Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.24193/jsspsi.04.patdc
Cynthia Puspitasari, H. Hanan
Hijab, in a general perspective, is a head covering used in Muslim women’s clothing. More intrinsically, the hijab refers to one of the concepts in Islamic teachings that affect the boundaries of the lives of women and men. It is also one of the essential aspects that shape settlement patterns in Arab communities. The concept of hijab is embedded in daily lives and forms a different way of performing activities between men and women. This paper aims to clarify the role of the hijab in identifying different place attachments between men and women. Places attached to men and women are intertwined differently and in nuanced and specific ways. The study used content analysis and provides empirical insights into how the tradition of hijab is closely related to the formation of different place attachments between genders. The paper observes how the phenomenon of maintaining religious and cultural practices in an immigrant community forms the basis for community place attachment and how an indigenous society tolerates it.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.24193/jsspsi.02.patdc
Florentina-Cristina Merciu, Martin Olaru, G. Merciu
This study focuses on the analysis of place attachment related to the elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa, a small town in the Mountainous Banat. Oraviţa played a highly significant role from an economic and administrative point of view during the Austrian domination: it was the urban centre that coordinated the mining activity on the territory of Mountainous Banat. This study aims to assess the place attachment to several symbolic buildings in Oraviţa that have been identified as elements of territorial identity. In order to fulfil the purpose of this study, the following research questions were established: What are the main elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa represented in postcards over time? Which of the identified elements of territorial identity are currently being promoted and valued by the local public administration? What are the elements of territorial identity of Oraviţa to which the population is attached? From a methodological point of view, the authors used postcards to identify the elements of territorial identity. Subsequently, the place attachment to the representative historical buildings of Oraviţa was interpreted based on the analysis of the information posted on sites developed by members of the local community. In conclusion, the authors highlighted the particular characteristics of the urban fabric of Oraviţa and their various ways of use, elements through which the physical and social attachment of the local population were preserved.
{"title":"Place Attachment Assessment through the Lens of Territorial Identity: The Town of Oraviţa as a Case Study (Romania)","authors":"Florentina-Cristina Merciu, Martin Olaru, G. Merciu","doi":"10.24193/jsspsi.02.patdc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jsspsi.02.patdc","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the analysis of place attachment related to the elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa, a small town in the Mountainous Banat. Oraviţa played a highly significant role from an economic and administrative point of view during the Austrian domination: it was the urban centre that coordinated the mining activity on the territory of Mountainous Banat. This study aims to assess the place attachment to several symbolic buildings in Oraviţa that have been identified as elements of territorial identity. In order to fulfil the purpose of this study, the following research questions were established: What are the main elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa represented in postcards over time? Which of the identified elements of territorial identity are currently being promoted and valued by the local public administration? What are the elements of territorial identity of Oraviţa to which the population is attached? From a methodological point of view, the authors used postcards to identify the elements of territorial identity. Subsequently, the place attachment to the representative historical buildings of Oraviţa was interpreted based on the analysis of the information posted on sites developed by members of the local community. In conclusion, the authors highlighted the particular characteristics of the urban fabric of Oraviţa and their various ways of use, elements through which the physical and social attachment of the local population were preserved.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42521573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.24193/jsspsi.03.patdc
M. Preda, Ana-Irina Lequeux – Dincă, A. Taloș, Alina Mareci, Camelia Surugiu, Marius-Răzvan Surugiu
The continuous growth of elderly population cohorts represents a global phenomenon influencing the design of any country’s economic and social policies. In the present context, an urban development planning challenge is encouraging an active and healthy lifestyle, transforming seniors into an economically and socially active group that further ensures their successful active ageing and respects place attachment values. This study aims to depict an overall image of the possibility to achieve active ageing for Bucharest’s elderly and their perception of this matter. In order to do so, the research appealed to the survey method for a total sample of 402 residents aged 65+ and living in all districts of Bucharest. The research objectives follow the main pillars of the active ageing concept that is assessing: their financial security and reasons motivating them to work after retiring, their capacity and needs for independent living, their access to health services and the enabling environment, which can act both as a facilitator and a barrier. The main results reveal that an active lifestyle depends on socio-economic and psychological characteristics and that the elderly’s contribution to economic life is often a continuation of their previous activities, not necessarily a result of successful policies for achieving active ageing. All these, next to low revenues, low access to health care, and limited usage capacity for ICT tools, define obvious difficulties for designing future urban friendly-ageing policies in Bucharest. This research represents a valuable contribution from the pre-COVID period, which may be complemented by further studies that contrast current perspectives on the topic.
{"title":"Questioning the Potential for Achieving Active Ageing in Bucharest","authors":"M. Preda, Ana-Irina Lequeux – Dincă, A. Taloș, Alina Mareci, Camelia Surugiu, Marius-Răzvan Surugiu","doi":"10.24193/jsspsi.03.patdc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jsspsi.03.patdc","url":null,"abstract":"The continuous growth of elderly population cohorts represents a global phenomenon influencing the design of any country’s economic and social policies. In the present context, an urban development planning challenge is encouraging an active and healthy lifestyle, transforming seniors into an economically and socially active group that further ensures their successful active ageing and respects place attachment values. This study aims to depict an overall image of the possibility to achieve active ageing for Bucharest’s elderly and their perception of this matter. In order to do so, the research appealed to the survey method for a total sample of 402 residents aged 65+ and living in all districts of Bucharest. The research objectives follow the main pillars of the active ageing concept that is assessing: their financial security and reasons motivating them to work after retiring, their capacity and needs for independent living, their access to health services and the enabling environment, which can act both as a facilitator and a barrier. The main results reveal that an active lifestyle depends on socio-economic and psychological characteristics and that the elderly’s contribution to economic life is often a continuation of their previous activities, not necessarily a result of successful policies for achieving active ageing. All these, next to low revenues, low access to health care, and limited usage capacity for ICT tools, define obvious difficulties for designing future urban friendly-ageing policies in Bucharest. This research represents a valuable contribution from the pre-COVID period, which may be complemented by further studies that contrast current perspectives on the topic.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43440024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nataliya Sytnyk, V. Humeniuk, O. Sych, Nataliya Hlevatska
Rural areas of the Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Euroregion face several challenges in their development such as declining natural growth, migration, unemployment, low level of gross domestic product per capita, small rural households, having low quality land used for cultivation of a limited number of crops. The introduction of the state strategy for the region could be the instrument to revitalize the rural areas. However, there are unresolved scientific debates about the most effective tools for the strategy that would focus on specific challenges of the mountain rural areas. The aim of the article is to answer the questions: what are the dynamics of the main socio-economic indicators of the mountain rural territories in comparison with the Ukraine and EU? What are the main disadvantages of the region and how they could be solved using the EU experience? The calculation of statistical indicators showed a divergence - differences with the average indicators across the country and the EU in 2011-2019. The method of SWOT analysis reveals the factors of internal and external environment that have a positive and negative impact on the development of rural areas. Based on the European experience of implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, new elements were proposed to be considered in the Ukrainian strategy: introduction of a systematic approach to the creation of the rural strategy, greening agricultural production and the implementation of the concept of smart villages in Carpathian region. The inclusion of these elements could improve the investment climate in rural areas, which is one of the priorities of rural development of the Ukrainian Carpathian Region.
{"title":"\"Revitalization of Rural Areas of the Carpathian Region in the Context of EU Macro-Regional Strategy \"","authors":"Nataliya Sytnyk, V. Humeniuk, O. Sych, Nataliya Hlevatska","doi":"10.24193/jssp.2022.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jssp.2022.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Rural areas of the Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Euroregion face several challenges in their development such as declining natural growth, migration, unemployment, low level of gross domestic product per capita, small rural households, having low quality land used for cultivation of a limited number of crops. The introduction of the state strategy for the region could be the instrument to revitalize the rural areas. However, there are unresolved scientific debates about the most effective tools for the strategy that would focus on specific challenges of the mountain rural areas. The aim of the article is to answer the questions: what are the dynamics of the main socio-economic indicators of the mountain rural territories in comparison with the Ukraine and EU? What are the main disadvantages of the region and how they could be solved using the EU experience? The calculation of statistical indicators showed a divergence - differences with the average indicators across the country and the EU in 2011-2019. The method of SWOT analysis reveals the factors of internal and external environment that have a positive and negative impact on the development of rural areas. Based on the European experience of implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, new elements were proposed to be considered in the Ukrainian strategy: introduction of a systematic approach to the creation of the rural strategy, greening agricultural production and the implementation of the concept of smart villages in Carpathian region. The inclusion of these elements could improve the investment climate in rural areas, which is one of the priorities of rural development of the Ukrainian Carpathian Region.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48508752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The evolution of built areas is a widely debated subject mostly because their high dynamics and expansion can be related to the economic development. Technically, the availability of European datasets that include the built areas extracted from satellite imagery is an advantage that could be used for further research. The study aims to analyse the spatial and temporal dynamics of the built areas in six metropolitan areas of Romania, in the period 2006-2018. Functional areas were delimited and the new cover of built areas was calculated for each administrative unit. The Imperviousness Classified Change datasets for the periods 2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and 2015-2018 were downloaded in raster format from Copernicus Land Monitoring Service website. The new surfaces, added from one period to another, were outlined in cartographic representations and Google Earth was used for validation. The results showed that, for the entire reference period, the largest increase values of the newly built area were registered in the metropolitan areas of Cluj, followed by Braşov and Timişoara, whilst lower increase values were recorded for Constanţa, Craiova and Iaşi. Also, by analysing the extension of the built areas, we were able to illustrate some spatial development directions within each of the metropolitan areas. The major differences can be explained by the economic development of the examined areas, which included the expansion of both residential and transport infrastructure. Moreover, the pace of development was more intense in the case of the administrative units located nearby the urban centre as opposed to those situated at a considerable distance. This conclusion emphasises the importance of proximity within the metropolitan area studies.
{"title":"\"Evolution of Built Surfaces Based on Copernicus High Resolution Layers. The Case of Growth Poles-Based Metropolitan Areas, Romania \"","authors":"C. Ursu, J. Benedek","doi":"10.24193/jssp.2022.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jssp.2022.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of built areas is a widely debated subject mostly because their high dynamics and expansion can be related to the economic development. Technically, the availability of European datasets that include the built areas extracted from satellite imagery is an advantage that could be used for further research. The study aims to analyse the spatial and temporal dynamics of the built areas in six metropolitan areas of Romania, in the period 2006-2018. Functional areas were delimited and the new cover of built areas was calculated for each administrative unit. The Imperviousness Classified Change datasets for the periods 2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and 2015-2018 were downloaded in raster format from Copernicus Land Monitoring Service website. The new surfaces, added from one period to another, were outlined in cartographic representations and Google Earth was used for validation. The results showed that, for the entire reference period, the largest increase values of the newly built area were registered in the metropolitan areas of Cluj, followed by Braşov and Timişoara, whilst lower increase values were recorded for Constanţa, Craiova and Iaşi. Also, by analysing the extension of the built areas, we were able to illustrate some spatial development directions within each of the metropolitan areas. The major differences can be explained by the economic development of the examined areas, which included the expansion of both residential and transport infrastructure. Moreover, the pace of development was more intense in the case of the administrative units located nearby the urban centre as opposed to those situated at a considerable distance. This conclusion emphasises the importance of proximity within the metropolitan area studies.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47785585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.24193/jsspsi.01.wswmmss
Xi Zhang, M. Kamali
Water is the basis of modern societies. However, population growth and rapid urbanization on the one hand, and anthropogenic activities, on the other hand, have considerably contributed to the scarcity of clean water resources. Hence, modern and smart cities have to develop sustainable tools and technologies for providing clean water resources and treat the generated effluents from the various industrial and non-industrial origins to satisfy the sustainability and circular economy goals. In this regard, a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge is needed to investigate various aspects including site selection and designing modern (waste)water treatment facilities. Therefore, studies are welcome to design modern and smart cities or to modify the conventional infrastructures in the existing urban areas.
{"title":"Guest Editorial. Water Supply and Wastewater Management in Modern and Smart Cities","authors":"Xi Zhang, M. Kamali","doi":"10.24193/jsspsi.01.wswmmss","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jsspsi.01.wswmmss","url":null,"abstract":"Water is the basis of modern societies. However, population growth and rapid urbanization on the one hand, and anthropogenic activities, on the other hand, have considerably contributed to the scarcity of clean water resources. Hence, modern and smart cities have to develop sustainable tools and technologies for providing clean water resources and treat the generated effluents from the various industrial and non-industrial origins to satisfy the sustainability and circular economy goals. In this regard, a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge is needed to investigate various aspects including site selection and designing modern (waste)water treatment facilities. Therefore, studies are welcome to design modern and smart cities or to modify the conventional infrastructures in the existing urban areas.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42973794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reza MEHDIZADEH ANVIGH, José FIGUEIREDO SILVA, J. Macedo
This study focuses on the analysis of place attachment related to the elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa, a small town in the Mountainous Banat. Oraviţa played a highly significant role from an economic and administrative point of view during the Austrian domination: it was the urban centre that coordinated the mining activity on the territory of Mountainous Banat. This study aims to assess the place attachment to several symbolic buildings in Oraviţa that have been identified as elements of territorial identity. In order to fulfil the purpose of this study, the following research questions were established: What are the main elements of territorial identity in Oraviţa represented in postcards over time? Which of the identified elements of territorial identity are currently being promoted and valued by the local public administration? What are the elements of territorial identity of Oraviţa to which the population is attached? From a methodological point of view, the authors used postcards to identify the elements of territorial identity. Subsequently, the place attachment to the representative historical buildings of Oraviţa was interpreted based on the analysis of the information posted on sites developed by members of the local community. In conclusion, the authors highlighted the particular characteristics of the urban fabric of Oraviţa and their various ways of use, elements through which the physical and social attachment of the local population were preserved.
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Since the mid-20th century, cities in Africa drift awkwardly along paths charted by different shades of development ideologies, development hypothesis, planning theories, and planning mandates. These cities end up as inevitable products of intervening culture and policy formulation hegemony from abroad. They function outside the mainstream of the global economy; hence, they barely share the global perception of world cities, as economic centers of excellence for manufacturing, and information products that influence the global economy, as profit-making corporate entities with the potentials to perform economic functions, and as a remote sensor for measuring capitalist development. In the context of emerging city networking for new regionalism, this paper argues that Africa requires an alternative hypothesis of world cities. Therefore, the paper aims to suggest a hypothesis of world cities that makes sense of African realities. The critical question is what hypothesis of world cities is suitable for Africa? The underlying research problem subsists in rethinking the city, which involves the reversal of the alterations that sustain the imperial status of cities in Africa. Using a qualitative research methodology the paper contributes the ‘worldwide city’ hypothesis of world cities for Africa.
{"title":"\"The Worldwide-City Hypothesis of Global Cities for Africa in the Era of Globalization – Introducing Time-Efficient City Model \"","authors":"D. Okeke, M. Nwachukwu, Frances Ifeoma Ukonze","doi":"10.24193/jssp.2022.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jssp.2022.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"Since the mid-20th century, cities in Africa drift awkwardly along paths charted by different shades of development ideologies, development hypothesis, planning theories, and planning mandates. These cities end up as inevitable products of intervening culture and policy formulation hegemony from abroad. They function outside the mainstream of the global economy; hence, they barely share the global perception of world cities, as economic centers of excellence for manufacturing, and information products that influence the global economy, as profit-making corporate entities with the potentials to perform economic functions, and as a remote sensor for measuring capitalist development. In the context of emerging city networking for new regionalism, this paper argues that Africa requires an alternative hypothesis of world cities. Therefore, the paper aims to suggest a hypothesis of world cities that makes sense of African realities. The critical question is what hypothesis of world cities is suitable for Africa? The underlying research problem subsists in rethinking the city, which involves the reversal of the alterations that sustain the imperial status of cities in Africa. Using a qualitative research methodology the paper contributes the ‘worldwide city’ hypothesis of world cities for Africa.","PeriodicalId":43343,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48119812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.24193/jsspsi.04.cspter
M. Mariš, M. Kováčik
The main objective of the paper was to investigate a possible link between the urban structure and regional economic performance in Slovakia, at district level (LAU1). Based on the selected urban indicators, we identified distinct patterns in terms of urban structure and economic performance in Slovakia through the Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) method. The “inner” urban pattern includes districts located predominantly in the central part of the country with some extension to the west and east. Common characteristics of this pattern are higher centrality, clustering, and monocentric urban cores. The “outer” urban pattern includes districts located predominantly at the periphery, along the borders. The common characteristics of this pattern are the dispersed urban patterns and polycentric settlement structures. The underlying urban structure was matched with the economic conditions prevailing in each district for evaluating the degree of concordance. The kappa coefficient of concordance has shown a scant relation between the urban structure and economic performance of regions at the district level (LAU1). According to the main findings, underlying urban pattern (clustered or dispersed one) in any particular district does not preclude economic success or failure of its regional economy.
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A. Sergeyeva, Altynbek Khamit, Asima Кoshim, Murat Makhambetov
The rapid pace of urban development triggers complex problems mostly related to urban environment pollution, and shortcomings of city’s improvement. The modern city is characterized by the highest man-made pressure on the natural environment, the main problems being overcrowding, lack of open-access green areas, as well as the decrease of vegetation areas, fact that does not create comfortable living conditions for urban residents. At present, remote sensing methods are some of the priority tools used in vegetation state assessment, particularly, the calculation of vegetation index (NDVI). But often, obtaining the necessary information is limited only to the analysis of satellite data, without geobotanical field surveys, which considerably increase the reliability of the detected results. In addition, the definition of dependencies when using an integrated approach of different man-affected surfaces with a different type of overgrowth within the city remains insufficiently studied. The purpose of this study is to assess the ecological condition of the green area (parks and squares) in Aktobe city. A comprehensive processing of satellite images including the calculation of NDVI index, mapping of green areas and data statistical analysis, was carried out. We learned that the average value of NDVI for green spaces in Aktobe ranges from 0,11 µm to 0,47 µm, which allows for the categorization of planted areas by levels of photosynthetic activity, from “unsatisfactory” to “good”, yet, with 59% of them in an unsatisfactory condition. This means that the city is underdeveloped in terms of modern landscape and infrastructure. The obtained results make it possible to assess the current situation, determine the dynamics of urban green spaces and optimize spatial planning measures for green space management.
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