Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even ‘dark.’ This paper focuses on the role an intermediary institution, Community Council (CC), in contested city (East) Jerusalem. Building in-depth interviews site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited form urban via range funct...

the space structure that governs cities has depended on several corresponding relations and various factors which consist of: population, job and activities, transportation patterns, urban sub-structures, various services and etc that always were connected to each other and have formed its space structure. but since these relations are more complicated in big cities, the importance of paying at...

based on a gender equity perspective and within a pluralistic civil society, women should have equal rights for presence in and use of urban open spaces. despite this, various factors decrease their presence including inappropriate design of space, as well as socio-cultural obstacles. since women’s major place of presence and activity has traditionally been in or near home, neighborhood open sp...

Assessment Of Aesthetic Quality Of Urban Green Space From The User’s Perspective In Sustainable Urban Regeneration Approach Of Historic Core Of Tehran: (The Case Of Compare Between Bab Homayon Street And Imam Khomeini Street)

In the present era, the importance and role of green space in the life and development of cities are to the extent that it is mentioned as one of the indicators of sustainable development. In sustainable urban development, proportional distribution of green space according to the balanced distribution of the population is one of the principles of establishing geographical justice. The purpose o...

How does architecture operate as a security technology? This contribution sets out how reflexive research and urban studies approach built environments political inclusion exclusion instruments. It first presents this role is understood to in the respective scholarly fields, then illustrates its ambivalent operation with two mini-case centering on Bogotá Zürich. In doing so, seeks familiarize r...

INTRODUCTION ‘The victory over the apartheid state in 1994 set policy makers in all spheres of public life the mammoth task of overhauling the social, political, economic and cultural institutions of South Africa to bring them in line with the imperatives of a new democratic order’ (Asmal, 2001). Because South African cities and towns entered the 1990s with an apartheid urban planning and devel...