Papers

Under the background of "zero growth" of land use, there are many researches and explorations on the stock renewal of central urban areas in traditional planning. However, in recent years, the rural-led stock land use planning has attracted more and more attention with the development of land space ...

With the frequent occurrence of epidemic diseases such as “SARS”, “H1N1”, “MERS”and“COVID-19”, public health emergencies, which are characterized by large-scale, high risk, strong persistence and high risk, have become more and more obvious threats to the life and health of urban res...

As a major energy province, fossil energy has always been the dominant resource in Shanxi Province. Coal, coal-bed methane and related industries provide more than 1 / 4 of industrial jobs, more than 1 / 3 of industrial added value and more than 1 / 2 of available financial resources in Shanxi Provi...

It is an important basis for optimizing land spatial pattern and guiding land spatial planning to clarify the ecological conditions of land space, arrange reasonably agricultural production and urban-rural construction space. The network formed by green infrastructures has important ecological signi...

In recent years, the deep-seated reasons for the shortage of resources and energy, the destruction of ecological environment, the decline of human quality of life and the low quality of economic growth in urban and regional development are the maladjustment of urban metabolism. As a complex and open...

Recent COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 entailed several lessons, which could be capitalized upon for any similar outbreak in the future for the best interest of coming generations. Adhering to Dubai government preventive measures, Dubai Silicon Oasis has implemented distant working for 95% of its staff. C...

Abstract In recent years, a new approach of intervention in urban spaces, called "tactical urbanism"(TU) has been introduced to solve current problems of urban areas. The main purpose of this approach is to meet the needs of citizens in urban spaces to achieve social resilience. This study aims to i...

Mohammadreza Javadi Yeganeh, Bahareh Arvin, Majid Farahani, Zoheir Sabbaghpour, Abdolah Ekramian Today, cities are the most important place for human and ecological gathering of the majority of human society. That is why in recent decades, scientists and experts in various fields have been trying to...

After the revolutions of the so-called Arab Spring which begin in Egypt at January 25, 2011, many disasters occurred in many Egyptian cities, and also significant changes in cities led to the emergence of severe shocks suffered by the community, including other subversive threats as "long-term socia...

The cultural approach has been gradually applied to urban regeneration practices. The existing literature has identified the progressive, creative and entrepreneurial cultural strategy in urban regeneration, and summarised four aspects of characteristics. These approaches form the theoretical framew...

1 Problem Presentation: The rural areas in the cold region have the characteristics of cold climate and low density, and have significant differences and regional characteristics. However, in the aspect of shaping rural landscape in the cold region, many rural areas have the problems of sameness of ...

Abstract: with the development of economic globalization and social informatization, network public opinion, as a new urban environment, poses new challenges to the global cities in response to the outbreak of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, and puts forward higher requirements for...

The importance of body immune level in the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia caused by COVID-2019 has been confirmed. Therefore, normal immune level plays an important role in dealing with acute infectious diseases and long-term health management. Active urban residential public space enviro...

Hot cites are often referred to hot countries. Typical areas include Southwest Asia, Africa and some near the equator. Hot cities generally have difficult conditions to grow into cities. However, there are some cities that have been exported and developed with the choice of resources, and others tha...

One of the main approaches to sustainable urbanization strategy is to find appropriate resources for promoting the quality of life via developing infrastructure and extending facilities and support urban life by facilitating public access to meet their needs. Generally, unsustainable lifestyle pract...

In 2005, published by the United Nations explicitly proposed the close relationship between ecosystem and human well-being for the first time. Forest and wetland, as the world's three largest ecological systems, together with the ocean, provide comprehensive ecological, economic and social benefits ...

The term “sustainable development” first appeared as part of discussions regarding the capacity of natural ecosystems to support the current model of economic growth, assuming a strong concern with the preservation of the planet's environmental structures. Initially, these concerns were conceive...

The Egyptian urban system is mainly characterized by rapid urbanization, urban concentration and urban primacy. Greater Cairo Region (GCR) is inhabited by almost 22.8 million people, counting for around 25% of the Country’s total population. Moreover, governmental policies concluded that the count...

Tehran was a settlement in the past that more than 230 years ago chose as a capital of Iran, today is a metropolitan with fixed 9 million populations that is considered the center of economic, cultural, political, social and communicational evolution and changes of country. This city throughout its ...

The development course of contemporary Berlin is characterized by obvious difference between east and west, and great difference in urban construction goals at different stages. The concrete manifestations are as follows: bounded by the Berlin wall, east and west Berlin have great differences in urb...

China's rapid urbanization process has led to increasingly serious environmental health problems, and has brought severe challenges to the sustainable development of cities and the construction of healthy cities. Under the background of China's urbanization rate of more than 50%, the whole process h...

Urban resilience refers to the ability of a city to cope with disasters and recover its basic functions rapidly. Urban transportation, urban infrastructure, urban public policy-making and other aspects can improve the resilience of the city. At present, the urban water environment in China is still ...

The world's elderly population has soared since the 21st century. Data from China's national bureau of statistics shows that by the end of 2018, there were 249 million people aged 60 or above in China, accounting for 17.9 percent of the total population. By 2050, China's aging population will reach ...

Simply understood as ‘seeking opportunities out of crises’, resilience seems to be a universal approach to cope with contemporary global challenges, such as changing climate, rapid urbanisation, loss of biodiversity, migrations, etc. As a majority of the current problems are of urban origin – ...

Gottlieb Daimler and Robert Bosch, two pioneers of motorcar-engineering, were born in Stuttgart Region, an area that is often considered the cradle of the automobile. In fact, the contribution of car manufacturing to the region’s jobs, GDP and prosperity is outstanding. For that reason, the appare...

Urban inclusion is the key aspect of sustainable development. An inclusive city promotes growth with equity; where everyone, regardless of their economic means, gender, race, ethnicity, or religion, is enabled and empowered to fully participate in the social, economic, and political opportunities.Th...

Tehran Neighborhood Emergency Response Volunteers (DAWAM) Tehran Disaster Mitigation and Management (TDMMO) is the responsible body for Tehran disaster management system and its mission is defined as:  Improving Tehran Citizens’ Quality of Life in the Natural and Man made Disasters Aspect;  ...

The advantages of Including Public Health in Urban Planning (Tehran experience in tackling with COVID-19) The public health and urban planning connection emerges within the common goals of preventing urban outbreaks of infections. Not attending to the public health issues in Urban Planning may cause...

The UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) predicts more extreme variable climate in the future due to climate change. This may have wide-ranging effects on existing infrastructures in Qatar, and is likely to require costly investment in the infrastructure to tackle the urban challenge...

With the emergence of unhealthy, incomplete and unsustainable ecological environment in the process of urbanization, the ecological security situation in the development process of Wuhan metropolitan area (WMA) is increasingly serious. The ecological contradiction generally exists between the stakeh...