With the continuous urbanization, China is facing a dilemma of achieving two conflicting targets in land governance, i.e., the continuous supply of urban construction land to support urbanization and the preservation of cultivated land for food security. Under China’s dual land system, the implementation of the “Linkage between Urban-land Taking and Rural-land Giving” (Linkage) policy is of great significance in promoting more inclusive urbanization by commodifying the land development right and connecting urban and rural land markets.

A travers l’étude du cas d’Agadir, l’article est un essai prospectif sur le rapport des différentes stratégies foncières et immobilières au Maroc à la production du logement «abordable». Par une approche systémique, l’article interpele les stratégies d’usage foncier urbain comme ressource territoriale à la fois convoitée dans un système productiviste et pierre angulaire pour l’aménagement du territoire. Il questionne aussi, la position de la production du logement abordable dans le contexte de l’investissement immobilier actuel et la possibilité de son redressement.

Participation in decisionmaking processes foreshadows enabling citizens communities nongovernmental organizations and other interested parties to influence the formulation of policies and laws affecting them The purpose of this study is not only to review Lithuanian legal documents but also to analyse recent processes in Kaunas city planning Kaunas city is undergoing various urban processes which do not always meet the needs of the community This study presents an analysis of the forms of community involvement in the urban planning processes and survey data on the effectiveness of community

New revitalization and regeneration strategies are currently taking place as a scheme for reassessing urban spaces This paper as a result navigates the theory of Urban Acupuncture UA as a quick and effective tool that can be adopted in large cities Using Riyadh city as a case study it discusses how this tool can be used to achieve maximum results with minimal effort in the most critical places Riyadh city is the capital of Saudi Arabia and is considered one of the fastestgrowing metropolitan cities in the Arab world Through time it has transformed into a city with leftover open spaces and a

For decades numerous countries have been witnessing the Street Children phenomenon where millions of children worldwide are subjected to risks Despite the crucial role of intermediate nonresidential interventions using dropin centers in protecting and rehabilitating street children there is a paucity of research addressing the quality of design of these centers and how architecture might influence their operational process Those observations invite investigating dropin centers used in practice from a design perspective and question adapting architectural applications for humanitarian emerg

Since the 1960s new town developments within large metropolises have been widely adopted to decongest the city centres especially in Asian cities This paper provides a brief account of the liveability dimensions of two new townships developed in large metropolitan areas Senri New Town in Osaka and Purbachal New Town in Dhaka The study primarily draws on master plans of the two developments to identify how the components of the plans reflect the physical social functional and safety dimensions of a proposed liveability framework The methodology combines a review of masters plans with scholar

Many studies have been conducted over the last 20 years to determine and measure factors that affect the walkability of city streets Walkability is an essential factor in deciding whether a city is green or sustainable This paper creates a comprehensive walkability index by analysing built environmental indicators that affect walkability This research was conducted on mixed land use streets in Cairo Egypt combining the results from an online survey and a walkability assessment model developed by multicriteria decision analysis techniques The results were based on a threepillar approach star

Nowadays uncontrolled urbanisation is one of the major problems facing Algerian oasis regions The monitoring and evaluation of its landscape transformations remain a key step for any oasis sustainability project This study highlights the evolution of spatial growth in the city of Adrar in southern Algeria during the period 19862016 by establishing a Spatiotemporal mapping and landscape quantification The methodological approach is based on a multitemporal analysis of Landsat satellite images for 1986 1996 2006 and 2016 and the application of landscape metrics The results show two opposite s

The interaction between transport landuses and travel patterns produce diverse transportation problems in urban cities with traffic congestion as the most visible manifestation Traffic congestion is a frequent phenomenon in most cities around the globe This paper reviews the interaction between landuse traffic congestion through published literature The objective of this study is to encourage and provide researchers with future research directions in landuse and traffic congestion For this purpose a systematic review was performed analysing 45 articles from the year 2010 to 2020 using a des

The present study argues that the urban form of affordable housing projects affects safety and security The study examines the level of safety and security in the Prince Fawaz project proposing recommendations that enhance it Theories and approaches concerned with the environmental crime are initially reviewed Then urban and architectural features as well as crime rates and patterns are documented Also trace and behaviour observations are carried out The observations monitored urban features and behaviours associated with crime or fear of crime Residents perception for security and fear of

The phenomenon of planning involving citizens participation in planning literature has been from the second half of the 20th century Indeed different methods and techniques have been used in the process However participatory practices are timeconsuming and negotiations are tiresome Accordingly the integration of developing digital technologies into participatory processes has been seen as a potential to reach large audiences and provide timespace independence Within the scope of this research a detailed literature review was done regarding eparticipation and ten 10 examples representing the

Paris Agreement of December 2015 was the last official initiative led by the United Nations UN as the driver of climate change mitigation Climate change was hence linked with an increase in the occurrence of natural hazards A variety of initiatives were consequently adopted under different themes such as sustainable cities climatefriendly development and lowcarbon cities However most of the initiatives targeted by global cities with urban areas being the focus in terms of taking action against global warming issues This is due to the structural and environmental features of cities character