Design Strategies for Landscape Transformation of Abandoned Railways in Urban Centers

The railways have significantly contributed to the economic development of the city.However,with the evolution of the city and adjustments in the industrial structure,the relocation and rerouting of major railway trunk lines have resulted in the abandonment of numerous urban railways.The abandoned railways,resulting from inadequate management,have transformed into sites for waste disposal and are particularly vulnerable to environmental issues,including land pollution,degradation of vegetation cover,and a decline in ecological diversity.Abandoned railways in urban centers significantly hinder transportation connectivity and adversely influence the aesthetic appeal of the city.The landscape transformation of these abandoned railways is of paramount importance in the context of urban renewal.These railway sites possess significant potential for stock utilization as specialized,underutilized spaces.Through the processes of re-planning,integration,and renewal,previously underutilized spaces can be revitalized and incorporated into the urban landscape in innovative ways.This approach not only enhances the availability of green leisure areas for residents but also contributes to the realization of sustainable urban development.

Differentiation and restructuring-new space for development of urban center area:a case study of Shizhong District of Ji'nan City

Taking the development tendency of current world industrial development as the background, this paper restructures the internal space of urban center area by illustrating reasons for internal space differentiation of urban center area, that is to say, according to the tertiary industry interior's high-end of value chain after convergence among the primary, the secondary and the tertiary industries, the space structure of urban center area will form the space development mode with characteristic modern service industry cluster districts through vertical segmentation, horizontal derivatization and block aggregation and realize perfect space renewal of urban center area in the end.

Case Study:Topography Integrated Urban Center Concept Project on Coastal Line of Kartal/İstanbul

The concept of creating a Topography integrated urban center is to create an urban center that integrated with the city.The first step of the Concept is to settle by using the natural elevation in the land and to create volumes compatible with land by raising together with the elevation.While the passenger circulation at starting elevation is moved into a project with the cavestyle volume settled in land elevation.The new area of the square to be defined in the center of the building is intended to form an area combining the neighboring squares Kartal Square and Freedom Square,as well as contributing to the silhouette of Kartal from the sea with the location of the square and building.The project is a central complex design that deals with various urban problems thanks to professionals,local people of Kartal,and clubs which established with the municipality in a comprehensive way to search for solutions to be organized urban workshops and conferences.

GIS Application in Urban Flood Risk Analysis: Midar as a Case Study

The significance of this study lies in its exploration of the advanced applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in assessing urban flood risks, with a specific focus on Midar, Morocco. This research is pivotal as it showcases that GIS technology is not just a tool for mapping, but a critical component in urban planning and emergency management strategies. By meticulously identifying and mapping flood-prone areas in Midar, the study provides invaluable insights into the potential vulnerabilities of urban landscapes to flooding. Moreover, this research demonstrates the practical utility of GIS in mitigating material losses, a significant concern in flood-prone urban areas. The proactive approach proposed in this study, centered around the use of GIS, aims to safeguard Midar’s population and infrastructure from the devastating impacts of floods. This approach serves as a model for other urban areas facing similar challenges, highlighting the indispensable role of GIS in disaster preparedness and response. Overall, the study underscores the transformative potential of GIS in enhancing urban resilience, making it a crucial tool in the fight against natural disasters like floods.

Design and Study on Management Tools of Land Data Center for Integration of Urban and Rural Areas

The rapid development of urbanization requires land management business should change the former single systematic pattern, and advance to integration of functions and data sharing. In order to meets the requirement, this paper presents a new thinking for land management pattern, and management tools of data center for integration of urban and rural areas. The tools were based on MapGIS, which have made the management of multi-subjects, multi-areas, multi-sources and multi-measurement data possible. The techniques of this system are designed accord with national related standard. Experimental result shows that the tools have obvious technical advantage in land resource business integration management.

To What Extent Are Cities Influenced by Rural Urban Relationships in Africa

If rural-urban relationship is treated as an open and unregulated process, cities serve as a sink for rural population, meaning that higher proportions of rural people migrate from rural areas to stay permanently in the cities. This process, which is commonly referred to as rural urban migration can be more evident if the urban system is maintained as an open system. This holds key to interpreting how cities attract and retain their populations, a process that is critical to understand the causes of deterioration of most cities in developing countries that still draw much of their population inputs from rural areas, as it is the case with Africa. Deducing from South African experience, if policies that regulate movement of people between rural areas and cities are politically inclined they tend to give a particular character to the evolution and development of cities. This has been found to be true for two sets of policies implemented inSouth Africa. Ones that were implemented during Apartheid, while they encouraged the migration of unskilled laborers from rural to urban areas, failed to promote settlement and adaptation of African communities in the cities and this led to an upsurge of informal settlements around many cities ofSouth Africa. One that have been implemented since the advent of Democracy, due to their relaxed nature have led to an influx of people of African descent into the city centers and the effect of this has been the deterioration of these areas. With these findings this study cautions that urban system needs to be treated as open, that is, be allowed to regulate itself through economic success and failures of people who aspire to live in urban areas by choosing to settle in the cities.

Smart City: On Urban Operational Collaboration

This paper expounds the origin of urban operational coordination problem in historical setting, points out that operational coordination problem is essential to cities, induces the major challenges and opportunities for urban operating coordination at present, and takes IBM Intelligent Operation Center as example to illustrate the typical solutions with the detailed case study of the Intelligent Operation Center in Rio de Janerio.

Significant Differences in Elderly Health between Urban and Rural Communities: A Literature Review

This study aimed to examine measures pertaining to elderly health in urban versus rural settings, and to identify differences in the health of elderly people living in urban and rural communities through a literature review. An electronic literature search was performed using PubMed for English articles published in peer-reviewed journals up to August 2018, with the following search terms: “urban”, “rural”, “comparison of community”, “elderly health”, and “comparison of community health”. A total of 35 articles were extracted for a critical full-text review, and six articles that met the inclusion criteria were subjected to analysis. Measures related to elderly health in urban and rural communities were classified into the following three categories: functional abilities, health, and health perception. Five of the six articles described functional abilities (e.g., social function) and health (e.g., mental health, depression) as categories with significant differences in elderly health between urban and rural communities. The results suggest that elderly health measures related to social function and mental health or depression are more important outcome measures of effective person-centered integrated community care systems from the perspective of community characteristics. As there were only a few articles reporting on elderly health according to differences in environment between urban and rural communities, further investigation is globally warranted.

THE DAVID LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER:HOW GREEN BUILDING DESIGN AND OPERATIONS CAN SAVE MONEY,DRIVE LOCAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY,AND TRANSFORM AN INDUSTRY

INTRODUCTION When the David L.Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh was completed in 2003,it was one of largest green buildings in the country.Its success proved that sustainability principles could be integrated into a breathtaking and high-performing design.Using almost a decade of performance data,this study,led by evolveEA,was commissioned to understand the level of building performance and the return on the initial investment in sustainability.With input from Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics,CJL Engineering,and Civil and Environmental Consultants,the Buildings-in-Operation(BiO)study demonstrates that.

城市群背景下的中国消费中心发展研究

消费中心和城市群都是我国重要的区域发展对象,两者之间联系紧密,互动性强。消费中心概念的引入,能够为现有城市群研究提供新视角。城市群作为消费(中心)城市群,能够促进区域消费经济大发展,体现出消费性质差异化、消费形式多样化、消费水平层级化、消费内容普遍化、消费中心化、消费联系性强、消费完整度高、消费文化认同度高等特征,具有消费集聚构建宏大消费场景、消费中心化汇集更多消费动能、消费极化提升区域消费发展层级、整合消费形成区域消费竞争力等多重机制。基于熵值法、Dagum基尼系数及其分解法、Kernel估计法的量化分析表明,各城市群消费中心发展水平总体上呈稳定上升趋势,但不同城市群发展差异大。总体基尼系数走势较为平缓,甚至呈缓慢下降的态势。需要强化体制机制建设,以(国际)消费中心(城市)建设推动城市群发展。

包容性视角下的城市中心区边缘社区更新规划研究——以重庆渝中区白象街社区为例

在城市快速扩张过程中,位于中心区边缘的老旧社区面临挑战,其与中心区的物质空间与经济环境形成鲜明对比。以重庆市渝中区白象街社区现存问题为切入点,通过实地调研分析其区位、历史、人群结构与需求、物质空间等,明确社区面临功能滞后、空间断裂和人群隔阂等问题,从包容性视角提出“串渝中、融社区、游建筑”的更新优化策略,制定适合社区可持续发展的更新规划方案,以期为城市中心区边缘社区优化提供参考。

受突发事件影响的城市应急物流中心选址模型及其实证

主要研究受突发事件影响下的城市应急物流中心选址问题。结合城市应急物流中心选址的多目标规划方法,建立考虑灾前配置及灾后配送的应急物流中心多目标选址模型。介绍了遗传算法(GA)基本原理,并针对城市应急物流的特点,考虑求解多目标规划模型,在遗传算法的基础上加入免疫算法(IA)的特性,使用一种组合的遗传算法——免疫遗传算法(IGA)。使用MATLAB免疫遗传算法对该模型进行求解,由结果可知该算法适用于多目标的城市应急物流中心选址问题,并通过实例验证模型及算法的合理性和有效性。

Quality assessment of the practice of focused antenatal care (FANC) in rural and urban primary health centres in Ekiti State

Objective: To ascertain that standard antenatal care (Focused antenatal care) is being received at the Primary Health Care level in urban and rural areas of Ekiti State and to determine the facilitating factors and challenges to the practice of FANC in urban and rural areas. Design: Cross sectional. Setting: Primary Health Centers Participants: Pregnant women and Heads of health facilities. Methods: Two hundred respondents each from urban and rural areas primary health centres were proportionately selected from 18 primary health centers using simple random sampling. Exit interviews were conducted using the antenatal care exit interview form of the Safe Motherhood Needs Assessment package. In-depth Interviews were conducted with the heads of selected facilities. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and Chi square test and content analysis for indepth interview. Results: More respondents 58 (29.3%) from the urban areas had the minimum contents compared to 41 (20.7%) of the rural respondents (p < 0.05) and 178 (90.8%) of the urban were taught a range of health education topics compared to 177 (88.5%) (p = 0.45). Urban respondents were about 1.6 times more likely to receive the minimum contents than rural respondents. In-depth interview results explicated the facilitating factors and challenges to focused antenatal care in the study areas. Conclusion: The findings of this study is consistent with other studies establishing the fact that better health service is available to urban residents than rural residents;however, this study has succeeded in comparing the documented standard of antenatal care with what was being practiced in the selected PHCs of the state. The basic contents of focused antenatal care in Ekiti state were received by a small proportion of the respondents, suggesting that focused antenatal care had not fully translated into quality service;one major challenge to the delivery of standard antenatal care was inadequate number of skilled health workers especially in the rural areas. The gap between quality and utilisation of antenatal in urban and rural areas is gradually being closed up;this success should be improved upon and maintained.

New Strategy and Kinetic Energy Regeneration for the Developmen of China’s Urban Agglomeration

The rapid development of modern urban agglomerations has reshaped the territory of China’s economic geography and reconstructed the spatial forms of Chinese cities and regions.Since the reform and opening-up,China’s urban agglomerations have experienced three stages,i.e.spontaneous cultivation,rapid growth,and the super leading role of planning.The gian development area composed of super urban agglomerations is becoming an emerging geographic unit that improves the urban development quality promotes regional integration processes and participates in global industria competition and innovative resource allocations in China.While encountering challenges such as insufficient innovation kinetic energy and implementation difficulties of cross-regional coordination mechanisms,it has also ushered in new opportunities brought about by the shift of the global urban network system focus,the accelerated formation of high-speed rail urban belts,the rise of innovative geographic unit communities,etc.As entering the new era,centering on the high-quality development requirements of urbanization and urban agglomerations,China should establish a new mechanism for more effective coordinated regional development,build an urban pattern of coordinated development of large,medium and small cities and towns with urban agglomerations as the main body,comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of urban agglomerations and regions,and take a steady and innovation-driven road to modernization.

城市历史景观(HUL)视角下的城市中心区工业遗产更新设计研究——以南宁市新阳路片区为例

近些年来,随着我国逐步进入后工业景观时代,对工业遗产的保护和利用越来越受到公众的关注,新形势下如何保护、活化及利用城市中心区工业遗产也成为了政府在城市更新中需要面对的问题。文章基于城市历史景观(HUL)理念,通过分析南宁市西乡塘区新阳片区的历史层积及现状环境,从更新、激活及耦合三大手法提出新阳路工业遗产及街巷更新设计的策略。以期探寻遗产保护与城市更新双赢的可持续发展路径,希望能为同类地区城市中心区工业遗产的更新提供一定的借鉴。

深圳打造全球区域文化中心城市的战略指向及其路径

随着经济的高速发展,深圳的文化建设也进入发展“快车道”,塑造了全新的城市文化形象,形成了特色鲜明的深圳文化。未来,着眼于国家发展大局和粤港澳大湾区发展,深圳将率先建设面向世界的区域文化中心城市和彰显国家文化软实力的现代文明城市典范。该文基于全球城市视角,提出新发展格局下深圳全球区域文化中心建设的战略指向:坚持文化融合,着力增强全社会文化创造能力;坚持文化惠民,优化提升高质量文化服务供给;坚持改革创新,夯实新时代“深圳精神”内涵;坚持开放包容,深度融入“双循环”文化市场。为了实现上述目标,深圳应加强政策保障、潜能文化释放、强化科技支撑、夯实文化底蕴、扩大对外开放。

城市轨道交通实训中心智能运维管理系统设计

设计了一种基于云-边协同架构、多专业协同融合的城市轨道交通实训中心智能运维管理系统。首先,分析智能化时代实训中心多专业的融合协同、集成化的实时监测、智能化的故障预防、信息化的资源管理、数字化的场景输出和多方面的反哺机制等需求;其次,基于云-边协同架构,对系统逻辑架构和物理架构进行设计;最后,应用智能感知、数据库、云边协同、故障预测与健康管理等技术,实现智能运维管理系统实时监控、数据管理、健康管理、应急管理、物资管理和教学管理等功能。系统测试结果表明,该系统能有效实现上述功能,显著提高实训中心的智能运维管理水平。

开放共享,共建共治:冬奥社区综合文化活动中心更新改造

在老旧小区改造中,社区文化活动中心的建设是完善社区功能、增进社区治理的重要抓手。在城市更新的背景下,其改造策略应通过多元复合与开放共享,实现高效利用、聚集人气的效果。冬奥社区综合文化中心的更新改造,采用弹性多变的空间布局策略,营造凝聚集体记忆的社区活动场所,尝试在冬奥社区老旧小区改造中,打造承载公共生活、体现在地特色的社区文化活动综合体,同时全程贯彻“共商、共建、共治、共享”的组织模式,探索通过社区中心建设增进社区治理的新方式。

弱天气背景下天津三次局地突发暴雨中尺度特征及触发机制

利用ERA5再分析(0.25°×0.25°)、加密自动气象站、多普勒天气雷达和变分多普勒天气雷达分析系统等高时空分辨率资料,对比分析了2018年7月22日、2019年7月18日、2021年8月23日天津中心城区三次局地突发性暴雨过程的中尺度特征及其触发机制。结果表明:三次局地突发性强降雨均无明显天气尺度系统主导,但环境大气具备较高的对流不稳定能量和较小的对流抑制能量,抬升凝结高度仅0.2~0.4 km,且低层均存在一定的湿层。局地突发性暴雨的发生与城市热岛及海陆下垫面特征差异造成的中小尺度系统有关,暴雨发生前天津中心城区与沿海地区之间的温差和气压差增大,中心城区附近温压场具有明显的非均匀分布特性,中尺度暖低压及其东侧的高温度梯度为局地对流发生提供了有利的中尺度环境条件。此外,暴雨发生前沿海地区均出现了明显的海风加强,城市热岛暖低压辐合与海风风速辐合共同作用使得中尺度辐合强度明显加强,是局地突发性暴雨发生的主要原因,初生的γ中尺度对流单体均位于地面强辐合中心边缘上空。