in today’s world, one of the cities’ major challenges is the crisis of the built environment quality. as the urban design group discussed, urban management (local authorities) actors are kind of urban designers who unconsciously affect the quality of urban environment by their decisions. non-formal education and in-service training programs are effective methods to qualify staff for making deci...

psychoeducational workshop that was rapidly developed and disseminated to an affected community in response to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The workshop provided conceptually, empirically, and experientially grounded training to community and educational personnel on responses to disaster and trauma, resilience, tolerance, and compassion fatigue. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Inter...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn due to lockdown of activities have spurred a lively debate concerning their effects across locations in EU resulting challenges territorial cohesion policy. emergency not only has provoked policy responses but also may change some basic principles on which these policies been built. This paper briefly casts light present future i...

Not all urban crises relate directly to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Although global in reach, effects have been highly heterogeneous in different regions of the world, often accentuating or giving a new turn to existing crises. In the cities of the South, these commonly relate to acute problems of poverty, inequality, crime and insecurity; in short, governability. This paper ex...

BACKGROUND Estimation of urban vulnerability to earthquakes can be consid-ered as an Ill-structured problem in urban in both unplanned and planned areas. Multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) provides a way to integrate different spatial data layers in a geographic information system to create composite maps representing risk. We utilized MCE in a raster Geographic Information System (GIS) to evaluat...

This article reviews recent publications that add to the debate about gender and human settlements. Urban development is ultimately shaped by gender assumptions and by the way in which each sex experiences the urban environment; gender-blind urban planning can be overcome by reaching a greater understanding of women's economic and social roles (and the limitations imposed on them) in urban soc...