0. Introduction The development of tourism and leisure activities undoubtedly contributes to the social and economic welfare of a city. It is recognized that leisure activities and tourism are an important addition to the existing fan of economic activities established in the urban region. In particular, the tourism and leisure industry can help to compensate losses incurred by industrial activ...

We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the urban environment as integral to urban design. To understand the city as a system encompassing physical and digital forms and their relationships with people’s behaviours, we are developing, applying and refining methods of observing, recording, modelling and analysing the city, physically, digitally and socially. We draw on establis...

This research is based on the phenomenon of importance urban service spaces for tourist areas and users in them. For example, Singkawang City area that has been developed crowded with visitors Hongkong Market area. a destination form row commercial culinary buildings along Jl. Budi Utomo, Setia surrounding streets. Seeing city space areas, it necessary to optimize which relatively easy communit...

an urban regeneration project is defined as a series of actions determined to accomplish urban regeneration aims that lead to reduce the problems of an area via improving the socioeconomic, physical and environmental conditions. today, urban regeneration is one of key principles in act of planning and it is beyond the urban renewal, urban redevelopment or urban rehabilitation processes because ...

In this paper we report on ongoing research in which the implications of urban scale pervasive computing (always and everywhere present) are investigated for urban life and urban design in the heritage environment of the city of Bath. We explore a theoretical framework for understanding and designing pervasive systems as an integral part of the urban landscape. We develop a framework based on H...

in recent years, space syntax theory has been used for analyzing spatial configurations; these analyses mostly focus on social aspects. according to the space syntax theory, space arrangements affect the space usage in buildings. this paper aims at studying spatial configurations of some traditional houses in iran in terms of flexibility factor. besides of having the housing function and provid...

with the advent of cyberspace and development of data and information, virtual cities were presented as new forms of city management in different layers and territories. historic and tourism virtual city are among eight types of virtual cities. in this article some guidelines were presented in order to design and manage them based on tehran tourists' need assessment. theoretical framework ...