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Land-allocation and clan-formation in modern residential developments in Oman

Affordable housing with fair and transparent land-allocation measures is a challenge for many countries. The Sultanate of Oman solves this issue by means of land-allocation lotteries in which male and female c...

Authors: Bernhard Heim, Marc Joosten, Aurel v. Richthofen and Florian Rupp

Food, city and territory: some reflections from a socio-spatial point of view

The purpose of this article is to highlight the relationship among food, city and space by adopting a social sciences viewpoint. Since the 1990s, not only in sociology but in the social sciences in general, th...

Authors: Nunzia Borrelli and Alfredo Mela

Development of planning index for evaluating climate change protocols: analysis of Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s Regional Plan 1996–2011

Conserving resources, harmonizing living standards, and employing energy efficient methods are potential solutions to climate change, which can be positively accomplished through development and planning. Howe...

Authors: Sonam Sahu and Izuru Saizen

Review of Territory: On the Development of Landscape and City by ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute. With contributions by Roger Diener, Liisa Gunnarsson, Mathias Gunz, Vesna Jovanović, Marcel Meili, Christan Müller Inderbitzin, and Christian Schmid

Authors: Cameron McEwan

Beyond rhythmanalysis: towards a territoriology of rhythms and melodies in everyday spatial activities

The recent, rich scholarship on rhythms, following in the wake of Lefebvre’s book Éléments de rythmanalyse (1992), proves that rhythmanalysis is an important sensitising notion and research technique. Despite its...

Authors: Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm

An empirical research study on prospect–refuge theory and the effect of high-rise buildings in a Japanese garden setting

This study was carried out to test prospect–refuge theory and the effect of external high-rise buildings on landscape preferences in a traditional Japanese daimyo (feudal lords) garden, namely, the Hama-rikyu Gar...

Authors: Buket Senoglu, Hilmi Ekin Oktay and Isami Kinoshita

Innovative post-neoliberal policy as a way out of crisis? Another reflection on the case of urban decline in Detroit

Many scholars have discussed urban decline, and one of the emerging discourses has called for redefining the crisis as an opportunity to establish new urban governance models. This paper evaluates the outcomes...

Authors: Nebojša Čamprag

Applying the benefits of biophilic theory to hospital design

In 1839, the Lexicon Medicum mentioned the “healing powers of nature”, arguing that many illnesses could be cured without the help of medicines, simply by paying attention to air, food, rest, physical activity...

Authors: Simona Totaforti

Urban metabolism planning and designing approaches between quantitative analysis and urban landscape

Nowadays, urban metabolism (UM) is believed to provide new insights for more sustainable resource management in cities and their hinterlands. UM studies, however, focalize chiefly on quantitative resource inpu...

Authors: Roberta Pistoni and Sophie Bonin

Governing land and urban change: the approaches

The paper asserts that each new urban and land planning approach, (ranging from the environment assessment procedures and land suitability analysis introduced in the past, to the newer methods of resilience an...

Authors: Maria Cristina Treu

Resilience thinking and urban metabolism in spatial planning: which possible integrations

The concept of resilience has been used for more than a decade in ever-widening intervention fields and it has assumed ever-wider meanings that have made its applications and measurements uncertain and ambiguo...

Authors: Marcello Magoni

Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language: analysing, mapping and classifying the critical response

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander is renowned for providing simple, conveniently formatted, humanist solutions to complex design problems ranging in scale from urban planning th...

Authors: Michael J. Dawes and Michael J. Ostwald

The food territory: cultural identity as local facilitator in the gastronomy sector, the case of Lyon

In times of increased territorial competition, processes of territorialization of food and gastronomy are often considered as key assets of regional economic performances. Yet, for they are by nature diffuse a...

Authors: Luca Tricarico and Jean-Baptiste Geissler

Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city

Everyday urban mobility is fundamental to access the opportunities offered by cities, something required to accomplish one’s own aims and guarantee participation in social life. Nonetheless, it is difficult to...

Authors: Giovanni Vecchio

Residential developments in small-town America: assessment and regulations

This study is part of a comprehensive process in the City of New Bern, North Carolina aimed at drafting a subdivision regulatory framework that promotes sustainable residential developments with a heightened s...

Authors: Mohamad Kashef

Regenerating small and medium sized stations in Italian inland areas by the opportunity of the cycle tourism, as territorial infrastructure

This study aims at demonstrating how cycle tourism could activate a regeneration of small and medium sized stations in inland areas, able to involve also territorial and urban areas hosting these stations. Sta...

Authors: Rossella Moscarelli, Paolo Pileri and Alessandro Giacomel

Agricultural level of development: a comparative study between project and non-project area of JSW Bengal Steel Ltd. at Sundra Basin of Salboni block, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

M/S JSW Bengal Steel Ltd. is one of the India’s leading steel producer company is going to set up a 10.0 Mtpa (Million ton per annum) and 300 MW Captive Power Plant by 2020 at Sundra Basin of Paschim Medinipur...

Authors: Sumanta Prakash Shee and Ramkrishna Maiti

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: an assessment of the 2012 London Games Legacies

The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular...

Authors: Simona Azzali

Urban Axis and City shape evaluation through spatial configuration in ‘Lan Na’ Northern Thailand Historic city

This paper revealed urban axis and city shape identity that influenced by its concepts and present activities issues in ‘Lan Na’ historic cities in northern Thailand. This study using space syntax technic call...

Authors: Nattasit Srinurak and Nobuo Mishima

Unimaginable hence unmanageable: new names for invisible urban places

A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people’s perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen befor...

Authors: Corrado Poli

Urban food strategies and plans: considerations on the assessment construction

In a context of growing attention to the issue of feeding the city, this article focuses on the role of the assessments guiding the processes of urban food policy and planning to reach Sustainable Food Securit...

Authors: Giacomo Coppo, Sarah Stempfle and Matelda Reho

Erratum to: On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings

Authors: Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini

Regaining the culture of cities

When, as architects, we reflect on the relationship between architectural projects, cities and landscape, we must keep the urban degradation of the world we live in uppermost in our thoughts. Nowadays we live ...

Authors: Paolo Mellano

The everyday urban environment of migrant labourers in Gulf Cities: the case of the old centre of Doha, Qatar

Preventing the complete social restructuring and the relocation of migrant communities from traditional cores in Gulf cities to newly urbanized areas is a rising urban and social challenge. The Al Asmakh distr...

Authors: Ashraf M. Salama, Simona Azzali and Florian Wiedmann

Erratum to: Hypsometric demography of Kosovo: the distribution of Kosovo population by altitude

Authors: Rizah Murseli and Hazer Dana

On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings

We discuss the relevance of the concept of antifragility, introduced by Nassim Taleb, to the theory and practice of urban planning and design. We further contrast the antifragility of cities with that of their...

Authors: Ivan Blečić and Arnaldo Cecchini

The swinging cities of the eternal present

How many furnitures, or houses, or urban districts, that where designed and made in the 80s are still relevant today? What clothes or shoes that period can be worn without appearing old or out of time? Everybo...

Authors: Mosè Ricci

Management tools for the sustainable reclaiming of historical neighbourhoods

The sustainable reclaiming of historical neighbourhoods can be achieved only by projects able to allow to all the public and private involved subjects to receive benefits (not necessarily only the economic one...

Authors: Nicola Costantino

Activism and urban politics to come: escaping the acceptability trap

The economic and political changes characterising contemporary urbanisation have generated unjust conceptions and configurations of urban space that, in turn, have sparked off unusual forms of activism. All ov...

Authors: Valeria Monno

Territory matters. Production and space in Europe

Rather than becoming entangled in the dreadful European crisis, contemporary forms of production could redefine the role of territory. The hypothesis discussed in this paper is that an acute gaze at contempora...

Authors: Cristina Bianchetti and Michele Cerruti But

Hypsometric demography of Kosovo: the distribution of Kosovo population by altitude

This paper attempt to analyze how population dynamics changed in Kosovo through altitude and time. Altitude is one of the fundamental physiographic factor that determine the vertical distribution of human acti...

Authors: Rizah Murseli and Hazer Dana

Seven challenges for the study of urban movements

The article explores the difficulties and opportunities derived from the study of contemporary urban movements through the discussion of seven questions: definition of urban movements; understanding of their s...

Authors: Oriol Nel·lo

The future of sustainable urbanism: a redefinition

In this article the future of sustainable urbanism is discussed. In current times a complex of uncertainties demands sustainable environments. Three uncertainties are distinguished. Firstly, the city needs to ...

Authors: Rob Roggema

Metaphor and urban studies-a crossover, theory and a case study of SS Rotterdam

Metaphors are used in various ways; at the surface for framing a message (systems of language) and below the surface metaphors are related to the ways we think and act. In this paper we will explore, below the...

Authors: Peter Nientied

In-formalised urban space design. Rethinking the relationship between formal and informal

This paper investigates the relationship between the formal and informal spheres of urban life and explores the change in the relation between them. Starting with a study of the evolution and different interpr...

Authors: Laura Lutzoni

Security, city and democracy

This article analyses the relations between security, urban governance and democratic quality in the light of the fundamental theoretical trends and principal empirical researches present in the socio-politica...

Authors: Mauro Tebaldi

Urban conditions impacting on the perception of security. A few Italian case studies

Insecurity has always been linked to the fear of violent action against life and property, and the dangers of natural and anthropic catastrophes. To this we must now add the fear induced by a zero-interest eco...

Authors: Maria Cristina Treu

Urban disorder and vitality

The concepts of order and disorder applied to urban and territorial issues involve complex definitions. Why do cities, in spite of the effort made to give them order, even though from time to time this order has ...

Authors: Francesco Indovina

Disquieting presences: the ambiguity and indeterminacy of Maurice Nio’s architecture

In recent years, Dutch architect Maurice Nio has built an array of projects in the Netherlands, which have generally been considered within the spectrum of the Superdutch phenomenon, and more broadly, within I...

Authors: Silvio Carta

Peri-urban agriculture as key driver to sustainability. A planning project in an Alpine city

There is a general agreement on the role that peri-urban agriculture can play in achieving sustainable cities. This role is particularly crucial in the Alps, which are now the scene of relevant changes, involv...

Authors: Corrado Diamantini

A chronological exploration of the evolution of housing typologies in Gulf cities

This paper traces the evolution of housing typologies in four major cities in the Gulf region, namely Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Manama. The study reviews the formation and historical events in the region, whi...

Authors: Adel M. Remali, Ashraf M. Salama, Florian Wiedmann and Hatem G. Ibrahim

Urban density after Jane Jacobs: the crucial role of diversity and emergence

In the early part of the twentieth century, planning theory and practice always voiced strong opposition to density. The error of this insistence was persuasively argued by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s. Subsequent...

Authors: Stefano Moroni

Adaptation actions for integrated climate risk management into urban planning: a new framework from urban typologies to build resilience capacity in Santos (SP)

Many coastal cities have recently recognized the need to adapt to climate change, given the increased frequency of disasters cause by severe weather events. Based on concepts about vulnerability and resilience...

Authors: Andrea Ferraz Young

Erratum to: Formal ontologies and strategic environmental assessment. A case study: the municipal land use plan of Genoa

Authors: Giampiero Lombardini

Optimization of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system based urban growth model

Global urban population has increased from 22.9 % in 1985 to 47 % in 2010. In Iran, population living in urban areas has consistently increased from about 31 % in 1956 to 68.4 % in 2006. Urban growth as one of...

Authors: Sassan Mohammady

Navigating in multi-level buildings: the effect of rotation

The existence of the complexity in layout and physical parameters are still under investigation in urban architecture in cognitive science. Current research seems to pay more attention to wayfinding in two-dim...

Authors: Giulia Mastrodonato, Domenico Camarda, Dino Borri and Caterina De Lucia

Formal ontologies and strategic environmental assessment. A case study: the municipal land use plan of Genoa

In the field of environmental assessment methods and tools, the space-based information systems have increasing importance, due to their capacity to organize knowledge according both to the representation of t...

Authors: Giampiero Lombardini

Translating text into space for mapping the past territory of a city: a study on spatial development of Dhaka during Mughal period

There is no established methodology for mapping the past territory of cities from text based historic information. As a result, the past territories of cities often remain obscure due to lack of spatial repres...

Authors: Mashrur Rahman, Kawser Bin Zaman and Roxana Hafiz

Developing terminology for side facades and side setback areas in Japanese neighborhoods: a study on utility and perception

The contribution of front or back yards to sociability has been the subject of several studies. No such finding however is evident for side setback areas, short distances kept between adjacent buildings, which...

Authors: Amir Shojai, Suguru Mori and Rie Nomura

The impractical supremacy of local identity on the worthless soils of Mappano

Soil is under pressure worldwide. In Italy, in the last two decades, land consumption has reached an average rate of 8 m², demonstrating the failure of urban planning in controlling these phenomena. Despite the r...

Authors: Paolo Pileri and Riccardo Scalenghe