Papers

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The transport sector is one of the crucial sectors which is going to get impacted post-COVID-19. The lack of demand is not just the issue that is going to emerge but also several behavioral changes are tend to occur due to the spread of the disease which may lead to loss of ridership in public trans...

At present, old residential communities in China are facing many problems, mainly including environmental degradation, aging facilities and weak management. As the urban developing mode transforming from "incremental" expansion to "stock" renewal, it is being more and more necessary to improve the o...

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...

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...

Uniform urban development severely compromises the quality of life in cities. As a result, cities lose on valuable socio-economic opportunities. Qatar was one of the countries that took leadership and delved into an alternative development model. As a result, Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of the...

Objective of the session is a critical assessment of the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and New Urban Agenda (NUA) in the light of COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crises. More specifically, the session asks how national urban policies and the application of the Internat...

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...

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...

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....

The current, mostly dilapidated, expensive, poorly organised, unsustainable and non-eco-friendly transportation system in Lagos, the 5th biggest economy in Africa is incapable of meeting the mobility demand of the over 20 million populations. It has also been the subject of several reforms, policies...

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...

Vernacular architecture in Oman has sustained through centuries providing its population with a place to inhabit in a harsh environment. However, after the oil boom in the Gulf-States, technological advances coupled with high income generation from oil industry, led locals to transform their lifesty...

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...

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...

The Msheireb Downtown Doha (MDD) team proposes a special session titled “Msheireb’s Urban Heritage”, which comprises of three presentations, a moderated dialogue and an audience Q&A exploring various aspects of urban heritage in Doha’s Downtown. The session will explore how the redeveloped c...

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...

"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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 urban morphology affects the microclimate of the city and thus influences the activity patterns in public spaces in cities and residential areas. The presence of buildings in cities modifies natural wind conditions at microclimatic scales. Different buildings arrangement produces different aerod...

According to the World Health Organization, nine out of ten people worldwide breath contaminated air, which kills an estimate of 7 million people worldwide per year. Air pollution is excessive in cities, due to dense concentration of population, and high intensity of sectorial activities, such as tr...