Papers

Qatar is making a remarkable progress when it comes to building sustainable architectural communities and improving the transport services. It is vital to ensure that Qatar is empowered with the skills to integrate cutting edge technologies within its urban spaces. In Qatar, the Ministry of Informat...

Hot cites are often referred to hot countries. Typical areas include Southwest Asia, Africa and some near the equator. Hot cities generally have difficult conditions to grow into cities. However, there are some cities that have been exported and developed with the choice of resources, and others tha...

Tehran was a settlement in the past that more than 230 years ago chose as a capital of Iran, today is a metropolitan with fixed 9 million populations that is considered the center of economic, cultural, political, social and communicational evolution and changes of country. This city throughout its ...

Increasing The Population In Large Cities , Has Many Environmental Consequences. One Of The Problems , Is Air Temperature Increase Of Cities (Creation Of Heat Islands) Compared To Surrounding Rural Areas And Emerging Hot Cities Universally. Increasing The Temperature In Urban Areas And Appearance Of...

Looking back on 25 years of planning experience, the single most crucial planning component appears to me to be shared visioning. While the term ‘masterplanning’ still bears the hallmark of the visionary ‘masterplanner’, drawing lines to connect the dots of an expert-driven urbanistic utopia...

The Kingdom of Bahrain is the smallest and most crowded country in the Arabian Gulf with an area of 765 square kilometers (UNESCO, 2018) and a population that reached 1,672,864 people in January 2020 (Worldometers, 2020). Muharraq, the former capital, is considered to be the second largest city in B...

Disappearing spatial identity of the hydraulic civilization of the Vistula delta river in Poland influences potential, desirable behaviors of the water communities in the conditions of climate disaster. After the Second World War the cultural landscape of this area has changed due to a lack of under...

Metabolism seems to have some kind of semblance to urban development which also draws inputs from nature, society and the economy to produce buildings and spaces for use, and possibly misuse, adapting some of them but leaving behind, somehow, obsolete parts that cannot change to serve new needs. How...

We are now going through a shift to a new epoch constituted by machine landscapes where it is the digital technology and machine intelligence that is going to compute, condition, and compose the post-oil reality far beyond our imagination. Out of the constraints of traditional energy technology, mac...

India generates 62 million tones of municipal solid waste per year of which, only 75% of the waste is collected and only 22% of the collected waste (i.e. 16% of the total generated waste) is segregated, processed or treated. Thus, 84% of the total waste either ends up on the roads or in landfills. T...

The unique situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic caused us to break away from our daily routine, to a greater or lesser extent, for various reasons. This state has largely affected urban dwellers, where the risk of falling ill is high due to the large clusters of people sharing hun...

Gottlieb Daimler and Robert Bosch, two pioneers of motorcar-engineering, were born in Stuttgart Region, an area that is often considered the cradle of the automobile. In fact, the contribution of car manufacturing to the region’s jobs, GDP and prosperity is outstanding. For that reason, the appare...

The development course of contemporary Berlin is characterized by obvious difference between east and west, and great difference in urban construction goals at different stages. The concrete manifestations are as follows: bounded by the Berlin wall, east and west Berlin have great differences in urb...

This presentation, drawing upon case studies from both industrialized and developing countries, revisits the key tenants in planning to support the transition to low-carbon, resilient and sustainable cities, in the context of the post-COVID-19 city. Specifically it re-examines compact and connected ...

As world’s economy tries to recover from COVID-19 Pandemic, the industry diversity in Indonesia affects the economic sustainability and its continuity. This paper explores the industry diversity and economic resilience in Indonesia during Covid-19 Pandemic. Using fixed effects model with data from...

Lessons learned from past events indicate that the shift our plans from centralized to decentralized, it has brought effective results in the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster management actions. Due to growth and urbanization, increasing population density and buildings in cities and limited...

The northern part of Nicosia (Cyprus) has suffered a long period of isolation since the partition of the country and the establishment of a buffer zone through the city in 1974. As the situation continues to ease, and with the principal pedestrian land crossings in the city centre opened in 2008, th...

There is a well-documented relationship between economic prosperity and housing insecurity, which is particularly true in rapidly urbanizing societies. But the growing prosperity of urban regions introduces a paradox of economic success stemming from the rising costs in such regions. The additional ...

The strategy of the Old Town of Lutsk developed in cooperation with Urban Sustain Architects, Beloded Landscaping, and Aldis Blicsons is aimed at solving the existing challenges of spatial development, nature conservation, sustainable development of business and society, solving transport problems w...

Continuous waste collection services are an essential element of our urban quality of life, and we are fully aware that if this process is not present in our lives, a complex problem will arise. During an epidemic crisis, the first goal of urban management is to ensure that waste is collecting conti...

As a major energy province, fossil energy has always been the dominant resource in Shanxi Province. Coal, coal-bed methane and related industries provide more than 1 / 4 of industrial jobs, more than 1 / 3 of industrial added value and more than 1 / 2 of available financial resources in Shanxi Provi...

Tehran Neighborhood Emergency Response Volunteers (DAWAM) Tehran Disaster Mitigation and Management (TDMMO) is the responsible body for Tehran disaster management system and its mission is defined as:  Improving Tehran Citizens’ Quality of Life in the Natural and Man made Disasters Aspect;  ...

Cultural Heritage Monuments are unique and invaluable, cannot be replaced, reproduces, relocated, replicated or recreated. Yet, they are undervalued, constantly underfunded and therefore underperform. This paradox is largely due to the partial and inadequate instruments used to fund heritage and to ...

This study examines the potential of interactive art installations to stimulate human engagement and activities in public spaces and presenting a design proposal. The aim is to develop a sense of belonging despite differences and promote tolerance since Bahrain has a population of multi-ethnic and m...

The residential location and urban shape, including the accessibility of public transport, distance from the city center and density, is the crucial factor, which determined the travel behavior in each city district. Moscow has a diverse structure of urban shape and huge area 2561,5 sq.m, that can c...

Cities are urban areas where we live, communicate, and navigate. Each area has its own characteristics which greatly affects its users. they can gather, crowd, or segregate us. Thus, urban planning has an evident role in controlling humans' behavior. This relation raises a question; in case of epide...

Kangqiao Cluster Area of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Design Industry is facing the agglomeration and reconstruction of innovative industries. Creative city concept is the key factor in this park planning. In cater to the demand of creative people，the plan aims to build a livable environment and cr...

It has been taken as one of the top priorities to promote the development of the surrounding areas of stations through the construction of high-speed railway hubs in China, in order to form a high-quality urban network with high-speed railway hub and line connectivity. Shenzhen, the core city of Gua...

With one of the fastest urbanization rates in the Global-South, many Nigerian cities are experiencing an analogous rate of concretization. Cultural studies since the 1800s revealed that towns and villages are known to have tradition-based planning system with incorporated hierarchy of open spaces ro...

Around 2000, Payments for Watershed Services (PWS) programs was introduced into China, and pilot projects were firstly carried out in developed regions and small watersheds such as Xinanjiang River, Jiulongjiang River and Taihu Lake Basin. Since 2010, it has become an economic compensatory measure w...