book review: convivial urban spaces: creating effective public places

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Evaluating Age-Friendly City Indicators in Qazvin: Urban Open Spaces, Buildings and Public Places

Background As the population pyramid in Iran shifts to aging and the influence of environmental conditions on the elderly people, The need to pay attention to the foundations of well-being, security and comfort is felt more than ever.  Objective The present study aimed at evaluating the urban open spaces and public buildings/places of Qazvin city in Iran as indicators of an age-friendly city b...

Public Places and Spaces and Social Urban Interaction (A Case Study of Johor Bahru, Malaysia)

The different usage of public places and spaces in urban areas is the focus of this study. It concentrates on the use of public places and spaces in Wong Ah Fook located in Johor Bahro city centre. The study is going to examine the way that different people utilize public places and spaces to examine how social interactions vary by age, gender or place. Moreover, this study investigates on the ...

Book Review: Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards

This book, Creating Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic W eb, contains a collection of articles ar ound the theme of the semantic aspects of Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures (SIIs). SIIs ar e an extension to the mor e commonly ter med Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), with the addition of the semantic aspects that turn data into information. The book has it...

Book Review: Designing Effective Instruction

Effective instructional design is a major prerequisite for desired learning outcomes. Even though the field of instructional design (ID) is relatively young, its multidisciplinary and rapidly evolving nature requires meticulous work to implement the most current evidence-based heuristics in instructional settings. The sixth edition of Designing Effective Instruction by G. R. Morrison, S. M. Ros...

Urban empty spaces. Contentious places for consensus-building

As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of deliberately empty spaces in urban areas both past and present signals the conscious creation and maintenance of those locales at various levels: household, neighbourhood and civic/centralizing. Domestic empty space, in part...