Great Street Research Articles

Remote Sensing and GIS based site suitability analysis for tourism development in Vaishali block, Bihar

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing are presently recognized generally as an improve instrument for overseeing, breaking down, and showing gigantic volumes of fluctuated information suitable to numerous neighborhood and provincial arranging exercises. Because of the composite idea of the travel industry arranging issues, the planned of GIS in settling these issues is progressively perceived. This paper will think a portion of the conceivable outcomes of GIS applications in the travel industry arranging. For the most part, GIS applications in the travel industry have been tight to recreational office stock, the travel industry situated land the board, and diversion untamed life strife; and have been thin by absence of financing, and awkward techniques. Utilizing the case of site wellness investigation for the travel industry improvement and mapping, this paper features a few uses of GIS in the travel industry arranging in vaishali square, Bihar. According to our present investigation; the most reasonable the travel industry site recognized by the examination is inside significant towns. The urban focus with plausibility to develop into the travel industry focuses. The rest of the land shows a low appropriateness scale because of absence of significant appreciation for make a solid force factor. Availability is an essential for the travel industry advancement. Great street organize availability with closeness to railroads station or air terminal demonstrated solid vacationer potential site, this combined with proximity to grand magnificence delineates high appropriateness. Significant vacation destinations, for example, legacy locales, gardens and water bodies or lake demonstrated high appropriateness. This can be corresponded to the way that legacy destinations and other high appropriate highlights are converted into reasonable the travel industry site.

The Application of Non-Parametric Count Models for the Modeling of Female’s Accident Rates in Hamadan Province from 2009 to 2016

Accidents were just one of the general health problems. According to WHO forecasts (2013), deaths from road accidents will become the fifth-highest cause of death in the world by 2030. Therefore, we have attempted the application of non-parametric count models for modeling female's accident rates. All accidents in Hamadan Province, western Iran are referred to as one of the emergency centers located in the hospitals. Data regarding the accidents were obtained from 21 emergency centers across Hamadan for the period 2009-2016. To assess the trend and pattern of the accidents, the Generalized Additive Model for the accident rate has been utilized. The Mean±SD age of the females in study was 31.23±12.88 yr old. For each of the three kinds of road accidents (car accidents, motor accidents and pedestrian crashes), the accident rates in the "residential urban" areas are lesser than in the "non-residential" area (P=<0.001) and in "public and sports grounds" and "great roads, avenues and streets" are more than in "others". For the three kinds of accidents, the functional effect in the monthly trend of the accidents was signification (P=<0.001). The rates for all three kinds of accidents decreased. The increase in accident rates from the beginning of 2014 to Mar 2016 maybe due to the generalization of insurances in Iran and the increase in the number of accident victims being referred to the hospitals, which was the same with the results of other studies.

Towards Great Streets: Sustainable Design Solutions

Streetscape design is not only about an attractive visual image in the city, or an interesting walking trip while feeling shaded, secured, and comfort. Streetscape design plays a vital role in connecting and accessing communities’ resources. When designed as sustainable; streets help to develop communities in terms of environmental, social, and economic aspects. In addition, sustainable streets protect and enhance the city’s character and aesthetics. This research aims to highlight the importance of sustainability approach when designing a street whether it is a new street or a transformation of an existing one in order to be great. This paper is based on exploring the relationship between the basic principles of streetscape design and the sustainability framework comprising of its regular aspects: environmental, social, and economic. The paper highlights the intersection between the two main factors: 1. Streetscape design, 2. Sustainability framework. The research proposes a matrix through its application on an international case study to reach the final matrix. The final proposed matrix will be applied on Al-Alfy’ street in Cairo as a local case study. As conclusion the paper provides a checklist that may help developing sustainable design solutions for designing great streets.

The value of a tram station on local house prices: an hedonic modelling approach

ABSTRACTThere are many drivers of house prices. In urban locations, public infrastructure is considered one of the leading determinants. To explore this relationship, an Hedonic house pricing model was applied to an established Birmingham, the UK working class residential area which is serviced by the Metro Midland tram line. The selected Wednesbury Great Western Street station provides ease of access for the local residents to Birmingham and Wolverhampton City Centres plus there has been recent sale evidence of 100 properties within close proximity to the station. Independent variables consisted of a range of typical physical, locational and neighbourhood attributes for the Hedonic house pricing model input data.Based on the preferred linear Hedonic model, the findings from the recent 100 Wednesbury house sales showed property type, bedrooms, floor area, ambience and distance to the tram station were key explanatory factors in relation to pricing levels. On the evidence provided, property price increased by £16,878 for every km closer to the tram stop. However, when examining properties within defined distance bands with smaller datasets, the location to the tram station was not a significant statistical driver. This suggests that proximity to a public transport access point alongside key housing characteristics should form part of the housing decision making process as they are significant predictors of local house prices.

Great food streets: planning and design for urban magnetism in post-agricultural cities

Great food streets: planning and design for urban magnetism in post-agricultural cities

ARCHITECTURAL CHANGES IN LIEPAJA’S CENTER DUE TO ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

In Liepaja, until 1703 economic developed on the Trade Port channel’s southern embankment. The main traffic flow changed his direction: from the port to the New Market leads Great (Latvian: Lielā) Street, at which end a wooden bridge was built over the channel. In the 19th century, the Administrative Center formed at the New Market Square’s vicinity. Streets connected squares and green structures in a united system. The Rose Square was set up instead the New Market. During World War II, the building at embankments and Great Street was destroyed. Using the Master Plan, approved in 1950, architect Vladimir Kruglov created the Detailed Plan for developed of Liepaja Center and Great Street. A reinforced-concrete bridge was built across the channel. Until the 100th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence of Latvia, the bridge was expanded, but Great Street was reconstructed. The object of the research – the city center of Liepaja and Great Street. Research problem – architectural changes of the city center of Liepaja and Great Street has studied not sufficiently. Research novelty – architectural analysis of the city center of Liepaja and Great Street. The goal of the research – to determine the typical changes in planning of the city center and Great Street in the context of Liepaja urban development. Main methods applied – analysis of archive documents, projects and cartographic materials of urban planning, as well as study of published literature and inspection of buildings in nature.

Urban Heritage Streets' Revitalizing Attributes

There were 911 sites including 704 cultural, 180 natural, and 27 mixed properties which were included as outstanding universal value by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in June 2010. Malaysian cultural heritage sites, Malacca and Georgetown, were listed in 2007. Since World Heritage Lists is not an ultimate benchmark for heritage street revitalization performance, therefore, this research will provide a set of attributing variables to investigate the revitalization attributes in creating a great heritage street. The research employed an unobtrusive method of content analysis and an obtrusive method. This paper will share its findings based on the research's pilot study and document analysis.

How to Make Open Air Shopping Centres Walkable ( breakout presentation )

The planning and design of large retail areas is such an important issue within our cities that it is more than just a retail industry topic. These ever-larger development sites with their “big-box-store format” are separate and isolated from their adjacent communities by an oversized transportation infrastructure. The stores are stand-alone, single-use, lowest FAR formats separated from streets and public sidewalks from large parking areas, without any consideration of the urban context and the public realm is generally of very poor quality. The “Large Retail/Commercial Urban Design Guidelines” of the City of Calgary is a document that positively influences Planning decisions and built outcome. Since introduced in 2014 the Guidelines resulted in multiple new large retail site applications and a new wave of site redevelopment and constructions that successfully promote walkability, a mix of uses, great streets that make connections, create places, embrace “park once” principles and encourage innovation and evolution. Recent examples can be found in the retail areas of Seton, Auburn Bay, Sage Hill, Royal Oak, Northland, East Hills and Deerfoot City. Others are under way. The Guidelines serve as a guide and inspiration for future development decisions for the enhancement and new development of medium and large-format commercial development sites. They build on and expand the objectives of the Municipal Development Plan (MDP) to develop commercial sites with improved form and function that are well-integrated, vibrant and walkable within development patterns that allow for greater diversity, intensity and change. These commercial retail areas should aspire to better serve community needs, strengthen community focal points and encourage better designed and more diverse shopping areas, emphasizing the integration of commercial sites with their urban context Guidelines Applicability: The Guidelines are being tested and developed in close collaboration (the above-mentioned link to the City of Calgary website informs about the outcomes of stakeholder collaboration) with the development industry between 2011 and 2014 and finally adopted by The City’s Planning and Development Administration They apply to all existing retrofits and future commercial sites that provide a retail component of more than 9,300 m2 (100,000 ft2).

Identifying Great Street in Bandung as Part of Bandung Technopolis Concept: a Perception-Based Approach

Great Street is required for making a great city. Bandung will develop new City Centre Service (CCS) in Gede Bage with Bandung Technopolis concept which one of the main programs is making Bandung Great Street. It is important to see potencies and problems based on the user perspective so that the concepts will be applicative and effective. Using the perception-based approach, this paper aims to identify the perception of the street user in Bandung based on their experience in using the streets in Bandung, so it can lead to a contextual concept. From Jacobs’s Great Street Criteria, the PPS’s criteria and Bandung Great Street criteria can be summarized into five normative variables such as activities, comfortable and amenities, walkability and transportation option, visual attractiveness, and local identity. The analyzed variables are preferences of the favorite street in Bandung, the reasons, the real usages of the street, the way of using the street, the companion in using the street, and the interesting things. These variables represent all normative variables which combined with three perception variables such as cognitive, affective and conative. After analyzing the data, it can be concluded that the respondents prefer Ir. H. Djuanda Street, Braga Street, and RE Martadinata Street as the most favorite street, and choose Cihampelas Street as the least favorite street

Renovation Concept of Liepaja City Centre Construction after World War II

The port city Liepaja had gained recognition in Europe and the world by World War I. On the coast of the Baltic Sea a resort developed, to which around 1880 a wide promenade – Kurhaus Avenue provided a functional link between the finance and trade centre in Old Liepaja. On November 8, 1890 the building conditions for Liepaja, developed according to the sample of Riga building regulations, were partly confirmed: the construction territory was divided into districts of wooden and stone buildings. In 1888 after the reconstruction of the trade canal Liepaja became the third most significant port in the Russian Empire. The railway (engineer Gavriil Semikolenov; 1879) and metal bridges (engineers Huten and Ruktesel; 1881) across the trade canal provided the link between Old Liepaja and the industrial territory in New Liepaja, where industrial companies and building of houses developed in the neighbourhood of the railway hub, but in spring 1899 the construction of a ten-kilometre long street electric railway line and power station was commenced. Since September 25 the tram movement provided a regular traffic between Naval Port (Latvian: Karosta), the residential and industrial districts in New Liepaja and the city centre in Old Liepaja. In 1907 the construction of the ambitious “Emperor Alexander’s III Military Port” and maritime fortress was completed, but already in the following year the fortress was closed. In the new military port there were based not only the navy squadrons of the Baltic Sea, but also the Pacific Ocean before sending them off in the war against Japan. The development of Liepaja continued: promenades, surrounded by Dutch linden trees, joined squares and parks in one united plantation system. On September 20, 1910 Liepaja City Council made a decision to close the New Market and start modernization of the city centre. In 1911 Liepaja obtained its symbol – the Rose Square. In the independent Republic of Latvia the implementation of the agrarian reform was started and the task to provide inhabitants with flats was set. Around 1927 in the Technical Department of Liepaja City the development of the master-plan was started: the territory of the city was divided into the industrial, commercial, residential and resort zone, which was greened. It was planned to lengthen Lord’s (Latvian: Kungu) Street with a dam, partly filling up Lake Liepaja in order to build the water-main and provide traffic with the eastern bank. The passed “Law of City Lands” and “Regulations for City Construction and Development of Construction Plans and Development Procedure” in Latvia Republic in 1928 promoted a gradual development of cities. In 1932 Liepaja received the radio transmitter. On the northern outskirts a sugar factory was built (architect Kārlis Bikše; 1933). The construction of the city centre was supplemented with the Latvian Society House (architect Kārlis Blauss and Valdis Zebauers; 1934-1935) and Army Economical Shop (architect Aleksandrs Racenis), as well as the building of a pawnshop and saving bank (architect Valdis Zebauers; 1936-1937). The hotel “Pēterpils”, which became the property of the municipality in 1936, was renamed as the “City Hotel” and it was rebuilt in 1938. In New Liepaja the Friendly Appeal Elementary school was built (architect Karlis Bikše), but in the Naval Officers Meeting House was restored and it was adapted for the needs of the Red Cross Bone Tuberculosis Sanatorium (architect Aleksandrs Klinklāvs; 1930-1939). The Soviet military power was restored in Latvia and it was included in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. During the World War II buildings in the city centre around the Rose Square and Great (Latvian: Lielā) Street were razed. When the war finished, the “Building Complex Scheme for 1946-1950” was developed for Liepaja. In August 1950 the city was announced as closed: the trade port was adapted to military needs. Neglecting the historical planning of the city, in 1952 the restoration of the city centre building was started, applying standard projects. The restoration of Liepaja City centre building carried out during the post-war period has not been studied. Research goal: analyse restoration proposals for Liepaja City centre building, destroyed during World War II, and the conception appropriate to the socialism ideology and further development of construction.

Building Activity Friendly Environments

PURPOSE: Policies that support physical activity are important to the achievement of individual and population heath. A Complete Streets (CS) policy ensures that roads are designed with attention to the needs of all users (bicyclist, pedestrians, motorists, etc). Using CBPR methods, the Partnership for Activity Community Environments (PACE), a multi-disciplinary collaborative (architects, builders, developers, engineers, planners, lenders, health, government) that encourages building activity friendly neighborhoods, hosted multiple townhall meetings to explore the supports and barriers to building activity friendly environments. METHODS: Adhering to a CBPR design, during PACE’s first townhall meeting multiple methods were used to document multi-disciplinary priorities across three levels [investigative team (n = 5), advisory board (n = 11), community (n = 175)]. The development and adoption of a Complete Street policy was identified as a priority issue by participants (n=73). Following this meeting multiple action groups were formed and the CS action group identified and implemented multiple strategies to leverage influence and support for adoption of a CS policy by bringing additional value to existing efforts and by enhancing partner activities over a 3 year period. RESULTS: A comprehensive plan to advocate for CS policy and improve transportation infrastructure was developed and implemented by PACE partners. Multiple strategies (i.e. video production, website, Great Streets summit, pizza with planners, presentations to various groups, were identified and implemented at 3 levels of influence (individual, organizational, community). The goal of establishing a Complete Streets transportation policy was achieved, a CS policy was signed by the mayor in 2013 and is now included in the city’s transportation plan. CONCLUSION: PACE’s collaborative efforts to encourage the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors through CBPR practices were successful at facilitating the adoption of a CS policy in a large, metropolitan government. This process can serve as a model for other communities.

Making of ‘Great Heritage Street’

City dynamic often dominates by street shoppers, pedestrian and vehicular traffics in heritage streets. The dynamic ambiance is not an impromptu scenario but it is a value innovation from the heritage committee. The first objective of this research is to identify the committee's strategy. The second objective is to classify their strategies. The third objective is to compare and find the best strategies. The evaluation on strategies is analyzed from the semi-structured interview and content analysis. Finally, a consensus of a strategy in the making of great heritage street as an innovative marketplace is produced in capitalizing heritage tourism endeavor.

Birmingham, Argyle Warehouse: Stockhausen's ‘Mittwoch’

The 2012 Cultural Olympiad contained plenty of events that might have happened quite normally without the 2012 badge. The Olympics themselves may even have contributed to a 40% drop in museum attendance over the summer, as recently reported in some newspapers. But Birmingham Opera Company's production, starting on 22 August, of Mittwoch, the ‘unstageable’ third part of Stockhausen's Licht, at the Argyle Works in Great Barr Street was a Mo Farah moment. Not only for the Olympian commitment and talent required, but also because without Olympian funding (something in the order of £1 million was rumoured) it simply would not have been possible. Director Graham Vick had co-opted the varied talents of Ex Cathedra, London Voices, Paul Brown as designer, Giuseppe di Iorio in charge of lighting, Ron Howell as choreographer, and Kathinka Pasveer as musical director.

Transcendental Meditation: Sustainability Studies and Dickinson’s Breath

This essay frames Dickinson as a poet relevant to contemporary ecological thinking and sustainability studies by examining the meditative awareness embedded in her poetic production. In particular, the essay theorizes Dickinson’s “breath poetics,” or the consistent attention she drew to conscious breathing, as a tool to endure suffering that also serves as the metaphorical vitality of her verse. Turning to poems such as “Through what transports of Patience” (Fr 1265), “I’ve dropped my brain - my soul is numb” (Fr1088), “Pain - has a Element of Blank - ” (Fr760), and “Great streets of silence lead away” (Fr1166), Dickinson’s breath poetics are read in relation to instances of temporal dissolution and dilation, punctuated pauses, and deixis, which signal textual inscription of meditative consciousness. In order to frame Dickinson’s breath poetics as a sustainable practice, the essay turns to Buddhist and Yogic texts, which offer fluid and established discourses concerning the distinct and interdependent stages of meditative engagement. In addition, the essay situates Dickinson’s contributions within a tradition of American meditation as articulated by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Olson, Cavell, and Cameron. And while this essay positions Dickinson in relation to Eastern meditative philosophies, it also substantiates this move by establishing her as a poet relevant to the deployment of sustainability praxis. Breath awareness facilitates a presentminded capacity to both entertain and endure the epistemological rupture implicit in fronting the radical interconnectivity and related personal responsibility associated with ecological awareness.

Physical and Spiritual Attributes of Urban Heritage Street's Revitalization

There were 911 sites including 704 cultural, 180 natural, 27 mixed properties were included as outstanding universal value by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in June 2010. Malaysian heritage sites were Melaka and Georgetown as listed since 2007. Since World Heritage Lists is not an ultimate benchmark to rate its revitalization therefore, this research will provide a set of attributing variables to investigate the authenticity of success in creating a great heritage streets. The research employed unobtrusive method of content analysis and obtrusive method. This paper will share its findings based on research's pilot study and content analysis.

Exploratory Evaluation of the Impact of Regulation on the Practice of Corporate Governance in Nigerian Banks

The crisis of capitalism commonly referred to as economic meltdown is not totally unexpected by the cognoscenti in view of the trajectory of capitalism in world history. Pointer to this periodic turbulence in the capitalist mode of developments is the great Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Financial Thunderstorm of 1987.Developed economies have therefore overtime adopted command economic mechanism to deal with associated problems of economic crisis.Reacting to the global economic meltdown, president Barak Obama was recently reported to be admonishing that all parties concerned should down play on ideology in favour of a pragmatic approach to resolving the problems thrown up by the financial crisis.This research is therefore an exploratory attempt to review and evaluate the impact of regulation on the practice of corporate governance in Nigeria Banks as a means of resolving financial crisis.The research shall be highlighting the evolution of banking business in Nigeria through the global financial crisis and its effect on the Nigerian banking sector.The research will bring out the effect of command and control mechanism of regulation in Nigerian banking sector on the basis of the level of market stability achieved before and after CBN intervention as a result of market failure.The study would also suggest optimal structure of Corporate Governance Policies and Procedure to be applied by Board and Management of Banks in Nigeria.

CONSIDERATION ON THE CHANGE OF THE YAMABOKO JUNKO (THE FLOAT PARADE) IN GION FESTIVAL ROAD OF 1956

The Float Parade in Gion Festival changed its traditional route in 1956. This paper investigates the reason in relation with the policy of municipality at that time. As the result, two facts have become clear: Firstly, the local government had set the Float Parade as stake for tourism policy, and greater street was needed for mobilizing the greater number of tourists. Secondly, there was Oike Street expanded just after the WW2, for which the Float Parade was introduced to make that use as a new main street of Kyoto as it were it a new main street of Kyoto as it were called then. These two political intentions could have been strategically combined to push the dramatic shift in the ritual inherited over generations.

Building liveable major urban streets: Begin Road, Tel-Aviv

This paper reports on the struggle to create a major urban street that will help liveability and sustainability in the city of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Begin Road used to be a major inter-urban road linking the centre of Tel-Aviv with its eastern and northern suburbs. With the construction of the Ayalon Freeway running parallel to it, the new suburban rail system and the planned light rail subway that will run underneath, Begin Road is in the process of being transformed into the future main street of the Tel-Aviv central business district. The paper follows the development of the design from a criticism of an auto-oriented artery proposed for the street, through the development of alternatives based on different types of boulevard, to the design development of a multi-way boulevard. While the boulevard vision was generally accepted, existing difficulties with the current regulatory and professional context, as well as an auto-oriented city policy and lack of coordination of land use and transportation planning, still hinder the realisation of a great street.

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: from the end of World War I to the great crash

This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture.Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.

Reviews of Books:After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905 Patricia Beard

Reviews of Books:After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905 Patricia Beard