Results 271 to 280 of about 1,646,203 (311)

Re-Urbanity: Urbanising the Rural and Ruralising the Urban

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2007
In recent years, increased attention has been paid to intermediate zones, especially medium-sized and small-sized areas, which have witnessed new sociospatial dynamics. We discuss a theoretical approach for updating the analysis of the structuring and the functioning of these areas which are searching for an identity.
Claude Lacour, Sylvette Puissant
openaire   +3 more sources

Re‐urbanizing the suburbs? The role of theatre, the arts and urban studies

City, 2006
We talk and write continually about cities and yet increasingly we live in urbanized spaces that have few of the characteristics of the classic city. Some of these spaces are referred to as suburbs and others as mere urban sprawl. We need, however, to be much more specific about the diverse forms of settlement we are considering and their possibilities.
Peter Hall, Peter Hall
openaire   +1 more source

(Re)Urbanization of Villa 31 Carlos Mugica

2016
Villa 31 is the most significant of all “informal” settlements in Buenos Aires. It is the largest low-income housing entity and the oldest shanty town in the city. The possibility of replacing Villa 31 with highly profitable real estate developments have obscured the existence of the neighbourhood and raised the issue of socio-political consequences of
openaire   +1 more source

Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil

2007
The search for solutions to urban and social problems prompted by informal settlements is gaining importance in the development agenda of most large cities in Latin America. Nearly 60 percent of the population lives in informal, often centrally located settlements.
Fernanda Magalhães, Eduardo Rojas
openaire   +1 more source

Two Phase Temporal-Spatial Autocorrelation of Urban Patterns: Revealing Focal Areas of Re-Urbanization in Tel Aviv-Yafo

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2011
A new two-phase temporal-spatial analysis technique is presented for exploring core areas of re-urbanization in complex patterns of urban change. The Local Autocorrelation of Pearson (LAoP) technique first computes temporal Pearson correlations between time series of data for each sub-area and the city’s average time series and then computes the local ...
Idan Porat, Maxim Shoshany, Amnon Frenkel   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Time series evaluation of re-urbanization in disaster area of large-scale tsunami in Japan by high-resolution satellite remote sensing

Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications IX, 2018
The 2011 tsunami caused by the Tohoku Region Pacific Offshore Earthquake caused severe damage. In particular, the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a coastal city in the Tohoku district, sustained enormous damage, and long-term revitalization process is in progress.
Masashi Sonobe, Hideki Hashiba
openaire   +1 more source

The re-urbanization of the city center of Manaus , Brazil : facing the challenges of informal settlements

2006
Illegal occupation of urban land in Brazil is a widespread phenomenon. Slum dwellers are excluded from the attributes of urban citizenship although they provide the labor force required by low productivity urban services needed by cities. Illegal settlements generate multiple problems for the rest of the city .
Magalhães, Fernanda, Rojas, Eduardo
openaire   +1 more source

Ecological effects of new-type urbanization in China

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021
Binbin Yu
exaly