Papers

Human-oriented factors present unavoidable challenges and uncertainties in building energy strategic planning. The uncertainties escalate when the target society is not fully known to the decision-maker and can create performance gaps between the expected and actual outcomes of sustainability target...

“Neither resembles like village nor a city”, “Orderly Chaos”, “Shanties behind the buildings” (Mukherjee 1988; Bhan 2013): these are some key dynamics, when anyone talks about the “Unauthorized Colonies of Delhi (UC)”. UCs, the ‘Microsomes of Delhi’, have always been the headline...

As the global urban agenda is increasingly being restructured by major emphasis on the reproduction of urban space as an opportunity space both in the developed but more in the developing world, the implications on the society becomes a major subject in the current urban discourse. The current urban...

In China, urban areas and rural areas are usually regarded as different objects, causing the current classification of planning. Urban planning, overall land use planning and special planning, such as environmental, transportation, socio-economic development planning, are generally applied to differ...

Urbanization and in specific sprawl, has for quite a long time has been a main issue in urban analysis and planning strategies. There can be no doubt that the foremost tradition in urban studies has given sparse intention to water in urbanization. The few researches traded waterscapes as a case in s...

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, spatial planning at the regional level instantly turned from a specific area of ​​practice-oriented knowledge into an anachronism, unsuitable in the new economic conditions. The initial socio-psychological orientation to the implementation of reforms to we...

The COVID-19 epidemic has affected people's life activities, which makes the pursuit of health an important starting point for life behavior choices. Guangzhou Conghua is located in the northern part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in China. This is an urban community area with div...

The Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia, crosses nearly one-fifth of China's land area. She is known as the "Mother River" of China. Wuhan, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is located at the junction of mountains and plains. The city has laid a unique urban pattern as two riv...

The Greater Bangalore region has a rich geological and ecological history that has supported extensive enterprise, industries, agriculture, and now IT sector driven urbanization. While the region is transforming into a smart city, there is tremendous potential to organise spatial information within ...

Currently, many papers have discussed holistic and nature-based solutions for infrastructures to tackle urban climate threats, but rarely with the entangled complexities of a developing country. Not to mention the lack of data, financial support, and weak governance which cause the delay in joining ...

India is a developing country and rapid growth in urbanization is being observed in the Indian cities. In this development process, what often gets ignored is the human scale and the people for whom the cities are built. Cities can be meaningful places to live in if spaces within them are lively, vi...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of post-socialist transit on spatial equality in Moscow. By spatial equality, we mean the availability of citizens to everyday services and amenities that are provided by private companies and public authorities. We aim to research what spatial p...

The paper aims to analyse the trajectories of urban planning of Delhi from the lens of its historic water architecture since 12th C. AD till the present. The expected outcome of the study is to bring to fore the illegibility of a robust system which shows the city has been historically water- consci...

Urbanization is the most transformative trend of 21st century being witnessed by mankind. The United Nations 2018 report envisages Delhi to be world’s most populous city by 2028 with 37.2 million people. As per McKinsey, it is expected that India will add more than 20 billion square metres of resi...

At the beginning of China's Reform and Opening Up, in order to promote the development and construction of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the central government sent several central enterprises to support, and thus formed several relatively independent development zones in Shenzhen. As a zone devel...

This paper investigates how to balance soft approach (public participation) and hard approach (hard infrastructures in urban mitigation planning in the context of vulnerable coastal areas due to land subsidence and flooding in Kampung Kemijen, Semarang, Indonesia. The city needs a new approach in lo...

In the current scenario of the environmental crisis ahead, it has been recognized that the trajectories of urban development have contributed significantly to the deterioration and decrease of the stock of natural ecosystems that are essential for human well-being (IUCN, 2020). According to World Ec...

The focus of the research, which started with an endeavor to understand infraordinary spaces— tea stalls, as a condition and catalyst for social coexistence took a shift especially after the drastic impact of the unprecedented situation—Covid-19 lockdown, on the life and livelihoods of the resea...

This study investigates the water – electricity nexus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the water and electricity consumption across six socioeconomic sectors. Due to inadequate research on spatial modelling of water – electricity nexus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

The contrast between where inner-city residents live and where they work is the basis of Kain’s (1968) “spatial mismatch” hypothesis. Both Wilson (1987) and Gobillon, Selod, and Zenou (2007) have offered different interpretations of “spatial mismatch” theory to confirm its conceptual valid...

The dominance of artificial surfaces over ecological spaces in urban environments is not only causing severe environmental crises but also having a significant impact on citizens' mental health. While many studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between urban ecological environme...

In western countries, 20th century saw an increasing tendency of segregation of urban structure functionally for carrying out different activities like housing, office, manufacturing and leisure. Clarifications given for such developments include reasons such as functionally homogeneous areas fit ef...

Unsustainable urban environments alongside inefficient policy frameworks pose critical impacts on urban populations, especially in vulnerable groups. Women, in particular, are at the frontline of the current multilayer crisis, and at the same time significantly underrepresented in decision-making pr...

The GCC cities have been witnessing rapid changes in their urban systems to cope with the post-oil era. Recently the GCC governments have allocated multibillion US dollars to finance major infrastructure, urban rejuvenation, and rehabilitation projects in most of the major cities to diversify its ec...

In 1772, Kolkata (Calcutta) was announced as the first capital of British India, having a major port and a rich cultural and built heritage in its core. As a result, Kolkata became the British's commercial center, and the city developed in terms of urban planning. Later on, Kolkata became the meltin...

An adequate, safe, and affordable house to live in is a significant commodity needed by all levels of society, including urban communities. Therefore, the provision of adequate, safe, and affordable housing for all elements of society has become one of the main targets of the Indonesian government. ...

The article’s core argument is that media not only communicates urban visions, but also recreates it for the purpose of producing exclusivity. This acknowledgment of media’s duality offers a greater understanding of larger issues at play, such as the influence of neoliberal forces on global and ...

In the post‐COVID‐19 era, it is necessary for cities to increase their level of resilience to cope with unexpected risks. How can they improve their level of resilience? This article will stress research on the most vulnerable units in cities and further identify key vulnerability indicators of ...

The complexities of urban informality are increasingly being examined in nuanced and region specific ways. Within the post-socialist states of Central-Eastern Europe, a growing body of research is interrogating phenomena within urban environments through the lens of transition and the unique histori...

The development of any community is inextricably linked to the space in which it occupies. This means that on the one hand the community shapes the space, on the other hand the space shapes the community. From among many urban development trends that gained acceptance and popularity in recent decade...