Papers

Thresholds, boundaries, and borders define the edges of our everyday life. Borders of all scales, visible or invisible, establish relationships between the built environment and surrounding communities. They have a huge role to play in terms of how we identify ourselves, relate to one another, utili...

Urban public spaces are integral to cities. They are the loci of socio - cultural interactions and commerce. The term “Public” intuitively conveys a sense of a common asset that is inclusive and easily accessible. This is because, historically, the ownership (agency) of urban public spaces were ...

“The city is an organised memory, and in history women are forgotten” Hannah Arendt The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 60 to 80 million couples worldwide currently suffer from infertility. According to The Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction, infertility currently affects abo...

Harbin, a city located in Northeast China, was founded by the Russians in 1898 when Russia commenced building the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) under the 1896 Li-Lobanov Treaty. As the Russian administrative centre of the railway, Harbin boomed to be ‘the second biggest city in Asia after Shanghai...

Urban green space system is a special plan to implement or supplement the overall plan and rationally arrange the spatial pattern of urban green space. Under the background of ecological civilization, green space system planning has become one of the important special plans to practice the theory of...

With the development of computer technology, especially the comprehensive popularization of the Internet of things and mobile terminal, milestone changes have taken place in data production, data transmission, and data analysis, marking the arrival of the Big Data Era. At the same time, the populari...

Urban public space is an important space carrier of residents' physical activity. In winter city, residents' physical activities may present different patterns. With the development of digital media, it is possible to collect large-scale data of residents. Taking Harbin as an example, we collected t...

Nature-Deficit Disorder describes the phenomenon that the relationship between children and nature is increasingly alienated and even separated, which mainly comes from the negative effects of the rapid urbanization process, the informatization of children's growth environment, the artificial living...

As a representative of the old industrial base in Northeast China, the resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province provided a large number of materials, funds and talents for the final completion of industrialization. However, with the continuous consumption of resources, resource-based cities ur...

Being the important space of public activity in cities with a complex functional composition and highly frequent mobility, the high-density urban areas are prone to be exposed to high crime risks. According to the theory of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), the quality of public...

Nairobi remains one of the world’s most intractable urban capitals, despite or as a result of a century of planning efforts. Development plans for the East African capital have been developed, repeatedly and sporadically, since 1898. Their implementation has been piecemeal and incomplete. These pl...

Since the 1990s, “withdrawing secondary industry and promoting tertiary industry” has become a main strategy of industrial restructuring in Shanghai. Correspondingly, industrial sites in inner city have undergone tremendous transformation. After the initial phase of mass demolition and mass new ...

In contemporary urban planning and designing the places are highly influenced by local cultural values, the image of the city, forming an integral part of the design process. When we travel to different towns and cities, we observe local variation in its socio-economic structure, making the design m...

As urbanization advances, there occurs overwhelming material abundance. Correspondingly, people have growing aesthetical requirements and pay more attention to the beauty of urban details. As a medium conveying a city’s information to the outside world in China, the outdoor signboard is one of the...

Differences in the distribution of social benefits and economic status can lead to health and power inequalities for the lower income strata. Parks are a product of citizens' rights and are an essential urban space for the urban life of the low-income strata. In addition, problems are increasingly e...

Abstract:Previous disasters risk assessment study to assess the presence of incomplete factor, single-hazard assessment and other issues. In the context of the land space master plan, with the introduction of "Guide", deepening the urban disaster risk assessment put forward new requirements. It is t...

When society changes from a productive society and an industrialized society to a consumer society and a post-industrialized society, cultural consumption has become its main feature, and urban space has also changed from a consumer of wealth to a creator of wealth. The process of post-modernization...

In the process of rapid urbanization, gentrification and commercialization have inevitably appeared in the historical districts of Jiangnan. Although they optimize the space environment of the historic district and promote the development of economy and tourism, they have resulted in disadvantages s...

There are a large number of historic blocks and a high proportion of seniors in Beijing Xicheng District, which is an important area where modern urban life and traditional physical space meet. With the renewal and construction of historic blocks, public space has become the key to reshape the histo...

Pingyao Ancient City is known as a "living heritage" as a model of Human-Habitat World Heritage due to its physical and spatial attributes and strong cultural attributes. Although the ancient city of Pingyao strives to completely preserve its physical space form, with the vigorous development of mod...

In arid regions all around the globe, the major issue lies within the scarcity of fresh water. These biomes cover around 35 % of the land area, with 20 % of world’s population residing in them. Due to the continuous problem of global warming the semi-arid area of India has expanded by 10% in the r...

Abstract Over 40 years ago the Kates Pijawka Model for Disaster Recovery was introduced in the book chapter From Rubble to Monument: The Pace of Reconstruction (Kates & Pijawka, 1977). Since its publication in the 1977 the model has been used and cited hundreds of times to explain the process recons...

The decline and revival of the ancient city is a constant topic. In recent decades, Chinese urban planning scholars had paid more and more attention to the protection, activation and utilization of historical sites, emphasizing the authenticity development of ancient cities. These ideas have been fu...

Residents' well-being is of great significance to people's livelihood and sustainable development. Compared with residents in eastern and central regions of China, residents in border ethnic areas have a stronger influence on their well-being due to their different living habits and economic develop...

At the Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, it was clearly proposed to implement an urban regeneration action to promote high-quality urban development. Strengthening the transformation of older neighborhoods in cities and towns is one of the mai...

With the development of urbanization and transformation of educational philosophy of universities, the relationship between the campus and the city become much closer. As an important public space embedded in the city, the campus boundary space plays a vital role in the connection and communication ...

The central city of southern Yunnan is located in the Hani Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe, Yunnan Province, and consists of three cities: Mengzi City, Kaiyuan City and Gejiu City. The central city of southern Yunnan has obvious characteristics of natural elements such as large altitude differenc...

Based on the transformation of internet economy and the wave of information technology, innovation and entrepreneurial activities have become social focus. Using the cross-sectional data on the number of Shanghai internet start-ups, this article aims to explore the spatial distribution characteristi...

Abstract ：China's urban development has entered a new stage of development. With the emergence of urban development needs and problems in the post-epidemic period, health impact assessment is an important topic for future urban development. There are a large number of small towns in China, the cur...

In the context of the post-epidemic era, more attentions are paid to the impact of the environment on health. As the area for students to study and live, elementary school campuses should provide children with a supportive environment for health. This article outlines the development history of tran...