This paper contributes to the emerging research on innovation districts (IDs) by conceptualizing them as strategic urban projects. IDs connect innovative activities their spatial foundations and thus provide a territorial framework for planning efforts. The extant literature IDs, focusing mainly ID characteristics placemaking, has failed acknowledge that development requires an integrated appro...

The authors of the article aim to identify principles and patterns mutual influence socially significant projects transformation urban environment regimes in Russian Federation. Clarence Stone's concept is used as a theoretical framework. Based on author's system criteria social significance, 6 4 cities were selected analyzed: Okhta Center Tuchkov Buyan St. Petersburg, Zaryadye Park development...

The aim of this paper is to enunciate convergences between the contemporary city, urban-architectural projects and their relationship with nature. Starting from assumption that city an integrating portion natural environment, as a complex uninterrupted system biotic abiotic changes, influenced mainly by culture, values, customs habits its residents. To propose based on project green infrastruct...

Urban landscapes have serious impacts on water quality through the disruption of hydrologic cycle. The Purdue University course, Environmental and Ecological Engineering 49500: Water Projects, seeks to use student-led service-learning projects improve both quantity in Wabash River water-shed. This year, students investigated implemented strategies guarantee that previous implementations succeed...

The notion of sustainability is widely used from micro to macro scale studies but only few approaches deal with its measurement. Increased global interest in sustainability has triggered attention in indicators as a means of achieving a more sustainable world. Although the search for indicators has led to the development of criteria for good indicators, it has also been dominated by scientific ...

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Prior research by Pitt (1987) examined runoff losses from paved and roofed surfaces in urban areas and showed significant losses at these surfaces during the small and moderate sized events of most interest for water quality evaluations. However, Pitt and Durrans (1995) also examined runoff and pavement seepage on highway pavements and found that very little surface runoff entered typical highw...