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Čučaković, Aleksandar, and Marijana Paunović. "Cylindrical Mirror Anamorphosis and Urban-Architectural Ambience." Nexus Network Journal 17, no. 2 (February 12, 2015): 605–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-015-0239-7.
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Rahimi, Sohrab, Sam Mottahedi, and Xi Liu. "The Geography of Taste: Using Yelp to Study Urban Culture." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7, no. 9 (September 13, 2018): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7090376.
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This study aims to put forth a new method to study the sociospatial boundaries by using georeferenced community-authored reviews for restaurants. In this study, we show that food choice, drink choice, and restaurant ambience can be good indicators of socioeconomic status of the ambient population in different neighborhoods. To this end, we use Yelp user reviews to distinguish different neighborhoods in terms of their food purchases and identify resultant boundaries in 10 North American metropolitan areas. This dataset includes restaurant reviews as well as a limited number of user check-ins and rating in those cities. We use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to select a set of potential features pertaining to food, drink and ambience from Yelp user comments for each geolocated restaurant. We then select those features which determine one’s choice of restaurant and the rating that he/she provides for that restaurant. After identifying these features, we identify neighborhoods where similar taste is practiced. We show that neighborhoods identified through our method show statistically significant differences based on demographic factors such as income, racial composition, and education. We suggest that this method helps urban planners to understand the social dynamics of contemporary cities in absence of information on service-oriented cultural characteristics of urban communities.
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Boloban, Mirela. "URBANI PEJZAŽ U PAVESEOVOM ROMANU "MEĐU USAMLJENIM ŽENAMA" / URBAN LANDSCAPE IN PAVESE’S NOVEL "AMONG LONELY WOMEN"." Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo / Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu, ISSN 2303-6990 on-line, no. 23 (November 10, 2020): 209–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46352/23036990.2020.209.
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The description and symbolism of the city have a multiple and deep role in Pavese’s novels: the urban landscape is especially depicted through the intimate experience of the protagonists’ returning to their hometown after years spent elsewhere, and perceiving its certain aspects in an authentic way. In this paper, we will strive to recognize various ways of showing us the ambience of Turin in the novel Among Lonely Women, according to the theoretical view of Hana Wirth-Nesher and her study City Codes, Reading the Urban Novel.
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Kjeldskov, Jesper, Mikael B. Skov, Glen W. Nielsen, Søren Thorup, and Michael Vestergaard. "Digital urban ambience: Mediating context on mobile devices in a city." Pervasive and Mobile Computing 9, no. 5 (October 2013): 738–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.05.002.
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Goddard, Joseph. "Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside." Environment and History 15, no. 4 (November 1, 2009): 413–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734009x12532652871956.
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Lasen, Amparo. "Disruptive ambient music: Mobile phone music listening as portable urbanism." European Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no. 1 (May 24, 2017): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705607.
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This article explores the use of mobile phones as portable remediated sound devices for mobile listening – from boom boxes to personal stereos and mp3 players. This way of engaging the city through music playing and listening reveals a particular urban strategy and acoustic urban politics. It increases the sonic presence of mobile owners and plays a role in territorialisation dynamics, as well as in eliciting territorial conflicts in public. These digital practices play a key role in the enactment of the urban mood and ambience, as well as in the modulation of people’s presence – producing forms of what Spanish architect Roberto González calls portable urbanism: an entanglement of the digital, the urban and the online that activates a map of a reality over the fabric of the city, apparently not so present, visible or audible.
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Cahyaningtyas, Mutia Ayu, and Hanson Endra Kusuma. "Preferensi Masyarakat terhadap Ruang Kota sebagai Tempat Relaksasi." Review of Urbanism and Architectural Studies 18, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.ruas.2020.018.01.1.
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People who live in urban areas tend to have a higher stress level than those who live in rural areas. Level of stress can be prevented and diminished through the establishment of urban relaxation spaces within the city. Urban city planning needs to consider citizens’ preferences as potential users to obtain the maximum result. This study aims to determine the characteristics of preferred urban relaxation spaces within the city. The research was conducted through a grounded theory approach and exploratory qualitative method. Data collection was carried out based on the open-ended online survey questionnaire with a non-random sampling technique. Data was then analyzed by content analysis in three stages: open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The finding shows that there are six aspects of preferred urban relaxation spaces: the sense of nature, facilities, tranquility, ambience, accessibility, and quality of space. Research is expected to explore new potentials in urban planning in accordance with the characteristics of its citizens.
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Nugroho, Prihadi. "SOCIAL CAPITAL MOBILIZATION STRATEGY TO SUSTAIN COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD." TATALOKA 17, no. 2 (May 12, 2015): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/tataloka.17.2.113-123.
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Entrepreneurs in cities are prone to direct market change and urban growth in a country. Those who do not possess strong business network and strategic alliance are likely out of the game immediately. Building community entrepreneurship thus becomes critical to provide collective business network and learning, particularly for smaller entrepreneurs and new entrants, through the mobilization of social capital. This paper aims to examine how urban community institutionalizes the embedded stock of social capital in the neighborhood to cultivate sound entrepreneurial ambience parallel with the individual pursuit of profit maximization. The multiple strategies of incorporating traditional and informal inherited values into the contemporary dynamics of market and urban growth are quite successful to sustain the continuation of home-based industry in the neighborhood. The case study approach was undertaken to observe the re-emergence of local batik industry in Kampung Laweyan of Surakarta Municipality, Indonesia. The result demonstrates that social cohesion safeguarding is the key to encourage collective entrepreneurial skills development in the community albeit it does not affect much the building of stronger inter-firm cooperation.
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Roberts, Marion, Chris Turner, Steve Greenfield, and Guy Osborn. "A Continental Ambience? Lessons in Managing Alcohol-related Evening and Night-time Entertainment from Four European Capitals." Urban Studies 43, no. 7 (June 2006): 1105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980600711423.
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Guachalla, Adrian. "The Royal Opera House and Covent Garden: A symbiotic and complex touristic relationship." Tourism and Hospitality Research 19, no. 2 (November 6, 2017): 225–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358417738309.
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The Royal Opera House has a longstanding and solid relationship with Covent Garden, which is an environmentally clustered urban area for tourism and culture rich in heritage, commercial ambience and provision of different types of performing arts. Located within the core of the area opposite its popular market place, its opulent main entrance faces a less visited precinct. This makes the building less visible to the area’s visitors raising questions about its role in the perception of Covent Garden. Given that current studies on flagship developments tend to focus on contemporary projects, this research aims to understand the influence that a well-established cultural flagship exerts in the perception of a popular area for tourism using the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as a case study. To address this aim, a social constructivist approach was adopted and 306 semi-structured interviews were conducted with domestic and international visitors throughout six locations within the area to understand the role of the Opera House in the perception of Covent Garden. Findings indicate that cultural flagships tend to be stereotyped as grandiose freestanding buildings which is not the Royal Opera House’s case given Covent Garden’s urban density. Instead, its flagship status is related to the quality of its productions and its historical attachment to the area. This is rooted in the attraction of a diverse set of visitors and international talent leading to a cosmopolitan ambience and a strong sense of civic pride as the UK’s leading provider of opera and ballet productions.
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Martin, Carol. "Performing the City." TDR/The Drama Review 58, no. 3 (September 2014): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00369.
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Cities are live performances. How people behave in the streets, in the parks, in the outdoor markets, in stadiums, and inside buildings gives cities their unique character, ambience, and tone. It is not only what physical spaces and structures signify about urban organization, hierarchies, and aesthetic invention but the imaginative behavior that people perform in and around those structures that is also important for understanding cities. The interdisciplinary field of performance studies can be instrumental in analyzing how cities are produced and performed precisely because the field and its methodological diversity bridges social, political, theatrical, and architectural forms of thought.
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Ruehlen, Ryan Wade, and Mark Amerika. "Narrative Currents." Matlit Revista do Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura 5, no. 1 (December 27, 2017): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_5-1_13.
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This work remixes the natural sounds of Boulder Creek (where the dialogue takes place) with some of the random urban noise and background ambience of the nearby thoroughfare. Ruptures in language indicate an intentional manipulation of the source material and useful postproduction techniques such as feedback and repetition highlight the affective qualities of the act of listening and deciphering. Meanwhile the dialogue itself creates its own metanarrative investigating what kinds of immersive listening experiences can be created using audio source material as the primary component of storytelling and how sound narrative can be a form of electronic literature.
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Perović, Ana. "The role of clothing in the pre-bourgeois ambience of Kersnik’s novels." Journal of Education Culture and Society 4, no. 1 (January 12, 2020): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20131.267.280.
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The article focuses on the analysis of women’s and men’s clothing appearances in the pre-bo-urgeois ambience of Kersnik’s novels. Particular clothing items and clothing appearances indicate the presence of specifi c spiritual and social characteristics, typical for the cultural and historical environment in which the two literary works were created. The methodological approach of the analysis in terms of theory is based on general semiotic theory (Eco, Lotman), cultural semiotics (Barthes), literary theory and literary history, Lotman’s symbol theory, clothing culture, discourse analysis and Bourdieu’s theory of habitus. The article discusses separately the clothing appearan-ces of male and female characters. The descriptions of clothing appearances reveal the socio-histo-rical background of the literary works as well as many other abstract categories such as characters’ mental states, their ideologies, political beliefs, positive and negative character attributes as well as their moral virtues and vices. Clothes as part of the pre-bourgeois habitus try to establish a balance between the urban and the rural, between prestige and humility, between refi nement and coar-seness. Irony is often a result of the contrast between the physical determinants and the associate variable, i.e. the clothing. The author uses a range of various clothing appearances to characterize and mock different classes of people; the trivial conversations about fashion denote the banality of social life; the differences between the “true” bourgeoisie and those who strive to reach and fi t into that social class are already strongly indicated in the descriptions of their external appearances.
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Hubbard, Phil. "Screen-Shifting: Consumption, ‘Riskless Risks’ and the Changing Geographies of Cinema." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 34, no. 7 (July 2002): 1239–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3522.
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It is widely acknowledged that the geography of film exhibition in the urban West has changed significantly as ‘traditional’ town centre and suburban cinemas have been supplemented, and in some cases supplanted, by multiplex cinemas in out-of-town locations. In this paper I explore the reasons for this shift, using case-study data from Leicester (United Kingdom) to explore the forms of sociality played out in different sites of film exhibition. These data suggest that multiplex cinemas are frequented predominantly by consumer groups seeking an ‘exopolitan’ leisure experience that is predictable and riskless. In contrast, it appears there are many who continue to frequent city-centre and suburban cinemas because they prefer the less predictable ambience of ‘urban’ leisure. The coexistence of these different forms of cinemagoing is discussed in relation to unfolding debates about the postmodern city—a city that accommodates consumers' predilection for ‘riskless risks’ by holding different forms of sociality apart.
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Steinberger, Marília. "A (re)construção de mitos sobre a (in)sustentabilidade do(no) espaço urbano." Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais, no. 4 (May 31, 2001): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2001n4p9.
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O trabalho parte de uma leitura do conhecimento produzido sobre meio ambiente, no âmbito dos Encontros da Anpur dos anos 90, para discutir a emergência do meio ambiente urbano como área de investigação que constrói e reconstrói mitos sobre a sustentabilidade ou insustentabilidade do espaço urbano. Para tanto, numa primeira seção, são analisados documentos que constituem o marco institucional da área e realiza-se um breve resgate de marcos teórico-conceituais estabelecidos em algumas disciplinas, sugerindo que eles devem ser desconstruídos, para que o meio ambiente urbano seja apreendido com um olhar baseado em uma racionalidade não-instrumental. Na seção seguinte, são discutidos os focos social-histórico e político-espacial de três pares de noções/conceitos: ambiente/meio ambiente, desenvolvimento sustentável/sustentabilidade e território/urbanização, para se chegar a um entendimento sobre sustentabilidade urbana. Tais focos orientam as questões centrais que perpassam a área: qualidade ambiental urbana, instrumentos de gestão ambiental e conflito de interesses entre os atores. À guisa de conclusão, mostra-se que, embora a maioria dos discursos sobre o meio ambiente urbano considere o espaço urbano como insustentável, há caminhos que apontam para uma definição da área.Palavras-chave: meio ambiente; sustentabilidade; espaço urbano. Abstract: The work is based on a study of knowledge concerning the environment, within the scope of the 1990s ANPUR Meetings, which discussed the emergence of the urban environment as a field of inquiry that constructs and reconstructs myths concerning the sustainability or unsustainability of urban space. To this end, the first section analyses documents which constitute the institutional imprint of the field, followed by a brief recollection of theoretical-conceptual landmarks established in some disciplines. It is suggested that these be deconstructed, so that the urban environment may be understood through a perspective based on a non-instrumental rationality. In the following section, the socio-historical and politico-spatial focuses of three pairs of notions/concepts are discussed: ambient-environment, sustainable development-sustainability and territory-urbanization, in order to arrive at an understanding of urban sustainability. Such focuses guide the central issues that are related to the field: urban environmental quality, instruments of environmental management and the conflict of interests among actors. In conclusion it is shown that, although most of the discourse on the urban environment considers urban space to be unsustainable, there are paths that point to a definition of the field.Keywords: environment; sustainability; urban space.
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Kuznetsova, Helena S. "Range of Values of Architectural Monument." Observatory of Culture, no. 1 (February 28, 2014): 62–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-1-62-70.
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Presents detailed review of the main values inherent to architectural monuments and draws a distinction between their sources and characteristics. Author analyzes six main values: practical, sacred, historical, artistic, scientific, and urban. The combination of some or all values can give the monument ability to provide emotional impact on the viewer which is examined separately. The sources of this ability can be: an artistic image, appearance (patina, later historical layers), authentic material, relation to the history, as well as the ambience of the building. Each value is determined by a number of features and has a diapason. Particular value is more or less expressed in different monuments, has different quality and potentially can be increased
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McIntosh, Ian, Samantha Punch, Nika Dorrer, and Ruth Emond. "‘You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care." Surveillance & Society 7, no. 3/4 (July 6, 2010): 290–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v7i3/4.4157.
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This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistance within the context of a care home are routinely played out and through food. The paper illustrates the ways in which children variously resist and accept regulation and control in relation to food. It also considers the manner in which staff try to implement an ambience and ethos within the care home that is not overtly institutional yet allows them to provide care for the children. In order to achieve this, often contested conceptions of ‘family’ and ‘home’ are drawn upon and operationalised through food related practices and interactions. Three residential care homes for children in central Scotland were studied using a mix of interviewing and ethnographic techniques.
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Elshater, Abeer Mohamed. "The Ten-Minute Neighbourhood Is [not] a Basic Planning Unit for Happiness in Egypt." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 10, no. 1 (April 26, 2016): 344. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v10i1.878.
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This paper investigates the relationship between inhabitants’ happiness and the right to the city in the status quo of Egyptian neighborhoods. Although services are easily accessible, by ten-minute walks in a suitable ambience, happiness is not achieved. The research aims to, first, review the literature that provides a guideline for ten-minute neighborhoods. Second, this study conducts a comparative content analysis of recent online articles on the right to the city. Third, the study tests findings from Egyptian neighborhood settings. The idea of a ten-minute neighborhood is manageable. The hypothesis concerns a compliant design. It is a logical assumption that people who live within ten minutes walking distance of essential facilities in their area can minimize several problems and maximize a healthy lifestyle. The supposed issue causes the right to the city to affect the relationship between ten-minute neighborhoods and citizens’ happiness. This assumption can be established through site observation and oriented questionnaires. This paper contributes by presenting new planning units that suit the current context of the old cities in the Middle East and North Africa region, based on walking distances of ten minutes or less with reference to the right to the city. This planning unit can result in citizens’ happiness.
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Manifesty, Odilia Renaningtyas. "Spatial Character of Tokyo’s Famous Tourist Attractions." Review of Urbanism and Architectural Studies 17, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.ruas.2019.017.01.1.
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Various competitiveness reports on tourism have ranked Japan as one of the most visited countries in Asia. Along with South Korea and Singapore, Japan offers many unique traits to the tourists. Since the establishment of “Kihinkai” (lit. Welcome Society), Japan’s first organization to engage with foreign tourists, the country has succeeded in developing various sector of tourism such as heritage sites, nature-based tourism, religious sites, and urban tourism. Tokyo Metropolis, as the capital of Japan, is one of the best examples in urban tourism sector. Hotel occupancy in Tokyo has risen around 80% in the last decade, showing high growth of tourism in the city. The aforementioned growth is supported by many factors, with one of them being the enhancement of tourist attractions. The paper examines Tokyo’s nine most famous tourist attractions specifically at their spatial aspects. The complexity of place, accessibility and the presence of surrounding amenities, as well as the ambience or atmosphere offered by the attractions are the components analyzed to form a set of characteristics that define the character of Tokyo’s tourist attractions. The compiled data can be a precedent study or preliminary guideline for other big cities in Japan or Asia to develop their potential of urban tourism.
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Majhosev, Darko. "CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY TOURISM WITH ACCENT ТО ТHE CITY TOURISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA." KNOWLEDGE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 30, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 267–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij3001267m.
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With their cultural and historical contents, cities have always attracted tourists, thus contributing to creating a new kind of tourism - city tourism. The potentials of cities have contributed to creating other types of tourism such as fair, cultural, congressional, sports, religious tourism, etc. City breaks have become a contemporary trend and a phenomenon in world tourism, which an increasing number of tourists is becoming more interested in, and these tourists want to spend their short breaks, holidays or weekends in them. Comprehensive and short visits to major cities offer an opportunity to discover their tourist values such as ambience, architecture, culture, art, people, customs, etc. Basically, urban tourism is an activity that takes place in urban areas. City break is the third most important type of tourism in international tourism and the third most important type of vacation and traveling in Europe after ―sun and beach‖ and ―tour‖. In the last three decades, tourism in the world has been witnessing a constant growth of city break. The growth of this type of tourism is associated with the growth of the urban population in the world. City break tourism gives an impetus to the revitalization of urban areas. Historic cores of cities and pedestrian zones are urban spaces that appeal to visitors and are always attractive places visited by most tourists in all seasons. One of the most common activities of city break is seeing the sights of a city, its attractions, museums, galleries and historical landmarks, most often with a special open-type bus with a tour guide.
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Castilho, Cláudio Jorge Moura de. "O Ambiente Urbano numa Perspectiva Interdisciplinar:Discussão de Conceitos que Tratam das Inter-Relações Sociedade-Natureza,a partir da Geografia do Recife (The Urban Environment an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Discussion of Concepts that Treat the...)." Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física 4, no. 5 (February 27, 2012): 872. http://dx.doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v4i5.232673.
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Este ensaio trata do ambiente urbano numa perspectiva interdisciplinar, com base na discussão de conceitos que procuraram explicar as inter-relações entre sociedade e natureza a partir da geografia do Recife. Primeiro, reapresentamos a importância das inter-relações sociedade-natureza no conceito de ambiente urbano. Segundo, discutimos, mais especificamente, os conceitos de sítio e situação geográficos. Terceiro, consideramos os conceitos de higienismo, ecologia urbana e desenvolvimento sustentável. Por último, tecemos algumas considerações finais sobre o tema ora abordado. Palavras-chave: Ambiente Urbano, Inter-Relações Sociedade-Natureza, Sítio Urbano, Situação Geográfica, Ecologia Urbana, Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Recife. The Urban Environment an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Discussion of Concepts that Treat the Inter-Nature Relations, in the Geography of Recife ABSTRACTThis essay reflects upon the urban environment under an interdisciplinarity vision, based on the discussion about concepts created in order to explain inter-relationships between society and nature, from a geography of Recife. Firstly, we introduce again the importance of relationships between society and nature under the concept in urban environment. Secondly, we discuss specially concepts of urban site and geography situation. Third, we consider concepts in hygienism, urban ecology and sustainable development. To conclude we consider some final points about the subject of this text. Key words: Urban Environmental, Inter-Relationships Society-Nature, Urban Site, Geographical Situation, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development, Recife.
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Turku, Veera, Ari Jokinen, and Pekka Jokinen. "Elävät kaupunkilaboratoriot: kulttuuritoimijat Tampereen Hiedanrannan uudistajina." Hallinnon Tutkimus 40, no. 1 (April 12, 2021): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.37450/ht.95719.
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This paper examines the role of cultural actors in promoting sustainability in an urban living lab (ULL). The case study utilizes thematic analysis on the interviews of cultural actors working in the multi-sectoral, circular-economy oriented Hiedanranta ULL in Tampere. The results of the study show, first, that the cultural sector is not detached from the innovative business and experimentation sector of the ULL. On the contrary, cultural actors advance creative ambience and co-develop experimentations, making them an essential part of the ULL innovation processes. Second, cultural actors promote social and cultural sustainability at the local level, which often stays hidden in the processes of upscaling innovations. Third, the sustainable and transformative potential of cultural actors, within and beyond the ULL is mostly horizontal. The results suggest that the cultural sector, comprising civil society actors, can have a multidimensional effect on ULL development.
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Kipnis, Barukh. "Tel Aviv, Israel - a world city in evolution: urban development at a deadend of the global economy." Dela, no. 21 (December 1, 2004): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dela.21.183-193.
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Tel Aviv was mentioned as a world city for the first time by Kellerman (1993) who empha-sized the existence of leading economic functions typical for the late 20th century city. This paper extends the notion of Tel Aviv as a world city in evolution, using up-to-date world city literature and indicators. Greater (metropolitan) Tel Aviv with 2.6 million population in 2000 (Tel Aviv City had 350000) has been Israel`s primate urban agglomeration since the 1920s. Since the 1990s it has evolved into a hard core of Israel`s post-industrial, globally orientated economy, and has displayed a post-modern physical ambience and social and cultural lifestyle. Tel Aviv evolved into a global city in spite of the fact that it is located at a frontier in its own region, the Mideast, and at the cul-de-sac site relative to the mainstream global economic centers with which it maintains most of its network links. In addition to common attributes of a world city one of the main assets of Tel Aviv is its high R&D inten-sive industry, acting as a growth pole for the local and national economies. Future research avenues are an in-depth analysis of Tel Aviv`s social inequalities and the linkage patterns that Tel Aviv maintains with other urban centers of world city caliber.
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NOWOSIELSKI, Michal, and Agnieszka NOWOSIELSKA. "“Cold, stony, dehumanized”: Unexpected outcomes of revitalization on the sensory landscape and ambience of public space: The case of Cathedral Street (Ulica Tumska) in Płock." Urbani izziv 31, no. 1 (2020): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2020-31-01-001.
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Gupta, Prem Kumari. "Urban ecosystems of Kurukshetra, India, an amalgamations of eco-friendly, historical as well as archaeological adverse facades: A case study." Journal of Applied and Natural Science 4, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 271–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.31018/jans.v4i2.263.
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Kurukshetra, a state of India is a historical place having global significance linked with its multifaceted aspects concerning education, science education, engineering colleges, museums and above all some sites and spots which are witnesses to the events of world famous war namely, “Mahabharata”. The studies reveal that urbanization processes have turned rural Kurukshetra into a modern semi-urban area with distinct urban features by creating “Urban Estates”. This is an activity which has two faces: Eco-friendly face and adverse ecological face.The generation of an attraction, ultra modern city equipped with vast green belts; impressive avenues having intense plantations of trees, bushes and profusely dotted with Civil Parks is a phenomenal change. One of the most impressive eco-friendly façade of the new environs is the ambience presence of orchards and plant nurseries and there is practice of “Kitchens-Waste” disposal which is disposed off at a safe place to convert it into organic manure. The best of sanitary conditions are in place which is one more environment friendly aspects. A very well laid out “Mini-Secretariat” encompassing virtually each and every office of the District Administration is intensely covered by very thick cover of trees and a new experiment, pioneered first by Haryana Govt.However, the negative features are many to negate the over all positive features. Foremost is related with discarding the traditional and endemic trees like Shisham Dalbergia sissoo, Neem Azadirachta indica, Beri Morus alba, Peepal Ficus religiosa, Banyan Ficus benghalensis and Mango Mangifera indica trees for tree plantations in favour exotic varieties.
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Qaoud, Rami, and Alkama Djamal. "The impact of constructivism density of the urban tissue in improving the physical urban ambience of the free space - The street- for Saharian cities. The study of the case city of Biskra." Energy Procedia 119 (July 2017): 201–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.070.
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Brússolo, Rafael Gotardi. "Análise da temperatura e umidade relativa do ar em episódio de inverno na cidade de Assis/SP." Ateliê Geográfico 11, no. 2 (November 3, 2017): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.5216/ag.v11i2.34630.
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ResumoO ambiente urbano modifica o balanço de energia entre a superfície e a atmosfera, provocando alterações no clima em uma escala local. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa foca o município de Assis, localizado no oeste do Estado de São Paulo. O principal objetivo deste trabalho foi averiguar as características da temperatura e umidade do ar em ambientes com usos e ocupações dos solos diferenciados, no inverno, no período noturno, sendo um inserido na malha urbana de Assis, outro na periferia da cidade, e o outro no ambiente rural, a fim de verificar se há indícios de mudanças nos elementos climáticos causados pela urbanização. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizadas miniestações meteorológicas automáticas que registram dados de temperatura e umidade do ar. Para análise dos resultados foram realizadas comparações entre os dados obtidos na cidade e no campo, elaborando gráficos utilizando o aplicativo EXCEL a fim de tabular os dados. Constatou-se que houve diferenças termo-higrométricas entre os pontos de coleta de dados, evidenciando um clima urbano específico no município de Assis.Palavras-chave: Assis. Clima Urbano. Qualidade Ambiental Urbana. AbstractThe urban environment modifies the energy balance between the surface and the atmosphere, causing changes in the climate on a local scale. Thus, the present study focused on the municipality of Assis, located in the western region of the State of São Paulo, and its primary objective was to determine the characteristics regarding temperature and air humidity in environments with different land use and occupation, during the winter, at night. The environments consisted of: the urban area of Assis, the outskirts of the city, and its rural area; and evidence of changes in climatic elements due to urbanization was verified. Data collection was carried out employing mini automatic weather stations that record information on temperature and humidity. Result analysis was carried out by comparing the data obtained in the city and the countryside, with the development of graphs using Excel to tabulate the information. Differences were observed with respect to the thermo-hygrometric data collection points, revealing a particular urban climate in the city of Assis.Keywords: Assis. Urban climate. Urban environmental quality. ResumenEl ambiente urbano es capaz de modificar el balance de energía entre una superficie y la atmósfera, provocando cambios a escala local en el clima de las ciudades. Este trabajo fue realizado en el municipio de Assis, ubicado al Oeste del Estado de São Paulo. El objetivo de estudio fue evaluar las características de la temperatura y humedad en diferentes ambientes considerando uso y ocupación de suelos, durante periodos nocturnos de invierno. De este modo, fue considerado uno de los emplazamientos dentro de tejido urbano de Assis, otro a las afueras de esta ciudad y otro en zona rural, con el fin de verificar si existen evidencias de cambios en los elementos climáticos causados por la urbanización. Para el registro de los datos de temperatura y humedad se utilizaron estaciones meteorológicas automáticas y para el análisis de los resultados, se realizó una comparación de los datos obtenidos en la ciudad con los de zona rural. Para el desarrollo de los gráficos y tabulación de los datos, fue utilizado el programa EXCEL. De este trabajo se concluyeron diferencias termo-higrométricas de los datos entre los puntos de registro, lo que constata un clima urbano específico en la ciudad de Assis.Palabras clave: Assis. Clima Urbano. Calidad Ambiental Urbana.
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Drettakis, George, Maria Roussou, Alex Reche, and Nicolas Tsingos. "Design and Evaluation of a Real-World Virtual Environment for Architecture and Urban Planning." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 16, no. 3 (June 1, 2007): 318–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pres.16.3.318.
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In this paper we present a user-centered design approach to the development of a Virtual Environment (VE), by utilizing an iterative, user-informed process throughout the entire design and development cycle. A preliminary survey was first undertaken with end users, that is, architects, chief engineers, and decision makers of a real-world architectural and urban planning project, followed by a study of the traditional workflow employed. We then determined the elements required to make the VE useful in the real-world setting, choosing appropriate graphical and auditory techniques to develop audiovisual VEs with a high level of realism. Our user-centered design approach guided the development of an appropriate interface and an evaluation methodology to test the overall usability of the system. The VE was evaluated both in the laboratory and, most importantly, in the users' natural work environments. In this study we present the choices we made as part of the design and evaluation methodologies employed, which successfully combined research goals with those of a real-world project. Among other results, this evaluation suggests that involving users and designers from the beginning improves the effectiveness of the VE in the context of the real world urban planning project. Furthermore, it demonstrates that appropriate levels of realism, in particular spatialized 3D sound, high-detail vegetation, and shadows, as well as the presence of rendered crowds, are significant for the design process and for communicating about designs; they enable better appreciation of overall ambience of the VE, perception of space and physical objects, as well as the sense of scale. We believe this study is of interest to VE researchers, designers, and practitioners, as well as professionals interested in using VR in their workplace.
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Milasinovic-Maric, Dijana, and Marta Vukotic-Lazar. "Modernism versus postmodernism as an impetus to creativity in the work of architects Milenija and Darko Marusic." Spatium, no. 37 (2017): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1737012m.
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In light of the development of contemporary Serbian architecture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the work of the team of architects Milenija and Darko Marusic is indicative of trends in Serbia?s Belgrade architectural scene. Their substantial and affirmed architectural activities encompass a series of issues and themes related both to the changes in Serbian architecture permeated with dialogues between modernism and postmodernism in the last decades of the twentieth century and to the specificity of the author?s contribution based on the personal foothold around which their architectural poetics weaves. The context of postmodernism, particularly the Neo-Rationalist European current, has been a suitable ambience in the genesis and upgrade of their creativity. It can be considered through several typical themes on the Modernism versus Postmodernism - relation, starting from the issue of contextuality as determination, through duality, mutual dialogue as an impetus, attitude about the comprehensiveness of architectural considerations based on the unbreakable link between the urbanism and architecture, and on the issues of urban morphology the theme oriented towards both the professional community and the wider public, but also towards architecture itself - its ethics and aesthetics, which are equally important themes for them.
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Miranda, Rosiane Aparecida, Claudinéia Conationi da Silva Franco, Carina Previate, Vander Silva Alves, Flávio Andrade Francisco, Veridiana Mota Moreira, Ana Maria Praxedes de Moraes, et al. "Particulate Matter Exposure During Perinatal Life Results in Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Adult Male Rat Offspring." Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 49, no. 1 (2018): 395–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000492901.
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Background/Aims: Particulate matter (PM) is an important risk factor for immunological system imbalance due to its small size, which can reach more distal regions of the respiratory tract, independently of its chemical composition. Some studies have suggested that PM exposure is associated with an increased incidence of diabetes, especially in industrialized urban regions. However, studies regarding the effects of PM exposure during perinatal life on glucose metabolism are limited. We tested whether exposure to PM from an urban area with poor air quality during pregnancy and lactation could cause short- and long-term dysfunction in rat offspring. Methods: Samples of < 10 µm PM were collected in an urban area of Cotonou, Benin (West Africa), and reconstituted in corn oil. Pregnant Wistar rats received 50 µg PM/day by gavage until the end of lactation. After birth, we analyzed the dams’ biochemical parameters as well as those of their male offspring at 21 and 90 days of age. Results: The results showed that PM exposure did not lead to several consequences in dams; however, the male offspring of both ages presented an increase of approximately 15% in body weight. Although the blood glucose levels remained unchanged, the insulin levels were increased 2.5- and 2-fold in PM exposure groups of both ages, respectively. HOMA-IR and HOMA-β were also increased at both ages. We also demonstrated that the number, islet area and insulin immunodensity of pancreatic islets were significantly increased at both ages from PM exposure. Conclusion: Our data show that chronic PM exposure by the oral route during perinatal life in rats leads to glucose dyshomeostasis in male offspring both in early and later life. Thus, we suggest that an ambience with poor air quality, mainly where traffic is dense, can contribute to an increase in metabolic disease incidence.
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Marques, Gisela R. A. M., and Oswaldo Paulo Forattini. "Encontro de imaturos de Anopheles cruzii em bromélias de área urbana, litoral de São Paulo." Revista de Saúde Pública 43, no. 2 (April 2009): 369–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-89102009005000006.
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Primeiro relato da ocorrência de larvas de Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, mosquito essencialmente silvestre, em bromélias de solo em área urbana do município de Ilhabela, litoral norte do estado de São Paulo. De março de 1998 a julho de 1999 foram capturadas 312 formas imaturas de An. cruzii, sendo 8,6% em bromélias do ambiente urbano, 40,1% em bromélias do periurbano e 51,3% na mata. O número médio de bromélias com An. cruzii foi de 4,0% dentre o total de pesquisadas, com valores próximos de positividade para ambiente periurbano e mata. A presença de An. cruzii no ambiente urbano provavelmente é resultante da sua ocorrência prévia na mata, aliada à elevada presença desse criadouro na área urbana, de fonte alimentar e abrigos disponíveis. Alerta-se para a possibilidade de transferência de infecções entre esses ambientes.
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Kulhánková, Zora. "The work of Italian garden designer Pietro Porcinai." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 52, no. 1 (2004): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun200452010217.
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Pietro Porcinai (1910 - 1986) was the Italy‘s most distinguished garden designer of the twentieth century. He was born in Settignano (Florence) and grew up in the ambience of Villa Gamberaia, where his father was a head gardener. He gained a diploma in agriculture in 1928 and left to the nothern Europe. He stopped in Germany where he worked a few years. In Belgium he met the new tendention of the „constructed garden“ and in Germany was influenced by Fritz Enchke and Karl Foerster. He started to practise in 1931. Pietro Porcinai was one of the founders of IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) in 1948 and two years later he founded with Raffaele Vico and Michele Bussini the Italian Association of Landscape Architects (now AIAPP). Porcinai saw his method as the creation of garden spaces with plants, rather than architecture. There is 1,318 projects in his archive - private gardens, public parks, motorways, urban spaces, which reveal that his deep understanding of modern design was never surrended. In 1957 Porcinai bought Villa Rondinelli on a Fiesole hillside where he worked and lived until his death in 1986.
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Ianchenko, Aleksandra. "A Tram Ride You Would Talk About." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 5 n. 4 (December 1, 2020): 273–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i4.1403.
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As an artist and junior researcher for the project “Public Transport as Public Space,” my aim is to understand atmospheres on urban public transport and the ways in which they can be changed through performative public art practice. Indefinite yet powerful, atmospheres, which emerge in the relation between a perceived environment and perceiving bodies (Böhme 2017), can be created deliberately through aesthetic work and used as a tool for shaping certain experiences and behaviors in public space (Allen 2006). For instance, visually attractive public artworks permanently integrated into the public transport environment may create atmospheres of safety and comfort, navigating passengers through this regulated public space. On the other hand, on public transport, where unacquainted people must travel shoulder to shoulder, different atmospheres emerge not only through material modifications but also through unexpected encounters and events (Bissell 2010). In this sense, performative public art interventions can intentionally “drum up the ambience” (Thibaud 2015) and imbue the atmosphere of commutes with elements that are surprising and out of the ordinary. This paper outlines some of my art projects, which aim to carefully disrupt casual rides on public transport by creating moments of strangeness and humor.
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NEBESNYUK, ULYANA A. "TEXT-FORMING FUNCTIONS OF THE NARRATIVE-ARTISTIC IMAGE “THE FRIEND OF THE HOUSE” AS A PERSONALIZED NARRATOR IN THE TEXTS OF CALENDAR STORIES BY J. P. HEBEL." Cherepovets State University Bulletin 3, no. 102 (2021): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.23859/1994-0637-2021-3-102-9.
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The article focuses on the text-forming functions of the personalized narrator “The friend of the house” in the texts of J. P. Hebel's calendar stories. Applying the cross-cutting analysis of the practical material it has been determined that the auctorial narrator “The friend of the house” reflects a special historical path in the development of the “calendar story” (German: “Kalendergeschichte”) as part of a calendar. The personalized calendar figure of “The Rhenish friend of the house” (based on the image of the “lame messenger”) is characterized by the appearance of a typical German urban inhabitant of the 18th century, a locally determined polysemous name and a “heavenly” metaphorical image. In his “divine” purpose he yields to the prophet a bit and tells readers amazing everyday stories of a sentential nature. Sources of his stories are his personal observations, stories of anonymous or mentioned eyewitnesses, second or third parties (“The Rhenish brotherhood of the friend of the house”, the loyal helpers “the adjunct” and “the mother- in-law”) which also have a projection of the personal biography and the ambience of the writer - the author of the “calendar stories”...
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Furlani, Daniela Dias, and Zulmira Áurea Cruz Bomfim. "Juventude e afetividade: tecendo projetos de vida pela construção dos mapas afetivos." Psicologia & Sociedade 22, no. 1 (April 2010): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-71822010000100007.
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A pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar projetos de vida de jovens de ambientes rural e urbano no Ceará, a partir da afetividade em relação ao ambiente do qual fazem parte. Participaram da pesquisa 38 jovens de ambos os sexos. Para apreensão dos afetos, utilizou-se o método dos mapas afetivos e para questões relacionadas ao projeto de vida foram utilizadas entrevistas. A análise dos dados qualitativos foi realizada por meio da análise de conteúdo e de uma análise estatística complementar. O fato de alguns jovens morarem em ambiente rural e outros em ambiente urbano não diferiu completamente seus projetos de vida. Jovens do ambiente rural tendem a buscar mais cedo trabalho. Jovens do ambiente urbano apresentaram queixa em relação à violência urbana. Conclui-se como sendo necessária a disseminação de práticas sociais que visem um posicionamento crítico do sujeito diante das questões sociais.
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Apolonio Callejas, Ivan Julio, Luciane Cleonice Durante, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, and Carmen Galán-Marín. "Thermal Sensation in Courtyards: Potentialities as a Passive Strategy in Tropical Climates." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (July 30, 2020): 6135. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156135.
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Climate change will bring changes to our living conditions, particularly in urban areas. Climate-responsive design strategies through courtyards can help to moderate temperatures and reduce the thermal stress of its occupants. Thermal response inside courtyard is affected not only by its morphological composition but also by subjective factors. Thus, standardized thermal scales may not reflect the stress of the occupants. This study investigated the impact on thermal attenuation provided by a courtyard located in a tropical climate under extreme cold and hot synoptic conditions by means of local thermal sensation scales. Microclimatic variables were monitored, simultaneously with the application of a thermal comfort questionnaire, by using weather stations installed outside and inside the courtyard. The Modified Physiological Equivalent Temperature Index (mPET) was utilized to predict the heat stress. Calibration was conducted using linear regression to attribute particular thermal sensation votes to correspondent mPET values. It was found that thermal sensation can be affected by factors such as psychological, behavioral, and physiological. The courtyard’s form provides a passive cooling effect, stabilizing interior thermal sensation, with attenuation peaks of 6.4 °C on a cold day and 5.0 °C on a hot day. Courtyards are an alternative passive strategy to improve thermal ambience in tropical climate, counterbalancing climate change.
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Camacho, Alessandra Conceição Leite Funchal, and Fernanda Araújo Gomes. "O idoso e a mobilidade urbana: uma abordagem reflexiva para a enfermagem." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 11, no. 12 (December 4, 2017): 5066. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/1981-8963-v11i12a23068p5066-5073-2017.
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RESUMOObjetivo: analisar a atuação da enfermagem na atenção ao idoso diante da mobilidade urbana. Método: estudo qualitativo, descritivo, tipo análise reflexiva, com base na revisão de literatura narrativa, com a discussão dos seguintes pontos: o idoso e a mobilidade urbana, o foco da acessibilidade ao idoso diante da mobilidade urbana e a enfermagem na atenção ao Idoso diante da mobilidade urbana. Resultados: compete ao enfermeiro fazer a busca ativa avaliando riscos ambientais e fatores predisponentes para quedas, considerando o idoso em sua totalidade, hábitos, ambiente domiciliar, ambiente da comunidade, família ou cuidadores. Essa busca deve ter característica preventiva e estar voltada para a autonomia dos idosos, procurando, dessa forma, reduzir as ocorrências de quedas e internações. Conclusão: a atuação da enfermagem pode gerar impacto em melhores condições cognitivas e funcionais do processo de envelhecer. As medidas preventivas devem ser evidenciadas para o melhor enfrentamento dos idosos diante do desenvolvimento urbano. Descritores: Idoso; Planejamento de Cidades; Enfermagem.ABSTRACTObjective: to analyze the nursing performance in the attention to the elderly people in the face of urban mobility. Method: this is a qualitative, descriptive, reflexive analysis type, based on the review of the narrative literature with the discussion of the following points: the elderly people and urban mobility, the focus of accessibility to the elderly people before urban mobility and nursing care for the elderly urban mobility. Results: it is the responsibility of the nurse to make an active search assessing environmental risks and predisposing factors for falls, considering the elderly population in their totality, habits, home environment, community environment, family or caregivers. This search should have a preventive characteristic and be focused on the autonomy of the elderly, seeking, in this way, to reduce the occurrence of falls and hospitalizations. Conclusion: nursing performance can impact the better cognitive and functional conditions of the aging process. Preventive measures should be evidenced for the better coping of the elderly in the face of urban development. Descriptors: Aged; City Planning; Nursing.RESUMENObjetivo: analizar la actuación de la enfermeira en la atención al anciano frente a la mobilidad urbana. Método: estudio cualitativo, descriptivo, tipo análisis reflexivo, con base en la revisión de literatura narrativa, con la discusión de los siguientes puntos: el anciano y la mobilidad urbana, el foco de la accesibilidad al anciano frente a la mobilidad urbana y la enfermería en la atención al anciano frente a la mobilidad urbana. Resultados: compete al enfermero hacer la búsqueda activa evaluando riesgos ambientales y factores predisponentes para caídas, considerando el anciano en su totalidad, hábitos, ambiente domiciliario, ambiente de la comunidad, familia o cuidadores. Esa búsqueda debe tener característica preventiva y estar dirigidas para la autonomía de los ancianos, buscando, de esa forma, reducir las ocurrencias de caídas y internaciones. Conclusión: la actuación de la enfermería puede generar impacto en mejores condiciones cognitivas y funcionales del proceso de envejecer. Las medidas preventivas deben ser evidenciadas para el mejor enfrentamiento de los ancianos frente al desarrollo urbano. Descriptores: Anciano; Planificación de Ciudades; Enfermería.
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Costa, Heloisa Soares de Moura. "Desenvolvimento urbano sustentável: uma contradição de termos?" Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais, no. 2 (March 31, 2000): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2000n2p55.
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Poucos conceitos têm sido tão amplamente utilizados como o de desenvolvimento sustentável, num aparente consenso revelador mais de imprecisão do que de clareza em torno de seu significado. Com base em uma revisão de abordagens recentes, argumenta-se que a noção de desenvolvimento urbano sustentável traz consigo conflitos teóricos de difícil, porém não impossível, reconciliação: a) entre as trajetórias da análise ambiental e da análise urbana que, originando-se em áreas do conhecimento diferentes, confluíram na proposta de desenvolvimento sustentável; b) entre formulações teóricas e propostas de intervenção, traduzindo-se no distanciamento entre análise social/urbana crítica e planejamento urbano. São examinadas propostas de planejamento que adotam o discurso e/ou pressupostos de sustentabilidade urbana, discutindo exemplos da literatura internacional — as cidades compactas européias, o movimento californiano por cidades sustentáveis — e, no caso brasileiro, a experiência recente de planejamento urbano em Belo Horizonte.Palavras-chave: planejamento urbano; desenvolvimento sustentável; meio ambiente; política urbana. Abstract: Few concepts have been so widely adopted as sustainable urban development, an apparent consensus revealing more imprecision than coherence of meaning. The paper discusses some aspects of such theoretical and conceptual fragility as a contribution to building an alternative for the future. The concept is considered to have been worn out by excessive fashionable repetition. The paper argues, however, based on a review of recent approaches ranging from political economy to the contributions of political ecology and post-structuralism, that the concept of sustainable urban development embodies conflicts that are difficult but not impossible to solve: a) the conflict between the different origins of and paths followed by environmental analysis and urban analysis, both converging on the proposition of sustainable development; b) the conflict between theory and practice represented by the growing distance between critical social/urban analysis and urban planning. Finally, some planning proposals are examined as examples of adoption of the discourse and assumptions of sustainable development. They are the European compact city proposal; the Californian sustainable cities movement; and, in the Brazilian case, the recent urban planning experience in Belo Horizonte.Keywords: urban planning; sustainable development; environment; urban policy.
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Kannamma, D., and Dr A. Meenatchi Sundaram. "SIGNIFICANCE OF MICROCLIMATIC STUDY IN URBAN CANYONS TOWARDS AMBIENT URBAN SPACE DESIGN." JOURNAL OF TODAY'S IDEAS - TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGIES 3, no. 1 (June 2, 2015): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.15415/jotitt.2015.31007.
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Girotti Sperandio, Dra Ana Maria, Arq Ângela Dias, Lic Thais S. Manfrinato, Lic Thiago P. Mattos, Arq Edison Favero, and Arq Lauro Luiz Francisco Filho. "Ambiente urbano como promotor da saúde." ARQUISUR, no. 8 (December 25, 2015): 164–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.14409/ar.v0i8.5505.
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Este artigo visa apresentar o processo de aplicação do Índice de Bem-Estar Urbano (IBEU) realizado em 2014, no município de Conchal-São Paulo, Brasil. Destaca a importância de estudos quantitativos para futuras o desenvolvimento de politicas publicas a serem adotadas no local, que vise alcançar um bem-estar diferencial da população urbana. Os dados utilizados para o estudos foram os do Censo Demográfico Brasileiro (IBGE, 2010). A metodologia e a criação do IBEU foram elaboradas pelo Observatório das Metrópoles, diferindo-se nesse estudo pela aplicação do índice ser em um município de pequeno porte com 25.229 habitantes. Os cinco indicadores utilizados são: mobilidade urbana, condições ambientais urbanas, condições habitacionais urbanas, atendimento de serviços coletivos urbanos e infraestrutura urbana. Ao final do estudo identificou-se que o Índice de Bem-Estar de Conchal foi de 0.863, que é considerado de bom para ótimo. Este estudo foi vinculado à disciplina Ambiente Urbano como Promotor da Saúde da FEC/UNICAMP, ao LABINUR e ao GEPUCS.
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indicadores de Bem-Estar Urbano; planejamento Urbano Saudável; politicas Públicas
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Szymańska, Anna Irena. "The Importance of the Sharing Economy in Improving the Quality of Life and Social Integration of Local Communities on the Example of Virtual Groups." Land 10, no. 7 (July 19, 2021): 754. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10070754.
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The main objective of the article was to demonstrate and prove the role of the sharing economy in integrating local communities as well as in improving the quality of life of urban residents. The sharing economy is an alternative model of consumption entered around an access to given goods without the need to possess it. The concept fits excellently into the ideas that are at the core of the social economy. Internet groups operating in the area of the sharing economy were analysed for the purpose of the article. Their members either live in or have other bonds with Krakow. They are usually focused around issues important for local communities. In the research, a triangulation method was used, involving a desk analysis as well as a passive observation and a covered participative observation. Such choice of methods allowed for the topic of the impact that the sharing economy has on the integration and the quality of life of urban residents to be analysed. The research confirmed that the sharing economy; as a form of social innovation; influences the improvement of the quality of life. Online groups integrate local communities and have a significant impact on the quality of life of city residents (T1; T2; T3; T4). The bilateral nature of dependency between the sharing economy and the quality of life was noticed. Firstly; the sharing economy affects the shape and quality of the product or service that is the subject of the transaction. It is also crucial to create a general “ambience of a site” in the internet group; which supports and stimulates satisfaction of the needs related to the sense of individuality; authenticity and community. On the other hand; the sharing economy affects the satisfaction of residents through economic; psychological; political and social impacts as well as individual ones; related to, e.g., the development of creativity and the acquisition of new skills
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Álvarez, Diego Armando Céspedes. "O AUTOMÓVEL NAS CIDADES E O PLANEJAMENTO DETERIORADO." InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade 2, no. 7 (July 31, 2017): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2446-6549.v2n7p45-60.
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Este artigo busca compreender como, a partir da expansão urbana e da modernidade na América Latina, a estruturação dos espaços urbanos - espaço público - começou a sujeitar-se a uma motorização privada, tornando o planejamento urbano um consentimento ao investimento de uma cultura que acaba por deteriorar as cidades, assim como a qualidade de vida nas mesmas. Essas reflexões são realizadas mediante levantamentos bibliográficos sobre o uso do automóvel, a expansão das cidades e a propaganda econômica comercial que tem efeitos sobre a estruturação urbana atual nas cidades. O caso de San José, na Costa Rica, foi abordado apenas como um exemplo na América Latina, mediante dados estatísticos de algumas corporações e entidades públicas. Assim, as análises realizadas confirmam que o direcionamento do planejamento para que se desse o uso intensivo e indiscriminado do automóvel termina por gerar resultados que impactam no ambiente urbano e sua deterioração consequente.Palavras-chave: Planejamento Obsoleto; Automóvel; Cidades; Estrutura Urbana.THE CAR IN CITIES AND THE DETERIORATING PLANNINGABSTRACTThis article aims to understand how from the expansion and the modernization in Latin America, the structuring of the urban spaces; Public spaces began to participate in a private urbanization, making urban planning a consent for the development of a culture that eventually deteriorates the cities, as well as the quality of life in them. These reflections are carried out by means of a bibliographical survey on the use cars, the expansion of cities and economic propaganda that has effects on the current urban structure in the cities, using the case of San José, Costa Rica, and Latin America, using statistical data from corporations and public entities. Thus, these analyzes confirm that the direction of planning for the intensive and indiscriminate use of the automobile ends up generating results that impact the urban environment and its consequent deterioration.Keywords: Obsolete Planning; The Cars; Cities; Urban Structure.EL AUTOMÓVIL EN LAS CIUDADES Y LA PLANIFICACIÓN DETERIORADARESUMENEste texto busca comprender como a partir de la expansión y la modernidad en América Latina, la estructuración de los espacios urbanos; espacio público comenzaron a sujetarse a una motorización privada, tornando la planificación urbana un consentimiento al desarrollo de una cultura que acaba por deteriorar las ciudades, así como la calidad de vida en las mismas. Esas reflexiones son realizadas mediante levantamiento bibliográfico sobre el uso del automóvil, la expansión de las ciudades y la propaganda económica comercial que tiene efectos sobre la estructuración urbana actual en las ciudades, caso de San José, Costa Rica, será abordada apenas como un ejemplo en América Latina, mediante datos estadísticos de algunas corporaciones y entidades públicas. Así los análisis realizados confirman que el direccionamiento de la planificación para que se dese el uso intensivo e indiscriminado del automóvil, termine por generar resultados que impactan en el ambiente urbano y su deterioración.Palabras claves: Planificación Obsoleta; El Automóvil; Ciudades; Estructura Urbana.
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POZZETTI, Valmir César, and Rebecca Lucas Camilo Susano LOUREIRO. "IMPACTOS DA LEGITIMAÇÃO FUNDIÁRIA NO MEIO AMBIENTE URBANO." Revista Juridica 2, no. 59 (April 12, 2020): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.21902/revistajur.2316-753x.v2i59.4092.
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RESUMO Objetivo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar quais os possíveis reflexos da legitimação fundiária dos núcleos urbanos informais consolidados ao meio ambiente. Metodologia: A metodologia utilizada, quanto aos meios, é o método dedutivo, por meio de análise doutrinária, bibliográfica e normativa. Quanto aos fins, a metodologia é qualitativa. Resultados: A conclusão a que chegou é de que a legitimação fundiária é um instrumento frágil, que não solucionará o problema da moradia digna no Brasil e trará consequências graves ao meio ambiente das cidades. Contribuições: A exclusão do estudo ambiental e dos projetos de urbanização em todos os casos que não envolvam áreas de proteção ambiental ocasionará um crescimento desordenado e de impossível correção, e para que haja uma real observância dos preceitos constitucionais é necessário que o Estado cumpra o seu dever de organização das cidades e pare de procurar mecanismos para aplacar as obrigações não cumpridas. Palavras-chave: Legitimação fundiária; meio ambiente urbano; ordenamento territorial; regularização urbana. ABSTRACT Objective: This research aims to identify which are the possible reflexes of land tenure legitimacy of informal urban centers consolidated to the environment.Methodology: The methodology used is deductive, through doctrinal, bibliographic and normative analysis. As for the purposes, the methodology is qualitative. Results: The conclusion reached is that land tenure is a fragile instrument, which will not solve the problem of decent housing in Brazil and will have serious consequences for the environment of cities.Contributions: The exclusion of the environmental study and urbanization projects in all cases that do not involve areas of environmental protection will cause a disorderly growth and of impossible correction, and in order to exist a real observance of the constitutional law, it is necessary that the State complies with its duty of organizing cities and stop looking for mechanisms to appease unfulfilled obligations.Keywords: Land tenure legitimization; urban environment; land legal system; urban regularization.
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De Gregorio Hurtado, Sonia. "El desarrollo de las iniciativas comunitarias Urban y Urban II en las periferias degradadas de las ciudades españolas. Una contribución a la práctica de la regeneración urbana en España." Ciudades, no. 13 (November 29, 2017): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.13.2010.39-59.
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Desde que en 1990 la CEE publicara el «Libro Verde sobre el Medio Ambiente Urbano», la Unión Europea ha desarrollado un papel activo en la lucha contra los procesos de declive que afectan a las ciudades de los Estados miembros, un papel basado en contribuciones en forma de recomendaciones y comunicaciones, y de una labor de acción directa sobre las zonas urbanas financiada a través del Fondo de Cohesión, el FEDER y el FSE. Esta labor desembocó en 1994 en la creación de un instrumento específico para combatir la degradación urbana: la Iniciativa Comunitaria URBAN. En España, tanto la dimensión urbana de la política de la UE como, en particular, URBAN y URBAN II, han supuesto una aportación relevante en el ámbito de la regeneración de los barrios degradados. El presente artículo profundiza en la contribución que las dos fases de esta Iniciativa Comunitaria han hecho a la práctica de la regeneración de las áreas periféricas en el país, focalizando en las aportaciones generales que se han detectado a través del análisis de los proyectos URBAN desarrollados en las áreas periféricas de las ciudades españolas.
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Rocca, Fabio La, and Julieta Leite. "Arte urbana." Tematicas 18, no. 35 (February 1, 2010): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/tematicas.v18i35/36.13659.
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Dentro de uma análise da cena urbana e social contemporânea, a arte e a tecnologia têm sido empregadas como um meio de expressão de sensibilidades emergentes e configuram um campo de caráter exploratório e de experimentação com fins críticos. A arte e a tecnologia fazem, cada vez mais, parte dos ambientes e objetos do cotidiano, definindo novas práticas espaciais e, ao mesmo tempo, um laboratório de novas sociabilidades. Nosso artigo busca ilustrar tais considerações dentro do atual contexto sociocultural e urbano, por meio de projetos artísticos que, ao fazerem uso das tecnologias digitais, exploram e revelam o potencial social e estético dessas ferramentas no ambiente urbano.
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Versiani, Isabela Veloso Lopes. "INDICADORES GEORREFERENCIADOS DE QUALIDADE DE VIDA URBANA: possibilidades para o planejamento urbano." Revista Cerrados 14, no. 01 (March 19, 2020): 191–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.22238/rc24482692v14n12016p191a214.
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O presente artigo tem como objetivo aprofundar o debate acerca da emergência do tema da qualidade de vida vinculado ao meio urbano e de suas possibilidades para o planejamento urbano. De caráter exploratório, através de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, o artigo procura delimitar marcos conceituais sobre a qualidade de vida e sua relação com um novo modelo de planejamento urbano a partir do paradigma do desenvolvimento social e de diretrizes do Estatuto da Cidade (2001), além de discutir formas de operacionalização desse conceito tendo como base algumas experiências de construção de sistemas de indicadores de qualidade de vida urbana no Brasil. Como resultados, evidencia-se que a preocupação com a qualidade de vida tem sido expressão recorrente nos debates sobre o presente e futuro das cidades, ganhando espaço e legitimidade a partir de um esforço de delimitação conceitual e de instrumentos para sua mensuração, destacando a contribuição de indicadores georreferenciados para melhor compreensão de desigualdades intraurbanas em diversas áreas. Acredita-se que a incorporação dessa discussão ao planejamento urbano pode contribuir de maneira significativa para pensar e operacionalizar instrumentos que auxiliem no direcionamento de ações e efetivação de políticas públicas para melhoria das condições de vida da população.
Palavras-chave: Planejamento Urbano; Indicadores; Qualidade de vida.
GEOREFERENCED INDICATORS OF URBAN QUALITY OF LIFE: possibilities for urban planning
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This article aims to deepen the debate on the growth of the quality of life theme linked to the urban environment and its possibilities for the urban planning. With exploratory character, through bibliographical and documentary research, the article seeks to define conceptual frameworks on the quality of life and its relationship with a new urban planning model from the social development paradigm and the “City Statute” guidelines (2001), besides discussing ways of operationalizing this concept, basing on experiences of previously existing systems of urban quality of life indicators in Brazil. As a result, it is clear that the concern for quality of life has been a recurring point in discussions regarding the present and future of cities, gaining ground and legitimacy from efforts of conceptual delimitation and tools for its measurement, highlighting the contribution of georeferenced indicators for a better understanding of intra-urban inequalities in many areas. It is believed that the incorporation of this discussion into urban planning can contribute significantly to think and operationalize instruments that can help to direct actions and execution of public policies to improve the living conditions of the population.
Keywords: Urban Planning; Indicators; Quality of life.
INDICADORES GEOREFERENCIADOS DE CALIDAD DE VIDA URBANA: posibilidades de planificación urbana
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En este artículo se pretende profundizar el debate sobre el surgimiento del tema de la calidad de vida relacionado con el ambiente urbano y sus posibilidades para la planificación urbana. De carácter exploratorio, a través de la investigación bibliográfica y documental, el artículo busca definir los marcos conceptuales de la calidad de vida y su relación con un nuevo modelo de planificación urbana desde el paradigma del desarrollo social y las directrices del Estatuto de la Ciudad (2001), además de discutir maneras de hacer operativo este concepto basado en algunas experiencias en la construcción de sistemas de indicadores de calidad de vida urbana en Brasil. Como resultado de ello, es evidente que la preocupación por la calidad de vida ha sido una expresión recurrente en los debates sobre el presente y futuro de las ciudades, ganando terreno y legitimidad a través de esfuerzos de delimitación conceptual y herramientas para su medición, destacando la contribución de indicadores georeferenciados para una mejor comprensión de las desigualdades intra-urbanas en muchas áreas. Se cree que la incorporación de esta discusión a la planificación urbana puede contribuir significativamente a pensar y operar instrumentos que ayudan a dirigir las acciones y ejecución de políticas públicas para mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población.
Palabras-clave: Planificación urbana, indicadores, calidad de vida.
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Källström, Lisa, and Christer Ekelund. "What can a municipality offer to its residents? Value propositions and interactions in a place context." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 10, no. 1 (March 7, 2016): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-05-2015-0040.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the municipality in the place marketing context and to describe how municipalities work on making their place good to live in. The study rests on abductive reasoning whereby service-based logic forms the study and offers a theoretical framework for how to approach the phenomena. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study in the form of 20 semi-structured interviews with leading elected officials and civil servants is used to let us understand how two typical municipalities in southern Sweden work on making their municipality a good place for their residents to live in. Content analysis is used to analyze the data. Findings – The study reveals how municipalities work on creating opportunities for interactions between themselves and their residents, as well as offers insight into what value propositions the municipalities believe they offer their residents. The current study shows that the geographical location and the natural environment, basic and essential services, accommodations, urban quality, recreation and leisure and ambience constitute important dimensions in the place offering. Originality/value – Service-based logic is used as a backdrop to facilitate the analysis in this study, which emphasizes value propositions offered by the municipality and interactions between the municipality and its residents, which increase our understanding of how municipalities work on making their place good to live in. The service-based logic help shed new light on the place marketing context and allows us to understand the context in a new way.
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Moraes, Luis Carlos Araújo de. "GESTÃO PÚBLICA E POLÍTICA DE MOBILIDADE E ARBORIZAÇÃO: conflitos de interesses." Revista de Políticas Públicas 21, no. 1 (July 26, 2017): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2178-2865.v21n1p245-265.
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Atualmente observa-se uma crescente preocupação, por parte da população, dequestões ligadas ao ambiente urbano que afetam a qualidade de vida nas nossascidades. A existência de Políticas Públicas, entre elas, a de Meio Ambientee de Mobilidade Urbana não garante por si só os anseios da sociedade, pois,muitas das vezes são pensadas, e implantadas, de maneira independente, porconseguinte, atuam de formas concorrentes. A motivação deste estudo partiuda dificuldade de se transitar pelos passeios públicos da cidade de Resende, RJ,tendo em vista os vários obstáculos existentes, assim como a má conservaçãodos mesmos, bem como a degradação da paisagem urbana, além da carênciade pesquisas que relacionem mobilidade, acessibilidade e urbanização urbana.Assim, o objetivo deste artigo é evidenciar os conflitos existentes entreas políticas citadas, sugerindo medidas para compatibilizá-las. A metodologiade pesquisa teve um enfoque qualitativo baseado em um estudo de caso e ainvestigação utilizada foi o levantamento bibliográfico, análise documental denormas, legislações e procedimentos pertinentes às políticas envolvidas alémde registros fotográficos dos conflitos existentes entre elas. O resultado obtidoapontou para o comprometimento não só do ambiente natural, quanto da mobilidadee, por conseqüência, a sustentabilidade urbana e a qualidade de vida.Palavras-chave: Políticas públicas, arborização urbana, acessibilidade, qualidadede vida.
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Inês Napias Rossetti, Adriana, Paulo Renato Mesquita Pellegrino, and Armando Reis Tavares. "AS ÁRVORES E SUAS INTERFACES NO AMBIENTE URBANO." Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Arborização Urbana 5, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/revsbau.v5i1.66231.
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O estudo das árvores no meio urbano constitui um campo interdisciplinar de atividade científica. Compreender o fenômeno urbano, e nos que nos tange mais diretamente à época da pós-industrialização industrial no qual esta atividade é substituída por outras atividades terciárias, compõe tema pertinente às áreas de Sociologia Urbana, Geografia Física, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Economia, apenas para citar algumas. Já a compreensão do elemento vegetal arbóreo e sua inserção no tecido urbano, com suas particularidades de tratos agro-florestais estão historicamente relacionadas à área de ciências naturais como a Biologia, as Engenharias Agronômicas e Florestais. A interface entre esses dois ramos do conhecimento se mostra tímida ainda no Brasil e acaba contribuindo para que haja maiores dificuldades na estruturação de conceitos e projetos de gestão ambiental urbana que se mostrem consistentes, aplicáveis, e possam de fato contribuir para que as árvores estabelecidas em solo urbano possam usufruir desenvolvimentos plenos, gerando os benefícios que têm sido objetos de inúmeros estudos científicos.
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Torres, Haroldo Da Gama, and Eduardo Cesar Marques. "Reflexões sobre a hiperperiferia: novas e velhas faces da pobreza no entorno municipal." Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais, no. 4 (May 31, 2001): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.2001n4p49.
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O objetivo do trabalho é apresentar os principais resultados analíticos de uma aplicação de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica ao planejamento urbano. O trabalho centra-se na apresentação de diversas cartografias exploratórias relacionadas a variáveis demográficas, de risco urbano e de acesso a políticas públicas. Os resultados apontam para a superposição, em determinados setores censitários do município, de condições de extrema pobreza e risco urbanos, indicando a presença de fortes efeitos cumulativos de riscos urbanos e precariedade socioeconômica. Essa cumulatividade parece ser mais grave do que a indicada pela literatura: identificamos uma periferia mais heterogênea do que se considera comumente, incluindo espaços bem servidos e inseridos na malha urbana, e outros cuja população está submetida a condições talvez mais adversas do que a das periferias das décadas passadas.Palavras-chave: espaço urbano; condições de vida; periferia; população e meio ambiente; risco ambiental; segregação socioespacial. Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the main analytical findings of the application of GIS techniques to urban planning in Mauá, São Paulo. The paper is centre on several types of exploratory cartography related to demography, urban risk and accessibility to public policies in the 1990s. In certain census sectors of the municipality, the results show a superimposition of extreme poverty and urban risk conditions, pointing to the existence of very strong cumulative effects of urban risk and precarious socio-economic conditions. This cumulative effect seems to be more important than that indicated by the academic literature: a much more heterogeneous urban periphery than is commonly considered was identified, including areas that are very well served and included in social and urban terms, as well as others in which the population is submitted to more adverse conditions than those that characterised the metropolitan peripheries of previous decades. Keywords: urban space; living conditions; urban periphery; population and environment environmental risk; socio-spatial segregation.