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Queer households and possibilities for shared housing: a policy case study analysis Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Victor Perez-Amado, Celeste Pang, Alex Walton
Kinship structures among Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (2SLGBTQI+) individuals differ from conventional nuclear families. Heteronormative models of family and...
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Public space: notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Ali Madanipour
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The sustainable urban design handbook Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Mark C. Childs
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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From past to future: understanding urban development in flood-prone coastal Rome Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 S. Mannucci, J.H Kwakkel, M. Morganti, F. Ferrero
This paper explores the spatial evolution of a flood-prone, sub-urban coastal area, Municipio X of Rome. The study investigates land use change through a diachronic analysis, providing empirical da...
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Israel’s landscapes of Brutalism Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Tal Alon-Mozes, Yael Sofer
This paper examines the adoption of brutalism in the work of Israeli landscape architects. Since the 1960s, Brutalism made its way from Europe to Israel by leading architects at the time. In parall...
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Eco-responsive environments: a framework for settlement design Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Mike Biddulph
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Atlas of informal settlement: understanding self-organized urban design Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Emily Talen
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Australian urban designers’ experience of barriers and enablers to climate change action Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Alan March, Anna Hurlimann, Sareh Moosavi, Judy Bush, Georgia Warren-Myers, Geoff Browne
Urban designers have considerable potential to take important climate change actions in the built environment. Based on interviews with urban designers across Australia, it was found that the main ...
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Between consultation and partnership: participation styles in Swedish urban revitalization processes involving disabled people Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Emil Erdtman, Lilian Müller, Per-Olof Hedvall
Inclusive urban design relies on the participation of disabled persons. This study examines how the involvement of this group is perceived and managed in three revitalization initiatives applying c...
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Bridging differences by design: competencies and individual characteristics of boundary-spanning spatial designers in urban climate adaptation planning Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Annet Kempenaar, Margo van den Brink, Terry van Dijk, Naim Laeni
Urban designers and landscape architects increasingly take up boundary spanning as part of their broadening role towards designing processes, policies, narratives and becoming design-led entreprene...
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Navigating urban climate design implementation challenges: insights from Brisbane’s built environment experts Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 YiSong Liu, Mirko Guaralda, Tan Yigitcanlar, Mark Limb, Veronica Garcia-Hansen
Urban densification, intended to enhance efficiency, often exacerbates urban climate issues like diminished thermal and wind comfort. Despite substantial evidence on the climatic impacts of urbaniz...
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Surveying blind and visually impaired people about the accessibility and usability of urban parks in Hungary Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 György Csomós, Jenő Zsolt Farkas
For the programming period of 2021–2027, the European Union (EU) encourages and supports cities and towns across the community to take action to enlarge their green infrastructure and develop and i...
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Investigating the impact of urban green space quality on subjective well-being via social media analytics Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Noradila Rusli, Ghina Raniah Yusran, Nor Zahida Nordin, Muhamad Solehin Fitry Rosley
This study of Urban Green Spaces examines their characteristics and their impact on well-being through sentiment analysis of Google reviews. By utilizing content analysis and VADER sentiment analys...
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Avoiding ‘bungalow legs’: active ageing and the built environment Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Rose Gilroy, Tim Townshend
Urban populations across the globe are ageing and much debate has centred on what constitutes an ‘age-friendly’ city. Historic environments, for example, often present physical challenges, such as ...
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A mobile application tool for co-assessing urban open spaces – a test case of the Grey’s Monument, Newcastle, UK Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Ashraf M. Salama, Madhavi P. Patil
This paper introduces a novel approach to evaluating urban open spaces (UOS) by developing a mobile application, YouWalk-UOS. Overcoming current limitations and the need for integrating digital tec...
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Human cognition and emotions for human-centred design in vertical interior urban spaces Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Tian Cheng, Wang Zhang, Saijal Sharma
Understanding the socio-psychological impact of living in high-rise, densely populated urban areas is essential for evaluating the quality of interior urban spaces within vertical urbanism, a field...
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Assessing visual similarity of neighbourhoods with street view images and deep learning techniques Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Deepank Verma, Olaf Mumm, Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Despite the wide availability of street-view data and advanced computational techniques, the topic of perceived visual similarity in urban design has received little attention. The impact of visual...
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Designing healthier cities to improve life quality: unveiling challenges and outcomes in two Spanish cases Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Federico Camerin, Davide Longato
This study assesses the early outcomes of the Poblenou Superblock in Barcelona and a nature-based solutions project in Valladolid. By critically analysing available data and collecting residents’ p...
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Navigating modernity: young adults’ perspective on urban transformation in three Lima neighbourhoods Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Miguel Córdova Ramírez
This article delves into young adults’ perceptions in Lima regarding urban modernization and its relationship with architectural styles and facades. Through semi-structured interviews and visual ai...
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Street luminance and night-time walking comfort: a new perspective for the urban lighting design Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Chiara Burattini, Fabio Bisegna, Livio De Santoli
A survey was carried out in Rome to investigate whether street luminance affects pedestrians’ comfort, visibility and perception. Forty people walked five roads and assessed on a questionnaire thei...
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A psychoanalytical approach in urban design: exploring dynamics of co-creation through theme-centred interaction Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Katharina Johanna Oetken, Kerstin Hennig, Sven Henkel, Katrin Merfeld
Urban design practices are shifting towards inclusive co-creation processes to engage diverse stakeholders and create sustainable spaces. This paper explores co-creation dynamics in urban design us...
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Revisiting façade design and its contribution to the urban experience in the 21st century Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Jessica Pineda-Zumaran, Marizela Alpaca-Chavez
As one of the most exteriorized architectural elements, façades are significant features of the urban image and important contributors to the aesthetic and other urban experiences. However, discuss...
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The evolution of spatial codes in informal urbanism: analysis of residential patterns in Palestinian-Israeli towns Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Maisa Totry, Idan Hauz, Nurit Alfasi, Itzhak Benenson
This research explores the impact of urbanization on familial spatial codes within informal settings and sheds light on their adaptation to contemporary processes. Through comparing residential pat...
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Making the trade-offs between parking and placemaking visible and actionable Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Jake Wiersma, Luca Bertolini
The space claims necessary for ensuring the liveability of public spaces often clash with on-street parking demand for private vehicles. Balancing these needs in a fair discussion has proven diffic...
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Patterns of retail gentrification on inner-city main streets in Stockholm: the role of privatized property ownership Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Rosa Danenberg
This study aims to investigate the connection between property owners and shopfront retail changes on main streets, exploring the role of private property ownership in retail gentrification. Examin...
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Do urban renewal programs make suburbs safer? A fine-grained GIS and space syntax study of an urban renewal project in the city of Toulouse Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Dounia Laouar, Youcef Mokrane, Christophe Claramunt
This paper evaluates the impact of urban renewal programs (PRU) on creating a safe environment. People’s perceptions of PRU and its impact on security were collected through questionnaires and sket...
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Assessing children’s affective perception of school squares in Lombardy, Italy Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Dafni Riga, Federica Bianchi
As urban public spaces adjacent to schools, school squares are fundamental for encouraging children’s independent mobility, engagement with the environment and incidental learning. Aiming to spatia...
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Chinese American older adults in urban and suburban public spaces: a comparative examination of two Los Angeles settings Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Chendi Zhang, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Age-friendly public spaces can improve older adults’ life quality and health. This study investigates low-income Chinese American/immigrant older adults’ needs, preferences, and encountered challen...
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Language matters: types of informal built landscapes in global metropolitan regions Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Shelagh McCartney
This article analyses informal built landscapes in nine fast-growing global cities across diverse geo-political regions using historical maps, aerial photographs, and field visits. This empirical s...
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How to transform urban spaces and mobility: a framework for analysing street experiments Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Julia Kinigadner, Benjamin Büttner, Ana Rivas de Gante, Simone Aumann
Street experiments have become a popular tool in urban and mobility planning and are increasingly studied in academia. Yet, systematic analysis is limited. This paper presents an assessment framewo...
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Multidimensional dynamics of pedestrian-environment interaction: a micromovement analysis in Istiklal Street, Istanbul* Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ali Yilmaz, Eren Kurkcuoglu
This study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse pedestrian movement along Istanbul’s Istiklal Street. The aim is to uncover the complex relationship between pedestrian dynami...
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Architecture and retrenchment: neoliberalization of the Swedish model across aesthetics and space, 1968–1994 Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Martin Søberg
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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Street-level architecture: the past, present, and future of interactive frontages Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robert Fishman
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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Implementation of urban climate-responsive design strategies: an international overview Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sjoerd Brandsma, Sanda Lenzholzer, Gerrit J. Carsjens, Robert D. Brown, Silvia Tavares
Urban climatic challenges can motivate urban planners and designers to implement urban climate-responsive design strategies. But does this process occur sufficiently, and if not, why? This study ex...
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Aestheticizing authenticity: entrepreneurial practices of business owners in Seoul’s gentrifying neighbourhood Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Hesu Yoon
This study advances our understanding of the gentrification aesthetic by focusing on the organizational identity and entrepreneurial practices of gentrifying business owners that directly influence...
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Territory gained: establishing urban design as the ‘4th’ design discipline Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Philip Black
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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The ethics of co-design: a commentary Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Leslie Barson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Night-time and strategies for regeneration in two medium-sized town centres Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Marion Roberts
This paper examines the regeneration proposals for two town centres in medium-sized towns in the north of England through the lens of urban design and nocturnal activities. Drawing from the field o...
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Introduction Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Elisabete Cidre
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Alton Action – our experience of co-design Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Angus Robertson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design in a community Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Toby Laurent Belson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design ethics in action: Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Maria Katticaran
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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The ethics of co-design: a commentary Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tridib Banerjee
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design: equal collaborators but different roles Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jonathan Barnett
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Engaged urban pedagogy: participatory practices in planning and place-making Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rob Cowan
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Sustaining a city’s culture and character. Principles and best practices Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ombretta Romice
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Routledge handbook of urban public space use, design, and management Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mark C. Childs
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Implementing urban design: green, civic, and community strategies Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Brenda Case Scheer
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Introduction to space syntax in urban studies Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Silvia Spolaor
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Why public space matters Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Patricia Aelbrecht
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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High streets, ageing and well-being Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Luca Brunelli, Harry Smith, Ryan Woolrych
Despite their perceived decline, local high streets in the UK remain valuable central and well-connected places that can foster ageing in place, yet their potential to sustain well-being in old age...
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Towards a pattern language for green space design in high density urban developments Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Shile Zhou, Steffen Nijhuis, Rients Dijkstra
In the inevitable high-density urbanization process, existing urban green space (UGS) design approaches are ineffective in creating more green areas and combining multidisciplinary design principle...
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Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 James T. White, Tom Kenny, Flora Samuel, Chris Foye, Gareth James, Bilge Serin
UK planning policies clearly state that well-designed places support the creation of sustainable places that generate positive economic, environment and social outcomes. Yet, for decades, the desig...
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Essential urban design Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ivor Samuels
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Understanding fracture, inconsistency and the mnemonic in urban form Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Alexander Cuthbert, Gusti Ayu Made Suartika
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2024)
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Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets? Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Paula Barros, Vikas Mehta
The role of restorativeness in attracting and retaining people on commercial streets has been under-researched. To examine this topic, this convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted on ...
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Complementarity between urban land uses: a temporal analysis Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Geruza Kretzer, Milena Kanashiro, Renato Tibiriçá de Saboya
Despite great interest in land use mix and the set of benefits that it supposedly provides, there still is a gap in the understanding of how land uses interact to promote urban vitality. This artic...
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Architecture after Covid Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mattias Kärrholm
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Healthy cities? Design for well-being Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Nastaran Peimani
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Cycling for sustainable cities Journal of Urban Design (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Billy Fields
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)