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Tourism utilization of industrial heritage is an important way to balance heritage conservation and economic development. Assessment of the developing-utilization suitability is the basis of making strategy of industrial heritage tourism. As a linear cultural heritage running through Northeast China...

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Making cities resilient is one of the main pillars of the 11th goal in UN Agenda 2030 and has become a convergent theme in urban contemporary policies at global level. "Urban Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt...

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Under the new background of territorial spatial planning in China, most cities are faced with the constraint of urban regeneration or limited land resources, however, local development demand of "planning for growth" is difficult to resolve through the traditional incremental planning, and most loca...

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The article discusses the transformation of abandoned urban areas appropriated by the community to propose critical alternatives to the productive rationality of common urbanization. The redevelopment of Estelita Wharf in Recife, Brazil, is used as a case study. The area, located close to the histor...

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Wollstonecraft (1792) believed that power, be it economic, political, or social, is mainly restricted to the public realm. This realm, she argues, is completely appropriated for men. Thus, for her, access to the public realm is vital to the empowerment of women. To reach empowerment, they should bri...

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For decades poor and low-income residents in urban areas of developing countries have sought security in informal settlements. One of the main threats to tenure security for households is the action of governments, especially with the eviction of households in informal settlements. Tenure security i...

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Urban animals are an integral part of the Indian society, both culturally and religiously. The natural world sustains us and the non-human species play a critical role in its wellbeing. Yet the development models for our cities have always ignored these ever present ‘imperceptible stakeholders’ ...

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Over the years, there has been a consensual theoretical understanding of how settlements have developed. However, in spite of this, countries globally have categorized and delimited their settlements according to their own definition. This has resulted in there being limited comparable knowledge on ...

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Inadequate public transportation system in the Bandung Metropolitan Area has triggered the growth of self-organized transportation to meet daily transportation demand. On one hand, this initiative brings positive contributions in terms of provision of reliable urban mobility and creates innovations ...

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Climate crisis is a global problem that requires immediate mitigation. One of the efforts for climate change mitigation is the utilization of renewable energy. On Sumba Island, Indonesia, the Sumba Iconic Island for Renewable Energy (SII) program was established to encourage the use of renewable ene...

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In the past, there has been a substantial amount of research examining the topo-metric characteristics of European and American settlements using space syntax (Hillier & Hanson, 1984 and 1986; Hillier, 1996; Carvalho & Penn, 2004; Shpuza, 2014; Major, 2015 and 2018). Such studies highlighted key top...

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The city of Rome 3 million inhabitants are mostly unaware of the significant geo-hydro-meteo risks affecting the urban ecosystems. Floods, droughts, landslides, sinkholes as well as urban and industrial pressures impacting the safety and sustainability of natural and human resources. The city, follo...

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As one of the oldest cities in China and the starting point of the Silk Road, Xi’an has served 13 dynasties as their capitals and has the most complete city wall in China. The continuously growing urban development and the rapidly iterative digital technology have changed the cognitive way in urba...

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This paper studies the construction of communities in the south of Brasilia under the theory of "modern city" by Le Corbusier after the second industrial revolution, and compares it with the communities in the New Town of Sha Tin, and discusses the process of the practice of livable communities in t...

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Across the globe, as existing megapolises expand, cities grapple with challenges of densification leading to the creation of satellite cities. Satellite cities have sprouted as urban offshoots on greenfield sites as a response to urban sprawl & rapid urbanization. India is an example of the same. Wi...

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Due to the hierarchical medical system currently being promoted in China, the reasonable allocation of medical resources and equal medical services have become important research topics for urban planning. However, few studies have been conducted on the allocation of medical resources accounting for...

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With the rapid urbanization process, the green belts in the fringe of Beijing is gradually becoming the urban-rural junction area. State-owned land used for urban construction is mixed with rural collective land. The long-term urban-rural dual structure makes the urban-rural contradiction in this ar...

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Micro public space in urban area bears the dual function of physical and mental pursuit of the community. Nowadays, regeneration of micro urban public space has become a major concern in China’s city development with the purpose of promoting the quality of physical space, reproducing the city vita...

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After the SARS outbreak of 2003, what had changed in China’s urban planning? And how these changes are reflected in the city’s statistical data until the COVID-19 outbreak? Moving into the post-CODIV-19 era, has any innovation taken place in the latest China’s city master planning covering the...

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South African planning history has resulted in a grossly unequal urban situation, which after more than twenty years of democracy, still hinders real transformation. This paper argues that deeply entrenched inequalities should not only be understood from a physical or social viewpoint, but also from...

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The Nigerian economy is experiencing jobless growth, based mainly on the extractive industries which provide more money than opportunities for decent work. The informal sector constitutes a major part of the indigenous private sector. Although critics dismiss the sector as ‘a chaotic jumble of unp...

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The 21st century is and will be urban on every continent. Rapid urbanization has become the main trend, especially in the global South, bringing together challenges with unprecedented complexity and numerous opportunities for a more sustainable development. Challenges such as increasing needs for re...

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Aleppo or “Halab,” is one of the world’s oldest inhabited urban areas; historically, it has been known for its multicultural community, as well as its extensive urban economic, social, cultural, and institutional capital (UN-HABITAT, 2014). Over the past ten years, the literature on Aleppo has...

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The regeneration of derelict urban areas by large-scale development projects presented as “knowledge-based” is perceived as a major policy and planning objective and as a potentially fruitful opportunity to trigger regional growth dynamics. However, it raises many questions regarding the integra...

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South African townships are areas that are traditionally marginalized from places of economic and social opportunity and affluence. Built originally as places of cheap labour in the apartheid era, there is no denying that townships today carry a deep sense of culture, both historical and modern. Wit...

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In an increasingly urbanized world, governments and international corporations strive to increase productivity of cities, recognized as economy growth hubs, as well as ensuring a better quality of life and living conditions to citizens. Although significant effort is performed by international organ...

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Urban public space is an important part of citizens' lives, and its environmental quality has an important impact on citizens' activities and behaviors. During the epidemic, both the citizens and the government are more fully aware of people’s desire to enjoy urban public spaces and the importance...

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Just as the development process the developed countries have experienced, during the globalization and rapid economic development, a large number of developing countries have gradually transited from agricultural society to industrial society and then to post-industrial society. However, while exper...

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Public participation in planning decision-making has become an important link in the process of urban construction and renewal all over the world. The changes of environment will significantly change the life of residents in their place of residence, especially in the old urban renewal, so the opini...

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The dynamics taking place in the big cities of Europe and the world pose a series of challenges and unprecedented demands. On the one hand, the need for affordable housing has increased due to the growing population in cities like Milan and Vienna. On the other hand, phenomena related to climate cha...

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Based on the theoretical elaboration of livable cities, this essay found that the traditional livable city evaluation methods are mainly based on statistical indicators through research on the livable city evaluation index system proposed by domestic and foreign scholars. However, in the era of big ...

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1.the Research Question: -What does the framework of China's planning system look like, i.e. the positioning and internal structure of the framework and its components? -What is the relationship between various types of planning in the system? How do they combine with each other? 2.Background:As...

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Problem: Associated with Chinese rapid urbanization, some disordered environment has resulted in residents’ loss of perceived safety, which is harmful no only to citizens’ wellbeing but also for the sustainable development of city (Olusola O, 2020). Background: Although literature have suggested...

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The most severe impacts of the crisis are unfolding in cities, and Tokyo as one of the world largest with almost 14 million residents is, at an even higher risk. Thus, the relevancy in the explorations of how to make our cities more self-sufficient, livable and just is prime at this moment in histor...

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In 2013, China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a Chinese solution to sustainable development. Based on the original BRI, the emphasis on green and sustainability has become a new trend in recent years because of environmental concerns, especially climate change. In this context, the ide...

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The 1980s marked an ideological shift about youth by neoliberalism calling for free possessive individuals against the oppressive state. Neoliberalism abstained from the welfare model of the state as an enhancer of human well-being and an administrator of a command and control economy towards a view...

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As an influential sector in the national economy, real estate and the urban economy play an essential role in sustainable economic growth. Sustainable development of a healthy real estate market contributes to improve citizens' quality of life and achieve sustainable urban management. Representing t...

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This paper addresses the use of the term sustainability as an environmentalized narrative in the urban development policies proposed by the municipal government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for an industrial brownfield area known as IV District. At the base of this proposal is a wide normalization and v...

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Growing population is one of the important problem faced by whole world. As it comes with the responsibility of completing the basic needs of the people. Shelter is one of the important need of any person. The rural population is usually attracted to the urban areas either to grab the job opportunit...

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