By Martin J. Murray
Combining insights from city stories, cultural geography, and concrete sociology with huge learn in South Africa, Murray displays at the implications of Johannesburg’s twin personality as a urban of fortified enclaves that proudly monitors the ostentatious symbols of worldwide integration and the distinguished “enterprise tradition” of neoliberal layout, and because the “miasmal urban” composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterised by way of indicators of a brand new type of marginality. He means that the “global towns” paradigm is insufficient to figuring out the historic specificity of towns within the worldwide South, together with the colonial mining city grew to become postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
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This promotes collaboration between parties and constitutes the basis for a coordinated action which—at a distance—promotes integrated management for a shared structure. It is therefore a dynamic, continuous and iterative process to promote sustainable management of urban coastal areas (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 Waterfront Atlas: relationship between waterfront criteria and principles for a creative-based planning of urban coastal areas (see Chap. 1 in this volume) 24 M. Carta It seeks, in the long term and within the limits set by natural dynamics and carrying capacity of the zones, to find a balance between the benefits associated with the following activities: economic development and anthropic uses of coastal areas, protection, preservation and restoration of environment, minimising the loss of human lives and damage to property, public access and use of waterfront areas.
Lucci, M. ), Napoli verso Oriente (pp. 143–163). Napoli: Clean. Toma, P. A. (1991). Storia del Porto di Napoli. Genova: Sagep Editrice. From the Harbour to the City. The Process of Urban Renewal in Trapani Alessandra Badami Abstract The chapter describes the study case of Trapani historical waterfront, in particular the design solutions adopted for nautical sport events and linked to regional landscape quality. The Trapani fluidity is connected with an entrenched sea cultural and natural heritage.