Papers

S.O.S. Climate Waterfront is a research project financed by Horizon 2020 - RISE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions that gathers five universities and five stakeholders from Portugal, Poland, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Nederland and Turkey. The project aims at improving sustainable research structure that e...

The expression and perception of cityscape has significance influence on the preservation and regeneration of heritage. However, due to the urban sprawl in urbanizing, a large number of commercial exploitation have resulted in a series of obstacles on the expression and perception of heritage featur...

As cities continue to grow, it is becoming more and more difficult to provide balanced mobility offerings while keeping sustainability, safety and accessibility in focus. Yet, to ensure the livability of dense urban centers amid unrelenting environmental pressures and growing health concerns, it is ...

The concept of green roofs addresses and improves damaging impact on the urban environment in a sustainable solution. Cost efficiency, reduced air temperatures, energy consumption, reduced environmental pollution, and lower maintenance costs are some advantages of installing green roofs (Fadli et al...

Urban mobility is one of the most important sectors of city planning. The necessity for citizens to undertake daily journeys is critical for both the life and the function of cities. Access to jobs, services, and to meet people is key to a city’s economic vitality and quality of life. Unfortunatel...

Resilience has been a major concern for cities for years. As natural crises occur along with the development of urbanization, cities have become centers where natural resources and attention to global environmental influences has increased. Uneven urban development in the developing cities like Tehr...

The complexity and the dynamism that has been brought by the 21st century has compelled all cities to take a forefront in tackling global urban issues. At the centre of global key development interventions that has brought urban planning to a global stage is the issue of Climate Change and the need ...

Space as affording social interaction is highly debated subject among various epistemic disciplines. This research contributes to the discussion by shedding light on urban culture and community organisation in spatialised ways. Providing a case of London’s famous cultural quarter, Soho, the resear...

Not only geological disasters caused economic losses and casualties, but also it destroyed the original geo-ecological structure and functions, especially in geo-ecologically sensitive mountain towns. This paper assessed geo-ecological restoration of mountain towns after disasters, which was very im...

With the rapid development of Beijing's economy and society and the continuous expansion of urban space, the improvement of urbanization level and the substantial increase of population have brought a series of urban problems, such as environmental pollution, traffic congestion, resource waste, etc....

The ecological and health damage of oil spills and oil pollution in Nigeria is unquantifiable. Systemic and systematic degradation of the environment, health, livelihoods and food system of people residing in oil spill areas is visibly inexcusable. This paper using secondary data contends the impote...

Officials of civic authorities are the one who run cities. Municipal Commissioner, Mayors, Leaders, Police etc. Proposed session is to have some officials from Indian cities, representative of governance, law and order, Smart City and IT management who can discuss about success stories of their citi...

Small Case, Big Principle – Achieving Sustainable Transport is not a Myth Abstract With the continuous advancement of urbanisation in the city of Fuzhou in China, intersection roundabouts can no longer meet the need of complex multi-modal traffic. Therefore, how to balance the need of both motoris...

Our cities are witnessing the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution and the flourishing of green cities concepts, with burgeoning technological inventions linked to smart interactive cities and intelligent buildings in which humans, machines, and spaces continuously interact. Our ambition in this...

Tokyo has experienced rapid urban and population growth during the 20th century which has propelled it to become one of the most efficient and productive cities in world. However, after the turn of the century, Japan entered a phase of low growth with an aging and decreasing population and stagnant ...

Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based is an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. The study is focused on changing role and state of nature of urban ecological systems in the midst of urban sprawl and rapid urbanization. Sustainable urban design pr...

Since first being recorded in late 2019 in China, coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread around the world and been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. However, most of the current research on COVID-19 is based on statistical analysis instead of spatial information. Analysis of spatial r...

Participatory planning and design became a crucial element of urban practice. Yet, many different types exist, ranging from linear to multi-dimensional, or from informing-only to citizen-led practices. This paper explores the less conventional approach of storytelling as a planning methodology. The ...

The spread of novel coronavirus has become a public health emergency of international concern. It is important that communities, as basic units of epidemic prevention, are empowered with virus spread control abilities. As the most accessible public space, Community green space system has a positive ...

In the ear of big data, with the development of computer technology, especially the universal popularization of mobile terminal devices and the gradual construction of the internet of things system, the urban physical environment and social environment have been fully digitized and measured, the com...

Views play an important part in shaping our appreciation and understanding of heritage. A significant view in terms of its heritage values is a historical composite, the cumulative result of a long process of development, enriches our daily life, attracts visitors and helps our communities prosper. ...

ABSTRACT This study explored relationship between the importance of cultural heritage assets and formation of Egba-Ake town. Cultural heritages include man’s physical imaginative products which can be touched and seen include buildings, crafts, tools, ivory, cowries, paintings, textiles, pestles, ...

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...

The growing demand for data and smart solutions is one of the fastest growing sectors of human activity. This tendency is noticeable in the field of architecture and urban planning. In recent decades smartphones and mobile phones have become strong and stable data sources. Architects and urban plann...

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...

This paper aims at recognizing the effects of social exclusion and the degradation process of public spaces and heritage environments in Spanish touristic destinations of Seville and Malaga. While it cannot be argued that after a lock-down as the experimented one, everything can return to the previo...

The living environment is an important resource for cities to response the challenge of aging population. In order to further implement the Healthy and Active Aging Strategy (WHO, 2007), planners and designers should re-examine the existing living environment from the standpoint of specific groups a...

Children's entertainment space is a place where people gather, and its environment will have an important impact on the health of users, especially for indoor children's entertainment space in cities. The thermal environment, acoustic environment and air quality of urban indoor children's entertainm...

In the process of modernization, the urban construction in China takes the historical city as the core position for constantly transforming and expanding internally. In history, the marginal zone formed by the consolidation of the city walls has gradually changed into a special zone of “half city ...

Abstract: Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu Province, the Yangtze River Delta megacity and an important central city in eastern China. Nanjing has the unique position of "Chengdong Qixi, connecting north and south, connecting land and sea" in the Yangtze River Delta city group, and is focusing ...