Top Research Papers on Urban Planning

ในวงการวิชาชีพและวิชาการผังเมือง ได้เคยมีการรวบรวมมาตรฐานในการวางและจัดทำผังเมืองมาบ้างแล้ว ทั้งในประเทศและต่างประเทศ อย่างไรก็ตาม การจัดทำมาตรฐานด้านการผังเมืองส่วนใหญ่จะไม่ครอบคลุมทุกด้าน บางแห่งมีเฉพาะด้านมาตรฐานการพัฒนาที่อยู่อาศัย หรือด้านการออกแบบชุมชนเมือง หรือมีเฉพาะการวางแผนการใช้ที่ดินและความหนาแน่น หนังสือเล่มนี้ได้มีการรวบรวมและนำเสนอมาตรฐานทุกด้านที่เกี่ยวกับการวางและจัดทำผังเมืองในระดับต่าง ๆ รวมทั้งการออกแบบชุมชนเมืองด้วย

The evolution of ideas about the protection of the health of city residents is shown, starting with the emergence of the very science of urban planning in the last quarter of the 19th century and ending by the beginning of the global economic crisis of 1929 and the Great Depression, which resulted in radical changes in urban planning.

The importance of urban planning from the sustainability, living, economic, disaster, and environmental perspectives is introduced and some implications of AI for urban planning are delineated and key research areas at the intersection of both topics are proposed.

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A typology of urban planning AI is created to categorize and outline the progression of AI in urban planning, ranging from AI-assisted and AI-augmented planning to AI-automated and eventuallyAI-autonomized planning, based on a scoping literature review.

Scientific opinion is now unanimous that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with concomitant extreme weather patterns and events. There is a protean body of scientific literature available on global warming and climate change, which is affecting urban living in every respect from ‘heat islands’, continuous light and sea level changes as well as severe droughts and floods paralysing urban areas. Urban planning implications are reflected in buildings, street and community design for more environmentally sustainable cities. The urban science related to climate change and its impli...

ABSTRACT Heat is an increasing climate risk for cities due to climate change and the urban heat island effect. Extreme heat has inequitable impacts across social, economic, and urban environmental systems. Despite increasing awareness of heat risk, the planning and governance structures for mitigating and managing heat are less understood than those for other climate risks. We studied five large, climatically-diverse U.S. cities to better understand urban heat governance with a focus on the field of urban planning. We first conducted a plan evaluation of these cities’ comprehensive, climate ac...

Contemporary cities are facing many challenges, from social and economic issues to the new risks related to the impacts of climate change. Focusing on energy consumptions, and the related GHG emissions, cities are considered not only the main global contributors but also the areas most exposed to risks, because of their density of population and economic activities. Implementing urban planning strategies with the purpose of increasing energy efficiency and resilience overall, is, for all these reasons, considered a top priority. This paper investigates the innovative content related to the ene...

Purpose This paper aims to propose an integrated urban planning framework to achieve sustainable urban development (SUD) in the Malaysian context. Design/methodology/approach In the course of developing this framework, this paper reviews the related literature and Malaysian policies, programs and plans. Findings The findings highlight the importance of developing an integrated urban planning framework with respect to the processes, content and outcomes to achieve SUD in the Malaysian context. Successful SUD planning should be participatory and based on building consensus. Moreover, the co...

Highlighting the influential role of imaginations in the story of urban planning, Phelps calls for diligently employing their creative potential to plan better places. Evoking relevant examples, like wellplanned neighborhoods and pleasant, inclusive public spaces, this text turns the lights on planning’s arguably innate characteristic as an “activity of imagination,” which both drives as well as ties the work urban planners do in different social and policy contexts. Phelps identifies citizens (individuals and individual households), clubs (corporations, civic associations, environmental group...

Discipline of urban planning only developed around a century back with the first academic school at the University of Liverpool in 1909. However, the theory of this discipline is relatively older and might date to varying timelines around various parts of the world. However, modern urban planning discipline has got birth in the US and Western Europe. Early development in the theory of urban planning develops challenges for the cities. In response to such challenges, the planning approaches seem to adapt to the needs of emerging regimes evident from the high-scale urban renovation of Paris by H...

ABSTRACT A recent WHO-UN-Habitat document states that urban planning is crucial for better public health in cities and that health is input for and an outcome of planning. These statements regard the mission of urban planning: designing cities to promote a healthy lifestyle and guarantee adequate standards of living and work, economic growth, social development, equity, environmental sustainability and connectivity. In recent decades, health has rarely been promoted directly in urban planning; however, the pandemic has ignited new interest in urban planning as an enabler of urban health, for a...

The methodological approach proposed here is an Urban Digital Twin applied to cities as a predictive model to obtain a projection of their development in terms of sustainability.

How did we get here? Kneeling close to the floor, gently and (care)fully placing my daughter ’ s body onto a beach towel we brought with us … again, because we have learned, through repeat exposure to unimaginatively produced, broken, and ableist design and infrastructure, to expect to have to change her on the dirty floor of a public bathroom EVERY time we venture out into the city. Leaving the house with our disabled child has become a mind-bending logistical puzzle, and venturing out into the world, an act of resistance. We resist the temptation to simply disappear, to avoid the rows of sta...

We study a mathematical model to describe the evolution of a city, which is determined by the interaction of two large populations of agents, workers and firms. The map of the city is described by a network with the edges representing at the same time residential areas and communication routes. The two populations compete for space while interacting through the labour market. The resulting model is described by a two population Mean-Field Game system coupled with an Optimal Transport problem.We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we provide several numerical simulations.

A fundamentally new approach to understanding and developing new principles of city life that regulate the biosphere compatibility of cities and the development of human capital as the main criteria for the effectiveness of territorial planning, construction and operation of urban facilities.

ABSTRACT In the mid-2010s, China initiated a quality-oriented urbanization model aimed at overcoming the urban crises resulting from the past quantity-oriented urbanization. The Xiong’an New Area (XNA), China’s latest national-level new area, has been planned such that it serves as a showcase of the quality-oriented urbanization model. Based on a review of the official urban planning documents, this paper examines the characteristics of the XNA’s urban planning and finds that the urban planning has integrated environmental friendliness, social inclusion, innovation-driven economy, cultural inh...

Findings from a recent literature review on AI in planning are highlighted and the results of a national survey of urban planners about their perspectives on AI adoption and concerns they have expressed about its broader use in the profession are discussed.

By reviewing the theoretical foundation of the separation between urban planning and urban ecological planning in China,the paper discusses,from a prospect of the construction of urban planning theory,the possibility and necessity of integrating ecological planning into urban planning.It points out that as a basic approach to the integration,the ecologization of urban planning is the direction of planning theoretical development in the future.Finally,it analyzes the respective significances of the ecologization of urban planning for ecological planning and tra- ditional urban planning.

The article is devoted to the study of the role of cadastral systems and land management in urban planning. The authors consider ways to optimize land use and urban planning based on the integration of modern cadastral tools. Potential advantages and opportunities provided by cadastral systems for effective management of urban territories, ensuring their sustainable development and taking into account ecological, economic and social aspects are analyzed. The article examines the relationship between cadastral systems and land management in the context of urban planning. The main attention is p...

Traditional urban planning projects require considerable time, political buy-in, and capital. Conversely, small-scale urban interventions can be executed quickly and inexpensively. However, the terms used to describe these projects—such as tactical, pop-up, temporary, or insurgent urbanism—are numerous and overlapping, making them hard to distinguish from each other. We suggest that a single unifying term, punctual urbanism, can capture these different urbanisms. To justify this choice, we provide definitions and examples, as well as an overarching framework for understanding these urbanisms o...

ABSTRACT The paper aims at discussing the reciprocity of developing a dialogue between urban planning and degrowth by arguing for two interactive processes: ‘spatialising degrowth’ and ‘degrowing planning’. Degrowth literature has not yet fully recognised the potentiality of urban/urban regional spatial development and planning in facilitating and driving the degrowth transformation for local and regional sustainability and justice. The possibility of urban planning to facilitate a downscaling of the economy, save the environment and secure distributive justice is predicated on the causal rela...

: The role of urban planning management in urban architectural design has undergone profound changes, as it strives to ensure that our cities can meet the needs of people while gradually constructing a sustainable living space. Urban planning management and urban architectural design together shape the appearance and soul of a city, serving as the cornerstone for building a modern urban civilization. This article primarily explores the role, significant value, design strategies of urban planning management in urban architectural design, and how it influences various aspects of urban architectu...

The author considers the THRIVES framework in detail, linking this to systems thinking for urban health and the need to reframe healthy urbanism in response to developing knowledge and understanding of how urban centres impact on health.

Through what kind of spaces might postcapitalist planning emerge? How will the process of wresting collective control over the relations of production and reproduction, and over our metabolic exchange with the rest of nature, unfold through struggle? In seeking answers to such questions, this article reviews the literature on democratic economic planning beyond capitalism and makes the case for a renewed engagement with issues of space and the urban through a closer reading of Henri Lefebvre’s work on planetary urbanization and the production of space. We argue that, to date, the economic plan...

Geothermal energy is a collective term referring to Earth heat extraction and use of the ground capacity to absorb and store thermal energy to supply heat or cold. Thermal ground exchange or shallow geothermal energy has been increasingly used in the housing sector to sustain comfortable room temperature. Increasing utilization of geothermal energy, particularly in urban areas, requires integration into urban planning processes. The question of subsurface planning, or underground space integration into land-use planning, or three-dimensional planning has been an emerging research theme in this...

In this article, I consider the relationship between urban planning and context by investigating the planning practices associated with a land-use plan in Bordeaux described as “adapted to context.” Invested with flexible rules, the plan description followed a tendency in French urban planning concerned with being strategic, prospective, and participatory. It was also the result of metropolitan planning. Through an ethnographic account, I show how local politicians’ references to context related to concerns with mayoral authority in times of planning powers transferred to the metropole. Using ...

Cities are exposed to many security threats in urban areas due to crime and violence, insecurity of tenure and forced eviction, and natural and human-made disasters. Cities have witnessed many challenges and problems, such as: increasing population numbers, housing density, migration to cities, unemployment, poverty, deteriorating infrastructure, unhealthy environment, wars, terrorism and political conflicts. The purpose of this study is to define safe cities and clarify the role of urban planning and design and their elements on safe cities. This paper analyses the role of urban planning and ...

The demand for community involvement during the planning process is growing. Kosovo, to be in step with global development trends in the field of planning, has developed various projects in the name of public participation. The pilot project for the Brekoci informal settlement in Gjakova is an example of community-based planning. The purpose of this paper is to show the way of community involvement through unique methods explicitly designed for this community, as the tool “Express”, “Mark” and “Vote” and how the data obtained from these tools through spatial systems as Geographical Information...

An analysis of 17 Romanian cities’ Urban General Plans showed that urban planning documents do not satisfactorily rely on groundwater information. The associated hydrogeological supporting studies include only general recommendations; however, they should include specifications that improve water-balance or detail the need to implement monitoring systems to monitor groundwater levels. The studies do not recommend that any special construction measures should be implemented for future infrastructure elements and do not include maps delimiting the particular geotechnical and hydrogeological char...

This work introduces an LLM-based multi-agent collaboration framework for participatory urban planning, which can generate land-use plans for urban regions considering the diverse needs of residents and outperforms human experts in terms of service accessibility and ecology metrics.

ABSTRACT In this introduction to the Special Issue titled Degrowth, Cities and Planning, we explore the urban dimension of a radical socio-ecological transformation inspired by the idea of degrowth, geared towards achieving humanity’s long-term wellbeing and sustainability. Although cities and urban planning should arguably play a central role in such a transition, the urban dimension of degrowth has remained largely unexplored. Bringing together the contributions to the Special Issue, we hope to strengthen degrowth by reflecting how its vision applies in urban contexts, and what insights and ...

Urbanization is rapidly transforming the world, bringing the challenges of escalating energy demand and environmental impact. Urban Solar Integration, the strategic incorporation of solar energy systems into urban planning and development, emerges as a vital solution to address these challenges. This review paper comprehensively examines the global landscape of Urban Solar Integration, drawing on case studies from diverse cities worldwide. It explores the multifaceted potential of solar energy in urban contexts, from mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to enhancing energy security and promotin...

The management of peri-urban development has emerged as a new context of contemporary urban planning. Its dynamic and diverse nature presents major challenges and opportunities for urban sustainability. However, a more integrated framework for peri-urban planning has been progressing slowly. An examination of the epistemology of the landscape concept reveals three salient aspects of landscape relevant to multiple domains of peri-urban planning – the unifying, morphogenetic and socialised. Although landscape research has translated into peri-urban management, its full potential has yet to be re...

This paper presents a meta-modelling framework that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and therefore expensive and expensive process of manually cataloging and modeling vehicle ownership habits in the United States.

The process of studying urban planning implies the involvement of land use and land surface studies. They are largely necessary on a range of topics and issues. Sustainable development depends on con-trolling the effects of change. GIS can achieve this through its various capabilities, which can be used by urban planners and decision makers. GIS can operate as a tool and as a system, or even as a group of systems that work simultaneously or sequentially. GIS is one of the most important applica-tions of urban planning. This study is devoted to the peculiarities of the use of geoinformation tec...

Urban planning is simultaneously shaped by and creates new (spatial) knowledge. The changes in planning culture that have taken place in the last decades—especially the so-called communicative turn in planning in the 1990s—have brought about an increased attention to a growing range of stakeholders of urban development, their interests, logics, and participation in planning as well as the negotiation processes between these stakeholders. However, while this has also been researched in breadth and depth, only scant attention has been paid to the knowledge (claims) of these stakeholders. In plan...

U doba izblijedjelih sjecanja na neosporna strucna i moralna polazista urbanistickoga planiranja, u doba neprimjerenog autoriteta materijalne dobiti i osobnog interesa, ova knjiga uvodi citatelja u odabrane teme detaljnoga urbanistickog planiranja u nastojanju da pojasni svrhu, potrebu i važnost planiranja uporabe i ocuvanja prostora. Prvo poglavlje knjige obuhvaca osvrt na odabrana obilježja razvoja grada i razvoja urbanisticke djelatnosti, svrhu i važnost izrade urbanistickih planova te uloge sudionika u njihovoj izradi i provedbi. Drugo poglavlje obuhvaca postupak izrade urbanistickoga plan...

The subject of the article relates to the current state of affairs of spatial planning system in force in Poland and the possibility to introduce positive changes to it. The author adopted the examples with which she attempts to illustrate the system from her own extensive experience in urban planning, especially in Warsaw, which was assumed as the main research field. In the article, the discussion on the abovementioned planning system starts with the statistics of urban plans made in Warsaw, the scope of social participation and analyzes conducted prior to projects. Then, focus was placed on...

The main trend of the digital transformation of urban planning is defined, characterized by the transition to the provision of integrated services in the construction indus-try and the introduction of super services, as well as by the distribution of information models of capi-tal construction facilities and 3D printing in construction.

Digital co-production platforms offer a range of genuinely beneficial features and have a potential to develop into a new urban planning model that meets the needs of a complex late modern society.

Abstract Problem, research strategy, and findings The current focus on power relationships in planning processes emphasizes socioeconomic characteristics of the general public, whose participation is often portrayed as one-time, idiosyncratic, nonprofessional, and relatively powerless. To shift attention to the understudied repeated participation in the general public, we distinguish serial participation as a distinct participation pattern by focusing on an underexplored group, referred to as natural joiners or usual suspects. Our analysis focuses on Jerusalem and draws on interviews with seri...

There is a significant gap between academic research and practical application for power distribution system planning (PDSP). For most of the existing PDSP models in academic research, cost is used as the objective function, and the most common constraints are power flow equality constraints, bus voltage or voltage drop limits, substation and feeder capacity limits, etc. Although various advanced models and methods have been proposed, they are rarely used in real distribution system companies. This paper proposes a new feeder planning model for the urban distribution network considering variou...

   Throughout the long history of urban construction, citizens have been united by a common aspiration — to live in a beautiful city and a comfortable urban environment. Many generations of urban planners have sought to answer this question, but it has not been possible to answer it definitively even today. This is confirmed by the acute controversy being conducted in society today by participants in the urban planning process, including architects, urbanists, economists, urban planners, stakeholders, urban defenders, officials and ordinary citizens. At the same time, urbanism is often the sub...

Alexandria is the chief port of Egypt and is located in the north and occupies a T-shaped peninsula and strip of land separating the Mediterranean from Lake Maryout (fi g. 1). The city was founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great and was the capital of Egypt for over 1000 years. Alexandria witnessed a continuous urban growth from the beginning of the Mohammed Ali era (1805) up to the present time. In 1905, Alexandria’s 370 thousand inhabitants lived in an area of about 4 km between the two harbors. Since that time the city has expanded rapidly, eastwards and westwards, beyond its medieval wall...

Urban public transport line formulation has its appeal in promoting public convenience and developing environmentally friendly cities. During the bus line planning stage, the line frequency and stop location determination is a key issue for decision makers. Our study focuses on the integrated formulation problem between line frequency and stop planning featuring multi-type vehicles. The multi-type vehicles are able to accommodate the various passenger demands at either peak hours or off-peak hours. The a priori magnitudes of user demands are investigated by drone-based technique methods in the...

The burgeoning challenges of rapid urbanization, climate change, and resource depletion necessitate a paradigm shift in urban infrastructure towards sustainability. the intersection of green building technologies and urban planning as pivotal components in fostering sustainable urban development. In recent years, green building technologies have emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable urban infrastructure. From energy-efficient design to the integration of renewable energy sources, these technologies offer solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of urbanization while enhancing residents...

Due to global eco-social and technological challenges, a new strategy of planning adopted as the Land Use and Building Act in Finland (2000) will be renewed after 23 years of implementation. Will the forthcoming law recognise the complex relationships and consequences of self-organised processes, the digital empowerment of citizens, and the eco-social content of planning and development? This article examines and discusses the renewal of the Finnish Land Use and Building Act and the forthcoming planning system from an ontological perspective. Methodologically it is based on an assessment of th...

Abstract Problem, research strategy, and findings: The ability of planning to address America’s urban problems of inequality, crime, housing, education, and segregation is hampered by a relative neglect of Whiteness and its role in shaping urban outcomes. We offer a justification for centering Whiteness within urban planning scholarship and practice that would examine its role shaping and perpetuating regional and racial injustices in the American city. The focus of planners, scholars, and public discourse on the “dysfunctions” of communities of color, notably poverty, high levels of segregati...

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