This paper examines the planning paradigm shift related to the contested “urban renaissance” mega-project in Downtown Seoul (Korea). Similar to other global cities, over the last few decades, different mega-projects have been successfully implemented in Seoul. These projects have been considered engines for urban renewals and transformation. This paper builds on the analysis of the failure and ...

In urban planning and management, data sharing and integration are always problematic because urban datasets are heterogeneous and scattered in different domains and organisations. This paper introduces the research work being carried within the Virtual Environment Planning (VEPS) project. Based on a loosely-coupled mediator system and Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Services (OWS) architectur...

While a country is surging ahead from a developing country to the status of a developed nation, the term "Development" has a connotation, both in terms of macro-level or micro-level development. When referred at the country level it becomes macro-level development, while at districts, it becomes microlevel development. At the sub-state level, “District” is the basic unit for all administrative ...

population growth in urban areas is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in developing countries, urbanization has been rapid in the past two decades, and such rapid urbanization is expected to continue in the coming years. while urbanization has provided opportunities for employment, education and socio-economic development, it has also brought about a number of adverse health problems. these...

one of the important problems in the urban development process in the world has been land use and planning for urban sustainability. considering this important issue, this study investigates spatial analysis and urban land use planning in dogonbadan. this research is applied- analytical and by applying land extension index and hensen model intends to study and plan urban land use in this city. ...

Sustainable development is a key component in urban studies. Earth Observation (EO) can play a valuable role in sustainable urban development and planning, since it represents a powerful data source with the potential to provide a number of relevant urban sustainability indicators. To this end, in this paper we propose a conceptual list of EO-based indicators capable of supporting urban plannin...

• Technical and practical inadequacy of the UHI concept critically reviewed. Proposed a novel system-based paradigm for re-conceptualized studies. Implications to urban planning policy making discussed. Past decades have seen drastically increasing research effort progress on study phenomenon heat island (UHI). Despite its simplicity, this convenient has promoted significant advances in scienti...

configuration of urban land use arrangement system, how to divide and how to use urban lands are advantages of environmental, economic, social, politic and rightly forces. with extension of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning, this concept is more widely hold a special place in the form of projects such as: land preparation, framework planning, general and comprehensive,...