In the early 1980s, suburbanization and periurbanization processes became widespread in major cities within Spain. An interesting stage of returning to city centers commenced that materialized in the start of rehabilitation policies within historic centers. These processes coincided with weak population growth, an acute industrial economic crisis, and new democratic policies in municipal counci...

This paper, based on the theoretical framework of urban organic renewal, takes Chengdu as a case study to delve into interrelationship between renewal and construction tourism demonstration zone. Through literature research, field investigations, analysis, it reveals impact development zones proposes feasible policy recommendations aimed at promoting sustainable Chengdu’s area prosperity its in...

deteriorated urban textures are areas of a city isolated from developmental life cycle. they have turned into the focus of problems and inefficiencies. the evaluation of renewal actions claims to promote residents’ satisfaction in some cases. at the same time of improving objective and economic quality of life, there are claims regarding the lack of any improvements in their subjective quality ...

Urban upgrading programs are implemented to enhance the living conditions in a city. However, concept of what extent life targeted communities is improved remains contested and fluid. The purpose this study was two-fold. First, it evaluated for first time indoor thermal three main urban housing types Kigali analyzed whether ongoing renewal takes into consideration occupant comfort. Second, alte...

Currently, the Chinese government leads urban renewal via a top-down management style with the government playing the role of decision-maker. The decision-making opinions held by groups of stakeholders are divided, which creates many social problems, project technical issues and even civil disorder. This paper uses factor analysis to extract the key variables for decision-making on urban renewa...

establishing equilibrium in various regions of a town is normally considered to be the main aims of all municipalities and the urban governance policies of the related organizations. but in spite of the elementary goals of urban renewal policies, some of the urban renovation projects lead to inverse consequences like urban gentrification or spatial segregation in urban areas. for analyzing such...