.... The results from VOSviewer ended with four themes: technology, sustainability, well-being, and urban design practices. The content analysis investigated a taxonomy of opportunities and challenges. The findings underscore the need for a set of theoretical procedures to guide decision-makers, practitioners...

... of life and the health of people living there. It has been reported that good urban designs in recent years have had a direct impact on the psychological and physiological health of people (Knoll et al., 2018 ; Kondo et al., 2018). Good urban design focuses on urban places where people...

... planning and urban design by introducing the savanna hypothesis to serve as a middle ground between affective valuations and effective valuations of urban nature. Balling and Falk (1982) applied the savanna hypothesis as a theory that modern humans prefer savanna-like living environments over others...

... aspects rather than a dynamic diversification of walkable districts with emerging identities. Originality/value This investigation attempts to add some new insights into the contemporary urbanism in Chinese edge cities and the general problem of missing urban design initiatives to enhance the overall...

... behaviour indicated that the actual engagement in optional and informal activities was not regular. Perceived safety and spatial accessibility mainly influenced the users' level of engagement with the streets' activities. To retain streets as inclusive social spaces, urban designers could prioritise mixed...

...Yanjun Wang Historic districts are faced with inadequate features protection and landscape destruction in the process of accelerating urban construction, urban design focuses on how places function in addition to how they look, this theory is suitable for the protection of historical districts...

...Alessandra Feliciotti; Ombretta Romice; Sergio Porta The sheer complexity and unpredictability characterising cities challenges the adequacy of existing disciplinary knowledge and tools in urban design and highlights the necessity to incorporate explicitly the element of change and the dimension...

...Sujata Shetty; Andreas Luescher Urban design has historically occupied the gap between architecture and planning. Although there have long been calls for the discipline to bridge this gap, urban design has continued to lean more heavily on design than planning. The efforts to revitalize downtown...

...Tigran Haas Buildings alone do not matter, it is only the ensemble of streets, squares, and buildings and the way they fit together that comprises the true principles of good urbanism and place making. One of the main rules of good urban design is the quality of the public space. This paper...

... research project “Finding Parque Lenin”. © 2009 Open House International 2009 Licensed re-use rights only. Urban Design Productive Landscapes Sustainable Systems CPUL Urban Agriculture open house international Vol 34, No.2, June 2009 Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) CONTINUOUS...

... alternative to the limitations of consultation through questionnaire, and a mechanism for building sustainable communities. Community Engagement Social Policy Urban Design © 2008 Open House International 2008 Licensed re-use rights only. DUTY OF CARE: FOREGROUNDING THE USER IN DESIGN PRACTICE...

...Mohamad Kashef This study examines the strands of thought that define the urban design discourse today. One of the common and primary urban design approaches developed an understanding of the visual, perceptual, and psychological dynamics underlying human behavior in urban areas. It associated...