Papers

The massive development of new capital city (NCC) in East Kalimantan inevitably will create land use change from previously dominated by forest to urbanized area. As consequences, the built-up area development in a forest rich island therefore will bring disruption to the ecosystem, impacting on the...

Tractebel developed a Cities Vision for the horizon 2030 for ENGIE Research: The evolution of cities is not solely ‘market’ driven, but is also the result of global ‘megatrends’, political conditions and sometimes of unexpected emerging new issues. The impact of these trends and issues (like...

Globally, cities are being confronted with numerous challenges, as traffic congestion, urban sprawl, and poor living quality. Transit-oriented development is a prominent solution considered to overcome major urban issues. There are various successful examples around the globe in TOD experiments. How...

Qatar has made substantial investments to improve existing public transport system by implementing a state of the art Metro Network connecting the capital city of Doha with its suburban areas. The country’s visionary leadership and policy planners had realized that one of the key factors in the pu...

In the era of rapid urbanism, growing transportation demand and supply is increasing burden in urban areas, while central business district areas are major vulnerable zone of this burden. High amount of traffic with lower maintenances provision in CBD areas not only increase the accident rate, but a...

Over the last half-century, Qatar has witnessed an excessive change in its economic and urban evolution. From the coastal village where fishing and pearling were the main activities of its community to a country with an ambitious vision for the future. Due to economic booming of oil/gas discovery in...

The city's historic district brings together the city's cityscape in a particular historical period and witnessed the city's development history. It is undoubtedly an important part of the historical and cultural accumulation of the city. Therefore, the renewal planning of the city's historic blocks...

Shenyang has a pivotal position in the history of modern Chinese industry,Shenyang economic zone is a regional economic community with eight cities around Shenyang,The extant industrial heritage of each city in Shenyang economic zone reflects the historical process of industrialization in northeast ...

Berezniki was built in 1932-33 for the extraction and processing of minerals: potash and magnesium salts, oil, titanium alloys. In recent decades, the town has been experiencing a man-made disaster. Sinkholes of 200-400 m wide and 50 m deep began to appear on its territory, so a decision has been ma...

The ecological and health damage of oil spills and oil pollution in Nigeria is unquantifiable. Systemic and systematic degradation of the environment, health, livelihoods and food system of people residing in oil spill areas is visibly inexcusable. This paper using secondary data contends the impote...

"A sustainable city requires the highest quality space in its central part, one based on historical identity and multifunctional structure ..." – this is the thesis derived from the so-called Lodz Charter, adopted at the 5th Urban Planning Congress, which was held in Lodz in 2015. It was the start...

Unlike the developed ones, it is not easy for ill-resourced and weakly economized developing countries to plan and create a stand-alone policy to manage this urban amenity as mentioned in target 11.7 of SDG goals 2030. Especially It is still being considered as a luxury amenity by mass where the pop...

In Latin American cities informal settlements and insecure land tenure are the result of an exclusionary planning and urban management system which fails to provide legal and secure housing for lower-income groups. Against this backdrop, the State implemented land-title and urban regulatory policies...

The space at the interface of a port and a city structures accumulates influences resulting from the functions and activities both of the port and city. These functions very often collide with each other and creates dysfunctional zones within port cities. However there are solutions, which create ad...

Public health challenges and indiscriminate solid waste disposal in Urora, Benin City, Nigeria Abstract Over urbanisation and population explosion in sub-Saharan African cities compound the existing weak urban management services that result in public health issues. Public health challenges such as ...

On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi- who believed in Cleanliness is next to Godliness- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, a pan-India mission also known as Clean Indian Mission. Aimed at eradicating open defecation across India by October 2, 2019, the Mission identi...

In recent years, the innovative economy has become an important engine of global economic growth, and high-tech enterprises have become a new driving force for innovative development in many countries and regions. With the rapid development and widespread application of information technology, the o...

Many cities around the world have gone through unique development stages over centuries. Each with their dynamic evolutionary changes to adapt to the most current mobility needs of the people and to ensure a sustainable future. Most cities started with the humble horse and cart to move people and go...

The human actions have caused a significant change to the climate system, with effects that will persist for decades. Climate change has several impacts, one of the major impacts is its health impacts. There are multiple connections between health and climate change, there are direct, impact mediate...

As cities continue to grow, it is becoming more and more difficult to provide balanced mobility offerings while keeping sustainability, safety and accessibility in focus. Yet, to ensure the livability of dense urban centers amid unrelenting environmental pressures and growing health concerns, it is ...

Global trends in the transition to sustainable development and restoration of natural ecosystems, driven primarily by megacities, as well as decentralization reform, Ukraine's sustainable development strategy 2030, changes in the law on the capital of Ukraine led to the creation of this concept of u...

This paper explores how India’s urban planning frameworks need to be recalibrated to improve livelihood resiliency of urban poor, against public health emergencies. The coronavirus pandemic has substantially impacted India’s urban systems. The high-risk red zone classification of districts issue...

This case study investigates how the built environment can respond to challenges such as keeping the citizens physically active during crisis of Covid-19 pandemics. Many of the countries have imposed lockdowns - more and less strict - or stay at home orders. Many citizens would avoid physical contac...

The COVID-19 epidemic has taught us a lesson that cities should be treated like organism and urban planning should follow the laws of urban metabolism. Due to economic laws, industrial parks, with irreplaceable roles in urban vitalities, tend to have shorter period of lifetime than other urban areas...

Urbanization has led to the rapid growth of the city in terms of economy and area. Transportation has turned out to be one of the major bottlenecks to cater to the needs and necessities of the occupants. The demand for motorized roads has made the traditional modes of transport like walking and cycl...

With the comprehensive development of China's territorial and spatial planning and the continuous advancement of the all-for-one tourism development strategy. The concept of the protection and development of regional culture has gradually transitioned from the traditional isolated development and pr...

High-quality new urbanization and the construction of ecological civilization have put forward higher requirements for urban development, and solving a series of urban problems arising from such inefficient space as "city village " has become a key move to stimulate the vitality of urban development...

Slums are global phenomena that exists as a solution for those who couldn’t effort a house. This phenomenon is growing accompanying the rapid urbanization and the growth of the urban population, three-quarter of the world population anticipated to live in an urban environment by 2050.However, in d...

Currently most Russian cities are on the edge of reinventing the policy of long-term strategic and spatial planning. Instead of specific to an oil-based economy top-down approach new practice of stakeholders' involvement in the process of planning become an important contribution to the future devel...

Small Case, Big Principle – Achieving Sustainable Transport is not a Myth Abstract With the continuous advancement of urbanisation in the city of Fuzhou in China, intersection roundabouts can no longer meet the need of complex multi-modal traffic. Therefore, how to balance the need of both motoris...