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Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl was instrumental in developing the idea of planning for cities and urban areas from a person perspective, putting people at the heart of...
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Eschewing the Apocalyptic: Recent Research on the Aftermath of “Collapse” in Archaeology Across the Americas
For 40 years, political collapse has been increasingly prominent in anthropological archaeology. Throughout that period, scholars have grappled with...
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Urban Toponymy in Turkey
“Man [or object] does not exist unless he has a name. It must be named to exist” (Tesone, 2013: 73). Names are studied by different sciences. The act...
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Border Cities Between Life and Death: Ciudad Juárez and El Paso
This text contains a reflection on the borderBorders citiesCities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, from an unconventional reading...
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Assessment of Land Use-Land-Cover Maps for Detecting Change of Selected Quality of Urban Life in Purulia Municipality Area: A Case Study
Purulia municipality area, West Bengal, India has undergone rapid, wide-ranging changes in the Land-use-Landcover (LULC) and resultant changes in the...
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Melbourne Becoming a Blue-Green City Through Blue-Green Infrastructure
The City of Melbourne manages an extensive network of stormwater drainage assets. The total built space in the municipality has increased...
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An Ontological Approach
Human life is messy. Lived experience is not merely an accumulation of acts that affected an individual’s well-being but reflects the ebb and flow of...
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Exploring cultural policies in Southern Europe from the lens of conviviality in contexts of super-diversity
Considering some of the limitations that the most common theoretical tools present for explaining the functioning of cultural diversity, we examine...
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Sociability in Cultural-Based Urban Regeneration Projects
This chapter introduces the definition of the social dimension of public places; it sheds light on the two poles of the influence of the physical...
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Urban Form Analysis of Courtyard in Traditional Settlements—Case Study of Three Lanes and Seven Alleys District in Fuzhou City
Traditional settlement is usually the original place of urban development, also as the most important part of the city. Courtyard presents...
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Calculation and contingency in contemporary global markets: the logistics of subjectivity
We relate logistics—the process of distributing merchandise—to the production of subjectivity—the process of creating forms of experience through...
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Child-Friendly Open Spaces: Towards Safety in Residential Neighborhoods
The rapid urbanization, high traffic density, and lack of open spaces are noticeable challenges that impose several repercussions on children within...
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The Importance of Social Programming in Urban Agriculture: A Practitioner’s Experiences from Norway
This contribution presents Norwegian experiences of the urban agriculture pioneer Nabolagshager and its founder Helene Gallis. The chapter takes the...
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Settlement and Rental Housing Experiences Among Recent Immigrants in the Suburbs of Vancouver: Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey
The suburbanization of immigrants in Canada is a relatively recent phenomenon, and these suburban settlement experiences and residential patterns are...
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Urban Marginality, Neighborhood Dynamics, and the Illicit Drug Trade in Mexico City
This article explores independent street-level drug dealers in the socially and economically marginalized neighborhood of Tepito in Mexico City....
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The Implosion of Memory. City and Drug Trafficking in Medellín and the Aburrá Valley
In Medellín (Colombia), the implosion of a building by local authorities, as it was considered a negative symbol inasmuch as it caused a bad image...
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Urban Resilience by Morphology? Reflections on Lockdown Urbanism in China
The initial containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in China has been attributed by media and experts to the strict implementation of a generalised...
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Modern Architectural City for an Ageing Population
An Urban Systems Study has been in place since the 1980s, encompassing specific domains of the public sector which are responsible for piecing...
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Programming Public Space
Public space is complicated by the interests of all who use it and those who regulate its use: residents, local businesses, city policymakers,...
