Involving Citizens through Walking: Urban Walks as a Tool for Awareness Raising in Historic Built Areas

Recitoire: a tool for qualitative surveys involving citizens in urban planning projects

The difficulty to involve citizens into projects that influence or transform their experience of the urban space is underlined by public authorities and professionals such as urban planners. The implication of citizens in the existing modes of consultation (public meeting, opinions polls) is often limited and not representative. New solutions for facilitating citizens’ involvement in both the d...

the effect of lexical and grammatical collocation instruction through input flooding versus awareness raising on short-term and delayed retention as well a active use

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

Enhancing EFL Learners’ Self Efficacy Beliefs through Raising Metacognitive Awareness

This study aimed at investigating the possibility of improving EFL learners’ self-efficacy by implementing a metacognitive strategies instruction program. The participants were 53 female EFL learners who were divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received an eight-week treatment on metacognitive strategies through descriptions, modeling, and practice. At the b...

U-Tool: A Urban-Toolkit for Enhancing City Maps Through Citizens' Activity

a conceptual framework for integrated conservation and regeneration in historic urban areas

the historic environment is an irreplaceable asset representing the investment of centuries of skills and resources. it gives places a unique competitive advantage. most of it is in daily use; it is capable of an economic future. the opportunities for regenerating historic environment require both conservation and development motivators to keep a unique sense of the historic environment whilst ...