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Lytvynenko, Tetyana, Iryna Tkachenko, and Volodymyr Ilchenko. "Principles of Street and Urban Road Space Formation in Modern Cities." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.2 (2018): 642. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.2.14606.
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The work is devoted to improving the principles of streets and urban roads beautification elements placing. The classification of streets and urban roads beautification elements is structured. The principles of streets and urban roads beautification elements placing by using new spatial corridor principle simulation are improved. Streets and urban roads beautification elements according to hierarchical levels are structured. The street structural model spatial corridor with distribution in sub corridors to deploy beautification elements is constructed. The spatial corridor and subcorridors characterized by linear parameters and formulas for their determination are suggested. The methodology of comprehensive streets and urban roads beautification designing according to the offered principle is improved. Reconstruction beautification experimental design of Shevchenko Street in Poltava, Ukraine is done.
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SOKOLAN, IULIIA, and LILIYA KUCHERENKO. "ANALYSIS OF PLANNING EXPERIENCE OF INHABITED LOCALITIES URBAN BEAUTIFICATION IN VIEW OF RECONSTRUCTION." HERALD OF KHMELNYTSKYI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 295, no. 2 (2021): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/2307-5732-2021-295-2-17-25.
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The analysis of planning experience of inhabited localities urban beautification in view of reconstruction was undertaken in the article. The question of Ukrainian experience of urban beautification system in accordance with approved standards and State Constructional Standards was envisaged. Analysis of validation state of local documents in urban beautification field was carried out and it has shown deficient percentage of regulatory documents approval on local level, which is one of key issues of urban beautification development. Furthermore, detailed analysis of foreign experience of urban beautification planning and development trend of this system I such countries, as USA, Canada, Russian Federation, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan was carried out. It is shown that first and critical stage of planning of effective urban beautification is preparing and approving corresponding certificates and standards. Emphasis added to functioning normative legal documents on issues relating to urban beautification, in accordance to which the territory reconstruction in mentioned countries is realized. It was established that reference direction of urban beautification development in mentioned countries lies in parking lots removing out of the borders of curtilage or underground parking arrangement, landscape gardening development and classification of such territories by levels of urban gardening, territory reconstruction in accordance with typical schemes of street infrastructure development, urban gardening, cycle paths, etc. It is shown that problem solution of habitable open grounds organization on city level resides in usage intensification of such territories, and on the level of residential compounds – in increasing exploitation properties of open grounds. As a result of undertaken analysis it was established that raised problem of increasing the effectiveness of residential area usage within residential areas imposes complex approach, including question of land development intensiveness, architectural and planning organization and open grounds beautification.
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Nataliia Mashovets and Iuliia Sokolan. "URBAN PLANNING APPROACHES TO PLANNING THE BEAUTIFICATION SYSTEM OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS DURING THEIR RECONSTRUCTION." Journal of Civil Engineering, Environment and Architecture 71 (March 8, 2024): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.7862/rb.2024.1.
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The analysis of planning experience of inhabited localities urban beautification in view of reconstruction was undertaken in the article. The question of Ukrainian experience of urban beautification system in accordance with approved standards and State Constructional Standards was envisaged. Analysis of validation state of local documents in urban beautification field was carried out and it has shown deficient percentage of regulatory documents approval on local level, which is one of key issues of urban beautification development. Furthermore, detailed analysis of foreign experience of urban beautification planning and development trend of this system I such countries, as USA, Canada, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan was carried out. It is shown that first and critical stage of planning of effective urban beautification is preparing and approving corresponding certificates and standards. Emphasis added to functioning normative legal documents on issues relating to urban beautification, in accordance to which the territory reconstruction in mentioned countries is realized. It was established that reference direction of urban beautification development in mentioned countries lies in parking lots removing out of the borders of curtilage or underground parking arrangement, landscape gardening development and classification of such territories by levels of urban gardening, territory reconstruction in accordance with typical schemes of street infrastructure development, urban gardening, cycle paths, etc. It is shown that problem solution of habitable open grounds organization on city level resides in usage intensification of such territories, and on the level of residential compounds – in increasing exploitation properties of open grounds. As a result of undertaken analysis it was established that raised problem of increasing the effectiveness of residential area usage within residential areas imposes complex approach, including question of land development intensiveness, architectural and planning organization and open grounds beautification.
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Haqi, Faruq Ibnul, and Sri Tuntung Pandangwati. "Mayoral Leadership in Shaping Urban Beautification in Surabaya and Aspects Influencing Its Capacity." EMARA: Indonesian Journal of Architecture 6, no. 2 (2021): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.29080/eija.v6i2.1035.
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Leadership has an expansive meaning because it is a field study that comprises several different dimensions such as psychology, management, organization, and politics. On the other hand, the study of leadership’s role on urban development issues is still relatively scarce, especially in developing countries. The literature shows that local governments under the mayor as the highest-ranking position of municipal prioritise urban development is very much a function of socio-cultural norms and leadership styles. Therefore, mayoral leadership is vital regarding local government interventions to promote urban beautification in Indonesia. It is undeniable that leadership is a significant aspect of urban governance. Taking a case study in Surabaya, evidence shows that leadership plays important roles in urban governance, especially in facilitating and advising processes. Drawing on analysis of relevant documents, literature, and interviews with key decision-makers in Surabaya, the findings indicate that the quality of mayoral leadership has played a vital role in enhancing the beautification of urban form in Surabaya as a result of the urban design process. The mechanisms underlying this role include that the mayor has a sound understanding of the urban design and has been able to intervene to insist on good urban design as policy and has the standing to approach officials and community members on the urban beautification process. The quality of mayoral leadership has played a vital role in shaping the better urban beautification of Surabaya. A Mayor who has a wide-ranging grasp of urban design has advantages for the local government.
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Kauer, Tobias, Sagar Joglekar, Miriam Redi, Luca Maria Aiello, and Daniele Quercia. "Mapping and Visualizing Deep-Learning Urban Beautification." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 38, no. 5 (2018): 70–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2018.053491732.
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Sal'nikova, Mariya Yur'evna, and Evgeniya Konstantinovna Bulatova. "Peculiarities of formation of comfortable urban environment (on the example of Magnitogorsk)." Урбанистика, no. 1 (January 2020): 134–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2020.1.31935.
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The subject of this research is the historical stages of creation of the beautification elements of urban environment of the city of Magnitogorsk. The object of this research is the periods of construction of recreational system objects since the XX century until the present. The authors examine such aspects of the topic as construction of recreational areas at each development period; all engineering and construction works at each historical stage pursued the key goal – quickest possible construction and bringing into service the largest metallurgical plant.  The authors propose a method of historical periodization of formation of recreational structures since the late XX century until the presents. The main conclusions lies in the results of analysis of beautification level of urban territories at different stages of its development. The elimination of such flaws would lead to a truly comprehensive beautification and creation of full-scale in functional, constructive, planning and artistic regard urban environment. The main factors of rational organization of a comfortable urban environment are determined.
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Moulaert, Frank, Hilde Demuynck, and Jacques Nussbaumer. "Urban renaissance: from physical beautification to social empowerment." City 8, no. 2 (2004): 229–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360481042000242175.
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Syngaevskaya, Oleksandra, and Mariia Byvalina. "MAIN DIRECTIONS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS IN THE SPHERE OF BEAUTY AND GREENING OF THE CITY." Urban development and spatial planning, no. 81 (August 31, 2022): 313–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2076-815x.2022.81.313-336.
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Urban improvement is one of the urgent problems of modern urban planning. It solves the task of creating a favorable living environment with the provision of comfortable conditions for all types of activities of the population. Urban improvement includes a number of measures to improve the sanitary and hygienic conditions of residential buildings, transport and engineering services for the population, artificial lighting of urban areas and equipping them with the necessary equipment, improving the urban environment with the help of landscaping.
 The tasks of urban improvement are reduced to the creation of healthy, expedient and favorable living conditions for the urban population. In solving these tasks, external landscaping, functional-spatial structure and subject equipment of open areas, landscape design are gaining more and more importance. The problems of creating ecologically clean cities, problems of protecting monuments of historical and cultural heritage are becoming more and more acute.
 The landscaping and landscaping system includes a complex of programs and plans, the components of which are closely related. In this aspect, comprehensive landscaping means the development and implementation of a set of measures aimed at creating and developing an aesthetic and socio-ecological organized urban environment. The most important components of this environment are the arrangement of courtyard facades of buildings; architectural and planning organization of the territory; reconstruction; lighting of territories, buildings, structures, green spaces; placement of small architectural forms and objects of urban design; placement of advertising, elements of visual communication and information.
 Inner-city green areas have a significant cultural and everyday significance, connected with the system of everyday services of the population, in addition, they play a significant role in the hygienic sense, as they affect the microclimate of the city or district, and are also an organic part of the architectural solution of the city as one of the means of creating an ensemble - as a complement to the building Today, special attention is paid to the improvement of the territory.
 The modern stage of the development of urban improvement and greening poses a number of new tasks that cannot be solved without extensive use of the achievements of scientific and technical progress, advanced practical experience. 
 In order to determine the main ways of solving problems in the field of beautification and greening, an analysis of the current state of regulatory and legal support for the process of beautification and greening of the urban territory was carried out; analysis of modern domestic and foreign practices of urban improvement and greening; proposed proposals for improving the system of landscaping and greening of the city.
 The novelty of this work consists in determining the main ways of solving problems in the field of landscaping and landscaping and developing specific recommendations and proposals for optimizing the process of landscaping and landscaping of urban areas.
 The work is based on a systemic approach, within which the following methods were used: historical, which examined the history of the centuries-old experience of green construction, systemic, comparative. The empirical basis of the research is a traditional analysis of literature and practical sources. The work has a theoretical and methodological nature. Based on the study of literary sources, modern domestic and foreign practices of urban improvement and greening; the level of regulatory and legal support for the process of beautification and landscaping in cities, proposed proposals regarding the composition of measures for beautification and landscaping of urban areas, and the main ways of solving problems in the field of beautification and landscaping. In the opinion of the author, the main results of the work should include theoretical provisions and conclusions, methodological recommendations that may be useful for organizations engaged in greening and beautification of the urban area. The results of the research can be used by students in the educational process of higher professional educational institutions regarding this topic.
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Tartari, Maria, Sabrina Pedrini, and Pier Luigi Sacco. "Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan." European Planning Studies 30, no. 4 (2021): 643–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2021.1990215.
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Espuche, A. G., M. Guardia, F. J. Monclús, and J. L. Oyón. "Modernization and urban beautification: The 1888 Barcelona world's fair." Planning Perspectives 6, no. 2 (1991): 139–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665439108725724.
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Oloyede Alabi, Michael. "Modern landscaping and medicinal plant loss as a legacy of colonialism in Nigeria (Lokoja as case study)." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 3, no. 1 (2014): 197–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v3i1.3192.
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This paper aims to trace the history of colonial urban planning in Nigerian cities, its legacies of urban design and beautification of the environment. In Nigeria the town planning institutional frame works was established under the colonial rule which persisted to the post colonial period. In this sense the colonial era was a phase in which European institutions and values systems were transferred to Nigeria, one of which is the concept of environmental beautification with the use of plants. An investigation is carried out on the influence of colonial rule on landscaping and urban design. Findings show that the introduction of deliberate landscaping to city planning have over the years systematically led to loss of valuable indigenous plants partly due to the introduction of exotic plants. These are plants that initially were seen as sources of cure for several ailments. There is therefore the need for a rethink as to the type of plants to be used for landscaping.
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Valipoor, Nastaran, and Kaveh Shokoohi Dehkordi. "Prioritizing Effective Factors on Liveliness and Improvement of the Urban Life Caused by the Development of Green Spaces with the Attraction-Repulsion Pattern." Modern Applied Science 10, no. 8 (2016): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v10n8p90.
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The daily increase in population and the complexity of urban issues, shortages in suitable financial and human resources, environmental pollutions, etc. sometimes cause the citizens to forget or be unable to fulfill their needs in the hobnob of life, pollution, tiredness and the routine of life. This has led some factors such as the closeness to the work and living place of human beings to nature, small green spaces within the cities and their benefits for the people receive less attention in our time. Cities, as centers of man's activities and life, in order to keep their sustainability have no way but to accept the structure and they have no function affected by natural systems. Here, urban green spaces, as the vital and inseparable part of the cities' unified form in their metabolism, have basic roles and their shortage can cause serious disorders in the lives of the cities. Public green spaces have a significant impact in improving the life quality of the citizens, liveliness and the beautification of the city. With regard to these issues, it has been tried in this paper to analyze the mental and social impacts of urban green spaces on the improvement of the citizens' life quality and their roles in the beautification of urban spaces and their liveliness by using the attraction-repulsion pattern with an approach to green spaces and by analyzing case studies among the citizens. The results indicated that the citizens use green spaces mostly to have access to clean air, family entertainment, liveliness, being away from the pollutions and the smallness of their houses, walking, relieving their tiredness, running away from their routine lives, etc. and these spaces have significant impact in the beautification of urban environments.
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Tolkin, Axmedov. "Reconstruction of 5-storey large panel buildings, use of atmospheric precipitation water for technical purposes in the building." American Journal of Applied sciences 02, no. 12 (2020): 86–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajas/volume02issue12-14.
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This article provides basic information on engineering selection and beautification of urban areas where 5-storey residential buildings should be built in response to emergencies in ways to increase the energy efficiency of buildings using atmospheric water for technical purposes.
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Pizarro, Jesenia M., Richard C. Sadler, Jason Goldstick, Brandon Turchan, Edmund F. McGarrell, and Marc A. Zimmerman. "Community-driven disorder reduction: Crime prevention through a clean and green initiative in a legacy city." Urban Studies 57, no. 14 (2020): 2956–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019892163.
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This study examines the effects of a neighbourhood greening and beautification strategy called Clean & Green on crime prevention and reduction. Point level data for all Part I index crimes and Clean & Green efforts in the study area from 2005 to 2014 are analysed using spatial and linear regression with two key modifications: (1) controlling for temporal and spatial dependencies between points; and (2) allowing for potentially non-linear temporal trends in the effect of cumulative greening. To accommodate those modifications, generalised additive models (GAMs) were employed. The analyses of violent and property crimes suggest that greening efforts are increasingly protective over time. The findings demonstrate that the elimination of blight and disorder via neighbourhood greening and beautification efforts can be an effective tool for crime prevention and control in communities.
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Fang, Fang. "The Significance of Sign Design’s Visual Aesthetics in Urban Development." Advanced Materials Research 962-965 (June 2014): 2549–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.962-965.2549.
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Urban system is not only a reflection of city’s beautification, it is the indicators of urban functions, too. On one hand, Visual guide knowledge is to meet the locals’ usage, on the other hand, it also applies to immigrant population. Urban sign design has played a leading role in culture, economy in the contribution for the city. How to balance the needs of the above two aspects, it should design and express from the perspective of combination of visual aesthetics, facilitate cultural, aesthetic and practical.
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Cengiz, Mehmet Sait. "Role of Functional Illumination Urban Beautification: Qatar-Doha Road Illumination Case." Light & Engineering, no. 03-2022 (June 2022): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33383/2021-093.
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In this study, numerical analysis was made for 7 different road scenarios, which are called functional illumination in the architectural field. In functional illumination (road illumination) within the scope of the lighting masterplan, optimum illumination was provided in the simulation environment according to the criteria of the International Illumination Commission (CIE). According to the criteria of the CIE, the illumination system that does not adversely affect living things and the environment has been proposed by providing the limit values for the illuminance level, luminance, overall (resultant) uniformity, and longitudinal uniformity. In the architectural field, it is thought that functional illumination will increase the attractiveness of the city and contribute to architectural aesthetics by providing visual comfort.
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Peng, Zounian, Mengce Di, Dan Zhang, Qian Zhang, and Yi Liu. "Road dynamic landscape design and simulation based on fuzzy clustering algorithm." Theoretical and Natural Science 34, no. 1 (2024): 266–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-8818/34/20241143.
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Against the backdrop of rapid economic growth and continuous expansion of road networks in China, the planning, design, greening, and beautification of roads at all levels have entered a systematic implementation phase. Particularly noteworthy is the emergence of dynamic road landscape design as a major focus in the research on urban road beautification in the new era. This paper proposes a road dynamic landscape optimization design scheme based on the fuzzy clustering algorithm. It analyzes the primary elements constituting dynamic road landscapes and summarizes the fundamental principles for designing such landscapes. The fuzzy clustering method is employed to classify different road landscapes, optimizing the design system. Through simulation experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated, with results indicating an 8.34% higher accuracy compared to traditional methods. The study suggests that such road design not only meets basic traffic needs but also achieves greening and beautification effects while catering to users visual and psychological needs, showcasing the unique cultural, historical, and lifestyle characteristics of the city. Furthermore, this design fosters harmonious integration between roads and their ancillary structures and surrounding buildings, significantly improving the citys landscape and living environment.
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Gao, Tianjian. "Innovative research on urban public art design from the view of interactive experience." SHS Web of Conferences 158 (2023): 01012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202315801012.
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with the continuous progress of social technology, people’s demand in the material, spiritual experience and living environment has been further promoted. The urban infrastructure and other hardware functions have been achieve.Therefore, people began to develop urban public art design, in order to further promote the urban beautification environment, and ensure the quality of people’s living environment. Nowadays, urban public art design has drawn the social development attention. This paper put forward the combination of technology and art, interactive experience enhancement, public participation and information design innovation direction., through the analysis to urban public art design innovation research on the perspective of interactive experience from the domestic and foreign cases.
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Zvonareva, Polina Pavlovna, Irina Viktorovna Filipskaya, and Irina Vladimirovna Yangulova. "Rational approach towards renovation of public spaces in Krasnoyarsk." Урбанистика, no. 3 (March 2021): 42–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2021.3.36219.
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This article examines public spaces in the urban environment of Krasnoyarsk and outlines current trends in design. The object of this research is the territories with hydraulic structures – fountains, which have lost their attractiveness and relevance, currently undergo dismantling and remodeling. The author analyzes the needs of Krasnoyarsk residents, latest trends in design and organization of public spaces in Krasnoyarsk. The article describes remodeling of the two most popular fountains of the city as most popular for promenades: the fountain “Adam and Eve”, which now is the sculpture “Valentine and Valentina”; and the fountain “The Seize of Europe”. The research is based on the method of analysis and synthesis of public opinion determined in the course of questionnaires, expert assessments and scientific inquiries regarding the dynamics of urban development. The analysis of beautification of streets of Krasnoyarsk allows assessing the current state of the outdoor furniture in recreation areas. Examples are provided of both a successful approach towards layout of public urban spaces, as well as the projects which potential has not been fulfilled. The author proposes new layout solutions that take into account complex needs of the consumer. The theme of beautification of territory around the fountain remains relevance, and urban planning departments are interested in selecting high-quality outdoor furniture with consideration of color and texture of the materials, laws of rational composition, and maintainability.
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McNulty, Maggie, and Lara Roman. "Forgotten Contributions: The Overlooked Impact of Ellen Harrison and Early 20th Century Women in Urban Greening." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 48, no. 6 (2022): 333–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2022.025.
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Many women and women-run associations were involved in historical urban beautification in the United States, especially tree planting, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While men had formal roles as city foresters, arborists, horticulturalists, and landscape architects, women from elite families sometimes labored for free to organize and advocate for urban tree planting. Tightly knit social circles of high-society women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yielded much greater influence in nascent tree planting and park creation movements than has generally been recognized. They often contributed their time, finances, input, and skill to landscape planting projects; however, they were not considered equal to the men who were compensated employees. These women planted, plotted, studied, and persevered, overcoming preconceived notions of womanhood, although their meaningful efforts were often viewed as merely an offshoot of their feminine domestic role. For women, limited by opportunities in male-dominated arenas, shaping their cities was a socially accepted means for empowerment. Ellen Waln Harrison (1846 to 1922) was a key figure in civic beautification in her hometown of Philadelphia and beyond. Ellen Harrison was married to Charles Custis Harrison, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and she personally oversaw campus landscaping efforts, and was referred to as his “right hand.” Her story is emblematic of a larger trend regarding women in botany, horticulture, and urban forestry around the turn of the 20th century.
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Byvalina, Mariia. "THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEAUTIFULNESS AND GREENING OF THE CITY TERRITORY." Urban development and spatial planning, no. 81 (August 31, 2022): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2076-815x.2022.81.33-58.
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Being places of population concentration and various types of activities - industry, construction, energy, automobile fleet, cities are sources of air, surface and underground water, and soil pollution. Nature in the city and in its immediate surroundings is subject to significant anthropogenic stress. Environmental problems of cities, mainly the largest of them, are associated with excessive concentration on relatively small territories of population, transport and industrial enterprises, with the formation of anthropogenic landscapes, the state of which is characterized by a violation of the ecological balance. 
 It is in the field of improvement that conditions are created for the population that ensure a high standard of living. Thus, conditions are created for a healthy, comfortable, convenient life both for an individual at the place of residence and for all residents of the city, district, quarter, and microdistrict.
 When performing a set of measures, they are able to significantly improve the ecological condition and appearance of cities and towns, create more comfortable microclimatic, sanitary, hygienic and aesthetic conditions on the streets, in residential apartments, public places (parks, boulevards, squares, squares, etc.). The need for a systematic solution to the problem of beautification and greening of cities and towns is ripe.
 The modern stage of the development of urban improvement and greening poses a number of new tasks that cannot be solved without extensive use of the achievements of scientific and technical progress, advanced practical experience.
 The purpose of this work is to generalize the theoretical foundations of the organization of the urban improvement and greening system. The work has a theoretical and methodological nature. Based on the study of literary sources, the essence of the formation and definition of the concept of urban improvement, improvement and greening of city territories, types of urban improvement are considered. The conclusion gives general conclusions that were made as a result of research and analysis of the problem of beautification and greening of the city territory.
 The methodological basis of the work is the concept of improvement of the city of L.A. Velikhova, the formula of improvement Z.Kh. Frenkel, the theory of V.I. Vernadsky, based on the principle of harmonious development of man and the biosphere, and the compositional theory of H. Hans, which examines human perception through the microcosm (microdistrict, street) and macrocosm (country, planet).
 The novelty of this work consists in identifying and formulating the main features and problems of the organization of the system of beautification and greening of the urban territory at the modern stage of the development of society.
 The work is based on a systemic approach, within which the following methods were used: historical, which examined the history of the centuries-old experience of green construction, systemic, comparative. The empirical basis of the research is a traditional analysis of literature and practical sources. The work has a theoretical and methodological nature. Based on the study of literary sources, the essence of the formation and definition of the concept of urban improvement, improvement and greening of city territories, types of improvement of residential areas are considered.
 In the opinion of the author, the results of the work: theoretical propositions and conclusions, definition of a number of relevant concepts and methodological recommendations may be useful for organizations engaged in greening and beautification of the urban territory. The results of the research can be used by students in the educational process of higher professional educational institutions regarding this topic.
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Belyaeva, E. L. "ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CENTERS OF HISTORICAL CITIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF KOLOMNA, SERGIEV POSAD, DMITROV, ZVENIGOROD)." Landscape architecture in the globalization era, no. 1 (2021): 14–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37770/2712-7656-2021-1-14-38.
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The issues of assessing the current level of beautification of the centers of historical cities and its quality are relevant in connection with the practical and methodological problems of carrying out such work within the framework of the implementation of the national project "comfortable environment" as well as the target program for the beautification of historic cities. It is during the improvement of historical cities or historical zones of cities in practice that the most complex methodological problems arise, associated with the need to ensure the preservation of valuable historical landscapes, architectural monuments, historical gardens and parks. To make decisions on the improvement and greening of cities, including within the framework of national, regional and municipal projects and programs, it is important to analyze the state and experience of the improvement and greening of a number of cities. As objects of research, four historical cities near Moscow were selected, or rather, the territories of their public centers, and at the same time, the positive and negative aspects of projects implemented over the past 5-10 years were considered in terms of compliance with urban planning regulations for historical zones, environmental requirements and the comfort of the urban environment - Kolomna, Sergiev Posad, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod.
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Düzel, Esin. "Beauty for Harmony." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40, no. 1 (2020): 180–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-8186170.
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Abstract Beauty can be a source of self-making within a political community, and that self can display moral autonomy via publicly visible and invisible practices while still adhering to a community. At a time of transition during the early 2000s from militarized resistance to urban civil politics, radical democracy, and gender ideals, older militarized notions of the Kurdish self, body, and beauty were changing. In a context of heightened visibility within the movement, women active in the Kurdish movement responded by recrafting their femininities, using beautification practices as a modern, urban, and empowering political tool. But beautification of the new self also entailed often sticky negotiations over the moral boundaries between the self and the movement, producing anxieties over what and who should constitute the moral. As women's actions, public roles, and visibilities became important indicators of the Kurdish movement's political success, their beauty practices and beautiful visibilities came to be viewed through the urgent need for moral unity. Central to Kurdish women activists' experience of and response to the political and social transformations going on around them, the integration of beauty practices into their politics placed moral autonomy at the center of the construction of new models of Kurdish femininity.
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Lemon, James. "Plans for Early 20th-Century Toronto." Articles 18, no. 1 (2013): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1017821ar.
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On several occasions in the early twentieth century, advocates of urban planning proposed significant measures for altering the layout of Toronto streets. Planning historians often have proposed that an interest in beautification was superseded by a focus on efficiency by the 1920s, but Toronto's plans largely were lost amidst private development processes and business cycles. Confusion over planning priorities, the short-term perspectives of politicians, and a lack of urgency also impeded city and regional planning. Toronto experienced less planning initiatives than major United-States cities.
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Listyani, RH, FX S. Sadewo, and M. Legowo. "Ethno beauty: practices of beautification among urban muslim middle-class women in Surabaya." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 953 (January 2018): 012189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/953/1/012189.
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Ojo, Bankole, and Femi Kayode. "The Role of Colour in Environmental Beautification and Urban Aesthetics: The Nigerian Example." Indoor and Built Environment 15, no. 6 (2006): 543–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x06073206.
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Herzfeld, Michael. "The blight of beautification: Bangkok and the pursuit of class-based urban purity." Journal of Urban Design 22, no. 3 (2017): 291–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2017.1294976.
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Kang, Yeon-Joo, and Young-Sang Kwon. "The Changes of Urban Spatial Policy under the Urban Beautification Act in the Regime of Kim Jong-un." Journal of the Urban Design Institute of Korea Urban Design 20, no. 6 (2019): 119–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.38195/judik.2019.12.20.6.119.
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Vazirizadeh, Hashem, and Ismaeil Shieh. "Planning for Development of Favorable District for the Elderlies; Case Study: Kerman Arg District." Journal of Sustainable Development 10, no. 2 (2017): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v10n2p170.
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By increase of age group of people older than 60 years and problems of aging period, it seems necessary to provide favorable environmental conditions in order to increase life expectancy of this group. One of the public spaces which had been much underlined in traditional urban development and has double importance for the elderly and receives less attention today is the district. This paper, aiming at planning urban districts tailored to the needs of the elderly, provides required criteria in district planning through descriptive-analytical method. Finally, by offering components of: familiarity, readability, dignity, accessibility, convenience, security and beautification in the district planning process of Kerman Arg district, these components are applied.
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Daniel, Julia E. "Dumb and Forked: The Street Tree Poetics of Millay and Williams." Modernist Cultures 16, no. 1 (2021): 12–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2021.0318.
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This urban ecocritical study reads the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and William Carlos Williams in the context of the American street tree movement, a civic health and beautification program that advocated for the planting of shade trees along urban thoroughfares. It argues that both poets critique the ‘ideal’ street tree forwarded by the movement. In ‘City Trees,’ Millay presents a shade tree whose therapeutic effects are overwhelmed by the noise pollution in New York City, much like the speaker herself. In ‘Young Sycamore,’ Williams eschews the visual ideal of symmetrical, evenly-spaced shade trees in favor of a wily, asymmetrical organism that actively torques toward the light. By extension, these poets present city habitats as alternately more toxic and more wild than the street tree movement had imagined, a critique with ramifications for contemporary urban reforestation movements today.
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Dewi, Euis Puspita, and Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan. "Discourse on ‘Falsity’ in Heritage Revitalization: The Beautification of Kali Besar Jakarta and Its Impacts on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)." International Journal of Built Environment and Scientific Research 3, no. 1 (2019): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.24853/ijbesr.3.1.47-54.
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This paper aims to raise the issue of "falsity" in Heritage Revitalization and how it impacts on values in Historic Urban Landscape. The object of the study is the process of revitalization carried out in Kali Besar in the Jakarta Old City Area based on Jakarta Governor's Instruction 2016, No. 101. To evaluate Kali Besar's revitalization planning, this study uses historical methods, especially those relating to aspects of urban space, social and revitalization policies. This study results the findings that the Revitalization of Kali Besar was not done through a good management plan and arranged with various changes as the cause. Beautification is still considered as the main foundation in the Kali Besar arrangement. Historic Urban Landscape must be the main references in the process of revitalizing the Kali Besar area and to produce a mature management plan.
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Law, Michael John. "'Stopping to Dream': The Beautification and Vandalism of London's Interwar Arterial Roads." London Journal 35, no. 1 (2010): 58–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174963210x12598738033459.
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Liang, Yanlan, and Huijing Wang. "Green City Landscape Design Based on GIS System." Security and Communication Networks 2022 (August 9, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5155677.
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In order to solve the problem of green urban garden landscape design, a green urban garden landscape design method based on GIS system is proposed. This method introduces component GIS and compares three AO-based GIS secondary development modes. Based on the developed solution, comprehensively considering the index evaluation of urban landscaping and its influencing factors, the functional structure of the GIS-based landscaping management information system is designed, and the system requirements are analyzed in detail. It solves the problem that the cost of traditional green urban garden landscape design is too high, and the experiment proves that improving the landscape environment of urban public space has practical value for the research of urban landscape system. Combined with practical application, it is found that the intervention of rainwater landscape can effectively improve the aesthetics and artistry of urban rainwater public facilities. At the same time, the development of GIS and its related technologies (such as database technology and network technology) has also promoted the construction and development of urban landscaping system, which has a great effect on the beautification of the environment, which verifies the validity of the experiment.
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Vasilieva, N. V., M. V. Kostina, and Yu A. Nasimovitch. "Preliminary results of the molecular genetic investigation of the poplar hybridization naturally and in the urban beautification." SOCIALNO-ECOLOGICHESKIE TECHNOLOGII, no. 1. 2018 (2018): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2500-2961-2018-1-9-22.
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The article presents preliminary results of the molecular genetic investigation of poplar (Populus nigra L., Ps laurifolia Ledeb. etc) hybridization naturally and in the urban beautification within Russian Federation. All the investigated species and hybrids of the black poplar and balsam poplar demonstrate wide geographic variation at the molecular level naturally and when being cultivated. At the same time different species and hybrids being agglomerated in the same region can have some similar genome regions. This, most probably, is associated with the intensive cross-species hybridization. This scheme corresponds with the idea of the reticulate evolution of the black poplar and balsam poplar.
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Zakirova, Yulia, Maria Latypova, and Svetlana Gafurova. "The concept of creating a form-based code of Zelenodolsk." E3S Web of Conferences 274 (2021): 01021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127401021.
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The purpose of the study is to identify and compare territorial zones, volumetric-spatial characteristics of buildings and the peculiarities of the formation of open public spaces in Zelenodolsk. The main results of the study are that a comprehensive urban planning analysis was carried out, on the basis of which the features of the formation of territorial zones in the city were revealed, the boundaries of spatial-environmental morphotypes, their environmental features were identified, and the specificity of the formation of a design code for different areas of the city was determined. The significance of the results obtained for architecture and urban planning lies in the fact that the concept of the form-based code developed in the study for Zelenodolsk can become the basis for updating (or updating) urban planning documents (Local standards for urban planning, General plan, urban planning regulations, City beautification rules). The method of identifying and forming spatial-environmental morphotypes in the city is also of great importance, as the basis for creating a form-based code for Russian small and medium-sized industrial cities.
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Ashley, Amanda Johnson. "Examining an Alternative Take on Urban Development: The Alignment of Public Art and Conservation to Build Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park." Journal of Urban History 43, no. 3 (2015): 493–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144214566971.
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Civic boosters advocate physical arts development as a path for urban revitalization. Current research examines these specialized bricks and mortar efforts through snapshot outcome evaluations, broad policy analyses, and critiques of predatory activity. Project development is overlooked as is whether such efforts mirror general urban development patterns and behavior. This case study explores a successful dual-nonprofit partnership between the Seattle Art Museum and the Trust for Public Land to build the Olympic Sculpture Park. This recent history explains institutional motivations and political strategies and identifies organizational assets employed to overcome intense market pressures and past failures. It adds richness to conventional development wisdom and its intense focus on public–private partnerships as the prevalent model for urban development. This alignment between a local arts institution and a national conservation organization may unveil an alternative model or shed light on a less visible structure for developing urban civic amenities. This study further reinforces the connection between contemporary urban improvement and early beautification agendas via municipal art, open space, and civic leadership.
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Nur, Khilda Wildana. "ALLEY ACTIVATION: GENIUS LOCI TO CONSTRUCT A RESILIENT CITY." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 44, no. 1 (2020): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jau.2020.11015.
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Alleys in urban areas have recently been associated with crime and slums. Makassar as one of the biggest cities in Indonesia started to revitalize its alleys in 2014 as a campaign agreement implemented in Makassar Spatial Plan as well as an urban mutual interaction. This scheme is to change negative perspectives about alleys and to enhance urban community awareness. The research is a qualitative method with a phenomenological paradigm referring to urban design toolkits. Data collecting uses observation surveys and walk-through analyses. The selected alleys that have been discussed are based on thematic alleys from the government decisions. The findings show that successful government programs should empower the inheritance of cultural values. Genius loci adapted from the local nomenclature programs are more recognizable in public to build sense of belonging and promote urban resilience. The revitalization of alleys provide communal space, urban farming harvest, and leads to green economy improvements, settlement arrangements, and mutual local aids. Constructing urban resilience through government programs that should not depend on a Mayor’s tenure is another finding in this research. Adaptive governance is essential in flexible and collaborative management rather than application programs in terms of political interests, beautification, and ceremonial activities.
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DROZDOV, Viktor. "The Urban General Planning of Izmail in the Second Half of the 1940’S – 1960’s." Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi Fascicula XIX Istorie 19 (June 8, 2021): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35219/history.2020.09.
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The research is based on the analysis of general plans and archival documents on the urban development of Izmail. The processes of planning, building and reconstruction of the urban space in the post-war period have been investigated. The author considers urban planning documents as an important historical source that contains, in addition to graphic materials, detailed information on geography, history, industrial development, sociocultural activities and population composition of Izmail. It was found that the urban boundaries of Izmail significantly increased during the urbanization period. The author highlights the characteristic features of the urban planning by the Soviet authorities, housing construction and the development of infrastructure. At the same time, special attention is paid to the characterization of changes in the urban public and symbolic space, which were caused by the processes of Sovietization. Using the sources from the Izmail Archive, the author analyzes the results of implementation of general plans for the urban development, characterizes the issues of individual housing construction, names of streets and urban beautification. The materials of the article help to understand the characteristic features of urban construction in the Soviet Union border areas, which were annexed after the World War II, as well as the local features of the housing program in the 1960s.
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Chen, Yujuan, De’Etra Young, Jason de Koff, and Kofi Britwum. "Extension Agents’ Perceptions, Practices, and Needs of Urban Forestry: A Case Study from Tennessee, United States." Sustainability 15, no. 21 (2023): 15328. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152115328.
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Urban forests are essential green infrastructure for sustainable cities. However, existing studies are mainly focused on the general public’s perception and needs of urban forestry, and little is known about non-traditional educators like extension agents. To address this gap, the main objective of this study is to explore extension agents’ perceptions, practices, and future training needs. Specifically, a statewide online survey consisting of 33 questions was designed and disseminated to extension agents in Tennessee via email with 64 responses. We found that the majority of respondents valued urban forestry, with 68.9% of them believing that urban forests are very important, especially for providing shade, cooling, energy saving, aesthetic values/beautification, increasing property values, and wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Their main clientele includes homeowners, farmers, and landowners, and 63.3% of extension agents reported that they have received urban forestry-related requests. However, less than half of them are comfortable addressing these requests, and over 50% of them reported that they are slightly or not knowledgeable about urban forestry. Additionally, the interest in urban forestry is high, with 98.3% of respondents having some level of interest in urban forestry. This demonstrates great potential for urban forestry education, extension, and training in the region.
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Purici, Ştefan, and Harieta Mareci Sabol. "“From Beautification to Ennobling”: The Exterior Mural Mosaics from Suceava of the Socialist Era." Societies 12, no. 4 (2022): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12040107.
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The mosaic is one of the most durable monumental artworks, hence the belief in its permanence. It is resilient to shocks, abrasion, moisture, and frost, protecting, in turn, the walls it covers. These qualities made the mosaic one of interest to the communist authorities, who later considered it suitable for beautifying the exterior walls of various buildings. The article addresses the issue of the symbolic and identity aspect of art in the urban space. The authors discuss the exterior mural mosaics from Suceava, during the communist period, as an expression of the compromise between the ideological commands of the period and the neo-traditionalist and neo-folklorizing direction professed by the artists.
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Stoyak, Yu A., and L. S. Romanova. "VOTKINSK CITY-PLANT ARCHITECTURAL SPACE IN THE 19th AND EARLY 20th CENTURIES." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhitekturno-stroitel'nogo universiteta. JOURNAL of Construction and Architecture, no. 6 (December 29, 2019): 30–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31675/1607-1859-2019-21-6-30-41.
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The article is devoted to the architectural space role in the formation and preservation of the architectural and artistic identity of Votkinsk city-plant associated with the name of the Russian composer P. I. Tchaikovsky. The authors show the importance of factory and city government in beautification of this ancient city. The main elements of architectural space and gardening at different stages of the formation and development of the city are analyzed as well as small architectural forms and their current status. The analysis of the Votkinsk improvement allows us to conclude that it is necessary to conduct a thorough pre-design analysis prior to the urban development.
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Nor Azhar, Ali Saifuddin, Mohd Ramzi Mohd. Hussain, and Izawati Tukiman. "Urban Green Space for Sustainable Environmental Health in Relation to Pandemic Crises." International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability 9, no. 2-2 (2022): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/ijbes.v9.n2-2.1029.
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Trace the timeline of a pandemic such as Ebola, SARS, and SARS-CoV-2. All these extremely infectious viruses led to a worldwide pandemic starting in 2002. All these three viruses are transmitted to humans by animals from the jungle. The novel human coronavirus COVID-19 is now the fifth documented pandemic since the 1918 influenza pandemic. Questions about pandemics are on the rise these days, and it is widely discussed in the media. Recently, awareness about urban green spaces is rising in this era, and numerous researchers claim that appropriate landscape planning and design with the conception of sustainability able to produce a beneficial and responsive environment for healthy urban improvement in relation to pandemic crises. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of urban green spaces for sustainable environmental health. The result shows that the role of urban green spaces improves immune system function, increases social capital and cohesion, reduces mortality, and increases life expectancy, reduces potential negative health impacts, and makes urban beautification healthier. In addition, the finding shows the benefits of urban green spaces in pandemics, for example improving mental health and stress reduction, improving physical health, decreasing the risk of disease transmission, and improving social cohesion.
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Alonge, S. K., and A. Wadinga. "RETHINKING URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMMES FOR PANDEMIC CONTROL IN NIGERIA." African Journal of Health, Safety and Environment 2, no. 1 (2021): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.52417/ajhse.v2i1.120.
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Most urban renewal programmes in Africa are conceived as mere urban beautification projects. From Lagos to Dakar, move one or two kilometers away from the city centers and one is faced with filth and squalor that are summed up in two words –urban slums, in which a great majority of city populations reside. In Nigeria, population living in slums as percentage of urban population is put at 50.2 % in 2014, up from 41.0% in 2007. This highlights the rapid growth of urban slums in Africa with rapid urbanization largely fueled by rural-urban migration. Incidentally, lessons from COVID-19 indicate that if the trend in the growth of unplanned slum settlements are not checked, they will become the hotspots for pandemic transmission in Africa, as the slum populations are part and parcel of the entire urban population who indeed are key drivers of city activities in terms of labour supply, as well as their engagements in small scale informal business activities in the cities. In the light of existing knowledge on the potential threat of dense slum settlements to the spread of pandemic, this paper reviews the appropriateness of traditional approach to urban renewal programmes in Africa and makes recommendations for paradigm shift as historical evidences reveal that COVID-19 is neither the first nor the last pandemic.
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Beschler, Christopher L., Robert C. Steidel, Federico E. Maisch, and Yuan Fang. "Richmond, Virginia Combines Sustainable Environmental Practices, Beautification and History to Create a Premier Livable Urban Environment." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2010, no. 2 (2010): 250–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864710798285084.
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Makhzoumi, Jala. "From urban beautification to a holistic approach: the discourses of ‘landscape’ in the Arab Middle East." Landscape Research 41, no. 4 (2016): 461–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1156068.
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Borovik, Olesya V., and Irina S. Kapustenko. "ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR URBAN BEAUTIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY." Scholarly Notes of Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Technical University, no. 8 (2022): 100–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.17084/20764359-2022-64-100.
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Abdullah, Jamalunlaili, Raziah Ahmad, and Muhammad Hafiz Zainal. "The Blue-Green Urban Living Labs of Kuala Lumpur." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 13 (2020): 359–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072.
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The extraordinary societal challenges demand cities to be innovative and adaptable to the needs of urban citizens. In the Malaysian context, the Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) has not been well incorporated into the ULLs. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring the potential of the Blue-Green Urban Living Labs (BGULLs) at the Sungai Bunus catchment area. Using Google Form, survey questionnaire is conducted among professionals and the public. Findings of this unprecedented study suggest the BGULLs offer beyond beautification works, and it is voicing the virtual idea of the BGULLs into a real setting that reflects the public-private-citizen partnerships.Keywords: Urban living labs; Blue-Green Infrastructure; Innovation; societal challengeseISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072
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Tătar, Alexandru Marius. "Regeneration of urban space in Romania: A case study of Bistrita municipality." Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 46 (July 28, 2022): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e87816.
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This study aims to analyze urban landscapes by assessing the development of built space, one of the most dynamic elements within them. The spatial development of built environments is a phenomenon present in most urban areas. The study looks at the relationship between patterns of built space and urban green spaces. Implications on the connectivity of urban space, the planning of urban functions in their proximity, and the spatial distribution of recreational potential based on the perceived recreational value of the landscape by the local community are investigated. The theme of the paper is a topical issue in the study of urban landscapes, while at the same time it is an ongoing phenomenon - the growth of built space - for which optimal planning solutions are being sought. The analysis and results presented seek to increase understanding and awareness in addressing the dynamics of built space in the urban environment. The data used are collected both from official sources and from the ground. Urban regeneration aims to revitalize distressed urban spaces: The development and beautification of public spaces - squares, squares, parks, street furniture. The links between this category of urban space and the rest of the urban infrastructure are analyzed, as well as the role that urban planning plays in the development of built space in the vicinity of forest areas. The study area comprises territories in the municipality of Bistrita. The socio-economic context of the area has been the basis for understanding the patterns of evolution identified in the urban landscape, as well as being a driver in ongoing urban transformations and processes.
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Neumark, Devora. "Drawn to Beauty: The Practice of House-Beautification as Homemaking amongst the Forcibly Displaced." Housing, Theory and Society 30, no. 3 (2013): 237–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2013.789071.
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Im, Joowon. "Green Streets to Serve Urban Sustainability: Benefits and Typology." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (2019): 6483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226483.
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Urbanization and climate change have impacted the ecosystems of the US cities. Impervious surfaces in the urbanized areas are a critical issue for both challenges and green infrastructure can be an alternative solution to achieve urban sustainability. Green infrastructure protects urban ecosystems by reducing imperviousness as treating stormwater runoff and providing other multifaceted benefits. However, even with the great potential, its adoption is still discouraged due to limited understanding and guidance especially for the cities with a growth-driven policy. This paper proposes that green infrastructure, particularly green streets in relation to impervious surfaces, can deliver urban sustainability by providing a better understanding to promote the acceptance and successful adoption of green streets through literature review and case studies in the US. Green streets are primarily implemented within the right-of-way and facilitate stormwater treatment along with diverse street designs providing multiple benefits such as flood management, wildlife habitat and natural pathway creation, neighborhood beautification, cost-effective solution, and more. The defined green street typology in this paper is an important tool for communicating among planners and the public by providing form-based standardized classification. Green streets can be utilized as a sustainable development approach, fulfilling a variety of environmental, social, and economic objectives.