Papers

Supply side structural reform aims to adjust the economic structure, promote industrial restructuring and optimization, to achieve the optimal allocation of resources. Eliminating excess capacity and improving effective supply are two important vehicles for maintaining the medium-high economic devel...

The study uses the case of the German city Schwerin and its surroundings to analyse current challenges, conflicts and approaches to solutions regarding an integrative urban-rural development. The focus is on the question in how far solutions for conflicts between city, surroundings, and rural areas ...

Metro-Urban expansion is challenging world development. Only 3 cities in world history have been one million-plus inhabitants. Now we have 500. These Metro-Cities produce 75% of world GDP. Many are expanding at a 5% annual rate. They double their size every 14 years. Lack of a methodology for expans...

Under the global trends of urbanisation, rural development has posed a global challenge. As the Chinese government has continued to take invested in its rural areas, the Chinese urban and regional planners have also been presented with a series of questions: How to avoid the withering of rural commu...

The development of coastal cities is faced with great challenges because of the increasing uncertainties and unpredictable risks. As the coastal portal connecting Dongguan with Pearl River Delta and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great Bay Area，the Binhai Bay New Area in Dongguan is abundant in vari...

There has been a global issue facing the rural, from Italy, USA, to now SEAsia, that has left them behind their rapidly expanding urban centers. Within South East Asia a new model is emerging. In key rural areas, new infrastructures are being leveraged to allow for new opportunities for countryside ...

In today's China, with the gradual slowdown of urbanization process, the mode of urban development is gradually changing from the construction of new cities to the improvement of the function of old cities. Among the various projects reconstructed in old cities, the design of the living circle is to...

Based on socio-economic changes of cities and emerging new types of urban public spaces in 21th century, urban design as an interdisciplinary science which concentrates on public domain needs to introduce new lens to analyze and improve quality of contemporary urban spaces. In new literature of urba...

In Ireland rejuvenated town clusters gather together interactive settlements in a rapidly emerging metropolitan alternative to either the city or the rural lifestyle. A similar trend is observable in many countries where quality of life in a settlement of smaller scale can exceed that in the city. T...

In this digital and information age, there is a rising assumption that planning will change dramatically. At the same time, there is a wittnenessed increase of the potential role of media in urban research and practice, and there are many demands for democratic and communicative planning practices. ...

Recently the importance of maintaining of historic identity of the cities is an obvious matter in restoration of a city. Each city depends on its cultural perception and its wealth, tries to reserve and repair its cultural heritage. This matter has been done in many cities in the world and many hist...

The research addresses the issue of urban livability through the (un)supportiveness of the built environments for walking. It claims that urban environments must be pedestrian-friendly if the community’s quality of life is to be achieved. It goes further and relates urban walkability to the urban ...

Poverty and climate change considered a global problem. Meanwhile, adaptation to climate change and poverty reduction are context-specific and vary per case. The urban poor is vulnerable to flooding, especially flash floods because most of them live in flood-prone riverbanks. they are also prone to ...

Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. At the same time, it is one of the highest per capita emitters of global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite of its material wealth, evidence in relation to the state of children health indicate that growing up in cities is of deep concern...

Along with the global wave of urbanization, urban agglomerations with megacities as the core have become the main form of urbanization in various countries. The polarization effect around the metropolis leads to the centripetal flow of capital, labor, land and other resource elements in the surround...

In the fifties, New York was the first city in the world with a population in its metropolitan area of about 10 million of habitants, and at that same decade, Tokio reached this level. In the decade of the eighties, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Osaka reached that grade. Today, there are 33 megacities ...

Generally the free trade area refers to two or more countries or regions cancelling the tariff and non-tariff barriers in the vast majority of goods through a free trade agreement. In such area, market access conditions are improved in the service sector, investments are opened, the free flow of pro...

The Higher Education Town (HET) of Jatinangor is a campus area, a park of cultural technology science, and an urban center for economic activities. As part of Bandung Metropolitan Area, the challenges on social-economic change, deterioration environtment, infrastructure supply, and economic activiti...

Cities are becoming bigger and more complex, which presents an array of new opportunities and challenges that cannot be assessed nor addressed with traditional methods. So finding the right balance will be a major challenge. Qatar as the world’s third largest holder of natural gas reserve faced ra...

Visual communication in urban planning and design disciplines is the main form of creating as well as exchanging their ideas and interpretations about the urban environment, not only among planners/architects, but also between them and the general public. Many urban scholars in Egypt also addressed ...

In China, urbanization progress is shaping rapidly the urban space and urban society. Megacities are attracting incoming migrant labour and correspondingly external investment from national and international real estate developers. Conflicts between different social groups in space usage become more...

Metropolitan areas have long been understood to benefit from the existence of regional governance structures. However, some large urban areas still lack effective coordinating agencies. In the case of Lisbon, Portugal, the legal framework has been steadily refined since 1991 to task the Metropolitan...

This study uncovers the drivers of four major metropolitan areas’ success from government management and planning perspective. New York metropolitan area, London metropolitan area, Tokyo metropolitan area, and Paris metropolitan area are internationally recognized as the four major metropolitan ar...

Food is a basic necessity for people throughout the world, the issue of food is a global world issue reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), namely in the first objective of "Ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture". This show...

SPIMA stands for Spatial Dynamics and Strategic Planning in Metropolitan Areas. It is a research project initiated by 10 cities from EUROCITIES Working Group on Metropolitan Areas (Brussels, Oslo, Vienna, Prague, Brno, Lyon, Lille, Torino, Zurich and Terrassa) and financed by the European Union (ESP...

Bogor as a satellite city in Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Area (40 km to the south) is rapidly growing with its main function as a center of the residential area, tourism, and education. As a residential center for Jakarta workers, during 2015 there were 114 thousand peoples commuted every day from ...

The term “Goldilocks Zone” refers to the habitable zone around a star where the conditions are just right- not too hot and not too cold - for liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet. It provides a way to predict the habitability of newly found planets and moons. Just like in astronomica...

The megacities are a double-edged sword for the surrounding rural areas: while providing opportunities, they are also ’draining‘ the surrounding areas. The meaning of Water-related spaces of the rural area in South Jiangsu Province，China，are the cradle for the economy in history, and are als...

Metropolis and Megapolis are facing huge challenges due to their extreme complexity and their responsibility to drive the economic and social development of countries. Today, more than 50% of urban dwellers are living in metropolitan areas of more than 500,000 inhabitants. The metropolis is the main...