Despite the close affinity between collective memory and urban structures as the relationship between what is hidden and what is visible; rapid changes throughout the city have caused a disconnection between integrated memories and landscape cohesion. As a context for memories, the historical urban landscape proves to be valuable. The present research seeks to identify elements and signs in urb...

A city is not only a space, but also involves culture, social aspects and environment. As a result, urban planning is a multidisciplinary process. The general objective of urban planning is “to provide for a spatial structure of activities which in some way is better than the pattern existing without planning” (Hall 1992, p4). Achieving the objective is not only the matter of planners and gover...

The experience of health impact assessment (HIA) in NSW has shown that it is possible to incorporate considerations of health impacts into decision-making concerning urban planning. In NSW, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 is the regulatory framework governing urban planning. This legislative system provides opportunities for HIA and the consideration of health impacts as part...

a Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, B235 Clark Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1784, United States b Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1771, United States c Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137, United State...

Cooperation projects rooted in cultural ties, such as South-South cooperation, are contemporarily receiving unprecedented attention from the international development community. This focus on specific types of partnerships points to an increasing concern that who a development actor partners with matters. One reason behind the comparative advantage of South-South cooperation is that countries f...

Urban land use spatial layout model research has been suffered from static model to dynamical model. The traditional model and theory like static, macroscopic or determinate model sometimes made the urbanize land use change immoderate simplify. The non-linear effect of microcosmic and macroscopical urban agent were embodied in the decision-making process of urban land use planning. In this pape...

This paper provides a discussion of issues relating to public places, urban planning and community crime prevention. The first part of the paper examines the social nature of public space from the point of view of ownership, uses and users, urban design and regulation. The second part of the paper explores the application of crime prevention approaches and techniques to the planning and managem...

Study of Two Villages in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China by Li Li B.S. Urban and Regional Planning Peking University, 2004 Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 2006 Copyright 2006 Li Li. All rights reserved. MASSACHUM8 INS11TUE! OF TEC...

Social and economic changes resulting from the introduction of market allocation processes in the post-Mao era have been enormously consequential in accelerating China’s urbanization. Central to such changes have been the fundamental reconceptualization of the role of the city vis-a-vis national development strategies and the consequent revitalization of the practice of urban spatial planning a...