Purpose There are two main aims of this conceptual paper. The first is to explore the issues associated with staging events in public spaces, and produce a typology different event spaces. second if how should be designed into parks, streets squares whether might reduce some negative impacts user conflicts. Design/methodology/approach paper analyses history, drivers effects using spaces as venu...

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...

The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for the provision of universal access to: (a) safe, inclusive, and accessible green public spaces, (b) affordable, accessible, sustainable transport systems all. Barcelona axes plan aims to transform one third streets within its 19th century extension grid, increasing tree cover vegetation, adopting urban drainage systems, limiting motor t...

The institution of sweeping the roads, streets and compounds of public buildings in most towns is a public nuisance for which the city fathers are responsible. The dust rises in the air and falls into the houses within its reach, especially into the rooms on the first floor. All such surfaces which harbour loose dust should be watered before they are swept. The floors should be mopped with wet ...

joan didion said “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” society provides a vast space for the everyday to take place in different forms and natures for different people experiencing it. when there falls a gap between the tangible (objective) ...

Street children: who are they? Why they homeless? How do actually live on the streets? What quality of life enjoy? characteristics these children? These questions appear to be simple, but answers so very complex. Very often public lacks proper information about children and instinctively judge cast aspersion them. This non-empirical paper presents a clear understanding some street children. Wit...

This long-lasting point in his life due to economic developments, social and cultural development of the Industrial Revolution, the foundation has been transformed. Today, the need for rehabilitation and restoration of these islands what the city increases, the need to develop a coherent and logical connection between the old and new areas to preserve and enhance the integrity and identity of...

Soil lead in urban neighborhoods is a known predictor of child blood lead levels. In this paper, we address the question where one ought to concentrate soil sample collection efforts to efficiently predict children at-risk for soil Pb exposure. Two extensive data sets are combined, including 5467 surface soil samples collected from 286 census tracts, and geo-referenced blood Pb data for 55,551 ...