In this paper we focus on the shift in British urban policy from the crudely authoritarian imposition of Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) upon poor localities in the 1980s to an apparently more devolved, localist strategy in the 1990s. This new approach offered to re-empower local government and respect local priorities in the framework of local ‘partnerships’ between government (central a...

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Tourism is a progressively major part of economies of urban areas. Urban regeneration as a subcategory of urban tourism has been the center of many urban projects. This study addresses the role of space syntax theory as an analytical tool and design aided tool in urban regeneration. For this purpose, we examined the development of a square in the Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) using space synt...

legibility is one of the most important characteristics of good urban environments which improves the communication between people and place by helping them to perceive and recognize their environment more deeply and precisely. unfortunately, achieving legibility in today’s urban environments has become very hard due to the increase in incoherent developments and partial renovation projects. mo...