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This study examines the critical role of elevated urban spaces in fostering urban resilience and enhancing public well-being in the post-pandemic era. Through a detailed literature review and contextual analysis, the research explores how these spaces address the evolving needs for social interaction, public health, and mental wellness in urban des...
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent pandemics have and will continue to have a significant impact on public spaces in cities around the World. One of the major challenges and debates for governments and professionals alike is therefore how to create enjoyable and usable environments in high-density cities, which also feel safe. Elevated urban gard...
Urban environments have a significant impact on the well-being and development of young people. This paper examines the qualities of comfort and convenience that meet the needs of youth groups on urban commercial streets in Malaysia. Surveying a hundred youths unveils vital factors shaping their street experiences: freedom from pollution and noise...
Edited volume - Part of Urban Sustainability book series
Rapid economic development and restructuring have an impact on the existence of more old buildings in large cities. Most of these buildings represent different eras and typologies. Like a shophouse in Southeast Asia that has its uniqueness, is a very important heritage. The desire to carry out research related to the reuse of shophouses arises from...
With the transformation of urban beautification from rapid growth to high-quality urbanization and ecology, biodiversity has increasingly become an important indicator for assessing urban living environment. In recent years, with the concept of “green transformation” of cities, people begin to attach importance to incorporating biodiversity into th...
In the past two decades, community participation has been increasingly playing a critical role in urban regeneration. It refers to as an important part for the design and implementation of the urban regeneration process. Due to the persistent top-down tendency, particularly in developing countries, it is critical to expand the channel for community...
The recent history of urbanisation delineates a trajectory marked by rapid transformations. As urban fabric expands, cities are facing unprecedented pressure caused by the exponential growth of the population, leading to the typical phenomena that affect the built environment, such as land consumption and degradation, urban sprawl, and socio-econom...
The urban villages are a common yet heterogeneous informal living space in China's developed cities, characterised by high density, a high degree of autonomy, and difficulty in being regulated by the government. As a provider of low-cost residential accommodation, they have contributed significantly to the successful growth of cities, however, they...
This concluding chapter synthesises resilience within public places and building through lessons presented in this book. In fact, human interactions take place on small scales of the built environment, therefore the importance of investigating such conditions. At this level, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have also manifested, prompting a rei...
Despite the World Health Organization no longer classifying the COVID-19 pandemic as an ongoing public health emergency, its enduring impacts on people's lives remain significant. The importance of social distancing and minimizing physical contact has never been more emphasized in society, demanding new approaches to public places and architectural...
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted public spaces in cities worldwide, posing challenges in creating enjoyable, usable, and safe environments in high-density urban areas. Vertical urban spaces, such as roof gardens, have emerged as significant components of cityscapes, offering unique qualities in location, accessibility, and experience....
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The COVID-19 pandemic and other highly transmissible diseases outbreaks have given a new significance to the concept of “resilience”, placing it in the spotlight of built environment-related studies. New directions have emerged from expanding on adaptive planning, urban layouts, urban morphologies, spatial planning, healthy cities,...
This chapter summarises the valuable insights in the field of resilience-related innovations for cities and neighbourhoods to pandemics presented in the chapters of this book. There has never been a comprehensive and multi-scale book that shares scientific experiences, reviews, analyses, discussions, recommendations, and solutions with scholars, pr...
The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the most severe public event in recent years, revealing how vulnerable our cities and neighbourhoods are. Although the concept of resilience has already emerged for responding to multi-disasters in existing research, the highly transmissible diseases have given a new significance to “resilience” and placed it in...
With the development of inventory planning and the contradiction between land supply and demand, urban renewal development has been gradually replacing reconstruction in China's community redevelopment projects. Such projects need multiple stakeholders' engagement. However, China's patterns of public engagement with top-down governance are differen...
Townscape in urban heritage sites contributes a vital visual perception of the public realm. It consists of the streetscape, buildings, natural features, and human perception, which include the social, cultural, and way of life on the scenes. Historic Townscape represents tangible and intangible scenes related to historical artifacts and the histor...
This paper mainly explores the research scope of the impact of a child-friendly campus landscape on children's learning and social behavior, adopts a mixed research method combining qualitative and quantitative research, and selects two primary schools with different landscape characteristics in HeZe City, China as research objects and conducts a c...
The villages around a Cultural Heritage Site (CHS), despite being influenced by long-term restrictive conservation policies for protecting their heritage’s integrity, are often excluded from heritage recognition. They do, however, have opportunities to develop tourism and become places involving multiple stakeholders to alleviate the tension betwee...
VR and visualization are visual aids, but can give much more than sight, such as a wider sensation of being in the 3D world. For the past ten years, researchers and organizations have been trying to find ways to get the public more involved in social project design and execution. Technologies such as Visual Simulation (VS) and Virtual Reality (VR)...
Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to revolutionize public engagement in the design of urban projects, leading to more sustainable and inclusive environments. This research scrutinizes this potential through a study of elevated urban spaces, specifically the Sky Garden and Crossrail Place in London. Comparing real and virtual interac...
Purpose: This paper investigates the potential of virtual reality (VR) technologies—specifically, building information modeling (BIM) (“Autodesk Revit”) and game engines (“Unreal Engine”)—to enhance public involvement in the design and execution of architecture and urban projects. The main research question focuses on comparing the effectiveness of...
Debates on urban regeneration issues in China go further back to when cities started booming at an unprecedented rate of urbanisation in the late 1980s. Some of the known challenges and issues have not yet been resolved over the years. Not only that, but they have also intensified as a result of mass urban expansions and rapid urban redevelopment p...
Journal: Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Cities face considerable fundamental sustainability challenges, and scholars have developed many sustainability assessment tools (SATs) to assess and address these problems. As an important pillar of the tools, the institutional dimension, though added to one of the main dimensions, needs t...
With the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) model developing in urban construction in China, the contradiction between limited space resources outside subway stations and the enormous demands of stakeholders has become more prominent. The present research on urban furniture mainly focused on the underground space system and the development of surro...
Knowledge transfer has been known to play a significant role in driving urban sustainability innovation and practice. In China, a series of initiatives and programmes have been put into place to promote knowledge transfer through international cooperation. Among different international actors, Singapore has been seen as the most favoured country fo...
Urban regeneration has become one of the most effective ways to develop urban areas that have declined. Compared with other types of urban regeneration, community micro-regeneration is characterised by scattered stakeholders. Existing studies on public participation in community micro-regeneration mainly focus on revealing the interaction between d...
Cities are facing faces considerable fundamental sustainability challenges. Scholars have developed many sustainability assessment tools to assess and address these problems. As an important pillar of the tools, the institution was, however, not enough stressed in the existing studies. This paper aims at clarifying the limitations of the institutio...
China’s new-type urbanisation, as a national strategy, is one of the reasons why the leap in development has been made in the last decade. Existing studies mainly focus on the status and outcomes of china’s new-type urbanisation while stressing not enough the overlooked aspects of new-type urbanisation policies that are currently in use. This paper...
With the global COVID-19 gradually under control and the post-pandemic era arriving, architects and planners have had to reflect on the shortcomings and problems of existing urban planning and begin to explore more appropriate urban planning strategies to deal with possible future threats. Besides, urban public space, as the most important componen...
This research explores the local perception of Chiang Mai Old City's streetscape, which connects local people's distinctive places and spiritually anchors the spaces in the city. Streetscapes strongly influence people's sense of place, the ideology of street meant for the social-culture establishment and the street's utility as a public space. Chia...
the inaugural Hiroshima International Conference on Peace and Sustainability in the Context of Global Change
Fast economic growth and restructuring has resulted in a large number of obsolete buildings in large cities. Many of these buildings represent different eras and building typologies. Some, such as the distinctive shophouses of Southeast Asia, are important heritage legacies. The desire to undertake research related to the obsolescence of shophouses...
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Street vendors create a vital urban street and a significant and important part of our urban areas are streets, they cater to our leisure, social and functional needs. There are many debates concerning street vendors; on one hand, there are those who argue against them because they believe they create problems and should be abolished, and o...
Informal learning spaces play a significant role in enriching student experiences in learning environments. Such spaces are becoming more common, resulting in a change to the spatial configuration of built environments in higher education. However, previous research lacks methods to evaluate the influence of the spatial design characteristics of in...
Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models. The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building geometry prototypes. The research focuses on residential buildings in Ningbo, China. Seventeen small...
Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of diversity and a cultural dynamics related to its intangible and tangible urban heritage. Moreover, the c...
The use of atria for students' informal learning activities is becoming a common architectural design strategy in contemporary higher education buildings, especially in dense urban settings. However, while researchers have focused on the relationship between students’ perception, preferences and behaviours in social learning spaces, the spatial att...
This paper examines the role of environmental legibility in an era
where digital mobile maps guide many everyday journeys. This paper
presents data from a real-world navigational experiment, where
participants followed urban routes either by using digital maps, or
information in the world around them. They then completed an infield
task that probed...
Focusing upon the strategic entrepreneurial planning of local government, this paper presents a critical analysis of the variability of Chinese urban sustainable development projects. In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and notions of (urban) sustainability have become ever more closely intertwined. As a result, there has been a proliferation...
Portals are the transition spaces between paths and places in an urban environment such as the entrance to a square from a connecting street. This paper aims to explore different forms of portals by considering their relationship with places. In doing so, a people-generated image analysis was adopted for two case studies conducted in popular Chines...
The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the largest barrier to the realization of a ‘real' vertical farm. Some specialists have provided ways to calcu...
This paper attempts to assess the adaptability quality of Malioboro Street and district related to the physical and functional transformation as part of the urban negotiation and response to the ever changing environment of Indonesian cities. The street was qualitatively measured utilising field observations including physical mapping, behavioural...
Urban planning, regeneration and design is an essentially cultural practice with the outcomes often depending upon an understanding of and engagement with the past. As cities in China strive to be competitive and attractive on the world stage, their decaying historical urban fabrics are being transformed into vibrant places through historical-cultu...
Urban planning, regeneration and design is an essentially cultural practice with the outcomes often depending upon an understanding of and engagement with the past. As cities in China strive to be competitive and attractive on the world stage, their decaying historical urban fabrics are being transformed into vibrant places through historical-cultu...
Based on a perspective that creating a themed experience can strengthen the distinctiveness of a consumer destination and thereby attract tourists through purposeful interactions, this paper concentrates upon the theoretical model of creating a themed experience. The paper examines the visiting experience displayed on social media within the propos...
A boom in high-rise construction and vertical living has resulted in an increase in privately and publicly accessible communal spaces at height within tall buildings. Asia is leading the way in these developments, with one of the most notable projects being the [email protected] in Singapore. Here, seven towers are interlinked by a series of skygar...
Over the past 40 years or so, and more recently in developing countries, increasing attention has been paid to the preservation of historic settings; however, with continued development and urbanization, a solution is needed for the problem of how to adapt historic settings for contemporary life. Consideration of how to conserve historic settings w...
Notable gains have been made in understanding the factors that influence student experiences in higher education, particularly in the area of spatial configuration. Indeed, studies have found that spatial configuration affects spatial behaviour and movement patterns (e.g., Hillier et al., 1993). Increasingly physical and spatial supports are provid...
This paper attempts to assess the quality of a traditional street in Indonesia especially from the diversity indicator and also explores the role of diversity in the quality of life of such urban historical street. A qualitative inquiry is undertaken utilising field observations and in-depth interviews. The findings show four diversity components -...
This paper attempts to assess the adaptability quality of Malioboro Street and district related to the physical and functional transformation as part of the urban negotiation and response to the ever changing environment of Indonesian cities. The street was qualitatively measured utilising field observations including physical mapping, behavioural...
The late twentieth and early twenty-first century has witnessed the unfortunate plight of demolition or irreparable damage for thousands of historic streets across China as a result of urbanization and redevelopment. A core of committed practitioners, academics and enlightened local governments have begun to recognize the important historical legac...
The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the largest barrier to the realization of a ‘real’ vertical farm. Some specialists have provided ways to calcu...
This paper presents the early stages of a PhD research which attempts to analyze the effect of using digital mobile devices on the process of city imaging in The Information Era. Within this process, some guidelines are suggested in order to facilitate the design of the physical urban environment as well as the design of technologies with location-...
This paper presents the early stages of a PhD research which attempts to analyze the effect of using digital mobile devices on the process of city imaging in The Information Era. Within this process, some guidelines are suggested in order to facilitate the design of the physical urban environment as well as the design of technologies with location...
This paper draws upon preliminary research into the insufficiencies of the status quo of the disaster prevention and mitigation in architecture heritage areas in China. It summarizes how the common hazards, which are various threats to the survival and development of the historical architectural heritage, such as fire, geological disasters and mete...
This research tackles the intermediate spaces between buildings and the street, by examining the definition and importance of spatial configuration in relation to urban morphology and social relations. It also analyses how the organisation of in-between space affects social interaction in different urban forms. To understand the complex relations a...
Urban Identity, Public Place, Urban Design
The last two years have seen riots and revolutions demanding democracy as a way of life within the streets and monumental spaces of the Arabic world and Syria in particular.. While considering the dual process of people to spaces, the relation of public life to public space as one aspect contributing to the formation of the civic realm and therefor...
This research focuses upon the socio-environmental dimensions and urban identity of urban environments by evaluating human behaviours and space-to-human relations. In addition, approaches to urban re-branding will be analysed to evaluate the role of engineered identities in enhancing social integration. This particular study will focus upon the ins...
Presentation at Ningbo Municipality demonstrating a project's findings from 2009-10
Case study: Old Market Square, Nottingham
This research focuses upon the socio-environmental dimensions and urban identity of urban environments by evaluating human behaviours and space-to-human relations. In addition, approaches to urban re-branding will be analysed to evaluate the role of engineered identities in enhancing social integration. This particular study will focus upon the ins...
This chapter argues that urban sustainability needs to consider the user’s engagement, and in particular, the influence of physical urban environmental conditions. Environmental performance such as outdoor thermal comfort is a crucial factor that influences people’s use of the urban environment, and it should, therefore, be fully integrated into th...
For centuries, architecture, cities and landscapes have been considered as languages by many scholars. However, since there is a connatural difference between building and language, whether the built environment can be universally applied as means of communication is still being questioned. By reviewing the development of structuralism alongside pr...
The contextual integration between the water bodies, waterfront and the city has long been established in history when water used to be the main transportation mode. The importance of the integration of water bodies to many cities is globally acknowledged. Over the years, many of these cities have lost their integration with their water bodies due...
This article explores the historical context, process and result of introducing and implementing ‘new’ town planning in early post‐war Taiwan. The two so‐called ‘garden cities’ are examined: Jhong‐Sing New Village and Yonghe City, both of which were formulated in the mid‐1950s by the same group of local planners. It reveals that the assumed necessi...
This paper focuses upon efforts to secure the future of the historic winding hutong streets and siheyuan houses that represent the way of life of the common people and the true urban identity of Beijing. These remaining patches of historic Beijing are of immense value and the urgency of their preservation has become widely recognised. There are man...
This article explores the relationship between governmental politics and architectural practices in physical and ideological post-war reconstruction of Taiwan, which reclaimed political sovereignty from the Japanese colonial government in 1945 and soon turned into a quasi-country in 1949 as a result of the Chinese Civil War. Through a historical re...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century there is evidence of an increasing demand for downtown or city-center living in North America and Western Europe. Policy makers are increasingly promoting the concept as part of sustainability and revitalization strategies as it is strongly believed that this will help to achieve a whole range of social,...
Planners and politicians increasingly have to find solutions for development pressures that consume less land, generate fewer private car miles, use existing urban resources and conserve energy. One solution advocated by policy makers is to increase the number of homes within city centres as an integral tool of regeneration and sustainability polic...
At the end of the twentieth century our cities face a multitude of problems both of a spatial and functional nature. One of the key issues to be addressed is the limited time—9 a.m. to 5 p.m.—during which we utilize the facilities and opportunities that the city centre has to offer. The Twenty‐four Hour City concept is a relatively recent approach...
