Papers

As urbanization advances, there occurs overwhelming material abundance. Correspondingly, people have growing aesthetical requirements and pay more attention to the beauty of urban details. As a medium conveying a city’s information to the outside world in China, the outdoor signboard is one of the...

Based on the transformation of internet economy and the wave of information technology, innovation and entrepreneurial activities have become social focus. Using the cross-sectional data on the number of Shanghai internet start-ups, this article aims to explore the spatial distribution characteristi...

The living environment in Chinese cities is dominated by blocks of collective housing, and the built environment at the neighborhood scale has become the most important space for urban residents to carry out their daily lives. Especially during the new crown epidemic, high-density, high-aggregation ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused direct impacts on global economics, and Indonesia is no exception. Based on World Bank data, the GDP growth of Indonesia has declined from +5.02% in 2019 to -2.07% in 2020. On the contrary, Reuters reported that the GDP growth of Indonesia is +7.07% in the second qua...

【Purpose】: To discuss what kind of role that the rural areas in suburbs of the large city in China should take during China’s new urbanization and rural revitalization process. 【Background】: The development and construction of rural areas in the suburbs of large cities in China is closely ...

Fostering open conversation injects innovative ideas and strategies accessible to all people. Against the backdrop of the end of oil, climate change, pandemics, and other converging catastrophes in cities where online education and work, civic engagement and social unrest are increasingly common, th...

Cultural heritage is by far a major target in the European policy agenda in the last years as it demonstrates to be a valuable driver for urban development. Though, cultural heritage is still a fragile asset, which is often either overexploited or hidden and underdeveloped. The second case makes the...

With economic development, population growth, and the continuous improvement of living standards, the ecological problems faced by urban development become increasingly significant. Respecting nature and building a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature has subsequently become an important...

Qanat is the oldest system of water harvesting. This system is able to transfer groundwater to dry lands in the most sustainable way to build up the cities. Building a Qanat has a simple technique and several elements make it which include a main well (mother well), a corridor, some serial wells and...

Biella is a name of a city and a capital of the province of the same name, it forms a complex territory which has been considered as the cradle of the industrial revolution in Italy, inherited urban and social values which promoted the city now to defined as a creative city mainly with the luxury wo...

Urban green space system is a special plan to implement or supplement the overall plan and rationally arrange the spatial pattern of urban green space. Under the background of ecological civilization, green space system planning has become one of the important special plans to practice the theory of...

There are a large number of historic blocks and a high proportion of seniors in Beijing Xicheng District, which is an important area where modern urban life and traditional physical space meet. With the renewal and construction of historic blocks, public space has become the key to reshape the histo...

Planning a smart city is an ambition that requires more than just a vision to change. Strategizing and developing action plans are the first building blocks for such a transformation. Nevertheless, ensuring effective outcomes and sustainability of the transformation calls for adopting an approach th...

In a fast-growing metropolitan city like Jakarta, the traffic is overloaded by motorized vehicles. People mostly using cars or online transportation for commuting. Although the cities established public transport systems for almost two decades, with BRT, recently MRT already operating, and coming LR...

Weizhou Island, the youngest volcanic island with geological age in China, is a national 5A tourist attraction with clear water, white sand and flourishing species. It is a typical tropical ecological island. Shengtang Village, which is famous for its Catholic church, and nanwan Pier historic block ...

Climate change has posed a new challenge to urban planning. Now it's hard to exclude climate change in urban planning. To prevent climate change, we need to move away from current energy methods using sustainable development and new technologies. What I noticed was the sun. The sun is everywhere and...

The iconic Los Angeles River used to be a free-flowing natural river that caused frequent and drastic floods in the neighborhoods through which it ran. In the 1960s, engineers channelized the entire fifty-one miles of the river, directing stormwater away from populated areas. The concrete ...

At present, the new concept of community life circle has become the common pursuit of people, in order to create a residential space with intensive land use, environment-friendly, full of vitality and diversity of facilities. In 2016, Shanghai issued the guidelines for the planning of 15 minute comm...

Monitoring the state of the underwater environment is particularly difficult as these areas are generally inaccessible to man. With the advent of the revolutionary technology of SCUBA, man has been able to gain access to this underwater realm, which consequently has given rise to a lucrative tourism...

Guanying Community, located in Xicheng District of Beijing, has the core location and perfect surrounding supporting facilities. It is a commercial residential area in the north and a Hutong cottage area in the south. As a community established in the 1990s, the development of Guanying Community is ...

In the process of rapid urbanization, gentrification and commercialization have inevitably appeared in the historical districts of Jiangnan. Although they optimize the space environment of the historic district and promote the development of economy and tourism, they have resulted in disadvantages s...

The spirit and practice of community development have been existing in China's traditional society for a long time. The traditional top-down management has gradually emerged disadvantages in the governance of old city communities. Some plan implementations are facing ownership issues, financial prob...

This paper aims to discuss the broad Urban Resilience concept and its implications for urban planning and development, with reflection from Climate Change challenges and Covid-19 pandemic period in Vietnam. Understanding urban resilience as “the capacity of a city’s systems, businesses, institut...

Covid-19 has spread with an incredible speed worldwide, causing a massive loss of both society and economy. Insufficient measures to cope with pandemics results in a large-scale infection. In this context, how to deal with the pandemic has become a hot point. The modern urban planning, derived from ...

Unlocking a systems planning approach to district-level planning in Austin TX. While many cities in the USA suffer from demographic and socioeconomic segregation, our moral obligation as planners is to diminish displacement and connecting communities back together. This Case Study looks into the his...

The City of Lethbridge is located within the ancestral lands of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) peoples, whose traditional territories covers large areas of what is now known as Western Canada and the United States. Lethbridge – like many Canadian cities and those with colonial routes around the w...

Since the 1980s, the Chinese government has established various types of industrial parks, which have become important carriers of local economic development. In the period of rapid urbanization in China, many industrial parks are guided by the land demand of enterprises and take the path of scale e...

The rapid development in Qatar in all aspects of life has caused a time gap between the infrastructures put in place and the readiness to adopt into them. Through this case study we attempt to give examples of this gap by using art in public spaces as a reflection of Qatar society from urban, social...

We are now going through a shift to a new epoch when urban planning relies more on data and digital technology than intuitive thought. In this context, China is involved in a critical transformation in its urban planning system at this moment. A new collection of rational planning methods focusing o...

The presentation is going to discuss the potential use of cable cars for Transit Oriented Development (TOD). aerial cable cars might at first appear to be an unusual solution they offer a number of advantages. The presentation is going to highlight and discuss them. Transport Planning and Land Use P...