Introduction Two main demographic phenomena have substantially changed the condition of elderly: the growth of the urban population and the increase in longevity. Objective The aim of the present review is to investigate how the elderly living in the cities perceive the sense of insecurity compared to those who reside in rural areas, and their Quality of Life (QoL). Method Studies published...

The encoding of cities into non-planar dual graphs reveals their complex structure. We investigate the statistics of the typical space syntax measures for the five different compact urban patterns. Universal statistical behavior of space syntax measures uncovers the universality of the city creation mechanism. 1 Paradigm of a city Although, nowadays the majority of people live in cities [1] the...

Excessive unplanned urban growth leads to many vulnerabilities and impacts on urban environments to varying degrees. However, the majority of the extant literature focuses on the problems related to location and socioeconomic conditions, rather than vulnerability processes and related environmental degradation. This paper analyzes the scope of urban vulnerabilities for five rapidly urbanizing a...

Wuhan and Pittsburgh, as a pair of Sino-US sister cities, are both important industrial cities of their countries in the history. Since 1970, Pittsburgh gradually transformed itself from an industrial city to a post-industrial city, impressively solved its pollution problems and became one of the most livable cities in the U.S. However, over the past decades, which may be called the global era,...

We study the wage structure during economic transition in the context of Chinese cities and examine the effect of China’s urban housing reforms on the urban wage structure (1988-2005). We find that these reforms, which untied access to housing from state-sector employment, shifted approximately 17% of the labor force from the state sector to the private sector, increasing the private sector lab...

The UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) states community participation is a pivotal tool for integrating heritage practices into sustainable urban development. While significant but limited in China, various participatory methods have been developed, tested and evaluated worldwide. For example, inspired by HUL, Ballarat Imagine Australia has successfully used public...

This paper analyzes urban growth boundary delimitation in the urban master plan in Shaanxi Province and chooses Baoji, Weinan and Ankang as the research object. The three cities have delimited urban growth boundaries. This paper compares interrelationships between urban spatial structure, urban size, delimitation of the four areas, boundaries of planning area, natural boundaries, artificial bou...

Historic preservation is good business. Through the use of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's research model, The Economic Benefits of Preserving Community Character: A Practical Methodology, the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources has explored the financial impact of preservation on three communities. The project was conducted with the coop...

The cities, environments and buildings we live in have been the result of change since old times. In the course of time, together with the changes in the socio-culture and value judgments, all of the economic and technological changes have reflected into architecture. As a result, in the urban environment and architectural residences, the contemporary solutions have been provided. Yet, these so...

The German city of Bamberg offers lessons in how continuity and change interact within the context inner-urban land use commercial horticulture, thereby informing sustainable urban transformations historic cities. case shows that food production is not just well-established, but a consistent centuries-old cultural structure influences fabric today’s city. In this article, we discuss what forms ...