With increasing urban populations, high vehicle miles have made the concept of a compact city imperative. A is characterized by high-density development and mixed land use with no sprawl. City managers are trying hard to make their cities livable. The potential conformance requires scaling before any significant intervention. Several studies been conducted on different aspects in developed worl...

Cities demand urgent transformations in order to become more affordable, livable, sustainable, walkable and comfortable spaces. Hence, important changes have be made the way cities are understood, diagnosed planned. The current paper puts urban accessibility into centre of public policy planning agenda, as a transferable approach transform better living environments. To do so, practical example...

A modest development intensity for urban land benefits both ecological protection and living spaces improvement. It is an important indicator for urban land development intensity (ULDI) to measure the city livable and sustainable development. As an example of Chongqing Metropolitan Area, firstly, spatial database about land development intensity and its driving factors was established in sample...

Prefabricated engineered solid wood panel construction systems can sequester and store CO2. Modular cross-laminated timber (CLT, also called cross-lam) panels form the basis of low-carbon, engineered construction systems using solid wood panels that can be used to build residential infill developments of 10 storeys or higher. Multi-apartment buildings of 4 to 10 storeys constructed entirely in ...

Digital technologies are increasingly being incorporated in the management and governance of urban forests to provide information needed for sustainable more livable cities. However, there is scarce on documented lessons from applying these digital forestry many developing countries. This study addressed this challenge using a literature review case Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda. The results ...

The increasing of population number influences waste generation so that it requires proper management to prevent the environmental problems. Waste will determine level environment quality as well amenities. This is in accordance with concept a livable city, particularly related provision urban facilities. Hence, necessary have an understanding city form government's commitment improving and soc...

Guangzhou is the capital city of Guangdong Province, which currently in a stage transformation and development. This paper takes Guangzhou’s ecological economy, society, environment as research objects constructs an evaluation index system for liveability. It social progress, economic development environmental protection primary indicators. The used to construct livability through entropy method.

Contemporary cities face many challenges, none the least from an urban planning perspective. Global climate change is putting pressures on planning for combatting and adapting to a warmer climate, increased levels of rainfall, etc. Urbanization urges planners to satisfy an increased need for housing in an already dense environment, without compromising the livability of neighborhoods. The overa...