Papers

Recent international accords such as the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, increasingly stress upon importance of the cities in addressing a whole range of sustainability and resiliency objectives in an integr...

Smart city mission is a bold initiative by Indian governments to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local area development and harnessing technology. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a repl...

Vital arteries or infrastructures are one of the main foundations and basic frameworks of any society, which includes all the facilities required by that society. In modern life, this need has increased with the rapid dependence on these facilities. The vital arteries determine the survival of urban...

Green spaces and its relation to health of neighborhood residents are constantly positively associated, which advocates that access to green spaces is proportional to physical active required to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The green space in this context are the open parks, recreation spaces such ...

Historically, Hot cities around India have always relied on urban public spaces for its sociocultural as well as economic activities. They seem to show a greater capacity to adopt and sustain over time. The reason seem to be lying under its tendency to evolve and accommodate temporality and sustain ...

Pune is one of the first cities in India to document a detailed carbon emission inventory at the municipal level, and by estimating its cumulative and per capita carbon footprint, it has set a unique example. The data available is for the entire city and not available for specific local areas, where...

Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century. Cities are growing and their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Urban areas have already started experiencing the issue of providing services and infrastructur...

A distinct environmental setting of the naturally elongated city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina stimulated its historical development in a constant transit-oriented manner despite its frequent and diverse regime shifts, planning practices and periods of war destruction. Topographically conditio...

The rapid urbanization of Shenzhen in only 40 years has made it an emerging megacity with more than 20 million population. However, it gives rise to some distinctive problems. A larger proportion of residential buildings built in 1980s and 1990s, which we regarded as old communities, are likely to d...

Urban development in Tehran has been tied up with oil. Since 1999 when the first election of “city and village councils of Iran” was held for the first time after Islamic revolution in 1979 to separate governance of cities and rural areas from the government and to give citizens the opportunity ...

The study area has changed with the course of time due to urbanization and has transformed into a mess of informalities. These informalities result in an unorganized and unmanaged filthy spaces, major junctions do not have special management of venders, encroachment of shops etc. which deteriorates ...

Urban areas on the African continent are growing at an unprecedented rate. Africa’s accumulated relative growth rate of its cities now among the highest in the world. The continents’ global share of urban dwellers is also projected to rise from 11.3 per cent in 2010 to a 20.2 per cent by 2050 (A...

According to the formation of urban-rural structure in the process of global urbanization, rural area plays an important role in supporting the healthy, liveable environment in cities and villages. The rural landscape is a complex concept that is pluralistic enough to allow for a comprehensive under...

With rapid urbanization in China, increasing number of labors from rural or less developed area gather into mega cities, Shanghai as a representative one. These domestic migrants are employed to take on most of the heavy, dangerous jobs in the city with much lower and less regular wages which are fa...

Iran is an ancient country with an old civilization. Most parts of this country have been located in hot and dry region. Many cities of Iran suffer from harsh climate and water scarcity both. But we notice a rich urban planning and architecture in these cities which were adapted with this hard situa...

Researchers and practitioners have been modeling vehicular networks across metropolitan and geographical regions, even on a national scale, using configurational analysis or space syntax since the late 1990s and early 2000s. These models range in scale including, but is not limited to, the island of...

The perception of urban historical and cultural space is the overall feeling and cognition formed by the interaction and influence of human and historical environment elements, and it is the most direct way for people to understand and experience urban history. China's rapid urbanization has led to ...

Objective of the paper is a critical assessment of the implementation of the Agenda 2030 including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the light of COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crises. More specifically, the paper discusses the relation between local goal achievement between e.g. na...

Port city is an urban organism which integrates two different types of areas: land and water, that create a dynamic, multidimensional spatial network. Due to presence of water, port city has a unique character and significant development potential being the space of flows: goods transshipment, human...

The choice of analysing the Olympic Games of Rome 1960 and Barcelona 1992 belongs to the conflicting and diverse impact generated on the two cities. These two editions created a big urban transformation, which allows for a new critical perspective, concerning public services and management measures....

Grassroots Economy is part of economy that creates and distributes everyday necessities like goods and services. In a developing process of state, grassroots economy takes a great role for providing economic opportunities for ordinary people in the lower class. However, the modernization of the soci...

Urban development in Russia in recent decades led to a more dispersed type of a settlement, which has been supported by the growth of car dependency. The problem of an eligible urban form is not noticed neither in national spatial policy guidelines nor in new legislation proposed. Though the nationa...

A safe commuting environment can promote children to adopt a positive way to get to and from school, increasing their physical activity level and reducing health problems such as obesity. Most of the existing studies on children safety focused on open spaces such as parks and squares, the commuting ...

Cape Town still struggles to provide safe and clean access to water for many of its citizens. With the onset of droughts and the on-going pandemic, unequal distribution of water and extreme vulnerabilities faced by communities in the low-income and informal settlements are increasing. Climate change...

The paper is addressing the topic of process of creating holistic liveable environments in two completely different cities using they own holistic approaches. Our cities represent a specific presence in space and time, built to accommodate and reflect certain traditions. However, fast advanced techn...

Mixed land use has become a major principle for creating liveable public spaces and sustainable urban environment. Mixed-use developments with convenient and accessible facilities have been proved beneficial for urban vitality, public health and local economic development. Policy measures like creat...

Urban planners call for real-time spatial monitoring as a tool allowing responding effectively to negative changes driving chaotic development and urban sprawling. Urban challenges are still recognised on the bases of analysis done with the use of urban classicists’ theories, while at the same tim...

This paper discusses whether our existing urban development planning model can adapt to the coming environmental depredation occasioned by climate change or will this urban model have to change? The paper highlights three specific environmental problems, pluvial and coastal flooding and polluted sto...

Inside the framework proposed by the Track, this contribution intends to focus on the topic of regeneration and retrofitting of tertiary-office areas and buildings. In many European contexts, in fact, the condition of under-utilized (or even dismissed) offices and directional districts is a signific...

Despite the new urban planning thinking and legislation evolution since 2016 towards sustainable development, in practice, there is a limited legal framework for planning which makes it more challenging for local governments. As a result, two main scenarios have taken place in the Metropolitan Area ...