Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India

Bansal, Vidhu; Bansal, Sunny; Sen, Joy

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“…The scope of environmental analyses undertaken in SUR models is broad and covers a varety of issues. Concerning energy, and beyond housing efficiency, there are greenhouse gas emissions related to transport [73,74] and the availability of green spaces [46,47,75]. More and more attention is being paid to the issue of accessibility of green areas in the scientific literature; the factors (governance tools, organizational leadership, culture and political leadership) that influence the satisfaction of the residents' needs in this area are increasingly being analyzed.…”

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“…On the basis of foreign literature, a thesis was proposed that views the resultant environmental sphere of sustainable urban regeneration as the result of the evolution of the specific approach of the country examining it. Most often, the inclusion of the environmental sphere in revitalization programs results directly from the availability of data, and not from the awareness of environmental challenges and sustainable development goals in the municipality [47][48][49][50]. National policies do not help in this respect, because, in their case, an "evidence-based approach" is also limited by the availability of data [51].…”

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Does Environment Matter in Smart Revitalization Strategies? Management towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration Programs in Poland

2021

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The article presents the course of the evolution of the concept of urban renewal’s emergence into its current, mature, integrated form of sustainable regeneration (sustainable urban regeneration—SUR). We present how the determination of renewal areas and its goals began to be based on particular indicators, and how the importance of these analyses gradually increased in managing the implementation of urban regeneration programs. Analytical techniques using GIS were used in the analyses of the differentiation of crisis phenomena inside cities before they became popular in smart city tools. Despite the wide use of GIS to analyze the diversity of crisis phenomena within the city, the availability of data means that different spheres are characterized with different accuracy. Starting from the significance of individual spheres, the focus has primarily been on the environment, which is underappreciated in Poland. Municipalities (urban, rural, urban–rural) with regeneration programs do not perceive negative environmental phenomena as significant in assessing a crisis in a degraded area. Nevertheless, municipalities that do analyze environmental issues in regeneration programs also see the need for action and implementation of projects in the environmental sphere. In order to verify the hypothesis, the Statistics Poland (formerly known in English as the Central Statistical Office; Polish: Główny Urząd Statystyczny, abbreviated and known as GUS) data on the regeneration process was analyzed, with reference to the relationships between renewal areas and the natural environment. In order to check these dependencies (or the lack thereof), the Yule φ coefficient and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient were used. As a result, this study showed that analysis of the level and degree of degradation of the environmental sphere is not carried out frequently enough in municipalities. Secondly, the difficulties of municipalities, especially small ones (urban-rural and rural), in their analysis of the environmental sphere are the result of poor data availability. Thirdly, it is noted that there is a relationship between the designation of environmental zones and the type of municipality. This is of particular importance for the enhancement of smart city tools for the regeneration of existing cities, esp. small ones.

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Does Environment Matter in Smart Revitalization Strategies? Management towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration Programs in Poland

2021

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“…Besides, some extensive literatures explored the strategies of reducing GHG emissions by improving the green space during urban renewal [6]. Hence, combining urban renewal with urban green space is critical to sustainable development [7]. During urban renewal, the imbalance in urban resource allocation is inevitable and is mainly reflected when developing transportation infrastructure and the corresponding urban functional facilities [8].…”

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Large-Scale and Refined Green Space Identification-Based Sustainable Urban Renewal Mode Assessment

Guo

Song

et al. 2020

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Urban sustainable renewal has received extensive attention in a wide range of fields, including urban planning, urban management, energy management, and transportation. Given that environmental resource conservation is critical to urban sustainability renewal, this study highlighted the imbalance among green space, urban development, and transportation accessibility. Here, a novel node-place-green model is presented to measure sustainable urban development; meanwhile, deep learning is utilized to identify and extract the green space to measure the environmental index. Based on the generated node, place, and green value, urban developing status could be classified into nine modes for further analysis of transportation, urban function, and ecological construction. The experimental results of Harbin reveal the feasibility of the proposed method in providing specific guidelines for urban planning and policies on sustainable development.

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Assessing Urban Morphology and Spatial Histories Through Space Syntax: Case of Varanasi, India

Bansal,

Sen

2024

Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

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Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Does Environment Matter in Smart Revitalization Strategies? Management towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration Programs in Poland

Does Environment Matter in Smart Revitalization Strategies? Management towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration Programs in Poland

Large-Scale and Refined Green Space Identification-Based Sustainable Urban Renewal Mode Assessment

Assessing Urban Morphology and Spatial Histories Through Space Syntax: Case of Varanasi, India

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