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Urban renewal for open space improvement?

, 2010
Sustainable urban development requires more open and green areas, sufficient local supply and social infrastructure, convenient traffic solutions and lower land consumption in the high-density city centres.
Bretschneider, Betül
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The costs and benefits of providing open space in cities [PDF]

We use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared it to the costs of providing ...
Jan Rouwendal, Willemijn Weijschede- v.d. Straaten   +1 more
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Towards a holistic approach of urban design. [PDF]

, 2009
Urban design is primarily and essentially three-dimensional design (Gosling and Maitland 1984), concerned with the shape, the surface and its physical arrangement of all kinds of urban elements; the basic components that make up the built environment at ...
Horne, Margaret, Charlton, James, Giddings, Bob   +2 more
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In between social engineering and gentrification: urban restructuring, social movements, and the place politics of open space

, 2012
The article examines the emergence of urban countercultures and social movements in Christiania, Copenhagen, and Haga, Gothenburg in the context of the Scandinavian welfare state, from the 1970s to the present. Specifically, it investigates the relations
Thörn, Håkan,
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Tax Increment Financing for Optimal Open Space Preservation: an Economic Inquiry [PDF]

The public has increasingly demonstrated a strong support for open space preservation. Questions left to local policy-makers are how local governments can finance preservation of open space in a politically desirable way, whether there exists an optimal ...
Jiang, Yong, Swallow, Stephen K.
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Management Policy of Green Open Space in Urban Area [PDF]

, 2019
Part of urban space that contains crops, plants and vegetation is known as the Green Open Space (GOS). Several urban areas, with extensive changes and undeveloped land, require the City Green Open Space (CGOS), which can be a 'counterweight' to the ...
Kurniasih, Dewi, Prihandini, Asih
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Urban space and pervasive systems [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper we present an early approach for developing a theoretical framework and understanding for designing pervasive systems as an integral part of the urban landscape.
Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Lopez de Vallejo, I., Penn, A.   +2 more
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The impact of private and shared open space on liveability in subtropical apartment buildings [PDF]

, 2015
The study explores the relationship between open space design, factors impacting open space provision, and resident satisfaction with open space in multistorey apartment buildings in the context of the subtropical lifestyle and climate of Brisbane ...
Buys, Laurie, Kennedy, Rosemary J.
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Urban Open Space Provision [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the problems encountered in open space provision, with particular reference to provision in Ireland. What has happened in the past is obviously one guide to what is happening.
O\u27Mahony, Aileen
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Building green infrastructure through urban land conservation : the social and ecological value of dispersed open space in the Boston urban wilds

, 2006
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-123).Through an analysis of the thirty-year history of the Boston Urban Wilds, this thesis investigates the ...
Kinzer, Kirsten (Kirsten Lee)
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