Papers

[Objective]In order to alleviate the pressure of the central city and develop high-tech industry, the Science City has become common in the world, but paying too much attention to the industry but neglecting the ecology and livability as a new city makes the Science City face urgent problems , such ...

The concept of coworking emerged in the early 2000s. Rapidly, these collaborative spaces proliferated all over the world, often installing themselves in renovated and reconverted places, offering shared offices and hosting a variety of activities for different types of users, such as events, trainin...

The present tasks facing most of the cities in Nigeria is over reliance on foreign exchange earnings on crude oil. The task ahead is to ensure cities function properly and cater for its inhabitants adequately. Several effort to diversify and develop other sectors of the economy over the last two dec...

Natural disasters have been an integral part of human history, regardless of geographical location. With the recent innovations in knowledge and data technologies, businesses have been collecting and analyzing data for decades to discover underlying trends and patterns. With massive amount of inform...

The metropolis of Tehran is the political and commercial capital of Iran. The city accommodates approximately 15 per cent of the nationwide population and hosts many important industries and infrastructures of the region. Thus, disaster mitigation and management are of great importance in Tehran. Fr...

Women’s triple role in the third world countries in under recognized. The traditional planning methods does not acknowledge the gender needs and varied gender roles while planning. Apart from playing the reproductive role, women perform productive roles, they are often secondary bread earners, whi...

The consolidation of environment, and technology consistently represents an ample conjunction of developed and innovative elements to serve the landscape. Construction performance depends not only on the operation of individual elements in the building but also on how they behave as integrated appro...

In the evolution of the study of Urban Planning, the emergence of the notion of Publics and Counterpublics presents to us a cross-cutting framework that could aid us in the study of the complex transitions that are underway with every shifting paradigm. This is crucial at the rise of a crisis like C...

Private and public actors encounter difficulties in implementing the technological and organisational design of industrial ecology (IE) due to its complex nature. In some cases, IE is even regarded as the basis of the circular economy. IS is a sub-area of IE that focuses on the study of industrial n...

Urban development and transportation are interrelated as transportation networks help in shaping the urban form along with supporting the social, cultural and economic growth of cities similarly infrastructure and superstructure of transportation networks are also shaped by city dynamics. Lahore, th...

Tourist destinations are used in coping with crises. Their exposure on several threats have reinforced them over the years and made them flexible with uncertainty. Are there any lessons that cities can take from tourist destinations? Urban tourism has increased rapidly over the years and tends to be...

Today, creating sustainable urban revenues from tourism and creating special urban tourism routes requires the use of new communication technologies and urban information systems. The research results show that the appropriate model of urban tourism to determine the specific routes of tourism should...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to define the cultural values that inspire the formation of traditional market spatial patterns. This study dealt with traditional market spatial pattern, hidden cultural values in the form of the morphology, and the factors that cause change. This study takes place...

The South African (SA) National Department of Human Settlements (NDHS) has always responded to high population, homelessness, poverty, expensive and scarce land with the policies that govern and support the provision of housing with high density policies. However, the Department is now re-thinking t...

Liveable spaces and green spaces are often considered parts of the same coin. As urban development and densification increases in the contemporary city, we see green spaces disappearing from our living spaces, people being disconnected from nature, and as a result, decreasing liveability (Cilliers, ...

The thesis work investigates the causes for the slow down of the process of urbanization in Howrah City; With the idea of identifying the potential areas which can be treated accordingly in order to widen the avenues for any future development in and around the Howrah Station Zone. Treating the land...

The development of digital technologies leads to new ways of collecting, storing, and processing data about the architectural and urban environment. Modern tools, such as laser scanners of various types, unmanned aerial vehicles, for a short period of field work allow to collect a large amount of da...

As a part of the supporting facilities of basic public services, the vegetable market provides great convenience to meet the daily needs of citizens. The study found that the vegetable market is an important supporting facility for family life and a vital indicator of urban livability. However, the ...

The street is the main public space in the city. The quality of street space might affect the frequency of using the street, thereby affect the urban vitality. Thus, many previous studies have conducted the quality measurement of street space, street health benefits etc. Among them, most researchers...

Land use practices need to be regulated and managed else they cause harm the rivers. Land use practices have impacts on both the availability and quality of water resources. (Baker and Miller, 2013) used the SWAT model in an assessment of land use impact on water resources in an East African watersh...

The COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic has drastically changed how we interact with the world, no less in how we move around cities. With urban transportation remaining an essential service, governments, agencies and organizations are being challenged to develop and implement changes that accomod...

With economic restructuring many cities in China have entered post-industrial era, particularly in metropolitan cities such as Shanghai. Various informal uses have been observed on the former industrial land. One of the most liveable urban form is so-called “creative industrial park”, which is t...

Over the last decades, tourism has experienced exponential growth, expansion and diversification, being considered one of the most important socio-economic sectors, an essential source of income and employment for many territories. In response to the concerns about the negative impacts of tourism an...

With the deteriorating of living environment, the concept of green cities and low-carbon cities gradually penetrate into the hearts of people. Among them, green transportation is one of the important manifestations of green development concept. Existing research on green transportation mostly focus ...

The Public Spaces of Tomorrow are places that enable young children 0-5 to flourish. Contemporary places support healthy child development. The early years are the foundation for lifelong physical and mental health, wellbeing, and social skills. Designing, planning, and building new public spaces fo...

Industrial lands in China deserve new investigation as China is transferring from the high-speed development mode into new normal economy stage. We measured the development of industrial lands in China in the past two decades. Using urban industrial-construction proportion and location quotient for ...

Cities across India are facing challenges of unplanned development and burdened infrastructure, housing stock crops up before land-use planning while street infrastructure & public transportation is made to play catch-up with the already developed housing stock. The civic bodies struggle to provide ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of urban regeneration in fostering sustainable development of the heritage districts in old Doha, Qatar. Urban regeneration is a tool that seeks to address the apparent decline and decay of urban areas and cities across the globe. Over time, the proce...

ISOCARP used to organize the special sessions on planning education. These were started by Prof. David C. Prosperi, and the first session of this type took place during the ISOCARP Congress in Perm, Russia (2012). In addition to already well established Young Planning Professionals’ Program (YPP) ...

This research analyses the extreme consequences of platform capitalism on the fragile urban composition of informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil. The illusion of immateriality often hides the very physical effects of platform economies on urban space. Hidden effects include uncontrolled space c...