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  • Site and users generate new public spaces 
    Yiorgos Hadjichristou; University of Nicosia; Veronika Antoniou; Universite Libre de Bruxelles (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    What are really the qualities of an architectural space that contribute the most to become so welcoming to the users and the general public in order to claim such a title? Is there any sort of recipe for that? Can the ...
  • Drifting in the city The influence of the artistic practice in the street for the transformation of public space 
    Ivan Chaparro; Konstfack University (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    All sort of comprehensions and reflections about the city have been getting nourished from a diverse set of artistic practices that involve the presence of the artist in the street; one of the prime examples might be the ...
  • Creating user-friendly public spaces in Cities (Prishtina), between public interest and private rights 
    Ferhat Bejtullahu (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Friendliness of public spaces to users is dependent from accessibility they offer and attractiveness they display. However, these characteristics of public open spaces are always challenged as inadequate in quantity and ...
  • Aesthetic and functional development of multifamily residential buildings in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 1930s and 1940s 
    Georgi Kafelov; Bulgarian Academy of Science, (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    The paper provides an overview of the development of multifamily residential (condominium) buildings in the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia in the 1930s and 1940s through using key examples from the works of famous Bulgarian ...
  • The Migration In Metropolitans and The Use Of Public Areas Of The Different Cultures In Istanbul 
    Ferhan Yalcin; Istanbul Kultur University; Armagan Secil; Istanbul Kultur University; Melikoglu Eke; Istanbul Kultur University (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    Urbanization movements have started to expand to metropolitan urbanism along with the industrial revolution and irrigated agricultural revolution that triggered the migration from rural to urban and the existing investments ...
  • The significance of public and semi-public spaces in existing and planned housing developments in stimulating the process of integration among residents 
    Sylwia Debczak; Department of Forming of Environment and Agriculture; Adam Maria Szymski; Department of Modern Architecture (International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-06-26)
    One of the most significant elements determining the standard of modern housing developments is the quality of open spaces, with diverse accessibility categories, contained within the contours of such housing developments. ...
  • 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 ...

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