Papers

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...

In this workshop, municipal planning policy and governance challenges in addressing and implementing new technologies for small to mid-size cities will be explored. Attendees will be introduced to current technology innovations impacting cities, from e-scooters, to autonomous vehicles, to metadata c...

Abstract: Rapid population ageing is becoming a serious social challenge for Chinese megacities. Compared with the individual's own resources and socio-economic characteristics, urban environment is a more easily regulated factor by government, which can be used as a means of preventing and improvin...

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...

Public Transport is considered a sustainable mode of mobility, in light of lesser per capita carbon foot print; studies suggest the majority public transit users are from lower or middle income groups (Cardozo et al., 2012, Pagliara and Papa, 2011). In order to strengthen the public transit ridershi...

GCC cities have allocated multibillion US dollars to finance public realm and beautification programs across their neighborhoods to diversify their economy, enhance the resident’s prosperity and create healthier and liveable cities. Because of the intensive government spending and the recent chall...

Planning and development are simultaneous activities that when carried out correctly bring about sustainable development, while urban planning involves urban design, policies and theories that have significant impact in determining the direction and approach of planning. Despite being projected as t...

Inequality is an important social problem all over the world for years. It also appears to be an important obstacle to the well-being of societies. This problem, which affects many areas and quality of human life, has started to be experienced more with Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic process, which...

In 2020, the COVID-19 broke out, the world adopted strict home quarantine to control the spread of respiratory infectious diseases. However, indoor isolation can hardly satisfy people's needs of outdoor life. Small open spaces that are largely diversified, widely distributed and easily accessible, h...

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...

Urban diseases characterized by traffic jams, too more time commuted on the way, etc. are widely regarded as to be caused by the shortcomings of existing transportation technology. It cannot be cured completely by using the existing transportation technology. However, advanced automatic driving tech...

Taking Shanghai Caohejing Development Zone as a case study, this paper explores the influencing factors of jobs-housing spatial relationship in industrial park in megacity under the background of urban renewal, in order to provide some policy suggestions for planning response. Firstly, the distribut...

The quality of urban community microclimate will affect the health of the outdoor space environment and residents' environmental behaviour. Urban development in China has generally entered an era of "reduction and connotation" development, and the gradual evolution of community fabric has become a n...

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...

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...

The United Nations, the Population growth and urbanization are projected to add 2.5 billion people to the world’s urban population by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa (United Nations, 2014). In India Urban Planning conventionally has been viewed as land use pla...

Makkah is at an inflection point, looking for a way forward, building on the history of the past 15 centuries. The last decades have not been kind to Makkah. It has succumbed to the challenges of contemporary cities and tried to solve them with inadequate efforts. Makkah, which should be the best ex...

The urban planning, an essential paradigm has been the facilitator for shaping cities and recovering economic damage caused after the Second World War in Europe. At the same time, Asian cities were struggling to come out of the shock of colonialism and realize the urgent need of regulating cities. T...

Karachi is the world’s rapidly growing city, and it counts of the biggest cities in the world. The imbalance between public and private transport usage is increasing day by day in Karachi. To reduce this imbalance there is a need to shift private car users towards sustainable transportation approa...

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...

De-industrialized communities often face economic decline and an aging population. Industrial heritage can be produced as a sustainable catalyst. There are many ways to preserve and reuse industrial heritage, such as building an industrial museum. Kift and Rita stress the importance of the industria...

Resilience is frequently used word in the field of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). It is a much broader concept that goes beyond disaster resilience. It ought to be a unifying concept which requires to harmonize all forms of hazards and disturbances whether that are natural, environme...

According to the UN, around 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050. In 2019, roughly 33% of the total population in India lived in cities. The benefits of living in the city are numerous, but happiness does not seem to be one of them. Even though infrastructure, socioeconom...

The environmental crisis of XXI century is increasingly manifesting its negative impacts, especially in cities. Air pollution, heat island effects, adverse events such as flooding are only some of the most recurrent issues affecting public health and quality of life in cities. At the same time, the ...

Harbin is one of the earliest China's cities that conducted color planning. Due to the influence of the cold geographical environment and the culture of immigrants, the urban color has become a cultural phenomenon deeply rooted in the hearts of the local people. Harbin, as one of the most famous gat...

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, th...

We often find ourselves wandering through the older parts of cities and these places are generally walkable, diverse, varied, and engaging. And they seem always to elicit the same question—why can’t we make places like this today? The one consistent characteristic common to all these areas is th...

The study «Redevelopment as a tool for the integrated development of the Moscow industrial zones that have lost their purpose» was prepared in connection with the need to form effective mechanisms for the integrated development of the former industrial zones to achieve the strategic development go...

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 ...