Papers

The paper establishes a linking framework for green infrastructure (GI) and green transit-oriented development (green TOD), which is the combination of green urbanism principles and transit-oriented development (TOD) principles. Green infrastructure links other infrastructural developments with natu...

Spatial planning in Trinidad and Tobago is organized in a three tier hierarchical framework where the national level functions in a purely strategic role, the municipal tier is a mix of strategic and project led initiatives under multiple thematic areas, and the third has a distinctly site-specific ...

The confluence of governance and inclusive development agendas has once again brought the debates about citizen participation and empowerment to the forefront of contemporary development and governance discourse. Citizen participation is considered to be a sine qua non for inclusive urban developmen...

The growth in technology and the fourth industrial revolution has seen a rise in what has been termed the “sharing” economy in cities around the globe. Airbnb, the accommodation-sharing platform, has contributed to this movement and in doing so has generated new challenges for urban planning and...

Faced with the demand for functional transformation of traditional commercial streets in the context of rapid commercial development, Japan has had some relatively successful cases. After land consolidation, building renovation and business upgrading, some traditional commercial streets in the centr...

Cities worldwide are growing fast, in 2018 4.1 billion people of the world population of the 7.6 billion live in cities and urban agglomerations. Of these population, one billion the population live in coastal cities and towns. The city’s population are projected to increase to 6.9 billion people ...

Family poultry farming is undergoing major transformations from being an extensive system to semi-intensive and intensive in many cities in Nigeria. With no specific physical planning guidelines, its rapid intensification has contributed to many household nutrition and is perceived as a cornerstone ...

For the past three decades, Shanghai’s urban renewal has been characterised by the so-called ‘massive demolition and reconstruction’ and urban expansion. These approaches have produced the dual problems of inner-city neighbourhood deterioration due to the lack of investment and maintenance as ...

Several scientific studies show us in an increasingly evident and alarming way the acceleration of climate change in all areas of the planet. But it is in urban areas that the effects of climate change are already becoming evident, with an increase in the frequency of heat waves in urban areas and f...

At present, the world is facing the common challenge of "sustainable development". Since 2017, the Chinese government has proposed the goal of "High-quality Development", calling for concerted efforts to balance ecological protection and economic growth, refraining from the sole GDP-oriented develop...

In 2021, the urbanization rate of China's permanent population has exceeded 66%, and urban development will enter a new stage of high-quality urban space construction. The focus of this stage is to revitalize the existing space and promote refined urban governance. In China's current administrative ...

The research focuses on the background of sustainable human development and high-quality urbanization development, taking the community as the research unit to explore the realization of human-oriented, refined and intelligent planning in China's stock planning period in the new era. It constructs a...

This paper conducts an exploration of the dynamic and potential of knowledge value for harnessing local capacity in public space. This occurs with agency of the individual decision-making, as worlds of knowledge collide through the individual. We inhabit the physical and virtual worlds daily, immers...

Natural disasters and the consequences of human activities present heightened uncertainty to the well-being of urban residency. The threats posed by their actions are unpredictable, prompting cities to respond by developing robust, quicker, and more effective means of anticipating and minimizing the...

According to CRED-UNISDR report (2020), 80 – 90% of natural disasters within the past ten years are related to climate change, i.e. drought, storm, and flood. Flood, for example, has impacted two billion people within the years 1998 – 2017 worldwide. Kampung dwellers, in which most of them are p...

Rapid urbanization in recent decades has led to burst of economic activities in the urban areas leading to comparatively higher standards of living to a larger population but has led to environmental degradation as well, which can be primarily attributed to the decline in green spaces due to increas...

The paper is addressing the topic of process of creating holistic liveable environments in two completely different cities using they own holistic approaches. Our cities represent a specific presence in space and time, built to accommodate and reflect certain traditions. However, the COVID-19 crisis...

The City of Copenhagen has, in the past fifteen years, developed urban policy with concrete targets for improving livability and has produced the “Urban Life Account” (2010 – 2019), which aims to measure and evaluate the quality of urban life in the city and the level of satisfaction with publ...

Amidst the context of bottom-up and collaborative planning euphoria around the world, there has been an increasing interest in planning practices that centred on the active role of civil society. Many governments, private sectors, and non-profits are worked together to promote communities through co...

The digital turn of the 21st Century has witnessed emerging concepts of big data and its applications in urban sciences. Introductions to the use of technology and computational systems merging with innovative methodologies are reshaping the urban environment for sustainability and resilience. The U...

Consequences of deindustrialisation, urban transition and changing living patterns left especially small and middle size cities struggling to remain attractive and made them uncompetitive compared to other cities in the Danube Region. New urban planning and management approaches are needed to unlock...

The cities are attractors of the human population offering opportunities for economic activities for different linguistic, cultural, and ethnic groups. The urban form and design of the city impact the life of these people. Social and cultural exclusions result in spatial segregation and gentrificati...

Changes in global urban planning practice brought about by COVID 19 will establish a new standard and focus on rethinking present and future urban planning. This pandemic, for example, is predicted to cause significant changes in urban life, notably the shift from traditional urban planning to healt...

Background: The elderly is the main group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The incidence rate of T2DM is closely related to physical activity and environment. There are many literatures that have proved that green space has important influence on the health level of patients with T2...

This paper focus on the resilience of the central public area to see if it has the potential to meet different needs of the city and adapt to the different events. These events can be a stress to the city which will need more spaces for different kinds of functions during the holidays and bring more...

Urban villages mainly refer to rural settlements in China, whose agricultural land have been used by cities during the process of accelerated urbanization, but the homesteads are left and surrounded by the cities. Before 2005, urban villages were considered as “social tumours”, and were widely c...

Under the development framework of the "New Urban Agenda", UNICEF provides a unified toolkit for the implementation of the "Child-Friendly City Initiative" in various countries, and provides guidelines for spatial and environmental development of child-friendly cities. In light of the differences in...

With global warming, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme rainfall events, the need for rainstorm-flood climate adaptation planning has become more urgent. At present, there are relatively few planning studies from the perspective of rain-flood climate adaptation in China. In this study, the...

A considerable body of literature has investigated the role of food insecurity in resulting in a wide range of subsequent health implications and disparities in food access is often believed to be closely tied to food insecurity. Using Yelp businesses and USDA SNAP retailer data, this study proposes...

Food system planning is currently gaining its importance globally due to the increasing trends of Food insecurity observed worldwide. As per World Bank, food security is often challenged by socio economic conditions, conflicts, natural hazards, climate change and pandemics. These challenges lead to ...