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Cities are the main engines of economy & human activities attracting flux of population from rural to urban areas. These cities hold high potential to create synergies and allowing development opportunities. Cities are also the places where inequalities are stronger and, if they are not properly man...

Life goes on ، But what matters All human beings go through life. From childhood to old age. In childhood, look to the future, and in old age, look to the past. It requires necessities in every period of life. Both physically and mentally. we in the days of life passage decided to meet these needs ...

How it has been done; A joint working group from four different organization of the municipally run the whole process. At the same time, a member of city council supervise the campaign. At the micro level, the district council secretaries which are deeply connected with local communities, report wee...

In modern times, the scale of aging population is expanding rapidly and the trend is becoming more and more obvious, "home based care " model has become an essential approach to solve the problem of aging population in China. 15-minute community life circle is expected to be the basic unit in buildi...

Doha, the capital of the state of Qatar is seeing a substantial urban change since 2005 and proceeds to the current day. The city will host the FIFA World Cup 2022. Thusly, various critical ventures and infrastructure works are being attempted and will proceed until the event’s dispatch. Therefore...

Stakeholder participation is a certain element for safeguarding resilience, especially in the interaction between actors in governing water-related to changing climate. Water governance takes place on various scales and intersects boundaries, from local to the global level. Solving problems related ...

With the society and economy of China entering the transition period, people's requirements for urban life show a trend of diversification and high standards. Urban design is no longer limited to physical space but starts to carry out multi-angle and multi-level comprehensive consideration on the so...

Most people regard green spaces as a necessity to enhance the physical health and psychological well-being of residents in promoting the general health and welfare of citizens and the environment (Röbbel, 2016). In the Modern Era, the availability of green spaces has become an integral component of...

This session will discuss the possibilities of creating healthy built environments that encourage physical activities of citizens. Noncommunicable diseases are one of the most serious threats to people, but some of the factors can be managed by staying physically active. The way that cities are buil...

Contemporary global urbanization continues to heighten at unprecedented rates. In the global south, cities have been growing rapidly in population size and expanding to form huge metropolis which present manifold development challenges. As the drumbeat about the urgency to address cross-cutting deve...

With the triumph of globalization and the expansion of financial capitalism over the past four decades, grass-roots city dwellers with long tenure are being displaced in an ongoing process of eviction and urban gentrification that is taking place in cities worldwide. The rights enjoyed by such city ...

In the last few decades, Doha has experienced major transformation in infrastructure and its built form. Recently, the accomplishment of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) has been visible through Doha Metro Rail network becoming functional, which moved this city – state towards modern innovations...

Bytom is a post-industrial city looking for a new vision of the future. City dwellers are between a history related to coal and new challenges. It is not easy for them to understand that industry is a thing of the past and you need to look for yourself and your identity again. Groups of social leade...

The relationship between the physical components of cities, including urban density, and public health of residents, is a challenging debate in different societies. Urban density affects the level of physical and mental health of residents, either directly or indirectly, however, the degree of impac...

With the acceleration of urbanization and the frequent occurrence of residents' physical and mental health problems, public health has become one of the important factors of urban development. As one of the areas closely related to people in urban life, community is the most frequently contacted pub...

The issue of global climate crisis in city’s planning has been rising over the last 20 years while evidence of complex shifts in our planet’s system has been accumulated. This includes rising average temperatures, rising seas, melting glaciers and biodiversity loss. However, having been mostly n...

In recent years, there has been big attention to the problems that urban settings are facing, they are losing their aesthetics and identity due to many urban issues, and neglected aspects, such as the visual pollution (Wakil et al, 2019). With the increasing focus on different aspects of quality of ...

Public spaces are the locus of activity and interaction in any urban area. Such spaces provide identity to cities, towns or neighborhoods and define the people and culture over there. Inclusiveness is one of the core aspects of livability and is directly associated with Public or Community Spaces. L...

Since 28 October 2019, the Government of Bali has already issued a Governor’s decree No. 45/2019 regarding Bali Clean Energy. This decree is hopefully the expected solution for the Energy Crisis in Indonesia in general, and in Bali in particular. Electricity in Bali island is majorly supplied by p...

“Walking is the first and foremost type of transportation, but it also provides an informal and uncomplicated possibility for being present in the public environment,'' quotes Jan Gehl in Life between Buildings. Studies also have proved that walking and cycling directly connect to better immunity ...

One of the biggest obstacles to the implementation of Nature Based Solutions (NBS), sustainable urban regeneration and new management instruments challenging the status quo of resource use in cities represents shifting the mindset of the citizens. Long-standing behavior in what concerns, for example...

China has success in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic in the first phase, then China has entered the period of virus control normalized, the concept of "resilience city", which takes urban development and public safety into consideration, has again attracted attention in the field of urban dis...

Rapid urbanisation often results in a uniform infrastructural development, which compromises on liveability. Commercially mass-produced building materials and designs largely dominate the urban fabric. This generates not only low quality of life, but also compromises meeting the Paris Agreement, whi...

Abstract: The vision of a good urban city is to design spaces livable for everyone. Every individual deserves to enjoy each space within the city. In India, 39% of the total population are children below 18 years. Planning of a city from the vantage point of a toddler is the best way to start. A chi...

The paper describes the partial results of the ongoing EU Interreg Italy-Croatia Joint_SECAP (Joint strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in coastal areas) project which aims to identify shared intervention strategies and adaptation measures to climate change in the Adriatic coastal cities by syn...

Background and Status Quo – the “Problem” Over the course of the last five years, most large cities have been experiencing dramatic effects of the climate crisis. In August 2018, the New York Times published “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change,” an explicit chronicle...

Background: The coastal landscapes of Europe are some of the most important and yet vulnerable areas of human settlement. Characterized by overlapping and competing land uses, coastal landscapes are focus areas for urban growth and infrastructure, road and rail networks, industrial and commercial de...

With the rapid development of society and the rapid advancement of globalization, various public health emergencies occur frequently around the world. By reviewing the worldwide of SARS, H1N1, MERS, Ebola and other sudden infectious diseases shows that large-scale, urgent, dynamic, easily transmissi...

Communities are the front lines facing Covid-19, in addition to city entrances. This paper uses four mega cities in China as the cases, which are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It uses a text-mining method to express online news about the anti-Covid-19 measures of communities in these ca...

Connected street networks significantly encourage higher levels of people walking and biking and less trip by motorized vehicles leading to significant reduction in carbon emissions which can greatly contribute to develop a green and sustainable city with community and environment friendly transport...

[Objective]In order to alleviate the pressure of the central city and develop high-tech industry, the Science City has become common in the world, but paying too much attention to the industry but neglecting the ecology and livability as a new city makes the Science City face urgent problems , such ...

The concept of coworking emerged in the early 2000s. Rapidly, these collaborative spaces proliferated all over the world, often installing themselves in renovated and reconverted places, offering shared offices and hosting a variety of activities for different types of users, such as events, trainin...

The present tasks facing most of the cities in Nigeria is over reliance on foreign exchange earnings on crude oil. The task ahead is to ensure cities function properly and cater for its inhabitants adequately. Several effort to diversify and develop other sectors of the economy over the last two dec...

Natural disasters have been an integral part of human history, regardless of geographical location. With the recent innovations in knowledge and data technologies, businesses have been collecting and analyzing data for decades to discover underlying trends and patterns. With massive amount of inform...

Climate changes, sixths mass extinction, use of the natural environment and extreme land transformation have been bringing the question of long, sustainable future. Theoretical division of cities, towns and rural areas have been shaping our perception and types of actions that are answering upcoming...

The Navanakorn Industrial Estate (NIE) is the oldest industrial estate in Thailand, which is situated in Pathumthani Province located in the urban fringe of Bangkok city. Built in 1971, previous establishment of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act in 1979. Since the NIE was originally de...

The production, distribution and consumption of energy in cities is becoming more and more complex with the appearance of new technologies, financial models and user roles. +CityxChange is a smart city project in which seven European cities –Trondheim, Limerick, Alba Iulia, Písek, Sestao, Smolyan...

This paper discusses the potential of an interdisciplinary design studio to develop innovative thinking in response to the climatic and social challenges facing contemporary waterfront redevelopments. Climate change has a broad and growing range of environmental effects on coastal cities that demand...

In the context of the national territorial spatial planning in China, eco-spatial system becomes an important research object, the identification method of ecological pattern has also attaches importance to wider-scope consideration and multiple factor coordination. By taking Changshan County, Quzho...

Urban overheating is increasingly becoming a complex urban phenomenon. Paris agreement stressed upon limiting the urban warming to a 2 degree Celsius limit. Further, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 stressed upon improving sustainability in cities, climate action and physical well-being....

Walking is an important part of the tourist experience and comfort travel. There is increasing attention to encourage tourists to walk as a mode of sustainable transportation. Emergence of new and diverse forms of data has expand the field of research via text mining analysis. This is an alternative...

Scenario planning is a tool that tests out development possibilities and their impacts on achieving community goals. It is primarily used by the government to support long-term well-being of the community. The tool influences growth policy and development laws and is useful in communications between...

Alleyways play a vital role in urban life. It is a public space, it cannot be called a road, but it can still be used as a corridor for pedestrians to pass. Alleys usually dominate the urban structure; recent research by Gehl Architects stated that more than half of urban space is usually alleys. Th...

Urban air pollution represents one of the biggest environmental risks to health. This problem is growing rapidly, due to high rates of urbanization. The urban population ratio has increased from 46.5% in 2000 to 55.3% in 2018, globally, and is projected to reach 64% in the next two decades. In Iran,...

The continues rise in population, urbanization and the expansion of cities have triggered an increase in construction and demolition activities not to mention the frequent collapse of buildings which are mostly attributed to decay or poor structural design and/or the use of substandard materials amo...

To study and analyze the housing access of a community, as a basic human need, in the process of urban planning and policy-making is a critical endeavor. Housing is not entirely an individual area of decision-making as it affects and is affected by the social and political relations of societies, an...

For a long time, China's urban planning process often pays attention to the development of material structure while ignoring the connotation demand of humans, resulting in a series of problems in urban development. Urban spatial planning and research are facing the transformation from large-scale pr...

Analyzing the Travel Pattern of Megacity Via Taxi Trajectory Data – A Case Study in Shanghai Guanhua Xing2, Xinghua Li1,2, Cheng Cheng1,2*, Wei Wang1,2 1. Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 201804 2. China Transportation...

In the transition period of China's urbanization rate reached 60%, the excessive stage from the traditional industrial civilization to ecological civilization is the inevitable choice. In the transition period, we cannot only absorb the western development experiences of eco-city, but also should co...

The complexity and dynamic of rapid urbanization causes many negative impacts on urban environment and decreases quality of life in our cities, producing cycled consequences from social, economic, environmental, urban, and institutional dimensions. Urban planning is unable to be an effective control...

Like most historic and cultural cities in China, the historic urban area of JingMen city is facing a typical spatial problem of fragmentation and fuzzification. This study is focused on exploring a method for evaluating the existing values of historic urban area based on spatial prototype. As the sp...

The COVID-19 pandemic situation makes us to rethinking the urban renewal possibilities for integration of the automatic-waste-collection-systems (AWCS) as a main part of the infrastructural layer in the old city cores, especially for their integration at the public areas and facilities, that need to...

Smart Cities Mission (SCM), India, launched in the year 2015 is the most eyed program of the country and is yet to meet its success of making 100 cities, ‘smart’ enough for its citizens. The program aims to build quality life and set pioneer cities on the roads of sustainable development. In thi...

Since the Industrial Revolution and with the rapid changes of production-consumption paradigms, cities have become a hotspot for materials-energy consumption and urban modern anthropogenic activities have given birth to many multiscalar environmental distortions such as global warming, biodiversity ...

"Urban-Villages" are the oldest surviving concept of a self-sustainable neighbourhood where smaller settlements of varied density and mixed land-uses are focused, social and physical infrastructure are provided within reach and local businesses are encouraged. Such urban-gentrification practices hav...

The current global health crisis has profoundly affected major urban centers all over the world. Confinement has put people’s lifestyles in question, changed daily priorities and limited citizen freedoms that seemed inalienable before. A new set of rules on social interactions and urban operations...

Bali, as known as Land of the Gods, is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Indonesia. Around 16,3 Million tourists visited Bali in 2019. Offering its natural beauty attraction and an authentic cultural ambiance, Bali has many beautiful places to explore. One of the most favorite places to...

Biella city is a complex territory which has been considered as the cradle of industrial revolution in Italy , inherited urban and social values which promoted the city now to defined as a creative city mainly with the luxury wool fabrics in northern Italy, Piedmont region. The whole socio-cultural ...

In recent times, after the defeat of the ‘sceptical approach’ on the strong correlation between global warming and mankind activities, the scientific debate about ‘anthropogenic Climate Change’ and its effects on human settlements has shifted. Nowadays, it is mostly focused on the capabiliti...

To reach the energy and climate targets an important, but also very complex task lies within the existing built up area. Both the energy transition and the transition towards new housing models are asking for an approach on a larger scale. The focus can not solely lie on transforming individual buil...

The Usquare site is one of the priority development poles identified in the Brussels' Capital Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. The Region, owner of the site since 2018, wants to convert this enclosed military complex into an open, sustainable and diverse district for the 21st century livin...

During current circumstances of COVID-19 crisis, communities are becoming more vulnerable and devastated physically, mentally, and their overall well-being. Without question, we urban designers and planners can do something to help people recover from the current crisis, and be better prepared for t...

Jordan supports the third-largest population of Syrian refugees in the Middle East. Only 17% of Syrian refugees are living in camp environment. While urban Syrian refugees account for 83% of Syrian refugees in Jordan. The sustained influx of Syrian refugees and the limited capacity of refugee camps ...

The Western Ghats, starting north from Gujarat and stretching south till Tamil Nadu, is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. The presence of 13 National Parks, 34 Wildlife Sanctuaries, birthplace to many rivers, and recognition by UNESCO as one of the world’s eight most important biodiversit...

Tourist destinations are used in coping with crises. Their exposure on several threats have reinforced them over the years and made them flexible with uncertainty. Are there any lessons that cities can take from tourist destinations? Urban tourism has increased rapidly over the years and tends to be...

Today, creating sustainable urban revenues from tourism and creating special urban tourism routes requires the use of new communication technologies and urban information systems. The research results show that the appropriate model of urban tourism to determine the specific routes of tourism should...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to define the cultural values that inspire the formation of traditional market spatial patterns. This study dealt with traditional market spatial pattern, hidden cultural values in the form of the morphology, and the factors that cause change. This study takes place...

Being seed/food TECH, Horti family funder to small scale farmers since 1975, was nominated distributors of EU/USA SEED companies. Our funding to farmers is at buyback agreement for annual produce, suffered losses in agriculture. The entire INNOVATED researchers of food/agriculture have collaborated ...

Bamboo has been in wide usage since ancient times as a low-cost material for houses, bridges etc. They are the largest members of the grass family & are the fastest growing in the world. It grows approximately 4 feet in a day [in 24 hours time period]. Bamboos are of noteable economic & cultural sig...

12th Festival of Research and Innovation in Urban Management Tehran Urban Forum (TUF 12) ABSTRACT Tehran urban research and planning center (TURPC) has the mission of promoting and advancing Tehran's urban problem-solving and urban development planning by managing all of Tehran's municipal study pro...

Bus Rapid Transit systems have been extensively promoted as an alternative mode of transport to that of private vehicles, minibus taxis as well as rail transit, and boast reliability, flexibility and affordability for immediate and peripheral communities. Various South African municipal tiers devote...

Since the outbreak of covid-19, the Chinese government has performed its duties and made every effort to prevent and control the epidemic. In the fight against covid-19, we have learned that the construction of livable cities plays a positive role in the prevention and control of the epidemic. At th...

Demographic growth: a need to focus on school facilities: The demographic growth that the Brussels Region is currently experiencing, coupled with the small size of its territory and the need to strengthen social cohesion, have prompted the Region to take an interest in school facilities. Scattered t...

Public open space (POS) is an environmental good which has been approved to have the potential to benefit people from physical, phycological and social aspects. With the intensification of urban development, Privately Owned Public Open Space (POPOS) emerged as a common policy to respond to the widel...

As recently, the emphasis on sustainable contemporary cities has been increased, as well as the concern in sustainable urban planning especially its remarkable role in environmental, social, and economic aspects. Also because of the outstanding connection between public values and sustainability, re...

Context Cities historically have been built around commerce, enabled by waterways and ports. They functioned, and function, as nodes in ever evolving networks of people and products. This hyper-accumulation of production and people led to rather poor living conditions in industrial cities during the...

City administrations and governance are responsibility of administrator, politicians, leaders etc. It is very essential that officials who are responsible for policies for city governance and management, they should be having experiences of other global cities, which they can apply for their citizen...

The Regional Plan for Sustainable Development of the Brussels Capital Region identifies the canal area as the largest strategic development pole of the Region. It concerns a densely built, less-favoured, culturally diverse and segregated area. As a formal industrial area, it maintains an important e...

Urbanization has been rising exponentially all over the world where the trend of urbanization is at par with the population growth, resulting in creation of more urban areas - especially in developing countries like India where around 40% of the population reside in cities. The south-Indian state of...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemics in the preceding 20 years have shown the increased sensitivity of a globalized economy to disease outbreaks, its vulnerability, and lack of redundancy in economic production functions at a global scale. Scenarios for regionalization of economic development cou...

The project addresses the problem of replacing inconsistent and harmful practices of city planning by a balanced approach for sustainable development of the cities. The original methodology of the Anatomy of the City presented in this case is a new urban planning language that is easy to understand ...

In the past two decades the State of Qatar has undergone a massive development of its urban centers, with an impressive upgrading and expansion of transportation infrastructures. Such a development, which has been functional for the social and economic growth of the Country, is currently matched by ...

The impressive economic success of China in the past four decades is largely energy-intensive, which has been bringing numerous environmental impacts on its governance. The combination of limited resources and demand-led growth came at the cost of widening domestic imbalances and lead to an extensiv...

Previous studies have revealed that green space may play a positive role in promoting cardiovascular health. However, this association was explored mainly in the level of overall residents. Given that prevention and rehabilitation efforts aim to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, the difference cha...

Over the last decade, there has been increasing discussions about self-driving cars and how most auto-makers are racing to launch these products. However, this discourse is not limited to transportation only, but how such vehicles will affect other industries and specific aspects of our daily lives ...

This paper is a case study on the ecological integration planning of inter-district regions ,which is based on the planning project between two cities in China ,Jinan and Qihe. For the purpose of creating an integrated ecosystem, this study researched how to connect and protect the farmlands, rivers...

As our cities expand and densify simultaneously, the need for people to connect with nature increases. As per the reports by the UN, around 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. The rapid urbanization is forming a negati...

The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis exposed our globalized vulnerability to novel pandemic infectious diseases without pre-treatment. It is yet too early to assess if ‘urbanization’ or ‘urban lifestyle’ is a root-cause of COVID-19, but surely cities and their typical characteristics are under st...

Urbanisation is an index of transformation from traditional rural economies to modern industrial areas. It is increasing concentration of population in urban areas (Davis, 1965). Kingsley Davis has explained urbanization as process of changing from spread out pattern of human settlements to one of c...

With the continuous improvement of transportation facilities and information networks, the obstruction of distance in geographic space has gradually weakened, and the hotspots of urban geography research have gradually changed from the previous city hierarchy to the characteristics of urban connecti...

Scientific opinion is now agreed that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with related weather patterns and extreme events. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is emphasized in its Fifth Assessment Report, that climate change impact is unequivocal. Climate change not ...

As global warming worsens, climatic condition in many regions is going through profound changes which could affect the livability of cities. The climate changing condition impacts is likely to affect many urban system world wide. The evolution of heat wave risk in cities is related to regional clima...

This contribution lies in the intertwining of two areas of the territory and urban planning’s studies: on the one hand, the research on “peri-urban spaces” (or "fringe areas"), on the other hand, the reflections on “specialized peripheral settlements” of activities, often indicated in lite...

Between August 1st and 18th, 2018, the small coastal state of Kerala in India, experienced its worst ever floods affecting more than 75% of the total villages spread across its 14 districts and impacting the lives of around 5.4 million people. This humanitarian crisis exposed an array of hidden as w...

Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has advocated the construction of affordable housing, with the aim of improving the living conditions and the quality of low-income people. Shanghai has built a large number of social housing communities in the suburbs of the city. The population of the centra...

As per United Nations the Population growth and urbanization are projected to add 2.5 billion people to the world’s urban population by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa (United Nations, 2014, p. 1). Out of about 7933 urban settlements in India only 3892 qualify...

Sustainable Development Goals has the seventh target of its Sustainable Cities and Communities-Goal:11 focused on providing access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. Principles of sustainable development necessitate that a balance between environment and development to ensure healthy liv...

The COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic has drastically changed how we interact with the world, no less in how we move around cities. With urban transportation remaining an essential service, governments, agencies and organizations are being challenged to develop and implement changes that accomod...

With economic restructuring many cities in China have entered post-industrial era, particularly in metropolitan cities such as Shanghai. Various informal uses have been observed on the former industrial land. One of the most liveable urban form is so-called “creative industrial park”, which is t...

Over the last decades, tourism has experienced exponential growth, expansion and diversification, being considered one of the most important socio-economic sectors, an essential source of income and employment for many territories. In response to the concerns about the negative impacts of tourism an...