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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