People needs in the urban landscape: Analysis of Landscape And Urban Planning contributions

Matsuoka, Rodney H.; Kaplan, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.09.009

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“…An overview of articles from Landscape and Urban Planning over 16 years has identified a number of consistent human needs in urban settings, valid across cultural differences and political contexts: "Urban residents worldwide express a desire for contact with nature and each other, attractive environments, places in which to recreate and play, privacy, a more active role in the design of their community, and a sense of community identity" (Matsuoka and Kaplan 2008). Having a degree of control at a metropolitan scale is a societal need expressed through meanings.…”

Section: Emotional and Personal Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Rómice

Thwaites

Porta

et al. 2016

Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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This chapter deals with those aspects of the design of cities that have been shown to affect quality of life. Whilst direct causal relationships between physical space and well-being are often difficult to establish, physical space certainly does play a significant part in shaping the way we engage with it, informing the individual and collective sense of attachment to our own environment; this will become increasingly important, with the urbanization process predicted to grow, a significant part of which in conditions of informality. The aim of this chapter is to gather relevant and recent research that highlights advances in the study of the reciprocal effect between urban form and urban life and use this to compile an agenda for future thinking, research and practice in the field of socially sustainable urban design.The thrust of this agenda is centered on the concept of control. Since urbanization is an ongoing phenomenon and life in cities is now the norm for the vast majority of people, the traditional role of design needs to be reconsidered to give way to more collaborative and flexible forms of conceptualization, creation, occupation and management of space. This is important in order to relieve pressure on land and institutions, and instill an overall proactive and reciprocal attitude towards space itself, and space as a form of collective and social life.The chapter will highlight that urban quality of life rests on four core themes of: material well-being; emotional and personal development; interpersonal relationships; and physical well-being. These themes provide an organizational framework for exploration of how they are manifest at the metropolitan, neighbourhood and pedestrian levels of scale. KeywordsCities, urban form, control, urban design, quality of life, metropolitan scale, neighbourhood scale, pedestrian scale. Email author OutlineFrom an overview on recent trends in urbanization, we will introduce the notion of control as a key to read the following text and in particular we will: 1. contextualize the concept of control in relation to the fields of both quality of life (QoL) and urban form. In fact, the literature in both domains shows that there is a mutually reciprocal relationship between aspects of quality of life and urban spatial structure; 2. review established and recent research on the relationships between QoL and urban form, structured around metropolitan, neighborhood and pedestrian scales, which illustrates the centrality of control in shaping our cities and allowing quality of life to be fulfilled within them; 3. propose a conceptual framework for socio-spatial urban design, which is sensitive to the relative importance of predictive/structural and loose/flexible urban elements in the production and management of urban space, and their critical role in affording their users a sense of control; 4. suggest the need for a reconceptualization of city form away from an assemblage of material and spatial elements towards a more integrated sense of a city as a mutually d...

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Section: Emotional and Personal Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Rómice

Thwaites

Porta

et al. 2016

Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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“…La influencia que generan los entornos construidos en el bienestar y desarrollo de los habitantes de las zonas urbanas ha sido bien documentada por diferentes estudiosos del tema (De Vries et al, 2003;Ward, 2013;Matsuoka, 2008). Como un elemento de la estructura urbana, los parques recreativos son espacios públicos que cumplen funciones ambientales y sociales.…”

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“…Por otro lado, el espacio público que representan dichos lugares de esparcimiento, las interacciones y los conflictos que en ellos tienen lugar han sido analizados desde la sociología y la antropología. En los últimos años se han realizado importantes trabajos relativos a estos temas en ciudades de Estados Unidos, Europa y Asia; por el contrario, las investigaciones en los países en vías en desarrollo han sido muy escasas (Matsuoka, 2008). En México, si bien existe una considerable cantidad de trabajos sobre parques nacionales y áreas de conservación, la investigación acerca de los parques urbanos se limita a algunos estudios que se han llevado a cabo en las zonas metropolitanas de las grandes ciudades (Anaya, 2002;Flores, 2011).…”

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Uso de los parques recreativos en Mérida, Yucatán

Medina¹,

Fargher²

2016

EDU

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“…Urban functional zones are basic units of urban planning and management [1,2], categorizing where people undertake different socioeconomic activities [3]. In most cities, they consist of commercial zones, residential districts, industrial zones, shanty towns, and parks ( Figure 1).…”

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“…They utilized roads as boundaries to segment VHR satellite images into blocks which were regarded as functional zones. However, this method will be ineffective in the following three cases: (1) when the segmented blocks contain different kinds of functional zones [25], so a block does not fall entirely within an individual functional zone; (2) when there are temporal differences between VHR images and the used road data [26]; and (3) when researchers are seeking functional zones at a scale other than that of the blocks. Functional zones usually have different sizes and heterogeneities, which should be derived from segmentation results at multiple scales [27].…”

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Multiscale Geoscene Segmentation for Extracting Urban Functional Zones from VHR Satellite Images

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2018

Remote Sensing

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Urban functional zones, such as commercial, residential, and industrial zones, are basic units of urban planning, and play an important role in monitoring urbanization. However, historical functional-zone maps are rarely available for cities in developing countries, as traditional urban investigations focus on geographic objects rather than functional zones. Recent studies have sought to extract functional zones automatically from very-high-resolution (VHR) satellite images, and they mainly concentrate on classification techniques, but ignore zone segmentation which delineates functional-zone boundaries and is fundamental to functional-zone analysis. To resolve the issue, this study presents a novel segmentation method, geoscene segmentation, which can identify functional zones at multiple scales by aggregating diverse urban objects considering their features and spatial patterns. In experiments, we applied this method to three Chinese cities-Beijing, Putian, and Zhuhai-and generated detailed functional-zone maps with diverse functional categories. These experimental results indicate our method effectively delineates urban functional zones with VHR imagery; different categories of functional zones extracted by using different scale parameters; and spatial patterns that are more important than the features of individual objects in extracting functional zones. Accordingly, the presented multiscale geoscene segmentation method is important for urban-functional-zone analysis, and can provide valuable data for city planners.

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People needs in the urban landscape: Analysis of Landscape And Urban Planning contributions

Cited by 440 publications

References 92 publications

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Uso de los parques recreativos en Mérida, Yucatán

Multiscale Geoscene Segmentation for Extracting Urban Functional Zones from VHR Satellite Images

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