Writing on camps is dangerous as they are never constrained to the architectural scale and form, we might firstly perceive them. If examined singular objects, even in their multiple diverse morphological aspects contested historiography, seem incapable of mobilizing spatial reflection beside an aesthetic precarity, makeshift resistance or violent power control, surveillance, exclusion, death. B...

In recent years, various proposals have emerged for the construction of “eco-cities,” specially designed communities with an explicit environmental focus that often incorporate technologically sophisticated building design, comprehensive master-planning, renewable energy sources, and efforts to achieve resource self-sufficiency. This trend, however, is subject to intense criticism among some pr...

This paper examines how current theorizing on public pedagogy can be used to understand scholarship on creative, arts-based pedagogies in informal environmental education for adults. In particular, the study applies Biesta's (2012, 2014) typology of public pedagogies to three bodies of literature: arts-based adult learning and education in the environmental movement, eco-art, and Tactical Urban...

BACKGROUND Despite substantial evidence for neighborhood characteristics correlating with walking, so far there has been limited attention to possible practical implications for neighborhood design. This study investigates to what extent design guidelines are likely to stimulate walking. METHODS Four of the New Urbanism Smart Scorecard criteria and two other measures were tested for their inf...

Since the advent of second digital revolution, exponential advancement technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments societies to seek ways for their cities become more humane, ethical, inclusive, intelligent, sustainable. In recent years, concept City-as-a-Platform was coined hope prov...

City growth and environmental difficulties last decades leads the art of urban design and development think more precisely and new approaches for conserving environment and developing urban areas have been evolved.The present study deals with concepts related to ecology in the city and in particular the theory of Ecological Urbanism and its criteria is expressed. Also theory and characteristics...

This scientific article analyzes the impacts of symmetry in architecture and urbanism, how this characteristic can influence design development urban environments. The relationship between aesthetic perception is examined, as well its on functionality human experience built environment. Through a solid theoretical framework rigorous research methodology, different approaches used application ur...