Papers

Mankind has always thought to be in control of its environment. However, with the outbreak of the recent Covid-19 virus, it is fairly evident of how unprepared and unaware we are. Nature is not going to conform or abide by rules of one species alone, but is determined to maintain its sense of harmon...

Human activities and rapid economic development profoundly accelerate complex changes of landscape. Despite the controversy of the standard definition of green infrastructure, the significance and essential ecosystem services green infrastructure provide has widely and profoundly aroused interests o...

Planning about the nightly environment of cities is one of the important issues which consists of lighting design as a considerable part of that. Lighting design of buildings and urban elements is usually accomplished with the aim of drawing attention during the nights, so these buildings in the urb...

The Sultanate of Oman is rich with its natural and cultural heritage. Oman's political vision since 1970 depends on finding a balance between modern development and conservation of the country's culture and heritage. This is seen through the development of heritage protection legal framework and its...

The rapid development of Chinese cities in the past three decades has caused the transformation of the structure of historical urban spaces, resulting in the fragmentation of historical environment and the blurring of historical pattern. This study proposes to use the epistemology of historical pres...

Xi'An is one of the largest cities of China today and the former capital – Chang’An – of one of the four ancient civilizations in the world. It has a long history of 6,000 years and a rich cultural heritage, as it was once the capital of 13 dynasties in ancient China and the first city in Hist...

Urban ecosystems can be conceptualized like living organisms supplied by material and energy flows. Urban metabolism accounts for the flows of materials, energy, resources, food, and people in cities, providing a framework for the study of the interactions between natural and human systems. The sust...

Floods are one of the most important natural disasters, causing more damage to humans than other disasters such as drought and famine. These damages increase when they occur in human centers such as cities. Land leveling, encroachment on rivers and canals, changes in natural drainage patterns are al...

The crisis of 1989 led to the destruction and degradation of the urban environment in the single-industry towns of Russia. The settling and the influx of the population were forced unnaturally. Perm Region was not an exception as to this strategy, but quite a typical example of Soviet urban planning...

Urbanization is the phenomenon experienced everywhere in the world at a faster rate after the industrial revolution. A city becomes the centre of industrialization and when it grows, it adds new population. The migration from rural areas is an important feature for the fast growth of cities. The div...

There is a huge pressure on infrastructure in metropolitan cities, transit system are bursting at its need these systems are unable to expand with the growing ridership, no country can claim to be free of informal settlements. Cities are unable to increasing the size of the present infrastructure. T...

Major challenges facing cities globally stem from rapid urbanization, population increase and city development driven on oil with complex systems, functions and economy. Rhodes (2008) illustrates how in the 20th century, various urban planning movements evolved to create energy intensive and oil-dep...

Health and life safety issues of China’s city residents are receiving a lot of attention under the public health emergency represented by the COVID-19 epidemic. China’s big city (resident population in urban area 1 million to 5 million) has widespread problems to be healthier city. How to ensure...

Reconversion of Brussels urban motorways in the post-oil era. The Brussels-Capital Region experiences approximately 5.4 million passengers movements daily, the majority of which are done by car with the commuter flow entering or leaving the Region representing 33% thereof. The Government of the Brus...

Purpose: To examine how perceived neighborhood built-environment attributes influence parental license for children’s independent mobility, revealing the child-friendliness in Shanghai, China and what we can do to improve. Background: With Child-friendly City increasingly becoming global focus, ch...

Health has been considered as the pulse of the New Urban Agenda, while innovation districts have been acknowledged as the driving force of new economies. The health issues of innovation districts should be paid more attention to not only because both their irreplaceable roles in urban developments, ...

In an era of vanishing footpaths and widening carriageways, the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India has been introducing a host of initiatives prioritising pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users — giving these social heroes their due. With nearly two third of the city users commuting da...

Planners have a good grasp of Sense of Place and Place-Making at urban, neighborhood an city scale. However, we are confronted in the last 70 years with the metropolitan and megapolitan scales and the population is still stranged from identity and sense of appurtenance to the metropolis as a whole, ...

Background: On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Commission of Hubei Province, China, reported 27 cases of unknown pneumonia. On January 22, Wuhan City implemented the strategy of "closed city" to cut off the communication between Wuhan and the outside areas. Subsequently, the...

Maintaining a balance between economic development and carbon emissions reduction is an important part of low-carbon development in modern cities. At present, the positive effect of urban compactness on carbon emission efficiency has been demonstrated in large cities, but few studies have been carri...

Urbanizing deltas worldwide are the centre of socio-economic development. At the same time, they are highly vulnerable to increasing flood risks caused by climate change that threaten the low-lying land and sensitive environment. The challenge is even more crucial in the Global South, where urban ex...

Owing to its large scale of development Bengaluru has been acting as a magnet attracting influx of population in to the city. The industrialization, changing economic drivers, and dominance of private over public interests led to over exploitation of the ecological resources. Thus, creating a short ...

Heritage sites are important landmark features that give the community where they are located an identity and prominence. How heritage sites are preserved and managed in Niger State calls for concern because less attention is given to the tourism industry by the State government. This lackadaisical ...

Of the 3,102,128 passengers flying in and out of Berlin-Schönefeld airport every month (Brandenburg "Traffic Statistics" 2019), how many are aware of the network of actors and infrastructure behind the scenes enabling this action? In this paper, we follow Jet A1 aviation fuel's journey from its sou...

When public spaces are designed we often miss these important stakeholders–people with disabilities, children, and the elderly. Their need for accessible and barrier-free spaces falls through the cracks of city planning. In 2011, ESAF a pan India NGO, with the help of the HealthBridge Foundation o...

The livability of a city is assessed based on the availability of public spaces and walking infrastructure. Pedestrian infrastructure in the city adds more human interaction to the city and makes it active and healthy. In this context, ESAF did a walkability assessment of 4 cities in Kerala. I share...

Jakarta and Bandung are the two big cities in Indonesia which are the economic centers of today. The condition of these two cities as the National Capital and the Provincial Capital as well as the industrial area has begun to reach its saturation point, but it is different from the economic potentia...

Water is one of the most precious elements and since centuries, human settlements have developed around natural water bodies like rivers and lakes. However, in recent times, the haphazard development along the water bodies has adversely affected the natural drainage pattern of these water bodies res...

The built environment is often considered as a structural determinant of health while in such setting travel behavior also plays a particularly important role in the emergence and transmission of communicable disease. This study, using real data from multiple sources, is aimed to explore the associa...

London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic games due to its focus on urban regeneration (Poynter, 2009). Aiming to redevelop one of the most deprived areas of the city, the 2012 Olympics would drive jobs and investments, and improve skills and quality of life in East London (Hansard, 2005). This pa...