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The Architecture of an Intuitive Scientific Workflow System for Spatial Planning

Author(s): Tiberiu Florescu,Cătălin N., Sârbu,Andrei Mitrea,Corina Chirila,Alin Chis,Vlad Cocheci,Alexandru Costin / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

In recent years, the quantity of open data has multiplied dramatically. This newly found wealth of data has raised a number of issues for any research exercise within the field of spatial planning: underpowered traditional tools and methods, difficulties in tracking data, transparency issues, sharing difficulties and, above all, an erratic workflow. Some new research tools to counter this irksome tendency do exist at the moment, but, unfortunately, we feel that there is still ample room for improvement. We have therefore commenced the development of our own research instrument, based on the Scientific Workflow System concept. This paper lays the foundation for its architecture. Once completed, both the instrument and the resulting data shall be freely available, truthful to the spirit of the open source and open data tradition. We strongly believe that spatial planning professionals and researchers might find it interesting and worthwhile for increasing the quality and speed of their work.

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Danube area spatial integration by stimulating the Romanian port cities regeneration

Author(s): Marius Voica,Vasile Meita,Elena Stancu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2014

Romania is crossed through by the Danube, the main European river course, the Romanian port cities being an important item of the European river network. Ports as Galati, Tulcea, Giurgiu are part of the Pan-European Corridor IV, assuring the Eastern link for the merchandises entering Europe through some of the main ports as Rotterdam, Wien, Mainz or Strasbourg. Their strategic location is offering the Romanian ports the opportunity of becoming the main gate for the water traffic between Asia and Occident. The paper is developing the concept of urban regeneration of the port cities and their spatial integration within the Danube influence area. The objective is to propose an analyze frame for the port – city system, to identify the possible strategies and actions for promoting the local development and port – cities regeneration supporting. The paper process has the following approaches: the assessment of the economic development, tourist opportunities, culture and nature resources as a support for tourism development and strengthening into the port cities. Population relationships, opportunities within the crossing border area these port cities are having in view are analyzed. The intended purpose of the paper is to highlight the functional particularities of port cities and to elaborate a scenario of planning approach to their study implications promoted regeneration of socio-economic and ecological assessments.

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Ierarhizarea multicriterială pe baza indicelui global al nivelului actual de dezvoltare economico-socială a unităţilor administrativ-teritoriale din România

Author(s): Antonio Tache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

The paper is part of the research project „OpenGIS system to monitor the impact of spatial planning policies - GISTEREG”, coordinated by NRI URBAN-INCERC, URBANPROIECT branch, aiming to use the Geographical Information Systems to analyze the impact of regional development and spatial planning policies over the regions of development and administrative units of Romania. The paper summarizes the final result, consisting of the identification of disfavored areas, where interventions constitute a priority.

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Sistem integrat spaţial (GIS) de valorificare a zonelor alpine greu accesibile şi cu potenţial turistic complex, pentru includerea lor în circuitul turistic. Dezvoltare de caz: Valea Lotrului - Valea Olteţului

Author(s): Oana Catalina Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

The paper presents a project carried on during 2007-2010 by NRI URBAN-INCERC, URBANPROIECT branch – lead partner, NRI TOURISM, ELECTROVÂLCEA S.R.L. and the Institute of Geography at the Romanian Academy. The phases of the project were: (1) mountain areas in Europe and Romania: characteristics, regional policies and trends of development, (2) elaboration of a spatial (GIS) database with information needed to evaluate Romanian hardly accessible mountain areas with a high touristic potential, (3) actual spatial development model and the practice of tourism in a hardly accessible mountain area with a high touristic potential – case study: Lotru – Parâng mountains, (4) completion of VALOT model, and (5) intervention priorities and possibilities of development for Romanian hardly accessible mountain areas with a high touristic potential.

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Avantaje competitive în teritorii identitar-productive din spaţiul rural românesc – cazul zonelor viticole

Author(s): Alina Chicoş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

The analysis focused on shaping and describing some identity-producing categories of territories, focusing on those with a potential for the wine industry, starting from the premise according to which natural resources of a territory could not only represent a comparative advantage for the economic development of a region, but especially a competitive advantage. Laborious analyses performed at this stage confirm the competitive advantage theory for the Romanian regions of development as well, since 2003 and 2007 comparative data aggregated per region indicate that the regions with the highest potential for a culture have in 2007 the lowest production for the respective culture, confirming the insufficiency of the comparative advantage,of favorable natural conditions existing in a economy. The objective of the phase proposed initially was reached by demonstrating the importance of competitive advantage in stimulating the increase of competitiveness in the rural space. The detailed presentation of productive potential, presented in graphs at different territorial levels could support the next phase of the project, aiming to analyze the stimulation of rural development in identity producing territories starting from underlining the restrictive factors for the valorization of the agricultural potential of the Romanian rural space, especially those related to the national spatial planning policies.

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Accesul în zona rurală – problemă esenţială pentru dezvoltarea spaţială echilibrată

Author(s): Viorica NICULESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

The project aimed to: a) constitute a diversified strategy of development, adapted to the endogen potential of rural areas; b) strengthen the territorial role of small and medium cities as regional development poles, among others by ensuring their accessibility to the major communication network; c) protect and valorize the natural and cultural heritage in rural development strategies.

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Utilizarea eficientă a resurselor în contextul dezvoltării durabile a diferitelor categorii de teritorii

Author(s): Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

Numerous studies revealed the existence of development gaps among Romanian regions, pinpointing two areas with an extremely low level of development: Moldova and Oltenia. This paper analyzes one of the possible explanations: the distribution of resources and their consumption, in an attempt to substantiate the Territorial Development Strategy of Romania. The results indicate that the lack of resources could constitute a possible cause of underdevelopment, but, in the absence of data, are inconclusive with respect to the consumption of resources.

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Plan de Amenajare a Teritoriului Judeţean Vâlcea în Sistem Informaţional Geografic

Author(s): Adriana VARTANOFF / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

The plan aimed to coordinate and harmonize socio-economic development in administrative territorial units composing the county, optimizing the use of resources and creating a balance between the valorization of the natural and economic potential on the one hand, and the environmental protection on the other hand, in the following phases: (1) identification of elements conditioning the development, (2) prospective and general diagnostic, (3) special development strategy and action plan, (4) documentation for obtaining the approvals.

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Patrimoniul provenit din fostele baze militare trecute în circuit civil între realitate şi uitare

Author(s): Simona Bara,Alexandra Antal,Mariana Barbu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2010

The article presents the results of the survey of the architectural heritage represented by the military brownfields in Romania transferred in public property within the implementation of the Project “From Army to Entrepreneurship” within the South-East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme aimed at supporting the conversion of military brownfields into business support centres or business incubators. The advantages and disadvantages of taking advantage of these heritage pieces, their deficient privatization, the lack of transparency in their taking-over by various stakeholders and the necessity to raise the awareness of the public local administration bodies are emphasized.

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Integracja informacji pochodzących z dawnych map w systemach geoinformacyjnych

Author(s): Anna Majchrowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2004

Historical maps are precious materials, which show spatial distribution of land use,vegetation, river patterns, and so on at the time the maps were produced. They are used forthe reconstruction of past environments or for comparisons in time analyses. However theimprecision of the historical maps, in the geometrical sense, makes the task of the comparisonvery difficult. This drawback brings us to the idea of incorporating the historical maps intoGIS, after geometrical transformation of the maps. It makes possible comparing and overlayingmultiple maps from different time periods. Furthermore it gives map-scales to historical mapsand enables broader range of quantitative considerations. This greatly increases the value ofarchival maps as information source.The paper outlines the procedure of incorporating old maps into GIS and some results ofthe transformation of early maps.

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PERSPEKTYWA ROZWOJU SIECI MIAST CITTASLOW W REGIONIE WARMII I MAZUR NA PRZYKŁADZIE MORĄGA

Author(s): Agnieszka Szczepańska,Katarzyna Pietrzyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The Cittaslow movement promotes a “good quality of life”. The organization brings together small towns from all countries of the world, including Poland where the majority of Cittaslow towns are located in the Region of Warmia and Mazury. The region also abounds in many candidate towns, including Morąg, for which a case study was conducted. An attempt was made to evaluate Morąg’s potential and ability to meet Cittaslow certification requirements.

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SPÓJNOŚĆ I ZWARTOŚĆ STRUKTURY MIEJSKIEJ WROCŁAWIA I JEJ ZNACZENIE DLA JAKOŚCI ŻYCIA UŻYTKOWNIKÓW MIASTA

Author(s): Alicja Zakrzewska-Półtorak,Agata Pluta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The aim of the article is to discuss and evaluate the significance of the coherent and compact urban structure for the development of the city and the indication of their use of activities that may have a positive impact on the quality of residents’ and other city users’ life, on the example of Wrocław. Methods used in the article are descriptive, simple statistical methods and case studies. There is a lack of cohesion and coherence in functional spatial structure in Wrocław. Meanwhile, compact urban structure can help improve the quality of life of residents and other city users. In the new strategic documents: the project of the Study of conditions and directions of Wrocław spatial planning and the Strategy for Wrocław 2030, attach great importance to the coherent and compact urban structure. Particularly important actions are: adherence to the principle of urban fulfillment, strengthening the role or creating bustling public spaces, taking care of the multifunctionality of the city center, revitalizing and ensuring more self-sufficiency of outlying settlements, and maintaining the distinctness of individual districts and urban units, while strengthening the functional links between them.

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RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE WARTA VALLEY IN WIELKOPOLSKA

Author(s): Anna Januchta-Szostak,Agata Karaśkiewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

Riverside areas have substantial recreational and tourist assets, but their potential in the settlements of Wielkopolska is underused due to difficult access to the river and the poor development of the embankments. The aim of the research is to analyse the functional-spatial structure and the development of River Warta areas in the settlements of Wielkopolska with respect to their usefulness in recreation. Particular attention is paid to accessibility and the location of recreational infrastructure in the Warta Valley. Out of the eleven Wielkopolska settlements which were included, only in four – Konin, Śrem, Poznań and Sieraków – had sections of embankment boulevards been built. In the riverside areas there are few recreational facilities used in connection with the close proximity of the river. However, a great tourist asset of the Warta Valley is the Great Waterway Loop of Wielkopolska, which operates successfully due to the growing number of harbours and marinas in all the settlements included in the study.

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A METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL INDICATORS OF TOURISM ACTIVITY

Author(s): Vasyl Kyfyak,Olexander Kyfyak / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

The purpose of the article is to find modern approaches for calculating the quantity of given characteristic features and accompanying tourist services and goods purchased by tourists, to determine the number of tourists visiting a city and forecasting the volume of travel services for the future. Solutions to the tasks set out in the article have been carried out with the help of both general academic and specialist research methods: analysis and synthesis, systematization and generalization, expert evaluation and extrapolation. Using the example of the city of Chernivtsi (Ukraine) the number of tourists visiting the city has been determined, the volume of services rendered and the average annual growth rate of tourism service implementation over the last five years has been calculated contributing to forecasting the volume of service delivery for the future.

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THE IMPACT OF THE PERCEPTION OF LEISURE ON RECREATIONAL AND TOURISM SPACES IN AN URBAN AREA

Author(s): Beata Meyer,Agnieszka Niezgoda / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

The purpose of the present paper is to attempt to identify relations between the changing perception of leisure and the creation of tourism and recreational spaces in urban areas. The authors focus in particular on changes associated with the so-called ‘third wave’ (TOFFLER 2001), time compression (NIEZGODA 2017), and departure from synchronization. These considerations are illustrated by an analysis of the recreational activity of Szczecin residents and of tourists, and attempt identifying the relations between recreational space and tourism space. With the constant compression of leisure time, tourism activities become more similar to the leisure activities of residents, which means both types occur in the same environment. Urban recreational and tourism spaces overlap in a way that makes it impossible to separate them, but still allows the distinction of certain sub-spaces where either tourism or recreational behavior prevails.

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CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC RECREATION1 AND A CREATIVE APPROACH TO RECREATION ORGANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF WI-MA CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ESTABLISHMENTS

Author(s): Aleksandra Mroczek-Żulicka / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

Artistic recreation has been described in the literature for many years as one of its types. However, research into its meaning, or even motivation, is rarely undertaken. The author attempts to confront existing definitions of artistic recreation with changing trends in spending free time and types of recreational activity. She emphasizes the role of a creative approach to the organization of recreation as an opportunity for the better utilization of its potential to affect the development of the individual personality. To illustrate the values of artistic recreation and a creative approach to its organization, the author analyzes the case study of WI-MA Creative Industries Establishments.

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OUTDOOR GYMS AS AN EXAMPLE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION ACTIVITY IN URBANIZED AREAS

Author(s): Hanna Nałęcz,Anna Ostrowska-Tryzno,Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka / Language(s): English Issue: 1 ENG/2018

In recent years, the popularity of outdoor gyms has been growing. They are built in urban parks, in neighbourhoods (housing estates), at school sports grounds. Recently more and more outdoor gyms are increasingly being built also in non-urban recreation areas (such as coastal beaches, lake promenades, forest parks). The aim of this research was to analyse how outdoor gyms in Warsaw and the selected surrounding localities are used.

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A Magas-Tátra jeles természetvizsgálói

Author(s): János Kubassek / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2019

The paper lists the research scientist (botanists, geologists, geographers) exploring the High Tatras´ natural wealth in the period from the 16th century to the 20th century. It also offers a register of their works examining the mountain range and also appraises the significance of their papers. Each of the listed researchers personally took part in the mapping of the High Tatras´ natural history.

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Naturalne uwarunkowania zagospodarowania i rozwoju przestrzeni wiejskiej na obszarach lessowych województwa lubelskiego

Author(s): Bogusława Baran-Zgłobicka,Leszek Gawrysiak,Wojciech Zgłobicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2012

Lublin Province is an important agricultural region in eastern Poland owing to the occurrence of fertile soils and the natural environment, which creates the specific conditions for the development of agriculture. The dense network of loess gullies and the common occurrence of steep slopes is a particular challenge for rational spatial management. This study investigated 35 rural districts in loess-covered areas in Lublin Province. An attempt was made to assess the correlation of the selected components of the environment: coverage by loess soils, gullies, areas of specific slopes and the socio-economic development of the rural districts. The indicators analysed included: forest cover, land use cover, size of agricultural holdings and economic indicators of agriculture. The conducted studies showed the impact of selected natural factors on indexes related to the agriculture of studied rural districts. In the case of loess areas, the density of gullies plays the most important role.

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Przemiany struktury funkcjonalno-przestrzennej pomorza w ujęciu wielofunkcyjnego i zrównoważonego rozwoju

Author(s): Gabriela Czapiewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2012

The rural landscape is characterized by considerable diversity in terms of natural conditions and socio-economic indicators. The Polish systemic transformation and subsequent membership in the European Union has had a great influence on the current functional and spatial structure of the rural landscape. The past decade has brought about a significant increase in the number of ecological and agritourist farms which, apart from transforming construction development and infrastructure (new roads, production lines), have also left their mark on the landscape. The social and economic changes occurring in the Pomeranian villages have also been reflected in changes in the functional and spatial structure of the landscape. Agriculture and forestry play an important role in the lives of rural communities in Pomerania and are the basis for natural resource management and development of the rural landscape. In this paper, the structure of the rural landscape is analyzed primarily in the context of multifunctional and sustainable rural development, whose main purpose is to improve the living conditions of rural residents by developing forms of multifaceted social, economic (mainly non-agricultural), and cultural activities.

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