Papers

Fossil fuel sources which are used to generate energy for vehicles, both personal and public, are limited and declining. Furthermore, the increase in carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere will cause pollution and destruction of the Ozone layer, and as a result, will create unfavorable conditions ...

COVID-19 demands a critical assessment of current governance failures. With over 150 million people worldwide at risk of eviction and being homeless, to “COVID flight” of tech and knowledge based workers fleeing high dense urban centers for “socially distant” suburbs and remote/rural areas, ...

Like many other Middle Eastern cities, Dubai relies heavily on road vehicles, as a result of rapid city planning, car-oriented culture and a polycentric urban form. Though micromobility services have gained tremendous attention globally in the past few years, bikes and scooters have always been asso...

In recent years, with the continuous understanding and deepening of accessibility in Chinese society, the objects of barrier-free facilities services have expanded from a single physiologically disadvantaged group to groups that include strollers, luggage holders and other groups with travel accessi...

This study examines how the development of water supply management happens over time in distinct types of informal areas in Mumbai and Nairobi. The financial differences and political barriers in both cities, together with the vast diversity factors, development patterns, and challenges of each stud...

There is a growing need to reevaluate accessibility levels in terms that give weight to the means of accessibility rather than measuring levels of access in abstract terms (or for all modes equally). As a response to both mounting environmental pressures and rising health risks associated with the c...

The research discusses land-based financing of sustainable infrastructure with land readjustment as an institutional innovation that might finance local sustainable infrastructure in an inclusive and democratic manner. Land-based financing with value capture describes tools with which land value inc...

Introduction Oil and the city in Iran are inextricably linked. In decades, injection of petrodollars in Iran's economic and decision-making system has accelerated the process of increasing metropolitan areas. This new form of urbanization, which was prevalent only in industrialized countries at the ...

The task of zoning the territory is based on the need to structure the space of human activity. The modern principles of zoning of a territory are based on its differentiation by type of functional activity. This principle appeared in the early thirties of the last century, as a reaction of architec...

Many people consider Al Wakrah to be a distinctive settlement for cultural heritage in the State of Qatar. Based on archaeological evidence, the area of Al Wakrah was perhaps the first urban center of Qatar. Originally a fishing and pearling village like the capital city of Doha, globalization and r...

In 2020, the world has encountered the public health crisis with the largest number of people affected in this century. By 0:00 GMT on May 15, 2020, there are 10 countries with more than 100000 people confirmed infected, and there are 84469 confirmed cases in China and 68134 confirmed cases in Hubei...

Transportation infrastructures are key components of the modern highly interconnected urban built environment, which in the post-oil era may require the adoption of optimized engineering models to be employed for the design of more sustainable solutions. In the specific case of road pavements, these...

While dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we have realized that sustainable living environment is very important for human survival. The natural resource and material carrier of urban environment is land. As a kind of resource, it is the most basic and important guarantee in the process of hu...

City-industry integration is a development idea put forward in the context of China's transformation and upgrading compared with the separation of industry and city, which requires the integration of industry and city functions and spatial integration, "promote the city by industry, promote the indu...

Adaptation to climate change depends centrally on what is done in urban centres and cities. ‎climate change and rapid urbanization have become two major issues related to human welfare ‎and development around the world. One of the environmental aspects that are influenced by ‎urbanization is u...

India adopts a three-tier legal system for preserving monuments and heritage at National, State and Local levels. At the local level, different urban and rural local governing bodies viz., Urban Development Authorities, Municipal Corporations and Municipalities are expected to take up Listing and Co...

In Tehran flood forecasting and warning system, a combination of the second generation (prediction after precipitation) and fourth generation (based on numerical prediction of precipitation and temperature and hydrological models) is considered. Tehran Flood Warning System(FWS) includes a set of mea...

As India's population continues to grow, more citizens will move to cities. About 25-30 persons from rural areas will migrate every minute to major Indian cities in search of a better livelihood and lifestyle. Smarter ways to manage complexities, reduce expenses, increase efficiency and improve the ...

Due to the economic booming of oil/gas discovery in early 1940, Qatar's urban context drastically changed as the urbanization process has been accelerated. As our economy, populations, and community grow over time, rapid urban development rates have been accelerated and the consequent environmental,...

The smart urban energy transition is a paradigm change in city management. Implementing new technologies and infrastructure enables to shift from oil-based solutions or fossil-fueled systems to renewable energy, while related multiple benefits and opportunities arise. Demonstration projects envision...

Since the onset of democracy in 1994, rural development has been a key concern for government. Translating this into practice has however, proven to be far more difficult than had originally been imagined. Rural communities are still characterised by poverty, inequality, limited access to basic soci...

Background Ensuring the economic, climate and social urban resilience may be achieved within by Commoning. This collective practice of multi-actor governance is applied in both of urban and rural contexts. The authors present the outcomes of their research on the commonnig type of spatial management...

Circular Economy (CE) is increasingly considered vital in achieving environmental sustainability. Assessing progress is a crucial part of implementing CE policies and managing CE practices [1]. Both scholars and practitioners have thus developed numerous CE indicators varying in scope and objectives...

After China is developing into the era of industrialization, most developed countries chose the path of industrialization which is developing with the consumption of resources and environmental pollution, taking the strategy of “governance after development”. But China has large population, and ...

A good public space must be accommodative for everyone including the marginal, the forgotten, the silent, and an undesirable people. With the process of development, the city leaves behind the marginalized section of the society especially urban poor, who constitute about 20-30 percent of the urban ...

The right to adequate housing is an internationally recognised human right. However, more than a billion people are poorly sheltered (UN-HABITAT, 2014). With more than half of the world’s population residing in urban areas, cities are at the frontline to change this. Nevertheless, the provision of...

Climate change, population growth, and economic development1 make the need for a sustainable FEW Nexus more urgent than ever since the demand for food, energy and water is increased. Urban communities are very vulnerable in the coming changes as 66% of the total population will be urban by 20506 and...

Today’s material flows are too wasteful. In order to get closer to achieving the climate goals we have to start optimizing these flows by integrating them. Current planning policies often persist in consuming too much (space) land coping with these flows as separate phenomena. To counter this poli...

Located in the mid-stream Ciliwung River, Depok known as a satellite city of Jakarta that has experienced rapid urbanization and now become a metropolitan. Playing a key role of the Ciliwung watershed as a catchment area, Depok faces the challenging pressures to the rivers, lakes, and groundwater du...

The core of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration is to coordinate various types of spatial functions to promote the orderly development of urban space. The production-living-ecological space of urban agglomerations are important carriers for achieving sustaina...