Papers

As the most basic characteristic of community, place attachment plays an important role in the formation and development of community. At present, some studies have found that place attachment has an impact on community participation and community evaluation. However, the existing qualitative studie...

With the development of geospatial technologies and the availability of machine-readable data, local governments constantly increase the share of IT in their total spendings. In the UK only, local governments spend over £1 billion on sourcing and supporting software annually. While digitalisation o...

Many cities and municipalities have joined the covenant of mayors for climate and energy. In the EU alone, more than 10,000 have signed up and made public their ambitions to achieve net-zero by a certain date. Examples in Belgium include the city of Leuven, which wants to be carbon neutral by 2030. ...

A new model of planning- is needed that can simultaneously provide direction and coordination whilst working inclusively in more complex governance settings. This requires both, reform of the formal institutions of planning, law and instruments, but also crucially the informal ‘ways of doing’ pl...

The current planning practice in Germany is insufficiently prepared for a solution-oriented approach to competing user interests. These demand new approaches to creating truly open, honest participation processes. The planning instruments in Germany, such as the Building Law provide for public parti...

The confluence of governance and inclusive development agendas has once again brought the debates about citizen participation and empowerment to the forefront of contemporary development and governance discourse. Citizen participation is considered to be a sine qua non for inclusive urban developmen...

The growth in technology and the fourth industrial revolution has seen a rise in what has been termed the “sharing” economy in cities around the globe. Airbnb, the accommodation-sharing platform, has contributed to this movement and in doing so has generated new challenges for urban planning and...

Background: The elderly is the main group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The incidence rate of T2DM is closely related to physical activity and environment. There are many literatures that have proved that green space has important influence on the health level of patients with T2...

The emergence of urban slums in Jakarta have had always been an interesting case study as the paradox of chaotic and unhealthy spaces could still provide a sense of belonging and community to its people. Unfortunately, many of the government policies fail to solve the worsening condition of urban sl...

Cities worldwide are growing fast, in 2018 4.1 billion people of the world population of the 7.6 billion live in cities and urban agglomerations. Of these population, one billion the population live in coastal cities and towns. The city’s population are projected to increase to 6.9 billion people ...

Urban areas on the African continent are growing at an unprecedented rate. Africa’s accumulated relative growth rate of its cities now among the highest in the world. The continents’ global share of urban dwellers is also projected to rise from 11.3 per cent in 2010 to a 20.2 per cent by 2050 (A...

The paper establishes a linking framework for green infrastructure (GI) and green transit-oriented development (green TOD), which is the combination of green urbanism principles and transit-oriented development (TOD) principles. Green infrastructure links other infrastructural developments with natu...

Consequences of deindustrialisation, urban transition and changing living patterns left especially small and middle size cities struggling to remain attractive and made them uncompetitive compared to other cities in the Danube Region. New urban planning and management approaches are needed to unlock...

The city administration of Addis Ababa is undertaking a massive integrated housing development program to address the acute housing problem of the city since 2005. Housing supply is not the only goal of this program; instead, its ultimate desire is to use the Integrated Housing Development Program (...

The research focuses on the background of sustainable human development and high-quality urbanization development, taking the community as the research unit to explore the realization of human-oriented, refined and intelligent planning in China's stock planning period in the new era. It constructs a...

This paper conducts an exploration of the dynamic and potential of knowledge value for harnessing local capacity in public space. This occurs with agency of the individual decision-making, as worlds of knowledge collide through the individual. We inhabit the physical and virtual worlds daily, immers...

Natural disasters and the consequences of human activities present heightened uncertainty to the well-being of urban residency. The threats posed by their actions are unpredictable, prompting cities to respond by developing robust, quicker, and more effective means of anticipating and minimizing the...

Faced with the demand for functional transformation of traditional commercial streets in the context of rapid commercial development, Japan has had some relatively successful cases. After land consolidation, building renovation and business upgrading, some traditional commercial streets in the centr...

This paper focus on the resilience of the central public area to see if it has the potential to meet different needs of the city and adapt to the different events. These events can be a stress to the city which will need more spaces for different kinds of functions during the holidays and bring more...

It is a vain effort to predict political, economic, cultural, and technological developments of the future. A quick look at the past makes that clear. Nevertheless, there are challenges that we know will persist far beyond a decade or century. We are certain that the climate is changing, and we know...

The countries and urban centres of the South African Development Community (SADC) are vulnerable to significant external disturbances, including climate change, global health emergencies, and economic downturns. Regional policy has underlined the need for increased regional resilience in the face of...

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 ...

Amidst a global health and climate crisis, practitioners, decision-makers, researchers, and community members within the urban planning field are urged to rethink urban development across the globe. Experience suggests that decision-making processes need to be both inclusive and timely in order to r...

Spatial planning in Trinidad and Tobago is organized in a three tier hierarchical framework where the national level functions in a purely strategic role, the municipal tier is a mix of strategic and project led initiatives under multiple thematic areas, and the third has a distinctly site-specific ...

The cities are attractors of the human population offering opportunities for economic activities for different linguistic, cultural, and ethnic groups. The urban form and design of the city impact the life of these people. Social and cultural exclusions result in spatial segregation and gentrificati...

Changes in global urban planning practice brought about by COVID 19 will establish a new standard and focus on rethinking present and future urban planning. This pandemic, for example, is predicted to cause significant changes in urban life, notably the shift from traditional urban planning to healt...

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 r...

According to CRED-UNISDR report (2020), 80 – 90% of natural disasters within the past ten years are related to climate change, i.e. drought, storm, and flood. Flood, for example, has impacted two billion people within the years 1998 – 2017 worldwide. Kampung dwellers, in which most of them are p...

Shared observation: The highway print … a place privileged of a climatic mobilization. On an international level, cities are already consumers of more than two thirds of energy, responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions, main gas for the greenhouse effect, and concentrate on a road proximity the highes...

Oman is a country of stunning beauty and close-knit communities, which has decided to embrace its own path towards development: actively participating in a globalising world and at the same time strongly advancing its own culture, identity and way of life. As part of this drive, in the spring of 202...