Papers

One of the biggest obstacles to the implementation of Nature Based Solutions (NBS), sustainable urban regeneration and new management instruments challenging the status quo of resource use in cities represents shifting the mindset of the citizens. Long-standing behavior in what concerns, for example...

China has success in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic in the first phase, then China has entered the period of virus control normalized, the concept of "resilience city", which takes urban development and public safety into consideration, has again attracted attention in the field of urban dis...

Rapid urbanisation often results in a uniform infrastructural development, which compromises on liveability. Commercially mass-produced building materials and designs largely dominate the urban fabric. This generates not only low quality of life, but also compromises meeting the Paris Agreement, whi...

Abstract: The vision of a good urban city is to design spaces livable for everyone. Every individual deserves to enjoy each space within the city. In India, 39% of the total population are children below 18 years. Planning of a city from the vantage point of a toddler is the best way to start. A chi...

The paper describes the partial results of the ongoing EU Interreg Italy-Croatia Joint_SECAP (Joint strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in coastal areas) project which aims to identify shared intervention strategies and adaptation measures to climate change in the Adriatic coastal cities by syn...

Background and Status Quo – the “Problem” Over the course of the last five years, most large cities have been experiencing dramatic effects of the climate crisis. In August 2018, the New York Times published “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change,” an explicit chronicle...

Background: The coastal landscapes of Europe are some of the most important and yet vulnerable areas of human settlement. Characterized by overlapping and competing land uses, coastal landscapes are focus areas for urban growth and infrastructure, road and rail networks, industrial and commercial de...

With the rapid development of society and the rapid advancement of globalization, various public health emergencies occur frequently around the world. By reviewing the worldwide of SARS, H1N1, MERS, Ebola and other sudden infectious diseases shows that large-scale, urgent, dynamic, easily transmissi...

Communities are the front lines facing Covid-19, in addition to city entrances. This paper uses four mega cities in China as the cases, which are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It uses a text-mining method to express online news about the anti-Covid-19 measures of communities in these ca...

Connected street networks significantly encourage higher levels of people walking and biking and less trip by motorized vehicles leading to significant reduction in carbon emissions which can greatly contribute to develop a green and sustainable city with community and environment friendly transport...

"Urban-Villages" are the oldest surviving concept of a self-sustainable neighbourhood where smaller settlements of varied density and mixed land-uses are focused, social and physical infrastructure are provided within reach and local businesses are encouraged. Such urban-gentrification practices hav...

The current global health crisis has profoundly affected major urban centers all over the world. Confinement has put people’s lifestyles in question, changed daily priorities and limited citizen freedoms that seemed inalienable before. A new set of rules on social interactions and urban operations...

Bali, as known as Land of the Gods, is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Indonesia. Around 16,3 Million tourists visited Bali in 2019. Offering its natural beauty attraction and an authentic cultural ambiance, Bali has many beautiful places to explore. One of the most favorite places to...

Biella city is a complex territory which has been considered as the cradle of industrial revolution in Italy , inherited urban and social values which promoted the city now to defined as a creative city mainly with the luxury wool fabrics in northern Italy, Piedmont region. The whole socio-cultural ...

In recent times, after the defeat of the ‘sceptical approach’ on the strong correlation between global warming and mankind activities, the scientific debate about ‘anthropogenic Climate Change’ and its effects on human settlements has shifted. Nowadays, it is mostly focused on the capabiliti...

To reach the energy and climate targets an important, but also very complex task lies within the existing built up area. Both the energy transition and the transition towards new housing models are asking for an approach on a larger scale. The focus can not solely lie on transforming individual buil...

The Usquare site is one of the priority development poles identified in the Brussels' Capital Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. The Region, owner of the site since 2018, wants to convert this enclosed military complex into an open, sustainable and diverse district for the 21st century livin...

During current circumstances of COVID-19 crisis, communities are becoming more vulnerable and devastated physically, mentally, and their overall well-being. Without question, we urban designers and planners can do something to help people recover from the current crisis, and be better prepared for t...

Jordan supports the third-largest population of Syrian refugees in the Middle East. Only 17% of Syrian refugees are living in camp environment. While urban Syrian refugees account for 83% of Syrian refugees in Jordan. The sustained influx of Syrian refugees and the limited capacity of refugee camps ...

The Western Ghats, starting north from Gujarat and stretching south till Tamil Nadu, is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. The presence of 13 National Parks, 34 Wildlife Sanctuaries, birthplace to many rivers, and recognition by UNESCO as one of the world’s eight most important biodiversit...

The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis exposed our globalized vulnerability to novel pandemic infectious diseases without pre-treatment. It is yet too early to assess if ‘urbanization’ or ‘urban lifestyle’ is a root-cause of COVID-19, but surely cities and their typical characteristics are under st...

Urbanisation is an index of transformation from traditional rural economies to modern industrial areas. It is increasing concentration of population in urban areas (Davis, 1965). Kingsley Davis has explained urbanization as process of changing from spread out pattern of human settlements to one of c...

With the continuous improvement of transportation facilities and information networks, the obstruction of distance in geographic space has gradually weakened, and the hotspots of urban geography research have gradually changed from the previous city hierarchy to the characteristics of urban connecti...

Scientific opinion is now agreed that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with related weather patterns and extreme events. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is emphasized in its Fifth Assessment Report, that climate change impact is unequivocal. Climate change not ...

As global warming worsens, climatic condition in many regions is going through profound changes which could affect the livability of cities. The climate changing condition impacts is likely to affect many urban system world wide. The evolution of heat wave risk in cities is related to regional clima...

This contribution lies in the intertwining of two areas of the territory and urban planning’s studies: on the one hand, the research on “peri-urban spaces” (or "fringe areas"), on the other hand, the reflections on “specialized peripheral settlements” of activities, often indicated in lite...

Between August 1st and 18th, 2018, the small coastal state of Kerala in India, experienced its worst ever floods affecting more than 75% of the total villages spread across its 14 districts and impacting the lives of around 5.4 million people. This humanitarian crisis exposed an array of hidden as w...

Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has advocated the construction of affordable housing, with the aim of improving the living conditions and the quality of low-income people. Shanghai has built a large number of social housing communities in the suburbs of the city. The population of the centra...

As per United Nations the Population growth and urbanization are projected to add 2.5 billion people to the world’s urban population by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa (United Nations, 2014, p. 1). Out of about 7933 urban settlements in India only 3892 qualify...

Sustainable Development Goals has the seventh target of its Sustainable Cities and Communities-Goal:11 focused on providing access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. Principles of sustainable development necessitate that a balance between environment and development to ensure healthy liv...