The new urban left in local government from the early 1980s aimed to change the way in which local councils operate so that the users and providers of council services and the local community could gain greater control over the development and provision of council services. Material is produced and analysed to show that the aims of the new urban left Labour councils in this area were, at best, only partially successful. The findings of a comparative case study into industrial relations in Sheffield City Council and Doncaster Borough Council will show that the commitments of Sheffield City Council, on the industrial relations front, as set out in District Labour Party election manifestos, council documents and statements by ex Leader of the Council David Blunkett, have been unfulfilled. Theoretical insights into the relationship between socialism and trade union praxis, the position of professional workers in advanced capitalist society and the theory and practice of new urban left councils will be advanced to help explain the lack of progress. The argument that Labour councils need to think more strategically in order to overcome the structural and institutional obstacles to radical change is advanced. A number of issues highlighted in the literature on the new urban left are considered. Original material affecting the understanding of the relationship between different council trade unions and Labour councils is produced. Arising out of the case study, the role played by senior council officers and leading councillors in the policy making and policy implementation process and the relationship between councillors and senior officers in two different Labour councils is explored. New insights into those areas are produced. Important issues and areas requiring further research are highlighted.

Vertical farms, vertical, a word describing the essence of the meaning of this type of cultivation. So why are we building vertical farms in sheet metal halls and using only the potential of racks stacked on top of each other? Let's use the potential of this technology and the great adaptability of plants to the new environment and create a new food source operating locally and in continuous operation. Not only would this benefit from the availability of local and foreign food regardless of the season or the changing climate, but the changes it would bring to the economic gap would have a major impact on reducing intercontinental and intracontinental traffic. This would reduce carbon emissions and reduce agricultural areas that could replace forests that are more environmentally friendly.

The diploma thesis deals strategy for reconversion of the former spa by Bohuslav Fuchs in the Uherské Hradiště. Phase strategy: 0. PR spa, 1. Temporary galleries, 2. Clean and conservation , 3. New layer-creative incubator.

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In the early 20th century, downtown areas were the primary centers of commerce, industry, and cultural activity in many American cities. However, with the rise of suburbanization, many of these downtown areas began to experience economic decline and population loss. Factors that contributed to this decline included the decentralization of jobs and economic activity to suburban areas, as well as the increasing availability of affordable automobiles that allowed people to commute longer distances. As more people moved to the suburbs, downtown areas became associated with problems such as crime, poverty, and decay. This led to a further decline in urban areas as businesses and residents left for the suburbs. This is how the edge cities started to rise. Transit development is a significant impact on the shift of population to edge cities. The term "edge cities"was coined by Joel Garreau in his 1991 book "Edge Cities: Life on the New Frontier". which are suburban areas that have become significant employment centers and have developed downtown-like characteristics. These urban areas are driven by factors such as the desire for walkable neighborhoods, access to cultural amenities, and job opportunities that are like urban downtowns. The Thesis proposal explores combining both suburban and urban lifestyles resulting in a hybrid environment that offers the best of both worlds. It will provide the sense of community and neighborhood that is often found in suburban areas, along with the convenience and accessibility to urban amenities and services. The concept will be addressing how horizontal living (Suburban) and how vertical living (Downtown) would address a different lifestyle that will give access to a range of shops, restaurants, and entertainment options within a short walk or bike from home, as well as having park spaces and playgrounds connecting between the buildings will help to thrive for better and healthy communities. This project will also offer the benefits of urban living, such as the opportunity to work in a dynamic and diverse environment, access to cultural events and activities, and the convenience of public transportation. This idea of convergence is focusing on the newly proposed purple line transit corridor and Adelphi-West Metro Station, Maryland. It envisions a unique urban fabric that will set into action to reduce reliance on cars by promoting more sustainable way of life. / Master of Science / Rapid urbanization has impacted the natural landscape in the United States. The shift of population to suburbs in the United States was primarily driven by a combination of factors that arose in the mid-20th century, including the growth of automobile use, the development of the interstate highway system, and the expansion of affordable single-family homes in suburban areas. One of the main reasons people are moving to these areas is the job market, quality of life, and affordability. In recent years, there has been a growing trend of people moving from Washington, DC to the nearby communities of Bethesda and Silver Spring. Both places are easily accessible from downtown by means of transportation. These places are known for their vibrant downtown areas with a range of shops, restaurants, and cultural attractions. They also offer a few outdoor amenities, including park spaces, trails, and other recreational opportunities. This shift in population has been observed in many other areas on the Purple Line corridor. In these one of the major potential places would be Adelphi-West. This thesis is going to propose an adaptive master plan by critiquing the existing master plan for the Adelphi-West Metro Station in three strategic ways. Ecology Connectivity Efficient uses (spaces) Secondly, it is creating an urban fabric by providing a suburban and a downtown lifestyle that addresses achieving vibrant and diverse communities which offer a range of amenities, including shopping centers, restaurants, and entertainment venues, making them attractive destinations for both workers and residents.

Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between the built environment and social and transportation outcomes when comparing traditional and conventional suburban neighborhoods, but much remains to be learned about whether New Urbanism can produce similar results. Among studies where new urban neighborhoods have been assessed, most have centered on regions with highly-utilized public transit systems and with climates that are amenable to utilitarian physical activity. This research sought to build on the existing research base through direct comparison of new urban and conventional suburban neighborhoods in central Florida, a region with an under-developed transit system and a climate that renders utilitarian physical activity impractical. Further, this research sought to lend greater insights into neighborhood selection factors across neighborhood types. A mixed-methods, single-case design was utilized to evaluate one new urban and one conventional suburban neighborhood in the central Florida region. Regional new urban neighborhoods were subjectively rated for adherence to tenets of the Charter of the New Urbanism, with the neighborhood (Celebration, in Osceola County, FL) found to most closely adhere to these tenets selected as the experimental group for the study. A socio-demographically comparable conventional suburban neighborhood (Sweetwater, in Seminole County, FL) was selected as the control group. Quantitative methods consisted of a household survey issued to 250 randomly- and convenience-sampled addresses in each neighborhood, followed by regression analysis to evaluate study hypotheses. Qualitative methods employed analysis of open-ended survey responses, detailed case studies of selected neighborhoods, and resident interviews. The household survey yielded net response rates of 15.79 percent and 25.50 percent iv for experimental and control neighborhoods, respectively, and a mean cross-neighborhood response rate of 20.64 percent. Twenty resident interviews (10 per neighborhood) were conducted. Quantitative and qualitative findings were compared to collectively address research questions. Regression results indicated no statistically significant difference between neighborhoods in attitudinal and behavioral components of community participation, in vehicle miles driven per week, or utilitarian physical activity frequency. However, results indicated that new urban residents had more positive attitudes toward utilitarian physical activity than conventional suburban residents and that attitudes toward community participation and utilitarian physical activity were positively correlated with associated behaviors. Qualitative findings provided substantial individual- and environmental-level insights to factors impacting evaluated attitudes and behaviors, and supported some quantitative findings while not aligning with others. Neighborhood selection factors were found to be quite different across neighborhoods: Celebration residents identified neighborhood social atmosphere and connection to the Walt Disney Company brand as top contributors to their selection decision, while Sweetwater residents expressed that access to quality schools was the most important factor in their selection decision. Qualitative findings indicated that car culture and climate within the central Florida region diminished both attitudinal and behavioral components of utilitarian physical activity across neighborhood types. This research expanded the understanding of the social and transportation outcomes of New Urbanism, particularly with respect to the central Florida region. While case and quantitative limitations may have impeded the ability of this study to draw decisive conclusions v about research questions, distinctive themes regarding social and transportation outcomes were identified. Findings of this research supported those of some prior studies while contradicting others, indicating that further exploration is needed to establish a firm understanding of the capabilities of new urban development to achieve desired outcomes, and of regional characteristics that may influence these outcomes.

The urban transformation of the city of Ankara as a planned and constructed city with stable configurations, definitive forms, limits and boundaries in scope of modernization project of the country, is under the influence of new space-time understanding with hybridizations, proximities, frictions, overlaps and superpositions in neo-liberal era. This thesis presents the rapid transformation of Eskisehir Highway which is the development corridor of the city of Ankara. Eskisehir Highway is chosen in order to reflect the complexity of the metropolitan condition of the city of Ankara. Eskisehir Highway will be questioned as a vector which will be used as a tool to decipher multi-dimensional dynamics of this complex urban condition which reconfigures the new urban architecture with intensity, movement, direction and magnitude as both the features of the vector and era. The Highway as a vectorial urban realm is transforming itself and the nearby, with the non-linear capitalist project production process. In order to understand this transformation, the new urban objects of globalization will be examined as big projects of large capital regarding the new relation patterns between architecture and the urbanism under a framework shaped by the notions of movement-fluidity- speed, intensity, direction and magnitude.

The United Nations (UN) has implemented a policy of gender mainstreaming in their agendas forboth sustainable development and urban development with the aim of improving gender equity in member statesthrough all of the organization’s work. However, many scholars have criticized the UN’s incorporation ofgender in these agendas for lacking systemic and coordinated policy schemes that are capable of ensuringgender equity. The majority of these analyses were performed shortly after the agendas’ introductions. In thisthesis, I return to these agendas a few years after their implementation to examine the discourses of gender inurban sustainability that they contain and consider whether these discourses are or are not reflected in thenational and local sustainable urban development agendas of one member state, Sweden, and its largest city,Stockholm. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to identify such gendered discourses and determinewhether the ideologies they reflect are or are not contributing to the agendas’ stated aim to achieve genderequity. Findings show that there are both significant similarities and differences between discourses at all levels,with different degrees of both reinforcement of and opposition to status quo gender hierarchy at each level.Agendas at the national and local levels showed more evidence of anti-hierarchical ideology than theinternational level, suggesting that the gender equity work of member states need not be constrained by theshortcomings of the UN approach.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Paulo Ribeiro Siqueira.pdf: 1238141 bytes, checksum: 3347fb3be2cc5ab7ba95d3cb12ba619d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The flow of urban development starting from the second half of the twentieth century has significantly changed the structure from the most cities around the world. The processes of urban expansion and employment decentralization became the monocentric theoretical framework, the main analytical tool of the New Urban Economics, inappropriate for understanding the dynamics of the great polycentric cities. The difficulties regarding the creation of a polycentric approach theoretically elegant and intuitive, so as the monocentric, culminated in the development, from the mid-1980s, in a series of techniques for the identification of employment subcenters, or just urban subcenters. In proposing the analysis of the territory of the city of São Paulo under a polycentric perspective, this essay will use two main methods for the identification of sub-centers spread in international practice, the procedure based on cutoff values and the local Moran statistic, as described in the work of ANSELIN (1995). Based on the data of Pesquisa Origem e Destino de 2007 and the search for consistency between the theoretical assumptions about the structure of urban space and the results obtained by the methodological procedures applied, besides to prove to the importance of the main center, this essay identifies four other subcenters in Sao Paulo. It can also be observed the predominance of jobs linked to the service sector in these places, their importance in the urban context and the similarity of results with respect to the location of the sub-centers, when compared to other intraurban subcenters identified in the international practice / O curso do desenvolvimento urbano a partir da segunda metade do século XX alterou de forma significativa a estrutura das cidades ao redor do mundo. Os processos de expansão urbana e descentralização do emprego fizeram com que o arcabouço teórico monocêntrico, principal instrumento analítico da Nova Economia Urbana, se tornasse inadequado para a análise da dinâmica das grandes cidades policêntricas. As dificuldades quanto à criação de uma abordagem teórica policêntrica elegante e intuitiva, tão quanto a monocêntrica, culminou no desenvolvimento, a partir de meados da década de 1980, de uma série de técnicas para a identificação de subcentros de emprego, ou apenas subcentros urbanos. Ao propor a análise do território da cidade de São Paulo sob uma ótica policêntrica, este trabalho fará o uso de duas das principais metodologias para a identificação de subcentros difundidas na prática internacional; o procedimento ligado ao estabelecimento de valores de corte e a estatística local de Moran, tal como se apresenta no trabalho de ANSELIN (1995). A partir dos dados da Pesquisa Origem e Destino de 2007 e na busca pela correspondência entre as premissas teóricas sobre a estrutura do espaço urbano e os resultados obtidos pelos procedimentos metodológicos aplicados este trabalho, além de atestar a importância do centro principal, identifica outros 4 subcentros na cidade de São Paulo. Pode-se observar, ainda, a predominância dos empregos ligados ao setor de serviços nestes locais, sua importância no contexto urbano e a similaridade dos resultados no que diz respeito à localização dos subcentros, quando se comparada à de outros subcentros intra-urbanos identificados na prática internacional

Orientador: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito / Banca: Nécio Turra Neto / Banca: Oscar Alfredo Sobarzo Miño / Resumo: As atuais formas de produção e de apropriação do espaço urbano têm acentuado a tendência de segregação socioespacial, promovendo alterações na vida urbana contemporânea e nas práticas socioespaciais dos citadinos. Como consequência, a redefinição das relações entre o público e o privado tem modificado o significado do que é a cidade enquanto lócus da diversidade e confronto entre as diferenças. Essa nova estruturação, marcada por novas práticas socioespaciais, tem gerado dinâmicas de fragmentação socioespacial, o que exige que se observe a articulação entre formas, conteúdos e valores, para se compreender as novas lógicas da produção desigual do espaço urbano e as dimensões do controle social que lhes são atinentes. Com base nestas premissas, esta pesquisa propõe-se a contribuir para o estudo da fragmentação socioespacial, a partir de duas cidades paulistas de porte médio: Marília e São Carlos. Recolheu-se elementos para avaliar em que medida os sujeitos autossegregados destas cidades optam por espaços residenciais fechados e pelo consumo seletivo da cidade, nos quais, estejam presentes aspectos de uma sociabilidade segmentada / Abstract: The current production forms and of appropriation of the urban space has accentuated the tendency of socio-spatial segregation, promoting alterations in the contemporary urban life and in the socio-spatial practices of the city dwellers. Also, the redefinition of the relation between the public and the private has changed the meaning of what is the city, while place of the diversity and confrontation among the differences. This new structuring, marked by new socio-spatial practices, has generated dynamics of socio-spatial fragmentation. This requires an examination the articulation between forms, contents and values, to understand the new logics of the unequal production of the urban space and the dimensions of the social control that are them concerning. Based on this, this research intends to contribute with the study of socio-spatial fragmentation, starting from two middle-size cities, located in São Paulo State: Marília and São Carlos. It was collected elements to evaluate in that measured the subjects self-segregated, in these cities, opt for residential spaces closed and for the selective consumption of the city where present aspects of a segmented sociability be. This research articulates to project: Diffuse Urbanization, Public Space and Urban Insecurity, supported by FAPESP / Mestre