Papers

Microclimate plays an important role in understanding the thermal and the environmental comfortability of a given city, neighbourhood, area etc and it is essential to understand the effects of microclimate. Khotachiwadi is a heritage neighbourhood that is nestled among the urban fabric of Girgaon, i...

The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia in early 2020 brought great pressure to city rail transportation, and also made people have higher requirements for the safety and humanization design of the traffic station space.Based on the data of Baidu open platform and ArcGIS inverse distance weight ...

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative analysis of expert interview surveys on place quality that should be implemented in inner-city HSR station areas. by examining three projects, the Central Station area in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Hongqiao station in Shanghai, China, and Logroño s...

Global human displacement is at a record high with refugee crisis progressively becoming more urban. The partition of India in 1947 led millions of Sindhi Hindus to migrate to India and resettle across the country. Refugee camps were setup majorly across Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh etc. with B...

Research question：Planning Method of Airport Economic Zone Based on ‘Time-Critical’ Orientation. Background ：As a significant policy area of macroeconomic control and an important carrier of high quality development of local economy, airport economic zone’s planning method is different fro...

It is well known that sports mega-events are widely used as city, even country branding tools: this is the case of UEFA EURO 2004, when Portugal – one of smaller economies of UE – built ten stadiums to receive the most important football championship in Europe. Some Portuguese cities saw the opp...

The ancient town is a small town that has survived in history, and its traditional form is basically unchanged. The spatial form is a comprehensive result of the interaction of various human activities and natural environmental factors in a specific geographical environment and a certain stage of so...

Thresholds, boundaries, and borders define the edges of our everyday life. Borders of all scales, visible or invisible, establish relationships between the built environment and surrounding communities. They have a huge role to play in terms of how we identify ourselves, relate to one another, utili...

Since the 1990s, “withdrawing secondary industry and promoting tertiary industry” has become a main strategy of industrial restructuring in Shanghai. Correspondingly, industrial sites in inner city have undergone tremendous transformation. After the initial phase of mass demolition and mass new ...

In contemporary urban planning and designing the places are highly influenced by local cultural values, the image of the city, forming an integral part of the design process. When we travel to different towns and cities, we observe local variation in its socio-economic structure, making the design m...

Cycling is regarded as one of the most sustainable, affordable, accessible, and most healthy transportation methods (UN Habitat, 2018), which facilitate short distance travel with characteristics of safety, convenience, and comfort. While China encompasses a long history of bike transportation for i...

Big and dynamic cities like Delhi have a complex governance structure, with multiple authorities and stakeholders working at various levels. There exists a lack of trust between development authorities and citizens. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an efficient tool for garnering wi...

“Thin shadows, hollow shadows, shadows deep black The shadow of a tree is better than a tree, always have our back” -SUKUMAR RAY ( Bengali writer and poet 1888-1923, Kolkata, India) Objective: In the past bygone eras, because of urbanisation and spatial development of urban communities past thei...

Kadamakkudy is a set of islands in Ernakulam district of Kerala, India. It is surrounded by the Veeranpuzha backwaters on three sides and the Kollam-Kottappuram National Waterways to its west. This region is primarily an agrarian area with the Pokkali wetlands as its major geographical feature (1). ...

After the discovery of oil-gas in Qatar, in the past few decades, Doha, its capital has dramatically grown from being a small fishing and pearling town to an international city with diversified economy. At the same time, it transformed from a small, compact, high-density and walkable traditional Ara...

It has been more than one-year since the first Covid-19 case was announced in Turkey. At the beginning of the pandemic, lockdown and quarantine measurements announced by the government were seen as acceptable since it was thought to be for short term. “Stay at home” calls of the state were follo...

Okhamandal is dictated and identified by its association with the myths and stories of Krishna and is also identified as one of the “chardham” hence being a part of the larger tourist network. This setting every year is visited by lakhs of people for pilgrimage purposes. As one breaks apart thro...

In arid regions all around the globe, the major issue lies within the scarcity of fresh water. These biomes cover around 35 % of the land area, with 20 % of world’s population residing in them. Due to the continuous problem of global warming the semi-arid area of India has expanded by 10% in the r...

Abstract Over 40 years ago the Kates Pijawka Model for Disaster Recovery was introduced in the book chapter From Rubble to Monument: The Pace of Reconstruction (Kates & Pijawka, 1977). Since its publication in the 1977 the model has been used and cited hundreds of times to explain the process recons...

Harbin, a city located in Northeast China, was founded by the Russians in 1898 when Russia commenced building the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) under the 1896 Li-Lobanov Treaty. As the Russian administrative centre of the railway, Harbin boomed to be ‘the second biggest city in Asia after Shanghai...

The Regional Development Act of the Republic of Croatia introduced the concept of urban areas, which cover larger cities in Croatia together with their urbanized surroundings. Urban areas are set up for the purpose of more efficient planning, harmonisation and implementation of regional development ...

Urban underground complex (UUC) appears in urban underground space with three-dimensional redevelopment of the city. It is a public transit-oriented underground architecture, integrating with more than two functions such as commerce, entertainment, office and parking, etc. As an important part of ur...

The space at the interface of a port and a city structures accumulates influences resulting from the functions and activities both of the port and city. These functions very often collide with each other and creates dysfunctional zones within port cities. However there are solutions, which create ad...

This paper contributes to scholarly debates on urbanisation and environmental change with respect to the wildland–urban interface and heat-induced weather and climate conditions, namely compound drought and heat waves, conducive to extreme wildfire events of relevance to the Mediterranean-type cli...

Together with Venice, Dubrovnik represent the emblematic city losing all its functions due to overtourism, including the outstanding universal value which placed them on the UNESCO list. Reports on the UNESCO/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Old City of Dubrovnik evolves around the central ...

Destined to live for at least 10 years, in housing subsidized by the Federal Government, the lowest-income population, benefited by the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, represented by more than one million families, are in different adaptation processes regarding to the new location. Several problems ...

Special session by Carola Hein (TU Delft, LDE PortCityFutures) Transitions in Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil How provocative and bizarre can visions about the future be? In this article we will answer this question through the eyes but above all the projects of the students of the MSc 2 desi...

Urban public spaces are integral to cities. They are the loci of socio - cultural interactions and commerce. The term “Public” intuitively conveys a sense of a common asset that is inclusive and easily accessible. This is because, historically, the ownership (agency) of urban public spaces were ...

“The city is an organised memory, and in history women are forgotten” Hannah Arendt The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 60 to 80 million couples worldwide currently suffer from infertility. According to The Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction, infertility currently affects abo...

Residents' well-being is of great significance to people's livelihood and sustainable development. Compared with residents in eastern and central regions of China, residents in border ethnic areas have a stronger influence on their well-being due to their different living habits and economic develop...