identity is one of the focal concepts and ideas for any human being. any kind of activity carried out by human is an attempt to gain identity which his weltanschauung-oriented ideals determine for him. contemplating the significance and inner nature of objects and actions can function as one of the most important creators of the identity of the individual, society, and the city. different faces...

Introduction to Sensing Urban Values. This special issue assembles a set of papers that respond neglected, undertheorized yet crucial question relating spatial politics and urban renewal: How do economic non-economic values depend on co-constitute each other in different contexts? In response, the contributors this build recent critical reassessments value; they explore how cultural value unfol...

Assessment of exposure to airborne endotoxins has been studied for several years, especially in occupational environments, but a large number of procedures are used for sampling and analysis. This lack of standardization makes it very difficult to compare results and set internationally accepted threshold limit values (TLVs) or occupational exposure limits (OELs) for endotoxin exposure. This pa...

Most studies on urban land values focus on the determinants, using hedonic land price models with the consideration of the physical and socio-economic factors. This article employs geostatistical methods to analyze urban land values. Through a case study of Milwaukee, we set up semivariogram models and 3-D TIN surface models for urban land values, and explore anisotropy characteristics and the ...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Air pollution and property values 3. Noise and property values 4. View and property values 5. Neighbourhood facilities and property values 6. Zoning regulation and property values 7. Hedonic price modelling of environmental attributes on urban values in Hong Kong 7.1. Air pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.2. Noise pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.3...

Cities are complex urban systems with dynamic transformations in their socio-economic and environmental dimensions. Several studies have shed light on the fragility of heritage strategies its conservation. The historic landscape (HUL) approach is a new framework adopted by UNESCO to deal heritage. This article aims apply HUL rehabilitation management Beirut neighbourhoods impacted massive port ...

There is an emerging consensus that the health of planet depends on coexistence between rapidly growing cities and natural world. One strategy for guiding towards sustainability to facilitate a planning process based positive visions urban systems among actors stakeholders. This paper presents Urban Nature Futures Framework (UNFF), framework scenario building three perspectives: Nature, Society...