Cities For Citizens Research Articles

ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ МЕХАНИЗМ ИНЖЕНЕРНОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫХ УЧАСТКОВ МАЛОЭТАЖНОГО СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВА

The article touches upon the urgent issue of the need to develop a segment of low-rise housing construction. The indicators of apartment prices in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the past year are analyzed. Conclusions are drawn about the low level of housing affordability in cities for citizens at the present stage. One of the key barriers to the development of the potential of the low-rise housing construction market, namely the acute shortage of engineering-prepared land plots for construction, is considered. The values of indicators characterizing the state of engineering networks in rural areas are presented. The author's organizational and economic mechanism for the development of a system for providing engineering infrastructure for land plots has been developed. The presented mechanism consists of four stages: planning, organization, control, monitoring, and is also structured according to the priority of sites and methods of financing.

Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning

Identifying the diverse and often competing values of citizens, and resolving the consequent public value conflicts, are of significant importance for inclusive and integrated urban development. Scholars have highlighted that relational, value-laden urban space gives rise to many diverse conflicts that vary both spatially and temporally. Although notions of public value conflicts have been conceived in theory, there are few empirical studies that identify such values and their conflicts in urban space. Building on public value theory and using a case-study mixed-methods approach, this paper proposes a new approach to empirically investigate public value conflicts in urban space. Using unstructured participatory data of 4528 citizen contributions from a Public Participation Geographic Information Systems in Hamburg, Germany, natural language processing and spatial clustering techniques are used to identify areas of potential value conflicts. Four expert interviews assess and interpret these quantitative findings. By integrating quantitative assessments with the qualitative findings of the interviews, we identify 19 general public values and nine archetypical conflicts. On the basis of these results, this paper proposes a new conceptual model of ‘Public Value Spheres’ that extends the understanding of public value conflicts and helps to further account for the value-laden nature of urban space.

Noncongruent policymaking by cities for citizens with criminal records: Representation, organizing, and “Ban the Box”

Generally, public (and private) policymakers adopt policies—laws, rules, and procedures—that encumber groups with negative social constructions and low political capital. Sometimes, however, they adopt policies beneficial, not burdensome, to them. We examine beneficial policy adoption for one disadvantaged group—U.S. citizens with criminal records. Our focus is the adoption of “Ban the Box” (BTB) policies that embargo criminal records questions on job applications and defer them during hiring by employers. We leverage extant data on annual BTB policy adoptions, novel annual city-level data on community organizing groups and descriptive representation (i.e., race and gender), and event history analysis for a sample of 256 U.S. cities to provide a comprehensive understanding of the city contexts associated with the spread of BTB policy adoptions by cities across the U.S. between 2004 and 2019. Although descriptive, the findings deepen and broaden the scholarship about the roles of civil society organizations and descriptive representation for beneficial policymaking for disadvantaged groups and the connection of interests and representation for abolishing some punitive policy designs by public (and private) actors.

A City of Citizens: Social Justice and Urban Social Citizenship

Social justice in the city has re-emerged as a critical issue in recent years. Especially important has been Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom’s 2011 edited volume, Justice and the American Metropolis, which contains essays by a series of leading urbanists, writing mainly from a liberal perspective. While the renewed interest in social justice in the city is welcome, the analysis provided by many scholars working within the liberal tradition, I argue, is limited in two crucial ways. First, they tend to ground their analysis in a Rawlsian conception of justice, which does not grapple sufficiently with issues of power, political economy, or citizenship. Second, the prescriptions that emerge too often promise to do little more than make modest improvements to a profoundly unjust set of arrangements. This article seeks to tackle the question of social justice from a different direction. Instead of using John Rawls’s ideas as the place of departure, I will, instead, draw on T.H. Marshall’s notion of social citizenship. I argue that social justice in the city is secured to the extent that its inhabitants achieve the status of full social citizenship. In so doing, this article considers what viewing urban social justice through a social citizenship lens implies about the domains of health, housing, and economic security, and examines how various cities have attempted to promote social justice in these areas. I argue that an urban social citizenship perspective offers a vision of social justice in the city that is both radical and concrete.

Effect of Urban Revitalization on Promoting of Sense of Place (Case Study: Behrouzieh Alley & Heidarieh Religious Theater of Tabriz City)

The word "urban revitalization " has changed significantly especially since 1980s. Looking to future, urban revitalization indicates to "return to home" where "home" refers to human mind and its perception from the environment and sensory experience arising from being in urban spaces. The sense is not tangible and it is empowered through human recognition and its induction by memorial elements. Thus, citizens may participate and take actions in urban revitalization since it leads to urban revive in the modern world and provides a real city for citizens. Unfortunately, the concept of "sense of place" is weakened due to lack of appropriate and accurate revitalization interventions in historical contexts. According to the present article, this study aims at emphasizing on valuable elements to promote sense of place, appropriate revitalization interventions to empower sense of collective memory, highlight valuable elements and solve current problems found in quarters using revitalization approaches as well as appropriate practical and scientific strategies. Conceptual pattern of the article is based on analytical-descriptive method carried out through collecting informative and theoretical data from authentic scientific databases, studying specialized texts, using field studies, and noting the observations. According to the observations, this study focused on parameters of urban revitalization and sense of place including security, vitality, collective memory, Permeability, Compatibility, and building density. Using SPSS software, it was finally made clear that there is a direct relation between urban revitalization and sense of place.

Book Reviews

International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchVolume 24, Issue 3 p. 713-727 Book Reviews First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00274AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Books reviewed: Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, (eds.) Cities for citizens: planning and the rise of civil society in a global age Eric C. Schneider, Vampires, dragons and Egyptian kings: youth gangs in post-war New York Erhard Berner, Defending a place in the city: localities and the struggle for urban land in Metro Manila Ali Madanipour, Tehran: the making of a metropolis Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples Nicholas Low and Brendan Glee, Justice, society and nature: an exploration of political ecology Rosa Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambiniand and Cathy Bryan, (eds.) Cyberdemocracy: technology, cities and civic networks Maf Smith, John Whitelegg and Nick Williams, Greening the built environment Michael V. McGinnis, Bioregionalism Andrew Leyshon, David Matless and George Revill, (eds.) The place of music Volume24, Issue3September 2000Pages 713-727 RelatedInformation

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