Regional Planning

Located in West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa, Krugersdorp is one of gold-mining-cities that have to face the end of the gold-mining power. Beside the question about what this region should develop as the primary engine of growth when the gold-mine stops, There are problems and potentials in the post-mining landscape that should be considered in mine-closure.

This thesis attempts firstly to identify and to examine the problems and the potentials of the post-mining landscape in Westrand, South Africa. Secondly, Larger volumes of soil, large quantity of AMD-contaminated-water, mounds of dust, the open-pits-and-dumps-undulated-surface are the problems that have a possibility to be transformed to be potentials. And Finally, The main aimed of this thesis is to give a recommendation in new productive landscape in regenerating the post-mining landscape in West Rand South Africa.

This study has commenced with visiting site to collect data, to understand the reality and to interview the community and related actors to the post-mining in Witwatersrand, South Africa, followed by designing and discussing in studio about the vision and the strategy in regenerating the post-mining landscape, using literature-study in all stages, and fially writing the process and the fiding of the study in this thesis.

Considering the crises, potentials, the lengthy process of reclaiming the post-mining landscape, the need of land for the growing community, the presence of displacement communities surrounding the mine-dumps and the need of new productive landscape, replacing the gold-mining landscape, therefore regenerating the post-mining landscape would give more value in economy, ecology and social (equity) in post-mining site in Westrand, South Africa.

Keywords: Post-mining Landscape, Reclaming and Regenerating, New Productive Landscape

Sustainable design is a phrase commonly used in the realms of design practice and yet the definition of the same remains quite fuzzy, thus providing the motivation for this research. The paper looks at contemporary sustainable design practices in the area of architecture design, building construction and landscape architecture. The objective is to understand what the term “sustainable design” really means as used in practice and what strategies are being employed towards the goal of sustainable development. The ...

Climate change and resource depletion are driving the transition to renewable energy sources. Both the supply of renewables and the demand for energy are influenced by the physical environment and therefore concern spatial planning and landscape design. Envisioning the long-term development of alternative energy landscapes – that is sustainable energy landscapes – present spatial planners and landscape architects with new challenges. The first paper of this two-part series discussed several existing approaches to long-term regional planning and landscape design, and presented an alternative, five-step approach for the composition of integrated visions [Stremke, S., Kann, F. Van & Koh, J. (2012) Integrated Visions (part I): Methodological Framework, European Planning Studies, [20(2), pp. 305–320]. This paper illustrates how the five-step approach was employed to compose a set of integrated visions for the development of sustainable energy landscapes in south of the Netherlands. The p...

Geographically-grounded situational awareness (SA) is critical to crisis management and is essential in many other decision making domains that range from infectious disease monitoring, through regional planning, to political campaigning. Social media are becoming an important information input to support situational assessment (to produce awareness) in all domains. Here, we present a geovisual analytics approach to supporting SA for crisis events using one source of social media, Twitter. Specifically, we focus on leveraging explicit and implicit geographic information for tweets, on developing place-time-theme indexing schemes that support overview+detail methods and that scale analytical capabilities to relatively large tweet volumes, and on providing visual interface methods to enable understanding of place, time, and theme components of evolving situations. Our approach is user-centered, using scenario-based design methods that include formal scenarios to guide design and valid...

Rainfall-triggered landslides are part of a natural process of hillslope erosion that can result in catastrophic loss of life and extensive property damage in mountainous, densely populated areas. As global population expansion on or near steep hillslopes continues, the human and economic costs associated with landslides will increase. Landslide hazard mitigation strategies generally involve hazard assessment mapping, warning systems, control structures, and regional landslide planning and policy development. To be sustainable , hazard mitigation requires that management of natural resources is closely connected to local economic and social interests. A successful strategy is dependent on a combination of multidisciplinary scientific and engineering approaches , and the political will to take action at the local community to national scale.

In this regard, several opportunities have opened up in the last few years. Calabria belongs to the Regions of Objective 1 of The European Union (regions with development delay), characterised by a PIL value less than 75% of the community average. In order to recuperate the economic and social delay of these areas, the European Union finances development with Structural

Fast-growing, coastal mega cities along China's east coast and the rim of the Cross-Straits region, in particular, are becoming increasingly more vulnerable to potential natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, storm surges and floods. The provinces of Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, as well as Taiwan, are threatened by common disasters. Advancing Cross- Straits ties in mitigating the impact

The objective of the research was to analyze the role of young fishermen as a moral power, as social control and simultaneously as moral power, social control, and agent of change in increasing income in Medan Belawan Subdistrict, The research used quantitative method with multiple linear regression analysis and questionnaires in gathering the data. It also used survey method in which the data were gathered from the samples of the whole population, taken by using simple random sampling technique from 6 villages in Medan Belawan Subdistrict. Frank Lynk formula was used to get 96 respondents as the samples. The result of t-test and F-test showed that, simultaneously and partially, there was significant influence of the role young fishermen as moral power, social power, and agent of change in increasing income of 50.3%. Their potency as moral power, social control, and agent of change gives the opportunity for them to increase their income. Their potency as moral power was indicated by their high loyalty, their work efficiency, cooperation, and their having good understanding and knowledge when they sailed on the sea to increase their income. Their potency as social control was indicated by their participation, criticism, maintaining order, supporting and noticing the government's policy which curbs the process of sailing on the sea to increase their income. Their potency as agent of change was indicated by their interest in entrepreneurship, leadership, and creativity to increase their income.

Dukuh Tapak merupakan suatu RW di Kelurahan Tugurejo
yang berlokasi di Utara Kota Semarang. Dukuh ini mengalami
kondisi sebagaimana wilayah pesisir lain di Kota Semarang,
yaitu lahan yang terkena dampak rob dan abrasi. Rob sebagai
suatu siklus alam terjadi secara berkala menggenangi lahan
tambak Dukuh Tapak. Ditambah dengan adanya abrasi yang
mengurangi luasan lahan tambak di Dukuh Tapak. Fenomena ini
menuntut masyarakat Dukuh Tapak untuk menyesuaikan kondisi
lingkungannya untuk mempertahankan keberadaan lahan tambak
mereka. Seperti halnya pengaturan tanggul dengan penggunaan
APO berupa ban bekas hingga penanaman pohon mangrove yang
mereka jadikan sebagai dinding tambak. Di sisi lain, berfungsi
pula sebagai pemecah gelombang pasang yang masuk ke lahan
tambak untuk mengurangi dampak rob dan abrasi. Untuk
mengetahui bentuk-bentuk adaptasi yang dilakukan oleh petani
tambak dalam usahanya mempertahankan eksistensi tambak akibat
rob, penyusun melakukan penelitian ini berdasarkan teori Paul
A. Bell mengenai proses terbentuknya adaptasi. Penelitian ini
menggunakan metode Deskriptif Kualitatif Empiris, dengan
pendekatan Fenomenologi. Hasil yang diperoleh dari analisis
yang telah dilakukan, didapat bentuk adaptasi yang dilakukan
oleh petani tambak Tapak adalah berupa adaptasi fisik,
adaptasi sosial ekonomi, dan adaptasi sumber daya manusia
(SDM).

This article brings the contemporary thinking and practice of Urban Environmental Management (UEM) to the solution of real problems in a major city of a developing country in Latin America. Such cities both face more immediate problems than the developed world and have fewer resources to deal with them. The study first considers the Latin American context and then reviews issues of poverty alleviation, industry, sewage and sanitation, water, energy, transportation and finance in Lima, Peru. Finally, it proposes a 5-year plan to help solve the urban environmental problems of Metropolitan Lima, an environmentally difficult, but important Latin American metropolitan area located between the Pacific Ocean and a hilly desert, utilizing a real world database and a limited budget.

RESUMEN: A pesar de no haberse producido en 2017 grandes avances normativos ni jurisprudenciales en materia de ruido se constata a nivel europeo la necesidad de priorizar la lucha contra la segunda fuente de contaminación en número de enfermos y muertes en Europa. Estas páginas se centran este año en analizar críticamente el segundo Informe del Consejo sobre la aplicación de la Directiva en materia de ruido ambiental y las conclusiones de la conferencia Noise in Europe. Repasando también la agenda normativa estatal para los próximos meses y los recientes pronunciamientos judiciales sobre ruido. Entre los que destacan la STS 575/2017, de 13 de abril, un nuevo capítulo del largo conflicto por el sobrevuelo de aviones en una urbanización próxima al aeropuerto de Barajas

Το παρόν αποτελεί μία εισαγωγή στο ζήτημα του προτεινόμενου νέου αεροσταθμού στο Καστέλλι Κρήτης, το οποίο πρόκειται να αντικαταστήσει τον υφιστάμενο αερολιμένα Νίκος Καζαντζάκης του Ηρακλείου. Εξετάζονται οι υφιστάμενες συνθήκες αερομεταφορών στο νησί της Κρήτης με έμφαση στο Ηράκλειο, η πρόταση του νέου αερολιμένα, και οι προοπτικές συνδυασμένων μεταφορών για την εξυπηρέτηση της, κυρίως εποχιακής, ζήτησης.

Bidimensional regression is a method developed by Waldo Tobler for comparing the degree of resemblance between two two-dimensional configurations of points or surfaces. It is an extension of linear regression where each variable is a pair of values representing a location in a two-dimensional space. Bidimensional regression numerically compares the similarity between two-dimensional surfaces through an index called bidimensional correlation. The aim of the study is the general description of the method, and to present examples of its application with the help of some real data, that of the Hungarian railway time space.

Regional Atlas of the Tadla-Azilal region (Morocco), carried out through a Volubilis "Programme d’Action Intégrée" funded by the "Comité Mixte Interuniversitaire Franco-Marocain" involving ESO-Angers (UMR CNRS 6590) of Angers University  (France), Sultan Moulay Slimane University of Beni Mellal (Morocco) and EHESS Paris LATES (France). It puts into perspective the different elements to highlight or to preserve and participates in providing tangible answers to the development and planning of this region. After a historical, physical and human overview are developed the specific dynamics and issues of the three regional units (mountain, piedmont, plain) and the cross-cutting issues about water, migratory question, risks and potential and recognized heritage.

Huge investments are being made by the Government of India for development of highway projects with the assumption that creation of transport infrastructure will bring about economic and social development along their corridors. However, several studies show that transportation is not the only driver of development.
In this study we compare the levels of development and settlement pattern of districts that lie both on and away from the corridor to assess the importance of transport infrastructure in regional development.

The National Highway 2 which cuts across 13 of the 71 districts of Uttar Pradesh with varying levels of development within a single governance structure is taken as the case study.
Levels of development are assessed by using a composite index and z-scores for development indicators. Settlement pattern analyses include rank size, nearest neighbor, kernel density and directional distribution of settlements.

The study indicates that the mere presence of a highway is not a determining factor of the levels of development of the districts along it. Other drivers of economic growth also play a role. Consequently, the corridor cities show a slower growth rate relative to the non-corridor cities. However, a significant increase is taking place in the number of Census Towns and Nagar Panchayats and in the rates of growth of smaller towns irrespective of their location vis-à-vis the highway.
The settlement pattern analyses show that rapidly growing larger urban centers have a propensity to drive development in their immediate hinterlands implying that new and smaller towns would be influenced positively if they are functionally linked to these urban centers. It is also indicated that clustering in belts positively influences levels of development if the settlements are aligned and distributed along the highway. This suggests that a corridor pattern of settlement distribution is beneficial and can be chosen as a strategy for regional planning in the state.

Nazi Germany saw Eastern Europe as an opportunity to expand its territory, its living space. Poland would become the laboratory for an inhumane colonisation plan, the Generalplan Ost (“General Plan for the East”), which involved replacement of the non-Aryan population with Germanic farmers. The anti-urban management of that lobotomised territory was scientifically drafted by a group of architects, geographers, and agronomists working under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. The urban planning aspects of this utopian plan, based on central place theory, self-sufficiency, and neighbourhood units, were of great technical interest and influenced the creation of new communities within Franco’s regime. However, we cannot overlook the fact that, had the Nazi plan been completed, it would have resulted in the forced relocation of 31 million Europeans.

Son yıllarda Türkiye’de hazırlanan kalkınma planlarında ve projelerinde coğrafi ve ekolojik bakış açısından ziyade ekonomik bakış açısı öne çıkmaktadır. Ekonomik çıkarlar göz önünde bulundurularak yapılan bu planlamalar kısa vadede etkili olmakla birlikte uzun vadede zarar etmektedirler. Ekolojik olmamaları dolayısıyla meydana getirdikleri bu zararlar hem ülke ekonomisine zarar vermekte hem de doğal çevreyi tahrip etmektedir. Doğal çevre tahribatıyla birlikte gelen doğal kaynakların hatalı kullanımı da bu zararın boyutlarını artırmaktadır. Bu zararlardan korunmak ve daha işlevsel planlar/projeler üretmek için akademik açıdan başarılı ve alanında uzman kişilere danışılarak bu planların yapılması daha yerinde bir karar olacaktır. Coğrafya Bilimi bu ihtiyacı karşılama konusunda etkili bir yere sahiptir. Coğrafyacılar eğitimleri boyunca gördükleri klimatoloji, jeomorfoloji, ekoloji gibi fiziki derslerin yanı sıra ekonomi, siyaset, bölge planlama dersleri sayesinde plan ve proje hazırlama konusunda yetkin bir kitleyi oluşturmaktadır. Bu altyapıya sahip bilim adamlarının oluşturacakları projeler hem ekolojik hem de ekonomik bir özellik göstererek bölge planlama işinde etkili sonuçlar ortaya koyacaktır. - Araştırma ödevidir, bilimsel geçerliliği yoktur.

Urbanization is the process in which town and cities are formed and they grow extensively when more numbers of people start to live and work in the city areas. Every city in the developing countries is increasing in size that increases its slums, unemployment, housing shortages, inadequate transport system, congestion of people and traffic. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. 1 It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world would be urbanized. 2 Greater the population increased, low the per capita income, fewer the capital resources, greater the unemployment, and less developed the urban infrastructures which all characterize the cities of the developing world. This paper deals with the problems that come across planning of any cities in developing countries and how the problem can be solved when people with technical rationality participate directly and equally on it.

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