Papers

Sharing economy is matching of excess demand and supply in the society along with the use of internet, enabling peer-to-peer transactions. There is not yet have a universally agreed definition of the concept, but it can be summarized as activities occur when people agree to share, barter, lend, rent...

Metabolism seems to have some kind of semblance to urban development which also draws inputs from nature, society and the economy to produce buildings and spaces for use, and possibly misuse, adapting some of them but leaving behind, somehow, obsolete parts that cannot change to serve new needs. How...

Novel coronavirus pneumonia strikes the city in 2020, making this year special. This also brings us to the attention of city public safety and health, which directly affects the healthy and sustainable development of the city. During the Spring Festival, many small towns that provide a large number ...

Pandemics, climate hazards, unprecedented events and other surprises emerge out of the future and influence the urban environment often in a contradictive way. Pursuing sustainable cities aims to create a balance in the environmental quality along with social and economic needs of the urban life. It...

Qatar used the unprecedented oil revenues to reshape its cities and particularly the capital city; Doha. Such rapid urbanization has led to unprecedented changes in the country’s urbanity, city image, sense of place, and housing neighborhoods. The changes were not only manifested in the physical f...

1st PROPOSAL Format: world cafe or soapbox on the themes: 1. 15 minutes city – ways of rethinking megapolis (+suburbs) into a set of 15- cities 2. Substitution of Public transit infrastructure by bikes and SMT(slow-moving transport); Others may follow after seeing the abstracts submitted to Track ...

Cities are the challenge of the 21st century, evolving and increasing rapidly the range of urgencies and emergencies. Most of the population in the world allocates in urban environments overlapping crisis such as covid19 worldwide outbreak. These extraordinary emergencies give us awareness about vul...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and neighbourhood liveability is dependent on an improved transportation sector. Urban Transport is conceptualized as either mobility or accessibility; thus, it remains an integral part of the improvement of urban livelihood, and act as a bicycle sp...

Howrah, unlike Kolkata, has seen industrialisation for the past 200 years ever since the British rule. With time, though many of these industries faced closure, the land occupied by the industries continued to act as an inhibiting factor for the city's urbanization plan. The infrastructure built by ...

Urbanization is the most transformative trend of 21st century being witnessed by mankind. The United Nations 2018 report envisages Delhi to be world’s most populous city by 2028 with 37.2 million people. As per McKinsey, it is expected that India will add more than 20 billion square metres of resi...

Kangqiao Cluster Area of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Design Industry is facing the agglomeration and reconstruction of innovative industries. Creative city concept is the key factor in this park planning. In cater to the demand of creative people，the plan aims to build a livable environment and cr...

Cities are the cradles of modern civilization and largest agglomerations of human activities. They experience constant internal dynamics caused by external factors like the newest COVID-19 emergency, the environmental degradation, the oil crises and unsustainable economic practices leading to social...

The port has an important role in the economic growth of the city. That is why the port cities are a peculiar ecosystem that needs attention in its development. Seatropolis is a concept which explain the relationship how the development of a port will affect the surrounding area. Powerful but also v...

Cities in mega-deltas of Asia are densely populated economic centres of the region. Decades of government policies and institutional reforms have transformed the local economy from an agricultural-based to a primarily manufacturing-based one. This creates highly uneven spatial development within and...

Under the background of the rapid urbanization, suburbs have become the forefront of urban living space. Different with the dwellers in the city center, the daily behavior characteristics of suburban dwellers are more varied due to the commuting distance and employment opportunities. Meanwhile, the ...

Traditional and Modern Systems for Addressing Water Scarcity in Arid zones of India Ar. Seemantini Nakil, Associate Professor DY Patil School of Architecture Ambi, Pune India Mob:9558863787 Email: seemapavannakil@gmail.com Abstract Water is essential for all socio-economic development and for mainta...

There is a well-documented relationship between economic prosperity and housing insecurity, which is particularly true in rapidly urbanizing societies. But the growing prosperity of urban regions introduces a paradox of economic success stemming from the rising costs in such regions. The additional ...

Abstract A vast body of literature advocate mixed land use as a measure for compact and sustainable development. In the Western nations, the idea was promulgated through the works of Jacobs and others, and was thought to reduce the need to travel and bring vibrance to the monotonous streets in the W...

In the second half of 2019, the Qingdao West Coast New Area planning authorities have invited ISOCARP Institute to provide it with a contemporary, international urban planning and design knowledge perspective on the next stage development and implementation of the (governmental) policies for the new...

Self-organization, the opposite concept to hetero-organization, is gradually formed by the coordinated interaction of internal elements. In traditional urban and rural spaces, this phenomenon is more common in the suburbs of western cities or rural settlements. Due to less control over power, collec...

The GCC cities have been witnessing rapid changes in its urban systems to cope with the post oil era. Recently the GCC governments have allocated multibillion US dollars to finance major infrastructure, urban rejuvenation, and rehabilitation projects in most of the major cities to diversify its econ...

Liveability is one key characteristic of cities that enables them to attract globally-mobile resources (Tan and Kaur, 2014). Various annually published global liveability rankings also have an impact on the popularity of cities, which is crucial for emerging economies. The unpleasantness of the clim...

The population of the world, now somewhat over seven billion persons, is growing faster than at any period in man’s history. By 2050 the global population is projected to reach nine billion. As food production struggles to keep up with the rapidly growing global population, food waste is predicted...

Extractive industries have triggered rapid urban development. Some of those cities were designed with a proper master plan, while others grew organically following externalities of the industries. In the case of mining-based cities, some cities are struggling to keep up with the economic stagnation ...

Achieved the healthy lifestyle standards in urban development is important to the health of the population, as a healthy city helps to improve the health performance for residents to creating active city, safe, clean and livable environment, high degree of control and participation, provide physical...

COVID-19 alerts urban planners and cities more broadly to invest in the planning of healthy cities, healthy environments for healthy people. The pandemic and response with lockdowns in almost every country shows that if cities cannot rely on a strong global and local health system, they will have ex...

It has been taken as one of the top priorities to promote the development of the surrounding areas of stations through the construction of high-speed railway hubs in China, in order to form a high-quality urban network with high-speed railway hub and line connectivity. Shenzhen, the core city of Gua...

This paper explores the particular condition of informal and unequal urbanism in Tunis, which can be spontaneous and uncontrolled in the outskirts or proximity of the capital. Although of similar population, cities in Global North, such as Copenhagen, often reflects a formality and showcases a parag...

The paper aims at identifying how to upgrade ecotourism value chain and bring local economic development. This paper discuss the value chain of community-based tourism in the rural areas in Indonesia. Two tourist villages in Semarang District of Central Java Province, Lerep and Tegalwaton Village, w...

The implementation of energy policies with a view to reduce CO2 emissions poses specific challenges, especially to public authorities, who should define specific objectives, and evaluate the adequacy and impact of energy actions proposed. Nevertheless, an appropriate analysis is highly time-consumin...