Papers

Contemporary design practices are often characterized by capitalist paradigms bringing about drastic transformations in historic urban fabrics. Modern societies are often heterogeneous and become spatially fragmented based on realms of social parameter. Such contemporary developments and infrastruct...

Abstract: Cold weather greatly reduces willingness and comfort of urban residents, especially in pedestrian experience and business vitality, which has brought negative impacts on cities in the extreme cold region. Urban construction in China has characterized with wide roads and huge blocks. One of...

The research discusses land-based financing of sustainable infrastructure with land readjustment as an institutional innovation that might finance local sustainable infrastructure in an inclusive and participatory manner. Land-based financing with value capture describes tools with which land value ...

This paper intends to assess a Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), considering cultural heritage to play a major role in the development of a city due its diverse and adaptable nature towards change over time socially, economically as well as environmentally that in turn forms the basis for Sustainable ...

ABSTRACT: "Mountain" is an important evidence for urban planning in China. The ancient capital city first carried out terrain evaluation before site selection, and planned the city based on the mountain topography. However, the site selection and construction of the capital were not unchanged. With ...

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 lifecycl...

Isocarp – 2021 In the international literature, one of the most important debates in planning practice is the gap between research, and practice (Durning, 2004; Forsyth, 2015, 2019; Goodman et al., 2017). In parallel with this international discussion, our empirical research about planning in Turk...

The greatest force in combating climate change is in the hands of cities. Currently 55% of the world's population lives in urban areas and this proportion is expected to increase to 70% by 2050 (UN, 2019). The way these people will live in cities in 2050 are closely related to the choices that are b...

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 ...

Indian cities have witnessed unprecedented flows of displaced people in modern times. It began with the influx of Hindus and Sikhs from East and West Pakistan in 1947, followed by Tibetan refugees in the 1960s, Afghan Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians in the 1990s. A majority of these refugees settled i...

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...

Rapid urbanization in China is placing increased pressure on urban drainage infrastructure. Northeast coastal cities are susceptible to flood damage from typhoons and climate change is expected to produce more extreme weather events. Urban planners and local governments need better risk assessment t...

In recent years, there is a surge in Chinese cities of transforming traditional high-tech park to Innovation District as knowledge-based economy performing a key role in city competitiveness. While mainly focuses on innovation industries, Innovation District also requires specific place quality that...

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 collage...

The proposition for the paper centers on identifying unique place-making attributes and spatial characteristics of future cities in the making. Drawing upon specific ecological, physical, social, and economic conditions of these cities, their planners have evolved solutions that address contemporary...

All over the world, people continue to move from a location to the other on daily basis. Ac-cording to UN Habitat, (2019) more than 1/7th of the world is in constant movement from one location to the other. These movements are influenced by the desire to seek better opportunities, the need for a les...

The population in Mexico is concentrated in 15 metropolitan areas with more than one million inhabitants; these agglomerations produce more than 75% of the national GDP. Most greenhouse effect gases (GHG) generated in the country come from these cities, consequently, innovative strategies aimed at m...

Among of all the challenges that cities face, the most crucial one is the need to shape the ability to create well-being of urban communities, what becomes urgent as a result of the compound effect generated by climate change – distinguished between direct impacts, indirect effects and pre-existin...

Flanders (Belgium) is an urbanised region characterised by urban sprawl: a conglomeration of rather small urban centres and villages, within a patchwork of scattered development, fragments of nature, forest or agricultural areas. Recently private urban green space in Flanders has been mapped (Somers...

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/intellect...

Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and is exposed to a range of natural hazards that can hinder development outcomes, affecting its people and the economy. Disaster management is inseparable from the aspect of funding for small to large scale disasters and the availab...

Conceptualisation and design functions in the built environment is set to be revolutionised by system innovations propagated by the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). Related technological advances constitute a gamechanger in building design and construction, altering the nature of skills requirements...

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 ...

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. ...

In India’s six largest metros (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru), 48% of its residents were migrants in 2011. This number is projected to become over 50% by 2021. In the case of such metros, like Delhi, the “Urban villages”, along with other unplanned development, have ...

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; ...

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 ...

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...

This contribution investigates the relationship between health and planning and describes the impact of the pandemic on the resurgence of health as a topic able to orient urban planning and design policies and practices. Since 2020, due to the Covid_19 pandemic, there has been a growing academic and...