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A retrospective towards a biodegradable material concept for future Indonesian sustainable architecture

The awareness of the negative effect of the intensive usage of synthetic material has led to a significant phenomenon in recent global development. Moving forward to become a fully ready developed country, Ind...

Authors: Fermanto Lianto, Denny Husin, Clinton Thedyardi, Mieke Choandi and Rudy Trisno

More dense but less walkable: the impact of macroscale walkability indicators on recent designs of emirati neighborhoods

With the aim to enhance sustainability in general including walkability, the recent urban forms of the designs of the Emirati neighborhoods have been denser and more compact, if compared with the older design ...

Authors: Khaled Galal Ahmed and S. M. Hossein Alipour

Developing a process-oriented approach towards Positive Energy Blocks: the wind-analysis contribution

Positive Energy Block (PEB) is an emerging paradigm to transform cities into low carbon cities. It is expected that buildings will become the main components of the future energy infrastructure. This scenario ...

Authors: Maurizio Sibilla

Strategic actions of urban development to define the intervention policies of slums

The problem of slums is one of the most imperative problems experienced by many developing countries as well as some developed countries. The random gatherings shape real disruption in the economic and social ...

Authors: Amany Ragheb and Rasha El-Ashmawy

The relevance of science-policy-practice dialogue. Exploring the urban climate resilience governance in Italy

The concept of resilience has been developed for over 40 years in different disciplines. The academic discussion on defining resilience is thriving to create interdisciplinary understandings and meanings. Simu...

Authors: Ombretta Caldarice, Nicola Tollin and Maria Pizzorni

Lao Tze and Confucius' philosophies influenced the designs of Kisho Kurokawa and Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture retains the characteristic of appreciating its culture, despite the growing influence of Western architecture. Based on this issue, it is a very interesting area to study to understand th...

Authors: Rudy Trisno and Fermanto Lianto

The spatialization of time and history in the skyscrapers of the twenty-first century in Shanghai

This article aims to find out to what extent the skyscrapers erected in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in Shanghai, follow the modern program promoted by the State and the city and how th...

Authors: Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel

Migrating architectures: Palladio’s legacy from Calcutta to New Delhi

Palladianism, which originated in Italy, is a style of architecture which spread widely across the world and has been extensively studied. It is known that it migrated to the UK during the eighteenth century a...

Authors: Pilar Maria Guerrieri

Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design

The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and contribu...

Authors: Marianna Charitonidou

How the pandemic has affected Turkish housing affordability: why the housing running cost is so important

The housing affordability problem in Turkey is not new. With the pandemic increasing pressure on the economy, the issue of housing affordability problem has reached an alarming level. The problem has been deep...

Authors: Seyda Emekci

Urban planning and the market of development rights in Italy: learning from Milan

In recent years, the influence of neoliberal principles has led to an experimental application of new market-oriented approaches in the field of urban studies, in order to achieve different objectives of publi...

Authors: Sergio Serra

Left open spaces—light shafts in Iran and side setbacks in Japan: a socio-spatial approach to study awareness in open spaces in urban residential blocks

This article addresses an urban design issue at a micro-urban design level; the spaces between buildings on neighboring blocks or the side yards, how such spaces they are used, and their social impact on resid...

Authors: Amir Shojai and Kaveh Fattahi

Assessing the effect of urban form on social sustainability: a proposed ‘Integrated Measuring Tools Method’ for urban neighborhoods in Dubai

Among the three pillars of sustainability, social sustainability has received the least attention, especially among the studies addressing the sustainable housing development in Dubai’s urban neighborhoods. Un...

Authors: S. M. Hossein Alipour and Khaled Galal Ahmed

Sustainable housing development: role and significance of satisfaction aspect

Providing quality public housing is one of the main goals of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government. This paper assesses the level of satisfaction with public housing offered by the UAE government to its ci...

Authors: Iman Abdelshahid Ibrahim

A portrait of Italian ‘Family houses’: diversified heritage in a redefined territorial and demographic context

The ‘family house’ has played a major role within the urbanisation processes that have been transforming the Italian landscape since the 1960s. It is a common feature of the widespread settlements that are par...

Authors: Federico Zanfi, Chiara Merlini, Viviana Giavarini and Fabio Manfredini

New approaches to housing complexity: designing dwellings in the age of cognitive economy

Space is produced by a society in accordance with its habits, and habits, mostly in the Western society, have been heavily influenced by forms of production. Indeed, it is widely acknowledged that the Industri...

Authors: Francesco Spanedda and Matteo Carmine Fusaro

Pioneering urban practices in transition spaces

The article suggests a set of design requirements to orient urban practices of transformation and space management when they work on transition spaces, which are difficult to interpret and classify in accordan...

Authors: Paola Pittaluga

Heritage Community Resilience: towards new approaches for urban resilience and sustainability

The value of cultural heritage and its transmission for “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” is an integral part of the UN Agenda 2030 and the new international poli...

Authors: Katia Fabbricatti, Lucie Boissenin and Michele Citoni

Strengths and weaknesses of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative in Southern Europe: Rome and Athens’ experiences

Cities are nowadays faced with an unprecedented crisis, due above all to the impacts of climate change and the increasing social inequalities, which require innovative approaches and more effective tools. Resi...

Authors: Adriana Galderisi, Giada Limongi and Konstantina-Dimitra Salata

Non financial compensation for the redevelopment of the historic urban landscape: the case study of Villasor in Sardinia (Italy)

In Europe, the debate on the recovery of the historic centres has been developed, over the years, around the balance between conservation and transformation needs in order to meet the new demands of the contem...

Authors: Anna Maria Colavitti and Sergio Serra

Sustainable rehabilitation of neglected and marginal landscapes: the San Lorenzo valley in Sardinia

This paper describes a proposal for the sustainable rehabilitation of a neglected and marginal fluvial landscape. It situates the experience into a broader debate about sustainability and spatial design, and t...

Authors: Paola Pittaluga and Francesco Spanedda

What is beyond the edges? Gated communities and their role in China’s desire for harmonious cities

During the rapid process of urbanization in post-reform China, cities assumed the role of a catalyst for economic growth and quantitative construction. In this context, territorially bounded and well delimited...

Authors: Badiaa Hamama and Jian Liu

Designing refugees’ camps: temporary emergency solutions, or contemporary paradigms of incomplete urban citizenship? Insights from Al Za’atari

Millions of people have been forcibly displaced around the world at an alarming rate. In 2018, approximately 70.8 million people (UNHCR 2018) were living in refugee camps. These camps are the most immediate re...

Authors: Rania Aburamadan, Claudia Trillo and Busisiwe Chikomborero Ncube Makore

Co-designing the pedestrian revolution in Muscat

Rapid growth coupled with the prevailing land allocation system in Oman led to a shift from compact dwellings typologies to detached single-family houses, arranged in monofunctional zoning systems that exclusi...

Authors: Gustavo De Siqueira and Amal Al Balushi

Abandoned landscape project design

Conversion and transformation of historic buildings and industrial site reclamation projects are becoming topics of renewed interest. Many industrial buildings beckon architecture design theory to revitalize u...

Authors: Giovanni Maria Biddau, Antonello Marotta and Gianfranco Sanna

Soil releasing as key to rethink water spaces in urban planning

Soil sealing processes that involved European cities in the twentieth century have reduced the quantity and quality of permeable soils (open land for agricultural and leisure resources). These processes have a...

Authors: Fulvio Adobati and Emanuele Garda

Four plus one dimensions of transferability: defining a framework for the application of a landscape characterization in the USA

This perspective article presents considerations based on an attempt for initiating a landscape characterization in the United States using the Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) method initially developed i...

Authors: Stefania Staniscia, Charles Yuill and Vincenzo Cribari

Among territorial project and architectural design

The contribution develops a reflection on the urban space project in contexts characterized by historical-cultural relevance by exploring interdisciplinary approaches through the intersection of research and d...

Authors: Michele Valentino and Laura Lutzoni

Cities and migration: generative urban policies through contextual vulnerability

This paper deals with the relationships between urban policies for the integration of migrants and the construction of new spaces of coexistence in the contemporary city. It discusses the limits of the current...

Authors: Valeria Monno and Silvia Serreli

Planning tourist infrastructures to regenerate marginalised territories: the study case of North Sardinia, Italy

European marginalised areas are affected by an alarming rate of abandonment and depopulation. Thus, they are therefore object of specific European policies aiming to their reactivation. Official guidelines, bo...

Authors: Ludovica Sechi, Rossella Moscarelli and Paolo Pileri

Inside the system-wide cultural district: a new relational and organisational taxonomy of cultural districts based on the sector policies by Italian Regions (2000–2015)

A considerable environmental turbulence pushes cultural and creative firms to cluster and to adopt new forms of cross-integration. An issue common also to wider entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) of SMEs. This e...

Authors: Anna Maria Colavitti and Alessia Usai

Migration, translation, and transformation of western urban planning models

People, ideas, lifestyles, cultures, architecture and urban planning models have invariably traversed the world as a consequence of military compulsions, political goals, commercial motivations, or aspirationa...

Authors: Pilar Maria Guerrieri

Towards a new school’s role in the Italian contemporary city

In Italy there is a considerable amount of experience in school constructions from the 60s that have anticipated the Italian national school’s standards with a fair level of quality. Like in other countries th...

Authors: Lucia Nucci and Laura Galimberti

Practicing transformative planning: the territory-landscape plan as a catalyst for change

This paper advocates the need for transformative planning practices to cope with contemporary crises of climate change and intensifying economic inequality that regions, city-regions, and cities are increasing...

Authors: Louis Albrechts, Angela Barbanente and Valeria Monno

Aldo Rossi: the ‘autobiography’ and its fragments

The year 1966 demarcated a borderline in the urban design discipline. Three books published that indicated a change of direction: City architecture by Aldo Rossi, The territory of architecture by Vittorio Gregott...

Authors: Antonello Marotta

Hosting spatial justice: Riace model and rhetorics of recognition

The paper investigates the relation between spatial justice and recognition. With this respect, it focuses on rhetorics of recognition, namely discourses, narratives and slogans put in place by actors who produce...

Authors: Giulia Li Destri Nicosia

Land use and urban sustainability assessment: a 3D-GIS application to a case study in Gozo

Balancing urban growth and natural resource availability has been recognized as the main challenge of the 21st century from the strategic documents adopted by the recent World Summits. Agenda 21 advocates sust...

Authors: Rosa Morosini and Floriana Zucaro

Drawing on nature: a vision of an urban residential street adapted for biodiversity in architectural drawings

Cities are becoming more built up and less hospitable to wildlife, which is in alarming global decline. Consequently, cities are becoming worse for their human inhabitants, who benefit from contact with nature...

Authors: Siân Moxon

Rules and the production of built space: an investigation on compliant nomotropism

State-enforced norms regarding the production of built space play a central role in determining architectural and urban quality. When addressing to this issue, researchers concentrate on social, historical, po...

Authors: Davide Pisu and Giovanni Marco Chiri

Post-industrial, post-socialist or new productive city? Case study of the spatial and functional change of the chosen Warsaw industrial sites after 1989

In 1989 in Poland the transition period was initiated, which caused a profound change not only of a political and institutional nature, but also an economic change of local labour markets and urban space. One ...

Authors: Katarzyna Sadowy and Adam Lisiecki

A scholarly backcasting approach to a novel model for smart sustainable cities of the future: strategic problem orientation

Sustainable cities have, since the early 1990s, been the leading global paradigm of urban planning and development thanks to the different models of sustainable urban form proposed as new frameworks for redesi...

Authors: Simon Elias Bibri and John Krogstie

Strengthening the city’s reputation in the age of cities: an insight in the city branding theory

City brand is a valuable asset that improves the competitive advantage of the city in the globalisation era. Relying on uniqueness and utilising various methods, cities endeavour to promote their reputation an...

Authors: Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi and Giuseppe De Luca

A methodological approach on the procedural effectiveness of EIA: the case of Sardinia

The evaluation of environmental effects of the projects is nowadays an essential element to consent to their realization. For this reason, since 1985, the authorization procedure for Environmental Impact Asses...

Authors: Cristian Cannaos and Giuseppe Onni

Geographies of discontent: urban segregation, political attitudes and electoral behaviour in Catalonia

The increase in social inequalities and the evolution of real estate markets are fomenting urban segregation in European cities. The impact of this phenomenon on living conditions, education, health and access...

Authors: Oriol Nel·lo and Aina Gomà

Beyond flatland: when smart cities make stupid citizens

The ‘smart city’—insofar as the concept has any definitive purchase—is really what I termed in my (2008) a ‘hyperspatial’ city. That is, its social world is not just connected, but hyperconnected. This means that...

Authors: Michael McGuire

The ontology of the architectural work and its closeness to the culinary work

According to a standard view, architectural works are nothing but material buildings. This paper argues that this is just one of many options, each of which may capture more incisively what architects really p...

Authors: Fabio Bacchini

Smart cities, social media platforms and security: online content regulation as a site of controversy and conflict

Smart, technologically managed city-regions are one of the main characteristics of the contemporary world. Since the attack to the Charlie Hebdo offices, city-regions and social media digital technologies have...

Authors: Chiara Poletti and Marco Michieli

Smart cities and security: Editorial preface

Authors: Adam Edwards and Marco Calaresu

Dynamic relationship between landscape and new energy system categories

Landscape is an ethics-oriented human action. Even energy systems have an active role in structuring landscape. They must establish with landscape a positive and proactive role and be able to guide it towards ...

Authors: Elisabetta Ginelli and Gianluca Pozzi

Epistemological critiques to the technocratic planning model: the role of Jane Jacobs, Paul Davidoff, Reyner Banham and Giancarlo De Carlo in the 1960s

During the 1960s, different critical voices emerged with regard to the main gaps of technocratic planning (what Jacobs calls ‘modern, orthodox city planning’), voices highlighting the oversimplifying epistemol...

Authors: Carolina Pacchi