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Journal articles on the topic "Urban mega projects"
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Douglass, Michael. "Globalization, Mega-projects and the Environment." Environment and Urbanization ASIA 1, no. 1 (March 2010): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097542530900100105.
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Fainstein, Susan S. "The just city e la nuova epoca dei mega-progetti." TERRITORIO, no. 60 (March 2012): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2012-060002.
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In recent years large urban development projects (mega-projects) have become frequent in European, American and Asian cities. Surprising physical similarities can be seen between the types of project and in the orientation towards the market and the private sector. However, the ways in which the objectives of physical and social transformation are pursued are different. This paper investigates recent mega-projects in New York, London, Amsterdam and Singapore, cities which represent a wide range of variables in the capitalist ownership regime. The comparison shows that public-private partnerships can bring public benefi ts, but also that these mega-projects are risky for both parties and produce environments of poor urban quality. Further more the fair distribution of the impacts of these projects is the result of government commitment to the production of social benefi ts.
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Wiedmann, Florian, Ashraf M. Salama, and Hatem G. Ibrahim. "The Role of Mega Projects in Redefining Housing Development in Gulf Cities." Open House International 41, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2016-b0008.
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Since the end of the 1990s, large-scale mega projects have been initiated in Gulf cities to enable an unprecedented urban growth and the expansion of new economic sectors. In this respect, mega projects have played a key role in redefining housing developments in Gulf cities. This paper explores the newly emerging housing typologies and their distinctive roles in defining new urban environments. The selected case studies are located in the Jumeirah District in Dubai, which can be seen as the first prototype of a large cohesive development area that has been built of nine rather differing mega projects including the iconic Palm project and one of the largest residential high-rise agglomerations in the Middle East. The paper is based on the evaluation of official planning data from each project as well as field observations. Conclusions are drawn to highlight key implications while identifying housing development tendencies.
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Adama, Onyanta. "Urban imaginaries: funding mega infrastructure projects in Lagos, Nigeria." GeoJournal 83, no. 2 (January 31, 2017): 257–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-016-9761-8.
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Percoco, Marco, and Lanfranco Senn. "Mega-projects and Regional Development in the Italian Experience." SCIENZE REGIONALI, no. 3 (November 2010): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/scre2010su3001.
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The aim of this note is to introduce the special issue on "Mega-projects and regional development in the Italian experience" and to review some of the critical issues associated with the evaluation of mega-projects. In particular, we focus on the shortcomings of Cost-Benefit Analysis when the project is large and when network effects are not negligible, and we propose further research on risk assessment and time discounting for long term and risky investments.
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Bornstein, Lisa. "Mega-projects, city-building and community benefits." City, Culture and Society 1, no. 4 (December 2010): 199–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2011.01.006.
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Wiedmann, Florian, Velina Mirincheva, and Ashraf M. Salama. "Urban Reconfiguration and Revitalisation: Public Mega Projects in Doha's Historic Centre." Open House International 38, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2013-b0004.
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This paper aims to offers an assessment of the current transformation process of Doha's historic centre, which has become a major focus of public development strategies. While the historic centre was neglected during most of the second half of the 20th century, recent public initiatives have been leading to new urban morphologies and typologies. In addition to the redevelopment of the historic market and the investments in museums, a large scale mixed use development, known as Msheireb project, has been launched, which will replace an entire district. The objective of this paper is therefore to clarify how these public initiatives are modifying existing urban structures and to which extent this spatial reconfiguration contributes to major revitalisation objectives, such as diversity, consolidation and identity. The methodologies include a GIS survey to analyse the shift in urban densities, land uses and typologies as well as a Space Syntax study assessing the various levels of spatial integration in the case of the Msheireb project.
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Blair, Robert. "Book Review: Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment." Urban Affairs Review 40, no. 4 (March 2005): 562–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087404267962.
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Ceylan Baba, Ece. "The risks of mega urban projects creating a dystopia: Canal Istanbul." City and Environment Interactions 6 (April 2020): 100039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2020.100039.
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Metaxas, Theodore, Laura Juarez, and Gaby Gavriilidis. "Planning and Marketing the City for Sustainability: The Madrid Nuevo Norte Project." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 16, 2021): 2094. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042094.
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Madrid Nuevo Norte (Madrid New North) is an urban redevelopment program applied in the city of Madrid in Spain. Regarding this, the aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, the project examines if the Nuevo Norte project is aligned with the principles of sustainability. Secondly, the paper investigates the impact of Nuevo Norte on the application of city marketing strategies in Madrid. For those purposes, questionnaires were distributed through the Internet to 122 urban developers and planners located in the Spanish capital. The results indicated that overall, Nuevo Norte contributes to the sustainable development of Madrid; however, concerns were identified regarding the budget and the timeline of the project. In addition, Madrid Nuevo Norte provides significant opportunities to local authorities to implement sustainable city marketing strategies, aiming to improve the competitiveness and the quality of life in the city of Madrid. To this end, it seems that city marketing, through the construction of mega projects, should contribute to sustainability, ensuring a better life for local residents and communities in general. The research is expected to assist local authorities in Spain to harness the potential of mega projects such as Nuevo Norte in designing city marketing strategies and to promote Madrid in an international context as a city that gives emphasis in urban sustainability.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban mega projects"
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Tseng, Y. N. "Mega urban transport projects as a catalyst for sustainable urban regeneration and the role of mega events." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1347988/.
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This thesis focuses on identifying inter-relationships between three different types of mega projects, including mega urban transport projects (MUTPs), sustainable urban regeneration schemes and mega events, such as the Olympics. This research attempts to test the hypothesis that ‘MUTPs can be an effective agent for sustainable urban regeneration and mega events’. It further assumes that ‘A well-functioning co-operation within this cluster of mega project can bring about a favourable outcome, i.e. maximum benefits and minimum costs’. The premise of the research discussed is that an appreciation of institutional arrangements and power relationships is vital in understanding the nature of complexity in decision-making regarding MUTP planning and delivery, and their associated developments. The methodology outlined is essentially a two-strand approach applied for purposes of illustration to a case study (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link). Strand one of the methodology is pre-hypothesis led - based on an analysis of the narrative, whilst the other is hypothesis led - based on an analysis of the returns to conventional interview questionnaires. This study concludes that conditions which allow one to coordinate the delivery of these three different types of mega projects include having a proactive partnership between the public and private sectors, a brokerage role played by local authorities, visionary politicians, streamlined planning powers, good stakeholder management, and continuous political commitment. Moreover, the locomotive role played by the MUTP which enables the urban regeneration schemes and mega events to happen could not implement without existing brownfield sites and the injection of significant public investments. In addition, the coalition of interests that forms itself around these projects is a leading dimension of these major developments. This coalition is mostly constituted by elite groups. It is also suggested that the coordination between these major projects remains rhetoric which is achieved by the interdependency between project discourses.
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Delrieu, V. A. "GIS-based indicators for the social impacts of mega urban transport projects." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1343926/.
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This research explores the short to long-term impacts that Mega Urban Transport Projects (MUTPs) have on the communities they serve. In particular, intentional and unintentional social impacts that occur in the communities for the non-user of the MUTP. By their very nature of being ‘mega’, these MUTPs act as catalysts for change at the physical, economical and socio-demographic level. Current appraisal methods for planning and implementing MUTPs are relatively short on a standardised framework for assessing and monitoring the social impacts that communities under-go. This PhD research proposes that GIS can provide a fast and powerful overview of social patterns that can assist planners and decision-makers at local, regional and national levels to consider the ‘knock-on’ effects of the MUTP. This contributes towards understanding how to shape change in those communities to improve the socio-economic status for the whole population, beyond the users of the MUTP. The research also proposes the use of the Cynefin decision-making model with which to assess, act and respond to these impacts and to manage the outcomes so as to amplify the positive effects and dampen the negative. The case-studies are the two non-London hubs of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; Ebbsfleet and Ashford, Kent. Building from the 1991 census to the most recent digital datasets the toolkit creates ‘planning-to-implementation’ stage profiles of the communities. Variables that are mapped include demographic diversity, socio-economic deprivation, accessibility, journey to work modes, and a pilot study to explore the impact of the MUTP upon changes in social exclusion and community cohesion. The findings of this study conclude that whilst useful lessons can be learnt and future guidelines created for planners and decision-makers for other MUTPs, this hypothetical toolkit has weaknesses related to the lack of spatial and temporal resolution in the datasets utilised.
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Kolat, Tuba. "Urban Mega Projects in the Northern Istanbul Metropolitan Region : Echoes of integrated global urbanization." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-155825.
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Oliveira, Clarice Misoczky de. "Empreendedorismo urbano e práticas de planejamento : a copa do mundo e os grandes projetos urbanos em Porto Alegre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/90426.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é a análise das práticas de planejamento urbano vigentes em Porto Alegre em sua relação com os grandes projetos urbanos (GPUs) associados à realização da Copa do Mundo 2014. Para tanto, foram abordados os conceitos de empresariamento, gerencialismo e marketing urbano com a finalidade de compreender o conceito de empreendedorismo urbano. Buscou-se compreender, também, as relações entre empreendedorismo urbano, práticas de planejamento, GPUs e megaeventos. A pesquisa, realizada com base em estudo de caso único, integrado por três unidades de análise (mobilidade, estádios e orla), envolveu o estudo de 18 projetos. As análises feitas exploraram as múltiplas dimensões de GPUs, buscando conhecer o contexto em que os projetos surgiram e como se justificaram, bem como identificar as práticas de planejamento, os atores envolvidos, possíveis desdobramentos socioambientais, bem como as fontes de recursos a eles associados. Por fim, analisou-se a relação entre o processo e estratégias típicas do empreendedorismo urbano, indicando seus vínculos com os grandes projetos.This work aims to analyses the urban planning practices present in Porto Alegre, and its relation with large urban projects being articulated for the FIFA World Cup 2014 mega event. The concepts addressed are entrepreneurialism, managerialism and urban marketing in its original fields to comprehend how Harvey built the urban entrepreneurialism concept and its best translation to Portuguese. This work aims, as well, comprehend the relation between urban entrepreneurialism and urban planning practices, large urban projects and mega events. This is a case study research with 3 unities of analysis incorporated: 1) mobility; 2) stadia; 3) water front. Those unities, therefore, are constituted by 18 different projects related to the FIFA World Cup, in a direct or indirect fashion. Their analyses are built by exploring its multiple dimensions regarded to large urban projects, by understanding the context where those projects have been created and how they are justified, by describing the projects elaboration processes to identify the urban planning practices related and its social and environmental impacts associated, and by analyzing the relation between this process and the urban entrepreneurialism strategies assigned by Harvey, indicating which project belongs to each strategies.
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Oliveira, Filipe Vieira de. "\"Itaquera para quem?\" Projetos urbanos e mudanças socioespaciais na periferia de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100134/tde-18112015-152039/.
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A presente dissertação de mestrado tem como objetivo analisar as mudanças socioespaciais ocorridas no bairro de Itaquera localizado na Zona Leste do Município de São Paulo a partir de uma série de intervenções no espaço urbano da região entre os anos de 2010 e 2014. Consideramos que tal processo é decorrente de determinadas ações provenientes dos diversos agentes sociais que influem na dinâmica de produção e reprodução do espaço por meio da elaboração de Grandes Projetos Urbanos e da realização do megaevento esportivo Copa do Mundo FIFA de futebol 2014 na região. Para tanto, o texto aborda primeiramente uma discussão teórica sobre o espaço urbano, a produção do espaço no sistema capitalista e o processo de urbanização da sociedade, que no caso particular da cidade de São Paulo deu origem a uma organização socioespacial fragmentada e desigual. A pesquisa busca demonstrar também, tal qual um objetivo secundário, o processo de formação socioespacial de Itaquera ao longo do século XX, bem como suas características atuais por meio da apresentação de dados socioeconômicos. Num segundo momento, o texto aborda o atual modelo de planejamento urbano (estratégico) na elaboração de grandes projetos urbanos e dos megaeventos. E por fim, a pesquisa analisa o projeto denominado Polo Institucional Itaquera e as consequentes mudanças socioespaciais observadas no espaço urbano de Itaquera. Avaliamos que a prática desse modelo de planejamento urbano recentemente tem como finalidade a expansão do capital imobiliário e a construção de novas centralidades na cidade. A pesquisa é de caráter documental e analítico qualitativo e propõe um exame interdisciplinar acerca da problemática exposta na elaboração de um grande projeto urbano em uma região de periferia e confirma a hipótese da expansão do capital imobiliário que neste caso persiste em reproduzir grandes desigualdades socioespaciaisThis master thesis aims to analyze the socio-spatial changes in the Itaquera neighborhood located in the East Zone of São Paulo City from a series of interventions in urban areas of the region since the year 2010. We believe that this process is due to certain actions from the various social actors that influence the dynamics of space production and reproduction through the development of Large Urban Projects and the realization of the mega-sports-event FIFA Soccer World Cup 2014 in the region. Firstly, the text deals with a theoretical discussion of the urban space, the space production in the capitalist system and the process of ghe society urbanization, which in the particular case of the city of São Paulo has led to a fragmented and uneven socio-spatial organization. The research also seeks to demonstrate, like a secondary objective, the socio-forming process of Itaquera throughout the twentieth century and its current characteristics through the presentation of socioeconomic data. Secondly, the paper addresses the current urban planning model (strategic) in the development of Large Urban Projects and mega-events. Finally, the research analyzes the project called Polo Institutional Itaquera and the consequent socio-spatial changes observed in the urban areas of Itaquera. We assess that the practice of urban planning model recently aims at the expansion of real estate capital and the construction of new center spots in the city. The research has a documentary and qualitative analytical characteristics, and proposes an interdisciplinary examination about the exposed contradictions in the development of a major urban project in a periphery region, where such a project contrasts with the situation found in Itaquera and confirms the hypothesis of expansion real estate capital on the outskirts of Sao Paulo that as a result persists in reporting great socio-spatial inequalities
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Kursunlugil, Ilknur. "Turkey under construction : urban megaprojects in the process of establishing a new country and creating a new nation." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0188.
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Comme un « nouvel animal politique et matériel », les mégaprojets urbains (MPUs) représentent aujourd’hui une réalité urbaine répandue tout autour du monde. Depuis, les MPUs ne cessent de transformer la ville, ainsi que la vie sociale et politique du pays, notamment à travers les politiques économiques qui visent à maintenir le secteur de la construction et, par la même occasion, contribuent fortement à l’émergence d’une nouvelle bourgeoisie conservatrice proche du gouvernement d’AKP. L’objectif de cette thèse est de comprendre comment un objet technique sert comme une nouvelle « technologie du pouvoir » qui transforme non seulement des geographies, mais aussi profondément les entités sociales. Pour cela, elle propose d’étudier deux mégaprojets d’infrastructure, dont le pont de Yavuz Sultan Selim et le Grand Aéroport d’Istanbul.Cette thèse propose de suivre une approche complémentaire à cette littérature, qui considère la mobilisation des investissements de l’Etat de mégaprojets urbains par le gouvernement comme une méthode stratégique pour recréer et distribuer la rente foncière, pour stimuler l’économie, pour gouverner à la fois le discours politique et la narration développementaliste, et, enfin, pour restructurer les relations socio-spatiales et la mémoire collective. Dans cette approche, les infrastructures sont conceptualisées dans le contexte plus général des assemblages du capital et du pouvoir, où elles ont la capacité de transformer non seulement les terres, mais aussi les relations de nature sociale. Ainsi, la théorie de l’assemblage est mobilisée pour étudier ces différents aspects des mégaprojets urbains, tant du point de vue des acteurs qui y sont impliqués dans et touchés par ces derniers, que du point de vue des symboles et des idées qui les entourent.L’argument principal de cette thèse est que l’investissement des infrastructures de grande ampleur offre au gouvernement Turc, un ensemble d’outils, de politiques, de moments et d’espaces stratégiques et tactiques, qui permettent d’intervenir sur le plan économique et de légitimer les discours hégémoniques, tout en transformant le pays et la société en profondeur et de manière incontournable, à travers du « béton ». La première partie qui porte sur la capacité transformative des infrastructures, analyse la mobilisation de divers mécanismes autour des deux projets étudiés, tels que les modifications législatives, l’expropriation des terres et des ressources naturelles, les contrats publics pour le développement d’infrastructures urbaines et les partenariats public-privé dans le secteur de la construction. La deuxième partie porte sur la manière dont AKP a réinventé les mégaprojets d’infrastructure présumément pour contribuer au développement et à la pérennisation d’une nouvelle bourgeoisie conservative. La troisième et dernière partie explore enfin le contexte commun des dirigeants politiques et économiques de la Turquie, à travers l’analyse des waqfs. Elle montre que comme le point focal des « aspirations et des visions grandissantes » d’Istanbul, les mégaprojets urbains constituent également le terrain de réinvention de l’identité nationale. Cette identité réinventée est en réalité une réincarnation des origines Ottomane, Islamique et Turkic de la Turquie et est animée par les symboles, les rituels et les représentations fondées sur la glorification d’un passé ottoman. En somme, alors que « l’économie du don » qui est remodelé à l’ère d’AKP autour de secteur de la construction permet à certains groupes sociaux de s’encastrer dans le système politique et économique, elle produit également de l’exclusion pour des groupes dissidentsA “new political and physical animal” – urban mega projects – have become ubiquitous throughout the world’. In Turkey, they have become part of our daily lives since 2011 when Erdoğan, the Prime Minister of time, announced his Kanal Istanbul project by saying: “Turkey deserves to see 2023 with such a big, crazy and great project. Today, we are rolling up our sleeves for one of world's greatest projects, which cannot even be compared with Panama Canal, Suez Canal or Corinth Canal”. Since then, we have been witnessing urban transformation by mega infrastructure projects (UMPs) as well as social and political transformation of the country by economic policies in order to keep alive the construction sector, with the associated emergence of a bourgeoisie during the AKP era. We selected two UMPs for our dissertation: Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge and Istanbul Grand Airport in Istanbul. Our research attempts to conceptualise infrastructure policies as “technologies of government”. When we look at the Turkish case, the literature on infrastructure analysis has generally adopted a limited focus on either infrastructure as a technical object that transforms the landscape or on its success/failure based on economic and engineering criteria. An alternative approach would consider the government’s adoption of state-led urban mega project investments as a strategic method in order to re-create and distribute the land rent, to boost the economy, to preside over both the political discourse and developmentalist narrative and finally, to reform the socio-spatial relations and collective memory. In this work, we advance a different approach to infrastructure. Rather than considering a mega infrastructure project as a technical object which would be usually evaluated by success and failure stories, we conceptualise it within the wider assemblages of capital and power, where it has the capacity to be a transformative mechanism not only on land but also on social relations. Thus, we mobilize assemblage thinking to discuss thoroughly all aspects of urban mega projects: the actors involved in and influenced by these mega projects, and the symbols and ideas that come into existence around them. The main argument of this dissertation is that large-scale infrastructure investment provides the Turkish government with strategic and tactical tools, policies, moments, and spaces through which to intervene in the economy and to govern and manage the legitimisation of a hegemonic discourse, while transforming the country and society profoundly and irreversibly by the “concrete”. Part 1 elaborates on infrastructures' capacity of being a transformative mechanism not only on land but also on social relations, through the mobilisation of various mechanisms such as law amendments, expropriation of natural resources, public contracts for urban infrastructure development, and public–private partnerships in the construction sector. Part 2 examines how the AKP has re-invented mega infrastructure projects to allegedly contribute to sustainability as well as to the development of a new conservative bourgeoisie. Finally, Part 3 explores the common background of the economic and political rulers of Turkey through an analysis of waqfs. While the focal point for the “growing aspirations and visions” of Istanbul, urban mega projects also constitute the centre of a reinvented milli kimlik (national identity). This re-invented identity is reincarnated in the Ottoman, Islamic, and Turkic origins of Turkey and has been framed in symbols, rituals and representations based on the glorification of the Ottoman past, while ignoring multicultural and multi-ethnic components. Indeed, we find that whilst the construction-based “gift economy” reshaped during the AKP era enables some social groups to be embedded into the political and economic system, it creates a dis-embeddedness for the dissident groups
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鄭沛勤 and Pui-kan Cheng. "Evaluating mega urban transport project: planning implications of West Rail." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41679532.
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Cheng, Pui-kan. "Evaluating mega urban transport project planning implications of West Rail /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41679532.
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Tran, Khac Minh. "Des métropolisations en concurrence : le développement des périphéries urbaines de la région de Hô Minh Ville (Vietnam) sous l'effet de la création de zones industrielles." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H102.
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Depuis les réformes du Đôi Moi (Renouveau) de 1986, la région de Hô Chi Minh Ville est devenue le fer de lance de l’économie vietnamienne. Comptant un tiers des zones industrielles du Vietnam, les quatre provinces économiquement avancées de la région, à savoir Hô Chi Minh Ville, Binh Duong, Đông Nai et Ba Ria Vung Tau, forment la plus grande dorsale urbano-industrielle du sud du pays et s’intègrent rapidement à l’économie mondiale. Sous l’effet de cette industrialisation globalisée, les périphéries métropolitaines de ces provinces se transforment rapidement, avec la construction de nombreux projets immobiliers, de villes nouvelles et d’infrastructures d’envergure. Cette thèse de doctorat vise à analyser la synergie entre l’industrialisation, l’urbanisation autoproduite et l’urbanisme de projet, ainsi que les liens d’interdépendance entre les territoires et entre les acteurs. Le métropolisation de cette région urbaine s’inscrit dans un processus de recomposition de jeux d’acteurs. Celui-ci se caractérise non seulement par l’avènement d’une alliance public-privé, mais aussi par la généralisation de nouvelles pratiques de négociation, de concensus et de passe-droit dans un contexte où l’État réinvente les mécanismes de gouvernance dans l’objectif de préserver sa capacité interventionniste face aux acteurs privés. Avec l’émergence de nouveaux pôles de développement, les provinces émergentes entrent en concurrence avec la métropole de Hô Chi Minh Ville, formant ainsi une construction régionale polycentrique. Si les stratégies diversifiées de métropolisation conduisent communément à la transformation paysagère et au redéploiement fonctionnel, celles-ci sont aussi génératrices de fragmentations territoriales, d’inégalités socio-économiques et de problèmes environnementauxSince the Đôi Moi (Renovation) reforms initiated in 1986, the Hô Chi Minh City region plays a fundamental role in the economic development of Vietnam. Owning one-third of Vietnam’s industrial parks, the four most developed provinces of Hô Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Đông Nai and Ba Ria Vung Tau form the largest urban-industrial pole in the south of Vietnam. Under the effects of the globalized industrialization, the suburban areas of the Hô Chi Minh City region are rapidly transforming, from the construction of multiples real estates projects and new cities to the development of new regional infrastructures. This thesis aims to decipher the synergy between industrialization, spontaneous urbanization and mega urban projects, as well as the interdependent relationship between localities and between different stakeholders. From local authorities to private real-estate developers, stakeholders adopt new negotiation methods and breaking-fence tactics, which leads to the creation of multiples public-private alliances in urban-industrial development. Contributing to the creation of new development pole, the metropolization intensified the competition between emerging provinces and Hô Chi Minh City, which reinforces the polycentric trend of regional construction. If the diversified metropolitan strategies adopted by the provincial authorities commonly lead to landscape transformation and functional redeployment, the competition between Hô Chi Minh City and the neighboring provinces generates multiples territorial fragmentation, socio-economic inequalities and environmental problems
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Sajjad, Fizzah. "Mega-project politics : the evolution of Lahore's first BRT corridor." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90103.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis asks how opportunities emerge for states in the Global South to undertake large-scale spending on public transport, particularly in cases where they have previously withdrawn from its provision. In recent years, such opportunities have emerged in the form of mass transit mega-projects, particularly BRT mega-projects. Most of the recent research on BRT adoption predominantly attributes these increasing investments to the changing nature of urbanization and associated increases in demand for public transport, as well as the political will shown by strong, committed local individuals. However, a limited number of scholars have pointed out that demand and political will are not sufficient explanatory variables, and have called for incorporating alternative explanations that pay greater attention to the processes, politics, and the relationships between different agents. This thesis heeds these calls and investigates how these processes and linkages converge to open a 'window of opportunity' that enables change to take place. Using the case of Lahore's first BRT corridor, this study shows that the window of opportunity opened in 2012 as the by-product of an idea under development for roughly two decades in Lahore. Further, it shows that the opportunity for the state to undertake large-scale infrastructure investment in public transport emerged not simply due to individual actors or purely technical reasons, but due to the inter-linkages between a number of agents and broader structural, technological, and historical forces at play. Hence, this thesis argues that it is essential to understand change not simply through individual-centric explanations, but to ground such explanations in the particular political-institutional context in which they are based. This approach can allow us to understand not only how opportunities emerge for states in the Global South to undertake large-scale spending on public transport, but also the reasons why these opportunities arise in the manner that they do. Further, it can allow us to situate the spaces through which more effective, equitable solutions can be imagined.
by Fizzah Sajjad.
M.C.P.
Books on the topic "Urban mega projects"
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David, Luberoff, and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy., eds. Mega-projects: The changing politics of urban public investment. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
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India, Anthropological Survey of, ed. Land, people and power: An anthropological study of emerging mega city of new town, Raharhat. Kolkata: Anthropological Survey of India, 2015.
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Olds, Kris. Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim mega-projects in the late 20th century. Vancouver: Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1996.
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Olds, Kris. Globalization and the production of new urban spaces: Pacific Rim mega-projects in the late 20th century. Vancouver: Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1996.
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Universidade Federal do Pará. Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, ed. Relatório do Projeto MEGAM: Estudo das mudanças socioambientais no estuário amazônico. Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, 2005.
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions., ed. Towards an economic evaluation of urban innovative projects: Micro projects for mega change : Dublin 21-22 November 1996. Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1997.
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions., ed. Towards an economic evaluation of urban innovative projects: Micro projects for mega change, Dublin 21-22 November 1996. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997.
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Perspectives in Metropolitan Research, Volume I : Self-Induced Shocks: Mega-Projects and Urban Development. Jovis Verlag GmbH, 2015.
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Olds, Kris. Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series). Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.
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Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series). Oxford University Press, USA, 2001.
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Caprotti, Federico. "Emerging Low-Carbon Urban Mega-Projects." In Creating Low Carbon Cities, 51–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49730-3_6.
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Siegel, Frederic R. "Curtailing Agriculture Projects’ Practices That Can Harm Urban Food Security and Public Health." In Cities and Mega-Cities, 65–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93166-1_6.
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Shen, Jianfa, and Gordon Kee. "Shanghai: Urban Development and Regional Integration Through Mega Projects." In Development and Planning in Seven Major Coastal Cities in Southern and Eastern China, 119–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46421-3_5.
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Jou, Sue-Ching, Anders Lund Hansen, and Hsin-Ling Wu. "Accumulation by Dispossession and Neoliberal Urban Planning: ‘Landing’ the Mega-Projects in Taipei." In GeoJournal Library, 151–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3_9.
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Shatkin, Gavin. "Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects." In Worlding Cities, 77–97. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444346800.ch3.
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Morandi, Corinna. "The Spatial Projects of the Expo 2015 and the Post-Event: The Relationship with Milan’s Urban Change Before, During, and After the Crisis." In Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces, 15–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67768-2_2.
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Siegel, Frederic R. "Master Plans to Meet Basic Public Health Needs for Projected Growth in Urban Populations." In Cities and Mega-Cities, 79–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93166-1_7.
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d’Hauteserre, Anne-Marie. "Val d’Europe: A Mega Urban Project Partnered by Walt Disney Company and the French State." In Engineering Earth, 1127–45. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4_64.
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Roche, Maurice. "Mega-events, urban space and social change: Expos, parks and cities." In Mega-Events and Social Change. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526117083.003.0007.
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This chapter is concerned with association of mega-event projects with pro-ecological (‘green’) aspects of urban regeneration projects host cities and it illustrates this in relation to the urban impacts and legacies of historical and contemporary Expos. The chapter argues that there are strong, if often overlooked, parallels and indeed tangible inter-connections, between what we can refer to as ‘the urban park-building movement’ on the one hand and the ‘urban Expo movement’ on the other. The body of the chapter explores the history of Expos as urban park-building projects, and thus as both space-creating and ‘green’ projects. It covers both of the two main phases of modernisation and urbanisation, namely the primary phase from the mid-19thC to the late 20thC and the secondary phase from the late 20thC to the early 21stC. The discussion in the final section moves to the contemporary period and focuses on a set of case studies of Expos as urban policy projects, particularly in terms of their space-creating, park-building and ‘green’ aspects. The cases are those of Western (European) set of contemporary-era Expos, namely Seville 1992 and particularly Lisbon 1998 and Zaragoza 2008.
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"Urban regeneration in Asia: mega-projects and heritage conservation." In The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration, 147–57. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203108581-23.
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Parsa, Ali, Reyhaneh Rahimzad, and Simon Huston. "Evaluating mega urban regeneration projects: developing a new model." In 22nd Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. European Real Estate Society, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15396/eres2015_270.
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Geambazu, Serin. ""Yeni Instanbul": the expansion of a global city." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/mwhr1573.
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The spread of neo-liberal political and economic ideology and the proliferation of global capital have created new opportunities and challenges for cities everywhere (Sassen 2012). Within the urban planning discourse, it is generally assumed that globalization leads to the same type of transformations and urban development trends everywhere in the world. However, it cannot create a certain prototype for spatial development or a new spatial order for cities. Rather, it gives a variety of spatial patterns, also called "global urban forms". Recently, these forms have identified themselves spatially within a series of "mega-projects", their intensity being felt in today's global cities, North-American and West-European, but with a domino effect, especially in the cities situated at the periphery of these capitalist economies. Total global megaproject spending is assessed at USD 6-9 trillion annually, or 8 percent of total global GDP, which denotes the biggest investment boom in human history. Never has systematic and valid knowledge about mega projects therefore been more important to inform policy, practice, and public debate in this highly costly area of business and government. It is argued that the conventional way of managing mega projects has reached a "tension point," where tradition is challenged and reform is emerging (Flyvbjerg, 2011). These kind of projects often take place within fragmented and entrepreneurial forms of governance (Harvey 1989; Healey 1997; Gordon 1997a, 1997b; Feldman 1999; Feinstein 2001; Granath 2005; Butler 2007) represented by public-private partnerships, in a societal environment of increased capital mobility and inter-urban competition (Malone 1996). Hence, it is argued, that mega projects have been examples of new governance styles and policy targets, but also object of intensive local planning debates and conflicts based on different actors (authorities, planners, residents, environmental groups, developers, etc.) holding an equal number of views (Hoyle, 2002) which are often difficult to reconcile. Strongly linked to the 2023 Vision of Turkey, the 3rd airport, Istanbul Airport is one of the mega projects that will bring Turkey among top 10 economically powerful countries. Istanbul Airport distinguishes itself from a myriad of other build-operate-transfer projects by its governance dynamics and planning process. The study employs discourse analysis through which extracts lesson from the decision-making process that will inform planners in Istanbul and beyond.
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Lin, Zhongjie. "Vertical Urbanism: Re-conceptualizing the Compact City." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.26.
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Although the term “compact city” appears frequently in academic accounts on sustainable urbanism as well as in professional descriptions of planning projects, it is often used in a general manner to indicate such ideas as high density, mixed uses, walkability, and transit oriented development, all linking to the common principles of New Urbanism. Unfortunately this misses some important points, as the concept of compact city possesses the power to generate dynamic urban forms, utilize cutting-edge technologies, address pressing environmental issues, and respond to distinctive geographical and cultural contexts, thus challenging conventional notions of urbanism. The awareness of the limitations of the current practice leads to the introduction of Vertical Urbanism as an alternative discourse on the compact city responding proactively to the state of contemporary metropolises characterized by density, complexity, and verticality. The reinvented concept of Vertical Urbanism moves away from the Modernist notion promoting tall buildings as dominant urban typology to explore physically interactive and socially engaged forms addressing the city as a multi-layered and multi-dimensioned organism. Informed by complex systems ranging from underground mass transit to futuristic ecology of vertical urban farm, this experimental urban design approach envisions a holistic organization of infrastructure, space, and ecology ina three-dimensional framework. This paper derives from a series of urban design research studios under the common theme of Vertical Urbanism conducted in four different cities in the United States and China during 2010-2014 and recently shifted to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. These studio stook on various sites and design questions such as urban infrastructure, transit system, and urban waterfront redevelopments, testing the concept in different geographic and cultural settings. Sensitivity to locality in both ecological and cultural terms was emphasized across these studios although the schemes often engaged speculative and innovative modes of design production. This paper examines a number of issues around the urban design approach of Vertical Urbanism, including the drive for density and vitality, the relationship between horizontal and vertical dimensions, space of flow and scalar shift, as well as ecological and social adaptability of mega forms; but above all, it tries to explore the capacity of global urban tactics in providing localized design solutions.
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Alraouf, Ali. "The value of less and small: transforming metropolitan Doha into connected, human and resilinet urban settlements." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/imvt3881.
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Qatar is one of few Middle Eastern oil producing countries that realized the vitality of a needed swift transformation from resources to knowledge economy. Until a few decades ago, Qatar was dominated by nomadic people whose livelihood depended on fishing, pearling, camel breeding, and fishing ships building. However, the discovery of oil and gas has encouraged not only socio-economic change, but environmental change as well. The discussed account will cover the main strategies adopted by the country to create a distinctive model of development in the Middle East. The study also analyzes the shift over the past decade which reveals how Qatar views investments in knowledge-based urban development as essential vehicles to survive in a globalized and competitive world. More significantly, the study illustrates an interesting form of urban resilience in the face of major challenges which faced Qatar in the last decade including, winning the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, the decline of oil prices and the air, sea and ground blockade imposed by its adjacent neighbors. The study sheds light on different urban planning strategies and policies adopted to shift the focus from creating a mega city with an image which resonate with typical global cities to a more sustainable, resilient, knowledge-based and decentralized urbanity. The model of Qatar is analyzed holistically in the paper to go form the strategic planning decisions all the way to case studies and best practice planning projects. The study demonstrates how Qatar has captured the world’s imagination by balancing global aspirations and local necessities in a sustainable and resilience context. This paper examines a framework for city and urban regions inspired by the theory of placemaking and its relevance to the boundaries of human urbanism. The paper sheds new light on the transformation of the city from a metropolitan exploiting the oil and gas revenues to a multi-centered model of urbanism. In doing so, the city adopted a number of significant strategies include the well distributed livable urban centers, transit-oriented development, introducing compacted urbanism and encouraging models of mixed use development. The paper concludes with a planning matrix which suggest that for Qatar, adopting such strategies and the deliberate move towards multi=centered urbanism is inevitable in the age of post globalizing world, the need for an urban human scale and the challenges of post Carbon paradigm.
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Chang, C. S., and H. N. S. Cheung. "Achieving a win-win result in mega project delivery with suppliers through a different “partnering” approach." In URBAN TRANSPORT 2007. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/ut070651.
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Barbosa, Fábio C. "High Speed Rail Technology: Increased Mobility With Efficient Capacity Allocation and Improved Environmental Performance." In 2018 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2018-6137.
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The increasing movement of people and products caused by modern economic dynamics has burdened transportation systems. Both industrialized and developing countries have faced transportation problems in urbanized regions and in their major intercity corridors. Regional and highway congestion have become a chronic problem, causing longer travel times, economic inefficiencies, deterioration of the environment and quality of life. Congestion problems are also occurring at airports and air corridors, with similar negative effects. In the medium distance travel market (from 160 up to 800 km), too far to drive and too short to fly, High Speed Rail (HSR) technology has emerged as a modern transportation system, as it is the most efficient means for transporting large passenger volumes with high speed, reliability, safety, passenger comfort and environmental performance. HSR system’s feasibility will depend on its capacity to generate social benefits (i.e. increased mobility rates, reduced congestion, capacity increase and reduced environmental costs), to be balanced with the high construction, maintenance and operational costs. So, it is essential to select HSR corridors with strong passenger demands to maximize these benefits. The first HSR line was Japan’s Shinkansen service, a dedicated HSR system, between Tokyo and Osaka, launched in 1964, which is currently the most heavily loaded HSR corridor in the world. France took the next step, launching the Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV), in 1981, with a dedicated line with shared-use segments in urban areas, running between Paris and Lyon. Germany joined the venture in the early 1990 with the Inter City Express – ICE, with a coordinated program of improvements in existent rail infrastructure and Spain, in 1992, with the Alta Velocidad Espanola – AVE, with dedicated greenfield lines. Since then, these systems have continuously expanded their network. Currently, many countries are evaluating the construction of new HSR lines, with European Commission deeming the expansion of the Trans European Network as a priority. United Kingdom, for example, has just awarded construction contracts for building the so called HS2, an HSRexpanded line linking London to the northern territory. China, with its dynamic economic development, has launched its HSR network in 2007 and has sped up working on its expansion, and currently holds the highest HSR network. United States, which currently operates high speed trainsets into an operationally restricted corridor (the so called Northeast Corridor (NEC), linking Washington, New York and Boston), has also embarked into the high speed rail world with the launch of Californian HSR Project, currently under construction, aimed to link Los Angeles to San Francisco mega regions, the ongoing studies for Texas HSR project, to connect Dallas to Houston, into a wholly privately funding model, as well as studies for a medium to long term NEC upgrade for HSR. Australia and Brazil are also seeking to design and launch their first HSR service, into a time consuming process, in which a deep discussion about social feasibility and affordability is under way. This work is supposed to present an overview of HSR technology worldwide, with an assessment of the main technical, operational and economical features of Asian and European HSR systems, followed by a snapshot of the general guidelines applied to some planned HSR projects, highlighting their demand attraction potential, estimated costs, as well as their projected economic and environmental benefits.
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Choi, Hye Mi, Kyoung Hwan Kang, Ju Hyung Kim, and Jae Jun Kim. "A Study on Classification of Facility Elements for Supporting Project Definition of Urban Renewal Mega Project Using Morphological Box Method." In 28th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction. International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.22260/isarc2011/0082.
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Deng, Xiaoxiao, Dihao Zhang, and Shuang Yang. "Revitalizing historic urban quarters by Cityscape-control plan The case of Xi’an, China." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/dnrt1591.
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In globalization ear, a large number of cities around the world are losing their features with the impact of powerful alien culture. Furthermore, China has been experiencing rapid urbanization. Full speed construction calls for the standardization instead of the uniqueness, which have brought threat to characteristics of cities. Homogeneous images of cities can be seen everywhere. Local cityscape, as the identity of the indigenous culture, is becoming increasingly scarce resource and competitive power for city in the field of global competition. Cities in China, who have realized the importance of history and culture in recent years, started to preserve and improve local cityscape by the tools of urban planning and design. Taking the historic urban quarters around the Daming Palace National Heritage Park as an example, the Cityscape Control Plan is researched as a method to preserve and optimize the cityscape in the historic area during the process of urban regeneration. The project is located in Xi’an, a megacity with more than 9.6 million population. Daming Palace used to be the imperial palace of the country in Tang Dynasty (AD634-896). Quarters around it has become a decayed area with squatter settlements nowadays. The municipality tries to bring in new opportunities for the area with a Cityscape Control Plan, which offers a possible solution to combine global and modern function with local and historic cityscape. Learning from the theories of city image, urban morphology and typology, the concept of cityscape and Cityscape Control Plan are defined theoretically. Secondly, an integral cityscape structure for the area is constructed and several spatial guidelines are created in terms of morphology，street interfaces, building heights, architectural styles, architectural colours, etc. All the guidelines are integrated and detailed to specific form codes for each blocks, which can be used as an administrative tool to restrict all the related construction activities. With these efforts, the historic features and innovative features are combined to identify a unique cityscape in this area, bring in a “glocal” (global-local) solution for the revitalizing of the historic mega city as Xi’an
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"ESPAÇO SALA VERDE AUTAZES: INSTRUMENTO DE EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NO AMAZONAS." In I Congresso Nacional On-line de Conservação e Educação Ambiental. Revista Multidisciplinar de Educação e Meio Ambiente, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51189/rema/1777.
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Introdução: O Projeto Salas Verdes está presente atualmente em todas as regiões do Brasil, constituindo-se em uma rede de 640 centros de referência em educação ambiental. Objetivos: O Espaço Sala Verde Autazes teve como objetivo realizar a implantação das práticas de Educação Ambiental e meio ambiente, obedecendo às metas dos objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável (ODS 30). Material e Métodos: As atividades citadas nesse resumo, foram realizadas entre os anos de 2017 e 2019. As atividades realizadas em 2017 foram: “Campanha Autazes Limpa” com palestras de informação sobre o lixo domiciliar e entulho de quintal, descarte correto, direitos e deveres; e Palestras com tema “Diga não as queimadas”. Resultados: Em 2018 as ações realizadas foram: Palestras com o tema “Lixo e queimadas de quintal – Diga Não Ao Fogo”; Circuito Tela Verde apresentando vídeos e curtas-metragens com o tema “Resíduos Sólidos e água”. Em 2019 as ações realizadas foram: palestras sobre “Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos - Lixo”; Mesa redonda com o tema “Recursos Hídricos e Educação Ambiental”; Sessão Cine Pipoca Sustentável nas escolas; Caminhada no mês de junho, referente ao Mês Ambiental; Arborização e competição (Desenho, Poesia, Paródia, Teatro e Vídeo Documentário) entre escolas das redes municipais e estaduais da sede do município; “I Copa Verde de Autazes” realizada no bairro do Mutirão; Reunião de orientação aos agricultores e feirantes com o tema “Técnica de Roçado sem Fogo”; Oficina de Materiais Recicláveis; e orientação sobre lixo, queimadas e desmatamento através da rádio local. Na análise geral, as ações desenvolvidas pelo Espaço Sala Verde Autazes atingiram um público heterogêneo, abrangendo o setor escolar das redes do ensino fundamental e médio de escolas públicas da zona urbana e rural. As palestras foram realizadas de maneira expositiva com auxílio de notebook, datashow, banners, cartazes e panfletos. O Espaço Sala Verde Autazes teve um total de 70 participantes em 2017, 5.399 participantes no ano de 2018 e 6.024 participantes no ano de 2019. Conclusão: Nesse artigo, foi possível apresentar e discutir o processo de consolidação do Projeto Espaço Sala Verde Autazes a partir da caracterização dos elementos trazidos de todas as ações realizadas entre os anos de 2017 e 2019, em Autazes/AM.
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Mattana, Leticia, Carlos Eduardo Verzola Vaz, and Patrícia Turazzi Luciano. "Ciclo de oficinas GMA." In ENCONTRO NACIONAL SOBRE O ENSINO DE BIM. Antac, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46421/enebim.v3i00.307.
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O GMA é o Grupo de Modelagem Avançada da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), formalizado por meio de um Programa de Extensão universitária e tem como propósito promover eventos e cursos de extensão em temas variados, incluindo modelagem BIM, paramétrica, simulação e automatização na arquitetura. O grupo é formado por professores do Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e Design, estudantes de graduação e pós-graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e profissionais. O Ciclo de Oficinas GMA é um evento semestral promovido por este grupo, ocorrendo no início do semestre letivo de ensino da graduação. Este Ciclo promove cursos de formação complementar sobre ferramentas BIM e de modelagem paramétrica, além de outros cursos que incentivam a adoção de tecnologia da informação e automatização de processos de projeto no campo da Arquitetura e Urbanismo. O Ciclo de Oficinas GMA aborda assuntos não contemplados no rol de conteúdos do currículo do curso de Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e realiza-se de forma aberta à comunidade. No semestre 2020.1 foi realizado o “I Ciclo de Oficinas GMA” durante os meses de Fevereiro e Março de 2020, de forma presencial antes da suspensão das atividades devido à pandemia do Covid-19. No semestre 2020.2 ocorreu o “II Ciclo de Oficinas GMA” de forma remota entre os dias 25 de Janeiro e 12 de Fevereiro de 2021. O “I Ciclo de Oficinas GMA” contemplou seis cursos de extensão: (1) Digitalização da construção e Modelagem no ArchiCAD; (2) Introdução à parametrização com Grasshopper; (3) Introdução a maquetes de papel com prototipagem digital; (4) Oficina de arquitetura performativa; (5) Oficina de auTETEmação com Arduino e (6) Oficina de paisagismo: a utilização de aplicativos de reconhecimento de vegetação. Os instrutores dos cursos foram 2 estudantes da graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 4 estudantes da Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 1 estudante de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia e Gestão do Conhecimento e duas profissionais em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, além de dois professores do Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Foram 99 inscrições realizadas e homologadas por meio do Sistema “Inscrições UFSC”, de 12/02/2020 a 22/02/2020. O “II Ciclo de Oficinas GMA” contemplou um evento de extensão de abertura realizado por meio de uma mesa redonda com o tema “Inovação e Arquitetura”, além de 12 Cursos de Extensão, todos gratuitos e realizados de forma remota pela ferramenta Google Meet. Foram 212 inscrições realizadas e homologadas por meio do Sistema “Inscrições UFSC”, de 18/01/2021 a 22/01/2021. No evento de abertura foi debatido como ocorre a inovação na área da arquitetura, além da aplicação de tecnologias de projeto e de construção, mostrando novas formas de se pensar a arquitetura nos campos social e econômico. O evento foi organizado em parceria com a startup Think&Make e contou com a presença de três convidados externos à Instituição de Ensino Superior e uma integrante da startup como mediadora. Os doze cursos de extensão realizados contemplam os seguintes temas e cargas horárias: (a) A geração de formas na composição paisagística: composição em lógica criativa (8hrs); (b) Introdução à ferramenta BIM Graphisoft Archicad (8-16hrs); (c) Introdução à ferramenta BIM Autodesk Revit (8-16hrs); (d) Ateliê Pescarte - Cultura, Projeto & Paisagem: A pesca artesanal estruturando espaços (4hrs); (e) Introdução à modelagem paramétrica com Grasshopper (8hrs); (f) Introdução à análise do clima e componentes de simulação com Grasshopper (8hrs); (g) Introdução à programação com Python em ambiente de modelagem paramétrica (8hrs); (h) Introdução à programação com C# em ambiente de modelagem paramétrica (8hrs); (i) Avaliando Espaços Criativos: avaliação de parâmetros de bem-estar e produtividade no espaço de trabalho; (j) Introdução à maquetes de papel com processos automatizados (8hrs); (k) Running Drawing - Mídias digitais e a percepção urbana (8hrs); e (l) Design Fiction para Arquitetura e Urbanismo (20hrs). Todos os cursos foram divulgados nas redes sociais (https://www.instagram.com/gma.ufsc/) e sites do GMA (https://www.gmaufsc.com.br/ciclo-de-oficinas-2021). Os instrutores dos cursos são 4 estudantes da graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 5 estudantes da Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 1 estudante de Pós-Mestrado no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, 1 estudante de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia do Conhecimento e três profissionais em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, além de dois professores do Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Quanto à adaptação às áreas de difusão BIM propostas por Succar (2015), essa experiência enquadra-se principalmente nas políticas de integração e colaboração entre diferentes áreas da educação superior e no desenvolvimento de competências individuais básicas níveis operacional, técnico e pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Esta ação de extensão promove a interdisciplinaridade pela organização envolvendo estudantes de diferentes Departamentos desta Universidade e níveis de formação (Graduação e Pós), além de envolver profissionais da área, contribuindo para a formação dos estudantes. Além disso, a realização destes cursos para a comunidade envolve a articulação com o ensino e a pesquisa. Apresentação no YouTube: https://youtu.be/itFFVQEwsYc