EKISTICS sks

2017

Man, since he has set foot on the earth, has always strived to maximize his potential contacts with nature, with his fellow human beings, with other works of man while expending minimum possible energy and efforts for optimization of man’s protective space so that he can fulfill his aspirations for a better life without compromising with his own personal space. This paper is based on a doctoral thesis which discusses the idea of ideal human settlements in the light of the Ekistics and the Vedic philosophies towards the common goal of welfare of mankind in totality. The paper aims to look back at these two theories and establish their greatness and relevance in addressing the common issues of human settlements in totality. It is an attempt to rediscover the gems that these two theories are but does not represent either of the two philosophies fully. This study, hence, looks at the philosophies of Ekistics and the Vedas parallel to each other based on an assumption that the ultimate a...

Pollack Periodica

University campuses and the surrounding urban environment are an integral part of each other's lives. The subject of this article is the relationship between them, primarily in relation to Pécs and University of Pécs. During the examinations, the network of connections regarding the city, university and its education sites will be visible. As it stands, the education sites of University of Pécs are not yet able to function as campuses. The creation of urban public spaces for the development of campuses is essential, as it can be seen through international examples and design. This may be the result of the numerous reductions and reorganization of educational sites.

Ekistics and the New Habitat, 2022

The International Journal of Ekistics and the New Habitat is an online double-blind, internationally peer reviewed research journal. The journal publishes scholarly insights and reflective practice of studies and critical writing concerning the problems and science of human settlements. The field of Ekistics is mapped against a classification of settlement scale, from the remote village and rural township to global systems of dense smart cities, and increasingly the challenges of on-and-off world sustainable habitats.

Role of Urbanization in the Development of Settlements Settlements Development focuses on the spatial distribution of shelter, infrastructure, networks and services. It is also concerned with the interrelationships of settlements as they develop and establish functional linkages based on their respective resource endowments and comparative advantages. The primary concerns of Settlements Development are to help ensure, for the present and future generations of Filipinos: (a) an effective integration of activities within and among settlements, allowing efficient production and movement of people and commodities through the provision of appropriate land, infrastructure, and facilities; and (b) the access of the population to housing, education, health care, recreation, transportation and communication, sanitation, and basic utilities such as water, power, waste disposal and other services. The major issues/ concerns and the corresponding policy guidelines in planning for settlements development are: 1) planning within the context of national settlement network; 2) spatial distribution and planning for future population growth; 3) infrastructure and basic services; 4) housing and informal settlements; 5) environmental impacts; and 6) food security and land use conversion. (Ernesto M. Serote, 2004).

2012

In developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. This situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose their role in the third-world countries and, therefore, for some kind of urban network to appear having consequences, especially at regional scales, like the deceleration or, in some cases, the stop of the dispersion of the expected effects of development and the lack of a chain or network of settlement focuses connecting the settlement system of the region together. The presented work has been planned to focusing on the study and analysis of the urban system of Hamadan province, Iran, with aims to present an appropriate pattern for mentioned province according to the common models and techniq...

Acta Technica Napocensis, 2016

Anthropology is concerned with finding the rules that define the way of life of a culture or another and is, in its right, a very important source of inspiration for architects and urban planners who need to provide spatial solutions to the problems of the community. Thus the way space influences human activity and quality of life is common research ground for architectural theory, urban planning and anthropology in equal measure. Nowadays cities double in size every few decades mostly through immigration so the way we adapt to this tendency is vital to the wellbeing of newcomers and old citizens alike. The concern of this paper is to underline a few success strategies that urban planners found to work when adapting cities for people's needs, basically employing methods used by anthropology to solve the most stringent urban problems. Naturally most of these problems come from overcrowding, from the excessive growth that cannot be sustained by the limited area the city has around it. With rapid increase in size comes rapid increase in traffic which in turn translates to an increase in commuting time. Pollution is another essential problem derived from the above. Last but not least, more recently we encounter the problem of urban blighting - a process by which entire neighbourhoods fall into disuse, degradation and eventually oblivion. All these sum up in the form of an ever more present need for sustainability that our cities will need to meet in order to survive the years to come.

Politecnico Di Milano, 2018

Urban Growth is one of the major problems facing developing countries today, cities are growing exponentially especially in the developing countries. The rapid increase in population overburden governments with a need to a fast solution to manage cities growth and its problems – urban sprawl (slums) on cities periphery, driving governments to adopt unstudied urban policies that either tries to manage the cities expansions or direct the growth expansion. The most common policy used in the developing country is the New Town Policy, influenced by the British New Town Act in 1946. New Town Policy is used as a tool to direct growth. Egypt has been applying New Town Policy since the 1970s till today. The Egyptian attempt of Directing growth have not proven any success until today, it has undergone various policy shifts that drifted the policy from its original target. However, the New Cities had encountered a high vacancy rate since their first implementation, while on the other hand informal areas continue to grow around Egyptian cities. In 2015 the government announced 44 new towns to be implemented, which urged the need to evaluate the success of the existing New Towns in meeting their objectives. The research focused on the ineffectiveness approach of New Town Policy in directing urban growth in Egypt. The study aims to outline Egypt’s current New Town Policy status and issues rising from the inefficient urban management and autocracy of planning institutions. In addition, finding some guidelines to improve the current situation is a supplementary target of this research.

2019

The subject of research in the paper are the settlements and their functional development, which is the basis for the sustainability in a demographic, economic and social sense. The functional development is conditioned by several factors, such as physical-geographical, social, economic and political, and is manifested by the presence of various economic and non-economic activities. The intensive changes in the human activities and needs are reflected in the functional characteristics and functional differentiation of the settlements, their role in the administrative-territorial organization, their place in the hierarchy of settlements, the gravitational power of the settlement and the extent of their sphere of impact. The functional development of the settlements is a potential for pulsating the development of micro, meso and macro levels and for balanced spatial, demographic, economic and regional development. The disproportion in the functional structure is a serious problem that complicates the network of settlements and affects their overall sustainability. The emphasis is placed on some of the factors that are a prerequisite for the functional structure of the settlements in Republic of Macedonia, such as the number of population, administrative-territorial organization, geographical characteristics of the area, etc.

This article asks its readers to consider the main approaches defining the opportunity to apply such notions as social space, social quality, standard of living, identity and social activity to the sphere of municipal administration in city development.