Papers

Cities are the main engines of economy & human activities attracting flux of population from rural to urban areas. These cities hold high potential to create synergies and allowing development opportunities. Cities are also the places where inequalities are stronger and, if they are not properly man...

Life goes on ، But what matters All human beings go through life. From childhood to old age. In childhood, look to the future, and in old age, look to the past. It requires necessities in every period of life. Both physically and mentally. we in the days of life passage decided to meet these needs ...

How it has been done; A joint working group from four different organization of the municipally run the whole process. At the same time, a member of city council supervise the campaign. At the micro level, the district council secretaries which are deeply connected with local communities, report wee...

In modern times, the scale of aging population is expanding rapidly and the trend is becoming more and more obvious, "home based care " model has become an essential approach to solve the problem of aging population in China. 15-minute community life circle is expected to be the basic unit in buildi...

Doha, the capital of the state of Qatar is seeing a substantial urban change since 2005 and proceeds to the current day. The city will host the FIFA World Cup 2022. Thusly, various critical ventures and infrastructure works are being attempted and will proceed until the event’s dispatch. Therefore...

Stakeholder participation is a certain element for safeguarding resilience, especially in the interaction between actors in governing water-related to changing climate. Water governance takes place on various scales and intersects boundaries, from local to the global level. Solving problems related ...

With the society and economy of China entering the transition period, people's requirements for urban life show a trend of diversification and high standards. Urban design is no longer limited to physical space but starts to carry out multi-angle and multi-level comprehensive consideration on the so...

Most people regard green spaces as a necessity to enhance the physical health and psychological well-being of residents in promoting the general health and welfare of citizens and the environment (Röbbel, 2016). In the Modern Era, the availability of green spaces has become an integral component of...

This session will discuss the possibilities of creating healthy built environments that encourage physical activities of citizens. Noncommunicable diseases are one of the most serious threats to people, but some of the factors can be managed by staying physically active. The way that cities are buil...

Contemporary global urbanization continues to heighten at unprecedented rates. In the global south, cities have been growing rapidly in population size and expanding to form huge metropolis which present manifold development challenges. As the drumbeat about the urgency to address cross-cutting deve...

With the triumph of globalization and the expansion of financial capitalism over the past four decades, grass-roots city dwellers with long tenure are being displaced in an ongoing process of eviction and urban gentrification that is taking place in cities worldwide. The rights enjoyed by such city ...

In the last few decades, Doha has experienced major transformation in infrastructure and its built form. Recently, the accomplishment of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) has been visible through Doha Metro Rail network becoming functional, which moved this city – state towards modern innovations...

Bytom is a post-industrial city looking for a new vision of the future. City dwellers are between a history related to coal and new challenges. It is not easy for them to understand that industry is a thing of the past and you need to look for yourself and your identity again. Groups of social leade...

The relationship between the physical components of cities, including urban density, and public health of residents, is a challenging debate in different societies. Urban density affects the level of physical and mental health of residents, either directly or indirectly, however, the degree of impac...

Climate changes, sixths mass extinction, use of the natural environment and extreme land transformation have been bringing the question of long, sustainable future. Theoretical division of cities, towns and rural areas have been shaping our perception and types of actions that are answering upcoming...

The Navanakorn Industrial Estate (NIE) is the oldest industrial estate in Thailand, which is situated in Pathumthani Province located in the urban fringe of Bangkok city. Built in 1971, previous establishment of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act in 1979. Since the NIE was originally de...

The production, distribution and consumption of energy in cities is becoming more and more complex with the appearance of new technologies, financial models and user roles. +CityxChange is a smart city project in which seven European cities –Trondheim, Limerick, Alba Iulia, Písek, Sestao, Smolyan...

This paper discusses the potential of an interdisciplinary design studio to develop innovative thinking in response to the climatic and social challenges facing contemporary waterfront redevelopments. Climate change has a broad and growing range of environmental effects on coastal cities that demand...

In the context of the national territorial spatial planning in China, eco-spatial system becomes an important research object, the identification method of ecological pattern has also attaches importance to wider-scope consideration and multiple factor coordination. By taking Changshan County, Quzho...

Urban overheating is increasingly becoming a complex urban phenomenon. Paris agreement stressed upon limiting the urban warming to a 2 degree Celsius limit. Further, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 stressed upon improving sustainability in cities, climate action and physical well-being....

Walking is an important part of the tourist experience and comfort travel. There is increasing attention to encourage tourists to walk as a mode of sustainable transportation. Emergence of new and diverse forms of data has expand the field of research via text mining analysis. This is an alternative...

Scenario planning is a tool that tests out development possibilities and their impacts on achieving community goals. It is primarily used by the government to support long-term well-being of the community. The tool influences growth policy and development laws and is useful in communications between...

Alleyways play a vital role in urban life. It is a public space, it cannot be called a road, but it can still be used as a corridor for pedestrians to pass. Alleys usually dominate the urban structure; recent research by Gehl Architects stated that more than half of urban space is usually alleys. Th...

Urban air pollution represents one of the biggest environmental risks to health. This problem is growing rapidly, due to high rates of urbanization. The urban population ratio has increased from 46.5% in 2000 to 55.3% in 2018, globally, and is projected to reach 64% in the next two decades. In Iran,...

The continues rise in population, urbanization and the expansion of cities have triggered an increase in construction and demolition activities not to mention the frequent collapse of buildings which are mostly attributed to decay or poor structural design and/or the use of substandard materials amo...

To study and analyze the housing access of a community, as a basic human need, in the process of urban planning and policy-making is a critical endeavor. Housing is not entirely an individual area of decision-making as it affects and is affected by the social and political relations of societies, an...

For a long time, China's urban planning process often pays attention to the development of material structure while ignoring the connotation demand of humans, resulting in a series of problems in urban development. Urban spatial planning and research are facing the transformation from large-scale pr...

Being seed/food TECH, Horti family funder to small scale farmers since 1975, was nominated distributors of EU/USA SEED companies. Our funding to farmers is at buyback agreement for annual produce, suffered losses in agriculture. The entire INNOVATED researchers of food/agriculture have collaborated ...

Bamboo has been in wide usage since ancient times as a low-cost material for houses, bridges etc. They are the largest members of the grass family & are the fastest growing in the world. It grows approximately 4 feet in a day [in 24 hours time period]. Bamboos are of noteable economic & cultural sig...

12th Festival of Research and Innovation in Urban Management Tehran Urban Forum (TUF 12) ABSTRACT Tehran urban research and planning center (TURPC) has the mission of promoting and advancing Tehran's urban problem-solving and urban development planning by managing all of Tehran's municipal study pro...

Bus Rapid Transit systems have been extensively promoted as an alternative mode of transport to that of private vehicles, minibus taxis as well as rail transit, and boast reliability, flexibility and affordability for immediate and peripheral communities. Various South African municipal tiers devote...

Since the outbreak of covid-19, the Chinese government has performed its duties and made every effort to prevent and control the epidemic. In the fight against covid-19, we have learned that the construction of livable cities plays a positive role in the prevention and control of the epidemic. At th...

Demographic growth: a need to focus on school facilities: The demographic growth that the Brussels Region is currently experiencing, coupled with the small size of its territory and the need to strengthen social cohesion, have prompted the Region to take an interest in school facilities. Scattered t...

Public open space (POS) is an environmental good which has been approved to have the potential to benefit people from physical, phycological and social aspects. With the intensification of urban development, Privately Owned Public Open Space (POPOS) emerged as a common policy to respond to the widel...

As recently, the emphasis on sustainable contemporary cities has been increased, as well as the concern in sustainable urban planning especially its remarkable role in environmental, social, and economic aspects. Also because of the outstanding connection between public values and sustainability, re...

Context Cities historically have been built around commerce, enabled by waterways and ports. They functioned, and function, as nodes in ever evolving networks of people and products. This hyper-accumulation of production and people led to rather poor living conditions in industrial cities during the...

City administrations and governance are responsibility of administrator, politicians, leaders etc. It is very essential that officials who are responsible for policies for city governance and management, they should be having experiences of other global cities, which they can apply for their citizen...

The Regional Plan for Sustainable Development of the Brussels Capital Region identifies the canal area as the largest strategic development pole of the Region. It concerns a densely built, less-favoured, culturally diverse and segregated area. As a formal industrial area, it maintains an important e...

Urbanization has been rising exponentially all over the world where the trend of urbanization is at par with the population growth, resulting in creation of more urban areas - especially in developing countries like India where around 40% of the population reside in cities. The south-Indian state of...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemics in the preceding 20 years have shown the increased sensitivity of a globalized economy to disease outbreaks, its vulnerability, and lack of redundancy in economic production functions at a global scale. Scenarios for regionalization of economic development cou...