Te pokapū tāone o Tāmaki, Auckland’s city centre, is the belly of Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand’s fastest growing residential neighbourhood and a significant contributor to the region and to the country. Globally, cities have been significantly impacted by Covid-19 and this has led to questions of the viability of city centres and central b...
Geographic space is not neutral or lifeless, but an intricate living structure composed of numerous small features and a few large ones across all scales. The living structure is crucial for comprehending how geographic space shapes human activities. With the emerging geospatial big data, researchers now have unprecedented opportunities to study th...
Published in The Canadian geographer. Geographe canadien
Au cours des dernières décennies, les chercheurs ont déploré l'érosion d'un « véritable » espace public par la montée des espaces semi‐publics et privés dont l'accès est déterminé et l'usage de plus en plus réglementé (par exemple, par des couvre‐feux et des restrictions d'utilisation). Au milieu de la sixième vague de COVID‐19, l'importance des es...
Cities are extraordinarily dynamic tourist destinations. Visitors and tourist activities are concentrated in urban centres, undergoing intense processes of touristification. Based on a bibliographic review, a study of these processes is undertaken, taking into account their causes, manifestations and effects on the city. The main objective of the a...
The 21st century set new urban standards in relation to the demands of the population of the city of São Paulo. Economic growth, an increase in the population’s income and low unemployment have altered the political agenda of the city, which now has to address socio-spatial structures consolidated throughout history. From the urban and spatial poin...
RESEARCH QUESTION: How can water infrastructure be developed to create a place of significance and progress in an Urban Indian context? ABSTRACT: The need to protect any country’s freshwater resources is becoming increasingly crucial against the backdrop of global water shortages. However, India poses an interesting challenge with the cultural impo...
RESEARCH QUESTION: How might the soon to be defunct parts of Huntly Power Station be repurposed to provide for positive growth in the community of Huntly? ABSTRACT: The town of Huntly needs a new direction. Historically Huntly has relied on mining for jobs but a decline in mining in the area, and the progressive decommissioning of this power statio...
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: What fundamental urban design and architectural techniques can be applied to best provide a link between the Waikato River and Victoria Street in Hamilton? And how can they be applied? SCOPE & LIMITATIONS: The scope of this project is to successfully bring the Waikato River into the city. The process in which this project intend...
Published in Musicology Today
Research on 18th-century music has been one of the key areas of interest for musicologists ever since the beginnings of musicological studies in Poland. It initially developed along two distinct lines: general music history (with publications mostly in foreign languages) and local history (mostly in Polish). In the last three decades the dominant t...
Published in Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
Despite of increasing volumes of individual passenger transport and growing dependence of the post-socialist societies on the passenger car, public transport is still inevitable for certain communities. Its social and environmental aspects are obvious reasons why public transport remains within the scope of state and regional policies as a mixture ...
