Revitalization Of Areas Research Articles

Post-mining Remnants and Revitalization

The historic post-mining objects deserve special attention due to their high cognitive and didactic value. Conducting the revitalization of such facilities is aimed at preserving the mining cultural heritage, and as a result, it will insert attractiveness to the region. The publication attempts to present an approach to the issues of revitalization of post-mining objects and their analysis in Poland, Spain, and UK. In Poland, there is the Revitalization Act, which comprehensively defines stages and ways of conducting revitalization. Spanish legal regulations do not provide for a separate legal act on revitalization, but they are based on mining Law, environmental law, and cultural heritage law. On the other hand, legal regulations in UK do not provide solutions for the revitalization of post-mining areas. However, land leases could incorporate within them, prior to any industrial or mining activities commencement, a requirement for re-stabilization or returning the land to a safe environmental condition on activity completion. Despite the considerable diversity of legal conditions in the described countries, revitalization measures are conducted with positive results, as illustrated by the Gold Mine in Zloty Stok, La Tortilla Mine in Linares, and revitalization of King Edward Mine, an old mining site in Cornwall.

Understanding the impact of intentions in the adoption of local development practices by rural tourism hosts in Portugal

Abstract The role of tourism in the revitalization of rural peripheral areas has been highlighted both in academic and political discourse, with tourism entrepreneurs, particularly local hosts, being recognized as central in the process. However, the role of individual enterprises and entrepreneurs is largely underestimated in the literature and models of destination development. Using the Central Region of Portugal as a case study, this research investigates the impact of pro-development intentions on the behaviour of rural tourism hosts in actually promoting rural development. For this purpose, an empirical model was estimated showing that intentions are important but insufficient to explain behaviour. Other factors such as lodgement location, business success, manager's residence, level of education, and past professional experience, are crucial to explain the adoption of local development practices by local hosts.

Ground-Borne Vibration Due to Construction Works with Respect to Brownfield Areas

Ground-borne vibration caused by mechanized construction works is the most common problem in built-up areas in general. In post-industrial cities, there are many building facilities in the category of brownfields. Parts of these buildings are often technically and culturally valuable buildings with varying degrees of decay. These are very susceptible to vibrations. The revitalization of brownfield areas employs a wide range of works and practices, among which are those that have adverse effects in the form of vibrations and shocks. This paper presents a theoretical study and original results concerning the seismic load on historical and dilapidated buildings in brownfield areas due to the ground-borne vibration caused by mechanized construction works. Original data from seismic measurements are related to the post-industrial Ostrava agglomeration, in the area of one of the biggest successfully revitalized brownfields in Central Europe. All measurements were evaluated in terms of both amplitude and frequency. The results of all measurements were processed in the form of attenuation curves.

Legal Conditions and Theoretical Basis for the Arrangement of Water-Based Areas in Polish Cities

A series of diversified factors affect the arrangement of water-based areas in Poland. One of the most important elements are planning documents, such as the Act on Planning and Spatial Development, Water Law, or the Environmental Protection Law. These and other documents regulate the mutual relations between natural and cultural conditions as well as urbanized areas. At the same time, they affect the ability to conduct new investments in water areas – including those requiring the revitalization of post-industrial areas. The intense development in the last thirty years has meant that currently industrial facilities are in the city centre area. Authorities of many cities are trying to solve this problem, but it requires the application of not only interdisciplinary solutions, but also the establishment of large economic resources, without which it is impossible to restore the use of these areas. The adequate protection of the city against the effects of floods is an important issue related to the development of the water areas in the city. In this respect, there is a tendency to use expensive and ineffective methods of securing investment zones. The possibilities of water retention in flood control reservoirs are nearly five times smaller in Poland than in most other European countries. The scarce examples of polders show that this is one of the most effective methods of preventing damage caused by floods in urban areas. Such reservoirs are simultaneously valuable natural areas. In many intensively developing cities around the world, the generally accepted action is to strive to use the quays to create the signatures of cities. These places are designed to become an interesting space that people want to visit and which they want to use. Important city functions are located there, which are easily accessible due to public transport. However, it should be noted that in these spaces, their users have close contact with water. The current legal status and general public awareness (sometimes also of the city authorities) make it seem necessary to pay more attention to the comprehensive approach to the revitalization of vast water-based areas. It is important to integrate neighbouring functions and the way and quality of the arrangement of the whole area, and not just its fragment. The changes taking place in legal documents make the administrative path related to the transformation of water-based areas excessively complicated. However, it would be beneficial to specify the provisions of local spatial development plans and the general increase in coverage of plans of urban areas. The use of foreign standards seems to be valuable, where the revitalization of even vast areas is carried out in accordance with the precise assumptions. Such activities allow for creating interdisciplinary solutions, integrating numerous elements, which often leads to obtaining the synergy.

Revitalization of buildings and urban areas on the example of Gdańsk, Venice, Milano and Zabrze

Revitalizations are becoming a common activity giving new life to the abandoned buildings, districts, degraded areas, etc. The necessity of such actions results, among others, from the changing needs of users of these spaces, climate change and new technologies used. These activities are a strategic element of urban policy. They also fit into the context of sustainable development, causing a change in the value, reception and perception of degraded spaces and objects. New functions give a new quality, but also affect the neighbourhood, improve the quality of the immediate environment. They also enable the elimination of spatial conflicts, as well as the introduction of ecosystem services that reinforce the multi-range potential of these areas and facilities. During the study trips, the authors analyse in detail interesting examples of successful revitalization. The revitalizations are discussed: the factory building in Venice on the Giudecca Island (Italy), the entire quarter in the old town of Gdansk (Poland), the mine shaft in the post-industrial (mining) city of Zabrze (Poland) and housing estates with office buildings of Milano (Italy). The aim of the research was to analyse the effects of revitalization activities in these European cities. Relationships and correlations in these activities were analysed. The research also concerned the applied principles that may have an impact on the effectiveness of revitalization and its positive implementation. The quality of revitalized space and its impact on the surroundings was also analysed. Particular attention was paid to the importance of qualitative research at the revitalization programming stage. The analyses concerned various sizes and scope of the revitalization activities, i.e. from the object to the building quarter. The research results indicate the existence of universal principles of successful revitalization, which are applicable at different scales of revitalization. At the same time, the applications indicate 12 golden rules for a successful revitalization. The importance of qualitative research at the revitalization programming stage is underlined. These studies constitute the success of revitalization. Qualitative research conducted at the stage of programming activities may ensure the coherence of activities in various scales of urban space (from the object to the city’s quarters) and prevent the transmission of conflicts and problems to other urban areas.

Refrigeration system using resources of the regional environment in the Oya area

The Oya area of Utsunomiya City in Tochigi Prefecture is now with far less vitality than before owing to the decline of the Oya-stone industry, which used to be the main industry in the area. This decline is caused by a rise in new construction materials and overseas production materials. Despite the lack of vitality, the area is now showing signs of recovery. The local government recently tackled the Oya area revitalization by utilizing the abundant underground water of the Oya-stone quarry, which was once a facility of the Oya-stone industry. The quarry groundwater has an average water temperature lower than that of the ordinal groundwater. Business projects utilizing the quarry groundwater as a heat source for the heat exchange system have recently been promoted by the local government. Therefore, this study aims to explore the possibility of region revitalization by utilizing the regional resources in the Oya area by evaluating the proposed cooling system that makes use of the quarry groundwater as a heat source of the heat exchange system from the viewpoint of cooling performance. A food refrigeration system that uses the quarry groundwater as the heat source is prepared herein for measurement. The food refrigeration business will trigger the creation of work places in the Oya area, where the stone industry has deteriorated. The heat exchange amount of each element in the cooling system is identified from the measured temperature and humidity. The cooling performance is simulated and evaluated for several models that use cold water by utilizing the measured temperature and humidity as well as the identified heat exchange amount. This study demonstrates the concept of a groundwater cooling system that could be a way for region revitalization.

Issues of Central Urban Area Revitalization in Local Cities

Issues of Central Urban Area Revitalization in Local Cities

Відтворювальний потенціал сільських територій чернівецької області в умовах транскордонного співробітницт-ва: асиметрії розвитку та шляхи їх подолання

The deepening of cross-border cooperation opens new opportunities for the revitalization of rural areas and obtaining synergistic effect from interlacing reproductive potential of rural areas and subjects that are located there. Considering the dynamics of external environment, there is a need for researching new factors, forms, conditions and parameters of imbalanc-es overcome for rural development in the integration and convergence that affect the economic security of the state. The current realities of European integration processes strengthen the role of cross-border cooperation and open new opportunities for the development of rural areas. The convergence of the rural areas economy of the Euroregion ‘Upper Prut’ simultaneously acts as a catalyst and an indicator of the development of European integration of Ukraine. However, the current state of rural areas development of the Chernivtsi region is a process of uneven, asynchronous and disproportionate changes. The analysis of the development of rural areas showed an uneven development. The main disproportions in the development of rural areas of the Chernivtsi region are the following: monofunctional character of development; inefficient agriculture; negative impact on soil fertility, insufficient application of organic and mineral ferti-lizers; low income of the rural population; absence of conditions for the development of alternative business lines and their further diversification in rural areas; lack of an adequate mechanism for implementing financial support for the development of rural areas; Lack of economic interest to live and work in rural areas, motivation for work, unemployment, labor migra-tion, poverty. Asymmetric development of rural areas of the Chernivtsi region makes it difficult to use the border as a stimu-lating rather than inhibiting factor of cross-border convergence. It should be noted that Chernivtsi region has the opportunity to equalize the asymmetries in the development of rural areas, which are provided by a unique natural resource potential, features of land resources as a natural basis, human, scien-tific and technical potential. However, practice shows that if the normal course of economic processes is violated, without government intervention, there is an increase in disproportions and a socio-economic asymmetry in the development of rural areas. The conducted studies prove the necessity of developing a regional policy aimed at reducing asymmetries in the de-velopment of rural areas and searching for new forms of interaction between participants in cross-border cooperation. Elimination of disparities in rural development is possible through the cooperation of entities that are engaged in ru-ral economic activities, local authorities and the initiatives of the peasants themselves, through the formation of a network of partner organizations. Partnership between the authorities, business and the rural community should be based on the use of international standards of social responsibility that will establish clear requirements for the activities of business, govern-ment and society and thereby equalize existing asymmetries in the development of rural areas. Key words: rural areas, region, potential, diversification, asymmetry, rural area, cross-border cooperation.

An Analysis of the Performance Paths of Rural Area Revitalization Project: Focusing Eup?Myon Comprehensive Improvement Project

An Analysis of the Performance Paths of Rural Area Revitalization Project: Focusing Eup?Myon Comprehensive Improvement Project

New Trends in City Planning Funds and Revitalization of Urban and Regional Areas：Significance and Issues of Using Crowdfunding

New Trends in City Planning Funds and Revitalization of Urban and Regional Areas：Significance and Issues of Using Crowdfunding

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY TOURISM WITH ACCENT ТО ТHE CITY TOURISM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

With their cultural and historical contents, cities have always attracted tourists, thus contributing to creating a new kind of tourism - city tourism. The potentials of cities have contributed to creating other types of tourism such as fair, cultural, congressional, sports, religious tourism, etc. City breaks have become a contemporary trend and a phenomenon in world tourism, which an increasing number of tourists is becoming more interested in, and these tourists want to spend their short breaks, holidays or weekends in them. Comprehensive and short visits to major cities offer an opportunity to discover their tourist values such as ambience, architecture, culture, art, people, customs, etc. Basically, urban tourism is an activity that takes place in urban areas. City break is the third most important type of tourism in international tourism and the third most important type of vacation and traveling in Europe after ―sun and beach‖ and ―tour‖. In the last three decades, tourism in the world has been witnessing a constant growth of city break. The growth of this type of tourism is associated with the growth of the urban population in the world. City break tourism gives an impetus to the revitalization of urban areas. Historic cores of cities and pedestrian zones are urban spaces that appeal to visitors and are always attractive places visited by most tourists in all seasons. One of the most common activities of city break is seeing the sights of a city, its attractions, museums, galleries and historical landmarks, most often with a special open-type bus with a tour guide.

Problems of Balancing the Urban and Natural Environment on Example of the River Areas of the City of Czestochowa

The paradigm of sustainable development gives a new look at urban planning issues regarding shaping the cultural and natural areas of cities. An important element is the new view on the relationship between the river system and the city and its role in the urban biosystem. The river system was and is the main urban-creating factor, determining to a large extent the dynamics of urban development, as well as maintaining their settlement continuity. In the article, the author presents an example of the development and current problems of riverside zones as significant urban-forming elements, affecting directly the concepts of development of the city of Częstochowa. Starting from the mid-nineteenth century, the processes of anthropopression have accelerated rapidly. This phenomenon was related to the development of heavy industry (mining, metallurgy) and the textile and paper industry. Technological processes related to the extraction of raw materials and the production of industrial products resulted in changes in the urban and functional structure of the urban space. As a consequence, there was an increasing degradation of the natural environment and violation of the ecosystem. At the same time, intensive industrialization had a positive impact on the dynamics of the city’s development in the 20th century. Częstochowa has become one of the important industrial and urban centres in Poland. The creation of an area of significant industrial zone and the use of “dirty” technologies led to the degradation of river areas. An attempt to solve problems of biological and cultural regeneration of the riverside zone and river valley areas concerns the reclamation of river areas and revitalization of post-industrial areas. The area of the Warta River is an important link between protected areas - including the valley of the Warta River, as well as natural forest clusters, landscape parks of the Warta river basins (Cracow-Częstochowa Upland, Forests of the village of Herby). Restoration of the riverside zone as a valuable cultural and natural area to the urban organism is an indispensable activity.

Impact of Spatial Development of State Agricultural Farms and Unification of Residential Developments on the Cultural Landscape of Rural Areas – Revitalization Issues

The form of rural development of Western Pomerania forms a distinctive cultural feature of this region due to its typology, traditional timber frame and brick structures. Factors that influenced the condition and the preservation state of rural areas in the first years following the Second World War are vastly connected with the political situation of Western Pomerania, spoliation and the destructive activity of the Red Army. The establishment of State Agricultural Farms has had a significant impact on the current form of architecture and led to deformation of the cultural landscape in rural areas. The development complexes built in the 1960s and 1970s were characterized by their use of repeating forms of construction development. In the effect, the characteristic images of villages until the mid-20th century, became subject to total unification, by use of identical, typical solutions, straight from RBM catalogues. The character of these buildings very rarely shows any connections with regional buildings, which is closely connected with the creation of new social class of the so called worker-farmer. The pseudo-urban objects created are of a scale that is inappropriate for rural areas and are devoid of any architectural detail. The typical and ready designs used in their construction, together with prefabricated elements caused the total unification of development. The current problem is how to revitalize these areas in a way that will take into account the typical objects that are patterned after urban objects and thus extremely incompatible with canons of rural development. The problem of transformation should be considered an interdisciplinary issue, since it is subject to various disciplines, and thus perceived from different viewpoints. The rural area revitalization schemes introduced in recent years in the Western Pomeranian voivodeship and based on development strategies, already brought significant results, and the support of local authorities for social activity promoting local cultural heritage forms a significant aspect for further development of these areas.

Kajian Persentase Ruang Terbuka Hijau pada Implementasi Revitalisasi Taman Kota Malang

The “Park Revitalization” program initiated by the Malang City Government with the privatesector is being implemented and the implementation of this program raises questions, namely theextent to which this physical intervention should be carried out, so that integration andsustainability have a positive impact, without reducing the existing green open space. This studyuses a quantitative methodology in the form of a Green Open Revitalization program reviewconducted in Malang City by assessing the percentage reduction in area. Operational definitionsof variables used in this research design are in the form of transfer functions or building additionsand the use of functional areas / materials or cover material. Analysis of the condition of objects byreferring to Area Revitalization. Objects of observation are analyzed using thematic maps andstatistical analysis. The results of the study show that there is a close correlation between theconversion of functions or the addition of buildings and the use of functional areas/material orcover material to the percentage of RTH. The selection of the right material with the theme andcharacteristics of green open space with sustainable technology is an integrated entity with continuous improvement in the quality and quantity of the environment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/lw.v11i1.2686

Ceramiczne odpady budowlane powstające w procesie rewitalizacji miasta – badanie możliwości ich wykorzystania jako substytutu cementu do betonów i zapraw

The article indicates the issue of revitalization of urban areas on the example of the former provincial city. Particular attention was paid to threats to the natural environment caused by difficulties in managing construction waste arising during this process. During the research work on waste demolition material from repairs and reconstruction of buildings, ceramic construction waste was selected. These materials were crushed and dust was generated from them. The purpose of the work was to study the activity indicator, i.e. the research that is carried out for dusts obtained, e.g. in metallurgical processes. The parameter described was a determinant of the possibility of using dust as a recyclable cement substitute in concretes and mortars. The research material was ceramic waste. The waste was picked up from the landfill and sorted. Wastes of red ceramics were isolated in the form of damaged bricks, hollow bricks and roof tiles. Dust was produced from such prepared waste. The research methodology was carried out in accordance with the standard PN-EN 450-1:2012. The activity index of crushed ceramic dust after 28 days was 60.9%, after 90 days 72%. Given the slight change in the strength parameters of mortars and special considerations of the necessity of waste utilization, the described ceramic dust recycling is considered as a solution possible to implement in the production of mortars and non-structural concretes. Introduction of the results of these works to market activities may contribute to the reduction of waste deposited on landfills.

Guidelines for revitalization of rural areas based on landscape studies

Guidelines for revitalization of rural areas based on landscape studies

Rich water flow, live water revitalizes the countryside–Rural water resources utilization design under the rural revitalization strategy

Revitalizing the countryside should first develop water resources. The rational use of rural water resources will greatly enhance the endogenous power of rural revitalization, help to achieve the 1strategic rural revitalization goal of rich water and longevity, and promote the sustainable revitalization of rural areas in China.

A methodological approach to non-motorized itineraries with greater potentiality for the “train+bike” intermodality in Andalusia

The rise of cycle tourism is based on the use of non-motorized itineraries, which favours a new tourist typology that makes possible the revitalization of rural and peripheral areas. At present, studies of sustainable mobility consider, to a large extent, intermodality, especially among public transportation means, which are not very polluting and collective, as in the case of railways. Andalusia has a huge variety of non-motorized itineraries (livestock trails, rural roads, greenways ...) associated with areas of great scenic and heritage value. The main objective of this research is the establishment of a methodology that allows to identify the existing links between railway lines in use and these itineraries. To do this, at the methodological level, a proximity study was carried out first using the Buffer Geoprocessing tool, and subsequently a Network Analysis to measure accessibility through this extension, in both cases of the ArcGIS program, applied to the Geographic Information System that has been implemented. Its main results are related to the determination of favourable routes for potential users of the “train+bike” intermodality in Andalusia. In addition, its conclusions are, therefore, indicative for further studies of detail.

Public Park

How can one expect a rational growth and development of urban communities without a definite guide line for applying fixed elements on city planning such as Park? Introduction: City Planning; the unified development of cities and their environments. For most of its history, city planning dealt primarily with the regulation of land use and the physical arrangement of city structures, as guided by architectural, engineering, and land-development criteria. In the mid-1920th century it broadened to include the comprehensive guidance of the physical, economic, and social environment of a community.Elements characteristic of city planning include (1) General plans that summarize the objectives of land development; (2) Zoning and subdivision controls that specify permissible land uses, densities, and requirements for streets, utility services, and other improvements;(3) Plans for traffic flow and public transportation; (4) Strategies for economic revitalization of depressed urban and rural areas; (5) Strategies for supportive action to help disadvantaged social groups; and (6) Guidelines for environmental protection and preservation of scarce resources. City planning is conducted by governments on all levels—local, county, regional, state, and federal—and by private groups. It is also a subject of university-level study and Professional societies.

Analysis of Existing Spatial Information Systems in Terms of its Use for the Renewal and Revitalization of Rural Areas

Revitalization is a set of urban and planning activities, coordinated by local self-government administration, aim of which is a social, architectural, planning and economical advantageous transformation of the specific area of the municipality, being in a state of crisis resulting from economic and social factors. Whereas, the renewal of the countryside is understood as shaping the living conditions of people in rural areas, with the local community as an animator and subject. The combination of revitalization and renewal of rural areas is a particularly important and urgent task, connected with rural and architectural chaos, decline of cultural context and local tradition. The aim of the article is to examine information needs for the renewal and revitalization of rural areas, and the possibilities of satisfying these needs using available spatial information systems. The first part of the paper contains an analysis of information needs in the field of renewal and revitalization of rural areas, created on the basis of literature and valid legal provisions. The created information resource illustrates the scope of data necessary for proper planning of renewal and revitalization of rural areas. In the second part, specific information needs were compared with the capabilities of existing spatial information systems. The possibility of obtaining free of expense information necessary for renewal and revitalization of rural areas was analysed. Systems which may be useful in the implementation of related activities are also indicated.