Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: An Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past

Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: An Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past

Author(s): Susana Alves / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: affordances; historic urban landscapes; place; culture; tangible and intangible heritage

Heritage has been de ned differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-landscape interaction where intangible values are linked to specific places and meanings are attached to particular cultural practices and socio-spatial organisation. Tangible and intangible values can be examined as part of a system of affordances (potentialities) a place, artefact or cultural practice has to offer. This paper discusses how an ‘affordance analysis’ may serve as a useful tool for the management of historic urban landscapes.

Between Planning and Heritage: Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas

Between Planning and Heritage: Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas

Author(s): Pablo González,Alfredo Macías Vázquez / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: cultural parks; national heritage areas; spatial planning; cultural heritage; development

The number of cultural parks and heritage areas is increasing in Europe and the United States. Those are spreading over other areas where the economic sectors related to tourism and leisure gain weight. Heritage areas or parks are heterogeneous initiatives that place cultural heritage at the heart of spatial planning policy and economic development, aiming at the reinvention of large territories and local community participation in planning. Their relevance stems from their potential in uence on the territorial con guration of broad regions and their impact upon the articulation of traditional protected areas. Notwithstanding this, they have attracted scant academic attention so far.

Towards Governance for the Management Cultural Landscapes

Towards Governance for the Management Cultural Landscapes

Author(s): Peter Kurz,Gisa Ruland,Sibylla Zech / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: UNESCO World Heritage; regional planning; rural development; adaptive co-management

Many (World Heritage) cultural landscapes are a living environment for thousands of inhabitants, visitors, entrepreneurs, farmers and other land users. In order to manage such landscapes we have to consider the legal framework and the reality of the regional planning culture. The ‘landscape of regional players’ consists of a wide range of stakeholders. How should regions tackle natural and cultural heritage as an integrated part of regional development? The discussion of Austria’s Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut World Heritage region involves vertical and horizontal dimensions of governance, including politics, administration, private businesses and civil society.

Managing Heritage in Remote Areas: the Case of Mšeno, Czech Republic

Managing Heritage in Remote Areas: the Case of Mšeno, Czech Republic

Author(s): Vojta Novotny,Alena Wranová,Jitka Trevisan / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: planning; heritage; remote areas; public participation

Large-scale investment is routinely believed to be the main danger to urban heritage. The measures designed to sustain heritage thus traditionally focus on steering investment into respectful ways of real-estate development. The majority of Czech built heritage is, however, located in towns and villages that rather face economic decline. Losses of objects of heritage in such places are often due to lack of maintenance. The case study of this article discusses the issues of heritage protection and restoration of the Enlisted town zone of Mšeno, where affordability and communication of values are the key issues in heritage protection.

Does Greek Conservation Policy Effectively Protect the Cultural Landscapes? A Critical Examination of Policy’s Efficiency in Traditional Greek Settlements

Does Greek Conservation Policy Effectively Protect the Cultural Landscapes? A Critical Examination of Policy’s Efficiency in Traditional Greek Settlements

Author(s): Ioanna Katapidi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: cultural landscape; conservation policy; traditional settlements

The paper discusses the role of Greek conservation policies in protecting the cultural landscape with focus on traditional Greek settlements. Drawing on secondary data but also on empirical evidence the paper examines the contribution of above policies to the protection of cultural landscapes. The first part focuses on the legislative framework, providing a critical examination regarding the way that cultural landscape is approached. The second part discusses the effects of this policy on a group of traditional settlements in central Greece, presenting the achievements and drawbacks of conservation policy as viewed by experts and residents in the area.

Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union

Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union

Author(s): Colin C. Williams / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: informal sector; undeclared work; shadow economy; neo-liberalism; European Union

The aim of this article is to evaluate the competing theories that variously explain the greater prevalence of undeclared employment in some countries either as: a legacy of under-development; a result of the voluntary exit from declared employment due to the high taxes, state corruption and burdensome regulations and controls, or a product of a lack of state intervention in work and welfare which leads to the exclusion of workers from the declared economy and state welfare provision. Analyzing the cross-national variations in the prevalence of, and reasons for, undeclared employment across the European Union using evidence from a 2007 Eurobarometer survey, the nding is that undeclared employment is less prevalent and more of the voluntary variety in wealthier, less corrupt and more equal societies possessing higher levels of social protection and redistribution via social transfers. The theoretical and policy implications are then discussed.

Conzenian Tradition in Polish Urban Historical Morphology

Conzenian Tradition in Polish Urban Historical Morphology

Author(s): Mariusz Kulesza / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: M. R. G. Conzen; urban morphology

The scienti c heritage of M. R. G. Conzen, who is considered one of the most outstand-ing historical geographers and urban morphologists in the world, has made a huge impact on the contemporary urban historic morphology. Nowadays it would be very hard to imagine this scientific discipline without his achievements. He created a new point of view on the city, first within the Anglo-Saxon, and afterwards within European and world geography. Morphogenetic methods, the conceptualisation of historic development, terminological precision as well as cartographic analysis that were typical of his approach, more and more often were considered essential for the development and the role of research on historic urban landscape. This resulted in the increasing interest in morphological studies on an international scale. In Poland, M. R. G. Conzen’s opinions have become recognizable since 1960, nding permanent place in urban historic morphology and providing stimuli for its signi cant development in the following decades.

Landscape-Related Aspects of the Siting of Wind Farms in Poland: a Case Study of the Great Masurian Lake Districts

Landscape-Related Aspects of the Siting of Wind Farms in Poland: a Case Study of the Great Masurian Lake Districts

Author(s): Wiesława Gadomska,Mariusz Antolak / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: wind farms; Poland; Great Masurian Lake Districts

European Union’s Cohesion Policy – Diversity of the Multi-Level Governance Concept, the Case Study of Three European States

European Union’s Cohesion Policy – Diversity of the Multi-Level Governance Concept, the Case Study of Three European States

Author(s): Petr Kolařík,Vít Šumpela,Jana Tomešová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: European Union’s Cohesion Policy; Multi-Level Governance

City Branding Evaluation and Analysis of Cultural Capabilities of Isfahan City

City Branding Evaluation and Analysis of Cultural Capabilities of Isfahan City

Author(s): Nader Zali,Issa Ebrahimzadeh,Masoud Zamani-Poor,Amin Arghash / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: City Branding Evaluation; Cultural Capabilities; Isfahan City

Mapping the Shadow Economy: Spatial Variations in the Use of high Denomination Bank Notes in Brussels

Mapping the Shadow Economy: Spatial Variations in the Use of high Denomination Bank Notes in Brussels

Author(s): Nicola Francesco Dotti,Bas van Heur,Colin C. Williams / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: informal economy; undeclared work; cash deposits; Brussels

The aim of this paper is to map the spatial variations in the size of the shadow economy within Brussels. Reporting data provided by the National Bank of Belgium on the deposit of high denomination banknotes across bank branches in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, the nding is that the shadow economy is concentrated in wealthier populations and not in deprived or immigrant communities. The outcome is a call to transcend the association of the shadow economy with marginalized groups and the wider adoption of this indirect method when measuring spatial variations in the shadow economy.

Significance of Trans-European Transport Networks for Logistics Centre Localization as Exemplified by the Łódź Region

Significance of Trans-European Transport Networks for Logistics Centre Localization as Exemplified by the Łódź Region

Author(s): Szymon Wiśniewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: logistics centres; tran-European transport network; Łódź region

This work complements and structures knowledge in the eld of logistics centres (with focus on the Łódź region). It presents a thorough analysis of strategic documents of the European Union in reference to the functioning of international transport networks. It also provides a detailed description of logistics facilities operations from the theoretical standpoint and de nition of relations in points where logistics centres and TEN-T networks overlap. The result of this work is a set of recommendations referring to effective development of logistics centres on the background of transport corridors.

Antropogenic Transformation and the Possibility of Renaturalising Small Rivers and their Valleys in Cities – Łódź and Lviv Examples

Antropogenic Transformation and the Possibility of Renaturalising Small Rivers and their Valleys in Cities – Łódź and Lviv Examples

Author(s): Elżbieta Kobojek / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: small river in the city; anthropopressure; urban ood; rivers valley management

Rivers used to serve important functions in the development of cities, and river valleys are a part of the urban space. Regardless of several centuries of anthropogenic in uences large rivers and their valleys have remained the dominant elements of the cityscape. In the case of small rivers and valleys the situation has been different. The expansion of urban infrastructure often led to an elimination of rivers and their valleys from the developed area. In many cases rivers were directed down straightened concrete ditches and sometimes the locations of their channels were changed altogether. In the city centre, rivers were locked in underground channels, i.e. they vanished from the cityscape. Urban oods, so annoying for the inhabitants, usually occur within river sections which have been utilized intensively and covered with impermeable surface. Even though a river was hidden in underground interceptor pipes, a valley dip remains still accumulating rainfall. The aim of this article is to present the extent of transformation of small rivers and valleys within two large cities located on watersheds: Łódź and Lviv, and the contemporary utilization and the possibility of renaturalising them.

Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revising the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revising the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

Author(s): Flavia Ranalli,Luca Salvati / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Land-Use Structure; Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation; Sprawling Region

Status Report about the Progess of the Visegrad Countries in Relation to Europe 2020 Targets

Status Report about the Progess of the Visegrad Countries in Relation to Europe 2020 Targets

Author(s): József Káposzta,Henrietta Nagy / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Vise grad Countries; Europe 2020 Targets; EU

Determinants of Hungarian sub-regions’ territorial capital

Determinants of Hungarian sub-regions’ territorial capital

Author(s): György Jóna / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Hungary; sub-regions’ territorial capital

Policy Vs. Practice: the Effectiveness of Refugee Integration Policies in the Czech Republic

Policy Vs. Practice: the Effectiveness of Refugee Integration Policies in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Kari Burnett / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Refugee Integration Policies; Czech Republic

Using Critical Path Analysis (CPA) in Place Marketing Process: a Methodological Approach in the Case of Rostock, Germany

Using Critical Path Analysis (CPA) in Place Marketing Process: a Methodological Approach in the Case of Rostock, Germany

Author(s): Theodore Metaxas,Alex Deffner / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Critical Path Analysis (CPA); Place Marketing Process; Rostock; Germany

Application of Prospective Structural Analysis for Identification of Strategic Variables in the Future Development of Baneh City in Iran

Application of Prospective Structural Analysis for Identification of Strategic Variables in the Future Development of Baneh City in Iran

Author(s): Nader Zali,Arefeh Rabbani,Victor Vahidi Motti / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Baneh City; Iran; Identification of Strategic Variables

Explaining the Prevalence of the Informal Economy in the Baltics: an Institutional Asymmetry Perspective

Explaining the Prevalence of the Informal Economy in the Baltics: an Institutional Asymmetry Perspective

Author(s): Colin C. Williams,Ioana Alexandra Horodnic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: informal sector; tax morale; social contract; institutional analysis; Baltics