It is an important factor that planners and urban planning experts need to understand how physical elements of streetscape contribute to the perception of safety in streetscapes. While the building regulations and development plans are amending due to the increased urbanization process. It is important to pay attention and maintain the safety of urban areas. However, the developers do not...
As an important carrier of a city’s history and culture, urban museum plays an important role in promoting urban vitality and enhancing people’s place attachment. However, little attention has been paid to the emotional attachment characteristics of museum facade which have a significant impact on the vitality of its surrounding public space. The development of emotion measurement technology...
The maturation of information technology has changed the operational dynamics of business offices and influenced spatial preferences in urban environments, thus generating opportunities for the reconfiguration of urban office space distribution structures. A significant volume of office space has rapidly emerged outside the Central Business District (CBD), characterized by a level of...
Addressing the needs of the visually impaired is crucial for achieving social inclusion and sustainable development. However, few research studies examine the equity of public transport resource allocation from the perspective of the visually impaired, specifically concerning accessibility of supportive physical settings in public transport systems, such as tactile paving, wheelchair access,...
With the continuous development of international concepts for the conservation of historical and cultural heritage, holistic and integrated preservation has gradually become the prevailing approach, and the types of heritage conservation have also become increasingly diversified. Against this backdrop, military heritage has emerged as a significant issue in the global field of heritage...
The past rapid urbanization model, driven by economy, neglected the protection of cultural heritage and historical memory, leading to insufficient momentum for sustainable urban development. In response, in 1972, UNESCO proposed six evaluation criteria for assessing historical and cultural heritage, establishing the World Heritage evaluation system. In 2015, the World Heritage Convention also...
Currently, many countries are experiencing robust urban development, whereas rural areas remain relatively underdeveloped. This pronounced urban–rural gap reflects the imbalance and inequality inherent in the development process, indirectly undermining broader social equity and justice. Against this backdrop, urban–rural integration is viewed as a crucial strategy for fostering coordinated...
This paper presents a territorial analysis framework, the “Clustering Accessibility Needs for Remote and Excluded Populations” (CARE), developed to identify mountain areas facing significant accessibility challenges to basic services. Focusing on the Valle d’Aosta region, the research integrates demographic, socio-economic, and geographic data to analyse and map not only the distribution of...
Climate change significantly affects urban thermal environments, with heatwaves and tropical nights exacerbating urban heat islands, increasing energy consumption, and posing serious health risks to residents. This study compares the record-breaking tropical night events in South Korea during 2018 and 2024 to analyze their impacts on urban thermal environments and societal systems. These two...
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of natural hazards as urbanization rises, affecting both people and wildlife in metropolitan areas. Water stress is also exacerbated by rising temperatures. This brings urban planning to the forefront of climate change adaptation, as cities have the capacity to promote circularity in water systems. However, there are still a...
Urban parks in Costa Rica are scarce but widely used by people of all ages. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50% of visitors to the country's main metropolitan parks reported an increase in their visitation frequency. This paper explores metropolitan park users' perceptions of those places as agents of well-being, both before and after the pandemic.
Data was collected through...
The demographic transition theory, in its broadest definition, refers to the shift from high fertility and mortality rates in the pre-industrial period to low fertility and mortality rates in the post-industrial period (Bloom and Williamson, 1998). As an inevitable outcome of this transition, populations are aging. While developed countries have largely completed this transition, the...
Background
Global cities face unprecedented crises ranging from escalating climate threats to entrenched social disparities. Rapid growth-oriented urbanization over recent decades has led to environmental depletion and magnified socioeconomic marginalization. As these intertwined challenges intensify, there is an urgent need to re-evaluate the nexus of development goals, ecological...
This study investigates the spatio-temporal differentiation and coupling coordination characteristics of the "PLES" – production space, living space, and ecological space – in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River region. The objective is to explore the spatio-temporal evolution patterns and interrelationships among these spaces. Given the ongoing promotion of ecological...
In consequence of the economic restructuring and decentralisation that took place in the late 1990s, a notable trend of suburbanisation has been observed in the city of Buenos Aires, resulting in a concomitant stagnation of the population residing in the central area (CABA).
While the city core remains the cultural and economic heart of Argentina, many people have moved to the surrounding...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) identifies extreme weather events, failure to address climate change, and major natural disasters as critical global environmental risks. While these risks can be assessed through objective data, citizens often experience psychological distress even without direct exposure to disaster damage. This highlights the importance of understanding how regional disaster...
This study examines the predictive modeling capabilities for migrant inclusivity in South African cities using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Through analysis of data collected from over 1,000 foreign migrants across nine South African provinces, the research investigates the interrelationships between multiple dimensions of urban integration, including...
Many large-scale Eastern archaeological sites are primarily constructed with earthen and wooden structures, which exhibit low aesthetic appeal and are susceptible to natural and human-induced erosion and damage. The protection and display of these sites present significant challenges in the field of cultural heritage preservation. China's National Archaeological Site Parks serve as model areas...
The Pangkep City Government utilizes the Pangkajene River as a Non-Green Open Space or Public Open Space (POS) through the development of the riverbank in the city center. Despite the potential for sunset views and the presence of Street Vendors, the Pangkajene Riverbank area still faces challenges such as insufficient parking access, unoptimized pedestrian paths and lack of lighting in the...
Shared bicycle has become one of the most popular modes of transportation in China, contributing positively to reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality and promoting physical health, etc. However, the mismatch between supply and demand caused by uneven spatial distribution and different operational strategies has led to scenarios where not all bicycle movements are user-driven. In...
Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), which include recreation, aesthetics, inspiration, and cultural heritage, are essential non-material benefits that enrich human well-being and foster a sense of place and identity. Despite their critical role, CES often remain underrepresented in ecosystem service assessments due to their subjective nature and the inherent challenges in their spatial...
Climate change increasingly threatens cultural heritage worldwide, posing significant risks to its preservation and sustainability. This study explores the potential impacts, a critical stage in the vulnerability assessment framework outlined by the IPCC, on South Korea’s wooden cultural heritage. Most of South Korea’s cultural heritage sites are wooden structures, making them particularly...
Platform economy has enabled new business models for rental housing worldwide, such as short term rent. Among the most successful cases is Airbnb, a global platform that offers intermediation for hosts, as a place where they can easily offer and administer short-term rental agreements, and guests. Such easiness comes from the platform framework, which facilitates the connection of previously...
The rapid acceleration of urbanization in China has led to the emergence of numerous large cities characterized by dense populations and limited per capita resources, significantly influencing the tourism dynamics in surrounding regions. As Metropolitan Fringe Areas increasingly serve as popular short-term travel destinations, the adjacent villages confront unprecedented developmental...
The Rhine River basin is Western Europe’s most crucial water channel, supporting the region’s economy, ecology, and cultural heritage. It is central in agricultural, industrial, and urban processes across multiple countries from Switzerland to the Netherlands. However, the Rhine is increasingly vulnerable to various environmental and infrastructural stresses caused by climate-induced droughts...
Islands and archipelagos are often considered as laboratories, with their apparent isolation deemed to be an ideal condition for research. But their isolation is as much a social construction as a reality. Cabo Verde (CV), an island nation in the Atlantic, off Western Africa and a former Portuguese colony, since the beginning of its inhabitation has been shaped by its connections with other...
The globalised and capitalised world thrives and, associated with phenomena of massive tourism and gentrification, cities and their inhabitants face an inevitable pressure to adjust. In this paper, we intend to explore the role and potential of pocket spaces – often neglected and apparently trivial spaces – within consolidated urban fabrics as possible mitigators of the effects brought by the...
With the promotion of sustainable transportation, cycling has gained significant attention as an eco-friendly and healthy mode of travel. Cyclists, unlike motor vehicle users, are directly exposed to street environments without physical protection, making the quality of street environment crucial to their riding experience. Previous research has shown that streetscape features, including...
In the era of planetary crises, urban innovation and intervention often prioritize megacities, overshadowing small-scale cities despite their unique potential to tackle rising global health challenges. This paper explores the transformative role of small-scale cities through an in-depth case study of Tartu, Estonia—a city that exemplifies how compact urban environments can act as catalysts for...
The accessibility and usability of outdoor spaces are essential for fostering mobility, social interactions, and well-being among older adults. However, many of these spaces are not truly public but are instead semi-public or privately managed, shaped by spatial hierarchies, social norms, and governance structures. This study examines how older adults navigate, appropriate, and contest access...
In recent years, the balance between urban and rural areas has globally shifted significantly in the metropolitan areas -driven by increasing internal migration from cities towards rural regions accelerating since the Covid 19 period. This migration has brought substantial social and spatial transformations, often resulting in processes of ‘rural gentrification’. Consequently, rural spaces are...
The persistent divide between academic research and professional practice in spatial planning has long obstructed progress in addressing the complex realities of urban and regional development. While, on one hand, academic research prioritizes theoretical frameworks, long-term projections, and complex methodologies that advance knowledge, these contributions often fail to meet the immediate,...
The intersection of food systems and urban planning has proven to be one of the permanent areas of theory and practice over the past two decades and has drawn insights into social studies scholars and urban planning practitioners (Morgan, 2013). While significant progress has been made in understanding and implementing urban food planning efforts, there are pitfalls of the theory and practice...
Incremental historic urban district renovation has become a political consensus and trendy research field in China. Intertwined challenges have made sustainable incremental renovation an increasingly demanding job. This paper would like to introduce recent explorations with Beijing Hutong renovations as examples, illustrating the challenges and outlooks of incremental historic urban district...
Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) is a planning approach aimed at improving urban mobility through participatory and evidence-based decision-making. As a result, it requires extensive data collection and transport modeling. However, data collection and modeling for SUMPs face significant challenges particularly in large metropolitan areas of Türkiye. This paper presents challenges...
The paper focuses on adaptation measures in Polish cities, particularly emphasizing the role of blue-green infrastructure in planning and strategic documents. The analysis covers the last two decades to register the change in approach to climate change and to show the tools that cities have started to use, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing (satellite and aerial...
An increasing number of children around the world are experiencing mental health problems such as anxiety and depression (UNICEF-WHO, 2021), and physical health problems such as myopia and obesity (Cai et al., 2017), particularly in China's metropolitan areas (Lin, 2018). Lack of physical activity (PA) is one of the main causes of this problem (Janssen and Leblanc, 2010; An et al., 2019; Patel...
According to WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund, globally, about one in seven children are experiencing mental health problems. Because of their immaturity and psychological vulnerability, school-age children are highly susceptible to the impact of urban environments. As one of the most crucial components of urban mobility, the commuting-to-school environment is significantly...
In the post-pandemic era, global urban tourism preferences are shifting towards more immersive experiences that emphasize deeper cultural engagement. Exploring local culture through walking or cycling has emerged as a trend that redefines urban tourism competition and service development priorities.
This study focuses on Xi'an, an ancient metropolis renowned for its rich history, to explore...
This paper explores the urban typologies of the Creative District and the Innovation District, describing them in economic, social, and spatial terms, striving to understand their stated and achieved results and impacts, and on this basis to recommend policies that support urban development.
These two types of urban districts have some features in common, while differing in other aspects. As...
Regions are increasingly interconnected through population mobility, economic exchanges, and infrastructure networks that create complex interdependencies, shaping regional development and resilience. As these connections deepen, the ability of regions to withstand disruptions becomes increasingly vital. In this context, critical infrastructures, such as electricity grids, water supply, and...
Abstract
Integration of the spatial planning systems between EU member states and candidate countries remains a critical challenge in fostering territorial cohesion, particularly in the fringe regions. The existing socio-economic conditions, historical and cultural legacies, techno-political dynamics, and diverse governance structures contribute to a complex and multidimensional regional...
Climate change poses significant risks to urban areas, particularly the phenomenon of urban heat island (UHI) effect, which exacerbates thermal stress and environmental degradation in densely populated cities. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has identified rising urban temperatures as a critical challenge, with projections indicating that by 2050, 68% of the global population will reside in...
The use of hydrogen will play a central role in achieving climate neutrality. The decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries as well as the power and transport sectors will only be possible by using high-energetic synthetic energy storages, like hydrogen. With storage options for volatile renewable energy production, hydrogen is an integral part of sector coupling and thus an important...
Contemporary cities have been characterized by complex structures and configurations that limit the ability of citizens to get involved in a dialogue about their neighborhood, their city, and ultimately, the place where they live their lives. The conceptual schema of patterns and urban types has been proposed as a powerful tool for understanding, planning, and discussing the city, even from...
Research Background
As global efforts to mitigate the climate crisis intensify, the development and application of effective policy tools to achieve carbon neutrality have become increasingly critical. In South Korea, urban planning mandates the integration of carbon emission and absorption data and the monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets established every five years. To...
The urban construction zone of Xianyang City is located adjacent to Xi’an, a central metropolis in northwest China, forming the core region of the Xi’an metropolitan area. Suburban villages in Xianyang not only benefit from the influence of Xianyang’s central urban area but are also significantly impacted by the Xi’an metropolitan area. Leveraging advantages in location, land resources, labor...
Since the early 1990s, there has been a global trend towards creating fully
digital cadaster systems as a part of a larger group of Digital Tools for Planning,
which are increasingly becoming an integral part of the city’s digital infrastructure (Enemark and Sevatdal (1999)). However, this group of tools is not the end
goal, but rather the means to streamline larger socioeconomic...
This study investigates the spatial distribution of digital classes and their relationship with social resilience across South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving beyond traditional measures of the digital divide, this research adopts a multidimensional digital literacy framework, incorporating emerging competencies such as AI literacy, to reflect the evolving realities of the digital...
In this paper, I consider the dimensions of power and governance in the planning of second homes in the Municipality of Sigdal, Norway. Multiple authors have commented on how neoliberal economic policy has impacted both methodology and outcome in land use planning, where land has been treated as an economic asset rather than as a public good. In Norway, these influences are particularly...
Urbanization has facilitated the flow of resources between urban and rural areas, breaking the traditional internal balance mechanism that ensured the mutual adaptation of agriculture, farmers, and rural communities. The relatively closed, self-sufficient rural development model, shaped by the historical relationship between people and land, has transformed into a more open urban-rural social...
The combined impact of climate change and urban problems causes chaotic effects in urban areas. Urbanisation is inevitable; it is crucial to design an urban area that can adapt to these circumstances and mitigate the issues of climate change and urbanisation. This study deals with creating an efficient city that has increased the quality of life of people, uses resources efficiently and is...
Street space as a public open space in urban areas functions not only for mobility but also as a place for the informal economy, such as street vendors (PKL) activities. This research explores how street space in Makassar City can be utilized equitably through temporary and sharing space approaches, which accommodate the needs of the informal economy without reducing the main function of...
Education plays a pivotal role in shaping urban and territorial dynamics and social trajectories. For instance, well-distributed and accessible education systems can affect residential choices, stimulate local economies, and foster innovation. Conversely, inadequate education infrastructure can lead to spatial inequalities, reinforcing cycles of poverty and limiting opportunities for upward...
Over the last decade, Frankfurt and the surrounding Rhein-Main region in Germany, experienced vast investments of the data centre economy, around the DE-CIX, the world’s largest and fastest internet exchange point. This resulted new planning regulation and new relevance for the region for data centres. On the other hand, the German lignite mining region “Rheinisches Revier” faces enormous...
Urban emotion is a crucial indicator of spatial quality, and emerging popular check-in streets, as new carriers of urban cultural and economic development, deserve particular attention for their emotional characteristics. Previous studies have largely focused on emotional perception at the macro-urban scale, with limited attention to street-level emotional features, while existing evaluation...
Starting with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global agenda has increasingly emphasized the critical intersection of urban planning and public health. Though, the principles of healthy living and enhancing quality of life have always been embedded in urban planning and design goals, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals particularly related to Good Health & Well-being and...
The need for sustainable rural revitalization has become a pressing global challenge. Innovation ecosystem plays a significant role for driving local revitalization, economic growth and social inclusion in rural area. It explores main research question: How can HEIs enhance governance frameworks to foster innovation ecosystems and drive rural revitalization?
The study draws on the innovative...
Spatial planning is frequently characterised as a lengthy, bureaucratic process with ambiguous outcomes and insufficient tools for implementation. The enduring question of “Does planning deliver?” alongside concerns about plan evaluation has persisted over the decades (see, for instance, Faludi 2000). Composing a spatial plan, whether for a railway, offshore wind farm, or historic residential...
In South Korea, apartments are regarded as premium housing types, and their numbers continue to rise despite stagnant population growth and a housing supply rate exceeding 100%. Reconstruction projects for aging apartments often involve increasing the number of units to cover construction costs, leading to efforts to maximize floor area ratios (FAR). While higher building density can enhance...
Promoting the balanced and equitable allocation of regional medical and health facilities has become a consensus. Especially as a vulnerable group, children 's health problems can not be ignored. Hospitals providing pediatric diagnosis and treatment have become an important place and the last line of defense to ensure children 's health. However, problems such as uneven distribution of...
Many countries, including Türkiye, are undergoing significant demographic shifts. Türkiye’s elderly population comprising 10.2% of the total population and projections indicate this share will rise to 12.9% by 2030 (TÜİK, 2024). As housing is a key determinant of health, providing adequate and appropriate living environments for the elderly has become more critical than ever. While concerns...
Pension facilities are a vital component of the social public service system, and their equity is a critical issue in environmental justice studies. Prior studies have primarily focused on commercial and profit-oriented comprehensive elderly care facilities, yet there has been less attention paid to environmental exposures during travel to and from pension facilities for the elderly who...
Urban street trees play a crucial role in greening initiatives and provide multiple ecosystem services that contribute to urban sustainability. However, among the various ecosystem services, the aesthetic and utilitarian values of street trees are often overlooked. While native species are generally preferred for their ecological benefits, certain non-native tree species may offer cultural and...
Global warming, air pollution, and natural resource depletion have all emerged as urgent global environmental challenges in recent years. Transport electrification is a critical step toward energy conservation and emission reduction. However, the central challenge for electrifying transportation remains insufficient and unsuitable configurations of public charging infrastructure. Electric...
Taking the built environment as the primary consideration in architectural design can promote harmony between the building and its surrounding site and climate. It is essential to assess the wind environment at the initial stage of urban planning and enhance natural outdoor air circulation, which improves pedestrian-level comfort. In an urban setting, while previous research has explored the...
The relationship between urban renewal and inefficient land use can be understood as involving various activation measures, such as protection, regulation, reconstruction, redevelopment, and utilization, applied to inefficient land use to varying degrees. In the practice of urban renewal, the urban renewal planning mode that utilizes inefficient land redevelopment as a means already exists....
As a densely populated and functionally complex core area, mega-city rail transit stations and their surrounding areas are particularly vulnerable to sudden disasters, which can easily lead to secondary disasters due to traffic disruption and crowd retention, seriously affecting the economic sustainability of the city and social security. In the event of natural disasters, the safe and rapid...
China’s accelerated urbanization and the elevation of Yangtze River Delta integration to a national-level strategy have dramatically spurred development in cross-boundary peripheral areas at both provincial and municipal scales. However, this study finds that these peripheral metropolitan regions face “hollowing out” risks, evidenced by widespread housing vacancies, frequent delays or...
The aging population is a significant challenge for modern society, especially in Europe and Estonia. The elderly percent in Estonia in 2024 is already above 20% of the population, while at the beginning of the 21st century, it was only 15%. Shrinking rural areas is one of the results of the aging population. Local municipalities face significant challenges in fulfilling their duties while...
Urban and territorial regeneration practices thrive in marginal areas, ideal for initiating virtuous experimental processes. These areas, rich in generative potential, inspire innovative approaches to transforming spaces, using methods similar to learning by doing. This potential allows citizens to reconnect with their territory and forge new alliances with other communities.
This paper...
At present, most of the population still live in rural China, and the allocation of health facilities in rural areas is generally weaker than that in urban areas. The influencing factors of healthy life of rural residents still need attention and research. This study investigates the relationship between the daily travel activity chains of rural community residents and their self-assessed...
As urbanisation continues, cities face numerous natural and social risks, such as natural disasters, ecological risks, public health risks and social stability risks. These risks pose a serious threat to the development of cities, and there is an urgent need to establish a complete integrated urban disaster prevention system. The emergence of the concept of resilient cities provides a new...
New energy vehicles play an important role in alleviating climate problems and promoting sustainable transportation, and their charging piles will become an indispensable infrastructure in future cities. Analyzing the overall equity and local accessibility of the spatial distribution of charging piles is conducive to meeting the needs of residents, emphasizing the spatial heterogeneity of...
Urban expansion often leads to informal settlements on cities’ peripheries, driven by the pressing need to accommodate rapid population growth (UN-Habitat, 2020; Davis, 2006). These settlements are frequently built incrementally to meet the needs of residents, bypassing conventional top-down urban planning directives. While these low-cost developments typically lack essential infrastructure,...
With the development of urbanization, the increase in the urban resident population and human activities leads to significant changes in the urban spatial structure, resulting in more polycentric cities (Li and Li, 2019). An urban center, a crucial part of the urban structure and polycentric cities, refers to a continuous area with a higher population density or a more advanced level of...
E-scooter sharing became popular around the mid-2010s, with significant growth and widespread adoption occurring in various cities around the world. As a new form of urban micro-mobility, e-scooter sharing programs made their debut in the United States in 2017 as a type of shared micro-mobility in cities. In the US, 84 million journeys were made on electric scooters and shared bikes in 2018,...
The transformation of urban systems in the 21st century has been marked by the fact that cities are increasingly viewed as self-organizing, open systems shaped by dynamic, nonlinear, and adaptive processes. This study explores the evolution of İzmir’regionalization and centralization tendencies from the 1950s to the present, employing a dual-phase methodology that integrates exogenous and...
The relationship between improving environmental conditions and the displacement of residents has long been a subject of urbanism and spatial studies. However, this ongoing debate has recently gained renewed attention, particularly in the context of greening interventions in urban spaces. These interventions have led to the emergence of a new concept in the literature: “green gentrification”....
Amidst an ageing population and declining birth rates, China saw a decrease of approximately 5.35 million preschoolers over the past year, according to 2023 statistics. This decline has led many kindergartens in various regions to consider functional adjustments due to low enrolment numbers. At the same time, the demand for elderly care institutions continues to grow against the backdrop of...
The rapid advancements in digital technologies and big data analytics have opened new avenues in urban research, enabling the exploration of urban phenomena with unprecedented spatial and temporal precision. In cities like Seoul, mobile phone signal-based data has become a powerful tool for capturing real-time pedestrian dynamics and urban mobility patterns. This type of big data makes it...
In China's long-term planning practice, the mainstream development concept has been growth-oriented, which has led to the neglect of shrinkage phenomena. However, with the intensification of China’s low fertility and ageing trends, the population has entered an overall negative growth phase. Many metropolitan areas of China are already experiencing various degrees and types of shrinkage. For...
In the current situation of severe climate stress, anthropogenic pressures on the planet have resulted in the profound fragility of the natural environment. The effects on territories are striking and have led to the reduction or loss of habitable and cultivable land (IPCC, 2019), meaning that resources may soon be insufficient for all. According to the FAO, by 2050, the world will need to...
Wheat is a crucial agricultural product of the Nile River Delta, yet Egypt remains one of the world's largest wheat importers. In response to recent geopolitical and health crises, Egyptian authorities have prioritized increasing domestic wheat production to enhance self-sufficiency. However, this effort coincides with rapid urban expansion, which threatens arable land in the Nile Delta. To...
This paper focuses on framing healthcare accessibility using a system dynamics (SD) approach. The widely discussed concept of healthcare accessibility can be broadly defined as the realized utilization of healthcare services with the goal of fully meeting patients' healthcare needs. However, patients' healthcare needs are evolving significantly due to, among others, recent demographic and...
The appearance of the notion of sustainable development in the 1980's and the publication of the Brundtland report constituted an important step in the procedures of urban planning of the late 20th century, especially for deindustrialized cities (Devillers, 2010). Its multifaceted nature, result of the diversity of intellectual filiations that preceded it (humanist, economist, ecologist),...
Amid rapid mobility and increasing vulnerabilities, urban health is a crucial topic that requires further discussion, especially through the lens of inclusivity. Despite comprehensive literature and efforts toward health-promoting frameworks, initiatives and benchmarking, the intersection between urban health and urban design remains understudied, particularly regarding how to design built...
Tourism in urban areas, particularly in European destinations, has grown significantly over the years, often surpassing expert predictions. This growth has increased the use of urban spaces where place consumption practices occur, sometimes creating functional challenges that disrupt the balance between local needs and tourist demands, potentially impacting residents' quality of life. Despite...
Public space is crucial in contemporary urban planning, fostering sustainable and resilient cities. Current debates increasingly emphasize the importance of pedestrian spaces and the redefinition of street spaces to provide more comfort and usability for people. As cities grapple with the dual challenges of environmental sustainability and enhancing urban livability, pedestrian-friendly public...
Evaluating urban vitality holds significant positive implications for supporting decision-making in urban regeneration. Optimizing the built environment to adjust the urban functional structure, enhance transportation conditions, and improve the living environment, thereby reshaping urban vitality, is an important objective of urban regeneration. Therefore, clarifying the fundamental...
The UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites represent an invaluable treasure of our planet's history, culture, and nature. These places, marked by their outstanding universal value, house both tangible and intangible testimonies that shape humanity’s identity and collective memory. However, these heritage sites face the challenge of balancing conservation with the sustainable development of...
The rapid urbanisation of the UAE, across the past three decades, is attributed to the significant migration from the South Asian subcontinent. This influx in population served the burgeoning construction industry in development of high-rise structures and landmarks of star-architects. While this growth has shaped the city, it has also given rise to densely populated labour housing districts...
The study intends to investigate the landscape of the mid-Adriatic coastline in the coastal stretch between Pineto and Vasto, interpreting the heritage processes associated with the ongoing transformation dynamics.
In detail, the focus is on new forms of sustainable development, aimed at protecting and enhancing the built, natural and intangible heritage. In this research, heritage is...
Although the direct role of the public sector in housing provision in Croatia has decreased significantly since the end of the socialist system, much like in other post-socialist countries, public policies continue to influence housing provision, often through indirect mechanisms, working within broader post-socialist welfare regimes. Permissive land use and development policies in Croatia may...
While the cities have rapidly advanced technologically over the years, the fact remains that rural areas still remains in a digital divide. Throughout the recent years more and more attention has been paid to develop the digital skills of older populations living in rural areas who tend to be excluded from the success of e-governance and new digital services. Recent discussion has been...
Cities today face shortages of urban construction space and a lack of funding for large projects, necessitating alternatives to traditional urban regeneration models. Recently, temporary urban regeneration explorations, such as pop-up markets, have become more prevalent in major Chinese cities and may be able to solve the problem. They leverage point-to-point connections in the virtual world...
Street vitality is considered a critical indicator for assessing the attractiveness and potential of urban areas, especially in the context of sustainable development. First, street vitality is one of the essential components that shape urban vitality. While street vitality research has primarily focused on macro-level features, such as commercial density, accessibility, and pedestrian volume,...
In recent years, dockless bike-sharing (DBS) have become an important ways of transportation in many cities and have shown outstanding performance in terms of environmental friendliness and short distance travel. Compared to docked bike-sharing that require specific docks to be used, DBS can be rented and returned almost anywhere, making them more flexible and convenient. They flexibility also...
As cities around the world continue to transform through rapid urbanization, the need for public spaces that prioritize human needs and foster community engagement has become more urgent than ever. Public spaces are no longer just physical locations but are now vital to the social fabric of urban life, shaping how individuals connect, interact, and contribute to the collective urban...
Geographically, Makassar is quite located on the southwest coast of South Sulawesi Province which is an area that has a high potential for natural disasters because it is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire (prone to earthquakes and tsunamis), at coordinates between 119° 18' 27 , 97” to 119° 32´31.03” east longitude and 5° 30´18” to 5° 14' 49” south latitude. In general, there are three types...
The rapid urbanization process has led to greater thermal stress on pedestrians, and greenery arrangement can provide an effective mitigation strategy. However, the impact of vegetation on microclimate and building heat load (BHL) has primarily been explored in street canyon scenarios, with limited research at the residential scale. Furthermore, traditional methods for assessing the...
Carbon Emission Intensity (CEI) has become a critical constraint indicator for China's national economic and social development. The Urban Spatial Layout Changes (USLC) resulting from urbanization can significantly influence CEI. This paper constructs a comprehensive model to examine the relationship between USLC and CEI in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration and proposes...
The rapid pace of urbanization in China has highlighted significant challenges in aging residential communities, including outdated infrastructure, insufficient spatial functionality, and a lack of inclusivity for vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with disabilities, and children. These issues hinder the quality of life and community vitality. This research examines these challenges...
As urbanization in China transitions from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement, understanding the dynamics of residents’ time use has become critical for addressing diverse and evolving needs. Time, as a finite resource, serves as a crucial indicator of quality of life and lifestyle patterns, offering insights into individual and household behaviors across different family life...
Most major cities around the world boast a long history of urban development, attracting people at home and abroad with their abundant opportunities. However, the urban environment is increasingly failing to meet the diverse and modern needs of its inhabitants. Constrained by the limits of resource and environmental capacity, the quality of life is gradually deteriorating, manifesting in...
Economic Base Theory has historically provided urban planners with a conceptual model to understand the economic dynamics of cities and regions. It distinguishes between basic (export-oriented) and non-basic (local-serving) activities, emphasizing the role of external income in driving local economic growth.
While the Theory had a direct influence on urban planning in the first half of the...
This study proposes an innovative approach to urban morphology analysis by combining resilience detection with parametric design tools for small towns. The focus is on developing a computational tool that evaluates and optimizes the urban form and resilience of small-town road networks and built environments. The approach begins with the extraction of key spatial data, including road networks...
Progressing climate change and its consequences underline the necessity not just of climate change mitigation, but also of climate adaptation. To be able to conduct efficient climate adaptation, knowledge about the type and extent of climate impacts e.g., the effects of a heat on the spatial system in specific areas, is necessary (Aguiar et al. 2018: 48). Climate impact analyses (CIA) can...
The rapid growth of tourism has significantly threatened the function and form of historical towns. The combination of closely spatial buildings, high fire loads, and commercialization—factors that trigger fire initiation and propagation—has made historical towns more vulnerable to fire hazards (Garcia-Castillo et al., 2023). Furthermore, the large influx of tourists disrupts local...
As urban populations age, understanding how urban green spaces (UGS) can cater to the needs of elderly residents is increasingly important. This study investigates how UGS quality influences leisure opportunities and contributes to the psychological well-being of elderly users. Drawing on the Recreationist-Environment Fit and Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theories, the research focuses on...
Digital tools and platforms are profoundly transforming the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, particularly by unlocking significant potential in advancing circular construction practices. This transformation is closely tied to the trend of platformization, where platforms reshape traditional industry workflows through data-driven processes and resource...
Tourism is recognized as a powerful driver of sustainable development, generating positive impacts on territorial assets (Ballesta, 2024). However, it is also well-known that tourism can produce negative effects, as highlighted in current policy issues and trends (Zhang et al., 2022).
Positive (e.g. economic value creation) and negative (e.g. resident displacement) effects of tourism have...
The construction of sports complexes often aims to host large sporting events and foster urban area development (Baade and Dye, 1988). During the post-event period, these complexes must maintain economic gains by providing commercial facilities with sports and living services. However, the poor performance of facilities has led to a waste of urban resources. The facilities' profitability...
The concept of Child-Friendly Cities (CFC) was formally adopted as a nationwide urban development goal in China in 2021, more than two decades after UNICEF introduced it. Following the launch of the national CFC initiative and the selection of pilot cities, many cities have embraced CFC as a developmental strategy, issuing spatial plans aimed at enhancing urban inclusiveness and liveability....
The Positive Energy District (PED) is an urban development strategy aimed at reducing energy consumption while increasing energy production to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. This concept is built upon earlier sustainable city initiatives, such as carbon-neutral zones and zero-energy communities. PEDs are districts or neighborhoods that have been transformed to achieve annual...
Tourism has been a crucial pillar of the Greek economy for decades. Following the end of the Greek Civil War, political and economic strategies included programs and agreements aimed at reforming the state, with the tourism sector playing a key role in this development. In recent years, especially in the post-pandemic period, the tourism sector has recovered, attracting investments that have...
Social Media Data(SMD) offers an essential approach for the public to acquire the perception of urban space. However, information from social media often gives the public a stereotyped impression of historic districts driven by the development of the current internet celebrity economy and social networks, viewing them as culturally meaningless aesthetic spaces (e.g., photo check-in point,...
Parks, squares, streets as urban public spaces build the skeleton of the city, which is filled with urban tissue. The importance of the public spaces makes various actors, such as inhabitants, activists, non-governmental organisations, officials and local entrepreneurs interested in the process of creating them. Including the interests and wishes of all of them in that process is a demanding...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the global population aged 60 years and above will account for 16.67% of the total population by 2030. 80% of the elderly population is expected to reside in developing countries by 2035(World Health Organization, 2024). As the world’s largest developing country, China is experiencing an unprecedented aging crisis. As of 2023, the elderly...
This study investigates the Campi Flegrei landscape, a unique historical and archaeological context shaped by its striking geomorphological features, to develop new methods for interpreting the territory that combine structural and semantic analyses of natural forms.
The research aims to propose innovative tools for enhancing cultural landscapes through the definition of "semantic routes"—...
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are intentional, strategically planned, and evidence-driven approaches that replicate, harness, or draw inspiration from natural processes to tackle societal challenges. These solutions are grounded in scientific principles and prioritize the integration of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainable resource management to foster environmental, social, and...
In the governance of sustainability transformations and foresight, participatory futures have gained significant traction in the last decade. Participatory futures/foresight discourses involve engaging various stakeholders, including citizens and communities,in shaping sustainable and liveable futures. In so far, research has primarily focused on
designing participatory processes but there's...
Since the 1990s, European policies have aimed at fostering "sustainable development" by reducing fossil fuel consumption and promoting renewable energy in cities (Luque-Alaya et al., 2018). However, rising housing costs have exacerbated social inequalities, a trend further exacerbated by the 2007 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing geopolitical tensions (Housing Construction...
Previous studies on neighborhood attachment in China have mainly focused on specific neighborhood types, such as work unit compounds and commercial-housing estates, while overlooking others. There is therefore inconclusive evidence on this theme, particularly in inland cities. To address this gap, this study examines neighborhood attachment across five main urban neighborhood types in Chengdu....
Due to the proliferation of big data and open data, cartography and spatial analysis have profoundly transformed in recent decades. These advancements have redefined how geographic information is collected, processed, and represented, enabling more dynamic, precise, and inclusive mapping practices. By leveraging open data repositories and big data analytics, cartographers can create maps that...
The impacts of climate change have increased the risks for many cities to the point where policy makers and planners need to consider more proactive adaptation options. Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been recognised as an important strategy for both mitigating and adapting to climate change, particularly in urban settings. NbS enhance resilience and green infrastructure, but their benefits...
Inclusive urban and rural development emphasizes a more equitable and sustainable society by ensuring the same economic opportunities and social welfare between urban and rural. Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented rapid urbanization worldwide, with the global urbanization rate rising from 47% in 2000 to 57% in 2023. The ongoing massive rural-urban migration, especially the inflows into...
Today, mobility faces significant challenges, including last-mile connectivity, resource efficiency, and optimisation, all while maintaining service quality and environmental sustainability. These challenges are further amplified by factors such as urbanisation and territorial dispersion.
The core challenge lies in designing a flexible and adaptable model that responds to the specific...
Urban green spaces enhance the well-being of the elderly (Wolch et al., 2014). Green spaces provide recreation, exercise, and social interaction, improving their quality of life. However, this group is more vulnerable to disparities in green space distribution and accessibility (Aliyas, 2019). This study focuses on including urban green spaces for the elderly, referring to their ability to...
The significance of the socio-spatial environment for ‘ageing well’ is encapsulated in a growing number of planning-oriented agendas for ‘age-friendly’ cities and communities. Such programmatic frameworks and urban planning strategies revolve around questions of how to create ‘healthy ageing’ environments, foster ‘caring’ neighbourhoods, provide social infrastructures that enable people to...
The use of electric vehicles (EVs) has increased, with the global motivation for zero emission goals for mitigation of climate change. After the slow increase period of EVs, when EVs are mostly in trial period and charged at homes, the current rapid increase period also brought up the issue of needed charging stations, especially in the public domain. In the Oslo example, public EV chargers...
Over the last twenty years, both the academic and political debates have focused on the concept of "diversity" (Vertovec, 2007, 2010; Meissner and Vertovec, 2015) and, in particular, on the increasingly growing "diversification" of diversity (Vertovec, 2007 p. 1026) of contemporary societies and cities.
If a convergence on the importance of the concept of diversity is established, however,...
Tourism plays a vital role in rural revitalization efforts, yet disparities in its popularity persist, even in areas supported by targeted policies. The rise of digital platforms has transformed destinations into tradeable assets, commodifying culture, heritage, and visitor experiences. While globalization and overtourism have intensified challenges, digital technologies also offer new avenues...
Changes in the urban physical environment under the development of urban agglomerations affect the evolution of spatial patterns of regional heat islands. Using time-series DMSP/OLS and NPP/VIIRS nighttime lighting data and MODIS surface temperature data, the overall coupled posture model, coupled coordination model, spatial autocorrelation model and landscape index were used to investigate...
Equitably distributed urban green spaces, as an important component of environmental justice, can mitigate health inequalities; however, due to financial bias and gentrification, urban green spaces tend to be concentrated around neighborhoods of high socioeconomic status, while inequalities are more pronounced in urban public green spaces compared to private green spaces. Green space vitality...
Heritage tourism plays a pivotal role in balancing cultural preservation and urban development, particularly in regions where historical significance and modern expansion intersect. As urbanization accelerates globally, heritage sites face threats such as commodification, gentrification, and environmental degradation, challenging the sustainable management of cultural landscapes. Existing...
Urban macro-scale landscape management plays a crucial role in shaping a city's identity and reinforcing image of city for tourists. A key challenge in this process is balancing the preservation of natural and traditional urban environments with urban development. One institutional measure to achieve this balance is the application of building height regulations in the area between the view...
According to Mumford (1938), public interest serves as an umbrella concept that reconciles conflicting individual interests and facilitates decision-making for social benefit. While frequently invoked in urban planning, it is often instrumentalized to legitimize profit-driven practices. However, in Turkey, the discourse on public interest lacks a critical perspective, particularly regarding...
At the international level public spaces play a key role in the development of urban areas as they act as places for social encounters, political contestations and cultural events (Siláči and Vitková, 2017). In social sustainability reports and in documents of international organizations such as the Agenda 2030 it is stated that public spaces play a central role in shaping social interactions...
As the global urbanization process advances, a large number of rural people move to cities in search of better economic opportunities. This has led to the gradual emergence of the phenomenon of "hollowing out" in rural areas[1]. The "population-space coupling theory" proposes that the essence is the asynchrony between population change and spatial change， and scholars call it the imbalance of...
With the rapid development of drone technology, urban low-altitude airspace planning has become an indispensable part of future urban planning. Based on the theory of re-collage city, this paper explores the collaborative development strategies for urban low-altitude airspace, ground space, and underground space, aiming to protect historical sites, promote ecological conservation, ensure...
Urban infrastructures are essential for the provision of necessary services, including utilities such as water, electrical power, social services, and recreational green spaces, all of which contribute to the operation of cities. Cities are continuous spaces of flows, flux and translocation, and function as strategic nexuses within the continuous and dynamic process of infrastructurally...
In recent decades, the shift from post-Keynesian nationally redistributive welfarism has increasingly taken the form of urban-centric, competitiveness-oriented forms of locational policy (Brenner, 2019). Among other effects, it has led to the gradual erosion of the meso level of territorial governance, necessitating urban authorities to assume responsibility over the broader territorial scale...
In the past, the construction of residential areas in China mainly met the living needs of young people. With the acceleration of the aging process in China, the degree of aging-adapted public space in residential areas is low, and the problem of mismatch between public services and real needs is serious. In this paper, we take Jinchan-Nanli in Beijing as an example, adopt the analysis...
In recent years, in response to global competition and the transition between old and new economic drivers within the domestic economy, the development of innovation districts has emerged as a significant strategic initiative in China. With strong government support, numerous industrial parks and new districts have begun transitioning into innovation districts, yet they continue to adopt a...
Along with rapid urbanization, China's urban and rural ecological environment is facing a great threat, especially in mountainous cities where ecological problems are already prominent. The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approved on October 16th 2022, clearly proposes to vigorously promote the construction of ecological civilization, promote green...
The concept of “environmental education”, which is considered to be an educational activity aimed at “fostering responsible environmental behavior”, originated from a conference held by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Paris in 1948. Currently, most of the environmental education is conducted in national parks, nature reserves, and other countryside environments...
Under the background of urban renewal, the research and renovation of existing residential historical and cultural districts in China mainly focus on the overall protection of historical features, the inheritance of architectural symbols and street patterns, and the improvement of functions. At present, the research on the morphological factors and energy consumption of districts and buildings...
In recent years, the escalating threats of urban public crises and natural disasters have significantly increased the risks associated with urban development. The strategic utilization of limited urban land and the meticulous planning of disaster-resistant infrastructure to achieve a "dual-use for emergency" approach are imperative for enhancing a city's resilience against natural disasters...
Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing countries in terms of economic development and urbanization processes in the African region. The rapid urban expansion and substantial increase in the number of new towns indicate the reality of Ethiopia's new city growth. These new cities are highly correlated with a series of national strategies such as industrialization, privatization reforms, and open...
Qinghai province, located in the west of China, is the birthplace of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. With a rich river system in the provincial space, it is an important ecological barrier in China, and undertakes the important missions and tasks of water conservation, species diversity, and soil and water conservation.At present, relevant studies and practices at home and abroad...
The quality of urban public service facilities is of utmost importance for the quality of citizens' social life and the economic development of Shanghai. However, most existing research has been centered on the layout and accessibility analysis of a single type of facility, lacking a comprehensive exploration of the overall equity of various convenience and public service facilities within the...
With the development of the global economy, the tourism industry has ushered in new development opportunities, and governments have increased their support for the tourism industry and promoted the integration and development of tourism resources. In the new period, the expansion of the railway network has provided a solid foundation for the integration of railway and tourism, and the...
As the most developed urban agglomeration in China, the core area of the Yangtze River Delta has an overall urban - rural integration level far exceeding that of other urban agglomerations in the country and is the most urbanized one. Traditionally, people have often focused on the accessibility of public service facilities in urban areas, while paying less attention to that in rural areas. As...
Human-Habitat World Heritage① (Shi et al., 2024) represents a typical example of settlement-type heritage, including villages and towns. It possesses a narrative ability that expresses temporality, as well as dual attributes of "heritage" and "life" and dual characteristics of "wholeness" and "dynamics" (Shao Yong et al., 2016). Its connotations and values are reflected in both material...
Public space and pedestrian mobility are interconnected elements that facilitate encounters, enable social interactions, and enhance the vibrancy of urban environments. This interrelation becomes particularly critical in historic towns, where the imperative to preserve cultural heritage must be harmonized with sustainable development objectives and urban functionality. As one of the...
Urban contexts today face escalating challenges, including climate change, spatial fragmentation, and growing social inequalities, which threaten their livability and resilience. Addressing these complexities demands transformative approaches that balance environmental sustainability and social equity to reimagine urban areas as cohesive, inclusive, and resilient spaces.
A sustainable future...
Topography is one of the most crucial elements of the natural environment that directs and affects the formation process of urban form. However, the guiding and/or limiting effect of topography in today's cities and settlements is often neglected in urban design and planning. This situation becomes a critical challenge in the era of the climate change crisis. Therefore, it is inevitable to...
The Fujian Minjiang River Estuary, situated along the eastern coast of Fuzhou City, is a mudflat wetland formed through centuries of sedimentation from the Min River Basin. This area serves as a critical node on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) for migratory birds and provides refuge for numerous endangered species. Twenty-four years ago, the reappearance of a mythical species added...
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the significance of urban green spaces as potential isolation facilities in the prevention of infectious diseases. Consequently, exposure to green spaces has rapidly emerged as a research subject that necessitates evaluation of its impact on human health. Exposure to green spaces can indirectly foster interaction between individuals and the ecological...
The Chinese “Eight Scenes” is the world’s first institutional system for landscape formalization, which refers to the selection and promotion of the most representative eight of the many landscapes in a certain county for the recognition of the top authorities. This institutional system originated in the ancient China 420 A.D. and declined until the mid-to-late Qing dynasty, because of social...
The purpose of this article is to examine the importance of 4IR interventions in providing smart services. The importance of talent management is emphasised, with the caveat that the 4IR tools and applications might stay theoretical and abstract in the absence of sufficient competencies. As its focal point, the study examines these elements in the municipal setting of South Africa. The...
Xi'an, a modern city that gradually developed around the ancient Sui and Tang capitals, is surrounded by numerous imperial tomb sites located on its outskirts. These tombs, known for their intact layouts and grand scale, were once situated far from the urban center. However, as China rapidly urbanizes, the expansion of Xi'an has now reached the vicinity of these monumental tomb sites. Once...
As carbon capture and storage (CCS) emerges as a key strategy to mitigate climate change, CO2 pipeline networks are expanding rapidly across the United States. However, the construction and operation of these pipelines pose significant environmental, social, and economic challenges, particularly in rural and agricultural regions. This study examines the social and environmental impacts of a...
Urban green spaces, as sites of hope and aspiration, contribute to collective well-being, support ecological balance and biodiversity, and physical and mental health, social cohesion, and environmental justice (Chiesura, 2004; Kabisch et al., 2017). However, their uneven spatial distribution creates socio-spatial inequalities, negatively affecting disadvantaged communities and lowering overall...
Some historical and cultural cities are facing the dilemma of systemic decline. The spatial protection model that ignores the development needs of the Aborigines has led to a decline in the cultural life of the community and the internal production industry. It damages the sustainable inheritance of famous cities. It is necessary to study the path of promoting the protection and development of...
The development of cities and economies in the 21st century has been discussed through creative sectors (Howkins, 2001). The Fordist mode of production, which was dominant until the 1970s, gave way to the post-Fordist mode based on flexible production and specialization. The widespread use of digital technologies and computerized production is one of the most prominent features of this new...
In high-density urban centers with rail transit stations, private developers frequently adopt sunken plazas as transitional spaces connecting station halls and main buildings within their development parcels. This spatial strategy aims to enhance pedestrian experience and guide consumer flow through specific spatial configurations. These sunken plazas with public-private interface...
In the face of escalating global crises—spanning climate change, environmental degradation, and deepening social inequalities—the limitations of traditional spatial planning models have become starkly evident. This research critically examines the evolving role of spatial planning as a transformative tool in responding to the confluence of these crises, particularly within the context of the...
This paper deals with the introduction of the "Sponge City Concept" as an innovative process of climate change adaptation in Berlin's water management and urban planning at large.
During the last decades, human-induced water and energy metabolisms tended to be spatially concentrated in built-up urban - industrial areas, by now housing more than 4 billion people. Taking into account the...
In a complex natural environment, ecological adaptation and steady evolution are the basic states of rural landscape (Schouten, et.al. 2009). The construction of a rural ecological civilization system needs to be based on a rural landscape with more regional characteristics and higher construction levels. However, in the process of rapid urbanization, the phenomenon of a sharp decline in rural...
The study of spatial distribution of historical villages is the basis for understanding historical villages. This study takes historical villages in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture as the research object of spatial distribution, aiming to deeply analyze their distribution characteristics and influencing factors, and provide a scientific basis for the protection planning of historical...
Street spaces in historic districts are now facing challenges such as loss of vitality and deterioration of spatial quality. Maintaining street vitality is conducive to the sustainable development of historic districts and the revitalisation of cultural heritage in cities. Less attention has been paid to how street vitality in historic districts is affected by the preservation...
In response to the practice of using the simulation of natural forms, such as animals, as training content in three-dimensional composition courses for some art and design programs, as well as the misleading guidance found in certain textbooks, this paper examines the formation of the three-dimensional composition teaching system and the relationship between concepts and forms. It emphasizes...
Agricultural product logistics has characteristics such as the decentralization of supply entities, the freshness of logistics goods, and the multi-chain nature of the circulation process. The development of an agricultural product logistics system should optimize the total logistics time, enhance the level of cold chain development, and improve the coordination among market entities. In...
In an age of planetary crisis, cultural landscapes are increasingly threatened by urbanization, climate change, and socio-economic inequalities. These pressures erode historical territories, calling for innovative strategies that go beyond conservation to promote resilience and adaptation. This paper explores the transformative role of archaeological landscapes in contemporary urban planning,...
In recent years, the concept of "sense of place" has expanded and deepened in the context of conservation and urban renewal. This concept transcends the physical connection between people and places, emphasizing subjective attitudes that encompass three core dimensions: place identity, place attachment, and place dependence. In Singapore, several early public housing estates have been...
2017 had the dubious distinction of being the worst year for hurricane damage in Gulf Coast history. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate caused an estimated $290 billion in damage that year due to wind, storm surge and inland flooding. Texas and Florida combined had over 75,000 housing units damaged by the storms, Puerto Rico had an estimate 472,000 housing units damaged. There were 180...
Since the end of World War II, green belts have been implemented in many cities worldwide. Their utility and efficacy have been highly debated for the next half-century. Despite all green belts having peculiar origins and morphological characters, commonalities can be found in how the notion of a green belt has evolved in urban design and planning history. This paper dives into the green...
Transcending the traditional focus on residential contexts, this study investigates how the socioeconomic levels of residential neighborhoods and workplaces shape individuals' perceptions of income inequality in urban settings. Using geocoded data from the 2017 Shanghai Urban Neighborhood Survey, we explore the interplay between structural determinism and relative deprivation mechanisms in...
This research aims to study the impacts of urban sprawl on soil resources in Tours metropolitan area and the possibility of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce its impact. The research focuses on the long-term study of improving the urban planning, with the objective of understanding the importance role of applying Artificial Intelligence applications in reducing the major impacts...
the legacies of apulians land reform landscapes in the agrofood system between regenerations, abandoned land and new agroecological practices.
This thesis focuses on the legacies and material transformations of landscapes - which characterise the contemporary South of Italy - and which were affected by the land reform and the support of the “Cassa per il Mezzogiorno”.
The land reform of...
Neoliberalism began to manifest itself towards the end of the 1970s with the decline in the profitability of industrial production, which rose during the modernism period, and the crisis of Keynesian social welfare structures that envisaged state intervention in the economic sphere (Clarke, 2005; Bahceci, 2017). The state is not at the centre as in modernism, but only in a regulatory role,...
Boundaries, as extremely common elements in urban space, are closely linked to the development of urban space and people's daily lives. In urban space, there is a rich variety of boundary types. Natural boundaries, in the form of mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, naturally divide the space; institutional boundaries divide the city into different governance units according to management...
Public urban space in 21st-century urban environments has become a highly controversial topic. As neoliberal agendas dominate the production of urban space towards a more privatized, commercialized, and commodified mode of urbanization, truly public urban venues become rare relicts. With the rapid propagation of privately owned public spaces and pseudo public spaces in major urban centers,...
The open-ended processes of power, political and societal transformation that initiated with the fall of the socialist regime/s around the beginning of 1990s, marked down the so-called post-socialism transition ( (Müller 2019); (Petrov 2014)) of the affected Central-East European (CEE) countries. The term ‘transition’ in particular, was largely employed among scholars in political sciences,...
The built environment is responsible for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting its critical role in addressing climate change. Retrofitting existing buildings has emerged as a key strategy for achieving net-zero carbon objectives, focusing on reducing both operational and embodied carbon emissions. However, retrofitting practices face challenges such as fragmented data...
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Big Data and real-time information from social media are increasingly being analyzed in research on the relationship between urban spaces, people’s behavior, and their satisfaction with the living environment. The integration of technology in urban planning, as enabled by these tools, offers enhanced insights into urban phenomena.
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Big Data and real-time social media...
Today's global economic environment is affected by a variety of shocks and crises that occur frequently and have profound impacts. These crises create various problems at both national and global levels, leading to serious economic effects on sectors. Crises have different consequences at sectoral and spatial levels. These differentiations require regions and sectors to be addressed at...
The concept of cultural landscape echoes the trend towards three-dimensional, holistic, and dynamic inheritance and protection of historical and cultural heritage. Under the perspective of cultural landscape, ordinary areas lacking heritage can be found special value of culture. This study takes Suqian area as an example, attempting to explore the water culture value of Suqian area at large...
The paper proposes a critical reflection on the first (and partial) outcomes of a research conducted on the phenomena of social inclusion/exclusion in a controversial context, such as the urban regions of Southern Italy.
Specifically, the contribution critically explores the concept/metaphor of the ‘middle-land’ through the focus of social and spatial inclusion/exclusion phenomena, using...
Addressing socio-spatial inequality in data-poor regions requires innovative urban research and planning to overcome acute data deficiencies. Policymakers and planners face the challenge of accommodating the needs of rapidly growing urban populations, yet data scarcity often exacerbates inequality and hinders effective decision-making. Emerging data—spanning those generated from urban sensing,...
Tourism development globally has driven economic growth, offering potential pathways for promoting inclusive development. Yet the implementation of inclusive practices in tourism often faces challenges, including restricted growth in tourism opportunities, unequal access to tourism opportunities, and inequitable outcomes of tourism (Bakker, 2019). Taking Dali, China as an example, tourism, as...
Due to the impact of online e-commerce consumption and homogeneous competition in offline consumption space, the traditional cultural consumption space has been forced to accelerate the transformation and upgrading.With the youth and subdivision of cultural consumption groups, the public 's cultural consumption demand is constantly increasing. Through cultural consumption and artistic...
Urban thresholds, as dynamic interfaces between private residences and public spaces possess the untapped potential to foster resilience within marginalised urban environments. This research investigates the transformative possibilities of these liminal spaces, advancing their conceptualisation as multifunctional ecosystems that integrate socio-environmental and spatial resilience. The study...
This paper will highlight the importance of a transnational framework to study migration communities in cities. With current transnational connections, migration can no longer be understood as a permanent rupture with the homeland (Glick Schiller et al., 1992). As migrants maintain continuous and increasingly intensive relationships with their countries of origin, understanding the current...
Humankind is currently living in a hyper-dynamic and constant transforming environment- in the so called convergence era and 4rth industrial revolution. This level of development requires a complexity-led approach and transformations of our political, societal, economic and technological framework: the way we are living and being educated, creating new jobs and generating sustainable growth,...
A significant number of European countries have recently published national energy and climate plans (NECPs), which demonstrate energy transition pathways at the national level in a highly sophisticated manner. These NECPs include substantial orders of magnitude for emission reductions, as well as the share of energy to be supplied by renewable sources. Furthermore, the figures are also...
Land take, the conversion of agricultural, natural, and semi-natural areas into urban or artificial spaces, represents one of the most pressing challenges faced by urban planners today. This phenomenon is driven by multiple factors, such as urbanization, infrastructure development, industrialization, and speculative real estate activities, all of which contribute to the increasing rate of land...
Access to energy is now widely acknowledged as not only a fundamental human right but also a key driver of social inclusion and equitable living standards. This concept encompasses not only access to electricity but also reliable, adequate, and sustainable energy to meet basic needs. Energy poverty, in its broadest sense, is defined as a lack of access to energy required to meet needs such as...
The university is an educational institution fostered at developing and sharing the human knowledge through a socio-cultural system of physical spaces, services and people. Its long history and diachronic evolution are deeply interconnected with the hosting urban environment, representing an attractor for temporary communities of students, scholars, researchers, professors, with specific needs...
Background
Heritage communities possess the dual attributes of both cultural heritage and residential communities. In Shanghai, traditional lane-house-based heritage communities face building decay and social decline, as well as risk dilemmas during renewal. The bonds among community residents and their sense of community identity are increasingly being challenged. Against this backdrop,...
Mobility challenges faced by people with disabilities are becoming increasingly prominent in many cities worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Promoting the travel behavior of people with disabilities plays a decisive role in maintaining social equity and shaping inclusive cities. While many governments have implemented measures to create accessible cities, there remains a gap in...
This paper investigates how integrating domestic design principles into public urban spaces can foster more inclusive, socially connected, and livable cities. The concept of Urban Domesticity adapts elements of the private sphere—such as resting, caregiving, and leisure—into urban environments, addressing the lack of accessible amenities and promoting urban livability. Inspired by Team 10’s...
The work is part of the European Union-Next Generation EU funded research on Urban green infrastructure, policies related to green spaces, and health outcomes. Starting from a dialogue among town planners, geographers, and public health specialists, the project examines potential relationships between specific diseases and the spatial organization of green areas in several medium-sized Italian...
Urban areas are expected to accommodate more than two-thirds of the global population by 2050. This necessitates climate protection and adaptation strategies to ensure their long-term resilience and sustainability. Despite the need for a holistic approach to urban infrastructures in municipal governance, current literature and practice often lack an integrated perspective on these systems,...
In today's multi-crisis era, cities face increasing climate change impacts, environmental degradation, social and economic inequalities, and urban shocks. Traditional planning approaches often fall short in responding to these rapid and unexpected challenges. The growing need for data-driven, agile, and innovative solutions underscores the importance of real-time urban data as the backbone of...
Abstract
The three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental and social (Norman & MacDonald, 2004), demand innovative evaluation methods at urban and territorial scales. Within this framework, the Horizon Europe project VARCITIES (Varcities – Future Cities, n.d.) explores the implementation of Visionary Solutions (VS) aimed at fostering future green cities and enhancing citizen...
How our cognitive system perceives the form of landscape, which then influences our emotions and behaviour, depends strongly on how we move. The observer's position and the chosen transportation mode affect the potential sensational input, which, in turn, through positive or negative reception, influences the behavioural responses and, as a consequence, becomes one of the elements which...
Stormwater management has become increasingly complex in recent years as the challenges posed by climate change and urbanization have escalated, resulting in flooding, water pollution and water scarcity. To address this issue, China has been proposing a sponge city strategy since 2013, aiming to improve the sustainability and resilience of cities through sustainable water management practices....
The concept of urban shrinkage originates from the stagnation or recession of population, economy, and land use in the process of de-industrialization in Germany. The various shocks faced by the post-growth era made urban shrinkage gradually become a common challenge facing the world. Unlike simple population loss, the shrinkage of non-core cities in urban agglomerations is more manifested as...
Urban greenery offers significant benefits, including mitigating air pollution, alleviating the urban heat island effect, enhancing social interactions, and improving population health. However, in urban areas, some disadvantaged populations may be relegated to less green spaces, limiting their access to fulfilling urban living conditions. Consequently, inequalities in urban greenness have...
The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) suggests that low-income populations are often geographically separated from job-rich areas, reducing employment opportunities and longer commutes. Multimodal transportation, by integrating two or more modes of transport in a single journey, has become increasingly crucial in addressing these urban mobility challenges and mitigating the effects of such...
For Lefebvre (2001), the history of societies is etched in the urban landscape. This article explores how social and gender relations manifest within cities, focusing on the symbolic representation of women in public spaces. The presence (or absence) of female names on streets is closely tied to the ongoing struggle for gender equality and the recognition of women as active societal agents....
The devastating earthquake in Türkiye on February 6, 2023, caused widespread physical destruction across eleven provinces, affecting the social and cultural structure as well. Antakya is a multilayered city in the determined zone where earthquake impacts are the most destructive. 80% of the structures in the city center of Antakya were damaged, and more than half of the population was...
