Globally, there are numerous types of migrations in the internal migration process. Most studies have focused on individual than family or household level and their social economic livelihoods. Therefore, this study explores reasons for urban status The uses quantitative method to gather information utilizes data from Population Housing Census, 2012 Sri Lanka primary collected 2015-2016 Municip...

the neighborhood has had a long history in iranian urbanization. since urban plans wereintroduced by the authorities to shape urban development in iran half a century ago, the concept of iranian traditional neighborhood has been neglected gradually. the concept of neighborhood has not found the appropriate status in urban design and planning yet. one of the main reasons is that academics, profe...

The integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into smart cities presents a promising opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing urban sustainability. However, there are significant risks challenges associated with the EVs cities, which must be carefully considered. Though various reviews available on integrating majority these focused technical challenges, thereby ignoring oth...

Pedestrian accessibility is an important factor in urban transport and land use policy critical for creating healthy, sustainable cities. Developing evaluating indicators measuring inequalities pedestrian can help planners policymakers benchmark monitor the progress of city planning interventions. However, assessing design features at high resolution worldwide to enable comparisons challenging ...

UrbanSim is a tool for use by urban planners and others to help predict future patterns of urban development under different possible input scenarios, over periods of twenty or more years. It should support deliberation and debate on such issues as building new transit systems or freeways, or changing zoning or economic incentives, as well as on broader issues such as sustainable, livable citie...

Abstract Since its rise in the early 2000s, sharing economy has expanded and developed rapidly worldwide. While can boost resource-use efficiency encourage sustainable urban living, it also challenges governance. Recently, a collaborative governance (CG) approach involving public private partnerships been adopted various global cities to address these dilemmas. However, influence of stakeholder...

Recent mobile applications empower citizens to monitor noise pollution or report on features of their urban environment. One important aspect of urban life has, however, not been sufficiently addressed, namely the citizens’ safety. We present a privacy-aware application called uSafe, in which users indicate how safe they feel in geographical locations. These feelings are then consolidated into ...

Analysing the urban renewal of Boston’sWest End during the 1950s, we examine how psychiatrists, social scientists and urban planners understood the relationship between the urban environment and mental health. For psychiatrist Erich Lindemann, the West End offered a unique opportunity to study how acute stress and loss affected populations, thus contributing to social psychiatry, which sought t...

Role of urban planning and management at local level is becoming more and more crucial due to the dramatic increase in urban population and allied urban problems. However, absence of appropriate information and its limited sharing is one of the important factor affecting planners and decision makers’ ability to deal with urban problems. Effective quality of life can not be achieved without appr...

Urban tourism has been suffering socio-economic challenges from flood inundation risk (FIR) triggered by extraordinary rainfall under climate extremes. The evaluation of FIR is essential for mitigating economic losses, and even casualties. This study proposes an innovative spatial framework integrating improved k-nearest neighbor (kNN), remote sensing (RS), geographic information system (GIS) t...