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Wei-Ling Hsu, Yi-Jheng Chang, Lin Mou, Juan-Wen Huang and Hsin-Lung Liu
Historic urban areas are the foundations of urban development. Due to rapid urbanization, the sustainable development of historic urban areas has become challenging for many cities. Elements of tourism and tourism service facilities play an important rol...
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Mo Fan, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Aldrin Abdullah and Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki
Contemporary urban development places a critical emphasis on pedestrian environments, especially in historic cities like George Town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Malaysia. Although survey questionnaires effectively captured public perception...
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Mustafa Aziz Amen, Ahmad Afara and Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia
Walkability is considered a vital component of the urban configuration; urban spaces should promote pedestrian walking, which is healthier and increases social sustainability by connecting people in urban spaces. This article aims to find the link betwee...
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Haoxian Cai and Wei Duan
Urban airports are typically large infrastructures with significant cultural, economic, and ecological impacts; meanwhile, abandoned airports are common worldwide. However, there is limited knowledge regarding transformation strategies for the renewal of...
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Xueyan Yang and Jie Shen
Historic districts may be damaged during urban renewal. Landscape sensitivity can be used as a method to judge the ability of a landscape to resist change. This study proposes an improved method for assessing landscape sensitivity based on a geographic i...
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Hengzhi Hu, Hanwei Yang, Jiahong Wen, Min Zhang and Yanjuan Wu
Under climate warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme rainstorms-induced urban pluvial floods are significantly increasing, leading to severe flooding risks in megacities. An integrated model that incorporates rainfall processing, waterlogging si...
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Danjuma Abdu Yusuf, Jie Zhu, Sadiq Abdullahi Nashe, Abdullahi Muhammad Usman, Abdullahi Sagir, Adamu Yukubu, Abdulmalik Sule Hamma, Namadi Sharif Alfa and Abubakar Ahmed
The significance of urban landscapes in the current era of concern for a sustainable built environment can never be overemphasized. The study explores the landscape features and typologies of some urban environments within Kano to understand the manageme...
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Maria Luisa Villani, Sonia Giovinazzi and Antonio Costanzo
Natural hazards are increasingly threatening our communities; hence it is imperative to provide communities with reliable information on possible impacts of such disasters, and on resilience measures that can be adopted to recover from disasters. To incr...
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Montaña Jiménez-Espada, Aurora Cuartero and Maguelone Le Breton
The main objective of the research consists of quantifying the degree of sustainability of the city of Cáceres in terms of the inhabitant?s accessibility to public services through the use of GIS tools and urban indicators, taking into account two areas ...
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Raphaël A. H. Kilsdonk, Anouk Bomers and Kathelijne M. Wijnberg
Extreme precipitation events can lead to the exceedance of the sewer capacity in urban areas. To mitigate the effects of urban flooding, a model is required that is capable of predicting flood timing and volumes based on precipitation forecasts while com...
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