Istanbul is a metropolis that both experiences the effects of multiple crisesโsometimes even becoming part of the crisis dynamicsโand has the potential to develop proactive solutions to them. Since 2019, the city has been actively working to address these challenges through innovative planning approaches.
The macro-scale planning outputs of these new approaches are the Istanbul Vision 2050...
Thirty years after the release of the Nara Document on Authenticity, the concept of authenticity still faces many difficulties in its localization in China, which are manifested in three aspects: the contradiction between absolutization and relativization, materiality and spirituality, and authority and popularization. In China's historic cities, there are a large number of traditional...
In the context of the European debate on the valorisation of the most fragile and scarcely accessible territorial contexts, a key role has long been recognised for heritage, no longer a static constraint to be preserved, but a real driving force in territorial cohesion and development policies. Heritage has acquired a central role in stimulating the exchange of specialised and local knowledge,...
In the past 40 years, China's urbanization rate has increased from 18% to 66%. Cities have expanded rapidly and rural areas have collapsed rapidly. This process has caused serious damage to China's rural cultural heritage. How to rescue and protect rural cultural heritage and achieve sustainable use is an important issue in China's rural areas.
From the endogenous characteristics of Chinese...
As societies deal with increasingly turbulent urban conditions, the role of creative city policies as potential catalysts for change becomes more urgent than ever. The concept of the Creative City has become a central framework in the urban policy of developed countries (Cooper and Florida, 2005; Pratt, 2011; Landry, 2012), often positioned as a driver of economic growth, cultural vibrancy,...
In Finland, the building stock is relatively young: the majority of the buildings is built during the second half of the 1900s. Yet, statistics show high demolition rates in Finland, in particular in growing cities, where demolishing has boomed in parallel with real estate business. Demolition does not only erase potential layers of heritage, it also threatens officially protected historic...
The intersection of cultural heritage and urban regeneration provides fertile ground for reimagining the sustainable future of cities. Within this dynamic field, social entrepreneurs have emerged as pivotal agents of change, driving innovative and community-centered approaches to revitalizing heritage assets (Scaffidi, Micelli, Nash; 2024).
While the state of the art in social...
Canal Imperial de Aragรณn is one of the most significant hydraulic infrastructures throughout Europe and probable the most ambitious project in the history of Aragรณn. The project dates to 1528, at the time Acequia Imperial was being conceived, though it was built in the last quarter of the XVIII century. From Fontellas (Navarre) to Fuentes de Ebro (Aragรณn), this infrastructure has over 100...
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 commercializationโfactors that trigger fire initiation and propagationโhas made historical towns more vulnerable to fire hazards (Garcia-Castillo et al., 2023). Furthermore, the large influx of tourists disrupts local...
This study investigates the historic neighbourhoods of Eleftheroupoli, a small-sized town in Northern Greece, aiming to explore how site analysis can unlock regenerative potentials for semi-derelict historic places like this. Eleftheroupoli, a former center of the tobacco industry, has witnessed significant decline in the 1980s, leading to the neglect and abandonment of its once-thriving...
This paper critiques the colonial forms of land-use planning in Guatemalan society. Particularly, it focuses on the Municipal Development Plan oriented to Land-Use Planning (PDM-OT) required by the State of Guatemala for every town. I pay attention to the Maya Ixil city of Chajul and analyze how the PDM-OT introduces, under the principles of development, regulation, and a historical lack of...
