While traditional street design relied upon segregating vehicles and pedestrians in urban areas to ensure smooth traffic flow, urban planners and traffic engineers are gradually moving away from it. Instead, under the more modern concept of integrated street design, more space and freedom of action is provided to pedestrians, the needs of whom were previously omitted. An example space to have u...

Chinese cities have experienced rapid urbanisation and attracted massive investment in the central city through urban redevelopment. Developing less favourable areas such as former industrial sites along waterfront is attractive for these usually need to deal with poor environments complicated land ownership. It therefore important understand how projects are carried out what financial instrume...

The redevelopment of railways stations and their surrounding neighbourhoods offers many opportunities in terms regeneration, yet there are also concerns over the potential gentrification areas displacement existing population local businesses. most prominent voice on these issues is typically from project promoter, reflecting position power decision-making process, but other voices to be unders...

Different definitions of risk too easily lead to differences in the type and level of risk accepted by varying stakeholders involved in the remediation process and redevelopment of contaminated sites as a whole. This can be rooted in the way risk information is interpreted and evaluated: technical risk definitions are largely evidential and based on engineering or technical contents, whereas so...

☆ We would like to thank John Anderson, Amy Sch Spencer Banzhaf, Will Strange, Mark Partridge, Rober and Pete Toumanoff for helpful comments. We would al ipants at Ohio State University, West Virginia Universi State University, the 2011 Urban Economics Associat 2012 AREUEA meetings for providing helpful comment ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Rohlin)....