Papers

Urban resilience plays a positive role in promoting the response to public health emergencies and is an important means and approach to improve the level of urban response to public health emergencies. As an important space carrier for residents' activities, community public space is the key to dete...

Cities are progressive as they grow to meet the demands of people. The nucleus of the city is identified as the oldest part demonstrating its evolution and history. The city core is typified by traditional architecture, unique social culture and traditions, and opportunities for an economic generati...

Urban resilience is a critical principle in crisis and disaster management in urban areas. Thus, the resilient city is a safe and livable city, which can be characterized as defined by Godschalk (2003): • Disasters are minimized in the city, for people live in houses and neighborhoods with ordered...

Since the founding of the new republic, China has always recognized its rural roots and attached great importance to the development of its rural areas. However, rural areas have experienced constant decline due to large-scale migration of rural residents to cities amidst the rapid development of th...

This paper aims to establish a sustainable Planning System that stimulates conducting Consultation and Community Engagement processes in the various stages of preparing urban development projects in line with the prevailing traditions and norms of the Gulf societies on the one hand. Moreover, there ...

In the last decades, the Spanish cities of Malaga and Seville have consolidated as destinations for cultural and urban tourism. The political commitment to position them as international destinations; rising the capacity of its transport infrastructure; increasing and diversification of tourist acco...

Currently, there are 3,900 small municipalities in Brazil - here characterized as those with up to 20,000 inhabitants – in a universe of 5,570, whose responsibilities are becoming more extensive, which demands increasing competencies in the management as federated entities. According to Brazilian ...

Urban mobility is one of the most important sectors of city planning. The necessity for citizens to undertake daily journeys is critical for both the life and the function of cities. Access to jobs, services, and to meet people is key to a city’s economic vitality and quality of life. Unfortunatel...

With the development of urbanization, cardiovascular disease (CVD) poses a serious threat to urban health.The factors affecting health in CVD are multifaceted and comprehensive, and clarifying the spatial distribution characteristics of CVD and multiple environmental influences is conducive to impro...

Copernicus is the European Union's earth observation programme, providing information services that draw from satellite earth observation. The programme consists of a space segment and a ground segment. The ground segment provides access to earth observation data and services. One of the services is...

In 2020, Children (younger than 15 years old) made up 21 per cent of Iran’s total population. This emphasizes the importance of children and their special needs to be taken into consideration in the urban planning and design processes of the country. The lockdown and stay-home strategies in the ti...

Historical city of Udaipur in India is famed for its enthralling allure, welcoming environment, and the fascinating royal heritage. With its picturesque landscape, lakes, and historic significance, Udaipur has been a major tourism destination in the western state of Rajasthan. The city has two disti...

Physical activity is one of the pillars that build a healthy society. It helps to prevent noncommunicable diseases, boosts mental health and contribute to general well-being. And even as proven during the times of pandemic – it one of the basic forms of citizens recreation. Most of the current res...

Water Sensitive Design (WSD) is gaining attention as a Nature-based Solution (NbS) to urban water problems which incorporates green infrastructure within conventional urban water systems through innovative building and landscape design. In Africa, Johannesburg and Cape Town are two cities engaging w...

In the face of large-scale construction of new rural settlements & villages in China, it is very urgent to provide highly efficient and intelligent computer aided methods of planning and designing settlements & villages in rural areas in order to effectively protect the rural cultures and landscapes...

The aim of this research is to examine how Singapore is including the needs of an ageing population in its long-term planning agenda. Analysis is drawn to the city’s first integrated retirement community project, Kampung Admiralty, as an illustration of the challenges and opportunities that urbani...

• A brief description of the "problem": While research on Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) have fueled a rapidly expanding scholarly work in recent years, the key trends and future research avenues are still ambiguous. • Background – our review aims to: (1) identify the most influential contribu...

Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based is an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. The study is focused on changing role and state of nature of urban ecological systems in the midst of urban sprawl and rapid urbanization. Sustainable urban design pr...

The relationship between urban and rural built environment is influenced by spatial forms, life patterns, industrial structures, transportation links, and other elements. In the pre-modern period, urban and rural areas were once characterized by "homogeneity", with continuity in terms of space, livi...

Much of the urban transformation in Delhi, similar to major metropolitan cities of India is taking place on the peripheral/peri-urban boundaries of the city. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has long identified urbanisation of agricultural lands as a key state strategy to undertake planned deve...

Urban White Areas(UWAs) are areas with flexibility and multi-functions, as opposed to traditional definite approach of urban planning management. Extant studies on UWAs often focus on functional compatibility in land use management. This article,based on empirical study of Guangzhou, a high-density ...

Roads are very critical in the progress of any city or community. Similar to the human body, streets are arteries that ensure the efficient flow and function of the various systems. These allow people and goods to be transported from one place to the next. Aside from access to basic services, utilit...

Indonesia still faces challenges in providing energy access to remote areas, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In terms of providing energy access, in recent years, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) has been actively increasing its national electrification rat...

The expression and perception of cityscape has significance influence on the preservation and regeneration of heritage. However, due to the urban sprawl in urbanizing, a large number of commercial exploitation have resulted in a series of obstacles on the expression and perception of heritage featur...

Air quality is an important factor affecting human health. Air negative ions are one of the elements of the air, with functions such as health care and air purification. As one of the important indicators of urban air quality, its impact on public health is profound. Firstly, the coastal area of Dal...

The outbreak of coronavirus disease greatly affected people's lives, which limited residents’’ behavioral space due to the nationwide lockdown, and passively increased their non-working hours. In this contradictory situation, it is worth to analyze people’s daily behaviors, physical activity, ...

The growth of the urban population leads to increased demand for construction and renovation works in cities. Housing, public utilities, retail spaces, offices, and infrastructure projects are needed to meet the increasing number of residents and visitors, urban functions, and changing standards. Wh...

China has vast rural areas, which take up approximately 94% of the nation’s total lands.Rural life is the basic relationship between people and land in various types of human settlements. Its development depends heavily on the areas’ cultures, and the feelings, most remarkably nostalgia, of the ...

Under the background of the new Internet economy, the service objects and organizational models of the logistics network that are undergoing significant changes, the new logistics has become an important link connecting the real economy and the virtual economy. Making full use of the suburban space ...

In the beginning of 2020 the world was a continuous space of mass activities of people: mass transit, mass tourism, mass migration, mass commuting. It was a descendant of “The Revolt of the Mass”, indicated by Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset in 1929. Pandemic of COVID19 has brought this econ...