Papers

Water Sensitive Design (WSD) is gaining attention as a Nature-based Solution (NbS) to urban water problems which incorporates green infrastructure within conventional urban water systems through innovative building and landscape design. In Africa, Johannesburg and Cape Town are two cities engaging w...

In the face of large-scale construction of new rural settlements & villages in China, it is very urgent to provide highly efficient and intelligent computer aided methods of planning and designing settlements & villages in rural areas in order to effectively protect the rural cultures and landscapes...

In the last decades, the Spanish cities of Malaga and Seville have consolidated as destinations for cultural and urban tourism. The political commitment to position them as international destinations; rising the capacity of its transport infrastructure; increasing and diversification of tourist acco...

The outbreak of coronavirus disease greatly affected people's lives, which limited residents’’ behavioral space due to the nationwide lockdown, and passively increased their non-working hours. In this contradictory situation, it is worth to analyze people’s daily behaviors, physical activity, ...

• A brief description of the "problem": While research on Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) have fueled a rapidly expanding scholarly work in recent years, the key trends and future research avenues are still ambiguous. • Background – our review aims to: (1) identify the most influential contribu...

Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based is an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. The study is focused on changing role and state of nature of urban ecological systems in the midst of urban sprawl and rapid urbanization. Sustainable urban design pr...

The relationship between urban and rural built environment is influenced by spatial forms, life patterns, industrial structures, transportation links, and other elements. In the pre-modern period, urban and rural areas were once characterized by "homogeneity", with continuity in terms of space, livi...

Covid-19 has spread with an incredible speed worldwide, causing a massive loss of both society and economy. Insufficient measures to cope with pandemics results in a large-scale infection. In this context, how to deal with the pandemic has become a hot point. The modern urban planning, derived from ...

As a result of urban sprawl in Jeddah that led to losing control over the old neighborhoods and focusing more on developing new neighborhoods that attract residents through internal migration. Therefore, many deteriorated areas and slums started to appear in the urban fabric of Jeddah. However, not ...

The Ulan Buh Desert is located at the edge of the arid zone in the central Eurasian continent, which is one of the main sources of the Yellow River sediment and sandstorms in Northeast Asia. The project site, at the junction of the Ulan Buh Desert, the Hetao Irrigation District and the Yellow River ...

The expression and perception of cityscape has significance influence on the preservation and regeneration of heritage. However, due to the urban sprawl in urbanizing, a large number of commercial exploitation have resulted in a series of obstacles on the expression and perception of heritage featur...

Air quality is an important factor affecting human health. Air negative ions are one of the elements of the air, with functions such as health care and air purification. As one of the important indicators of urban air quality, its impact on public health is profound. Firstly, the coastal area of Dal...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused direct impacts on global economics, and Indonesia is no exception. Based on World Bank data, the GDP growth of Indonesia has declined from +5.02% in 2019 to -2.07% in 2020. On the contrary, Reuters reported that the GDP growth of Indonesia is +7.07% in the second qua...

In a fast-growing metropolitan city like Jakarta, the traffic is overloaded by motorized vehicles. People mostly using cars or online transportation for commuting. Although the cities established public transport systems for almost two decades, with BRT, recently MRT already operating, and coming LR...

The growth of the urban population leads to increased demand for construction and renovation works in cities. Housing, public utilities, retail spaces, offices, and infrastructure projects are needed to meet the increasing number of residents and visitors, urban functions, and changing standards. Wh...

China has vast rural areas, which take up approximately 94% of the nation’s total lands.Rural life is the basic relationship between people and land in various types of human settlements. Its development depends heavily on the areas’ cultures, and the feelings, most remarkably nostalgia, of the ...

Under the background of the new Internet economy, the service objects and organizational models of the logistics network that are undergoing significant changes, the new logistics has become an important link connecting the real economy and the virtual economy. Making full use of the suburban space ...

Much of the urban transformation in Delhi, similar to major metropolitan cities of India is taking place on the peripheral/peri-urban boundaries of the city. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has long identified urbanisation of agricultural lands as a key state strategy to undertake planned deve...

【Purpose】: To discuss what kind of role that the rural areas in suburbs of the large city in China should take during China’s new urbanization and rural revitalization process. 【Background】: The development and construction of rural areas in the suburbs of large cities in China is closely ...

In 2020, the global outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) has seriously affected most countries and regions in the world, specially in urban areas with concentrated population. Secondary disasters such as traffic jams, material shortages and social disturbances have appeared to varying deg...

This paper aims to establish a sustainable Planning System that stimulates conducting Consultation and Community Engagement processes in the various stages of preparing urban development projects in line with the prevailing traditions and norms of the Gulf societies on the one hand. Moreover, there ...

Placemaking is an approach to planning, design and management of public spaces that uses local community's assets to create vibrant public places. It aims to improve health, happiness, and well-being in cities. Placemaking accelerated in the 1960s, when designing cities for people rather than for ca...

The aim of this research is to examine how Singapore is including the needs of an ageing population in its long-term planning agenda. Analysis is drawn to the city’s first integrated retirement community project, Kampung Admiralty, as an illustration of the challenges and opportunities that urbani...

Currently, there are 3,900 small municipalities in Brazil - here characterized as those with up to 20,000 inhabitants – in a universe of 5,570, whose responsibilities are becoming more extensive, which demands increasing competencies in the management as federated entities. According to Brazilian ...

Urban mobility is one of the most important sectors of city planning. The necessity for citizens to undertake daily journeys is critical for both the life and the function of cities. Access to jobs, services, and to meet people is key to a city’s economic vitality and quality of life. Unfortunatel...

With the development of urbanization, cardiovascular disease (CVD) poses a serious threat to urban health.The factors affecting health in CVD are multifaceted and comprehensive, and clarifying the spatial distribution characteristics of CVD and multiple environmental influences is conducive to impro...

Copernicus is the European Union's earth observation programme, providing information services that draw from satellite earth observation. The programme consists of a space segment and a ground segment. The ground segment provides access to earth observation data and services. One of the services is...

In the beginning of 2020 the world was a continuous space of mass activities of people: mass transit, mass tourism, mass migration, mass commuting. It was a descendant of “The Revolt of the Mass”, indicated by Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset in 1929. Pandemic of COVID19 has brought this econ...

This study focuses on the different typologies of urban spaces present in the city and focuses on its history, socio-cultural characteristics, landscape layers and neighbouring community requirements to activate it. One such neglected minority community in Bhopal surrounding the former UCIL factory ...

Weizhou Island, the youngest volcanic island with geological age in China, is a national 5A tourist attraction with clear water, white sand and flourishing species. It is a typical tropical ecological island. Shengtang Village, which is famous for its Catholic church, and nanwan Pier historic block ...