Papers

Cultural Heritage Monuments are unique and invaluable, cannot be replaced, reproduces, relocated, replicated or recreated. Yet, they are undervalued, constantly underfunded and therefore underperform. This paradox is largely due to the partial and inadequate instruments used to fund heritage and to ...

Today, global warming has turned to one of the most important challenges which seriously threats mankind and the ecosystem. Buildings sector with 40% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission play a key role in these threats. Unfortunately, our present-day buildings are consuming mo...

The formation of urban thermal islands is one of the environmental problems in cities specially for cities located in hot areas. Many of the urban areas in these hot lands, which were previously covered with bright color soil, have taken on dark colors due to the development of cities. Accordingly, ...

Many megacities in the world are located in high seismic regions at which severe earthquakes are completely probable. Mid-rise building constitutes a significant part of existing buildings in these cities. In severe earthquakes, the structural collapse causes extensive fatalities and financial damag...

This study examines the potential of interactive art installations to stimulate human engagement and activities in public spaces and presenting a design proposal. The aim is to develop a sense of belonging despite differences and promote tolerance since Bahrain has a population of multi-ethnic and m...

Small - scale civic actions have the capacity to generate both social and urban change and push forward the localization of the SDGs. If today’s cities want improvement of environmental quality, it is necessary to engineer a way to combine sophisticated technology with citizen-driven data collecti...

The restoration benefits of the environment have been incorporated into the planning of healthy cities. The present research of the restorative environment mainly focused on the restoration effects of the green or natural landscape, however, rare evidence has reported the restorative potential of ic...

Few events have tested cities’ ability to feed their citizens with such ruthlessness as the current pandemic has. COVID19 has disrupted international and regional food supply chains, has leveled crops and shocked the ability of growers to harvest by limiting the supply of migrant labour. It has fo...

Bhopal is a tier 2 city at the heart of India. The initial settlement began in 11th Century and its evolution spread over centuries had a marked synchronization with the region’s ecology. The city planning vision and approach have been centralized around contextual ecology complementing the ecosys...

Disappearing spatial identity of the hydraulic civilization of the Vistula delta river in Poland influences potential, desirable behaviors of the water communities in the conditions of climate disaster. After the Second World War the cultural landscape of this area has changed due to a lack of under...

Charleston South Carolina is rapidly becoming the “it” place in the Southeastern US with the city constantly being listed by magazines such as Travel and Leisure and Traveler as a top destination for travel, along with Forbes ranking it as in 2015 as the 7th best destination for jobs. Invariably...

Physical inactivity is a significant public health problem in most regions of the world. Among this urban built environment as human habitat could have an effective role in their health by encouraging or discouraging people to be more active. According to many studies, little changes in lifestyle ha...

Flooding is one of the most common natural disruption in the United State (FEMA, 2006), and even though the probability of its happening is low, it can turn into a disaster with potential large-scale consequences. Being aware of the fact that Long-term sea level rise can increase the risk of erosion...

This presentation, drawing upon case studies from both industrialized and developing countries, revisits the key tenants in planning to support the transition to low-carbon, resilient and sustainable cities, in the context of the post-COVID-19 city. Specifically it re-examines compact and connected ...

Looking back on 25 years of planning experience, the single most crucial planning component appears to me to be shared visioning. While the term ‘masterplanning’ still bears the hallmark of the visionary ‘masterplanner’, drawing lines to connect the dots of an expert-driven urbanistic utopia...

As world’s economy tries to recover from COVID-19 Pandemic, the industry diversity in Indonesia affects the economic sustainability and its continuity. This paper explores the industry diversity and economic resilience in Indonesia during Covid-19 Pandemic. Using fixed effects model with data from...

The Kingdom of Bahrain is the smallest and most crowded country in the Arabian Gulf with an area of 765 square kilometers (UNESCO, 2018) and a population that reached 1,672,864 people in January 2020 (Worldometers, 2020). Muharraq, the former capital, is considered to be the second largest city in B...

The construction of a healthy city is facing the challenge of urbanization. Although substantial improvement has been made, there are still some problems in urban planning, such as inadequate management, space out of control, environmental risks and system fragility. The reasons are: (1) the scale o...

Cities are urban areas where we live, communicate, and navigate. Each area has its own characteristics which greatly affects its users. they can gather, crowd, or segregate us. Thus, urban planning has an evident role in controlling humans' behavior. This relation raises a question; in case of epide...

The northern part of Nicosia (Cyprus) has suffered a long period of isolation since the partition of the country and the establishment of a buffer zone through the city in 1974. As the situation continues to ease, and with the principal pedestrian land crossings in the city centre opened in 2008, th...

Increasing The Population In Large Cities , Has Many Environmental Consequences. One Of The Problems , Is Air Temperature Increase Of Cities (Creation Of Heat Islands) Compared To Surrounding Rural Areas And Emerging Hot Cities Universally. Increasing The Temperature In Urban Areas And Appearance Of...

The environmental crisis of the XXI century is increasingly manifesting its grimmest side, especially in cities where urbanisation trends are exacerbating several challenges. Air pollution, urban heat island effects, flooding are only some of the most evident consequences on public health and qualit...

While connectivity, decarbonisation, automation and the sharing economy are shaping the current transport revolution, the multiplication of mobility services at a fast pace through digital platforms is quickly impacting our commuting habits. As MaaS and transport technologies are rapidly evolving to...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to evolving the human urban environment, which the city represents, through understanding the post-oil period as transitional toward a new paradigm. This paper interweaves post-oil transition, the urbanity of the city, and architectural value an...

The planning and sustainability of urban areas is significant to the resilience of spaces and settlements. The planning system in many African countries is shaped by colonial policies promoting spatial inequalities and segregations (Obeng-odoom, 2015). According to Landman, 2015 the changing landsca...

The residential location and urban shape, including the accessibility of public transport, distance from the city center and density, is the crucial factor, which determined the travel behavior in each city district. Moscow has a diverse structure of urban shape and huge area 2561,5 sq.m, that can c...

Lessons learned from past events indicate that the shift our plans from centralized to decentralized, it has brought effective results in the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster management actions. Due to growth and urbanization, increasing population density and buildings in cities and limited...

The emerging city is very different from the matured city. Due to its rapid growth, it tends to grow as a quilt of various simultaneous developments, with pronounced edges and with different configurational patterns. The resulting urban grid is usually spatially deep and disintegrated, meaning one e...

The conflicts between massive urban reconstruction and cultural heritage conservation has been a challenging urban issue in China. A considerable number of cultural heritages was erased in the name of reconstruction, whereas cultural heritage has become a key indicator to measure the city’s cultur...

Bolivia is located in the centre of South America, enclosed by five neighbour countries; it has no direct access to the Oceans. In the last decade, Bolivia had engaged in a campaign to persuade Peru and Brasil to jointly build a high speed railway between the Port of Santos in Brasil and Ilo in Peru...