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URBAN DESIGN International
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.48  Citation Impact (citeScore): 1 Number of Followers: 13  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 1357-5317 - ISSN (Online) 1468-4519 Published by Springer-Verlag  [2468 journals]
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- Makeshift as spatio-temporal mechanism tactics of urban interior in
Kampung Bustaman Semarang, Indonesia-
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Abstract: Abstract This paper explores various spatio-temporal mechanisms, especially in the formation of interior conditions of urban spaces. Through exploring everyday domestic practices, this paper proposes makeshift as a spatio-temporal mechanism to expand the idea of temporalities in urban space discourse. This study was conducted through a case study in an urban kampung with the collective spatial practice involving various hidden everyday life systems. The exploration of makeshift mechanism exploration is carried out by mapping the use of spaces, observing the actors as the space users, and noting how and when the spaces are used. The findings demonstrate two forms of makeshift, makeshift of functions and objects that occur during everyday practice. This finding contributes to the urban space programming that puts forward various possibilities of open spatial systems through the makeshift mechanisms.
PubDate: 2023-12-01
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- Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around
subway stations: a human factors research-
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Abstract: Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a powerful urban planning strategy to enhance sustainability and provide socioeconomic benefits for cities. The human-centered design of public spaces around subway stations is a critical issue in TOD. In this study, a socio-technical system-based perspective was adopted to investigate the impact of using different design strategies in public spaces around subway stations on human emotional responses. The novelty of this study lies in performing a human factors experiment to examine human emotional reactions to outdoor public spaces surrounding transit stations using a comprehensive method combining physiological assessment and subjective self-report. Thirty-four participants were recruited for the experiment, which was conducted at the catchment areas of two subway stations in Nanjing, China. Urban design characteristics related to open space enclosure and visual elements, natural elements, pedestrian access, surrounding buildings or walls, and land use and activities were tested in both semi-underground and above-ground public spaces. Additionally, human emotions were assessed using the pleasure, arousal, and dominance model and by investigating the four response systems that predominantly reflect people’s emotional states. These results led to design and policy suggestions that could assist practitioners and researchers in selecting relevant approaches for human-oriented and place-based TOD planning. Graphical abstract
PubDate: 2023-12-01
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- Toward a social responsibility-based model for urban design education
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Abstract: Abstract There is a need for a model for urban design education due to its responsibility for the impact on the society and environment according to the twenty-first-century paradigm shift in higher education toward the social responsibility of universities. As an academic discipline concerned with the built environment, urban design can have a pivotal role in meeting the university social responsibility goal of promoting sustainable development. This article aims to provide the background for redesigning and adapting the educational program of urban design to the social responsibility approach. To this end, the study proposes a social responsibility-based model for urban design education through expert discussion in order to operationalize the responsibility of urban design toward the environment and society. The model is a process-oriented one consisting of four steps, namely, values, management, practices, and impacts.
PubDate: 2023-12-01
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- Influences of urban design on perceived social attributes and quality of
life: a comparative study in two English neighbourhoods-
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Abstract: Abstract Although a well-planned and well-designed neighbourhood might seem essential for the social life and satisfaction of the residents of a neighbourhood, there is a limited amount of research that examines the influence of features of urban design on perceived social attributes. This article, based on comparative on-site assessments and survey research carried out in Angell Town (London) and Greater Leys (Oxford), UK, deliberately selected according to their contrasting types of planning/design, aims to investigate whether the situational, morphological, spatial, and aesthetic features of urban environment impact on neighbourhood attachment, satisfaction, and quality of life. Overall, the evidence from this study shows that perceived social attributes and quality of life are strongly linked to urban design and physical environment characteristics, as well as perceived physical attributes of the neighbourhood. The respondents of Angell Town, a consciously designed development, were found to have a stronger sense of community, more profound sense of the neighbourhood as home, stronger agreement on the friendliness of their neighbourhood, stronger attachment to their neighbourhood, more satisfaction with their neighbourhood, and richer perception of quality of life in their neighbourhood, compared to respondents of Greater Leys, a typical development based on planning that ignores urban design principles.
PubDate: 2023-12-01
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- Microenvironments: towards a socio-spatial understanding of territorial
expression for urban design-
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Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to develop a concept of microenvironments building from research focused on the territorial perceptions of people with learning disabilities. The research highlighted the communicative and interactive significance of an innate territorial awareness in people to distinguish between what is understood as mine, yours, theirs and ours (MYTO). This is found to share aspects of commonality with socio-spatial concepts in urban design discourse, whilst also offering an accessible and inclusive means to communicate territorial experiences in ways that can overcome exclusivity often associated with specialist terminology. MYTO contributes to this wider arena of discourse by providing foundations for developing a concept of microenvironments through integration of social, spatial and material dimensions of human–environment interaction. The microenvironments concept enables the collective sense of MYTO to mediate and attribute territorial significance to particular forms of social and spatial relationship furthering understanding of small-scale human–environment interactions in ways relevant to urban design theory and practice.
PubDate: 2023-12-01
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- Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits
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Abstract: Abstract This study investigates the reliability of microscale walkability assessment by analysing the correspondence of the evaluations obtained using three different street-auditing tools, which are similar from a methodological perspective and regarding time consumption. The comparison of the evaluation of 1314 street segments—from a wide range of urban fabrics in Toledo, Spain—shows low consensus between the three audits. This research explores the reasons behind this and offers a comparative understanding of the examined tools. The paper describes their limitations, highlights the need for further research into the relationship between the streetscape and pedestrian mobility, and calls for more context-specific auditing tools.
PubDate: 2023-11-22
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- Emerging knowledge on the social dimension of urban design
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PubDate: 2023-11-02
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- Behavioral designs defined: how to understand and why it is important to
differentiate between “defensive,” “hostile,” “disciplinary”,
and other designs in the urban landscape-
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Abstract: Abstract In recent years, a growing discussion about how we should design our cities has emerged, particularly for the more controversial modes of design such as “defensive,” “hostile,” or “disciplinary” architecture (i.e., benches on which one cannot sleep, or metal studs on which one cannot skate). Although this debate is relatively mature, many studies have argued that these design notions are undertheorized and are, thus, challenging to study from an empirical and normative perspective. In this paper, I will define the most common terms used in the literature and show how they are interconnected by utilizing a set of “conditions of adequacy” from philosophy to facilitate a more transparent and well-grounded discussion of them. Terms such as “hostile” and “defensive” design are underlined by several different phenomena, not just one as is sometimes commonly assumed. I will also show that these phenomena and their conceptualizations require—and sometimes force us to use—different moral reasons when justifying the utilization of different designs.
PubDate: 2023-10-30
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- Successful criteria for placemaking process in contested spaces:
evaluation of non-governmental organisations at Ledra Street Crossing
Point in Nicosia-
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Abstract: Abstract As adivided capital city, Nicosia and its Buffer Zone have attracted attention across political, social, cultural, and academic spheres since the 1974 division of Cyprus. The Buffer Zone's physical and symbolic presence reflects the ongoing struggle for reunification and the challenges of tension in a confined space. The crossing points in the Buffer Zone serve as bridges, facilitating movement and interaction between the communities. Thus, contested spaces require comprehensive, context-sensitive approaches that foster inclusive dialogues, and seek innovative spatial arrangements to promote sustainable peace and shared understanding. The paper proposes a placemaking process approach that serves as a transformative tool to tackle the difficulties associated with contested spaces and strive towards their comprehensive revitalisation. 126 different NGOs participated as stakeholders in the Ledra Street Crossing Point and answered the Likert scale survey after the reliability check. The aim of this paper is to identify a successful placemaking process diagram for contested spaces as an analytical framework. The diagram establishes important criteria and their correlations for the placemaking process. It identifies sociability alongside uses and activities as key imperatives for successful placemaking process in contested contexts: social networks, sharing space use, multifunctionality, and public space usage.
PubDate: 2023-09-21
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- Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement
framework template-
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Abstract: Abstract There is growing recognition that Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) (parklands, swales, ponds and green roofs, etc.) can reduce flood-risk and also benefit public health and improve environmental quality (air/water quality, biodiversity, etc.). Community engagement is critical to getting BGI implementation ‘right’ and producing more sustainable solutions, yet understandings of approaches differ and remain difficult to harmonize or resolve. A review of the extant literature shows that many guidelines frame communities in the passive 'recipient' mode, and remain quiet about the power relations framing and conditioning engagement. The paper then proposes a set of generic template principles for the development of community engagement frameworks to facilitate and encourage greater community co-production of BGI, with the hope that this could then improve public preferences, accountability, efficacy and sustainability.
PubDate: 2023-09-01
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-021-00167-5
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- The urban food forest: Creating a public edible landscape
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Abstract: Abstract With the growing trend of fruit and nut trees in urban public spaces, many cities worldwide have opted in the last 10 years to turn vacant city lots and patches of parks and community parcels into urban food forests. This study explored how to create multifunctional urban food forests that can be integrated into public places and encourage public participation. In addition, this study looked at the urban food forest as a provider of food and space that encourages public and community participation, with a focus on how to design spaces, facilities, and events to support and encourage public participation and involvement in urban food forests. By comparing the spaces and functions of urban public places with the specialties of urban food forests, the “from food to space” design guidelines were summarized.
PubDate: 2023-09-01
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-022-00191-z
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- UDI editorial: designing green and blue infrastructure
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PubDate: 2023-08-16
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00229-w
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- Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in
developing countries: case of Jordan-
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Abstract: Abstract This study seeks to develop a sustainable urban assessment tool for the central districts of cities in developing countries such as Jordan. The study employed a mixed-methods approach that included examining existing and well-known urban sustainable assessment tools to identify areas of convergence and distinction; conducting a focus group discussion with sustainable development experts to identify relevant local conditions; and disseminating a web-based questionnaire to sustainability experts. The Delphi technique and analytic hierarchy process were implemented to combine the opinions of sustainability experts, define the weightings of the assessment items, and reach a consensus. Finally, the outputs were analysed to create a tool suitable for the local conditions of Jordanian city centres. The outcome of this study is a sustainable urban assessment checklist composed of 11 categories, 75 criteria, and 485 measurements. The findings show that “site categories” are regarded as the most relevant and important, followed by “site analysis” and “land planning”, together accounting for more than half of the total assessment points (51%). The results show that to ensure the city centre’s sustainability, a framework for assessing such central districts is urgently required to direct the awareness of specialists, developers, and decision-makers towards urban sustainability.
PubDate: 2023-08-01
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00228-x
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- What if “sense of place” is already strong' An in-depth investigation
in an award-winning American neighbourhood-
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Abstract: Abstract This study investigates the sense of place (SoP) as a function of spatial characteristics of Buffalo, New York's Elmwood Village, an award-winning American neighbourhood for its perceived strong SoP. The primary aim is to provide empirical proof of this claimed strength of the neighbourhood’s SoP at the building, street and neighbourhood scales and to offer a multi-dimensional understanding of SoP by investigating its four sub-indicators, namely place attachment, place identity, place dependence and nature bonding. By studying the perceptual dynamics with a survey method, place identity and place attachment were identified as the most important determinants of SoP at the neighbourhood scale, while place identity and place dependence took the lead at smaller scales. The study of spatial dynamics showed that SoP can be improved to varied degrees for each of the four sub-indicators based on variances in building and street characteristics. For instance, residing in single-family houses or houses with three-and-more bedrooms may result in higher SoP; or place identity may be affected by the open sky coverage or vegetation coverage, etc. Elmwood Village has demonstrated the power of SoP at all scales, and the neighbourhood itself undoubtedly holds a special place in the hearts of its residents. Overall, planners and designers should concentrate on which spatial qualities and scales should be prioritised in future improvement plans to maintain and/or build SoP.
PubDate: 2023-07-12
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00226-z
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- Public Space, Vikas Mehta, Routledge, 2023,
£27.99, 268 pp, ISBN: 9781032137025-
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PubDate: 2023-07-06
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00227-y
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- Jazdów: an island of real-and-imagined sustainability
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Abstract: Abstract Technocracy, as a consensus-oriented mode of post-political urban governance, is a major obstacle to the search for progressive forms of urban life, including innovations in design for sustainable development. However, what is impossible through design activities fixated on material form of things in space becomes possible through what Edward Soja called Thirdspace. This paper presents the case of Jazdów—a small urban enclave in Warsaw, Poland—which has become a site of these types of unimaginable transformations and an experiment in progressive sustainable development. What began as a battle to save a few dozen tiny, wooden houses have turned into a long-term campaign for experimental urban ecologies, radical democracies, and alternative economies. Building mainly upon in-depth interviews with radical practitioners involved in transforming Jazdów, this study analyzes these particular sustainability achievements (across all the E’s of sustainable development: environment, equity, and economy) that had been considered impossible, and yet happened through Jazdów. Finally, through a discussion on the uniqueness of today’s Jazdów across the ontological trialectics of Thirdspace, this paper argues for the need to not only accept, but also affirm and nurture its characteristics of disorder (aspect of spatiality), uncertainty (aspect of historicality), and contention (aspect of sociality).
PubDate: 2023-06-30
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00225-0
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- The assessment of the quality of campus public spaces as key parts of the
learning landscape: experience from a crowdsensing study on the Third
Campus of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland-
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Abstract: Abstract The learning landscape concept reflects shifts in the methods of learning and conducting research in universities. Public spaces within university campuses should constitute an essential component of the learning landscape as arenas of planned and serendipitous encounters, which may foster creativity and trans-disciplinary networking. However, their spatial configurations remain an under-researched topic. This paper assesses the quality of public spaces on campus based on the results of a crowdsensing survey. The Third Campus of Jagiellonian University in Krakow was selected as a case study; this is one of the largest projects of this kind carried out in Poland since the political and economic transformation of 1989. The behaviour of users provides evidence of the generally low quality of the public spaces despite the advantages of the urban layout of the campus. The paper proposes recommendations that may bring the spatial organisation of the campus closer to a fully fledged learning landscape.
PubDate: 2023-06-03
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00224-1
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- Changing approaches to green infrastructure design: from modernism to the
future: Warsaw case study-
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Abstract: Abstract International modernism has brought new solutions to urban greenery, primarily aimed at improving the living conditions of the inhabitants. Currently, much more is expected of green areas, and at the same time, various impacts influence their modifications. The article focusses on changing approaches to the issue of green wedges design resulting from the socio-political transformation and the changes in approaches to city planning priorities. We selected Warsaw for detailed research, where the evolution of this approach can be clearly observed. The study showed the changes in the size, layout and function of one of the most important green areas and residents’ expectations. The formulated conclusions and threads may be helpful in spatial policy, spatial planning and urban design in various cities with an open areas structure similar to Warsaw.
PubDate: 2023-05-17
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00220-5
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- An urban plan evaluation for park accessibility: a case in Izmir
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Abstract: Abstract Plan evaluations about park accessibility are rare at the neighbourhood scale. Moreover, urban plans traditionally identify park accessibility with predetermined measurements that may ignore limited walking conditions of children, the elderly, women with children, and low-income groups. Alternatively, this paper considers equitable (rather than equal) park accessibility as an important goal concerning environmental justice. To guide a path to achieving this goal, it investigates how to assess and revise urban plans with parks within walking distance to social groups in the case of a plan (1/1000 scale) in Izmir (Türkiye). Deployment of the location-allocation analysis (a multi-criteria assessment methodology in Geographic Information Systems, GIS) allows this research to consider physical/geographical barriers to walkability in actual neighbourhood settings and reconfigure such barriers as contextual variables, including limited walking distances of disadvantaged groups. Ultimately, this study also contributes to how to handle spatial and demographic data deficiencies in Türkiye when measuring equitable accessibility of public facilities by walking. Results identify an uneven distribution of park accessibility even within the neighbourhood on the plan and the potential for improving park accessibility by designing some non-park public lands with park features.
PubDate: 2023-05-12
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00221-4
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- Sociopetality or sociofugality' The effects of post-pandemic on public
open space-
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Abstract: Abstract To reduce the virus spread during the COVID-19, “new norms” of daily life were adopted. With urban design strategies characterizing one such norm, public spaces experienced transformations. This study examines the post-pandemic public space Üç Fidan Park in Bursa, Turkey. The study performed a mixed-methods research, including 40 visits to observe behaviors in the selected public spaces in the park during the pandemic. To enforce social distancing, new spatial behavior typologies, i.e., using additional equipment or just the human body itself, were recorded.
PubDate: 2023-05-10
DOI: 10.1057/s41289-023-00222-3
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