Design of sustainable urban electronic grocery distribution network

Effective Socio-Cultural Factors on Sustainable Design of Urban Space

The study of design and formation of urban space focuses on interaction of human and environment. This is an attractive subject that considers as interdisciplinary debates. Thinkers of urban studies pay attention to this matter empirically and theoretically in order to provide a desirable space for human being. This research is based on the theories of urban studies and urban sociology and so o...

Sustainable Urban Design and Walkable Neighborhoods

Sustainable Community Development and Urban Design

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Integration or Segregation – Recommendations of the Principles of Urban Road Network Design for the Sustainable City

The study is a review of literature related to the current international debate about the principles of road and transport network design in urban areas (Nielsen 2006). This includes a discussion of urbanists’ critique of the conventional approach in the tradition of the famous Buchanan report (Traffic in Towns 1963) and of the influential Scandinavian traffic safety principles of SCAFT (1967) ...