RESIDENTS' POST-REDEVELOPMENT RATINGS AND THEIR INTENTION TO PROMOTE DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT FROM THE ASPECT OF URBAN FORM CHARACTERISTICS

Measuring Urban Redevelopment Sustainability: Exploring Challenges from Downtown Seoul

A main challenge for the design and building of green and smart cities is the redevelopment of existing built environments. This research investigates the usefulness of urban district sustainability evaluation systems in informing and guiding urban redevelopment projects. The German DGNB Urban District (DGNB UD) sustainability assessment and certification system has been chosen among others due...

Redevelopment of Urban Village in Shenzhen

DEDICATION To my parents and family for their endless love and support. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kathleen Lugosch and Stephen Schreiber for their academic advices and kind help. Urban Villages are a specific phenomenon raised in modern China due to the high-speed economic development and urbanization in recent three decades. And there are social, economic, cultural and architectural ...

Foreword: Recent Developments in Urban Redevelopment

The Faustmann Redevelopment Cycle

It must have been a very long time since man first discovered that buildings too rise and fall. A forest is planted, harvested, and replanted; a machine built, used and dismantled; and likewise, a site is constructed, occupied, and reconstructed... Perhaps the first systematic analysis of building life cycles was on costs. Surveyors and building economists in the UK first wrote on life cycle co...

The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment

The paper presents a theoretical model that seeks to answer the question of why former squatter settlements tend to upgrade/redevelop at a slower pace than otherwise similar settlements originating in the formal sector. We argue that squatter settlers’ initial strategy to access urban land creates a ‘legacy effect’ that curtails settlement upgrading possibilities even after the settlements are ...