Developed within the context of public space studies, proposition applies concept ambiance to urban micro-space as an alternate approach providing a contrasting perspective other disciplinary methods. Ambiance is understood here emerging feature relationship between uses and (physical sensory) built it becomes meaningful when used, inhabited by individuals. Introducing used authors such Augoyar...

Urban waterfront renewal, especially public space improvement, is important for regaining vitality. However, existing studies constrained by sparse and hard-to-access data are hard to explore how changes in spatial elements during renewal would affect Waterfront vitality comprises social represented behaviors economic urban functional facilities. Taking the Maozhou River project China as an exa...

This paper investigates urban bioclimatic interventions in the central area of a coastal medium-sized city in Greece. Two urban blocks typical of the urban fabric of the city center and a neighborhood of 38 urban blocks were selected. Different proposed Bioclimatic Renewal Scenarios were investigated through microclimatic simulations using the micro-scale numerical model, ENVI-met. The simulati...