Papers

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...

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...

Port city regions are key locations in the post-oil transition and merit specific attention from planners. Located at the edge of water and land, ports are gateways to nations and continents—as the COVID-19 crises has just reminded us,—they are industrial and often petroleum hubs with important ...

Over recent decades, planning practitioners have stumbled across a range of terms from Sustainability to Resilience, which are constantly evolving. Do these approaches to planning urban areas, regions and nations carry any weight during the time of the current COVID-19 pandemic? Economies and societ...

The share of street network in the urban fabric and its connectivity are crucial characteristics of the cities’ spatial structure. Cities with properly developed and well-connected street network tend to be livable and productive. A growing body of research suggests that street network connectivit...

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...

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...

Topological structures are the backbone of urban street. In the global development in urbanization and economy, street systems have developed significantly with the city expansion. In this paper, the authors select nine street samples in Dalian with varying locations, patterns, and growth mechanisms...

The session will present three case studies of emergency response in three megacities to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, starting with the City of Wuhan, and following with New York and Paris. Presented by Huiyi Xia, Jianying Yuan, Nankai Xia (Tongji Urban Planning Institute), Sebastien Goethals (Citil...

In arid regions all around the globe, the major issue lies within the scarcity of fresh water. These biomes cover around 35 % of the land area, with 20 % of world’s population residing in them. Due to the continuous problem of global warming the semi-arid area of India has expanded by 10% in the r...

Realizing sustainable resource consumption and production patterns have always been a gargantuan challenge for our Indian settlements. The concept of Sustainable Resource Consumption and Production (as advocated by the UN Environment) has sought “decoupling of economic growth from environmental de...

Northeastern University is one of the earliest national universities in modern China. In 1928, the Beiling Campus at Shenyang applied the American-style planning. But because of Japan’s invasion of Northeast China in 1931, the campus had to move south and borrowed old buildings to continue the edu...

The role of creative industries in heritage protection and smart culture can be explained as a paradygm of creative evolution from one side and of pshyhology of creativity itself from the other. Anyway, it existed a long ago before becoming an important tool for management of contemporary society. B...

Coastal Artillery Regiment (RAC) is a unit of the Portuguese Army with the mission of guaranteeing the coastal defence of the ports of Lisbon and Setúbal. The set consists of fixed, secret, camouflaged and fortified batteries, installed along the entrance to the Sado and Tejo rivers. The structures...

Aim: Considering the effects of open urban spaces on citizens, the aim of the study is to provide guidelines to design urban open space’s to enhance level of social trust and participation in Tehran's urban districts. This can be done through increasing the level of local connections and providing...

At the beginning of 2020, China，which is experiencing the largest urbanization in the world，encountered a pandemic of COVID-19 with rest of world. By taking quick and decisive measures, China successfully controlled the epidemic and ensures urban health and safety. Except Wuhan, there are 662 ci...

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 impact left by Covid-19 is certainly a game changer in the process of shaping cities all around the world. In a relatively short span of time, people across the globe are forced to embrace many new, demanding, recently unprecedented norms. Social distancing and the unease of shared surfaces/faci...

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...

The effects of climate change are increasing at an unprecedented rhythm, which demands adaptation and transformation of vulnerable waterfront territories. Cities aim to build up resilience, not only to mitigate losses, but also to transform themselves into stronger, improved built environments. Befo...

The concept of Resilience is relatively new in Urban Planning. When we discuss the resilience in terms of a city the idea revolves around the unforeseen events, how the event affected or will affect the city, and the cities ability to return to the pre-event state or improve upon the past state with...

COVID 19 pandemic has taken the world order unprepared with vulnerable health systems and crumbling economic orders, leaving humans to rethink their ways of life. Amid all this, historic monuments and sites, once again are witnessing the fallout of the human race, as seen during the times of previou...

Covid-19 had infected more than 4.2 million people worldwide by May 2020. During this outbreak, cities with high population density, high spatial density and high frequency of population movement, such as Wuhan, New York, Paris showed their vulnerability and unreadiness in the face of the virus. Thu...

The COVID-19 pandemic urges us to rethink the way we plan our cities. At first instance this new planning regime seems to regulate and contain more strict directives than before. Responses to the virus lead to cities that are disformed, grappling with the rigid demarcations that suddenly shape publi...

In the context of global urbanization, the construction of livable city has become a new path for domestic and foreign cities to cope with urbanization issues and adapt to the sustainable development of global cities. At present, highly urbanized megacities at home and abroad have opened an era of s...

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 ...

Jan gehl philosophy was -" Make Public Life the Driver for Urban Design". People make cities livable and we shape the cities and then city shapes us. Having said that, A city is considered livable because there is no set pattern of growth which has to be followed. The history of cities depicts that ...

A brief description of the "problem" and its background Abandonment is a widespread XX century phenomenon in Italy. In the case of S. Paolo district abandonment is linked to 1) the fragility of its geographical position; 2) the contraction of economic growth (stagnation of private investments); 3) t...

Nairobi remains one of the world’s most intractable urban capitals, despite or as a result of a century of planning efforts. Development plans for the East African capital have been developed, repeatedly and sporadically, since 1898. Their implementation has been piecemeal and incomplete. These pl...

Background In 2019, Jiangsu started the “provincial exemplary livable community” programs. As one of them, located in Qixia District of Najing, “Yaofangmen provincial exemplary livable community” aims to lead the residents in to the mutual creation of the livable community widely. During the...