Brent D. Ryan first visited Detroit in 1993. Describing this experience, he says: ‘‘The sense of emptiness was overpowering. ... I felt as if I was walking into the ruin of America.’’ In his book ‘‘Design after decline—how America rebuilds shrinking cities,’’ Ryan tries to understand why so many American cities have been losing population, what was and is done to change the fortune of these cit...

Abstract A sustainable city is largely related to how well the infrastructure developed which important encourage economic progress and decrease poverty. In 2012, UN-Habitat has established City Prosperity Index (CPI) as a multi scale sustainability measurement tool extending from national urban policies sub-cities. This article demonstrates use of measure what changed in dimension Bashayer El ...

Creating sustainable cities requires a stronger collaboration between a range of public and private sector organisations to ensure cities are safer, healthier, intelligent and prosperous places for citizens to experience an enhanced quality of life. Within this context, urban planning and regeneration projects play a major role where stakeholders need to come together to assess the current chal...