An approach for understanding encroachments in the urban environment based on complexity science

Patil, Akshay P.; Dongre, Alpana R.

doi:10.1057/udi.2013.12

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“…Catalytic nature refers to the ability of major functions to increase the number of users in the public realm. As Patil and Dongre (2013) observe, a major function attracts a lot of people and, in turn, has the potential of promoting other activities in the vicinity. Observation reveals that encroachments are also part of these promoted activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The encroachments, in their existing form, generate a lot of disturbances in the public realm. The most commonly observed are: hindrances to the movement network, barriers for experiencing open spaces, no space for parking, challenges to urban management systems and, finally, an adverse impact on the image of a place (Patil and Dongre 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many functions in an urban environment are never planned for and what emerges as encroachments are nothing but the entities which house these functions. The activities happening within encroachments have an important role to play in the functioning of the city, but the way they exist in our urban environment becomes an issue of concern (Patil and Dongre 2013). By default, the vendors have become the caterers to the city's outdoor life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the Indian context, the public realm and encroachments are the best representation of chaos. The chaotic characteristic of encroachments seems to be a barrier to having insight into the emerging form of encroachments based on the reductionist approach (Patil and Dongre 2013). How can we improve the design and maintenance of a public realm which is currently so starved of imagination and resources (Tibbalds 1992)?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The quest is to know how to design, build, and manage the public realm as it increases in size and connectivity with reference to the issue of encroachments. Patil and Dongre (2013) note that the disordered appearance of encroachments is a manifestation of a complex order in the urban environment and there is a need to have an effective framework for analysing the emerging form of encroachments in an urban environment. Any progress in this regard will enable us to develop an appropriate public realm which is essentially used by the urban population and will enhance their experience.…”

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Emergent Properties of the Public Realm and Encroachments in the Urban Environment

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The declining quality of the public realm in urban environment is a matter of concern and is found to be encroached upon in Indian cities. There is an urgent need to address this issue, and it is challenging for urban designers. Adopting an analytic framework addressing this ever-changing nature of the public realm in practice would be instrumental in improving the quality of urban life at large. The public realm in an urban environment is considered as a complex system to observe the macro-level behaviouremergent properties which are either encouraging or discouraging for encroachments assumed to be the function of micro-level behaviour-elementary properties of interconnected and interdependent individual elements. Owing to the impossibility of experimenting with these emergent properties in the real world, an agent-based model-''Emergent Properties of Public Realm 3.1''-was developed in NetLogo 4.1.3. The typical cases representing the encroached and the un-encroached public realm were identified in the real world and experiments were conducted with varied interaction constants assumed to represent the pace of change in an urban environment. The output generated by the agent-based model was analyzed with respect to the real world.

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Correlation between spatial characteristics and overflow rate of back alleys in high‐density city of Hong Kong

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Gao,

Zhang

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Japan Architectural Review

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In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted within urban informality research from informal settlements to the appropriation of public spaces in formal urban settings. Overflow, a common research subject within this context, has drawn particular interest. This study investigates overflow dynamics in a representative district of Hong Kong, utilizing the overflow rate as a measure of the extent to which overflow occurs. Three‐dimensional (3D) scanning technology was applied to collect spatial data from back alleys. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to identify the spatial characteristics of back alleys that influence overflow rates. The results revealed that back alleys with a flatter spatial interface, more overhead shelter, greater numbers of alley‐shops, and shorter overall length corresponded to a higher number of overflow occurrences. Two novel findings emerged: First, a negative correlation between spatial interface unevenness and overflow rates, and second, differential impacts of the shop density and number of alley‐shops on overflow rates. These findings may serve as a valuable reference for governmental policy formulation regarding overflow management and may offer architects workable insights for designing back alleys and street spaces conducive to public use.

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Double Whammy Wicked: Street Vendors and Littering in Mankweng Township and Paarl, South Africa—Towards People-centred Urban Governance

Schenck¹,

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Viljoen³

et al. 2021

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The article probes the complexity of dealing with two interrelated wicked problems, namely informal, self-employed street vendors, and their experiences of littering. This paper describes the themes that emerged from 92 qualitative interviews to determine the perceptions of street vendors regarding reasons for littering on the streets where they operate as well as their experiences of working in these littered environments. By drawing on the themes emerging from semi-structured interviews with vendors, we suggest how stakeholders could engage with the concerns around street vending and littering by means of the use of adaptive management or co-management, engaging, and integrating diverse perspectives, the facilitation of self-organisation, and establishing safe boundaries to evade system thresholds. In this way, complexity-based strategies can promote people-centred urban governance that empowers and includes citizens in attempts to manage the wicked problems of growing cities inclusively.

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An approach for understanding encroachments in the urban environment based on complexity science

Cited by 5 publications

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Emergent Properties of the Public Realm and Encroachments in the Urban Environment

Emergent Properties of the Public Realm and Encroachments in the Urban Environment

Correlation between spatial characteristics and overflow rate of back alleys in high‐density city of Hong Kong

Double Whammy Wicked: Street Vendors and Littering in Mankweng Township and Paarl, South Africa—Towards People-centred Urban Governance

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