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The Verticalization of Manama's Urban Periphery

open access: yesOpen House International, 2013
This paper explores the various roots and characteristics of current high-rise clusters emerging in new city districts along the coast of Manama and the resulting challenges to urban planning. Like many other Gulf cities Bahrain's capital Manama has witnessed rapid urban growth since local real-estate markets were liberalized in 2003.
Wiedmann, Florian
exaly   +4 more sources

What Happens to the Urban Periphery? The Political Tensions of Postindustrial Redevelopment in Milan

open access: yesUrban Affairs Review, 2014
This paper investigates the change of the urban periphery, exploring the tension between the socioeconomic, financial, and political implications of postindustrial transitions.
Federico Savini
exaly   +2 more sources

Strategic planning for new woodlands in the urban periphery: through the lens of social inclusiveness

open access: yesUrban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2005
Current strategies for creating new woodlands in the urban periphery aim to provide as many people as possible with a recreational green space close to where they live.
Ann Van Herzele, Eva M De Clercq
exaly   +2 more sources

Nationalist Urbanisms on the National Peripheries

Social Change, 2023
Nations have been imagined from urban centres of power, and nation-building in post-colonial states has been one of the most important forces powering developmental urbanisms. While dominant nationalist urbanisms transforming the core of the national space have garnered scholarly attention, the prevailing view in literature empties peripheries of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Revitalising Urban Peripheries

2021
Through urban expansion, cities have continued to generate new peripheries, but these are no longer included in a common, comprehensive project as would have occurred – albeit in a subordinate way – at the time of the industrial city. In the public narrative and in media coverage, the peripheries remain on the margins of innovation, know-how, culture ...
openaire   +1 more source

Urban Periphery

2022
David Ekholm, Magnus Dahlstedt
openaire   +1 more source

Urbanizing villages: informal morphologies in Shenzhen’s urban periphery

Journal of Urban Design, 2018
The phenomenon of urban villages in China has received much scholarly attention in recent years, mostly about their socio-economic aspects and its role in accommodating rural migrants.
openaire   +1 more source

Peripheries, Searching the informal modernity of urban peripheries

2012
Introduction : Most of the cities of the world are somehow at large in the sea of modernity. The landscape of urban peripheries is anything but coherent. The resilience of slums, the renovation of brown fields, and the development of waterfronts has involved a debate on the sustainable design of cities.
openaire   +2 more sources

Performance at the Urban Periphery

2022
Cathy Turner   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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