Sensescape, predominantly explored from the viewpoint of viewscape and soundscape, needs investigation other senses such as smell, a vital part place experience. The experience not only depends on but also how act within context. Cities across developing countries, with dynamic tension coexistence between traditional modern, are experiencing transformations, inducing major alterations in urban ...

The transformation of industrial city into modern city entailed the change in the dominant nature of the city from the site of production to that of consumption. In the postmodern city, the trend accelerated, or better to say, heightened into "mass consumption". Consumption is no longer considered a routine and banal activity. It is rather a consciously and unconsciously affected affair that is...

Urbanisation is a long standing problem and phenomenon all around the world. It means more and more challenges for scientists. Remote sensing techniques with high spectral and spatial resolution open novel approaches which enable the analysis of vegetated and non-vegetated urban surfaces with high heterogeneity. In this paper it is demonstrated how hyperspectral images and thermal maps can be u...

This paper discusses the deterioration of indigenous irrigation system traditionally developed in the past to serve the peri-urban agricultural lands that have been affected by rapid urbanization in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The study is based on data collection from mapping, field survey and interview analyses and identifies current canal deteriorating conditions in four categories: fil...

Migration plays an important role in the process of economic development and social transformation. This paper analyzes the push factors of rural to urban labour migration. The empirical results shows that increasing per capita Net State Domestic Product decreases the number of out-migrants from the rural areas of that state whereas increasing the proportion of population living below poverty l...

This study examines the temporal and spatial changes in land use as aconsequence of rapid urban development in the city of Beijing. Using a combination oftechniques of remote sensing and GIS, the study identifies a substantial loss of plaindryland and a phenomenal expansion of urban construction land over the recent decade.Geographically, there is a clear shifting of urban construction land fro...

During the 1920s fundamental changes occurred in business institutions responsible for retail distribution. Most significantly, the large urban department store began a period of relative decline and new forms of retailing emerged as strong competitors for sales volume. This paper describes these developments and attempts to show their relationship to the changing structure of American cities a...

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [10] [20]. The recent growth of ULLs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-scale of decisio...

The authors of the article aim to identify principles and patterns mutual influence socially significant projects transformation urban environment regimes in Russian Federation. Clarence Stone's concept is used as a theoretical framework. Based on author's system criteria social significance, 6 4 cities were selected analyzed: Okhta Center Tuchkov Buyan St. Petersburg, Zaryadye Park development...

The agricultural sector in developing countries is one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change and water scarcity. Iran Middle Eastern country facing a growing crisis. Rafsanjan county, located province Kerman, losing its pistachio orchards shortages change. modernisation irrigation methods transfer from other regions have been main strategies taken by governmental authorities. lack su...