Transforming small towns by remedial street design

Introduction: Reclaiming Small Towns

Most books dealing with cities start with international statistics on urbanisation. These figures underline the shift towards an urban world. For instance, it is common to begin by stating, after the UN, that since 2014, 54 % of the world population lives in cities, and that the least urbanised continents, Africa and Asia, are also those experiencing the most rapid urbanisation. We also open wi...

Study of Road Landscape Design at Portal Space of Small Towns in Guanzhong

To further study the effects of public service facilities on the land use intensity at regulatory planning level and enhance the scientific determination of land use intensity, this paper expounds the influence mechanism and factors of the public service facilities on land use intensity in regulatory planning, and conducts quantitative evaluation of the influence factors through theoretical ana...

Sustainable Street Lighting Design Supported by Hypergraph-Based Computational Model

Street lighting systems are significant energy consumers in urban environments. The important step toward the reduction of this energy consumption and, thus, finding a balance between functional requirements and savings-related demands, was introducing LED-based light sources. There still exists, however, a margin for further savings, which is associated with well-tailored designs of road light...

Data Structures to Represent Public Transport Systems for Small Towns

Commuter bus systems plays a crucial role in the working of a city, especially for the non-metropolitan towns, where it is the primary mode of transport. For efficient planning, management and utilization of a citys transport system, a well-organized and structured database is necessary. While different cities follow different conventions to store and manage data, it is not clear if this repres...

Small and medium sized towns in their functional territorial context