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Sustainable Urban Design
Published in AbdulLateef Olanrewaju, Zalina Shari, Zhonghua Gou, Greening Affordable Housing, 2019
A new type of residential community which addresses all principles of sustainable planning and design is an urban village. In urban planning and design, an urban village is an urban development typically characterized by the medium-density housing, mixed use zoning, good public transit and an emphasis on pedestrianization. Unlike traditional residential neighbourhoods, urban villages are usually designated within an existing urban footprint. The basic premise of an urban village is to create new workplaces within walking distance from home. Urban villages have been successfully established in inner city areas of major cities including Seattle, Sydney and Amsterdam (Urban Villages, 2017).
InTIME Models and Methods
Published in Susan Krumdieck, Transition Engineering, 2019
In the transportation example, the costs of some of the options like electric bus and bicycle paths were actually cost savings as the options reduced fuel use over 40 years and paid back the investment cost several times over. Other options, like developing urban village centres, which concentrate destination activities in certain areas around transit hubs, had positive economic development and social benefits. Increased walking and cycling were one of the behaviour options modelled, and this option provided reduced fuel and vehicle costs as well as health benefits.
Urban Regeneration Of Former Industrial Cities
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
A year later the Ancoats Urban Village Company was created by MCC, named after its first vision for the revival of the district. The Urban Village concept was based on the idea of a mixed use area with a strong sense of community. The establishment of the company, that aimed to attract commercial development to Ancoats was a facet of MCC’s readiness to support the private sector (Blakeley & Brendan, 2013).
Super-resolution GANs for upscaling unplanned urban settlements from remote sensing satellite imagery – the case of Chinese urban village detection
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Alessandro Crivellari, Hong Wei, Chunzhu Wei, Yuhui Shi
Standing out as a feasibility study on image resolution alignments prior to semantic segmentation operations in dense urban environments, our work contributes to the expanding wave of artificial intelligence solutions for geographic applications, disclosing further insights on the potential of deep neural network advancements within the remote sensing domain. Inserted in the big picture of unplanned settlement redevelopment, as part of an active urban management plan and effort to improve the living conditions of citizens, the effective identification and characterization of urban villages represents an essential contribution towards renovation strategies and reconstruction planning (Li, Huang, and Liu 2017; Mahabir et al. 2018). By acquiring reliable and timely information on the characteristics and extensions of these areas, city managers can design effective policies for promoting sustainable urban development. In the wake of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 11 (sustainable cities and communities), our objective is to provide an advanced technological tool for supporting the gathering of detailed information on informal urban structures that are supposed to undergo specific reconstruction/renovation processes, to meet adequate housing requirements for urban equity and inclusion, health and safety, and livelihood opportunities.
Urbanizing villages: informal morphologies in Shenzhen’s urban periphery
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2018
Urban villages are a phenomenon whereby erstwhile rural villages become part of the city through the combined processes of formal municipal urban expansion and self-organized development of village land. While the villages densify and acquire a more urban functional mix, they remain rural administratively and their particular urbanity is geared towards rural migrants. In these urban villages, migrants find a rental housing market within their financial limitations, an urban environment that is conducive to their employment needs and supportive social institutions that assist them in their transition to the city (Zhang, Zhao, and Tian 2003; Leaf 2007; Lin, de Meulder, and Wang 2011). While the social-economic role for migrants in the city is widely recognized, the role of urban morphology in that process is not yet evident (Davis and Brown 2011). Their urban environments are generally regarded as a problem and are most often characterized as ‘chaotic’, ‘congested’, ‘unplanned’ and ‘substandard’ (Tian 2008; Chung 2010; Lai et al. 2014; Lai, Chan, and Choy 2016). However, studies of such settlements are rarely based on detailed spatial investigations. Morphological research that has analyzed these urban environments more substantively has tended to emphasize centrally located villages (see Hin and Xin 2011; Zacharias, Hu, and Huang 2013), whereas villages towards the urban periphery have received much less attention. While acknowledging that difference among urban villages exists as a continuum rather than as sharp boundaries, the scope of this paper is focused on villages located approximately 15‒40 km outside of the city centre. These peripheral villages, which constitute the bulk of village development, have been able to develop outside of direct government gaze much longer than their centrally located counterparts and there is thus reason to expect morphological variation.