Papers

The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia in early 2020 brought great pressure to city rail transportation, and also made people have higher requirements for the safety and humanization design of the traffic station space.Based on the data of Baidu open platform and ArcGIS inverse distance weight ...

Presentation Abstract for the 57th World Planning Congress, ISOCARP 2021 Doha-Qatar, November 2021 Stream: Inclusiveness and Empowerment Core Problem and Challenges: Post-conflict urban reconstruction, reconciliation, and peacebuilding at the local level in Libya. Background: Libya witnessed conside...

“Thin shadows, hollow shadows, shadows deep black The shadow of a tree is better than a tree, always have our back” -SUKUMAR RAY ( Bengali writer and poet 1888-1923, Kolkata, India) Objective: In the past bygone eras, because of urbanisation and spatial development of urban communities past thei...

The space at the interface of a port and a city structures accumulates influences resulting from the functions and activities both of the port and city. These functions very often collide with each other and creates dysfunctional zones within port cities. However there are solutions, which create ad...

For the Forum: Territorial Climate Action Planning Forum We are all familiar with the numbers of future urban populations and the related need of sustainable urban and regional development. Our globalizing world is confronting researchers, planners and implementing organizations with increasing comp...

Abstract for Special Session: Transitions in Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil Port cities are beacons and test labs for technological and planning solutions addressing some of society’s main challenges, connected to climate change, the energy transition or protecting biodiversity. At the sam...

After the discovery of oil-gas in Qatar, in the past few decades, Doha, its capital has dramatically grown from being a small fishing and pearling town to an international city with diversified economy. At the same time, it transformed from a small, compact, high-density and walkable traditional Ara...

It is well known that sports mega-events are widely used as city, even country branding tools: this is the case of UEFA EURO 2004, when Portugal – one of smaller economies of UE – built ten stadiums to receive the most important football championship in Europe. Some Portuguese cities saw the opp...

Destined to live for at least 10 years, in housing subsidized by the Federal Government, the lowest-income population, benefited by the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, represented by more than one million families, are in different adaptation processes regarding to the new location. Several problems ...

The ancient town is a small town that has survived in history, and its traditional form is basically unchanged. The spatial form is a comprehensive result of the interaction of various human activities and natural environmental factors in a specific geographical environment and a certain stage of so...

Indonesia is experiencing rapid economic growth in recent years, with significant infrastructure development as one of the priorities of the government. Due to its large size and population, the social and economic conditions may differ from one region to another. The local community is the most aff...

Urban underground complex (UUC) appears in urban underground space with three-dimensional redevelopment of the city. It is a public transit-oriented underground architecture, integrating with more than two functions such as commerce, entertainment, office and parking, etc. As an important part of ur...

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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 B...

Kadamakkudy is a set of islands in Ernakulam district of Kerala, India. It is surrounded by the Veeranpuzha backwaters on three sides and the Kollam-Kottappuram National Waterways to its west. This region is primarily an agrarian area with the Pokkali wetlands as its major geographical feature (1). ...

Research question：Planning Method of Airport Economic Zone Based on ‘Time-Critical’ Orientation. Background ：As a significant policy area of macroeconomic control and an important carrier of high quality development of local economy, airport economic zone’s planning method is different fro...

Together with Venice, Dubrovnik represent the emblematic city losing all its functions due to overtourism, including the outstanding universal value which placed them on the UNESCO list. Reports on the UNESCO/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Old City of Dubrovnik evolves around the central ...

It has been more than one-year since the first Covid-19 case was announced in Turkey. At the beginning of the pandemic, lockdown and quarantine measurements announced by the government were seen as acceptable since it was thought to be for short term. “Stay at home” calls of the state were follo...

Over the last half century, Qatar has witnessed an excessive change on its economic and urban evolution. From coastal village where fishing and pearling were the main activities of its community to a country with ambitious vision for the future. Due to economic booming of oil / gas discovery early 1...

Okhamandal is dictated and identified by its association with the myths and stories of Krishna and is also identified as one of the “chardham” hence being a part of the larger tourist network. This setting every year is visited by lakhs of people for pilgrimage purposes. As one breaks apart thro...

Big and dynamic cities like Delhi have a complex governance structure, with multiple authorities and stakeholders working at various levels. There exists a lack of trust between development authorities and citizens. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an efficient tool for garnering wi...

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative analysis of expert interview surveys on place quality that should be implemented in inner-city HSR station areas. by examining three projects, the Central Station area in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Hongqiao station in Shanghai, China, and Logroño s...

Systems approach offers an integrative perspective to the entire picture. The pandemic brought unprecedented disruptions to city development, infrastructure, supply chain, and healthcare, forced national leaders to adopt systems thinking to tackle sophisticated situations in real-time. In the post-C...

After 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have demonstrated their espoused values. Compounding issues of sustainable development, globalization, equity and mobility have been exacerbated. The role of planning and public administration will be critically examined through a systems approac...

This paper contributes to scholarly debates on urbanisation and environmental change with respect to the wildland–urban interface and heat-induced weather and climate conditions, namely compound drought and heat waves, conducive to extreme wildfire events of relevance to the Mediterranean-type cli...

In a globalized world, cities have become a pool of very diverse communities, each with its intrinsic traits, customs, habits, and needs. They come from every creed, gender, age, and social status, yet together they form one big society. A society that must have unified visions in order to flourish ...

As we can see, after experiencing a rapid urbanization stage, China has begun to enter a high-quality urbanization development stage focusing on humanistic and ecological connotations, in which historical and cultural heritage has become a new engine of urban development. The urban government aiming...

With cities worldwide growing exponentially and global population displacement on the rise, the coming decades will see increasing numbers of children growing up in informal, resource-restricted, and otherwise fragile urban settings. While the typologies of vulnerable urban contexts can vary, living...

Koyra is an upazila of the Khulna District of Bangladesh. It's the 2nd largest Upazila in Bangladesh located in the south-western coastal belt of Bay of bengal and adjacent to the Sundarban mangrove forest. Like other coastal areas of Bangladesh, Koyra is a disaster-prone area. It is assumed that pe...

Special session by Carola Hein (TU Delft, LDE PortCityFutures) Transitions in Port City Regions: Planning Beyond Oil How provocative and bizarre can visions about the future be? In this article we will answer this question through the eyes but above all the projects of the students of the MSc 2 desi...