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 world – has in the past several years been grappling with concepts of truth and reconciliation, decolonization and Indigenization. These concepts have forced planners, other professional disciplines and decision-makers to reconsider their relationships to colonial structures, systems and barriers (including the planning profession itself), which for at least the last 150 years have resulted in the physical and narrative removal of Indigenous peoples from their millennial landscapes. The City of Lethbridge has undertaken meaningful efforts to re-think typical approaches to statutory planning that better situate Indigenous voices, perspectives and forms of knowledge as key inputs into the design, delivery and implementation of city planning. Most recently this took place as part of the City’s Municipal Development Plan – Lethbridge City Council’s official development plan for the next 25 – 40 years. The work on the Municipal Development Plan, led by the City’s Planning and Design Department and Indigenous Relations Office, follows other projects initiated by the City to co-design engagement and policy outcomes with Indigenous peoples. This includes the Traditional Knowledge and Use Assessment Project – one of the first, broad-based baseline Indigenous heritage inventorying projects completed by a Canadian city – and the Lethbridge Indigenous Cultural Centre Feasibility Study project, which was recently recognized by the Commonwealth Association of Planners with a 2020 Award for Outstanding Planning in the Commonwealth. These projects highlight a paradigm shift in long-range municipal planning whereby the traditional roles of Indigenous peoples transform from listeners to leaders, and audience to narrator. This subtle yet meaningful shift, repositions Indigenous voices, perspectives and forms of knowledge as key inputs and drivers of city planning. That repositioning supports the incremental decolonization of the policy-making arena and the public realm to then allow Indigenous language, culture and opportunities to thrive. This conference Case Study Report will profile these three City of Lethbridge projects (Municipal Development Plan, Indigenous Cultural Centre Feasibility Study and Traditional Knowledge and Use Assessment) to highlight lessons learned in the following areas: 1) how to co-design engagement with Indigenous (and other underrepresented voices); 2) how to reflect Indigenous and other underrepresented voices within official planning documents (including situating current and future needs within historical contexts); and 3) how to create policy spaces that incrementally deconstruct colonial barriers and enhance quality of life outcomes (social, economic and environmental) for all residents, including both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

In contemporary urban planning and designing the places are highly influenced by local cultural values, the image of the city, forming an integral part of the design process. When we travel to different towns and cities, we observe local variation in its socio-economic structure, making the design more vibrant and meaningful to the local culture. This diversity in design makes places interesting with ever-changing vista by the observer. The design is further influenced by other factors such as geographical location, local climate, historical importance in terms of heritage value and strategical importance with nearby towns and villages for its economy. The morphology of the city gets reflected in its built environment, architectural style. The cultural values are deeply rooted in the social structure and factors such as cast, religion, having a strong influence on the functioning of the cities. Such a comprehensive thought may seem utopian to many but unconsciously, is a part of the planning system. However, the research question is how efficient, progressive and adaptive the systems are in a continuously moving timeline and how various actors in the system act in a given situation? The impact is not just restricted to actors as bureaucrats but citizens as well with a strong voice in public participation. The implementation of city planning starts with a land-use map which is published for 20 to 25 years. Land use maps is a comprehensive land management system that caters to the primary and secondary needs of the citizens, facilitating investment opportunities in certain strategically important locations on one hand and puts restrictions on land which are of heritage value both in terms of the natural and built environment on the other. The transport corridors, industrial development and other social institutions such as universities, hospitals, post offices, fire stations become an integral part of the land use map. These zones are identified on the map as per spatial planning strategies i.e. proximity of land use based on their function. Land use map is then supplemented with planning policies that enable people to take advantage of the land in question. Thus, a business cycle is complete and cities start functioning. Furthermore, suggestions and objections are invited from the citizens and amendments are made for a reasonable claim. To make day to day business more ethical, credible and accountable several compliances are made mandatory to establish order and security. In conclusion, the solution to the current planning issues lies in the diversity in planning that we enjoy. The local tradition and culture should reflect in the built environment, combined with newly evolved styles and movements in art and architecture. The cities of the future should be more human-centric, more spiritual rather than only materialistic gains. We need to be more creative and constructive in our ideology of towns and cities and the way we approach our lives. The aim of urban planning should be to bring in such changes in ‘place making’ that will enhance the quality of life we live. For instance, A public plaza where people can enjoy their leisure time in the evening can help to improve the quality of their own life and their family. Walk-able places, in a neighbourhood, can be a good solution for a healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, the solution should be ‘system based’ which will enable large scale planning issues broken down into smaller workable systems. This requires planning theories in place and definitions associated with it to identify the direction in which the planning process is heading.

It is widely accepted that one of the challenges facing China's rapid urbanization is land urbanization is faster than population urbanization. During the process of land urbanization, there are a large number of rural areas have been converted into urban land use for urban construction, which has resulted in a large number of landless farmers. Thus, the government tried to solve the problem of resettlement of land-lost farmers by building concentrated residential communities in rural areas, and this housing policy has become the key spatial strategy for urban-rural integration development. However, the various number of farmers lived in concentrated settlements facing many new situations and dilemmas, and insufficient resettlement policies and spatial planning caused many problems of economic, social, and psychological. Specifically, some landless farmers are facing the change of identity from rural farmers to urban citizens. Furthermore, the transfer of living space from scattered village fields to new residential communities, and the lifestyle change from a self-sufficient rural life to a comprehensive and diversified urban life. Both local government and scholars also suspected the mode of large-scale centralized resettlement is appropriated. Consequently, this research would employ a case of Suzhou, since there are 1.1 million farmers in Suzhou are transformed into citizens in resettlement policies. This research is mainly reliant on fieldwork and observation of 26 Resettlement Communities. We particular interest in the development of this policy, then, to analyze and summary some institutional problems during the resettlement process. Finally, we attempt to draw some suggestions on how to achieve the "sustainable livelihood" of urban-rural integration development for future housing policy to farmers, which required spatial planning and design of residential community for farmers should take account of the notion of spatial justice.

After experiencing super-large-scale urbanization and modernization, many Chinese cities have shifted their development goals from the development of urban land to the improvement of the urban built environment. In the process of high-speed construction in recent decades, Chinese cities have collaged buildings of different eras, forms, and qualities. A large number of old buildings in the city are faced with the problems of poor functionality and safety, and not properly maintained. Meanwhile, the city's cultural heritage conservation issues related to old buildings continue to cause social concern. How to renovation and make better use of existing buildings in cities has presented an increasing challenge to urban governance of many Chinese cities. Drawing from the experiences of different types of building renovation projects (including Enning Road regeneration, historic building renovation, and residential elevator installation) in Guangzhou City, this study examines the current series of difficulties in the renovation of existing buildings in the city, and the relationship between these difficulties and the urban management. We argue that the current urban planning system is the main reason for restricting the inclusive transformation of existing buildings. It regulates urban redevelopment according to modernist technical standards, ignoring the historicity of existing buildings. The urban planning system that points to the development of new cities is to control urban development based on modernist technical standards, ignoring the historicity of the existing buildings in the city. After the reforms of the property rights system, many existing buildings in Chinese cities have formed a very complex ownership structure, but bureaucratic management limits the diversified demand for building renovation. Excessive government restrictions have not only led to the informal renovation of existing buildings, but also caused conflicts of rights. Chinese cities managers have increasingly recognized that governments need to improve the rules and empowerment to change the plight of existing buildings governance. We advocate inclusive renovation of existing buildings, and propose to replace the restrictions of regulatory agencies with adaptive public policies. Chinese cities managers need to change the management of technology-based standards, improve the urban planning process, giving owners and communities more rights to participate in the renovation of existing buildings, so as to remove the barriers against bottom-up initiatives, promote consultation and joint action among diverse groups in urban regeneration.

Old Community Renovation is one of the national strategies of contemporary China. The old communities were built as staff quarter by government in the last century and therefore the earliest residents’ portraits were quite similar and had little involvement in the community design. As a result, the old community can hardly meet the demand of current all-aged population with various backgrounds poured into the city in urbanization with its single functional localization, inadequate residential facilities and overcrowding space layout. The studies on old community renovation are more common in China and other developing countries, and soon may become a popular issue around the world. JT Wan (2017) studied on neighborhood renewal strategies in Malaysia via literature review, questionnaire survey and site visit. The paper highlighted more local engagement in neighborhood renewal, i.e., to be kick-started by local communities whenever is necessary. Song Fengxuan(2020) focused on old community renovation under the background of the aging population, and suggested to improve the living environment of the elderly population from three degrees: community greening degree, suitable aging degree and residents’ benefit degree. WANG Zhenpo(2020) focused on the relationship between government, society and market in old community renovation in China. He suggested to make a change from "residential planning" to "community planning" and realize cooperative governance in old community renovation. Previous studies in China mainly focused on government policies and a top-down renovation with specific requirements, while studies in other developing countries concerned more about a bottom-up renewal with more community empowerment. These practical experiences may have some limitations when used in west countries or worldwide. In our research, we try to combine these concepts together to propose an inclusiveness planning with ample community empowerment. This paper focusses on a practice case of old community renovation in Anhui Province, in central China, and hopes to provide practical and reproducible experience for old community renovation. We took full consideration of all-aged residents with an inclusive design and laid much emphasis on community empowerment. We used multiple methods such as questionnaire investigation, interview, requirement cards and vision imitation in order to gain a detailed conclusion on daily actions and activity space of the major in the community. We summarized ten sore points in community life with 4 charts: Analysis diagram of residents’ spatial behavior; Map of requirement for spatial facilities; Mimic diagram of community daily life scenes; Table of residents’ requirements gathering. This paper presents some targeted optimization approaches based on these sore points and raises up the planning concept of “the stage for all ages”. We set 4 types of spatial facilities in our renovation plan to promote community inclusiveness: Centralized facilities, pocket convenience, intelligent interaction facilities and feature quality facilities. The scenario-based design approach enables us to grasp residents’ living condition in old communities and find sore points accurately, which plays the supportive role in the old community renovation and helps to boost community happiness. The achievement of this case is widely approved by the academic and public. This case is promoted to many other areas in Anhui Province and can provide some referential value for world community renovation. References: 1. Wan J T, Lee S H. Development of neighborhood renewal in Malaysia for middle income households through case study in New Village Jinjang, Kuala Lumpur [J]. Sustainable Cities and Society, 2017: 32-34 2. SONG Fengxuan, KANG Shiyu, The Difficult Position and Path of the Reformation of old community under the background of the Aging Population [J]. Hebei Academic Journal, 2020, 40(05): 191-197

User-oriented urbanism has the potential to have a major impact on people's lives, especially those of disadvantaged and/or marginalized communities- such as women and children-, so inclusive urban planning seeks to integrate the various aspects of user-oriented urbanism across the planning lifecycle. In this sense, reaching out to all disadvantaged bodies of society is crucial. However, in terms of their interactions with the social as well as physical environments, children are a unique community. While the majority of place-making processes fail to consider children and their needs, they are the most outspoken critics of the places in which they live. This statement will be used as a starting point in this paper. Recalling empowerment and inclusion, this study aims to examine children's perspectives (expectations, suggestions, problems, needs and perceptions, etc.) on the place-making processes, namely an urban regeneration project, by concerning them as users. In comparison to conventional qualitative approaches, participatory qualitative methods are more adaptable and versatile, as well as necessary when working with children and other disadvantaged groups. As the stories and "voices" of participants are central to the design and goals of participatory approaches, one of the participatory action research methods, walking interviews, have been conducted in this study. In Zafer neighbourhood (Bursa/Turkey) with lower perceived quality of life, I have interviewed seven children ranging in age from seven to fourteen. Walking interviews were performed separately with children who lived in the gated community developed by the urban redevelopment project and children who lived in the project's immediate zone. By doing this, I aim to hear the authentic voices of the children (who directly and indirectly interact with the project)- about the social and physical environments generated by the project; and restructure them from a broader socio-spatial perspective. Initially, the research highlights that if we –urban planners- want to make cities more human-centric, we must be unprejudiced and reconsider the role of the children. Keywords: Inclusive Planning, Participatory Research, Walking Interviews, Urban Regeneration Project, Children

The recent economic growth in Yangon has resulted in large migration from rural areas leading to affordable housing shortage and an increase in informal settlements. Social housings have since then delivered in two approaches namely “One Million Housing Program” under government and community-led housing by non-governmental organization (NGO). Despite these initiatives, the affordable housing shortage for poor still exists from slow or small-scale implementation. Thus, public housing strategies in Myanmar are in need of review and paradigm shift according to the societal and possible future changes. Policy remaking generally consists of identifying how other governments have addressed similar challenges and examining the possibility of transferring such policies to own country context. Though such policy transferability study could help reduce uncertainties in the new policies, it was under-discussed particularly in the context of comparative housing studies. This study aims to explore possible applications of public housing strategies for Myanmar by examining of other Asian countries. The study first took an overview of the public housing policies and issues in Myanmar and then in other Asian countries namely Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand which were selected according to the state of economies and housing provision approaches. The cases were reviewed on the policy environment and the success or failure factors in the delivery system. The potential direction for Myanmar was examined through exploring the compatibility of the political, governance, financial and urban contexts of the originating and the borrowing housing systems. It is learnt that the direct provision approach needed strong commitment from the government, along with adequate policies and funding. Absence of these conditions could lead to the corruptions and the failure to reach the targeted supplies and groups as found in Taiwan and Thailand. The current public housing strategies in these two countries had adopted a mix of direct provision, with private rental partnership approach in Taiwan and community-based approach in Thailand. Based on these lessons-learnt, Myanmar should adopt mixed-methods in delivery of housing for low-income households. Based on the context of cities in Myanmar, it would be difficult to apply Singapore’s public housing policy due to uncontrolled rural-urban migration that happened in Yangon while housing not being the priority issue of local government. Though Myanmar had land acquisition policy like Singapore did, the same results could not possibly be achieved due to the complex relations between local and central government. On the other hand, Myanmar could consider for Taiwan’s public private partnership approach in affordable rental housing provision since the cities in Myanmar, particularly Yangon already had the private rental market but this would require updating of the Urban Rent Control Act to protect the affordability for lower income families. The community-based housing programs in both Bangkok and Yangon had shown an effective impact in satisfying the needs of low-income households however the top-down administration that had been embedded in the Myanmar governance system for many years restricted the local government to adopt the whole bottom-up approach like Thailand’s Baan Makong program. It provided the ways to improve the current community-led housing practices of local government in terms of financial mobilization and subsidies provision to the NGO and communities. This study details different housing strategies in Asian countries and suggests the future direction for affordable public housing development in Yangon, Myanmar by considering the characteristics of political, governance, financial and urban contexts. It is also applicable to other similar countries to solve housing shortage problems and creating conditions of equity and affordability for low-income households. Keywords: Public housing; Low-income households; Policy transferability; Asia; Myanmar

In 2021, the urbanization rate of China's permanent population has exceeded 66%, and urban development will enter a new stage of high-quality urban space construction. The focus of this stage is to revitalize the existing space and promote refined urban governance. In China's current administrative management system, prefecture-level and district-level government departments are the main forces in urban construction and management. At present, district-level government departments have insufficient professional and technical capabilities, low organizational efficiency, and unclear evaluation standards for planning and construction management. In addition, the regulatory plan that has been compiled in the urban area is not sufficient to deal with multiple development goals and the interests of multiple disciplines, and there is an urgent need to use relevant professional technical forces for auxiliary management. Since 2014, the Guangzhou Municipal Government has tried to seek outside professional technical support to explore the "Urban Area Chief Designer System", It consists of 1 urban design or architectural design technical experts led "N" personnel who in planning, architecture, landscape, transportation, municipal administration, historical preservation and other related fields related professional and technical personnel to form a "chief designer team" (that is a non-governmental public organizations that funded and recognized by the government). The team serves as a semi-formal governance force to assist the government's planning and management work. This system is a new system created to solve the problem of urban design’s implementation management and control. It has been used in nearly 30 key areas in the Pearl River Delta cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai. In recent years, the new research field of "design governance" has emerged in the discipline of urban design. Design Governance is an innovative academic that introduced the concept of urban governance into the field of urban design by the British urban design scholar Matthew Carmona (2016) Concept, the current domestic and foreign scholars on its practice and theoretical research is still in its infancy. This article takes the governance practices of the "Urban Area Chief Designer System" implemented by Tianhe District and Yuexiu District of Guangzhou City, China as the research object, and conducts field observations on the related work of the "chief designer team" (the author started from 2019 join in the "chief designer team" of Guangzhou Yuexiu District, and were dispatched to the Yuexiu District Planning Bureau's resident office assist work), and used unstructured interview methods to interview about 10 government civil servants and 10 the "chief designer team" members; in the research on the concept of design governance and its theoretical framework On this basis, analyze the design governance practices of the "chief designer team" involved in the planning and management of district-level government departments. The research found that the role of The planners and architects in the "Chief Designer Team" in the governance process is differentiated, playing different roles in different governance segments and using diversified governance tools to handle different governance tasks. Practice has proved that the "chief designer team" helps to promote the city efficiently Design’s implement and realize more inclusive and innovative multiple design governance. This research innovatively expands the research framework of the role of design governance subject and their behavior patterns, and analyzes the implementation path of the "chief designer team" participation in design governance, and provides practical cases of design governance at the urban area in China, hoping to inspire more at home and abroad Scholars conduct joint research on this topic.

Global human displacement is at a record high with refugee crisis progressively becoming more urban. The partition of India in 1947 led millions of Sindhi Hindus to migrate to India and resettle across the country. Refugee camps were setup majorly across Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh etc. with Bhopal and national capital of Delhi witnessing a huge influx. Most parts of Delhi we see today grew largely out of the refugee camps. The official urban area of Delhi almost doubled from 174 square kilometres between in 1941 to 326.5 square kilometres in 1961. As the camps began to deteriorate and supplies over, several inmates from camps in Rajasthan were transferred to Bhopal in 1950 wherein they were resettled primarily in the city outskirts and a few central city locations. Bairagarh, located on outskirts of Bhopal city is a unique case as it witnessed refugee influx both before and after partition. Its population increased from 400 to nearly 14,000 from 1941 to 1951. The rapid growth of the town led to its inclusion in City Development Plan in 1959- 60. Once covered in jungle, the town has over the years grown into a sub-city of its own and today it exports textiles to several surrounding districts due to the various planned and concerted efforts of local authorities and state. The paper seeks to explore the case to understand the role played by the several stakeholders that has resulted in long-term socio- economic integration and financial independence of Sindhi refugees in Bairagarh. This is done through discussions held with local communities, interviews with local shopkeepers and analysis of land values. To understand the spatial integration, the residential land values of the city are analysed and growth in built-up area over the years is mapped in ARC-GIS. It further tries to understand the challenges faced by refugees and hosts by reviewing cases of refugee migrations from across globe. The paper concludes by comparing different cases, the strategies adopted and its impact on long term integration of refugees. It shows how in absence of any legislation in newly made India, the strategic resettlement measures like provision of land for commercial establishments, development of social infrastructure in and around Bairagarh etc. taken by the state government has led to socio- economic and spatial absorption of refugees into the community and they no longer consider themselves as an outsider but rightful citizens of the nation. It highlights how provision of employment is the essential and of utmost need for an inclusive and long-term development. The case underscores a positive outcome of government’s step wise efforts during initial years after partition.

Differences in the distribution of social benefits and economic status can lead to health and power inequalities for the lower income strata. Parks are a product of citizens' rights and are an essential urban space for the urban life of the low-income strata. In addition, problems are increasingly evident in terms of residential segregation and the density of low-income people caused by unequal economic status. It is therefore important to understand the current distribution of parks in areas with dense low-income strata and the needs of residents to use them. Inclusive cities emphasise that everyone in the city should have equal access to public space. Emphasis is placed on improving the living environment and enhancing the quality of life of the city as a whole through urban planning and redevelopment. In other words, the essence of the concept of inclusive urban parks is that everyone should have equal access to the benefits of green space in parks. However, the current unevenness of park use reveals differences in the number of users and social status of other groups. A deeper manifestation is the difference in access. In addition, the privileged and elite enjoy the advantages of parkland through capital and policy advantages. The disadvantaged and low-income classes, on the other hand, have reduced access to parkland through a combination of capital disadvantage and policy discrimination. This thesis aims to improve the living environment in areas with a high concentration of low-income people, and to explore realistic policy and planning directions for achieving inclusive cities.

Urban public spaces are integral to cities. They are the loci of socio - cultural interactions and commerce. The term “Public” intuitively conveys a sense of a common asset that is inclusive and easily accessible. This is because, historically, the ownership (agency) of urban public spaces were vested with the local authorities. The perception that public space was, indeed the property of the public, ensured a higher level of inclusion, creating stronger bonds between the people and the place. The dimensions of an urban public space are now changing. The lines between the public and the private realm are getting blurred. With an increasing role of private agencies, the perception of “public” is also changing, altering its nature and collective perceptions. The manifestation of this trend can be seen all around the world – be it privately owned public spaces or privately operated public spaces. The paper examines this phenomenon in retail urban spaces of Bengaluru city, India, where there is a high degree of economic activity. Currently, in Bengaluru, due to revenue deficits, the local authorities, have turned to the private sector, transitioning “public spaces” to Public Private Partnership (PPP) spaces. Publicly owned shopping complexes - situated in civic amenity sites ear marked to cater to the needs of the neighbourhood - are being converted to shopping malls under the PPP model. Shopping malls are a hybrid; privately owned spaces that encompass characteristics of an urban public space within its architecture. Involving the Private Sector has breathed life into the cash-strapped public sector projects. However, with an increasing role of private agencies in shaping the public realm, there is a visible change in the character and usage of these spaces. Hence, this inquiry is an attempt to explore the influence of agency on the “publicness” of retail urban spaces and consequently, its effect on socio – economic inclusion and the built form. The scope of the paper is four-fold. The first section of the paper delves into understanding the changing nature of retail urban spaces in the city with a focus on its agency, function, form and inclusiveness. The second section examines the parameters that define the retail urban public realm in Bengaluru. The third section employs these parameters to evaluate three retail urban spaces with differing agencies – publicly owned, privately owned, public private partnership – to determine their degree of “publicness”. The fourth section utilizes the key findings to examine inclusive design that integrate architectural, urban design and urban planning framework with policies. The research is limited to examining shopping and retail related urban spaces in Bengaluru city. The aim of the paper is to develop an empirical assessment framework that can be used to develop design codes and policies, sensitive to context, for the new age hybrid urban spaces. This will enable a design approach that reconciles the “Public” and the “Private” space with its people and facilitates a new “Public Private People Space (PPPS)” that is vibrant, safe, inclusive, sustainable and healthy for its community. The primary references for this paper are the works of Kohn (2004) -Brave new neighbourhoods: the privatization of public space; Carmona (2019)- Principles for public space design, planning to do better and Verna et al (2010)-Assessing the publicness of public space: the star model of publicness. Key words: urban design, urban planning, inclusive design, public space.

Today, cities have developed strategies to ensure social interaction in urban spaces along with extensive research on general requirements of the same. However, a research gap exists in the needs, wants and expectations of multiple users within a society. Also, urban planners often seem to overlook the influence of spatial layout on socio-cultural perspectives of people in multi-cultural countries. As cities grow rapidly with influx of migrants to a country like the United Arab Emirates, more and more cultures come together developing a need to address the issues of social inclusion and interaction. The research thus focuses on the concept of culturally diverse social inclusion, and the influence of spatial layouts within urban open spaces. Through literature review, factors like access, actor and interest were found to highly influence the democratic nature and publicness of public spaces. Case studies of the Vale and Prospect Park indicate that very small interventions like cutting the bushes or removing a fence from entry points of a park improved the accessibility and visibility of a park and impacted the perspective of certain cultural groups. Even small factors like maintenance were seen to influence how people felt their cultural group was being treated. But it was also seen that certain events like birthdays bought people together irrespective of their backgrounds. With inferences from the literature review and case studies, parameters found were used to analyze two selected urban parks in Abu Dhabi: Reem Central Park and Khalidiya Park. The context for both these parks varied, as the former lay between a primarily residential area and the main city where the visitors were mostly the residents, except during the weekends, where visitors from outside the residential area were also seen. However, these outsiders viewed the park as a destination with various activities rather than just a neighborhood park. The latter lay in the heart of the city, where people from various backgrounds use it as a simple garden space with less activities to a maximum potential. To understand the level of inclusion within the parks, methods like photography were used in understanding spatial activities from different focal lengths, along with map layering, drawing and sketching to understand spatial layout in relation with social inclusion. It was found that in Reem Central Park, although catering to western tastes and cultures and the upper middle class, the level of interaction between users is very limited even though the activities present there are rich in variety. On the other hand in Khalidiya Park, the lack of variety in activities causes less westerners to be present, but the levels of inclusion are very high. In the former case, numerous voids are created between softscapes and hardscapes which affect the cohesive nature of the people along with affecting their conductivity. In the latter case, this does not seem to be the case as minimal voids make the park much more conducive in nature when it comes to inclusivity. To ensure a socio-cultural future in multi-cultural cities like Abu Dhabi, certain policies and guidelines are formulated through this research that includes: concept of inclusive clusters, shared space and social infrastructure, use of information boards, creation of translucent and permeable spaces, introduction of landmarks and nodes and articulating spaces. The research also shows the use of hypothetical maps of peoples aspirations, based on the understanding of peoples cultural backgrounds and park practices, to understand how people would ideally use these spaces, and concludes by recommending an extensive spatial approach in building spaces which will contribute to better living conditions for the migrants in the city.

Since 2020, the urbanisation rate of China's resident population has reached 63.89%. According to the general rule of urbanisation in the world, the growth rate of urbanisation is about to slow down relatively, and is facing the choice of the "Y" path of urbanisation (physical urbanisation/intellectual urbanisation) in the world. China's 14th Five-Year Plan proposes to "further promote a new urbanisation strategy with people at its core" and to shift to the connotative development of "asking for space within the city", elevating people-centred urban renewal to a whole new level from a national strategic level. At the same time, from the past ten years (2011-2020), the web search popularity and demand mapping of "urban renewal" shows that the Chinese public's concern for "urban renewal" continues to rise, especially for "old neighbourhood transformation" and "urban renewal". Old neighbourhood renovation", "shantytown renovation", "urban double repair", "urban design" and other core hotspots. From the actual cases in recent years, urban regeneration has gradually moved away from the "concrete jungle" of "big demolition and big construction" to focus on redeveloping and transforming old neighbourhoods, preserving local cultural characteristics, and focusing on attracting, gathering and retaining people, rather than on image. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to people in the process of urban regeneration. From the perspective of humanism, this paper first discusses the value orientation of urban renewal, for whom the city is renewed and what is the ultimate goal of urban renewal, "People who walk on the sidewalk make the city", humanism is a return to the perspective of people, responding to the demands of people Then, using systematic analysis, documentary analysis and comparative analysis of cases, the research method is used to sort out the relevant theories and case experiences of people-centredness and urban regeneration, to study the relationship between people-centredness and urban regeneration, and to propose strategic responses and reflections on urban regeneration in China based on this. Urban regeneration in China has been extensively researched by several scholars, mostly focusing on the renewal of the physical environment. This paper focuses on the study of human-centred strategies in urban regeneration, and proposes strategies to protect and promote human development, including ensuring fairness and justice in regeneration (establishing a public participation and coordination mechanism involving the government, community residents, resident organisations and businesses to ensure fairness and justice for people), meeting the needs of people's lives and sense of security (from macro policies to micro regeneration levels of in situ cultural preservation and "Human scale design), and human development (introducing and showcasing the intellectual services industry, injecting intellectual engines and stimulating the vitality of the regeneration area). Louis Mumford said that a city is a theatre of social activity. This paper hopes that the regenerated environment will not only be a new building, landscape and site, but also a spatial upgrade and a continuation of activities that meet the diverse needs of society and people, carry cultural memories and present a sense of life.