Papers

Chemnitz is a city located in the State of Saxony, a former Eastern Germany (GDR) industrial hotspot. The city has witnessed a fascinating history of industrial revolution and technological innovation throughout its past, having been considered the German Manchester back in the 19th and early 20th c...

In 2015, the UK government created a new Cross-Government Prosperity Fund worth £1.3 billion from 2016-2021, to help promote economic growth in emerging economies. The Programme supports the broad-based and inclusive growth needed to build prosperity and reduce poverty, but also make development ov...

This case study on urban heat island effects report will focus on an innovative design concept on how to reduce urban heat island effect using eco friendly concept for building and design. This project encapsulates the concept of earthen clay cones as cooling system. In urban heat islands during sum...

Description – Traditional communities within urban centers are a common feature in the Omani landscape, characterized by narrowing road widths, high density, and the close-knit social fabric of the generations of residents living within. With little to no published research on the subject of urban...

This paper attempts to answer the question: How can community micro-regeneration projects in Chinese cities be situated and contextualised as particular kinds of practices to build sustainable communities? The research discussed in this paper focuses on Beijing Old City. It situates state-led regene...

Global cities have become cities of patholopolis, containers of disease, including COVID-19. Cities were temporarily incapacitated during COVID-19 lockdown and stay-at-home measures. The city retreated into its shell like a snail and remained quiet to the dictates of the invisible COVID-19 disease. ...

Modern Russia inherited the focus on extensive growth from the USSR, where the emphasis in planning was placed on new industrial capacities. The construction of new urban housing is the main priority in Russia now. Several national projects are currently being implemented in Russia, one of which is ...

Metropolitan planning is by far a major trend in the worldwide spatial development landscape for decades. Though metropolitan areas have long been considered to reflect the institutional dimension of urban-rural partnerships, in the last 15 years the concept of Functional Urban Area (FUA) has emerge...

Traditional industry and natural resources exploitation processes represented the stepping stone for intensive urbanization, contributing to the creation of cities and society as we know them. Economic development based on intensive exploitation activities with a negative impact on nature has clearl...

With the development of geospatial technologies and the availability of machine-readable data, local governments constantly increase the share of IT in their total spendings. In the UK only, local governments spend over £1 billion on sourcing and supporting software annually. While digitalisation o...

With the growing awareness of the environmental change impact on various spheres of the built environment, there is a shift from the rhetoric of sustainability and various mitigation measures to a sharp focus on the concept of resilience and adaptation tools. The debate on adequate urban responses t...

Cultural diversity is an important feature of ethnic minority inhabited areas. In the context of rapid urbanization, villages inhabited by ethnic minorities are facing social issues such as population loss, ‘hollowing out’, and culture shock. This paper takes the peri-urban village of Gejia in Y...

Today, the global world agenda is undoubtedly clear, affecting all aspects of our life - this is the problem of the ecological situation. According to the latest UN climate report, we are approaching the critical average temperature on the planet with tremendous speed. And it's really very bad. Huma...

There is a sick world in the universe where the uncertainty of the future is increasing, unexpected events are happening more frequently, and current problems are revealing themselves more and more. Humanity and all other living beings in nature are experiencing a world where their life is under thr...

What is happening in urban development in Russia's periphery in the provinces is often overlooked in scientific research trying to understand and theorize post-socialist urban conditions. Discussions of national priority projects and federal target programs headed by the state as spatial manifestati...

In Italian legislation, the landscape is at the center of the strategic planning of land use and risk assessment, orienting the decision and the territorial policy making in the matter of environmental sustainability; management of natural risks; protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage; ...

In the middle of the 20th century European Cities have undergone a massive conversion to promote the private personalized motor transport system over all other means of reaching from one point to another. Whilst the intentions were good, mainly to reach each point of the city in a minimum time, this...

The industrial revolution in 19th century was followed by increase in productivity levels and expansion of secondary sector along with growth of cities. The growth process not only alters the productivity levels, but also changes the economic relations and social structure. In the process of develop...

Justice is one of the world's cardinal virtues. In the field of urban and regional development, it is usually used as a guiding principle for the distribution of state funds and infrastructures or to avoid burdens, e.g. from traffic. Arguments of distributive justice and institutional justice play a...

Many cities and municipalities have joined the covenant of mayors for climate and energy. In the EU alone, more than 10,000 have signed up and made public their ambitions to achieve net-zero by a certain date. Examples in Belgium include the city of Leuven, which wants to be carbon neutral by 2030. ...

Children's independent mobility is considered as the core planning goal of child-friendly cities. Children’s active school travel (AST) is an important part of children mobility, which is conducive to children's physical and mental health. Besides satisfying the safety and accessibility, more atte...

Participatory slum upgrading (PSUP) has been vigorously promoted by UN-Habitat as a bottom up strategy to inclusive planning. It is envisioned that by putting slums on urban maps and by involving the residents of unplanned settlements in the planning processes there will be more sustainable and tang...

Climate change is globally recognized as a long-term systemic risk faced by human beings. The impact range and depth of global warming caused by human activities are gradually increasing. "Carbon Peak" and "Carbon Neutral" are climate commitments to reduce the expected global warming. In the global ...

Under the policy support of flood control and risk avoidance resettlement in Lizhuang township of Xinxiang City, 18 villages originally located in the Yellow River flood dike were relocated to the new area outside the dike. In this context, it is worth to restore and improve the ecological resilienc...

Due to economic booming of oil / gas discovery early 1940, Qatar urban context drastically changed as urbanization process has been accelerated. As our economy, populations and community grow over time, a rapid urban development rates have been accelerated and the consequent environmental, climatic ...

At present, China's urbanization rate has exceeded 60%, entering the middle and later stage of urbanization development. Urban construction has shifted from the extensive development stage of large-scale and high-speed development to the refined development stage of focusing on the quality of urban ...

Reconversion of Brussels urban motorways The Brussels-Capital Region experiences approximately 5.4 million passengers movements daily, the majority of which are done by car with the commuter flow entering or leaving the Region representing 33% thereof. The Government of the Brussels-Capital Region i...

The growth rate of cities urgently requires serious attention not merely to design and planning but also to deeper questions of meaning and purpose. Any attempt to address the complexities of the city needs more than a power-driven approach. The task is how to relate city-making to a image of the hu...

A new model of planning- is needed that can simultaneously provide direction and coordination whilst working inclusively in more complex governance settings. This requires both, reform of the formal institutions of planning, law and instruments, but also crucially the informal ‘ways of doing’ pl...