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A new approach for configuring modular floating cities: assessing modular floating platforms by means of analytic hierarchy process City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ahmed A. EL-Shihy
Floating cities have emerged as an efficient long-term solution over unsustainable practiced solutions to combat the rising seas problem; nevertheless, the world lacks an international, official, and comprehensive framework regarding floating cities. Although previous research approached modular floating city design; however, resulted in configurations with various critical design restrictions mainly
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Ghosts and teeming worlds City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Cristina Bianchetti
The article continues a trajectory of studies performed in the last few years regarding the topic of the body in discourse and urban planning design (Bianchetti. in Bodies between space and design, Jovis, Berlin, 2020, Bianchetti. in “Spazi corpi politiche” dialogue with Simona Forti and Paola Viganò, Biennale Democrazia, Turin, 25 March, Teatro Gobetti, 2023a, Bianchetti. in Le mura di Troia. Lo spazio
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Shifting domesticities: recent social housing practices and policies in Spain City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Sergio Martín Blas, Guiomar Martín Domínguez, Mariacristina D’Oria
Instances of crisis have always marked pivotal moments in housing design, acting as catalysts for re-evaluating models and practices and bringing forth systemic changes already latent in the discipline. Such revelation of hidden latencies is a characteristic phenomenon of today's housing panorama, influenced by factors such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the imperative shift toward ecological sustainability
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The regeneration policy and housing issue. The Italian case read through the history of Foggia (IT) City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Mariella Annese, Laura Ariola, Ilaria Lucia Mezzapesa, Natalia Roberto
Urban regeneration is aimed at improving settlement contexts, and indirectly at solving the housing issue. In Italy there is no national regulation on urban regeneration, but many policies from 2000 up to now have resorted to it with the aim of intervening and containing the housing problem. The work examines the city of Foggia, in southern Italy, an area in a demographic contraction, but equally characterized
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Publisher Correction: Improvements and methodological innovations in the application of the Historic Landscape Characterisation methodology to industrial heritage landscapes City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-02-06 María Isabel Alba Dorado, Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz
Correction: City, Territory and Architecture 11, 1 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-023-00222-4 The publisher regrets that the article was originally published without the below information. The original article has been updated. The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The authors would like to thank the reviewers
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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic models for Space Syntax studies on spatial experience City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald
Spatial experience has been extensively researched in various fields, with Space Syntax being one of the most widely used methodologies. Multiple Space Syntax techniques have been developed and used to quantitively examine the relationship between spatial configuration and human experience. However, due to the heterogeneity of syntactic measures and experiential issues in the built environment, a systematic
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Modifying the walk score based on daily social activities: residential neighborhood in Egypt as a case study City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Amr N. Mohamed, Ashraf El Mokadem, Shimaa M. Ali, Nancy Mahmoud Badawy
Walkability has been linked to quality of life in many ways. The Walk Score is one of several methodologies aimed at assisting people in evaluating walkability. Despite the validation of this method, the amenity schedule around the day and the occupancy percentage in each amenity are not included in the calculation of the Walk Score, resulting in reduced accuracy. The research aims to improve the Walk
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Improvements and methodological innovations in the application of the Historic Landscape Characterisation methodology to industrial heritage landscapes City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2024-01-02 María Isabel Alba Dorado, Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz
Industrial heritage landscapes today are phenomena of extraordinary complexity, the study of which has been addressed belatedly by the scientific community in general, and to date no methodological trend has given priority to its study and management. There do exist, however, recent methodological approaches, such as Historic Landscape Characterisation, which, in recent years, have addressed the problems
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Towards a socially vibrant city: exploring urban typologies and morphologies of the emerging “CityWalks” in Dubai City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Alaa Omar Kordi, Khaled Galal Ahmed
Vertical urbanization to maximize land use in many cities has led to a shortage of urban spaces that could adequately meet people's needs. In response, CityWalk has emerged as a new urban form to solve this problem by attracting people to go from inside closed buildings to outside walks. Thus, it is promoting health, economy, and tourism. Locally in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), especially in Dubai
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Barriers to social sustainability in urbanisation: a comparative multi-stakeholder perspective City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Ahlam Ammar Sharif
Social sustainability is a key pillar of sustainable development that usually receives less focus and emphasis when compared to other environmental or economic aspects. This entails the need to address this gap, should the concept of urban sustainability be comprehensively tackled. Despite such importance, social sustainability is considered a relatively difficult pillar to measure, considering its
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Theoretical conceptions for a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to contemporary landscape City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-12-06 María Isabel Alba Dorado
In recent years the concept of landscape has undergone rapid expansion. This expansion, however, has not been accompanied by a parallel development in the definition of theoretical and methodological principles, nor has it achieved sufficient consensus for its application in scientific and/or administrative fields. The range of divergent ideas that currently persist and coexist around the concept of
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From power to architecture: an analysis on the identity transformation of Tagaytay people’s park in the sky through edifice complex and democratization theory City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jocelyn A. Rivera-Lutap, John Benedict A. Castillo
The study of architecture in relation to the principles of political power places a different perspective in understanding how the built environs with heritage value were shaped in time and are being constantly shaped at the present. Its relevance cannot be understated, as in spite of its actuality, it is a side of the field that may still be considered sensitive to some. Architecture is never neutral
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Investigating alternatives to privatization of public housing: an analysis based on the Quattro Corti project in Italy City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Marco Peverini, Massimo Bricocoli, Anna Tagliaferri
After the long-lasting divestment in the Italian public housing system and the privatization of over 20% of the stock, many public dwellings are vacant or in substantial need of maintenance. The article aims at contributing to the literature that addresses the crisis of public housing, by investigating alternatives to its privatization in Italy, a context of heavy divestment and devolution. It draws
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Planning and meta-planning to cope with disruptive events: what can be learnt from the institutional response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Stefano Moroni, Anita De Franco, Carolina Pacchi, Daniele Chiffi, Francesco Curci
The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed and discussed from many disciplinary perspectives. An aspect that still needs critical exploration is the role—that is, the modes and forms—of regulatory interventions during the pandemic. It is interesting to note in this regard that, in many studies, regulatory measures are labelled “non-pharmaceutical interventions”, as if they do not have any specificity
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Natural ventilation as a passive cooling strategy for multi-story buildings: analytic vertical skycourt formations City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Rasha A. Ali, Naglaa A. Megahed, Merhan M. Shahda, Asmaa M. Hassan
Natural ventilation has been one of the most important passive cooling strategies for conditioning the built environment. However, several challenges influence natural ventilation in multi-story buildings. Consequently, skycourt presents a passive cooling strategy to provide a direct airflow into the space to cool the surroundings, increase thermal comfort, and reduce the need for mechanical ventilation
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Resilience and urban form transformation: from San Fulgencio monastery to market in Écija, Spain City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-09-25 F.-Javier Ostos-Prieto, José-Manuel Aladro-Prieto, María-Teresa Pérez-Cano
The nineteenth century city in Spain is defined by modernisation, transformation and urban renewal. The production of urban plans played an important role in projects for the realignment of streets and the opening of new roads. In addition, new urban facilities were added, such as the bullring or the food market, which had hitherto been lacking in many cities. In addition, the church confiscations
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Territorial mimetics and room types: the spatial development of Swedish district courthouses 1970–2020 City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Mattias Kärrholm
In this article I investigate the spatial development of Swedish district courthouses and their different room types from 1970 to 2020, with attention to the specificities and commonalities with other building types. How have spatial form and use travelled between building types during this period, and how has this contributed to the recent, quite radical developments and transformation of the courthouse
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Social sustainability in brick decoration and architectural space of Qajar houses in Dezful by Delphi method City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ahmad Sarrafzadeh, Sajjad Sotoude, Meena Sarrafzadeh
Social sustainability is one of the influential concepts in architecture and urban planning that is formed under the influence of individual and physical factors. In such a way that its effects on the spatial architecture and decorations can be studied. The issue of social sustainability also plays an important role in the quality of life and examines the place of thinking of a society. On the other
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Assessment of community park as social interaction place for rural communities: a case study of Peyi Community Bwari Abuja City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-08-17 O. F. Adedayo, D. O. Akingbohungbe, A. T. Ale, A. P. Abdullahi, M. A. Adegoke
This study is focused on the benefits of community park as a place of social interaction in Peyi community, Bwari Abuja. The study examined community parks and their environmental impact as it relates to social interaction. Community parks play a significant role in the society, they provide significant impact to their host communities by enhancing regional development. It boosts the economy, as well
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The development of habitable urban skyways: claiming interstitial territories through evolutionary processes City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Liam Blewett, Ngoc Xuan Huy Nguyen, Mohammed Makki, Milad Showkatbakhsh
Urban skyways, in which an elevated pedestrian-friendly layer of the city is applied to the existing urban fabric, have evolved from radical conceptual proposals in the mid-twentieth century, such as the continuous monument by SuperStudio, to increasingly realised proposals over the last 30 years, such as the highline project in Manhattan. Developed as either networks that respond to harsh climatic
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Reimaging Earth. Architecture and the critical and speculative uses of geovisualization City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Roi Salgueiro Barrio
This article addresses the debates surrounding the design uses of satellite-based geovisualizations. It asks, in particular, how geovisualizations can support new design politics towards global urbanization. The initial section of the article presents a series of theoretical critiques of geovisualization. These stress that satellite-based imagery represents a disembodied, detached form of vision that
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From the “Green Station” to the “Blue Station”: the role of the renovation of railway stations in the ecological transition of cities. Calculation model and possible measures for mitigation and compensation of impacts. City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Andrea Spinosa
Nowadays, mobility represents the main productive process: this means that territorial sustainability must necessarily include sustainable movements as a key component. The increase in transport entity and transport routes, economic convenience, and, last but not least, a higher environmental awareness, are leading to higher consideration of the use of railways. In this framework, railway stations
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Conceptual inspiration from heritage: the design philosophy surrounding the Saudi Arabian Rowshan City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Majedh F. Alhuseini, Ghadah A. Altammam, Bashayer R. AlSehaimi, Donia M. Bettaieb, Abeer A. Alawad, Khawlah J. Tarim
Rowshan is a distinctive architectural element and a primary component of the façades of traditional houses in western Saudi Arabia. It is window type primarily made from wood and is incorporated in contemporary architecture to express the identity of the Hejazi architectural heritage without the realization of the advantages of this rich architectural element. This study examines the Rowshan design
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Towards a cooperative governance. Lessons learned from the only Italian “River, Lake, and Coastal” Contract City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Sara Altamore, Daniela De Leo
This paper is a contribution to a special issue of “Interdisciplinarity and governance in water landscapes” with a critical reflection on the “Marta-Bolsena-Tarquinia” River, Lake, and Coast Contract research experience in the Lazio Region. This Contract is the only one in Italy that covers three different water landscapes, from lake to coast (Lake Bolsena, the river Marta and the Tarquinia coastline)
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Effects of spatial configuration on the patient’s journey to the Emergency Department City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Bardha Meka, Vlora Navakazi, Flaka Xërxa Beqiri
Reaching the destination, users often encounter complex interfaces created between hospital spaces and the urban tissue. The literature highlights the influence of spatial configuration on the performance of external and internal spaces of healthcare settings. In this regard, studies related to Emergency Department (ED), mostly focus on internal spaces, without specific research on the accessibility
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Post_production. architectural design and the landscape of de-industrialisation City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Francesco Spanedda
Industrial facilities have been dispersed across the American and European landscapes since the early Nineteenth century. Also, their activity encouraged the growth of a vast global network of logistical, mining, and agricultural infrastructures. Yet, since the late 1960s, a significant number of productive sectors have been gradually dismantled as a result of technical advancement, obsolescence, and
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Planning regulation and land value capture in Italy between traditional approaches and new perspectives City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra
Urban development and regeneration processes are both influenced by changes in the level of land rents over time and space. Public intervention in land markets, including planning regulation, affects rent dynamics through discretionary decisions that create clear advantages and inequalities in landowner treatment. Focusing on Italian approaches to planning regulation and land value capture (LVC), the
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Strategies for territorial tourism planning in natural protected areas (NPAs): Alto Mayo Protected Forest (BPAM), Peru City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Anghela Nuñez-Torres, Aracelly Arones-Huarcaya, Cristian Yarasca-Aybar
The Alto Mayo Protected Forest (“Bosque de Protección Alto Mayo”, or BPAM for its Spanish acronym) is one of the largest natural protected areas (NPA) in Peru. The BPAM has several tourist attractions owing to its great biodiversity of ecosystems and species. However, the BPAM does not have an optimal offer of tourism services because of the lack of infrastructure articulated to the multiscalarity
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The neoliberal real estate model and the fantasy of hyperreality: the case of Rawabi City, Palestine City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Shaden Awad, Sahera Bleibleh
The establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the 1993 Oslo Accords opened doors for private local, and international, investments, mainly in real estate sector. This paper focuses on the case study of the city of Rawabi (hereafter, Rawabi), in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate (R-AG). In such context, the urban boom has been influenced by the neoliberal market and new global realities
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The impact of physical incivility signs on perceived safety in informal settlements in Jordan City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Amal Abed, Samah Aljibarat
Feeling safe is essential to improve the social and psychological well-being of residents. Safety is often associated with various signs of incivility in neighborhoods in general and in informal settlements in specific; the latter has been rarely studied in the context of Jordan. Thus, the present research aims to identify physical incivility signs in informal settlements and explore their impact on
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Central government role in road infrastructure development and economic growth in the form of future study: the case of Indonesia City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Daud Nawir, Muhammad Djaya Bakri, Iif Ahmad Syarif
Road infrastructure development in a country has been considered an important predictor of economic development and prosperity. Hence applying a systematic analysis approach, this study aims to project the future role of the central government in developing road infrastructure and its significance in the country's economic growth. The main data sources were the literature review and expert opinions
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Production of gathering spaces in post-disaster recovery scenarios: case studies from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami-2011 City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Yegane Ghezelloo, Akihiko Hokugo, Osamu Tsukihashi
Gathering and public spaces, along with infrastructure and houses, are demolished because of disasters, which weakens the community ties. Different approaches, such as government-led and community-driven, to recovery initiate the recovery of gatherings and public spaces, and the long-term impact of each recovery approach on community recovery may not be overseen. This study attempts to determine incorporation
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The negotiated public realm in the contemporary city: hybrid walkable urban networks of Hong Kong City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Hee Sun Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Alan Reeve, Minyu Cui
This paper focuses on the character of multi-level pedestrian accessibility and walkability within the public and quasi-public realm in Hong Kong, using the particular case of the redevelopment of Taikoo Place in Quarry Bay. In an era when the value of public space as a space for public activity and debate is coming under increasing scrutiny, both in Hong Kong and internationally, this paper explores
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Exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the social impact of cultural projects: the case of Barcelona ecosystem City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Lluís Bonet, Giada Calvano, Pablo Fernández Compañ
Cultural projects, particularly when aiming at social impact, are usually the result of the context, values, and social fabric. Some endogenous factors, such as governance models and availability of resources, mainly committed human resources, could explain their particular development as well, despite being widely recurrent. Cultural policies are also determined by dominant social values and usually
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Cultural policies and urban transitions green politics, democracy in the time of the pandemic City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Emmanuel Négrier
Urban and Cultural transition refers to several levels, with the environmental one occupying the minds. This transition raises the question of a new politicization of culture, of which cities are the theater. We will illustrate this point in the first part. In the second part, we will discuss this first point by posing the hypothesis that the politicization of culture is not a cyclical but a structural
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The classification study of Xowun patterns and their naming of Qajar houses in Dezful City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Ahmad Sarrafzadeh, Mohammad Didehban, Behzad Vasigh
Motifs are influenced beliefs and how individuals interact with architectural features. Additionally, decorations have been emphasized as a critical component of traditional architecture. The studying architecture in Dezful, which incorporates Xowun decorations and its historical context, motivates this study. The motifs are influenced by ideas derived from Dezful's traditional society's worldview
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Review of "Urban Oases Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems" by Willemijn Wilms Floet City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Alessio Russo
Willemijn Wilms Floet URBAN OASES Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems. nai010 publishers, 2021. ISBN 978-94-6208-660-9. € 39.95, paperback (Also available in Dutch and as e-book in English and Dutch). pp. 208, with illustrations (220 full color).
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Signals of sustainability transition: Sensing enabling factors through cultural initiatives City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Grazia Concilio, Irene Bianchi, Ilaria Tosoni
This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution to the inception and rooting
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Stretching the boundaries of cultural policies for inclusive and sustainable urban contexts: the case of Issy-les-Moulineaux in France City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Anna Moro, Eric Legale
Cultural policies can be a strategic key to shaping more inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration processes, especially exploiting the acceleration promoted through transition dynamics. The City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, for its recent and deep investment in culture, sustainability and innovation in a non-conflictual and socially homogeneous urban dense context, is a valuable demonstrator of the
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Historical-architectural analysis of Cartagena de Indias heritage City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Saba, Manuel, Carrascal, Jorge Luis Álvarez, Cruz, Alfonso Rafael Cabrera
In the last four decades, the historical heritage of Cartagena de Indias has been at the center of national and international attention due to its classification as a World Heritage Site according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Many historians and architects in the past have narrated the heroic deeds of the city of Cartagena, its role in the independence
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Sustainable refugee camp design in the Dalhamyie settlement (Bekaa, Lebanon) for climate change context City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Tiwari, Pallavi, Al Azzawi, Nibal, Amir, Lübna
Emergency shelters are often designed to be of temporary nature but end up adopting a more permanent nature in becoming informal settlements. On one hand, these settlements suffer from the conflicts and environmental pressures. On the other hand, they also bear the inadequacies of services and facilities. This adds to the vulnerability of the refugee population to climatic extremes and environmental
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Reconceptualising nomadic architecture: from the body to the space creation City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Trisno, Rudy, Husin, Denny, Lianto, Fermanto
Nomadic architecture from the past until now has been adapted to the spirit of the age. The research aims to search the nomadic lifestyle that has become a phenomenon of local and global movements worldwide. This paper investigates the meaning of nomadic architecture using historical and bibliographical methods. Our exploration provides a better understanding of nomadic architecture and reconceptualises
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Cultural experiences in the framework of “cultural cities”: measuring the socioeconomic impact of culture in urban performance City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Rausell-Köster, Pau, Ghirardi, Sendy, Sanjuán, Jordi, Molinari, Francesco, Abril, Borja
This article defines "cultural experience" and places it in a holistic conceptual model; “the cultural city” where it plays a relevant role in improving the performing of cities. The conceptual model combines the basic elements of the heritage city, the smart city and the creative city. The city is interpreted from a threefold perspective; as a repository of resources, as a connective interface, and
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Authenti-City City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Donner, Luca, Sorcinelli, Francesca
The new global cities and megacities, which are generally planned and built as result of political decisions and fast economic growth, are considered artificial and "false" in their nature. This widespread perception arises from a cognitive dissociation between the notions of authenticity and identity in relation to memory, time and the city’s own sedimentation. This perceived dichotomy is illustrated
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An individualism without individuals. A sociological approach to the capitalist symbolism of Chicago and New York skyscrapers City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Roche Cárcel, Juan Antonio, Carretero Pasín, Ángel Enrique
Starting from Comprehensive or Interpretive Sociology and the Sociology of skyscrapers, this article proposes as basic objectives to verify how the North American economic culture is showed in the symbolism of the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York and to verify the parallelism between the formal evolution of these buildings and the main economic transformations that have occurred in North American
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Developing a framework for culture-based interventions for well-being in Cluj-Napoca, Romania City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Cacovean, Claudia-Maria, Dascăl, Marina-Denisa, Zbranca, Maria-Rarița
The article discusses the context and conditions for implementing culture-based interventions for health and well-being in an urban setting. Specifically, the article presents the case study of a cultural intervention aimed at reducing burnout-related symptoms in adults, describing the context of the intervention, the project design, implementation, and the impact assessment. Following the assessment
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Advances in the design of a methodology for the identification, characterization, and assessment of and intervention in the industrial landscape City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Alba Dorado, María Isabel, Romero de Oliveira, Eduardo
The process of degradation and abandonment to which many landscapes generated by industrial decay are currently exposed, together with the lack of conceptual and methodological means required for the study of and intervention in these landscapes, would suggest that the existing approach requires revision. In this context, the aim of this article is to detail the progress being made by a research project
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The flipped house and the bubble. Domestic space in the time of coronavirus City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Spanedda, Francesco, Fusaro, Matteo Carmine
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic put the spatial layouts of contemporary housing to the test. During the strict lockdowns in the early phases of the outbreak and the limited, temporary restrictions of the later phases, the safeguarding of public health was inevitably enforced by confining people at home, thus severing, by reasons of force majeure, the traditional relationship between the house and the city
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Changing mega-events’ spatial strategies and cultural policy: scaling down, spacing out, and assembling organizations in the cases of London and Milan City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Jones, Zachary M., Di Vita, Stefano, Ponzini, Davide
Despite the proposed ‘certainty’ in a city or region hosting a mega-event, there has long been issues of uncertainty surrounding the planning and implementation of what have until now essentially been mega-projects. Large events have found a variety of ways to adapt and respond to unforeseen circumstances due to political conflicts, planning of oversize venues, limited time of implementation, and legacies
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Examining similarity indicators in six planned capital cities from Africa and Asia: a qualitative research technique City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Abusaada, Hisham, Elshater, Abeer
There is little research-based evidence regarding the similarities and differences in urban plans and urban forms, regarding urban planning and design, between planned capital cities in Africa and Asia. In recognition of the establishment of planned capital cities on these continents, this article limited its case studies to six planned capital cities of the Global South, in the post-independence and
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Indicators for local policies of cultural welfare: content, dimensions, and quality criteria City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Cicerchia, Annalisa
Wellbeing measures are gaining consensus as complementary to the traditional GDP approach when it comes to assessing the development of countries and communities. Cultural Welfare is a new, integrated approach aimed at promoting the wellbeing and health of individuals and communities through practices rooted in the arts and in cultural heritage. Recently, experimental tools have been devised and applied
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Extemes of mixed-use architecture: a spatial analysis of vertical functional mix in Dhaka City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Khan, Fatema Meher, Pafka, Elek, Dovey, Kim
The concept of mixed-use is now well-established as an urban design and planning principle that adds to the vitality, walkability and productivity of the city at neighbourhood scale. There is much less research on the dense and complex vertical mix of functions within buildings. This paper investigates the extremes of informal vertical mixing of functions within buildings in Dhaka, where commercial
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Designing radical transitions: a plea for a new governance culture to empower deep transformative change City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Loorbach, Derk A.
This explorative paper introduces the idea of radical transitions as a necessary starting point for policy and governance. The urgency to achieve transformative change facing climate change and biodiversity loss is now broadly shared, but the dominant policy and market logics of innovation, optimization and risk management persist. In for example the urban mobility transition, we do see a technological
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The creative city approach: origins, construction and prospects in a scenario of transition City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Segovia, Chema, Hervé, Julie
The change of the century saw the emergence of a series of discourses that conceptualised different aspects related with culture as key elements in the future of urban realities. The fact that these notions have become encompassed within the celebrated label of “the creative city” leads us to think that they form a self-evident model, fully assimilated and of general value. However, the review of the
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Renovation programs in old and inefficient neighborhoods of cities with case studies City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Shahraki, Abdol Aziz
This article concerns urban renovation’s background, necessity, goals, methods, and outcomes. The addressed question is how shall renew and rehabilitate old and non-functional urban neighborhoods. The aim is to build a model for cities’ renovation respecting general standards of town-building, local characteristics, requirements of inhabitants, and strategic development plans. The applied research
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Interrelationships between urban policy and climate, with emphasis on the environment City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Dastjerdi, Hassan Kamran, Nasrabadi, Narjessadat Hossaini
There is growing evidence that projected climate change has the potential to significantly affect public health. Many of these effects are likely to be exacerbated by the risks associated with exposure to heat, floods, and chemical and biological pollution in cities. Identifying the effects of climate change on the environment, and the risks and opportunities of adapting to mitigating climate change
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Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Salama, Shery William
Urban designers are interested while designing waterfront urban space with aesthetic standards and the process of visual perception, which depends only on Vision, while the rest of the human senses (H.S.) are overlooked, regardless of their importance. Thus, this study aims to enable urban designers to achieve better open urban space designs that fit all H.S. for better interaction. In addition, a
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Regional landscape planning for the innovation of urban planning. Municipal implementation of the city-country pact in Apulia City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Calace, Francesca, Paparusso, Olga Giovanna
The adoption of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) has wrought a profound evolution in the landscape planning discipline, contributing to the integration of the landscape into planning policy. This paper explores the operative significance of including the landscape dimension in local urban planning policies. Adopting an inter-scalar approach, the research analyses the renewal of local urban planning
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Towards inclusive and accessible parks in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Selanon, Pattamon, Puggioni, Federico, Dejnirattisai, Supanut, Rutchamart, Autchariya
The problem of the lack of inclusive public space in the fringes of Bangkok, Thailand, is related to multiple factors in urban development. The study-area of the Pathum Thani province offers a summary of the critical consequences of the urban development in the past decades. The partial transformation of some environmental tracks onto an urbanized system allows the creation of a nonhomogeneous privatized
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Testing planetary urbanisation: Siberia’s trans-scalar spatial regime of oil production City Territ. Archit. Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Salgueiro Barrio, Roi, O’Shea, Conor
This paper analyses the extended urbanization of oil production in Siberia in order to test Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s theory of planetary urbanization. According to these authors, the intensification of the urban process triggered by the consolidation of global neoliberalism since the early 1990s, has transformed the planet into a situation of total urbanization. In their view, this planetary