Seaside City Research Articles

Assessing the relationship between particulate matter concentration and property values in Spanish cities

In recent years, air pollution has become the leading cause of illness and premature deaths worldwide, with adverse impacts on human health, the environment, and the economy. This empirical study aims to investigate the relationship between air quality and property values with a focus on six Spanish cities. The study utilizes property prices as a variable and particulate matter concentration as an air quality indicator. Key findings indicate a significant correlation between particulate matter and property prices in seaside cities, revealing a discernible relationship. However, in inland cities, the observed correlation is notably weak and nonsignificant, resulting in a negligible association between the two variables. These results highlight the presence of additional characteristics that influence property values beyond air quality, particularly in areas where air quality is already deemed satisfactory. This research contributes valuable insights into the intricate interplay between air quality and property values by providing nuanced perspectives on urban planning and policy formulation.

How do national marine parks contribute to tourism eco-efficiency in coastal cities? The case of China.

This research investigates how establishing national marine parks in China enhances marine tourism ecology. Analyzing data from 52 coastal cities between 2006 and 2019, it uses a multi-period difference-in-differences method to evaluate the parks' impact on tourism eco-efficiency. The results show that national marine parks significantly improve coastal cities' tourism eco-efficiency, especially in the Bohai Rim and seaside cities. The study attributes this improvement to the reduction of fixed asset investments, which controls the scale of tourism development. These findings provide vital insights for countries seeking to revitalize their marine tourism sectors through similar ecological restoration strategies.

Revisiting King Herod’s Harbour of Sebastos: A Historical Narrative by Titus Flavius Josephus

Titus Flavius Josephus (37–100) was a Roman historian of Jewish origin who provided valuable information about his times and the periods that preceded them in his works. Although he tried to persuade the Jews to surrender Jerusalem to the Romans and subsequently became a Roman citizen because of his close relations with the Romans, his works are one of the few sources that can be consulted other than religious books. They are especially important for understanding the period of King Herod (73–4 BC), who is known as the builder king for the projects he implemented. One of his greatest achievements was the temple situated in Jerusalem, commonly referred to as the Second Temple. The Harbour of Sebastos, which is the subject of your article, is located in Caesarea Maritima, a seaside city dating back to the Phoenician era founded by Herod. The Harbour of Sebastos is one of Herod’s most major undertakings in Caesarea Maritima. This article aims to compile and assess the data gathered from field research in accordance with Titus Flavius Josephus’ accounts of the Harbour. The goal is to determine whether the information Josephus reported is consistent with the data available today. In this way, it is thought that the Harbour of Sebastos, one of the most important ancient ports of the Middle Ages, will be better understood.

Ozone Pollution Characteristics and Formation Mechanism in a Typical Tropical Seaside City

To investigate the pollution characteristics and formation mechanism of ambient air ozone(O3) in a typical tropical seaside city, we conducted an observational experiment on O3 and its precursors at an urban site in Haikou, Hainan Province, from June to October 2019. The O3 pollution characteristics were analyzed comprehensively; the O3-NOx-VOCs sensitivities and key precursors were determined, and the control strategies for O3 pollution were carried out. The results were as follows:1 O3 pollution in Haikou mainly occurred in September and October, with daily maximum 8-h O3 concentrations in the range of 39-190 μg·m-3, and the daily variation in O3 was unimodal, peaking at approximately 14:00. 2 The concentrations of NO2 and VOCs were higher during O3 pollution episodes than their respective mean values in Haikou City. The increased O3 precursor concentrations were an important factor leading to O3 pollution, whereas O3 pollution was also influenced by regional transport, with pollutants mainly transported from the northeastern part of Haikou City. 3 O3-NOx-VOCs sensitivity in Haikou City was in the VOCs and NOx transitional regime, and the most sensitive precursors in various months were different. O3 formation in September was sensitive to anthropogenic VOCs the most; however, in October it was sensitive to NOx. 4 In the future, the reduction ratio of VOCs to NOx should be 1:1-4:1 to control O3 pollution effectively in Haikou.

Increasing Trends of Heat Waves and Tropical Nights in Coastal Regions (The Case Study of Lithuania Seaside Cities)

Climate change is leading to an annual increase in extreme conditions. Public health is closely related to weather conditions; hence, climate change becomes a major factor concerning every-day human health conditions. The most common extreme natural phenomenon that affects people’s health is the summer heat wave. During the 21st century, as the air temperature continues to rise, the sea surface temperature (SST) rises along with it, especially along the seacoasts. More massive water bodies, such as seas or larger lagoons, that warm up during the day do not allow the ambient air to cool down quickly, causing the air temperature to often be warmer at night in the coastal area than in the continental part of the continent. Currently, not only an increase in the number of days with heat waves is observed, but also an increase in the number of tropical nights in the coastal zone of the Southeastern Baltic Sea. In this work, heat waves are analyzed in the seaside resorts of Lithuania, where the effects of the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon are most dominant.

Multimodal Interaction Evaluation and Optimization Design of Smart Landscape Devices for Elderly People in Seaside Parks

With the rapid development of science and technology, an era of intelligence has started in people’s lives, and intelligent robots, intelligent home systems, intelligent parking systems and other products of intelligent technologies have been quietly applied to all aspects of modern life. Experiential and interactive media landscape installations based on intelligent technologies have also been introduced into seaside parks in this context. Intelligent technologies are utilized to innovate traditional landscape installations, break the traditional limitations of thinking, and change the way of interaction between landscape installations and the public in seaside parks. Thus, the public can create an interesting connection with the landscape installations to enhance the participation and experience of the public. Emotion recognition, as an integral part of AI, has received more and more attention from experts and scholars at home and abroad. The landscape installations in domestic seaside parks are becoming more and more intelligent, and are customized to meet the needs of special target groups, such as the elderly. In this paper, the intelligent setting of landscape installations is investigated using multimodal interaction. First, it explains in detail the multimodal interaction, landscape installations, and intelligence. It innovatively combines experiential and interactive media landscape installations based on intelligent technologies with seaside city parks and analyzes and summarizes the cases in China and abroad. Furthermore, it explores how interactive media landscape installations work in different seaside parks, and examines how they are designed and technically implemented. At the same time, a plan is formulated to optimize the landscape installations for different groups of people in the seaside parks. Finally, the key points for optimizing the design of intelligent landscape installations for the elderly are proposed, and experiments are conducted to analyze how the design of multimodal interaction enhances the consumption perceptions of the elderly consumer groups. The experiment demonstrates the superiority of multimodal interaction for intelligent landscape installations.

Study on the Satisfaction of the Elderly Using Public Facilities in Seaside City Hydrophilic Park -Focused on Busan Samrak Ecological Park-

Study on the Satisfaction of the Elderly Using Public Facilities in Seaside City Hydrophilic Park -Focused on Busan Samrak Ecological Park-

What Determines Destination Choice of Bridal Photography Tourists?

ABSTRACT Bridal photography tourism as an Oriental Style of honeymoon traveling is recognized as a unique cultural phenomenon in China. This study attempts to identify the factors that are significantly related with bridal photography tourists’ destination choice through binary logit regression analysis. The results indicate that metropolises are more attractive to relatively senior couples planning to shop for wedding stuff. Regional and cultural differences are the key factor for provincial cities to catch the eyeballs of young couples. Ancient towns with a romantic atmosphere are beneficial for couples to seek fun and happiness. In terms of coastal destinations, pre-wedding travelers tend to trust the professional photography service provided at domestic seaside cities. Tropical islands located in Southeast Asia are able to satisfy the needs of gaining prestige. A niche destination mainly serves the purpose of creating extraordinary bridal photos. Additionally, photography cost is significantly more influential than other trip characteristics in determining the attractiveness of a bridal photography destination. The findings of this study can be useful to destination marketers in the effort to capture Chinese bridal photography tourists with corresponding marketing plans and strategies.

Independent and combined effects of PM2.5 and its constituents on preterm birth: a retrospective study in a seaside city

Independent and combined effects of PM2.5 and its constituents on preterm birth: a retrospective study in a seaside city

Storage of High-Strength Steel Flux-Cored Welding Wires in Urbanized Areas

The condition of the consumables is a key factor determining the waste reduction in the welding processes and the quality of the welded joint. The paper presents the results of tests of four types of flux-cored wires dedicated for welding high-strength steels, stored for 1 month and 6 months in Poland in two urbanized areas: in a large seaside city (Gdańsk) and in Warsaw, located in the center of the country. The wires were subjected to macroscopic and microscopic (stereoscopic, SEM) observations, EDS analysis, technological tests assessing elastic properties and targetability. The degree of degradation of the wires was also tested using resistance measurements. In order to assess the effect of storing wires on the weldability of steel, the diffusible hydrogen content in deposited metal was determined by high-temperature extraction. It was found that the storage caused changes in the surface condition of the wires, affected their elasticity and electrical properties, which affects the behavior of the wires during welding. A significant influence of storage conditions on the hydrogenation of deposited metal was found: in the case of three types of wires, the level of low hydrogen processes was exceeded and the maximum result was 15.18 ml/100 g of deposited metal. It was also found that copper-plated wire showed a significantly increased resistance to storage conditions compared to non-copper-plated wires.

BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS IN BURGAS - 1904 - 1944

In the history of education in Burgas high school education occupies a special place and the boys' and girls' high schools in the seaside town were its mainstay in the first decades of the last century. Their development goes through various vicissitudes, reflecting the changes in the educational legislation. The problems the managements of the two educational institutions have to deal with are:- staff turnover, low payment, problems with professional growth;- stuffing of party leaders empowered to take decisions that are not within their competence;- mobilization of students during the wars.At the beginning, the high school education in Burgas was catching up with the other cities in the country, at the end of the given period it trained specialists for the needs of the region and provided personnel for the Bulgarian universities and institutes.The following techniques were applied within the scope of the study:- biographical method;- historical-pedagogical analysis of educational information of a national and regional nature;- cultural-historical retrospective.Emphasis is placed on the high educational qualification of high school teachers who graduated from prestigious European universities: Dr. Minko Adzharov, Raina Kostenceva, Maxim Rajkovich, Sanda Yovcheva, Dimitar Radev, Roman Spatarev, Gencho Kirev. They formed the urban intelligentsia, and subsequently some of them became iconic names in national culture, science, and art. The names of Dimitar Radev, Zheko Radev, Petar Petkov-Osogovets, Tsvetan Minkov can be added to the above. The public appearances of personalities whose life and creative path remained connected to the seaside city began in the high schools in Burgas - these are Stefan Maksimov, Maxim Rajkovich, Georgi Popayanov, Panayot Vodenicharov, Gencho Mitev and a number of others.The review of high school annals, the personal archives of teachers and the published memories of students from this chronological period allow us to say that despite the stormy political events of public life, which resonated in high school everyday life, teachers and students were looking for something that could unite their efforts, and they found it in public events and activities, with which they contributed to the heightening of the authority of educational institutions in front of the citizenry.

Geographical problems of economic development of the seaside towns controlled by the government of Georgia: The cases of Batumi and Poti

The main goal of the study is to identify and classify economic problems in the cities of the coastal zone of Georgia. For this purpose, the Georgian coastal cities of Batumi and Poti have been selected. The research attempts to answer three strategic questions: 1. What is the relationship between the authorities of the seaside city and the existing business entities? 2. How does the population assess the role of authorities at various levels in the economic development of the cities under study? 3. What is the participation level of the population in economic projects in their cities? The study is empirical in nature. The main method used is triangulation (document analysis, qualitative research, quantitative research, mapping), partly a case method, and comparative analysis. It has been established that the territorial resources of both cities are severely limited for their future economic development. The study presents a classification of the existing problems hindering the economic growth of coastal cities based on expert assessments. It turns out that owing to limited financial resources, city municipalities cannot increase their participation in current economic projects. The article reveals certain disagreements between the interests of municipalities and economic entities. Furthermore, a survey conducted among the population shows an indifferent and even negative attitude of the local population towards the role of local municipalities in the economic development of cities. The research indicates that an involvement of the urban population in ongoing and promising economic projects in cities is rather low.

Comparison of national and local building inventories for damage and loss modeling of seismic and tsunami hazards: From parcel-to city-scale

In this paper, we compare the National Structure Inventory, a recently released building inventory for the United States, with a local tax assessor building inventory for use in damage and loss modeling of seismic-tsunami hazards. The city of Seaside, Oregon located in the North American Pacific Northwest and subject to seismic-tsunami hazards from the Cascadia Subduction Zone is used as a testbed. Input attributes – such as spatial footprint, year built, structure type, and number of stories – are compared at the parcel, block, block group, and tract levels. The input attributes show large differences at the parcel level and compare favorably when aggregated at increased spatial scales. The National Structure Inventory consistently underestimates structure value and number of stories compared to the tax assessor data. Expected damages across 7 mean recurrence intervals, from 100-yr to 10,000-yr, are computed using IN-CORE, an open-source community resilience model. Expected damage to the National Structure Inventory tends to be slightly larger than that of the tax assessor data and errors are reduced when aggregated at increased spatial scales. The National Structure Inventory underpredicts total economic losses and risks compared to the tax assessor data, particularly for recurrence intervals associated with high economic risks. A variance-based sensitivity analysis is performed to identify how uncertainties in the input attributes propagate to uncertainties in expected damage. Structure type, design-level, and building location all influence expected damages for seismic-tsunami hazards, highlighting the importance of accurate building inventories in multi-hazard damage and loss modeling.

Methodology to incorporate seismic damage and debris to evaluate strategies to reduce life safety risk for multi-hazard earthquake and tsunami

This paper presents a methodology to evaluate life safety risk of coastal communities vulnerable to seismic and tsunami hazards. The work explicitly incorporates two important aspects in tsunami evacuation modeling: (1) the effect of earthquake-induced damage to buildings on building egress time, (2) the effect of earthquake-induced debris on horizontal evacuation time. The city of Seaside, Oregon, is selected as a testbed community. The hazard is based on a megathrust earthquake and tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone that was defined in a previous study. The built environment consists of buildings and the transportation network for the city. Fragility analysis is used to estimate the seismic damage to buildings and resulting debris that covers portions of the road network. The horizontal evacuation time is determined based on the shortest path to shelters, including the increased travel time due to the earthquake-generated debris. The effects of different mitigation strategies are quantified. Results indicate the fatality and life safety risk of a near-field tsunami increases by 4.2–8.3 times when the effects of building egress and earthquake-induced debris are considered. The choice of population layer affects the life safety risk and thus the maximum risk is obtained when daytime populations are considered. Use of mitigation strategies result in a significant decrease in the number of fatalities. For hazards with recurrence intervals larger than 500- to 1000-years, the seismic retrofit is comparable to vertical evacuation and an effective strategy in reducing fatalities and associated risks. Implementing all mitigation strategies reduces the life safety risk by 90%.

Truita de pedres, a Catalan Recipe for Visualizing Women’s Domestic Work

Research Article| May 01 2023 Truita de pedres, a Catalan Recipe for Visualizing Women’s Domestic Work Cristina Fernández Recasens Cristina Fernández Recasens Cristina Fernández Recasens is a lecturer at the University of Surrey. In their PhD, they proposed the incorporation of body movement for the teaching of literature. They have also coordinated several research projects related to oral history and undertaken further research in the fields of cultural and gender studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2023) 23 (2): 47–51. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.2.47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Cristina Fernández Recasens; Truita de pedres, a Catalan Recipe for Visualizing Women’s Domestic Work. Gastronomica 1 May 2023; 23 (2): 47–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.2.47 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search Truita de pedres (pebbles omelette) Serves 2 Prep: 5 minutes Easy 4 large free-range eggs 1 small handful of beach pebbles a pinch of salt extra virgin olive oil In August 2022, I conducted a series of interviews with fifteen local women of between fifty-nine and eighty-nine years in age to obtain data about fish consumption, reproductive work, and popular eating habits around fish in the seaside city of Blanes, my hometown, in the Costa Brava region of Catalonia. The interviews were part of a research project called “Women and Fish Gastronomy, a Study about Fish Consumption and Food Habits in the City of Blanes,” promoted by the local historical archives and the city council with funding from the EMFF (European Maritime and Fisheries Fund), which supports coastal communities. The aim of this research was to investigate current popular eating habits around fish and how they have changed in recent... You do not currently have access to this content.

Urban Living Affects the Nutrition of Sharks

It is common to see some wild animals in the city, like squirrels and raccoons, but have you ever thought about sharks in the city? While you will not see a shark hanging out on the streets of downtown, you may see one swimming along the shorelines of major seaside cities! Although living in coastal cities can bring many benefits to sharks, such as abundant food and protection from large predators, sharks can be negatively affected by pollution and fishing. We studied blacktip sharks living near the city of Miami, Florida, to see if urban living affected their diets and their health. We found that blacktip sharks living close the city (nicknamed urban sharks) were fatter than non-urban sharks. Urban sharks also showed signs of eating more saturated fats, which are unhealthy when in excess in an animal’s body. This shows us that urban sharks are likely eating more food of lower quality, which can have negative consequences for their health.

Problems and prospects of the revival of coastal water transport in the Northern Black sea of Ukraine

The article examines the problems and prospects of the revival of coastal water transport in the Northern Black Sea Coast of Ukraine. One of the main features of seaside cities is the use of water transport, which is one of the oldest forms of transport and remained the most important until the advent of transcontinental railways in the second half of the 19th century. Small hydrofoils were widely used on the territory of the Odesa coast, and the restoration of these routes and infrastructure will bring undeniable benefits. At the moment, a limited number of vessels are operating. The main reason for the restoration of this type of transport is the extreme necessity due to the destruction of bridges and railway junctions along the coastal zone of Ukraine due to the bombings of the Russian Armed Forces. It will take a lot of time and money to restore bridges and crossings throughout the country, so an alternative in the form of the SPK can help restore connections between all southern regions of Ukraine and the Black Sea near abroad. Although there are not many factories for the production of this type of ships, there are enough of them around the world, buying them is faster and easier than building bridges with the complete restoration of the entire infrastructure, as well as its demining.
 The article presents the history of the use of small vessels on hydrofoils, gives an example of the restoration of seasonal water traffic on the route Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi – Ovidiopol settlement – Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, as an alternative to the destroyed bridge in Zatoka. Considered the history of the construction of a railway-car bridge between two torn parts of the Budak spit (1955) so that it would not be necessary to travel an extra 40 kilometers along the perimeter of the Dniester estuary from the extreme south of Odesa region – Vylkove, Kiliya, Izmail, in the direction of Odesa. An analysis of the latest research and publications in the field of urban planning, economics, organization of tourist transportation, etc. was made.

Circular, Cultural and Creative City Index: a Comparison of Indicators-based Methods with a Machine-Learning Approach

Culture, creativity and circularity are driving forces for the transition of cities towards sustainable development models. This contribution proposes a data-driven quantitative methodology to compute cultural performance indices of cities (C4 Index) and thus compare results derived by subjective and objective assessment methods within the case study of the Metropolitan City of Naples. After data processing with Machine-Learning (ML) algorithms, two methods for weighting the indicators were compared: principal component analysis (PCA) and geographically weighted linear combination (WLC) with budget allocation. The results highlight similar trends among higher performance in seaside cities and lower levels in the inner areas, although some divergences between rankings. The proposed methodology was addressed to fill the research gap in comparing results obtained with different aggregation methods, allowing a choice consistent with the decision-making environment.

Data-Based Analysis of Environmental Attractiveness towards Low-Carbon Development in Seaside Cities

Data-based technologies have been implemented in urban planning projects and environmental sciences. However, in the field of the environmental attractiveness analysis of seaside urban space, these technologies have not been fully studied. This paper critically assesses the attractiveness using data-based technologies with a focus on Chinese seaside cities’ low-carbon development. The analysis addresses the research question: How to use data-based technologies and their instruments to analyze environmental attractiveness of seaside cities towards low-carbon development? Methodologies include a case study of Dalian (China), field investigation, observation, and heatmapping. Results indicate that data-based technologies can support analysis of behavior and activity interests of inhabitants, as well as heatmapping with attractiveness consideration. The results provide a rational foundation for decision making during urban planning of seaside cities. Findings include insights and principles of planning seaside urban areas for smart sustainable development.

Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Nutrition Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis.

BackgroundPaying particular attention to sustainable food consumption in low-income households is essential for increasing human health. Due to the growing population globally, this concept will likely become more serious soon.MethodsFollowing the importance of optimizing food consumption for sustainability, in this study, a novel methodology is introduced for calculating nutrient intake efficiency and determining choices of food in different locations. The impact of socio-economic factors on nutrition efficiency is assessed. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a well-known linear programming (LP) and a Tobit model are used to achieve the goals. Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCESs) of 30,000 rural and urban Iranian households in all provinces in 2016 are analyzed. A Nutrient Efficiency Map (NEM) of Iran was depicted by GIS software.ResultsThe results showed that many townships had nutrient efficiency scores of less than 70%. Northeast townships had the lowest scores, with an efficiency score of less than 50%. Overall, townships have lower efficiency in the North (seaside cities), East (desert cities), and North East (isolated cities) when compared with other areas.ConclusionTherefore, it is suggestible that the government should modify the support policies and the protection packages based on social, geographical, and cultural status.