Pressures for urban redevelopment are intensifying in all large cities. A new logic for urban development is required – green urbanism – that provides a spatial framework for directing population and investment inwards to brownfields and greyfields precincts, rather than outwards to the greenfields. This represents both a major opportunity and a major challenge for city planners in pluralist li...

while risk reduction has been mainly addressed by seismologists and engineers by now, the total impact of earthquake greatly depends on urban planning factors. the effects of planning can be considered in the socio economic and physical aspects. urban planning may have a dominant role in various earthquake phases: at the time of earthquake; rescue, and emergency, as well as temporary and perman...

most of the multi-criteria decision methods (mcdm), including analytic hierarchy process (ahp) and analytic network process (anp), use subjective judgments for obtaining the relative importance of the decision elements of a subject matter. this has been considered as one the important limitations of the mcdms. the f’anp model, a hybrid factor analysis and analytic network process (f’anp) model ...

To reduce the losses caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, it is necessary to build effective and efficient emergency management/planning systems for cities. With increases in volume, variety and acquisition rate of urban data, major opportunities exist to implement data-oriented emergency management/planning. New York/New Jersey metropolitan area is selected as the study area. Large ...

These This paper looks into frameworks which aim at furthering the discussion of the role of regenerative design practices in a city’s historic core and the tool of urban design to achieve urban revitalization on the island of Cyprus. It also examines the region’s demographic mix, the effectiveness of its governmental coordination and the strategies of adaptive reuse and strategic investments i...

In this article we focus on online games and serious games in urban planning. At the beginning we provide some definitions of games and serious games and discuss the potential of serious games. We overview the urban planning games available online and give some examples of the game stories and concepts. The main goal of the article is to explore the potential of serious games in public particip...

Citizen Participation in Urban Policy by Charles E. Hillman Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on May 9, 1974 in partial fufillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science. Citizen participation has always been a hallowed concept in our form of liberal democracy. It not only legitimizes the political process but is also a strong force for citizen educati...