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Language matters: types of informal built landscapes in global metropolitan regions Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Shelagh McCartney
This article analyses informal built landscapes in nine fast-growing global cities across diverse geo-political regions using historical maps, aerial photographs, and field visits. This empirical s...
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Architecture and retrenchment: neoliberalization of the Swedish model across aesthetics and space, 1968–1994 Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Martin Søberg
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How to transform urban spaces and mobility: a framework for analysing street experiments Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Julia Kinigadner, Benjamin Büttner, Ana Rivas de Gante, Simone Aumann
Street experiments have become a popular tool in urban and mobility planning and are increasingly studied in academia. Yet, systematic analysis is limited. This paper presents an assessment framewo...
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Street-level architecture: the past, present, and future of interactive frontages Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robert Fishman
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Multidimensional dynamics of pedestrian-environment interaction: a micromovement analysis in Istiklal Street, Istanbul* Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ali Yilmaz, Eren Kurkcuoglu
This study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse pedestrian movement along Istanbul’s Istiklal Street. The aim is to uncover the complex relationship between pedestrian dynami...
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Implementation of urban climate-responsive design strategies: an international overview Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sjoerd Brandsma, Sanda Lenzholzer, Gerrit J. Carsjens, Robert D. Brown, Silvia Tavares
Urban climatic challenges can motivate urban planners and designers to implement urban climate-responsive design strategies. But does this process occur sufficiently, and if not, why? This study ex...
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Aestheticizing authenticity: entrepreneurial practices of business owners in Seoul’s gentrifying neighbourhood Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Hesu Yoon
This study advances our understanding of the gentrification aesthetic by focusing on the organizational identity and entrepreneurial practices of gentrifying business owners that directly influence...
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Territory gained: establishing urban design as the ‘4th’ design discipline Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Philip Black
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The ethics of co-design: a commentary Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Leslie Barson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Night-time and strategies for regeneration in two medium-sized town centres Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Marion Roberts
This paper examines the regeneration proposals for two town centres in medium-sized towns in the north of England through the lens of urban design and nocturnal activities. Drawing from the field o...
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Introduction Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Elisabete Cidre
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Alton Action – our experience of co-design Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Angus Robertson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design in a community Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Toby Laurent Belson
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design ethics in action: Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Maria Katticaran
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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The ethics of co-design: a commentary Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tridib Banerjee
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Co-design: equal collaborators but different roles Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Jonathan Barnett
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Engaged urban pedagogy: participatory practices in planning and place-making Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rob Cowan
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Sustaining a city’s culture and character. Principles and best practices Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ombretta Romice
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
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Routledge handbook of urban public space use, design, and management Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mark C. Childs
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Implementing urban design: green, civic, and community strategies Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Brenda Case Scheer
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Introduction to space syntax in urban studies Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Silvia Spolaor
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Why public space matters Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Patricia Aelbrecht
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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High streets, ageing and well-being Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Luca Brunelli, Harry Smith, Ryan Woolrych
Despite their perceived decline, local high streets in the UK remain valuable central and well-connected places that can foster ageing in place, yet their potential to sustain well-being in old age...
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Towards a pattern language for green space design in high density urban developments Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Shile Zhou, Steffen Nijhuis, Rients Dijkstra
In the inevitable high-density urbanization process, existing urban green space (UGS) design approaches are ineffective in creating more green areas and combining multidisciplinary design principle...
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Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-16 James T. White, Tom Kenny, Flora Samuel, Chris Foye, Gareth James, Bilge Serin
UK planning policies clearly state that well-designed places support the creation of sustainable places that generate positive economic, environment and social outcomes. Yet, for decades, the desig...
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Understanding fracture, inconsistency and the mnemonic in urban form Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Alexander Cuthbert, Gusti Ayu Made Suartika
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Essential urban design Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ivor Samuels
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets? Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Paula Barros, Vikas Mehta
The role of restorativeness in attracting and retaining people on commercial streets has been under-researched. To examine this topic, this convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted on ...
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Complementarity between urban land uses: a temporal analysis Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Geruza Kretzer, Milena Kanashiro, Renato Tibiriçá de Saboya
Despite great interest in land use mix and the set of benefits that it supposedly provides, there still is a gap in the understanding of how land uses interact to promote urban vitality. This artic...
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Architecture after Covid Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mattias Kärrholm
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
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Healthy cities? Design for well-being Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Nastaran Peimani
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Cycling for sustainable cities Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Billy Fields
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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Reconceptualizing urban identity: a study of Hanoi’s form and pattern languages from 1873 to 1902 Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Ngoc Hong Nguyen
Urban identity has been an elusive challenge in urban studies. This research investigates Hanoi’s identity from 1873 to 1902 employing a methodology grounded in pattern and form languages, alongsid...
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The disappearing grid: how the Canadian government changed suburban community design, 1944-69 Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-09-29 David Gordon, Matthew Harding
Canada became a suburban nation after WWII, but how the design of its suburbs evolved from grids to neighbourhood units of curvilinear streets is little known. During the post-war period, the feder...
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Correction Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-09-11
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Proxy wars, the parklet, and the university: challenges for urban design Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-09-14 N. Jarman, E. Stratford
ABSTRACT Changes in government funding to universities require that they pursue new opportunities. Some respond by moving campus operations from suburbs to inner cities. Some draw on temporary and tactical urbanism to enhance placemaking and accessibility. In the process, they must acquire and hold a social licence, which is not guaranteed. This research involved analysing such outcomes in an in-depth
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Unravelling retail diversity through its spatial relationship with social vulnerability and tourism pressures in Barcelona Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Carme Miralles-Guasch, Oriol Marquet
ABSTRACT Diversity in retail and facilities is essential for creating proximity environments. Most analyses have focused on either built environment predictors or the balance between diversity and social vulnerability and tourism, but little is known of their interrelationship. Using georeferenced data of retail and facilities in Barcelona (Spain), the study shows that diversity is positively associated
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‘I will stay here’: public space and social inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Fernando Gutiérrez
ABSTRACT The implementation of city lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed some social inequalities in Mexico. The paper evaluates the effects of the closure of the Alameda Central, a public park in the Historic Centre of Mexico City. It examines how its closure affected some vulnerable populations, including homeless people, beggars, street vendors, buskers, and male sex workers, to
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Is public transit meeting the needs of women? A gender audit of two Asian metro systems Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Nirma Yossa, Cherin Kim, Dorina Pojani, Neil Sipe
ABSTRACT In this novel study, a gender audit was conducted to assess how the Seoul (Metro) and Jakarta (MRT) subway systems respond to women’s needs. The audit revealed that both Seoul Metro and MRT Jakarta have made significant efforts to accommodate the needs of all passengers, including women. This is commendable because a public transit system that works well for women works better for everyone
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Exploring criteria for reallocating road space dynamically: lessons from a workshop with experts Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Gabriel Valença, Filipe Moura, Ana Morais de Sá
ABSTRACT There is a potential to allocate road space dynamically over time when demands are complementary or disputed. A workshop with experts was performed to discuss the practicability of implementing dynamic solutions in urban areas. The workshop aimed to identify possible dynamic solutions, select streets for intervention, and systematize and rank street-level criteria for different dynamic road
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The ‘cooling urban water environments’ concept: potential for application in practice Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-08-01 João Cortesão, Sytse Koopmans, Sanda Lenzholzer, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Bert G. Heusinkveld
Research indicates that water in small water bodies has negligible cooling effects, but also that its surrounding environment can be designed to become cooler by applying the ‘cooling urban water e...
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Attract or repel: how street features shape pedestrians’ leisure walks in cities Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-07-31 M. Gath-Morad, P. O. Plaut, Y. E. Kalay
ABSTRACT The paper presents a field study analysing how pedestrians walked for leisure purposes in a familiar urban area, and why they walked as they did. Using mobile-based GPS, the walking trajectories of 44 participants were recorded, followed by the administration of a post-walk survey. Results show that participants gravitated towards five distinct paths that were similar in length (three shorter
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Building Dodger Stadium: Walter O’Malley’s search for nature and modernism in Los Angeles Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Lorne Platt
ABSTRACT In the mid twentieth century, a time in which modernist principles of planning and design were influential, the Brooklyn Dodgers sought a new stadium in Southern California. Increased emphasis on an auto-dominant built form aligned with the construction of freeways that would provide access for the growing suburban fan base. In addition, finding a site in an ever-expanding metropolitan region
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Playful, portable, pliable interventions into street spaces: deploying a ‘playful parklet’ across Melbourne’s suburbs Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Quentin Stevens, Dale Leorke, Ha Minh Hai Thai, Troy Innocent, Carlo Tolentino
A parklet is a small, relocatable public space installed onto kerb-side car-parking spaces. This article examines the evolving design, programming, approval process and reception of a ‘playful park...
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Just urban design: the struggle for a public city Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ann Forsyth
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
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Iterative urban design and transport simulation using Sketch MATSim Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Tanvi Maheshwari, Pieter Fourie, Sergio Arturo Ordoñez Medina, Kay W. Axhausen
New transport technologies have historically influenced how cities are shaped, while urban form is known to influence travel behaviour. But this reciprocal relationship is seldom operationalized in...
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The effects of small Water Cool(ing) Islands on body temperature Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Hope Hui Rising, Li Deng
Water Cool(ing) Island (WCI) literature has paid little attention to smaller waterscapes in developed areas that are most vulnerable to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. To fill this gap, this st...
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Refining urban design governance: an investigation of the urban design assessment processes in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-15 David Batchelor
This article investigates the urban design decision-making processes within Aotearoa New Zealand. It analyses the documents and terminologies in urban design assessments of residential developments...
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The notion of the node: disentangling and conceptualizing infrastructure nodes in the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Sophie Leemans, Erik Van Daele, Maarten Gheysen
The Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai is a dispersed territory increasingly confronted with challenges related to its indispensable infrastructure networks. This article establishes a theoretic...
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The imperatives of TOD regulations: facilitating sustainability and predictability of built-form Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ajay Garde, Qi Song
Many U.S. cities are adopting form-based codes (FBCs) instead of conventional zoning codes (CZCs) to encourage sustainability and predictability of built-form outcomes in transit-oriented developme...
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Bridging the design / finance divide: adding ‘design strings’ to the finance of urban development Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Matthew Carmona, Tommaso Gabrieli, João Bento
Professional, policy and conceptual divides continue to throw up barriers to a shared understanding between the domains of urban design and development finance. Drawing on cross-Europe analysis, th...
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Feel the atmosphere: a qualitative study on spatial experiences in contemporary Muße architecture Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Anna Pritzen, Vanessa M.-J. Aeschbach, Sonja Ehret, Roland Thomaschke
In an ever-accelerating world, experiences free of outcome expectancy and time pressure for the pursuit of intrinsic activities are increasingly rare. Such moments are described by the German term ...
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Temporary and tactical urbanism: (re)assembling urban space Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Peter Bishop
Published in Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
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Comprehensive evaluation approach in the assessment of play value of playgrounds: case of Balçova, İzmir Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-04-03 İpek Kaştaş-Uzun, Oylum Dikmen-Güleryüz
Urban children prefer playgrounds near home spaces due to physical and parental limitations on outdoor play. To increase the play value and use of playgrounds, it is essential to take a comprehensi...
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Towards a movement-friendly city: lessons from activity scans of five neighbourhoods in Antwerp, Belgium Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Tim Devos, Maarten Van Acker, Jakob Vandevoorde, Stijn Rybels
This paper describes the results of a research project in Antwerp, Belgium, aimed at developing a spatial analysis approach (‘activity scan’) assessing how the urban fabric on a neighbourhood scale...
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Data and discourse: an assessment of Taksim urban design competition in terms of populism and participation Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Yiğit Acar, Gönülnur Demet, Melek Kaynar
This research presents perspectives on urban design competitions from both professionals and the general public by utilizing two sets of data: a review of professional discussions and social media ...
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Urban humanities as a framework for the study of public space during the pandemic Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Christopher Giamarino, Claire Nelischer, Andrés F. Ramirez
COVID-19 has revealed limitations in traditional public space research methods. There is a need for new approaches to study and intervene during times of crisis. Interdisciplinary urban humanities ...
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Informal extension of public housing estates in Nairobi – an appraisal of historical typologies and emergent spatial patterns Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Matthijs van Oostrum
Nairobi has historically been a laboratory for a diverse range of public housing estate typologies. Through a morphological approach, this paper analyses how Nairobi’s estates have been transformed...
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Urban decline to green paradigm: learning from Dessau Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-02-20 René Davids
ABSTRACT Following reunification after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the eastern German city of Dessau lost population and entire industrial sectors to the more dynamic economies of western Germany, leaving behind a glut of vacant and derelict properties. Dessau’s planners proscribed their demolition, replacing them with a greenway surrounding neighbourhoods as water does an archipelago that has
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The ethics of co-design Journal of Urban Design Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Pablo Sendra
There is a lack of definition in policy of the term co-design, and yet local authorities and developers are increasingly using it. To avoid that this term becomes meaningless, it is essential to de...