How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints ...in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.
It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally recognized experts in public finance describes a new way of restoring economic vitality and financial stability to cities, using steps that already have been proven remarkably successful. The key is unlocking social, human, and economic wealth that cities already own but is out of sight-or "hidden." A focus on existing public wealth helps to shift attention and resources from short-term spending to longer-term investments that can vastly raise the quality of life for many generations of urban residents.
A crucial first step is to understand a city's balance sheet-too few cities comprehend how valuable a working tool this can be. With this in hand, taxpayers, politicians, and investors can better recognize the long-term consequences of political decisions and make choices that mobilize real returns rather than rely on more taxes, debt, or austerity.
Another hidden asset is real estate. Even poor cities own large swathes of poorly utilized land, or they control underperforming utilities and other commercial assets. Most cities could more than double their investments with smarter use of these commercial assets. Managing the city's assets smartly through the authors' proposed Urban Wealth Funds-at arm's-length from short-term political influence-will enable cities to ramp up much needed infrastructure investments.
Članek govori o novih konceptih v urbanizmu na prelomu 19. stoletja v 20. Predstavlja tri ključne osebnosti, arhitekte in urbaniste Camilla Sitteja, Otta Wagnerja in Maksa Fabianija, ki so odločilno ...zaznamovali urbanizem podonavske monarhije. Še posebej izpostavlja Maksa Fabianija, čigar delo je ozko povezano s popotresno rekonstrukcijo Ljubljane na koncu 19. in začetku 20. stoletja, vendar doslej morda njegov prispevek ni bil ustrezno ovrednoten v kontekstu urbanistične zgodovine. Članek poskuša odgovoriti tudi na vprašanje, kako so ideje urbanističnih ideje teorije vplivale na ali je art nouveau razvil svojo različico urbanizma ali pa se je le integriral v obstoječe urbanistične strukture in jih sooblikoval z novo arhitekturo.
Ta članek obravnava Rossijevo metodologijo razumevanja mest na primeru Šenzena, ki se je iz vasi v manj kot 15 letih razvil v sodobno mesto z več kot štirimi milijoni prebivalcev. Avtor članka ...upošteva temeljne instrumente teorije, ki jo je Rossi predstavil v svoji knjigi The Architecture of the City (L'architettura della città), ter jih sistematično uporabi in preizkusi na primeru obravnavanega mesta. Tako naredi kritično oceno metodologije in predlaga možne spremembe.
Notwithstanding the impression that the pressure on land is decreasing because of the current economic crisis, the challenge of a contemporary urban planning to involve all stakeholders as equally as ...possible in the planning process remains unchanged. This article focuses on the acceptability of the integration private initiatives into the decision-making process. It asserts that urban planning based on private initiative does not lead to a sustainable spatial development; furthermore, the existing criteria-based land development approach does not necessarily give optimal results.
Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende der Landschaftsarchitektur zur Geländemodelllierung im Planungs- und Bauprozess. Mit detaillierten Informationen zur digitalen Geländemodellierung, inklusive ...GPS-Technologie. Peter Petschek is a landscape architect and a professor at the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil (Rapperswil University of Applied Sciences). He teaches the courses in execution, grading, CAD, DHM, and 3D landscape visualization in the Bachelor's and Master's Programs of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He also directs the Fachstelle für Garten- und Landschaftsbau (Research Center for Materials and Construction) of the Institut für Landschaft und Freiraum (ILF, Institute for Landscape and Open Space). The ILF is active in applied research in all areas of landscape architecture.
The book offers multi-layered responses to the scope and causes of spatial, as well as social, economic and physiognomic changes in the cultural landscape in Slovenian countryside. It presents the ...results of an interdisciplinary research approach to recognising spatial change and trends within a two-year research project entitled “The Transformation of the Landscape by Agricultural Modernisation and Changes in Settlement Patterns”, which was financed by the Slovenian Research Agency and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia within the target research programme Slovenian Competitiveness 2006–2013. Similar research was carried out in three pilot areas, selected because they captured a cross section of typical Slovenian landscape macro-units (Mediterranean, Dinaric, Alpine and Pannonian), while also covering the processes of intensification and marginalisation.
Vpliv antike na urbanizem Jože Marinko
Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca,
07/2002, Volume:
4, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
V antiki sta se izoblikovala dva osnovna modela mestne zasnove: "raščeni" in "načrtovani". Urejenost, ki je v načrtovanih mestih dosežena z geometrizacijo ortogonalne ali osne zasnove, predstavlja ...višjo kvaliteto. Načrtna zasnova je prikazana na treh nivojih. Prvi kaže ortogonalno zasnovo mestnih ulic, pri čemer obzidje sledi konfiguraciji terena. Drugi nivo je najpopolneje zastopan v rimskem mestu (urbs quadrata) kjer je ob pravokotni mreži ulic, ki določajo stavbne bloke (inzule) tudi mestni rob (obzidje) pravokotno zasnovan. Na tretjem nivoju obravnavamo posamezne predele mesta. Praviloma je to agora ali forum, ki svojo načrtnost kažejo z ortogonalno ali krožno zasnovo in poudarjenimi osmi. V kratkem časovnem pregledu do danes vidimo, da so izhodišča mnogim prostorskim zasnovam mest ali njihovih delov skozi zgodovino do danes v grški in rimski antiki, včasih celo v deželah Bližnjega vzhoda.
Razprava o Novem Kolizeju v Ljubljani je jedro arhitekturne razprave na slovenski sceni v drugi polovici leta 2004 in prvi polovici leta 2005. V diskusiji so bili razčlenjeni številni problemi (od ...lokacije do kakovosti oblikovanja projekta), ne pa tudi vprašanja, povezana s kulturo in njenim razvojem v mestu, obravnavo kulturnih vprašanj v urbanizmu in vplivom na mestno javno življenje. Predpostavko, da tako razpis natečaja kot tudi sami projekti niso rezultat resne analize urbanističnega načrtovanja v mestu Ljubljana in da se poskuša celotna strokovna pozornost urbanističnega načrtovanja osredotočiti na središče mesta, namesto da bi v razpravah, analizah in težnjah obravnavali kot problem mesto v celoti, se potrjuje tudi pri problematični opredelitvi programa Novega Kolizeja.
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