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To the modernist and image building Chinese state, urban villages are unique but a transitional phenomenon of urbanization where peri-urban peasants have built substandard informal houses for low-income earners. Since the late 2000s, the Beijing government began forced redevelopment of urban villages at prime and strategically located sites. Potential of high value returns has enabled the municipal...
International practice applies several urban indicators for sustainable cities (Monocle's Quality of Life Survey, Quality of Life Index (QLI), Indicators for Sustainability, European Green City Index, City Blueprint and others). These urban indicators can serve in performing integrated monitoring, assessing and recommending objectives sought by cities by different quantitative and qualitative aspects...
The last decades in urban design research are characterised by a focus on technological aspects of cities which is commonly known as the smart city strategy. The concerns and interests of citizens are coming to the forefront nowadays with the awareness that a liveable city does not only consist of good infrastructure and sustainable energy supply but also citizen input and feedback. In this paper,...
The densely populated cities of continental Mediterranean France, which are prone to erosion, are facing a potentially multi-hazard threat, due to a rise in sea-level that is expected to increase by between 0.07 and 0.12m during the 21st century. The aim of this study is the superimposition of two widely used empirical indexes – the Coastal Sensitivity Index and the Social Vulnerability Index. In...
While the idea of the city as a commons had corrupted in Poland throughout the socialist period and did not recover in the wake of the systemic change, individualism appears to have become a dominating force shaping Polish cities since 1989. The aim of the paper is to unpack the concept of urban space as a commons and examine its readjustment at the beginning of the 21st century through the lens of...
Urbanization has resulted in children in many cities being separated from contact with nature, despite the many benefits that this can provide for play and learning. Influenced by research and practice from the ‘west’ there is increasing evidence that in recent years these benefits for young children are being acknowledged and expressed in policy and practice in China. Chengdu, a rapidly expanding...
•Political relations are no less vital for Nanning development•Nanning relies heavily on national, provincial and municipal government support.•“City of promise” reflects multi-hierarchical governments’ efforts
Events are commonly used for raising people's interests in using urban space for social interaction. Although previous studies have paid much attention to mega events and civic events, events held by profit-making organizations such as shopping centers have not been examined yet. More importantly, at places with shortage in public spaces, the events being held in shopping centers may have the ability...
The past literatures have studied both ‘urban resilience (UR)’ and ‘urban sustainability (US)’ in terms of the dual character - vulnerability and pertinacity - of cities. However, there is a large overlap between the meaning of resilience and sustainability, which threatens to weaken both concepts. In this study, we discuss the difference between urban resilience (UR) and urban sustainability (US)...
From years of research, we know that compact development that is dense, diverse, well-designed, etc. produces fewer vehicle miles traveled (VMT) than sprawling development. But compact development also concentrates origins and destinations. No one has yet determined, using credible urban form metrics and credible congestion data, the net effect of these countervailing forces on area-wide congestion...
This paper examines physical vulnerability of District No. 6 of Tehran to blast damages and blast loads. The main objectives are to enhance planners and decision makers' awareness of the extent of vulnerability of buildings in the study area (under different risk scenarios) and to provide guidance on how to enhance preparedness against potential risks. Physical vulnerability of District No. 6 of Tehran...
Recent technological advancements—most notably the proliferation of tracking technologies (GPS), real-time surveying techniques, and ambulatory sensing—have allowed researchers to advance the empirical investigation of the interaction between space and emotion. Over the past few years, two approaches to the assessment of spatial-emotional interactions have emerged: the assessment of emotion using...
Manila is a city that has been indelibly marked by phases of colonial and post-colonial urban development. As the capital city of the Philippines its significance economically, culturally, and politically to the evolution of the nation has been, and still is, unquestionable. Today as the chief port in a country that has one of Asia's fastest growing economies, and as the nucleus of Philippine commerce,...
Sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators are familiar terms that have gained significant importance. Non-compliance between the sustainable development principles and transportation infrastructure projects is changing the appearance of historic cities from livable and vibrant atmosphere into the car-oriented condition and cause environmental and social problems. There exist numerous...
Hanoi is the political capital of Vietnam but still ranks second in importance after Ho Chi Minh City, the economic hub of the country. Nonetheless, due to its ancient history, location and political choices, Hanoi, after resisting urban modernity for a long time, now seeks to expand and has achieved international metropolitan status. The Millennium anniversary of Hanoi (2010) was a further step in...
While theoretical reasoning emphasizes the complexity in metropolitan spatial structures, empirical efforts still focus on measuring spatial structures using employment centers. This paper measures a metropolitan spatial structure as a system of employment clusters for 361 metro areas in the United States. We apply a log-log model to assess the relationship between a cluster's size and its rank in...
The European Union promotes the paradigm of ecological modernization and the effectiveness of eco-innovations (European Environment Agency, 2014). This is evident, in particular, from the political and financial support that the Institution is devoting to smart cities. Thus far, most of the ‘smart’ projects developed in European cities focus on the theme of the environment and its efficient management...
This paper introduces the problem of the abandonment of historical housing located in city centres. These constructions are usually excluded from the cultural heritage conservation processes, and therefore a large quantity of them is currently unlivable, and because of this there is an urgent need to propose solutions. However, the extent of the existing building stock and the additional difficulty...
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