Papers

Purpose With the recently increasing emphasis on sustainable planning and the connection between public values and environmental, social, and economic aspects, there is a need to study temporary uses in public spaces. They are significant ways for achieving sustainability in urban development, espec...

Emissions from the transportation sector generate over $ 1 trillion in health damage every year. The growth of that sector has also contributed to expanding greenhouse gas emissions associated with rising sea levels, temperatures, fires, and other impacts on climate change. Urban bus fleets are the ...

Qatar like most of other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is experiencing a technology-driven transformation towards a low-carbon and energy-efficient built environment. This was reflected in different government initiatives and efforts to promote and adopt the use of renewables energies to ...

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 ...

Human-oriented factors present unavoidable challenges and uncertainties in building energy strategic planning. The uncertainties escalate when the target society is not fully known to the decision-maker and can create performance gaps between the expected and actual outcomes of sustainability target...

The dominance of artificial surfaces over ecological spaces in urban environments is not only causing severe environmental crises but also having a significant impact on citizens' mental health. While many studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between urban ecological environme...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of post-socialist transit on spatial equality in Moscow. By spatial equality, we mean the availability of citizens to everyday services and amenities that are provided by private companies and public authorities. We aim to research what spatial p...

The paper aims to analyse the trajectories of urban planning of Delhi from the lens of its historic water architecture since 12th C. AD till the present. The expected outcome of the study is to bring to fore the illegibility of a robust system which shows the city has been historically water- consci...

In China, urban areas and rural areas are usually regarded as different objects, causing the current classification of planning. Urban planning, overall land use planning and special planning, such as environmental, transportation, socio-economic development planning, are generally applied to differ...

Urban morphology is a knowledge which its importance of it has been neglected a lot. The usages of this knowledge in urban planning are numerous, for example in energy, justice, general health and heritage. This paper will emphasize on the usage of urban morphology on heritage and tourism. Actually,...

Qatar has experienced several decades of substantial growth, largely driven by the exploit of natural resources. The growing economy has in turn fuelled immense development and physical change within Qatar, supporting the growing population of people who are an integral part of the emerging employme...

The World Health Organisation and the European Healthy Cities Network recommend that urban planning and designing focus on the communities and increase their well-being. In recent years, urban planning and design have provided urban rehabilitation in once peripheral or cross-border areas. It has off...

Governments and real estate developers around the world have been implementing measures in attempts to ensure the continuation and preservation of local cultures, encourage public activities to be community-run, and promote bottom-up dispute resolution. Despite such efforts, rapid urban growth has o...

It was since the inception of a modernized Abu Dhabi in the late 60s that its housing has been evolving as well. Land allocation to Emirati nationals, the founding of a national housing program and the very new Master Plans for Abu Dhabi were all parts of a major effort of Sheikh Zayed to settle dow...

India is a developing country and rapid growth in urbanization is being observed in the Indian cities. In this development process, what often gets ignored is the human scale and the people for whom the cities are built. Cities can be meaningful places to live in if spaces within them are lively, vi...

“Neither resembles like village nor a city”, “Orderly Chaos”, “Shanties behind the buildings” (Mukherjee 1988; Bhan 2013): these are some key dynamics, when anyone talks about the “Unauthorized Colonies of Delhi (UC)”. UCs, the ‘Microsomes of Delhi’, have always been the headline...

In western countries, 20th century saw an increasing tendency of segregation of urban structure functionally for carrying out different activities like housing, office, manufacturing and leisure. Clarifications given for such developments include reasons such as functionally homogeneous areas fit ef...

Unsustainable urban environments alongside inefficient policy frameworks pose critical impacts on urban populations, especially in vulnerable groups. Women, in particular, are at the frontline of the current multilayer crisis, and at the same time significantly underrepresented in decision-making pr...

Urbanization is the most transformative trend of 21st century being witnessed by mankind. The United Nations 2018 report envisages Delhi to be world’s most populous city by 2028 with 37.2 million people. As per McKinsey, it is expected that India will add more than 20 billion square metres of resi...

With the arrival of the post-epidemic era, the process of urban development in China has changed from rapid incremental expansion to medium-high-speed stock and high-quality development. Old community renewal has changed from simple material space research to comprehensive study of material and soci...

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...

The increasing prevalence of diseases in urban populations caused by poor living conditions and social inequities is a major concern for cities and their dwellers alike. This concern has become even more relevant after the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted a significant vulnerability to health di...

Unprecedented economic and population growth rates in the last two decades led to a major physical transformation of tiny-hydrocarbon city-state Qatar. The scale of transformation was historic which led to improved well-being and a high-quality lifestyle. This paper presents a detailed, integrated u...

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...

Port city regions are key locations in the post-oil transition and merit specific attention from planners. Located at the edge of water and land, ports are gateways to nations and continents, they are industrial and often petroleum hubs with important negative externalities for the neighboring urban...

The purpose of this special session is to expand urbanism to think beyond the obvious of “above ground”, and amplify the future of cities, which is impossible without integrating the subsurface into the urban fabric. The field of underground urbanism is still emerging. At the same time, cities a...

As the global urban agenda is increasingly being restructured by major emphasis on the reproduction of urban space as an opportunity space both in the developed but more in the developing world, the implications on the society becomes a major subject in the current urban discourse. The current urban...

Technology companies are planning with governments in African cities to construct and advance smart city technologies. In Egypt, the government is already planning for 20 smart cities where digitized infrastructure, services and planning will be implemented. With the advent of Covid-19, prospects fo...

The GCC cities have been witnessing rapid changes in their urban systems to cope with the post-oil era. Recently the GCC governments have allocated multibillion US dollars to finance major infrastructure, urban rejuvenation, and rehabilitation projects in most of the major cities to diversify its ec...

Sharing the experience of an Arab nation that is innovating its urban planning process through tools that facilitate the drafting, assessment, and monitoring of Master Plans and strategic initiatives or programs against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Palestine, like other developing nation...