Climate change is globally causing more intense meteorological phenomena. Our cities experience increased rainfall intensity, heat waves, and prolonged droughts providing economic, social, health environmental challenges. Combined with population growth rapid urbanization, the increasing impact of climate will make our vulnerable, especially to urban flooding. In order adapt water systems these...

This paper presents a sidewalk pavement width design method for making more pedestrian friendly and walk-inspiring sidewalk pavements in the urban area. Instead of using the current sidewalk pavement width design standard that usually leads to having minimum values, this research investigated pedestrians’ preferences on the levels of service, surveyed actual foot path trajectories in the sidewa...

The study presents a landscape design project with a set of preliminary morphological analyses. Karaalioglu Park, in South Anatolia, is squeezed between a dense urban fabric and the irrevocably transformed edge of Mediterranean Sea. Globalisation, rapid urbanisation as much as other sociocultural imperatives and natural processes paved the foundations for dilapidation of the park. The project c...

urban landscape structural analysis; focused on the remnant patch mosaic network as the component with closest interdependency with air and water related processes was undertaken to find and propose environmental planning suggestions.assessments demonstrate that remnant patch mosaic network structure of tehran is still restorable. with appropriate corrective measures based on the natural lay ou...

Abstract The imbalance between water supply and demand highlights the vulnerability of many people prospect an uncertain future for supply. This work aims to compare Urban Water Security Index (UWSI) with three other methodologies (percentage flow duration curve, Sustainability Indicator, accumulated data from Drought Monitor) municipality Guarabira, Paraíba, Brazil. results show security based...

today as freshwater resources become scarcer, wastewater use is a major incentive option for conserving and expanding available water supplies. the aim of this research was to investigate the impact of normal irrigation water (well water), chemical fertilizer, and treated urban wastewater effluent on yield quantity and quality of broccoli under micro irrigation system. the accumulation of chemi...

Urban water scarcity is increasingly seen as a governance issue, not least in cities like Hyderabad, India, where the demand for urban water exceeds the available supply to the extent that some low priority areas in the city receive water for only a few hours on alternate days. Based on a multi-level perspective in transition studies, this study explores the major interplay between actors in th...

Integrating sustainable urban water management into the planning process is essential for developing water-resilient cities. To this end, central government of People’s Republic China initiated “Sponge City” programme. However, challenges and gaps exist in current practice. The operationalizable approach to realise multiple objectives Sponge City missing existing guidelines. Using a local examp...

3. GERSA, Ecole d’Architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France Abstract Virtual reality thanks to immersion and interaction is a good tool to assess urban environments. Allowing users to freely navigate in the virtual environment, virtual reality permits to take into account the influence of dynamic elements and the observers’ actions in the perception of urban spaces. However, previous works have sh...