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Green network analysis in coastal cities using least-cost path analysis: a study of Jakarta, Indonesia

  • Kim, Jae-Eun
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.141-147
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    • 2012
  • The rapid urbanization in developing countries is accelerating both the depletion and fragmentation of urban green space, despite the known positive effects of green spaces on the environmental conditions in cities and the quality of life of residents. Consequently, there is a need for practical tools that can support the development of networks of urban green spaces. This article presents a study that used a GIS-based least cost path (LCP) analysis to identify the best alternative for developing an urban green space network in the coastal city of Jakarta, Indonesia, which was based on the evaluation of topography and land use characteristics. Pair-wise analysis was used to reduce the sensitivity in the LCP model. The results showed that the coastal wetlands in the northern part of Jakarta and the agricultural fields in the suburban areas of Jakarta play an important role in connecting the green space network. On the other hand, some green spaces in the central part of Jakarta could not be connected by the LCP model. The method used in this study can serve as a tool to support the identification of networks of potential urban green spaces. It can also provide useful information for sustainable urban landscape planning and management in urban ecosystems. However, the inclusion of socio-economic criteria would further improve the model.

Factors Affecting Quality of Nursing Services and Intention to Revisit as Perceived by Hospitalized Patients and Nurses in Medium Sized Urban Hospitals (일 지역 중소 종합병원 입원환자와 간호사가 지각한 간호서비스 질과 의료기관 재이용 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Ki Sook;Ha, Eun Ho
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.103-114
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors which affect the quality of nursing services and intention to revisit as perceived by hospitalized patients and nurses in medium sized urban hospitals. Methods: The SERVQUAL scale, a measurement of overall nursing services and intention to revisit a medical institution, was used. The sample consisted of 223 patients and 239 nurses from four medium sized hospitals in I city. Frequencies, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and Stepwise method regression were used to analyze the data. Results: For expectation, nurse and patient perceptions were similar, but for performance, patient perception was significantly higher than nurse perception for five factors. The factors affecting intention to revisit the hospital were those recommending, satisfaction with medical and nursing services. Conclusion: The findings indicate that differences between expectations and performance for both patients and nurses need to be reduced in order to elevate patient satisfaction. A precondition for intention to revisit and increased satisfaction is the development of marketing strategies as well as intervention programs in nursing.

Reading Matta-Clark Indifferently: Analyzing Gordon Matta-Clark's City Slivers (1976) through the Notions of Engagement and Indifference

  • Paek, Seunghan
    • Architectural research
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2018
  • This article explores the complex modes of experiencing the modern city that are engaging and disengaging by nature, which thus negates any simple ways of understanding what it means by 'the urban' in a Manichean comparison. What follows is an in-depth case study of Gordon Matta-Clark's 1976 film titled City Slivers. Influenced by the countercultural practices prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, Matta-Clark produced a number of works roughly grouped together under the rubric of "building cuts." Among many others, City Slivers is distinctive among Matta-Clark's extensive cutting projects, in the sense that he actively utilizes film as a primary expressive medium and poetically reassembles fragmentary images of cityscape in order to bring forth an alternative urban scenario where the tension between institution-bound urbanization and dispersed daily urban practices is highlighted. Instead of simply being critical against the changing urban conditions of Manhattan in the 1970s, Matta-Clark aims to actively grasp ambivalent instances of urban life that are at once attractive and alienating, thereby excavating the subconscious terrain of contemporary urbanism that is prevalent but often dismissed over glamorous urban projects.

A Study on Attitudes on Health Institution and their Utilization (일부(一部) 주민(住民)의 의료기관(醫療機關)에의 태도(態度) 및 의료이용(醫療利用)에 대(對)한 연구(硏究))

  • Choi, Young-Joo;Cha, Hyung-Hun;Yum, Yong-Tae
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 1983
  • Health institutions in Korea include a wide range of traditions, most notable of which are hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and health centers as foci for the dispension of western medicine care ; and herb clinics and shamans acting as centers for traditional medicine. Health consumers have pluralistic conceptions of illness(or disease) and act accordingly, using what they consider as appropriate medical practices. The research conducted surveyed residents of Jeomdong-Myon(a rural farming district), Guro 6-Dong(an urban district) and the Banwol(a semiurban district) area on attitudes about health institutions and their utilization of them. The results indicate that the hospital is considered the most reliable health institution, however, the most widely known and commonly used institution was the pharmacy. Hospitals and clinics were found to be utilized more frequently by those residents who were familiar with them than by others less familiar with them. In addition respondents with higher education, those with medical insurance, and those living in urban areas tended to utilize hospitals and clinics more frequently than their less educated, uninsured, or rural counterparts. Converse to the ranking of western medical institutions, traditional health institutions were rated low with regards to reliability, familiarity and utilization. This indicates that western medical care has pervaded the Korean medical system.

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A Study on the Improvement of Legal Policies for Activating Public Open Space in Urban Environment Improving Project of Seoul City (서울시 도시환경정비사업 내 공개공지 활성화를 위한 제도개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Do-Kyong;Kim, Kun-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2011
  • The district units planning suggests not only detailed standards of building as parts of the whole plan in the district but also a guideline of the arrangement, shape and pavement of the public open space, in order to move away from the rigid image of an institution which causes the formal creation of it. This triggered various problems. While the basic plan for adjustment of urban environments(established in 2005) was being reorganized in order to reflect changed conditions of the city center, the sector of public open space was subdivided according to the guidelines of development by district. We conducted a comparative analysis of conditions before and after the adjustment, so as to examine whether or not the reorganized institution is effective for the plan of public open spaces. The analysis showed that there was no remarkable change between the basic plan and the reorganized institution in that items which were not any different from the existing building codes were established due to lack of guidelines related to public open space under the law of urban and residential environmental improvement. Low regulations should set up criteria for establishment from a concrete, effective microscopic aspect appropriate to the significance of public open space by the linking of public open space and the surrounding environment, whereas high regulations such as building codes should specify essential components.

Exploration of Institution and Policy to improve Urban Amenity in Busking Culture (버스킹 문화의 도시 어메니티 저해 양상과 제도적 완화 방안 탐구 : 해외 정책 사례 분석을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jong-Hyo;Kim, Gwang-Jae
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2020
  • Busking culture which is a element of Urban Amenities is spreading rapidly in the field of public art culture with the change of media environment. However, the lack of a proper institution and policy to manage the negative aspects of it continue to lower urban amenities and make the conflict among stakeholders. The study aims to increase the advantages from the domestic busking culture and derives suggestions to develop the institution and policy for the soft landing of the busking culture. Applied methods to achieve the research objectives are an in-depth interview and overseas case analysis. The result of analysis is as follows. Stakeholders related to the busking culture in South Korea has presented very strongly and concretely in aspect of policy or institutional improvement. In addition, based on the analysis of oversea cases, the researchers have proposed three ways for settling down a proper busking culture: the busking permit system, the management system for professional buskers, and the civil complaint management system through time and noise restrictions.

A Comparative Study on the Development Characteristic of Parks and Green Systems between Korea and Japan (한국과 일본 녹지체계의 발전 특성에 대한 연구)

  • Park Koo-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.34 no.3 s.116
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    • pp.59-78
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    • 2006
  • Japan has been tried to integrate Western planning theories into its parks and green systems in the past. However this effect has been regarded unsuccessful. One of reasons for this is that the green systems have been treated as an urban facility, instead as systems. Another reason has to deal with greenbelt's stationary and reservation characteristics that make difficulty to respond timely to the rapid urbanization. The parks and green systems in Korea was introduced in 1990 and began to be promoted fully with the 'Parte and Green Master Plan' established in 2005. However, due to its short history, incomplete aspects exist in its philosophy and methods for promoting the system. Based on these experiences, the current green zone plans in Japan considers the green structure as an independent institution and amenity plan, not a tool of urban planning, that can be a medium for realization of urban visions. And main characteristics of this approach are 1) classifying the green structure into four categories in order to respond to urban forms and purposes, 2) pursuing confirmity with urban planning, and 3) executing the landscape plan based upon core green areas. From reviews upon experiences of Japan as well as considerations on demands and conditions of green systems in Korea, we proposed the following five new strategies for the construction of the urban parte and green system in Korea. They are 1) to develop urban parks and green systems into a genre of urban development improving the quality and local competitiveness of cities rather than a means of urban planning; 2) to form the integrated structure of urban green zones; 3) to transform the urban parte and green systems into practical systems as the centers of localities; 4) to raise criteria for planning and execution plans for effective implementations of the urban parte and green systems, and 5) to provide specific guidelines for the construction of urban parks and green systems through organizing research groups or specialists.

Driving Projects of Urban Agriculture for the Energy Independence (에너지 자립을 위한 도시농업 활성화 추진정책 방안)

  • Na, Young-Eun
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.304-308
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    • 2010
  • This study compared and analyzed existing studies and released papers to identify the "definition and scope of urban agriculture" which correspond to the circumstances of Korea based on the fact that urban agriculture was selected as one of the measures to pursue green growth by the Presidential Committee on Green Growth (PCGG) and the discussions and deliberations among PCGG, government, academia, civic organizations, and experts. It also aims to present the ways of policy to facilitate the development of urban agriculture based on the mentioned identification. This research proposes the definition of urban agriculture as 'all agricultural activities that incorporates multi-functional public benefits of agriculture performed within the administrative district of a city. However, the scope of urban agriculture should exclude the agricultural sites, the methods, and the activities that are against the multi-functional public benefits of agriculture, which will be determined depending on the spaces, methods, and purposes of planting food crops. In order to facilitate the development of urban agriculture, the government should implement the policy measures as following: (1) to analyze spaces for farming, and provide the spaces to the citizens; (2) to prepare legislation and institution that will allow citizens to use the farming spaces continuously; (3) to develop Korean-style urban agriculture model that fully reflects the features of Korean cities; (4) to develop a system where the urban citizens can easily learn and experience the urban agriculture; and, (5) to provide incentives that will attract active participation of urban citizens such as carbon mileage. (6) to analyze effect of urban agriculture to save energy and food self-sufficiency.

A Study on Construction policy for Seoul Metropolitan Railway (서울 도시철도 건설방향에 대한 연구)

  • Woo, Nam-Jik;Lee, Won-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.67-71
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    • 2008
  • This study is to retest of seoul traffic, all sorts of statistical data, the present condition of urban railway that local government and all sorts of research institution had researched. Even though, or something else with population and regional industrial distribution of seoul with worker and the present condition of the registrated cars and the change of increase, we have predicted the medium term and long-range solution. we have proposed the alternative plan about both of the problem that is the developmental construction direction of seoul urban railway and the resource insurance for urban railway construction.

The Supply Status Analysis of New Renewable Energy Based on Public Obligation System (공공의무화 제도에 따른 신재생에너지 보급 실태 분석)

  • Seo, Sang-Hyun;Lee, Yong-Ho;Kim, Hyung-Jin;Cho, Young-Hum;Hwang, Jung-Ha
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.220-225
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    • 2011
  • Based on the supply status statistics of new renewable energy according to public obligation system, current status of overall application centered on solar heat, solar ray, and geothermal heat as energy sources that can be applied to buildings may be analyzed as follows. (1) After the public obligation system, the investment costs on the total construction costs by years were between 5.21% and 7.12%: they were 7.12% in 2004, where the system was initially implemented; and they were gradually declined from 2005 to 2011, 5.76% in average. The ratio of equipment investment per energy sources in the total construction costs was 5.9%, which was slightly more than the obliged ratio. The order of investment costs per energy source was solar ray, geothermal heat, and solar heat. (2) Among the 1,433 sites in the plan of new renewable energy installation based on the public obligation system, "for cultural & social use" was most in target institution, and facilities for education & research was most in use classification, followed by public working, culture & rally, and sports. The number of facilities applied according to the case for planning installation per use classification of the target institution was between 1.1 and 1.5, or 1.4 in average of energy source. Conclusively, the authors of this study investigated overall current status of new renewable energy supply from the analysis of statistic data, and it may be needed of further supplementation of various examinations by visiting investigation and interviews with practitioners based on classification of use of target institutions.

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