Spatial structure evolution of system of recreation business district

Purpose In recent decades western cities have slowly evolved to extend their cultural offer to “the postmodern mixing of public and commercial culture” (Richards, 2014, p. 120) as a major plank of urban regeneration and development strategies. Urban tourism has been central to this and tourists are now an ever present temporary population of cultural consumers in so many of our towns and cities, even in those industrial cities that until recently would not have been imagined as tourist places. Tourism is thus a part of everyday urban life (Urry, 2002) whether we gaze on tourists going from one cultural space to another in our home towns or whether we ourselves are transformed into tourists as we conduct our cultural consumption in places distant to our usual workaday lives. This research note considers the impact such consumption is having on our urban centres. The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect on the way our urban centres are managed, who the urban citizen now is, and in what direction could tourism research take to shed further light on the way we manage, create and reproduce urban life in the increasingly diverse postmodern city. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a critical reflection on urban tourism and offers a future research orientation. Findings The argument is that in light of new mobilities urban tourism research needs to be more politically reflexive than it often is. Research limitations/implications There is no empirical research content so this does not apply. Practical implications The practical implications are that urban tourism research should be about making cities better places and not simply about being policy performing vehicles in a politically light sense. Originality/value The originality of this piece is in the way it mixes urban studies, social theory and tourism studies together to come out with a view and argument on a way forward in researching tourism and cities.

Monitoring land use change and measuring urban sprawl based on its spatial forms: The case of Qom city

Indonesia is undergoing rapid pace of urbanization and inadequacy of reliable data for environmental and urban planning, especially in the developing countries. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate land use/cover change (LUCC) and urban spatial expansion, from 2005 to 2017, in Semarang City, Indonesia, using satellite images, field observations, and socio-economic data. The urban sprawl was also measured using Shannon’s entropy based on its primary spatial form. As known, urban sprawl measurements based on its spatial forms would affect the policies and specific regulations in dealing with its dominant form. LUCC change and urban growth were simulated for 2029, using the CA-Markov model. The results show rapid growth of built-up areas that led to a significant decrease in the agriculture areas, gardens and wasteland, from 2005 to 2017. The obtained relative entropy values indicate Semarang city has experienced an increasing urban sprawl over the last few years. The CA-Markov model predicts that this unsustainable trend will continue in the future and built-up areas. The results in this study determine appropriate policies and regulations, especially to prevent linear glaciers along the main road.

The introductory chapter of the volume gives insight into the phenomenon of New Urban Tourism and the research it has spawned, and positions the book within the field. The four central areas of research of the past 15 years are identified (New Urban Tourism as a social phenomenon, the reciprocal impacts of New Urban Tourism and neighbourhoods/cities, discontent with and protest against New Urban Tourism, as well as the governance of New Urban Tourism). The volume builds upon this research by showcasing case studies and theoretical reflections focusing on the contested power relations of New Urban Tourism in three thematic sections: the consumability of the city and spatial reconfigurations (Consuming the city), different forms and characteristics of resistance against the impacts of New Urban Tourism (Protest and frictions) and how New Urban Tourism pertains to identity and representation (Representations and identities). The book closes with an outlook for future research on New Urban Tourism

Urban areas have been long since considered important tourism destinations. By offering a broad and heterogeneous range of attractions, urban tourism provide various choices for different types of tourists and segments of tourism market. Despite being considered an important form of tourism world-wide (Ashworth & Page, 2011), the aggregate volume and value of urban tourism remain unknown at global level (Heeley, 2015). In Romania also, urban tourism is also dominant from tourist arrivals viewpoint. Though, the official documents concerning tourism development in Romania do not include an integrated vision on urban tourism. The present paper discusses the evolution of urban tourism accommodation facilities in Romania's urban areas between 2005 and 2016 at national and regional level and offers a complete picture of urban tourism evolution over a decade. The study includes all the officially registered lodgings, as they appear in the official database offered by the central authority for tourism, including 40 counties and 7 development regions. Furthermore, the survey includes all the types of accommodation facilities registered in urban areas and the whole range of lodging capacities, including the category of 1 to 4 rooms not taken into consideration by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). The study also provides a profile of the lodging facilities for the Romanian urban localities. The present study complements the previous study of Pop et al. (2017) and use the same structure for presenting the data in order to allow the comparison between urban and rural tourist accommodation facilities development between urban and rural areas in 2005 and 2016. JEL Classification: L83

In the process of urbanization, a large number of rural land in suburbs has been converted into urban construction land, and its spatial structure has undergone significant changes. This paper takes Sansheng xiang in the suburbs of Chengdu from 1985 to 2015 as the research object, combined spatial syntactic theory to study the spatial structure evolution characteristics of land in the suburbs during the urbanization. The conclusions are obtained as follows: (1) the spatial accessibility, permeability and utilization rate of the study area have been significantly improved, also the spatial form has evolved from a dendrite to a grid type. The spatial integration degree, connectivity and depth values are optimized to 2.62 times, 3.62 times, 4.52 times compared with the original. (2) The driving factors of spatial evolution mainly include: population mobility, economic scale, building area, and industrial structure, all of which show a good fit to the evolution of spatial structure. (3) In combination with the spatial syntactic theory, the spatial structure optimization micro-intervention method is proposed. By studying the fitting relationship among the spatial integration degree, the connection degree and the axial length, some inefficient space units are found. Besides, the optimization suggestion method is proposed.

Tourism potential of a city can be developed through the city’s historical heritage. The history of Cirebon began around the 15th century, a small village in the Java Sea Coast named Muara Jati and its develop into the kingdom with a King named Walangsungsang (Cakrabumi). In the years 1529-1945, the Kingdom of Cirebon developed into four (4) Royal Palaces, namely: Karatons Kasepuhan, Royal Palaces Kanoman, Royal Palaces Kacirebonan and the Royal Palaces Kaprabonan. It’s cause Cirebon City has potential historical sights. Seeing the potential access of existing and historical value, Cirebon City tourism can be developed through the concept of urban heritage tourism. This study aims to discover the potential and strategies for developing the urban heritage tourism concept in Cirebon City. The research method used descriptive qualitative approach. Primary data obtained by field observations and documentation. Secondary data were obtained through, journals, books and the Internet data that is relevant. Then analysis of urban heritage tourism development strategy through a SWOT analysis. The findings are: access, historic building, cultural daily life, community and government is crucial in the development of urban heritage tourism Cirebon City.

Urban tourism is an important research topic whether in mass tourism resort areas where tourism is the economic staple or in metropolitan areas where it is one (or more) development path(s) among many. Urban areas are dynamic and fast-paced environments but are also places where social and economic inequalities are most stark. Economic geography is one theoretical perspective through which researchers address urban tourism. The recent “evolutionary turn” in economic geography is finding its way to tourism studies but has only been applied to a few urban tourism cases. This paper sets out the potential of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) as a conceptual framework for urban tourism studies. The analysis draws on recent studies of urban tourism from an evolutionary perspective to highlight the strengths of taking such an approach and a number of avenues yet to be explored are put forward. Urban tourism affects large numbers of residents and businesses as well as influencing labour flows, and so understanding the dynamic nature of its development paths is vital. Tourism development does not occur in a vacuum, and urban tourism is one area where the complexity of the tourism economy and its place within broader regional development strategies is most obvious. Under recent neoliberal policies of urban development, tourism has become closely associated with place-based competition and large capital investments. Urban tourism also enters the fray in matters of contested urban spaces with issues of local governance, such as privatisation of public space, moving increasingly to the fore. The paper concludes with a list of future approaches to evolutionary studies of urban tourism to broaden the scope beyond the dominant financial metrics of tourism success.

Winter sports tourism to urban destinations: Identifying potential and comparing motivational differences across skier groups

This paper uses Northwest China as an example to present an in-depth study and analysis of river valley cities’ spatial structure and city form in the context of artificial intelligence. The paper focuses on alleviating the “core-edge” spatial structure locking effect, achieving the “industry-space” scale effect and cooperation, solving the problem of endogenous dynamics to promote regional and urban development, and promoting various main functional areas based on the derivation discussion and spatial growth model selection. The study focuses on the exploration of paths to alleviate the “core-edge” spatial structure’s locking effect, realize the scale effect and cooperation ability of “industry-space,” solve the problem of endogenous power to promote regional and urban development, and promote the new urbanization path of different main functional areas based on the discussion and spatial growth mode selection. We measure the evolution characteristics of industrial and spatial elements and the level of intersystem synergistic development to address the spatial growth and industrial transformation of the northwest region urban agglomeration in the special development period, discover the defects of the northwest China urban agglomeration’s spatial growth, and select the appropriate spatial growth model in the foreseeable spatial and temporal scope. The new city spatial form in the northwest region, which strengthens regional characteristics, is the spatial form combined with the new city plan form in two dimensions. This paper investigates the relationship between regional characteristics and urban spatial carriers by developing spatial planning design ideas and methods that reflect the regional characteristics of new cities in the northwest region, in order to improve the spatial quality of new cities in the northwest region and their sense of belonging to the city, provide a new spatial expansion idea for small cities in river valleys in the Qinling Mountains of southern Shaanxi, and enrich the spatial quality of new cities in the northwest region.

Surakarta is a high tourist attraction due to its local wisdom, associated with tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Gatot Subroto-Ngarsopuro corridor in Surakarta is the regional tourism development area (KPPD) and regional tourism strategic area (KSPD) with urban art urban tourism concept. Urban art aims to enhance the beauty of a city by strenghtening the city’s attractiveness and characteristics. The concept of urban tourism has elements that need to be considered, which can be a measure of its success. This paper aims to determine the suitability of urban art in the Gatot Subroto-Ngarsopuro Corridor of Surakarta to the components of urban tourism. This research uses a deductive approach with a quantitative descriptive research type applied with two components of suitability, namely the availability and existence of urban art in meeting the components of urban tourism. Based on the result of suitability scoring, it shows that the percentage of suitability is 86,66%, which indicates that the Gatot Subroto-Ngarsopuro Street Corridor of Surakarta City has very high suitability in its role as urban tourism. Â

Based on nighttime light data from 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020, the urban built-up area of 90 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin was extracted, and the urban spatial expansion characteristics of 90 prefecture-level cities were explored from the two elements of expansion speed and expansion intensity. The entropy method was used to calculate the comprehensive level of economic-, social- and ecological-scale benefits of 90 prefecture-level cities. The gray correlation degree was used to measure the correlation between urban spatial expansion and scale benefits, and the geographical detector was used to identify the driving factors of urban spatial expansion. The results show the following: (1) The urban spatial expansion characteristics of 90 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin are clearly different. From 2000 to 2020, the urban spatial area increased to 2.94 times the original, and the expansion speed and intensity increased but fluctuated significantly. (2) The comprehensive level of economic-, social- and ecological-scale benefits of 90 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin has gradually improved. (3) There is a high correlation between urban spatial expansion and economic-, social- and ecological-scale benefits in 90 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin, but there are obvious regional differences in the eastern, central and western prefecture-level cities. (4) The urban spatial expansion of the Yellow River Basin is the result of the joint action of natural factors, the economic development level, industrial structure, government regulation ability, population size and opening level. Among them, per capita GDP, population density and the proportion of secondary and tertiary industry output value to the total output value are the most important driving factors.

In the tide of economic and social internationalization and high-speed urbanization, urban culture has increasingly attracted widespread attention from all walks of life and has a very critical strategic significance in the construction of urban space. This paper aims to construct and analyze the plane space mode of urban culture based on the particle swarm cultural scientific computing algorithm. This article first explains the concept of urban cultural space. Urban cultural space uses urban spatial structure as a media carrier and uses urban cultural time for vertical extension and development; then we proposed the particle swarm cultural scientific calculation algorithm and gave the particle swarm algorithm flowchart; then based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm, the evaluation of the configuration performance of urban cultural facilities is researched and discussed, and at the same time, the evolution law of urban spatial morphology is explored based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The particle swarm algorithm is a random search algorithm based on group cooperation developed by simulating the foraging behavior of birds. Urban cultural space is the development of urban space based on urban culture. It plays a special and important role in urban cultural development and urban space planning. According to the statistics of the survey and research results, the utilization rate of city-level cultural facilities in City A is 77, the utilization rate of district-level cultural facilities is 72, the utilization rate of street-community cultural facilities is 69, and the overall evaluation score is 70. It shows that there are significant differences in the actual use of cultural facilities, so it is particularly important to eliminate the differences in the use of cultural facilities between urban and rural areas. In the exploration of the law of urban spatial morphology evolution, it is found that the number of college students, total real estate investment, urban population, and total commercial housing sales have a significant impact on urban spatial expansion and evolution.

Based on the perspective of supply and demand, this study takes Xinjiang in China as an example, and uses tourist attractions as elements of the spatial object to identify the spatial structure of tourism in Xinjiang with the help of GIS spatial analysis function. On this basis, this study will optimize the spatial network of tourism. The results in this study show that: (1) In terms of supply side and demand side, the tourist attractions in Xinjiang all present a clustered distribution trend. Compared with the space of scenic areas on supply side, that on demand side has a smaller distribution range. And they are concentrated along Tianshan Mountain and in the northern region of Altay; (2) In Xinjiang, the accessibility of tourist attractions is poor, and tourist attractions on demand side is slightly higher than that on supply side; (3) In the system of tourism network space on supply and demand side, the tourism scenic areas in Xinjiang have the phenomenon of stratified clustering, and there is a significant trend of cohesion development; (4) According to the identification results of supply-side and demand-side tourism spatial structure, this study will integrate the core tourist attractions, build and improve their traffic system of roads, so as to construct a “Three-axis, Four-core and Four-group” tourism spatial network. At the same time, this study will provide a new idea for the identification and optimization of regional tourism spatial structure, so as to provide a scientific reference for the construction of tourist attractions, the design of tourist routes and the integration of tourism resources.

The urban tourism development of Shanghai at present is more localized on the downtown and the area of urban core, and the attention to the area of urban fringe and hinterland is insufficient. This status, as a result, is not conducive to the development of urban sightseeing and leisure agriculture. In this paper, it is considered that, according to the correct concept of urban tourism, the spatial location and product characteristics of urban sightseeing and leisure agriculture should be confirmed, and a perfect system of the sightseeing and leisure agriculture products should be set up based on the optimization of urban tourism zone's spatial structure. Through the case study of Shanghai and the ”Yangtze River Delta” region, it is presented that Shanghai should attach importance to deploy the sightseeing and leisure agriculture products, whose basic industry form is the modern service and leisure industry, with the hierarchy distribution pattern on the levels of ”urban tourism circle” and ”urban tourism belt”.