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Journal articles on the topic "Historical urban boundary"
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Soares, Maria, Fernando Fonseca, and Rui Ramos. "A quantitative spatial methodology for delimiting historical centers - an application in Guarda, Portugal." Journal of Spatial Information Science, no. 25 (December 20, 2022): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5311/josis.2022.25.164.
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A historical center can be defined as the oldest part of a city where a significant part of the building stock dates back to the early stages of urban growth. Historical centers often contain special urban fabrics with unique, historic, social and cultural identity. Owing to this, they have been subject to special urban planning interventions in order not only to protect the existing urban fabric and its originality, but also to revert depopulation and built deterioration processes aiming to make these old centers attractive and functional again. However, in the inter-urban domain, there is a deficit of spatial planning research, and the delimitation of historical centers is a topic that has been under explored. This paper describes a morphological approach for delimiting the historical center of Guarda, Portugal. Methodologically, the work uses building stock-age data from eight periods between <1919 to 2011 and is supported by both statistical and spatial analysis. Statistically, the urban evolution of the city was analyzed through threshold values and five novel building indexes. Spatially, the work involved disaggregated GIS analysis to map the evolution of built-up areas and to identify the consolidated urban areas. A sensitivity analysis was also performed to assess the influence of some parameters on the obtained boundary. Results indicated that the historical center of Guarda was consolidated in the 1960s and, since then, has been relatively unchanged. The obtained boundary shows a suitable spatial adjustment considering the consolidated urban area and the official boundary included in the Urban Rehabilitation Area.
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Machado, Irene. "Semiotic Boundary Spaces: An Exercise in Decolonial Aesthesis." Linguistic Frontiers 5, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0018.
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Abstract The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the discourses expressed between Jaider Esbell’s Brazilian artistic sculptures and the monuments of the urban space. Based on J. Lotman’s notion of semiotic boundary space of culture, the analysis focuses on the controversial discursive relationships, such as intelligibility and unintelligibility; translation and untranslatability, and so on, observed from the historical tensioning of cultural languages. This analytical path leads us to intercultural relationships in which artistic languages in semiotic boundary spaces manifest the Aesthesis condition that has given the theoretical foundations for the Decolonial studies and the arising of a new episteme in the understanding of intercultural relationships. Thus, the semiotic concept of boundary space allows us to analyse various discursive relationships in historical-political contexts in the contemporary debate.
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Huo, Jingeng, Zhenqin Shi, Wenbo Zhu, Xin Chen, Hua Xue, Ran Ma, and Yanhui Yan. "Delineation of the Development Boundary of the Central District of Zhengzhou, China." Land 11, no. 9 (August 25, 2022): 1393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091393.
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An urban development boundary is an effective means to guide urban development and restrain unplanned expansion of urban space. Scientifically-based delineation and control of the boundary can help with sustainable use of land resources and better spatial planning. This study took land use data from 2000, 2010, and 2020 for the central urban area of Zhengzhou and predicted the land use pattern in 2035. We used auto-logistic selection of driving factors, future land use simulation, and system dynamics models to delineate the development boundary of the central urban area. We complemented and optimized the boundary using agricultural and ecological perspectives. The results indicated the following: (1) The ROC values of land driving factors were greater than 0.75 in the regression test, and the Kappa and OA were greater than 0.92 in the accuracy test of land simulation results. (2) The boundary range initially delineated based on morphology was 2319 km2. There was a clear overall development trend of the central urban area to the east and southeast, which included the historical urban area of Zhengzhou and the new government planning area. (3) The optimized boundary of the central district area was 2209 km2, the ecological land control area was 136 km2, and the basic farmland protection area was 54 km2. The Yellow River, the airport, and the western, southern, and eastern areas were already formed. The study concluded that the delineated boundary was in line with the scientific concepts of ‘rigid’ and ‘flexible’ factors, which have positive effects on the protection of arable land resources and ecological land, as well as meeting the needs of urban development. The level of sustainable development of the region was effectively improved.
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Logan, Cameron. "Beyond a Boundary: Washington’s Historic Districts and Their Racial Contents." Articles 41, no. 1 (January 31, 2013): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1013764ar.
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Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s there was a wave of citizen-initiated preservation activity in Washington, DC, much of it directed towards identifying and expanding neighbourhood historic districts. These efforts were driven by several different events and influences that coalesced in the period: a new sense of local control that came with the establishment of municipal self-government in the District of Columbia after 1975; the expectation that a comprehensive historic preservation law would be enacted in the district; the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of the legality of preservation controls in 1978; and the renewed salience of the idea of place that affected everything from community art and neighbourhood activism to urban design and architectural theory. This paper addresses this moment of intense activity by investigating the ways in which preservation advocates in one neighbourhood, Dupont Circle, sought to expand their historic district. The proposal to add several square miles of new territory to the designated historic area was led by a predominantly white preservation organization, the Dupont Circle Conservancy. The proposal aroused significant opposition from a group calling itself the 14th and U Street Coalition, which styled itself as the representative of African-American interests and historical identity in neighbouring Shaw. They protested that the Dupont Circle preservationists were attempting to annex their neighbourhood and with it, their history. At first glance this conflict appears to be a predictable case of inner city gentrification fought along the lines of racial identity. But when examined more carefully, the series of claims and counter-claims embedded in the conflict exposed a more nuanced set of issues related to skin tone, class, and historical entitlement. The conflict highlighted the absence of any agreement about what constituted the historicity of such a historic area and cast doubt over who might be qualified speak on behalf of the history contained in such an area.
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Li, B., Z. Xing, L. Miao, and S. Liu. "THREATS TO NORMAL VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF HISTORICAL CITIES IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF HISTORICAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN LIAONING PROVINCE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIV-M-1-2020 (July 24, 2020): 773–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-1-2020-773-2020.
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Abstract. Located in the northeastern part of China, the stretch of land named Liaoning is a region historically characterised by the convergence of multiple ethnicities and cultures. It used to be the northeastern boundary of central China with an array of military cities and fortresses intensively built for military defence. Unlike palaces and gentry residences, vernacular residences and urban tissue existing widely in historical towns are excluded in the national protection schedule and have thus experienced different levels of damages. They feature a paradox that the general city form is well preserved whilst architectural forms are changed to a large extent. Most vernacular buildings have endured centennial baptisms, as evidenced by their architectural layouts, structures, roofing, walls, decorations etc. As most historical Chinese cities are not renowned tourist destinations, they are faced with various threats and are on the verge of extinction. The threats include the departure of young residents, decay of historical architecture, insufficient financial and technical support for architectural renovation, improper modifications by residents and demolition of entire historical neighbourhoods. Such threats are widespread in Chinese historical cities which are struggling to survive. Prior to the implementation of professional interventions, the urban forms and vernacular architecture of such historical cities should be studied. Through on-site investigation and query of historical data, especially the historical satellite city maps of U.S. Geological Survey, this study analyses the current life conditions in the context of traditional architecture, reveals problems in the use of historical architecture, identifies potential threats and summarises the underlying reasons. Suggestions benefitting local architectural conservation are then put forward.
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Ricci, Alessio, Massimiliano Burlando, Andrea Freda, and Maria P. Repetto. "Wind tunnel measurements of the urban boundary layer development over a historical district in Italy." Building and Environment 111 (January 2017): 192–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.10.016.
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Hachimi, Atiqa. "The urban and the urbane: Identities, language ideologies, and Arabic dialects in Morocco." Language in Society 41, no. 3 (May 23, 2012): 321–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404512000279.
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AbstractThe migration of old-urban elites to new-urban areas has been given scant attention in the sociolinguistics of mobility. This article examines language ideologies of differentiation that emerged from the migration of Morocco's bona fide old-urban elite from the city of Fez (the Fessis) to the new metropolis of Casablanca. This understudied sociolinguistic encounter brings into sharp focus two quintessential old-urban and new-urban varieties of Arabic along with their complex indexical system that links linguistic forms to identities, lifestyles, and moralities. Based on ethnography and discourse analysis of interviews with two women of Fessi extraction in Casablanca (a migrant and a local-born), I provide an in-depth account of what sounding Fessi means and accomplishes—and fails to accomplish—for these women, showing in the process the (re)production and change of language ideologies. The article demonstrates how changes in indexicalities relate to ongoing group boundary reconfiguration and to processes of linguistic (non)accommodation. (Arabic, North Africa, language ideologies, indexicality, gender, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics of mobility, historical prestige, social reallocation)*
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Guo, Weihong, Yaqian Ding, Guang Yang, and Xiao Liu. "Research on the Indicators of Sustainable Campus Renewal and Reconstruction in Pursuit of Continuous Historical and Regional Context." Buildings 12, no. 10 (September 22, 2022): 1508. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101508.
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As cities transition from incremental development to stock development, university campuses in suburban areas are progressively becoming urban university campuses. The stability of the boundary between urban university campuses and the city, along with the fact that the campus’s overall spatial capacity is reaching its maximum, makes it impossible for urban university campuses to have future spatial expansions. This article focused on the stock development, renewal, and transformation of urban campuses. From the perspective of urban university campus block morphology hierarchy and using the Wushan Campus of South China University of Technology in Guangzhou as an example, this study utilized urban morphology theory, data mining technology, big data collection, and visualization techniques to measure campus block morphology. Then, K-means clustering was utilized to classify the block form, and historical background research was employed to study the many forms of typical block form. Finally, the campus renewal and transformation guiding principles were introduced, and the control index of block form renewal and transformation was formed, evolving into the university campus block form renewal and transformation design technique. This strategy was used to investigate the general revitalization of college campuses.
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JERRAM, LEIF. "Bureaucratic passions and the colonies of modernity: an urban elite, city frontiers and the rural other in Germany, 1890–1920." Urban History 34, no. 3 (December 2007): 390–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926807004919.
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ABSTRACTThis article analyses the ways the urban boundary and the landscapes beyond it were culturally conceived and physically manipulated in Munich between about 1890 and 1920. It highlights planning practice outside the ‘canon’ of planning history, showing the importance of localized decision-taking in urban design. The article explores cities as cultural constructs and material artefacts in Germany as part of a broader project linking planning history to broader historical investigation, and tries to bridge the gap between the ‘material’ city as a physical space, and the ‘cultural’ city of language and symbols.
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Gutman, Marta. "Introduction: Making and Unmaking Neighborhood Boundaries in Postwar U.S. Cities." Journal of Urban History 46, no. 6 (May 4, 2017): 1191–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217704129.
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This essay introduces the theme of this special issue, “Making and Unmaking Neighborhood Boundaries in Postwar U.S. Cities,” by tracing the enduring meanings of the words, neighbor, neighborliness, and neighborhood, and relating them to community, place, conduct, and the idea of dwelling, important in Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space. The four case studies in this issue highlight places, where neighborhood formation and boundary making stand out in the historical production of space, and are examples of the benefits of the recent spatial turn in urban history. By examining neighborhoods in San Francisco, Atlanta, and New York City, the authors topple assumptions that prop up postwar urban history and demonstrate the relevance of historical studies of neighborhoods to the crises of the present moment (and the need for more of the same).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Historical urban boundary"
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Pierce, Erin E. "The Historic Roots of Green Urban Policy in Baltimore County, Maryland." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275576651.
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Fontes, Ana Catarina Pires Bernardo Ramos. "As pequenas escalas da rua: morfologia, apropriação e significados do beco em Lisboa." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23021.
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Conduzida entre a análise espacial e a etnografia urbana, a presente Tese de Doutoramento
em Estudo Urbanos procura revelar significados do beco, como rua de "pequena escala", para a
cidade contemporânea. O "beco" torna-se o fio condutor para descrever a cidade, o bairro e a rua
nas suas relações de fronteira. O desenvolvimento do traçado urbano, os limites e fragmentação
da paisagem urbana, o alcance das redes de interacção social e mecanismos de controle sobre o
espaço, são questões abordadas para o contexto de Lisboa e caso de Alfama.
A toponímia é o ponto de partida para criar sucessivos recortes no território, apresentados
ao longo de uma análise em progressiva proximidade e pormenor. A descrição do beco, sob
várias perpectivas, permite conjugar e pôr em diálogo dados de diversas proveniências,
triangularizando o "nome" com a "forma" e o "conteúdo". Mediante uma leitura de variações da forma
e apropriações do espaço são problematizados significados e questionadas tipologias urbanas à
escala do bairro. O nome beco passa a estar inserido num quadro local, definido no traçado e
rede hierárquica que estabelece níveis de permeabilidade no acesso ao bairro, através da
filtração implícita dos percursos que levam ao seu nível mais profundo.
As pequenas "escalas da rua" são o beco descrito nas suas variações de forma e variantes
toponímicas, nas ambiguidades entre espaço público e privado e como imagem visual e
simbólica da versão pitoresca da cidade. São ruas no seu extremo hierárquico, mediadoras
privilegiadas do acesso à casa e conciliadoras de valores materiais e imateriais. Funcionam
como linhas de fronteira de elevada espessura e profundidade, pois compreendem um
elaborado, complexo e flexível sistema dinâmico de barreiras e permeabilidades, mecanismos
de controlo sobre o espaço que de maneira tendencialmente implícita determinam o quê e quem
se encontra dentro e fora. Em segundo plano, são consideradas dinâmicas no tempo e impactos
matizados pela inserção do bairro numa rede global onde a validação e vinculação de
património é também um meio para fomentar o turismo.This Doctoral Thesis in Urban Studies was conducted between spatial analysis and urban ethnography. It seeks to reveal the meanings of the alley, as a small-scale street, for the contemporary city. The alley becomes the unifying thread to describe the city, the neighborhood and the street in their boundary relations. The development of the urban layout, the limits and fragmentation of the urban landscape, the reach of social interaction networks and control mechanisms over space, are issues addressed in the context of Lisbon and the case of Alfama. The toponymy is the starting point to create successive sections in the territory, which evolve together with an analysis in progressive proximity and detail. The description of the alley, through various approaches, enabled the combination and discussion of data from different sources, while triangulating the name with the urban form and its content. Meanings and urban typologies are questioned at the neighborhood scale, in consequence of the variations in shape and appropriations of space. The name "beco" is described in the local framework, defined within the streets’ layout and hierarchical network. These conditions establish levels of permeability in accessing the neighborhood, through the implicit filtering of paths that lead to its deepest level. The "small scales of the street" are established as a synonym of "beco", when the latter is described in its shape variations and toponymic variants, in the ambiguities between public and private space, and as a visual and symbolic image of the picturesque version of the city. They are streets in the extreme hierarchical sense, privileged intermediaries of the access to the home and they comprise tangible and intangible values. They operate as boundary lines of high thickness and depth because they comprise an elaborate, complex and flexible dynamic system of barriers, permeabilities and control mechanisms over space that tend to implicitly determine what and who is inside and outside. In the background, dynamics in time are considered as well as impacts nuanced by the insertion of the neighborhood in a global network where the validation and linkage of heritage is also a means to promote tourism.
Book chapters on the topic "Historical urban boundary"
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Merrett, Christopher D., and Thomas Rumney. "Canadian Studies." In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0054.
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The idea of Canadian Studies runs counter to recent economic trends that challenge the salience of the boundary between Canada and the United States. Books such as Nine Nations of North America (Garreau 1981) declare that the boundary is an irrelevant curiosity from a bygone era. Regional boundaries are more important than national boundaries when studying the geography of North America. Canada is viewed as nothing more than the “thirteenth Federal Reserve District” of the United States (Kindleberger 1987: 16). These statements suggest that Canada is not different from the United States, so why study geography from a Canadian perspective? One response is that the study of Canada endures because scholars persist in the idea that events (and the perception of events) in Canada differ from those elsewhere in North America. This chapter emphasizes research conducted by members of the Canadian Studies Specialty Group (CSSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) between the late 1980s to the present. However, where relevant, we also include research conducted by other AAG members, scholars from the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), and in some cases, Canadian and other scholars who have published in American journals. While we intend to present a comprehensive survey, it is by no means exhaustive. Our goal is to identify some major themes and diverse ways that Canadian geography has been studied in the United States. The chapter examines research conducted from the late 1980s to the present, and is organized around six themes: (1) economic geography and free trade; (2) political geography of national identities; (3) urban and social geography; (4) Canada’s regions: historical and cultural perspectives; (5) physical geography; and (6) the future of Canadian Studies. The deregulation of the Canadian economy accelerated with the implementation of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989 and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. Free trade influenced much of the recent research done on Canada’s economic geography. Prior to the FTA, Americans paid little attention to the Canadian economy (Romey 1989). The neglect stems from the lack of controversy between Canada and the United States.
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Steinberg, Jonah. "Remand to Rehabilitation." In A Garland of Bones, 192–246. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300222807.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on institutional space, a domain with which nearly all runaways come into contact at some point. It examines the thin boundary between the charitable and the carceral embodied in the institutions that both aid and confine runaway children. It unpacks this thin boundary both synchronically, by instantiating contemporary nongovernmental organizations' constructions of “reform” and “rehabilitation” and considering their complicity with campaigns of urban cleansing and with structures of policing and confinement; and historically, by excavating with archival research continuities between extant and antecedent charities for “vagabond children” and the colonial reformatory itself, particularly as it was applied to the children of societies that were constructed as criminal-by-birth.
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Shannon, Ward. "Playing with Language Boundaries." In Bordering Tibetan Languages. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725040_ch02.
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This chapter examines the consequences of language standardisation for children in contemporary Amdo (Qinghai, China). Drawing on fijifteen months of ethnographic and linguistic fijieldwork documenting children’s language practices in a region historically characterised by linguistic convergence, I show how the youngest generation of Amdo Tibetan speakers is defijining social belonging by marking a boundary between the Tibetan and Chinese languages. I argue that children’s linguistic boundary-marking responds to ‘heteroglot standard language ideology’, a moral orientation towards Tibetan and Chinese as discrete languages that has arisen amidst anxieties over assimilation and leads children to identify with a rural/urban binary. Because this binary entrenches a hierarchy between Tibetan and Chinese, community aspirations for socioeconomic mobility encourage children to speak standard Mandarin.
Conference papers on the topic "Historical urban boundary"
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Guarino, M. V., A. Martilli, S. Di Sabatino, and L. S. Leo. "Modelling the Urban Boundary-Layer Over a Typical Mediterranean City Using WRF: Assessment of UHI and Thermal Comfort." In ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2014-21572.
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The aim of this work is to simulate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) in a medium size Mediterranean city (Lecce, IT) and to analyze its consequences for thermal comfort. We use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (version 3.2), that accounts for the urban structure with a multilayer urban parameterization (BEP+BEM i.e. the Building Effect Parameterization (BEP) combined with the Building Energy Model (BEM)). Three hot and cloudless summer days have been simulated and results have been compared with field data collected during an experimental campaign performed over the whole summer in the city of Lecce, Italy. In the model, the structure and shape of the city are reproduced using detailed data related to different urban classes, urban fraction and building morphometry. For the residential urban classes, different thermal parameters that are representative of building materials in the oldest and the newer part of the city, are used. Results show that UHI reaches, on average, its maximum intensity (4–5 °C) just before sunrise, and its minimum (2 °C) occurs during the day. Model validation inferred through statistical analysis shows overall a better model performance for the historical city centre than for the suburban area. This suggests that further refinement of the building representation in the outskirts might still be required. Consequences of the increased urban temperature are evaluated in terms of thermal comfort. The maximum thermal stress occurs during the central hours of the day, while, the minimum thermal stress occurs during the twilight hours.
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Chen, Chih-Hung, and Chun-Ya Chuang. "Urban form in special geographical conditions: a case study in Kenting National Park." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6186.
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Urban form in special geographical conditions: a case study in Kenting National Park. Chih-Hung Chen¹, Chun-Ya Chuang¹ ¹Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University E-mail: chihhungchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw Keywords: Kenting National Park, special geographical conditions, Historico-Geographical approach, morphotope Conference topics and scale: City transformations Since the land surface is heterogeneous, the natural landscape as an essential element in contemporary morphological studies becomes the initial factor in the formation of a settlement. Moreover, the interaction with natural landscape, built form and the boundary matrix can illuminate ecological perspective on the form of the city. (Scheer, 2016) To understand the urban form under special geographical conditions, a case study is conducted in Kenting National Park, which is a tropical area with rich landscape such as moutains, lakes and rivers, plains, basins, and surrounded by seas. An analytical approach based on Historico-Geographical approach (Kropf, 2009; Oliveira, 2016) is applied in this paper. After identifying the scope of 42 settlements, there are three outer shape types such as compact, scattered, linear. Then, three kinds of morphotopes (Conzen, 1988) can mainly be figured out by comparing the combination between streets, buildings and plots: i) Detached, duplex houses on small plots along the access road; ii) Attached buildings on small plots along the main road; iii) Villas or hotels on large plots along the main road. Finally, the relationship between the larger plan units (Conzen, 1960) and the geographical conditions shows that the homogeneous configuration of plan units corresponds to the certain landscape. On the other hand, this article seeks to find out the impacts and changes caused by special geographical conditions in consequence of the landscape affects not only the formation of urban form but the evolution because its influence on socio-economic conditions. References Conzen, M. R. G. (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland: A study in Town-plan Analysis (Institute of British Geographers, London). Conzen, M.R.G. (1988) ‘Morphogenesis, morphological regions, and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow’, in Urban Historical Geography. Recent progress in Britain and Germany, 253-272. Kropf, K. (2009) ‘Aspects of urban form’, Urban morphology 13(2), 105-20. Oliveira, V. (2016) Urban Morphology (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland), 102-111. Scheer, B. C. (2016) ‘The epistemology of urban morphology’, Urban Morphology 20, 5-17.
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Herrmann, Paul, Klaus Hackl, Astrid Nageler-Reidlinger, and Rudolf Hinterleitner. "Refurbishment of Franzensbrücke in Vienna- Retrofitting a historical steel arch bridge with composite plate in between limited timeframe, restrictive urban environment, and challenging structural requirements." In IABSE Symposium, Prague 2022: Challenges for Existing and Oncoming Structures. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/prague.2022.0845.
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<p>The Franzensbrücke across the Danube Canal is a prominent bridge close to the city centre of Vienna. Built in the 1940s, it requires rehabilitation after 70 years of use. The structure shall be refurbished and upgraded to withstand traffic loads of modern EN standards in future. The urban environment, the strategic importance in Vienna’s traffic situation as well as the historic materials and detailing are boundary conditions, which result in a challenging technical and logistic task.</p>
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Psenner, Angelika. "The loss of semi-public spheres within the Vienna urban parterre system—cause and effect study." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5221.
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As proven in the preceding pilot study the historical Viennese ground floor originally presented an intruiging and essential semi-public sphere with no clear-cut boundary between inside and out. Rather, doors and windows were left open most of the time so that there were many points that gave access to the ground-floor premises. Original photos from the period attest to this: the ground-floor facades were permeable; semi-public or even private uses of the ground floor extended to the street, and conversely, the premises were easily accessible to the “public flow.” In addition many of the ground-floor premises in the chosen research area were connected with basement floors or cellars underneath, which meant a further extension of the urban parterre. The (commercial) use of the street-facing premises in most cases also included the interior courtyard. Today, interior courtyards mostly accommodate garbage cans or dumpsters; more intensive, diversified uses of this part of the StadtParterre nowadays are rare. Thus the historical StadtParterre was a ramified, varied, much-used and hence engaging space. Permeable ground-floor facades provided a flexible interface between public and semi-public spaces; intensely interacting with one another. First and foremost, though, the point here is to acknowledge the significance of the urban parterre for the functoning of a city—a fact that has somewhat fallen into oblivion in the noughties of the 21st century ever since the emergence of 3D city modeling. The reason for this may be that conventional 3D city models canot really represent intricate, small-scale, multilayered, and ramified ground-floor structures und thus prevent us from perceiving them in a broader functional perspective.The paper discusses reasons and socio-urban effects of a dis-linked, malfunctioning urban parterre.References Anderson, S. ed. (1978): On Streets. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press. Appleyard, D. (1981): Livable streets. Berkeley: University of California Press. Davis, H. (2012): Living Over the Store: Architecture and Urban Life. London and New York: Routledge. Gehl, J. (1996): Life between Buildings: Using Public Space. Translated by Jo Koch. Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag (orig. Livet mellem husene. 1978). Krusche, J. and Vogt, G. (2011): Strassenräume Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo, Zürich: Eine foto-ethnografische Untersuchung. Baden, CH: Lars Müller Publishers. Scheuvens, R. and Schütz, T. (2012): Perspektive Erdgeschoss, Werkstattbericht 121. Vienna: Magistratsabteilung 18, Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung.
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Rodríguez Lorite, Irene. "Urbanización descontextualizada y condiciones locales: cinco casos de estudio en España." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6120.
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El objeto de la presente investigación, trata de poner de manifiesto cómo el diseño urbano de los barrios entre los años 60 a 70, han descrito procesos constructivos análogos, sin tener en cuenta las condiciones locales del territorio en el que se estaban construyendo. La expansión del sector de la construcción desde mediados del siglo XX hasta principios del siglo XXI trajo consigo la construcción a un ritmo vertiginoso, especialmente en la década de los 60 a los años 70, por los acontecimientos históricos y demográficos ocurridos en España.
Este acelerado desarrollo, llevó a la realización de multitud de periferias y nuevos barrios, que en muchos de los casos presentan características y parámetros similares, sin responder en gran parte de los casos a las condiciones de contorno del territorio en el que se ubicaban. The purpose of this research is to show how urban design of neighborhoods between 60-70, have described similar construction processes, regardless of local conditions of the territory in which they were built. The expansion of the construction sector since the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century brought the construction at a rapid pace, especially in the 60s to the 70s, for historical and demographic developments in Spain.
Thisaceleratedgrowth, led to the realization of many suburbs and new neighborhoods, which in many cases have similar characteristics and parameters, largely unanswered cases the boundary conditions of the territory in which were located.
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Song, Feng, Rongxi Peng, Zijiao Zhang, and Yixi Li. "Extending the concept of the morphological frame: a case study of Tangshan old military airport." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5686.
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Extending the concept of the morphological frame: a case study of Tangshan old military airport Rongxi Peng, Zijiao Zhang, Yixi Li, Feng Song* College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. 100871 Beijing E-mail: pengrongxi@pku.edu.cn, 411148973@qq.com, elaine9565@yeah.net, songfeng@urban.pku.edu.cn*(corresponding author)Telephone Number: +86 132-6990-0350, +86 139-1013-6101* Keywords: China, morphological frame, three-dimensional view, airport Conference topics and scale: Urban form and social use of space/ City transformations/ Stages in territorial configuration The concept of the morphological frame is important in urban morphology, but it has been discussed much less than other critical concepts, such as the fringe belt and the fixation line. Passing its features on as inherited outlines, the morphological frame contains not only the linear fixation line, but also ground plan and three-dimensional aspects. In this research, the linear, ground plan, and three-dimensional morphological frame of Tangshan old military airport during the expansion of the city after the removal of the airport is identified. The former boundary roads of the airport exert obvious influences on the division of plots. The former arterial roads also function as a linear morphological frame. In relation to the ground plan, property rights and plots containing important buildings have an impact on the consequent town plan. The distinct feature of the morphological frame of the airport is its three-dimensional constraint, i.e. the vertical clearance requirement, which restricted the height of surrounding buildings. The impact of this institutional limit can last a very long time owing to the high cost of demolishing the old surrounding buildings or adding extra storeys even if the limit ceased to exist with the removal of the airport. Based on this case study, this paper refines and extends the connotation of the concept of the morphological frame and further discusses the relationship between function and form. References Conzen, M. P. (2009) ‘How cities internalize their former urban fringes: a cross-cultural comparison’, Urban Morphology 13(1), 29. Conzen, M. R. G. (1969) Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis (Institute of British Geographers, London). Lin, Y., De Meulder, B. and Wang, S. (2011) ‘From village to metropolis: a case of morphological transformation in Guangzhou, China’, Urban Morphology 15(1), 5-20. Whitehand, J. W. R. (2001) ‘British urban morphology: the Conzenion tradition’, Urban Morphology 5(2), 103-109. Whitehand, J. W. R., Conzen, M. P. and Gu, K. (2016) ‘Plan analysis of historical cities: a Sino-European comparison’, Urban Morphology 20(2), 139-158.
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Chen, Chih-Hung, and Chih-Yu Chen. "From City-like Settlement to Industrial City: A Case of Urban Transformation in Huwei Township." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5923.
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From City-like Settlement to Industrial City: A Case of Urban Transformation in Huwei Township. Chih-Hung Chen¹, Chih-Yu Chen¹ ¹ Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University No.1, University Rd., East Dist., Tainan City 70101, Taiwan ROC E-mail: chihhungchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw Keywords (3-5): Industrial City, City-like Settlement, Morphological Process, Town-Plan Analysis, Sugar Refinery Conference topics and scale: City transformations City-like Settlement (German: Teilweise Stadtähnliche Siedlungen) (Schwarz, 1989; Sorre, 1952) plays an important role in the course of civilization, especially the development of industrial cities. Accordingly, this study utilizes Town-Plan Analysis (Conzen, 1960) to deconstruct the relationships between industrialization and settlement formation in order to illustrate the common origin of cities in Taiwan as a result of the emerging economy at the turn of the 20th century. The industrial city of Huwei, known as the “sugar city” with largest yields of cane sugar in Taiwan, had the largest-scale sugar refinery in pre-war East Asia (Williams, 1980). The city has grown and transformed with the factory during the four phases of morphological periods, which began at the establishment of the sugar refinery and worker housing in the middle of the fertile flooding plain in western Taiwan. The spatial arrangement was directed to operational and management efficiency, characterized by the simple grids and hierarchy of layout along the riverside. As the industry enlarged, the new urban core was planned to support the original settlement with shophouses accumulated in the small grids. Followed by postwar modernism (Schinz, 1989), the urban planning again extended the city boundary with larger and polygonal blocks. In the fourth phase, however, the sugar refinery downsized, leading to the conversion of the worker housing and the merging of the factory and the city that slowly brought to its present shape. The morphological process results in the concentric structure from the sugar refinery, providing valuable references for the preservation of the sugar industry townscape, and unveils the influence of industrialization as well as the special urban development pattern in Taiwan. References (100 words) Conzen, M. R. G. (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town-Plan Analysis, 2nd edition (1969), (Institute of British Geographers, London). Schinz, A. (1989) Cities in China (Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuugart). Schwarz, G. (1959) Allgemeine Siedlungsgeographie (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin). Sorre, M. (1952) Les Fondements de la géographie humaine (Reliure inconnue, Paris). Williams, J. F. (1980) Sugar: the sweetener in Taiwan’s development. In Ronald, G. K. (ed.), China’s island frontier. Studies in the historical geography of Taiwan, pp. 219-251. (University of Hawaii Press and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu)
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Jin, Xin. "Making with the Past: Bricolages in Wang Shu’s Design Writings and Built Projects." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4002phgul.
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This study explores how design research writing can engage with historical reference in a radical way. In the 2002 essay “Shijian Tingzhi de Chengshi” (“City Froze in Time”), based on Chapter 2 of his 2000 PhD thesis, Xugou Chengshi (Fictionalising City), the Chinese architect Wang Shu proposes reinterpreting the traditional Chinese architecture and city through the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s notion of “bricolage”, which is defined as making do with available objects. Bricolage is informative for understanding Wang’s design undertakings, which involve skilful adaptations of vernacular building types and construction techniques in new urban projects. Nevertheless, its fundamental role in shaping Wang’s design writings is yet to be fully understood. In his design writings, Wang employs a specific quotation method whereby words and paragraphs from other writers’ preexisting works are reused and woven into new textual compositions. Through formal analysis of “City Froze in Time” and comparisons of compositional patterns between the essay and Wang’s built projects, mainly the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art, Phase II, Hangzhou (2007) and the Ningbo History Museum, Ningbo (2008), this piece explores three issues. First, it demonstrates how textual fragments found in the past and uttered by others undergo bricolage in Wang’s essay. Second, it foregrounds the intention behind Wang’s chosen writing strategy and investigates broader critical issues, such as authorship and the past–present nonlinear order associated with Wang’s strategy. Third, it expresses how historical materials – understanding “materials” in an inclusive sense – are treated in comparable ways in Wang’s written and built works. By examining Wang’s case, this paper highlights a radical case of contemporary architectural research writing in which an attempt is made to demolish the boundary between theory and design by extending the make-do logic of design into the field of design reflection.
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Pietrogrande, Enrico, and Alessandro Dalla Caneva. "Study for a new definition of the southern side of Prato della Valle in Padua, Italy." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6287.
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The southern limit of thePrato della Valle space in the southern part of Padua's historical centre, inItaly, was continuously delimited by the boundary wall of the Santa Maria dellaMisericordia convent until the early twentieth century. Its presence was one ofthe elements that more than a century ago inspired the enlightened proposal byDomenico Cerato, a design professor at the University of Padua who had beeninspired by Andrea Memmo, the Superintendent of the Serenissima Republic ofVenice. The straight and continuous limit was replaced by the discontinuousarchitecture of the Foro Boario entrance, built in 1913 according to a designby Alessandro Peretti; this weakened the overall solution based on anelliptical shape, as did the communicative power of the nearby basilica ofSanta Giustina. The examination carried out dwells on these limits, simulatingthe virtual introduction of architecture with a continuous front to thesouthern edge of the Prato della Valle. One example of this type ofarchitecture is the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art built in Kansas City between1930 and 1933, based on a design by the brothers Thomas and William Wight, andexpanded in 1999 based on a design by Steven Hall. The study generallyconfirmed that the compactness of the building's front newly provides strengthto Cerato's design, which gave a sense of unity to the general emptiness thanksto the certainty of its borders, and gives again the Basilica of Santa Giustinaits monumental size. This paper investigates the composition ofheterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, andthe resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context.
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Plasencia-Lozano, Pedro. "La ciudad-racimo y la pérdida de la gran calle." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Roma: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8009.
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El texto analiza los componentes paisajísticos de la ciudad-racimo, una tipología de ciudad
fragmentada con características morfológicas propias, que se ha desarrollado en España
desde la aprobación de la ley del suelo de 1976 y que continúa en la actualidad. El crecimiento
residencial se organiza a partir del desarrollo de sectores independientes, delimitados entre sí
por la infraestructura viaria principal de la ciudad. Como consecuencia surgen zonas de borde
entre unos barrios y otros; además, aparecen dos nuevos tipos de calle, que denominaremos
"calle-plaza" y "avenida de frontera"; por último, se comprueba cómo la ciudad-racimo se
muestra incapaz de generar nuevas grandes calles, en el sentido histórico y paisajístico del
término. Para describir estos elementos se realiza un análisis visual de distintos ejemplos
existentes en Cáceres, ciudad española de tipo medio. El texto concluye con una discusión
donde se reflexiona sobre la idoneidad o no del modelo de crecimiento en racimo. The text analyses the visual elements of the city-bunch, a kind of fragmented city with own
morphological characteristics whose origin can be find in the sucessive land legislation adopted
since 1976. Residential developments are planned into independent sectors and around the
main urban road network. It thus produce defined edges between neighbourhoods; moreover
two new kinds of street are appeared, called "street-place" and "boundary avenue"; finally it
confirms that the city-bunch is unable to create new great streets, in the historical and
landscaping sense of the word. A visual analyse of existing examples in Cáceres, a mediumsize
Spanish city, is made to describe these elements. The text concludes with a discussion on
the city-buch model of development.