapter as an approach to characterise the spatial pattern and the physical character of the urban fabric. The approach is exemplified for the Greater Manchester conurbation, UK. Large differences could be observed in surface cover composition between the various urban morphology types. Densely built areas with a very low cover of evapotranspiring surfaces are town centres, large industrial and commercial areas, and transport infrastructures. Urban green spaces, woodlands, and farmland have a very high percentage cover of evapotransipring surfaces of more than 90% each. Urban land use and surface cover dynamics are mainly driven by the expansion of urban areas by urban sprawl, urban densification within urban areas but increasingly also the effect of population shrinkage and brownfield development. Analyses of land use and land cover dynamics and their impacts on ecological processes are important to underpin policies for urban sustainability.Less
Land uses represent the different anthropogenic activities in a given area such as housing, commercial activities, transport, recreation, and farming. Surface cover is the physical result of land use as process. Ecosystem services, such as climatic energy exchange and hydrology, are clearly related to land use and land cover in urban areas. Therefore, urban planning and regulations that influence the spatial pattern and intensity of land use can have huge implications for the ecology of cities. The mapping of structural types/urban morphology types is presented in this chapter as an approach to characterise the spatial pattern and the physical character of the urban fabric. The approach is exemplified for the Greater Manchester conurbation, UK. Large differences could be observed in surface cover composition between the various urban morphology types. Densely built areas with a very low cover of evapotranspiring surfaces are town centres, large industrial and commercial areas, and transport infrastructures. Urban green spaces, woodlands, and farmland have a very high percentage cover of evapotransipring surfaces of more than 90% each. Urban land use and surface cover dynamics are mainly driven by the expansion of urban areas by urban sprawl, urban densification within urban areas but increasingly also the effect of population shrinkage and brownfield development. Analyses of land use and land cover dynamics and their impacts on ecological processes are important to underpin policies for urban sustainability.
Alex G. Papadopoulos
Larry Bennett, Roberta Garner, and Euan Hague (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040597
- eISBN:
- 9780252099038
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040597.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The chapter studies the circumstances under which, Boystown, Chicago’s iconic LGBT community/village, emerged in the 1960s, as well as the changing urban forms and structures that have defined it. It ...
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The chapter studies the circumstances under which, Boystown, Chicago’s iconic LGBT community/village, emerged in the 1960s, as well as the changing urban forms and structures that have defined it. It situates the Boystown phenomenon within broader urban development events in Chicago in the post WWII era, and explores linkages between local change and urban and financial regulatory frames at the city, regional, state, and national scales. The study focuses on the geographic core of Boystown, which is identified as the North Halsted Street-Broadway Corridor. It traces urban morphological change in the Corridor (its town plan of lots, blocks, streets, and open spaces, built forms, and building- and land-uses), as a means of illuminating the causes, agents, and structural forces that have produced Boystown.Less
The chapter studies the circumstances under which, Boystown, Chicago’s iconic LGBT community/village, emerged in the 1960s, as well as the changing urban forms and structures that have defined it. It situates the Boystown phenomenon within broader urban development events in Chicago in the post WWII era, and explores linkages between local change and urban and financial regulatory frames at the city, regional, state, and national scales. The study focuses on the geographic core of Boystown, which is identified as the North Halsted Street-Broadway Corridor. It traces urban morphological change in the Corridor (its town plan of lots, blocks, streets, and open spaces, built forms, and building- and land-uses), as a means of illuminating the causes, agents, and structural forces that have produced Boystown.
Nandita Prasad Sahai
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195678963
- eISBN:
- 9780199081660
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195678963.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter describes urban morphology and artisanal settlement in caste colonies (muhallas)—which ensured the emergence of strong ties and biradari or brotherhood solidarity—during the early ...
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This chapter describes urban morphology and artisanal settlement in caste colonies (muhallas)—which ensured the emergence of strong ties and biradari or brotherhood solidarity—during the early decades of Maharaja Vijai Singh’s reign. How such patterns of settlement helped artisans to mobilize as a community and bargain with the state as tax-payers or as wage earners are also discussed. The chapter also describes how, to increase the sense of their izzat (honour), the Rathor thakurs of the different cities of Marwar made it a priority to support artists and artisans. The state appointed a senior person as mehatars who acted as representatives of his caste. The author concludes by describing contours of the paternalist discourse of legitimation in the Jodhpur state. State interactions with artisans show a relatively solicitous approach in the early years of Vijai Singh’s reign. Artisanal responses to elite transgressions were constrained within the parameters of elite hegemony, yet watchful for points to exert pressure and seize advantage.Less
This chapter describes urban morphology and artisanal settlement in caste colonies (muhallas)—which ensured the emergence of strong ties and biradari or brotherhood solidarity—during the early decades of Maharaja Vijai Singh’s reign. How such patterns of settlement helped artisans to mobilize as a community and bargain with the state as tax-payers or as wage earners are also discussed. The chapter also describes how, to increase the sense of their izzat (honour), the Rathor thakurs of the different cities of Marwar made it a priority to support artists and artisans. The state appointed a senior person as mehatars who acted as representatives of his caste. The author concludes by describing contours of the paternalist discourse of legitimation in the Jodhpur state. State interactions with artisans show a relatively solicitous approach in the early years of Vijai Singh’s reign. Artisanal responses to elite transgressions were constrained within the parameters of elite hegemony, yet watchful for points to exert pressure and seize advantage.
Mohammad Gharipour (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789774165290
- eISBN:
- 9781617971334
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165290.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of the bazaar within a broad socio-spatial and political perspective by investigating a number of case studies from North Africa to the ...
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The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of the bazaar within a broad socio-spatial and political perspective by investigating a number of case studies from North Africa to the Middle East. It includes papers on different facets of the bazaar from historical, architectural, sociological, and anthropological perspectives. The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of the bazaar with a number of case studies from Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Nablus, Bursa, Istanbul, Sana'a, Kabul, Tehran, and Yazd. Although they share some contextual and functional characteristics, each bazaar has its own unique and fascinating history, traditions, cultural practices, and structure. One of the most intriguing aspects revealed in this volume is the thread of continuity from past to present exhibited by the bazaar as a forum where a society meets and intermingles in the practice of goods exchange—a social and cultural ritual that is as old as human history.Less
The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of the bazaar within a broad socio-spatial and political perspective by investigating a number of case studies from North Africa to the Middle East. It includes papers on different facets of the bazaar from historical, architectural, sociological, and anthropological perspectives. The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of the bazaar with a number of case studies from Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Nablus, Bursa, Istanbul, Sana'a, Kabul, Tehran, and Yazd. Although they share some contextual and functional characteristics, each bazaar has its own unique and fascinating history, traditions, cultural practices, and structure. One of the most intriguing aspects revealed in this volume is the thread of continuity from past to present exhibited by the bazaar as a forum where a society meets and intermingles in the practice of goods exchange—a social and cultural ritual that is as old as human history.
Linda Rui Feng
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824841065
- eISBN:
- 9780824868062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824841065.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The introduction explains the important relationship between Chang’an and Tang literati writers, arguing that they serve as intermediary between the city and text. It gives a brief contextualized ...
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The introduction explains the important relationship between Chang’an and Tang literati writers, arguing that they serve as intermediary between the city and text. It gives a brief contextualized introduction to the Chang’an as both an imperial capital and a site for collective life. It discusses the nature and provenance of the book’s major textual sources, arguing for a need to reconceptualize and reimagine these texts as workings of the cultural imagination, rather than confined to bibliographic categories and regulated within generic boundaries. It also introduces the theoretical models used throughout the book, as related to the concepts of liminality, spatial practice, and the production of space.Less
The introduction explains the important relationship between Chang’an and Tang literati writers, arguing that they serve as intermediary between the city and text. It gives a brief contextualized introduction to the Chang’an as both an imperial capital and a site for collective life. It discusses the nature and provenance of the book’s major textual sources, arguing for a need to reconceptualize and reimagine these texts as workings of the cultural imagination, rather than confined to bibliographic categories and regulated within generic boundaries. It also introduces the theoretical models used throughout the book, as related to the concepts of liminality, spatial practice, and the production of space.
