Urban and Regional Planning

Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021

  • The Impact of Migrant Peasants on the Urban Space (Ho Chi Minh City — Ganh Dau)

    Sergiy Ilchenko

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 107-114
    Received: 12 September 2021
    Accepted: 8 October 2021
    Published: 15 October 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.12
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    Abstract: The term “way of living” is used in this article in its connection with “place identity” to analyze the impact of new urban residents (migrant peasants) on the urban space transformation. The urban environment of Ho Chi Minh City is considered in the context of the similarity of its development to the transformation of the space of Ukrainian cities... Show More
  • Reshaping Riyadh Alsolh Square: Mapping the Narratives of Protesting Crowds in Beirut

    Reem Albarakt, Gehan Selim, Amal Iaaly

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 115-122
    Received: 8 August 2021
    Accepted: 10 September 2021
    Published: 19 November 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.13
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    Abstract: The conception of the state's ownership of public space and its control over its physical and psychological accessibility have shaped the spaces and the extent of public engagement. On the other side, civil movements challenge this dominance and contribute to reshaping the spaces through different modes of political gatherings. Several spaces in th... Show More
  • Urban Spaces and Its Impact on Social Activities

    Sameh Mohamed Hamed Elyan

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 123-134
    Received: 25 June 2021
    Accepted: 20 July 2021
    Published: 23 November 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.14
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    Abstract: The stages of urban design aim at constituting a built environment which fulfils the needs and suits the behaviors of human beings for the user's comfort and acceptance of urban space as an assembly point for practicing social activities. It may be noted that urban spaces do not fulfil the needs of human beings (Economic, social and recreational), ... Show More
  • Identifying Resettlement Communities' Urban Regeneration Opportunity Through GIS-based Spatial Analysis in Suzhou Metropolitan Area

    Jinliu Chen, Paola Pellegrini, Geng Ma

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 135-146
    Received: 1 November 2021
    Accepted: 19 November 2021
    Published: 24 November 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.15
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    Abstract: Urban regeneration is mentioned for the first time in the Chinese 14th five-year plan, and its main content is the old communities built before the year 2000. Due to the different construction standards for different communities, the old communities in need of transformation in the current city are referred to as resettlement communities. The exist... Show More
  • Analysis of Occupants’ Air-Conditioning Opening Behaviour Based on the Survival Model

    Jiawen Ren, Xin Zhou, Xing Shi, Xing Jin

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 147-154
    Received: 26 October 2021
    Accepted: 23 November 2021
    Published: 24 November 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.16
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    Abstract: It is essential to predict building energy consumption through more accurate simulation of building energy consumption, and then put forward suggestions for building energy conservation. Therefore, it is a very important issue to study the variable, random and complex air conditioning usage mode. In the previous studies on air conditioning, it coul... Show More
  • The Research on the Renewal Method of Industrial Areas in Historical Corridor

    Zhu Jiawei, Zhu Yingying

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 155-164
    Received: 28 October 2021
    Accepted: 3 December 2021
    Published: 7 December 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.17
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    Abstract: Under the background of the post-industrial era, the industrial areas in the historical corridor environment has always been the key research direction of urban renewal, and it is also the key practice area for the renewal of the existing construction land in territorial space planning. This article discusses the transformation and renewal methods ... Show More
  • Integrating the Quality of Services into Potential Access Measurement and Assessing Spatial Equity Based on Both the Need and Demand Conceptions

    Chengcheng Wu, Neil Adrian Powe

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
    Pages: 165-173
    Received: 8 November 2021
    Accepted: 30 November 2021
    Published: 9 December 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.urp.20210604.18
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    Abstract: Equitable access to services of good quality is important for disadvantaged social groups and one way to evaluate it is through spatial equity assessment. The existing studies disproportionately focus on measuring access/assessing equity reflecting the equality and/or need conception(s) and barely integrate the quality of services into the process.... Show More