Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. Urban transportation has had a major negative impact on our environment—most of our air pollution comes from transport. This paper explores ways to move toward a more sustainable transport system by focusing on creating a more efficient and livable city and improving the environmental efficiency of...

Easy access to different necessities of daily life makes a city more livable. This has motivated urban planning researchers to quantify urban accessibility from official city data. However, due to the manual nature of data collection, these earlier survey based analyses were limited in scope and scalability, and mostly offered insights on cities of developed countries like the UK and the USA. U...

This study presents a design proposal based on the concept of developing smart, livable, and sustainable historical city center for Ulus District in Ankara. In recent years, district has been subjected to quite radical irreversible transformation process involving lot demolition, reconstruction, refunction activities. Urban development with such high density created several problems environment...

climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. this paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of tehran. city has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Many urban communities in the United States faced deteriorating physical infrastructure and social environment in the second half of the 20 century. To restore such inner city neighborhoods, many neighborhoods have adopted historic preservation as a means to both aesthetically and fiscally improve the condition. This paper studies a historic district in the Tree Streets neighborhood, Johnson Ci...