Papers

The population in Mexico is concentrated in 15 metropolitan areas with more than one million inhabitants; these agglomerations produce more than 75% of the national GDP. Most greenhouse effect gases (GHG) generated in the country come from these cities, consequently, innovative strategies aimed at m...

Flanders (Belgium) is an urbanised region characterised by urban sprawl: a conglomeration of rather small urban centres and villages, within a patchwork of scattered development, fragments of nature, forest or agricultural areas. Recently private urban green space in Flanders has been mapped (Somers...

De-industrialized communities often face economic decline and an aging population. Industrial heritage can be produced as a sustainable catalyst. There are many ways to preserve and reuse industrial heritage, such as building an industrial museum. Kift and Rita stress the importance of the industria...

Resilience is frequently used word in the field of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). It is a much broader concept that goes beyond disaster resilience. It ought to be a unifying concept which requires to harmonize all forms of hazards and disturbances whether that are natural, environme...

Public Transport is considered a sustainable mode of mobility, in light of lesser per capita carbon foot print; studies suggest the majority public transit users are from lower or middle income groups (Cardozo et al., 2012, Pagliara and Papa, 2011). In order to strengthen the public transit ridershi...

Harbin is one of the earliest China's cities that conducted color planning. Due to the influence of the cold geographical environment and the culture of immigrants, the urban color has become a cultural phenomenon deeply rooted in the hearts of the local people. Harbin, as one of the most famous gat...

Old Community Renovation is one of the national strategies of contemporary China. The old communities were built as staff quarter by government in the last century and therefore the earliest residents’ portraits were quite similar and had little involvement in the community design. As a result, th...

We often find ourselves wandering through the older parts of cities and these places are generally walkable, diverse, varied, and engaging. And they seem always to elicit the same question—why can’t we make places like this today? The one consistent characteristic common to all these areas is th...

In 2020, the COVID-19 broke out, the world adopted strict home quarantine to control the spread of respiratory infectious diseases. However, indoor isolation can hardly satisfy people's needs of outdoor life. Small open spaces that are largely diversified, widely distributed and easily accessible, h...

As the most basic characteristic of community, place attachment plays an important role in the formation and development of community. At present, some studies have found that place attachment has an impact on community participation and community evaluation. However, the existing qualitative studie...

Among of all the challenges that cities face, the most crucial one is the need to shape the ability to create well-being of urban communities, what becomes urgent as a result of the compound effect generated by climate change – distinguished between direct impacts, indirect effects and pre-existin...

This contribution investigates the relationship between health and planning and describes the impact of the pandemic on the resurgence of health as a topic able to orient urban planning and design policies and practices. Since 2020, due to the Covid_19 pandemic, there has been a growing academic and...

Abstract: Rapid population ageing is becoming a serious social challenge for Chinese megacities. Compared with the individual's own resources and socio-economic characteristics, urban environment is a more easily regulated factor by government, which can be used as a means of preventing and improvin...

The quality of urban community microclimate will affect the health of the outdoor space environment and residents' environmental behaviour. Urban development in China has generally entered an era of "reduction and connotation" development, and the gradual evolution of community fabric has become a n...

The environmental crisis of XXI century is increasingly manifesting its negative impacts, especially in cities. Air pollution, heat island effects, adverse events such as flooding are only some of the most recurrent issues affecting public health and quality of life in cities. At the same time, the ...

Planning and development are simultaneous activities that when carried out correctly bring about sustainable development, while urban planning involves urban design, policies and theories that have significant impact in determining the direction and approach of planning. Despite being projected as t...

Inequality is an important social problem all over the world for years. It also appears to be an important obstacle to the well-being of societies. This problem, which affects many areas and quality of human life, has started to be experienced more with Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic process, which...

The urban planning, an essential paradigm has been the facilitator for shaping cities and recovering economic damage caused after the Second World War in Europe. At the same time, Asian cities were struggling to come out of the shock of colonialism and realize the urgent need of regulating cities. T...

Karachi is the world’s rapidly growing city, and it counts of the biggest cities in the world. The imbalance between public and private transport usage is increasing day by day in Karachi. To reduce this imbalance there is a need to shift private car users towards sustainable transportation approa...

Urban areas on the African continent are growing at an unprecedented rate. Africa’s accumulated relative growth rate of its cities now among the highest in the world. The continents’ global share of urban dwellers is also projected to rise from 11.3 per cent in 2010 to a 20.2 per cent by 2050 (A...

Urban diseases characterized by traffic jams, too more time commuted on the way, etc. are widely regarded as to be caused by the shortcomings of existing transportation technology. It cannot be cured completely by using the existing transportation technology. However, advanced automatic driving tech...

Taking Shanghai Caohejing Development Zone as a case study, this paper explores the influencing factors of jobs-housing spatial relationship in industrial park in megacity under the background of urban renewal, in order to provide some policy suggestions for planning response. Firstly, the distribut...

According to the UN, around 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050. In 2019, roughly 33% of the total population in India lived in cities. The benefits of living in the city are numerous, but happiness does not seem to be one of them. Even though infrastructure, socioeconom...

GCC cities have allocated multibillion US dollars to finance public realm and beautification programs across their neighborhoods to diversify their economy, enhance the resident’s prosperity and create healthier and liveable cities. Because of the intensive government spending and the recent chall...

The United Nations, the Population growth and urbanization are projected to add 2.5 billion people to the world’s urban population by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa (United Nations, 2014). In India Urban Planning conventionally has been viewed as land use pla...

Makkah is at an inflection point, looking for a way forward, building on the history of the past 15 centuries. The last decades have not been kind to Makkah. It has succumbed to the challenges of contemporary cities and tried to solve them with inadequate efforts. Makkah, which should be the best ex...

The study «Redevelopment as a tool for the integrated development of the Moscow industrial zones that have lost their purpose» was prepared in connection with the need to form effective mechanisms for the integrated development of the former industrial zones to achieve the strategic development go...

Today, cities have developed strategies to ensure social interaction in urban spaces along with extensive research on general requirements of the same. However, a research gap exists in the needs, wants and expectations of multiple users within a society. Also, urban planners often seem to overlook ...

The countries and urban centres of the South African Development Community (SADC) are vulnerable to significant external disturbances, including climate change, global health emergencies, and economic downturns. Regional policy has underlined the need for increased regional resilience in the face of...