there are large areas of the world where seismicity is high while they form the whole or parts of urban conglomeration. iran can be literally compared to a large shaking table; various parts of it have been stricken by earthquake in the last four decades(1). tehran is also expected to have a major earthquake in the near future(2). therefore, urban design criteria for earthquake preparedness i...

Unemployment is high among youths living in marginalised communities South Africa. One of the reasons that many young people are either un- or low-skilled to gain employment a digital economy requiring high-skilled individuals. The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) also exacerbates future work for these if they remain unskilled. Training with technologies becoming norm (especially COVID–19) bu...

The application of community informatics-assisted urban planning and design is still rear in the Finnish context. The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study on the co-design of a shared yard at the Roihuvuori Youth Centre...

Admiration for environment in general needs to be profoundly rooted in an understanding of History. Urban history is unique not only in the fact that it reflects climate but also in that it cuts across many different fields. In most schools of urban studies many aspects of science and technology are taught with relation to design in order to attain skills for practice. During a student’s later ...

This paper focuses on the educational experience of teaching the topic of Urban Computing in a postgraduate design studio context. It also discusses some of the most interesting projects that students designed and prototyped while using design-oriented technology, ranging from wireless micro-electronics to data stream caching, and working in a real-life physical context of an existing urban env...

the intervention of urban design in irans architectural structures has been for many years a challenging issue for architects and urban designers over their professional realm. the preservation of architectural structures in iran has always resorted to extremes. this control and direction has sometimes resulted in exclusion of architecture position and has sometimes, once faced with lack of pro...

This research aims to find an answer to the question of which knowledge and skills do the Turkish urban planners need in their business practice. Understanding change in cities, making a prediction, making an urban decision and putting it into practice, working together with actors from different organizations from various academic disciplines, persuading people to accept something and developi...

urban design and landscape architecture are considered as modern art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various art and science fields of studies. formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape design is occurred at the beginning of 20th century. the success of these two fields is because of their attention to environmental qualities upgrade in public and open spac...