Papers

Urban vulnerability has always been the main content of urban planning research, and it is an important basis to judge whether urban development is healthy and sustainable.As the largest old industrial base in China, Northeast China has embarked on a development path dominated by heavy industry unde...

In the context of ecological civilization construction in the new era and the preliminary establishment of the land and space planning in China, the ecological spatial planning moves from background to foreground, the urban development has changed from "ecological priority” to "ecological design o...

Traditional fresh-market plays a significant role of the urban life in Asia. Any fresh-market not only satisfies the daily consumptions of the urban residents, but also serves as the vitality center within a community. Fresh-markets show special significant in maintaining community affections, provi...

The transport of goods, particularly in dense urban areas, contributes to a problem that most of today's cities share: they are overcrowded by motorized traffic. In that context, urban freight and city logistics are central to the Brazilian economy, but face a number of economic and environmental ch...

Urban space presents a high-density development direction, together with the fast rhythm of life and work and the unfair distribution of urban green space. These lead to the frequency of busy people coming into contact with park green space in daily life decreases.At the same time, with the increase...

In the context of increasing rates of overweight and obesity among children worldwide, insufficient physical activity may serve as a non-negligible behavioral factor which decreases physical fitness level for Chinese children. Many recent studies have shown that parents’ and children’s perceptio...

The aspiration of this report is to evaluate Cogan station which is based on evidence proposed by Cardiff Council and research analysis. The Cardiff Capital Metro is an ambitious programme to provide an accessible network connecting regional areas to various stations. As a key station to deliver pas...

After the outbreak of COVID-19, Italian authorities implemented a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the pandemic. Short-term rentals in Rome, a famous tourist destination worldwide, are bound to be severely affected. To reveal the changes, we collected the pandemic-related information, inclu...

The rural environment in a large part of inland Spain, beyond the coast and the Madrid metropolis, as in other regions of the world, is today marked by depopulation and conditioned by a debate that seems more attentive to the problem itself than to viable solutions. Apart from well-intentioned polic...

India globally ranks 3rd and 1st for the percentage of Diabetic population and annual death rate due to Type 2 Diabetes respectively (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2019). Similar physical and physiological health conditions have crept into the lives of urban residents across the globe,...

ABSTRACT Urban flooding as one of the environmental disasters in most of our cities both in developed and developing countries is drawing increasing attention.Nigeria is not an exemption; so Ondo city, Ondo State. This is due to intensive prolonging rainfall in which climate change might be accounte...

While the link between socio-economic and residential segregation has gained attention in the last years, particularly in western urban studies, how spatial segregation and social inequalities operate as a multi-scalar and multi-layered processes, and their underlying causes and consequences across ...

The holy city of Al-Najaf is one of the most sacred cities in Iraq and the Islamic world. The city was founded and built around the shrine of a central Islamic spiritual personality. Despite the veneration in which it is held, the Holy City has been through a long period of neglect and distortion th...

Today, more than 50% of the world’s population resides in urban areas with staggering growth rate. Of this growing population, about 90% population growth will take place in Asian and Africans cities. This growing urbanization will see a demand for infrastructure and urban services, thereby creati...

Waterfront space is naturally public and high-value attraction,However, due to the shortcomings of its public guarantee mechanism, under the influence of market economy profit rules, the problems of private occupation of waterfront public space and irrational construction are widespread. Taking Guan...

Private and public actors encounter difficulties in implementing the technological and organisational design of industrial ecology (IE) due to its complex nature. In some cases, IE is even regarded as the basis of the circular economy. IS is a sub-area of IE that focuses on the study of industrial n...

The simulation model of land use change is an effective tool to study the interaction between human and nature in different spatial and temporal characteristics. Due to the future sustainable demand and the rapid growth of population, large-scale human activities will lead to the change of land use ...

Data from the Seventh National Census showed that the population over 65 years old in China has increased by 5.44 percentage points in just ten years, indicating that China's future aging population will continue to deepen. Xi'an is one of the cities with serious aging, and urban pension mode is giv...

This paper explores how the traditional construction wisdom of Lingnan region deals with urban planning to gain better human comfort. The traditional construction wisdom of Lingnan region adopts unique design techniques such as layout, ventilation and heat insulation, which not only adapts to the ho...

In the past few years, public health and street space design are receiving extensive attention.The study have shown inhalable particle and gaseous pollutants exposed in outdoor spaces directly or indirectly affect population mortality，hospitalization rates and respiratory disease symptoms and othe...

As important instrumentality and "mega project" of Chengdu Park City construction, Tianfu Greenway plays the media and catalyst role in urban spatial organization and urban construction. Based on the status of relevant planning participants of Tianfu Greenway, using the research method of semi-struc...

In terms of struggling against urban warming, increasing the cold island potentials is the easiest, least costly, and most environmentally friendly method to be taken into consideration in climate-sensitive urban design/planning studies. However, the difficulty of creating new cold islands in densel...

The aim of this study is to define the cultural values that inspire the formation of traditional market spatial patterns. This study dealt with traditional market spatial pattern, hidden cultural values in the form of the morphology, and the factors that cause change. This study takes place in Sapon...

Aim: The research highlights the role of the occupant in urban development (user presence, user interactions) in environmental conditions (thermal, light, air quality, noise). Material and method: Designerly way of knowing is the backbone of research methodology. The research will select the most fa...

Chinese cities have a history of at least five thousand years, and the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty is a milestone. The planning and design of Chang'an City represented the most advanced level in the world at that time and laid the foundation for the design of China's capital city. With the ...

Coastal areas are particularly sensitive because they are complex, and related land use conflicts are more intense than in non-coastal areas. In addition to representing a unique encounter of natural and socio-economic factors, coastal areas have become paradigms of progressive urbanisation and econ...

Growing urban population has led to recognition of urban sprawl as a serious planning concern, especially in developing countries. Urban economists identify three major responsible forces that interact together and lead to spatial urban sprawl. First, the population growth resulting in outward expan...

Fast urbanisation has marked the past decades of the global development. Planning research paid a lot of attention to understanding the growth of the cities - various spatial, environmental, social and economic issues have been risen and addressed through incresingly interdisciplinary approaches. In...

The concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) was first put forward in the 1980s. As one of the most successful sustainable development models of cities and transportation, TOD is an important way to realize the integration of traffic and land use,promote land use intensification and diversifica...

The Air Transport industry is one of the key industries in the world, it created 65.5 million jobs directly or indirectly, generated $ 2.7 trillion in revenue, and took 3.6% of the world’s GDP in 2017 (ATAG). The major airports have become key nodes in global production and enterprise systems offe...