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  • Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo 
    Dirk Lauwers; Ghent University - Institute for Sustainable Mobility IDM; Jos Zuallaert; Flemish MOBKOS and MOBALB projects on urban mobility; Modest Gashi; Urbanism department Peja Municipality (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Urban streets and squares have a dual function: as links in transport networks and as places for accommodating urban life. In this paper an integrated approach of urban design of the public domain is developed, highlighting ...
  • Graphic design and the regeneration process of European cities. Some case histories 
    Emanuela Bonini Lessing; Iuav University of Venice (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Graphic design draws the form of the interaction among different entities. Citizens, administrators, institutions and local investors are specific categories of entities: all of them are users (sometimes also providers) ...
  • Economic Crisis and the Shrinking Greek Cities 
    Aspa Gospodini; University of Thessaly (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Urban shrinkage is a multidimensional phenomenon encompassing regions, cities, and parts of cities or metropolitan areas that are experiencing a dramatic decline in their economic, demographical and social bases. The causes ...
  • Urban identity as a sense and spur of development 
    Borislav Stojkov; Republic Agency for Spatial Planning of Serbia (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    The article elaborates the issue of urban identity as an important factor for raising urban attractiveness and spurring urban development in general. The elements of urban identity, such as the nature, culture and economy, ...
  • Infrastructure Corridor as Linear City 
    Danilo Furundzic; University of Belgrade; Bozidar Furundzic; Alpine Bau GmbH, Branch Office Belgrade (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    This paper concisely reviews the evolution of linear urban form concept, from pioneer linear city proposal to contemporary infrastructure corridor. Urban settlements appear through building processes over long periods of ...
  • Commons and public spaces 
    Chiara Belingardi; Universita degli Studi di Firenze (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    In the contemporary city, beside public and private spaces there is a third type of spaces: the common places. This are spaces which are maintained and managed by people from the surrounding community. Such examples are ...
  • Urban Games: Convergence of physical and virtual 
    Andrzej Zarzycki; New Jersey Institute of Technology (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Redefining the city as interactive media can reveal new possibilities for architects and designers. Today, designers must augment architecture and urbanism by incorporating new aspects of virtual habitation. This paper ...
  • Towards contextualising mixed-use in South Africa 
    Anja Bredell; Holm Jordaan Architects & Urban Designers (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    The development of mixed-use precincts is an age old idea in the context of Europe and America, but a reasonably new notion in the developing country of South Africa. In this country with a history of both segregated as ...
  • The Changes in the urban roles of the public spaces and its impact on the future plans of Great cities centers 
    Ahmed Khaled Ahmed; Helwan University; Mahmoud Yousef Ghoneem; Helwan University (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    The Great cities center all over the world have common features in its structure, Such as The Historic district that represent the oldest part of the city, the Central Business district "CBD", the Main of public transportation ...
  • Urban design dimension in the analysis of the Spanish peripheries: The case of Valladolid 
    Ana Ruiz; University of Navarre (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    During the last decades cities have developed as never before, and their configuration represents a potential testing ground from many different perspectives. The Spanish experience reveals that, although there has been ...
  • Urban Design as a Tool for Preservation and Adaptive Reuse of Public Space in Historic Districts 
    Andreas Savvides; University of Cyprus (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    This paper looks into frameworks which aim at furthering the discussion of the role of regenerative design practices in a city's historic core utilizing the tool of urban design to jumpstart urban revitalization in the ...
  • A pioneer program of historic preservation - Portugal and the Colonies Heritage Monuments 
    Vera Mariz; <h2><span style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;">Alameda University</span></h2> (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    "Estado Novo", the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974), as a consequence of its nationalist and colonial ideology, understood the overseas monuments as triumphal testimonies of the national legitimacy in African and Asian ...
  • The rural architecture of the Duce: the villages of Sicilian latifundium 
    Vincenzo Sapienza; dell'Universita degli Studi di Catania (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    At the end of the '30s the Italian government, a regime of absolute and conservative approach guided by Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, carried out an attempt of regeneration of rural areas: the Colonization of Sicilian ...
  • Toward Livable City Centers. Hebron as a Case Study 
    Abdelrahman Halawani; Palermo University (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    City centers of Palestinian cities face many urban planning problems; the downtown city is mostly crowded especially in the last few years, because of the increasing population of the cities and the daily migration of the ...
  • Urban Design and Urban Disasters: Lessons for Nigeria 
    Adetokunbo Ilesanmi; Obafemi Awolowo University (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Urban design has been described as being 'about the making of better places for people'; therefore the growing trend of natural and human-induced disasters should be areas of key concern to urban designers and other built ...
  • The impact of Islamic culture on public urban space in Berlin, Germany 
    Sigrun Prahl; University of Applied Science Niederrhein (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Since decades immigrants have come to Germany and they have changed the appearance, culture and urban experience in cities and neighbourhoods in a significant way. There are certain neighbourhoods like Kreuzberg, Wedding ...
  • User-friendly waterfronts: a dialogue of responsiveness and placemaking 
    Adham Abulnour; Arab Academy for science and technology (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    In contemporary times, waterfronts reveal themselves to have a special role in offering society diversified opportunities for economic development, public enjoyment and civic identity. Optimally, successful waterfront ...
  • Remaining architectural heritage in Kosovo, their durability and sustainability 
    Shqipe Nixha; University of Prishtina; Violeta Nushi; University of Prishtina (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    This paper work aims to contribute in response to the request for immediate intervention of cultural heritage preservation in Kosovo, with aiming to guard against the harmful consequences of insufficient knowledge leading ...
  • The Integration of new urban development in cultural landscapes of historical value - The Mahalas 
    Nerma Harbinja; International University of Sarajevo (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Cultural landscapes should be understood as a combined work of nature and humankind. It is quite natural that the result of this interaction affects the quality and the heritage value of the existing Landscapes. Integrating ...
  • "Negative" Cultural Heritage: destruction or conservation? 
    Nikelina Bineri (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    In the 21 century cultural heritage has been piling up. We have now more buildings worth preserving than ever. What was considered last century as modern architecture is today considered as cultural heritage. A growing ...

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