There is a growing debate on whether agricultural land in urban fringe should be maintained or converted to other uses. While ‘pro-ruralists’ believe agricultural land conversion can threaten food security and cause rural-urban migration, ‘pro-urbanists’ find it a necessary change for transition from a primitive agricultural-based community to an advanced industrialbased society which has the c...

Abstract As materializations of trends toward developing and implementing urban socio-technical enviro-economic experiments for transition, eco-cities have recently received strong government institutional support in many countries around the world due to their ability function as an innovative strategic niche where test introduce various reforms. There are models eco-city based mainly on eithe...

1 Functional Reuse and Intensification of Rural-Urban Context: Rural Architectural Urbanism Tiziano Cattaneo, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Roberto De Lotto, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Elisabetta Maria Venco, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia,...

A representational approach to ecological psychology is presented. This paper identifies a computational-level commonality in ecological psychology research related to passability of apertures. It is argued that a cognitive mechanism capable of comparing the geometric properties of an environment and the geometric properties of the agent can be used to support judgments for action in space.

An alternative view of presence is introduced based on existential philosophy and ecological psychology. This view favors a Heideggerian/Gibsonian metaphysic over the more conventional rationalistic orientation. In this alternative view, notions of subjective presence and objective presence no longer exist. Presence is instead tied to one’s successfully supported action in the environment, this...