This paper provides an overview of urban structure and the planning history of Dhaka. Human settlement in Dhaka can be traced back as far as the 12th century, but it was the Mughals who for strategic reasons established a town in the early seventeenth century. Since then the city has experienced an adventurous path under different rulers and has faced multifaceted challenges. Starting as a mili...

This article introduces that community development efforts against frequent and intensifying water disaster. In Kurume City, flood damage has occurred for 4 consecutive years. For that, building a safer securer city is an urgent issue. Among the efforts, we will mainly introduce location optimization plan including disaster prevention policy with integrated inland measure project.

This position paper presents the preliminary design insights for ParkPal — an interactive system for supporting social running route planning in a city park. Based on our previous research efforts in augmenting the experiences of runners and ad-hoc multi-device interactive spaces, we propose a system composed of multiple station deployed in a city park. The stations contain tablet computers tha...

Route Evacuation Planning is the science of ensuring the safest and most efficient evacuation time of all expected residents of a building, city or region, or transportation carriers (e.g., train, ship, and airplane) from a treat or actual occurrence of a hazard (e.g., natural disasters, traffic, industrial, or nuclear accidents, fire, viral outbreak, etc.) [1]. In any scenario (i.e., building,...

Cities are facing many challenges; challenges linked to world-wide trends like urbanisation, climate changes and globalisation. In parallel to these trends, we have seen a rapid digitalisation in and of different parts of society. Cities and local governments have been appointed an important role in overcoming these world-wide challenges, and subsequently, in policy practices digitalisation is ...